Thanks! Guess the stuff I read 20+ years ago got a little jumbled in long-term storage.

Yep! The PS5 was the first console to standardise X as confirm in all regions. Can’t say whether the game devs followed suit, though I’d imagine Sony has some licensing clause to force compliance on that.

Random factoid: Way back in the early PlayStation days, the O button was the default “accept/enter” buton, and the X was the “cancel/back” button, because that aligned with the national consensus of O = correct/confirm, and X = incorrect/cancel in Japan. But when the console was introduced in North America and Europe, they started remapping the X and O to align with other western consoles using X, like the Xbox. That said, I distinctly remember early PS1 games being a sort of wild west of which button would be confirm, so I suspect it was also done in response to western gamers struggling to adapt.

Pause for info dump: Season 3 lost two of the main writer-producers, who returned in seasons 4-5, and then were gone again after Duchovny insisted on moving the show to the US. You can tell the distinct tonal shift between the seasons, and also in how Mulder is written. Season five was also intended to be the series finale, but Fox renewed it. That’s a big part of seasons 6-9 being a nothing burger that often contradicts earlier canon.

With all that said, I’ve been watching the later seasons fully leaning into critiquing it like Statler and Waldorf. From that angle, it’s been fun.

As for the reboots, I think a similar thing happened where season 1 was a successfully nostalgic bit of fan service, and then they wound up with more seasons than they knew what to do with. Watch with low expectations when you want something to fill the time, but don’t want to commit full attention.

(Playing tongue-in-cheek devil’s advocate) In order to lose weight, a body needs to be undernourished in relation to the minimum required to maintain that weight. Being undernourished at a non-starvation level produces hunger drive. I doubt any of the humans who decided he needs to lose weight speak fluent cat, so he didn’t have any say or insight into what’s being done to him. As such, from his perspective, he -hasn’t- been fed enough, and doesn’t have a reason for being hungry. So this cat should not be called a liar. He’s out there bravely sharing his truth with the world. He should be applauded and then fed.

I recently watched this video comparing various Midi game soundtracks on different sound cards. Really interesting how different cards interpreted the sounds differently.

Obtainium is a decent way to make using sites like apkPure, uptodown, etc. a little easier to handle.

Pirated games can be one or several of the following:

• a means of participating in a chosen culture when players can’t afford/justify the price tag (one Nintendo game now costs the same as a week’s worth of groceries for two people where I live)
• a form of archive because game publishers are notorious for killing games
• a form of backup because things happen to disks/cartridges
• a form of backup because servers go down
• a form of backup because not everyone’s internet is reliable
• a means making the game more accessible by adding features (eg. the option of infinite lives/health for someone with muscular dystrophy)
• a form of protest over ever-increasing prices at the same time as ever-increasing layoffs, and ever-decreasing quality.

More directly relevant to you: the money you give Nintendo goes to their legal teams, to continue to find loopholes around the protections you have. They’re the ones fighting the “Stop Killing Games” movement. Nintendo recently won a lawsuit against 1fichier in France for hosting emulated games. It has been marked as a “significant” win against any level of piracy in the EU. Nintendo is continually working to make sure that despite living in the EU, you won’t be fine regardless. Your purchase directly funds that.

Maybe you have no intention of playing pirated games, but I hope you can appreciate that this is larger than just some teenager feeling powerful because they stole something?

They’re saying they’d rather have had the money that went towards the purchases of switch 2s left in the form of cash, rather than spent for them.

It’s a relevant critique because with their latest releases, Nintendo’s doing the same ‘cost increase to the detriment of employees and customers’ dance as the other big gaming corpos.

A person can agree something is better than the horrible baseline, and still bring up a topic of discussion on something that isn’t great.

Also, re: 2 weeks paid time off; look outside of 'Murica once in a while. The global average of paid days off is ~25. So 2 weeks, while lovely for America, is below normal.

A hyphen or dot couldn’t serve the same function as a carriage return here? (Not being a dick; genuine question)

I would rotate the text 90 degrees so that it has the full length of the top tab, that should give you more room to work, and most humans can read rotated text.

Another suggestion would be to try a different font that works with the printing limitations: something curved like Exo 2 might be a little less of a fight.

Around my area, “contactless payment” became further normalised during the initial Covid lockdown (of all the changes to keep, we went with that one 🙄). Many of the smaller businesses seem to prefer it. I suspect it reduces error and effort - fewer errors during the transactions and direct data-to-data conversion in the accounting. I wouldn’t be surprised if it saves them money on insurance, too, as there’s no reason to rob a bunch of debit receipts.

I’m sure you -could- insist on paying with cash, but unless you’re have exact change, it’s not going to be a smooth, unremarkable exchange. And that also defeats the anonymity factor of privacy: they’re definitely going to remember the “weirdo” who insisted on paying cash, who argued about your sign being illegal, and then the PITA it was to find them change.

Don’t get me wrong, I make an effort to dominantly use cash. And I also recognise there are some places I either have to accept I can’t use cash (my pharmacy, which talks to my insurance, so moot point anyway), or have to find an alternative that does take cash (my favorite ramen place, RIP).

Seconding Skarn’s comment. Heliboard has a lot of options for what is and is not displayed, shortcuts, etc. If you can’t get it the way you want it through the options, a feature in settings allows you to edit the scripting for the layout. I have all the punctuation to the left of the space bar so I don’t put periods between each word. It took me no more than 10 mins to configure that, including wasting time backing up the original script (it has an option to return it to defaults), and I’m a “hobbyist” progammer at most.

Joke’s on you. My password is Abcd1234!

Fair. I certainly had to resurrect WTH loss meant when I joined Lemmy. I was more thinking the Venn diagram of people still clinging to Loss, and people on Lemmy is probably not a perfect circle. But who knows.

Yep, this. In a couple places on the image at least. Thank you for connecting the lines and dots.

To answer your question, the loss meme started almost immediately after the original comic was released. It ebbs and flows in popularity, but seems to be something the internet can’t let go of. Lemmy has a particular fetish for it.

My exhausted brain misread the title as “Blackberry and Seven Day Hello!” Based on how my cat extends his greetings in the morning, Seven Day Hello seemed like a completely logical name for some cats 😂

I came across bangle.js 2 when searching for PineTime info. Same idea, but more expensive (~twice the price for me in Canada), a little better hardware, and supposedly a larger developer/userbase.

I don’t know too much about it; curious if folks here have opinions.

Can you provide me with the studies saying something different? It’s hard to speak to a theoretical.

And many in what way? Personal experience, a mass meta analysis of treatments? There is some data (again; always need more) showing that more than half of the children who express some level of gender nonconformity will eventually settle on identifying with their gender assigned at birth. This aligns with our overall understanding of how children learn who they are: trying on new identity “hats” to find the ones that fit. We also have evidence that even having a single person using a trans youth’s chosen name results in a 29% decrease in suicidal ideation, and a 56% decrease in suicidal behavior. For the youth who are cis, it at worst makes no difference, at best communicates that they have support while they figure out who they are. So I would argue that it’s the time taken for a youth to explore their gender and figure out what’s correct, that actually provides a “cure for dysphoria”, rather than puberty itself. In fact, a US survey of nearly 28,000 trans respondents found that for those between kindergarten and 8th grade (5 - 14 years old), those who were out as, or perceived to be trans, 54% were verbally harassed, 24% were physically assaulted, and 13% were sexually assaulted; 17% left school because of maltreatment. So what you’re interpreting as youth being cured, is more likely them going back into the closet to avoid being harassed.

Randomised Controlled trials like you’re asking for are neither ethical nor practical in this situation. Even the Cass report stated that. Patients and doctors will know PDQ whether puberty is happening or not.

You’re right that more data is needed. More data is always needed, especially on anything regarding a marginalised group. And, in many of these situations where we know the outcome of puberty is irreversible, makes transitioning afterwards more difficult, with a decent threat of mental health decline without the treatment, waiting around and doing nothing is more harmful than pausing puberty temporarily, where, based on the 30 years worth of research done for puberty blockers to treat precocious puberty, we see the most likely risks are for them to wind up a little shorter than they might have, and maybe fatter.

If you’re worried the teenagers receiving this treatment may become sterile, the above linked precocious puberty article found no evidence, but here’s an article on a recent study where they used a placebo on rats (because, again, we’ll never have a randomised controlled trial done on humans). It adds to the body of data that shows reproductive activity returns to normal very quickly after stopping treatment, for the teens who do discover they’re OK with their assigned gender identity. We also shouldn’t ignore the good percentage of teens who realise they are trans, and benefit from this in more ways than just buying time.