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Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions?
  • You need to make a bulleted list because your lists came out as jumbled paragraphs. At a minimum you need to put two spaces at the end of each line to preserve line breaks.

    I'll fix it since you put in all the effort to write that up.


    One time purchase:

    • Peglin ✨
    • Luck be a landlord ✨
    • Forager
    • Dicey dungeons
    • Dead Cells (optional DLC)
    • Bloons Tower Defense 6 (out of the way IAP) ✨
    • Terraria
    • 20 minutes till dawn (has a non premium option with some micro transactions)

    Free:

    • Antimatter dimensions (long idle-ish game) ✨
    • Legends of Runeterra (just play the story modes) ✨
    • Team fight tactics (cosmetics only)
    • Plague inc (and probably rebel inc, but I haven't played that yet) ✨
    • Super Auto Pets (cosmetics and extra optional sets) ✨

    Star on the ones I'd specifically recommend for casual play

  • "Soundblaster" was such an 80s/90s name for a computer part.
  • It also wasn’t worthwhile because a shitty two pin speaker

    All speakers are two pins. 🤔 They were crappy because they were most often little piezoelectric speakers, or otherwise very small where they couldn't play low frequency sounds well.

  • That's new.
  • You don't hold hands in public? You've never gently kissed an SO in public? Does everyone around you think "Oh my god, those people are probably having sex." No, because it's perfectly accepted for a man and woman to hold hands or kiss in public. Gays should have that level of acceptance, too. But they don't because people like you are saying they should have no pride in their relationships.

    That's all pride is. Being yourself and not hiding in a closet. And it applies to the transgendered, gender queers, asexual, and the whole rainbow.

    "ThOsE tHiNgS sHoUld be kEpT PrIvaTe"

    This is why we need pride month! To let people know it's OK to be queer and not hide in a closet. People like you are why we need pride to be a thing. A very-out-in-the-open thing. You need constant reminders until you fully understand what a fight it's been—and still is—for acceptance. Acceptance won't come from hiding away. It demands people stand proud.

    That's what pride means! So anyone can feel OK holding hands in public or simply existing! It has nothing to do with sex or anything private.

    Be better.

  • Is there a launcher for me?
  • Lawnchair is almost exactly like Pixel Launcher except you can do things like remove the search bar, change the icon counts, and stop the app tray search bar from searching the web (or switch it to another search provider).

    I've been using it for months and couldn't be happier.

    Incidentally, it wasn't until about 10 minutes ago that I realized "Lawnchair" is just "Launcher" if you pronounced it in a French accent.

  • It would be awesome if everyone in this sub would also post the "diverge view" of the images in the comments where you look "through" your phone to see the images.
  • A bot is just a piece of code that: wakes up periodically, reads from the Lemmy API, and occasionally takes some actions like posting comments via the Lemmy API.

    You could write it in Python and host it on Python Anywhere as an always-on task. Costs $5/mo for the minimum account level that is allowed to have an always-on task. Then you just have to learn how to code all of the steps you mentioned using Python.

    You can develop and test it for free using a free account. You can simply open a bash console and run the script that does the periodic check but doesn't have any of the looping and sleeping an always-on script would have.

    You can also make a free Django website at the same time with a button you press to run the script without having to log into the backend console. (You can use cookies so you, yourself, are always logged in.) It would only need to be refreshed once a day, and if you ever want to make it faster, you can upgrade to a $5/mo account and make your always-on task to check Lemmy every 15 minutes or something.

    You would need a database (or at least a text file at first) to hold post IDs you've already seen and processed so you don't spend any time with them again. The Lemmy API might have a mechanism to load all new posts after some ID or date-time. Maybe you store a last-updated date-time instead of a post ID. It depends on the API. Either way you have to make sure the process resumes in an elegant way after a crash or restart, probably by checking it's most recent work.

    You will likely want to cache all generated images for a little while to help with resuming work in the middle of a processing a batch of posts after it crashes.

    It could use some retrying logic to deal with temporary internet outages without retrying too many times or spamming the API.

    You also have to ensure repeated, rapid crashes of your process don't cause accidental spamming to the API. Especially make sure you don't make repeat comments. Check your work, see what new work there is to do, log what work you're about to attempt as a batch, then do that work. Catch all errors while logging them in the database (or log files) for later inspection. And use that data to also help with automatic retries later.

    Splitting the images and swapping the sides is the trivial part.

    I do wonder if anyone has a Lemmy bot platform where all you program is the work itself. Or at least an open source template for hosting your own. Maybe everything bot-related is already done for us and we just have to make sure it has the necessary features to make it play nice.

  • It would be awesome if everyone in this sub would also post the "diverge view" of the images in the comments where you look "through" your phone to see the images.

    Diverging my eyes is very easy and painless. Crossing my eyes kinda hurts.

    This is probably because I'm nearsighted and don't use my glasses when using my phone and instead hold my phone 20cm from my face. They're already crossed from doing that and crossing them even more is difficult.

    Diverging your eyes is how magic eye posters work.

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    What do you use the back buttons for?
  • Fast forward in emulators. Also, the menu toggle in Retro Arch.

    In Dungeons of Dredmor, an old mouse and KB roguelike, the community made a good layout where every button is mapped to a keyboard key to open the various inventory and crafting windows, etc. With the track pad right there to act as a mouse, it's honestly just as good as a mouse and KB. Maybe even better.

  • It bugs me when there is an obvious path forward, but a single undiscovered tile (or a trap) causes my character to take a path all the way around the level. Share your ideas for fixes.

    Perhaps let players configure some number such that the game will never plot a path for your character longer than that without first getting your confirmation.

    "The path you've chosen is longer than N steps, are you sure?"

    And then I also feel this needs to be very easily toggleable. Like a persistent UI button. I'd have it on when exploring and off when backtracking, and those two activities are back and forth all game.

    Relevant screenshot below. The entire level is explored, and this damn piece of grass sent my character haywire then I trapped at the X. This kind of thing has happened to me on much later levels and messed me up good.

    In the Depths, I would set this number to something like 2 for safety. I can't count how many times a misstap has gotten me zapped, chased, and then pincer-attacked by some second enemy in the room behind me. But then I'd want to toggle it off to run back to an alchemy pot or whatever.

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    Sync doesn't properly support Lemmy style markdown.

    This was a comment I made on a "sink" post the mods deleted, and I think it's an issue that needs addressing, so I'm pasting it here. The comment I replied to said something like "Superscript and spoilers have always worked fine in Sync".

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    Ironically, that isn't valid Lemmy markdown. Sync should be supporting Lemmy markdown, not Reddit markdown. Here's what your comment looks like on the website:

    !

    This issuperscript and you can also dosubscript.

    Source: This is^superscript^ and you can also do~subscript~. Here's what it should look like:

    !

    Instead, you get this:

    !

    Personally I don't like Lemmy's syntax for spoilers, but Sync should still support it!

    hidden or nsfw stuff

    a bunch of spoilers here

    Source:

    ```

    hidden or nsfw stuff

    a bunch of spoilers here

    ```

    I'm surprised that actually even works in Sync. It didn't used to. However, Sync doesn't show my code block accurately, which is funny as fuck! No app should be editing my code block. Sync is replacing my text with reddit markdown in order for it to display properly. And even when I put that markdown in a code block, it still converts it to reddit style! It also strips out the warning text!

    Here is what I actually typed:

    !

    And here's what Sync shows:

    !

    What a lazy ass way of doing it. It removes an important feature: the warning text, and won't even let me show Sync users how to do a proper spoiler!

    Oh, WTF. Sync butchered my comment when editing it! I had to fix it back on desktop.

    !

    Sync is not fine. It's full of bugs that the dev is ignoring.

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    Less Than Three

    A two member band that makes cheesy love songs.

    "I <3 Less Than Three!"

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    Some of my comments were edited (not by me) and the pictures were broken

    Here's an example. I'll escape the markdown so you see the raw text:

    ![](https://rimh2.domainstatic.com.au/M3S7ooR3ugIz1AMW8WhMJ1JBivc=/fit-in/1920x1080/filters:format(jpeg):quality(80):no_upscale()/2018585659_8_1_230614_022120-w1920-h1280)

    The URL contains unescaped parentheses which are illegal in a markdown link because the link itself must be wrapped in parentheses.

    This results in my comments showing no pictures and users only seeing this nonsensical text:

    > :quality(80):no_upscale()/2018585659_8_1_230614_022120-w1920-h1280

    If I try to escape the parentheses, I get this:

    !

    Oh, hey, it's the picture!

    Whatever admin or bot is editing people's comments when moving pictures to some other host needs to escape special characters in the URLs.

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    [Fixed maybe?] YouTube hasn't worked in Firefox for me for *weeks*

    EDIT: It's something to do with my VPN and/or EasyTether, but it only happens in Firefox, so I didn't think that could be it. I commented about my findings below: https://lemmy.world/comment/7585497

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    I start a video and it either doesn't load at all of stalls within 5 seconds, never to recover.

    I've tried everything:

    • Deleting every Mozilla folder in AppData to completely refresh Firefox. (after backing up my profile)
    • Flushing DNS cache
    • Uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox. (Which made me remember I had a policies.json file in the program folder to permanently lockdown the settings I want. So that wasn't the problem either.)

    Even when using no extensions like an ad blockers it still won't play videos. Besides, I'm a Premium subscriber. Once in a while a video will work, but it's so, so rare. And often it'll even stop after a minute.

    Meanwhile, it'll work in the DuckDuckGo Browser all the time, which is Chromium based.

    What do you think the deal is? It broke rather suddenly a few weeks ago. Do you think it's Mozilla's fault, or Google's?

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    Missing inbox repies and comments

    I was just trying to go thank some people for recommending a mobile game, and I can't find my original comment where I asked for suggestions nor the inbox replies from the two people who recommended the game.

    Does that mean that post was deleted? And all the comments and inbox replies go with it? That's kinda sad.

    I suppose this isn't really a Lemmy.world issue, and more like a Lemmy issue in general, but I didn't know where else to ask.

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    [Bug] "You have hidden all the posts on page N". I get this a lot when scrolling, but it's definitely not true.

    It would be good to display whatever the real error is instead of this erroneous message.

    I don't even use filters except for a very short list of user filters from before the block API was implemented in Sync. I do, however have a very large list of blocked communities on the server, but I don't see why the Lemmy API would generate an empty page of posts due to my server-side blocks. Is it not smart enough to generate a page of posts after excluding my blocked communities? I've written a lot of paged database queries with filters, and implementing blocks after performing the query would be pretty dumb.

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    [Request] When peeking the thumbnail from a non-image post, allow the user to hover and release their finger on a button to temporarily pin the image as if they had tapped an image post.

    UPDATE: I just found this option:

    Settings shortcut: Media > Shown options when peeking

    That's where a "keep open" option could go, as well as a save button.

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    A lot of thumbanils have high resolution, and I want to see some detail on them without loading the article just to see it. Especially since mobile web pages most often don't allow zooming anyway.

    Another option would be to have a save button you could release your finger over to save the thumbnail.

    Even if it is an image post, these buttons could be available since I often don't pay attention to whether a post is an image post or not, and peek the image either way.

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    [Bug] There is no option to edit posts which are a month old, but the website still lets me edit them.

    Update

    Someone said you can't edit any post containing an image, and my oldest post has an image. Might not have to do with age at all.

    I would edit my title to reflect this but.... ¯\\\(ツ)\

    Just playing, Lj, keep up the good work!

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    I can still edit newer posts with Sync, but not my oldest one. I've only made three posts, so I don't have much data. For all I know, the bug is you can't edit your single oldest post. But I do know that Reddit would archive posts after a while, and maybe this behavior is a throwback from the Reddit version.

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    Pixel 7 Pro - Can you recommend a wireless charging car mount that uses a sticky suction cup to mount to a dashboard?

    I can't seem to upload an image of my current mount, but it mounts flat on the top of my dashboard on a little plastic sheet that's permanently affixed to the dashboard.

    The mount has a suction cup made of that sticky rubbery stuff. Any new mount needs to mount the same way. I'm hoping some of you have similar mounts and have some experience with what holds such a large phone well. (I have a slim case).

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