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Turkey’s Erdogan launches ‘Year of the Family’ with an attack on the LGBTQ+ community
  • When you have no one else to blame for your country's problems.

  • The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World • Sentai Red Isekai de Boukensha ni Naru - Episode 1 discussion
  • Red should probably be classified as fae. Anything is possible and physical laws do not matter, as long as the power of friendship is strong. That's some fate-bending fairy magic right here.

  • AQUARION: Myth of Emotions • Sousei no Aquarion: Myth of Emotions - Episode 1 discussion
  • Teenagers, giant robotsplanes operating on emotions, and mythical invaders, I think I watched this anime several times already.

  • Magic Maker: How to Make Magic in Another World • Magic Maker: Isekai Mahou no Tsukurikata - Episode 1 discussion
  • Siscon Spellcaster: The Wizard Unlocks Magic By Making A Vow Of Chastity To His Sister.

  • An American purchase of Greenland could be the deal of the century
  • Go tell Trump to purchase Kamchatka, might be actually for sale.

  • Homeless for being atheist
  • In such cases the parents end up paying alimony to the abandoned child, if they refuse to live together then they have to provide living conditions in some other way.

    Gaining independence is a futile dream if you cannot find work, and no one will employ a homeless person.

  • Homeless for being atheist
  • If you're underage there should be laws ro prevent your parents from kicking you to live on the street.

  • Orwelluan
  • It's because you now need to do systemctl restart sshd instead of /etc/init.d/sshd restart, I see no other reason than having to learn new syntax.

    Arguably, init.d scripts were easier to understand, and systemd is a bit of a black box, it somehow works, but who knows where it writes logs or saves the process pid (it's all in the documentation somewhere), with init.d script you can just open the script itself and look.

  • S-Rank Monster no "Behemoth" dakedo, Neko to Machigawarete Elf Musume no Pet toshite Kurashitemasu episode 2 discussion
  • More than enough shows for that as well. But who is the "let's the molest the little kitten" show for? Self insert for furries?

    Yeah, that part is heavy-handed. Although I can immediately name an anime where the whole 'plot' is MC being a dog and looking up girls' skirts.

  • S-Rank Monster no "Behemoth" dakedo, Neko to Machigawarete Elf Musume no Pet toshite Kurashitemasu episode 2 discussion
  • Considering that we are getting uncensored nipples, I would not care about the plot at all.

    I've read the first volume of the light novel some years ago, and here the first episode of the anime rushed through 300 pages of the author's explanation about skills and levels and monsters in like 5 minutes.

    I didn't buy the second LN volume, but I predict that our furry knight will resist the temptation only until 8-th episode.

  • S-Rank Monster no "Behemoth" dakedo, Neko to Machigawarete Elf Musume no Pet toshite Kurashitemasu episode 2 discussion
  • That's, like, a chauvinistic opinion about horny otaku. What about those of us who want to be dominated by a confident and enthusiastic big breated elf girl? I don't enjoy tentacle groping trope, it only exists to validate nudity on screen and to stoke the main character's masculinity by making the girl own him for the rescue.

    Or would you rather self-insert as a tentacle monster, having your five seconds of groping only to have your tentacle sliced off at the end of the episode?

  • How am i supposed to learn C# ?
  • Jumping from loose-typed language to strict-typed language will be hard.

    It's also a matter of your general programming experience. Once you write, like, ten thousand lines of meaningful code in Python, learning C# should take you a month or two at most, you'll know most programming concepts and algorithms intrinsically, and the rest is just learning syntax.

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  • Beheneko is the cultured show of the season. Not much plot to speak of, not that I expect any.

  • What is the pasta shape you dislike the most?
  • I don't think I care about shape, as long as it's made from durum wheat. Now, we have a lot of pasta here that's made from regular baking flour, it's still very common in EE countries, and it's damn cheap. You must boil it for 40 seconds and not a second more, or it instantly clumps all together and turns into a wallpaper glue.

  • Werewolf GF?
  • But will she transform into a big titty goth GF during full moon?

  • With all this ghostty talk. Am I out of touch for still using terminator all these years?
  • I have switched from XTerm to Konsole only a year ago.

  • Plasma activities are STILL broken

    I don't need any fancy tiling window managers. One fullscreen window per desktop, and 12 virtual desktops, that was my workflow for 10 years. Then I incorporated KDE activities into my workflow, which are exactly like virtual desktops but switched with Meta-Tab not with Ctrl-F1 - Ctrl-F12. Wonderful!

    And then, Plasma devs broke it. Switching activities now puts my foreground fullscreen window (one per desktop) into background, and switches keyboard focus to the desktop. Give me back my keyboard shortcuts, and you could also rename Plasma back to KDE while you're at it, thank you very much.

    At least there is a bug opened, but it's doubtful that Plasma devs will fix it before Debian 13 release. I can't even find motivation to update my OS anymore.

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    TIL if you google 'Comic Sans', the search results webpage will change font to Comic Sans

    Also works for searches 'Times new roman' and 'Courier new font', but not for 'Lucida console font' or 'Dejavu sans font'.

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    [recipe] Pasta with fresh tomato sauce

    !Washed tomatoes and pasta

    1. Get half-kilo of fresh tomatoes, three onions, and three carrots. You can use the cheapest tomatoes for this, the heat treatment will average the taste. Wash everything. Chop onions and carrots, dump into the frying pan. Add salt.

    !Onions and carrots

    1. Fry diced onions and carrots in a pan, using a generous finger-thick layer of oil, preferrably olive, until the onions don't sting anymore and carrots start to soften.

    !Simmered tomatoes and hot pepper

    1. Cut tomatoes in 2 pieces each, you'll mash them anyway so thin slices do not matter. Dump tomatoes into the pan. Cover with a lid, cook on a slow fire for about 10 minutes until they become sauce. Mash and stir each 3 minutes so they won't burn. Cooking less will preserve taste of fresh tomatoes, cooking longer will make it taste closer to canned pasta sauce. But they won't have that taste of the can that you will get with canned tomatoes.

    !The secret ingredient and spices

    1. Add the secret ingredient - half-kilo of canned pork. This is an optional step - if you prefer taste over calories, it's better to prepare a separate meat dish instead. If you want to add hot pepper, add it now so it will spread uniformly.

    !The secret ingredient

    1. Boil pasta while tomatoes are cooking - the standard 500 gram package will do, preferably something with a lot of surface like penne so it can soak up more sauce.

    2. Dump Italian or French spice mix into the pan. Turn off the heat, let it simmer for 1 minute so the herbs will soften.

    !Finished pasta

    1. Dump pasta into the pan. Done! Plating is optional, you can eat it straight from the pan. And the next day you can prepare another wonderful dish - yesterday's pasta re-heated until it's crusty.
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    [bug] Unnecessary WebP conversion causes failures when loading .gif files

    Lemmy Connect attempts to add ?format=webp to the image URL when loading .gif image, this makes many Lemmy servers return an error. When opening the post in the web browser, without the extra addition to the image URL, the image loads correctly.

    Post where the bug is present: https://lemmy.world/post/19556846

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    Request: select and copy text with a long-press

    I often want to copy some phrase from a post to search it on the web. Long-pressing post text minimizes this post into a single line, which is not very useful IMO, I would rather have text selection cursor like in a web browser.

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    [Review] Undead Horde 2
    play.google.com Undead Horde 2: Necropolis - Apps on Google Play

    Rise from the crypt and rebuild your home

    Undead Horde 2: Necropolis - Apps on Google Play

    Some studios are still releasing premium games in 2023. Undead Horde 2 is a dungeon crawler with no ads or IAP, and it costs $10.

    It features 3D blocky graphics, although less blocky than Undead Horde 1. The combat is moderately paced and depends more on upgrades than on button mashing, most of the time your minions do all the fighting. There are no puzzles, just some fetch quests to progress the story.

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    Recommend me some Android games

    I've unlocked all weapons in Vampire Survivors, and I'm too bored to grind the remaining 14 unlocks.

    Please recommend me some proper, $10 up-front games.

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    Newest premium Android twin stick shooters

    I've alrealy played all versions of Space Marshals, Tesla vs Lovecraft, Tesla Force, Jydge, Crimsonland, Grind Infinity, Solomon Keep, PewPew, and Vampire Survivors (although it's not twin stick but close enough).

    Are there any new twin stick shooters, preferrably something I can pay for once and without IAP going up to $100?

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    Feature request: switch from list view to fullwidth view when opening individual post

    I want to open large image with comments below when clicking on a post, like in Jerboa

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    Cast phone screen automatically

    Is there a way to cast my phone screen to TV using some kind of Tasker plugin? I'm using screen cast to view one specific app on a big TV, but the screen mirroring stops whenever the wifi blinks, and I'd like it to reconnect automatically.

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    Best types of games for touchscreen

    I've encountered many, many mobile games where the character needs to perform five different actions, so the developer adds five separate buttons to the screen. Of course you will mis-tap them and die in the middle of a boss fight.

    The best touch controls are achieved when the dev designs the game around touchscreen, not attempts to adapt touch controls for some existing game.

    For platformers there are two movement buttons on the left, and three buttons on the right part of the screen - jump, attack, and alternate attack or some action like dodge. Any more buttons make the game hard to play. There is also a common mistake of making buttons the size of a thumbtack. Ideally the buttons should be as big as a 5 Euro coin, that would be a third or even a half of screen width for most phones.

    My recommendations are SuperTux and Swordigo.

    For twin-stick ahooters there are two joysticks, and maybe one or two extra action buttons above the right joystick, but not anything more.

    The best examples are Space Marshals and Crimsonland.

    Top-view RPGs and dungeon crawlers also tend to use twin stick controls. The gameplay tends to be more relaxed, because you can slways grind few more levels and don't bother dodging enemy attacks.

    Shoot-em-up is another type of game that works really well with the touchscreen. Your aircraft follows your finger no matter where you touch the screen, it's simpe and it works well. There is a wide variety of quality shmups on Play Store, try OpenTyrian for some classic DOS gameplay.

    Honorable mention to swipe controls. You can swipe up/down/left/right without aiming for a specific button and even without looking at the screen, ao it's impossible to mis-tap the wrong button. The downside is that swiping is slower than taps, so the gameplay tends to be slower. Reaper is a good example.

    First person shooters are okay for casual gaming, but playing any competitive Counter Strike clone like Critical Strike or Critical Force will earn you a friction burn on your finger, because you are swiping the screen non-stop to aim.

    I'm not reviewing strategy games here, they can have 10-layer menus and dialogs and still be playable.

    Some racing games support gyroscope as a replacement for the steering wheel, it works rather well.

    And of course there are infinite runner games. I don't want to call the whole infinite runner category trash, there are some good runner games like SmashHit or Vektor or Alto's Odyssey, but if it's three lanes infinite runner, you will watch ads each 30 seconds, and the gameplay is only fun for the first 30 seconds.

    Flappy bird. Best touch controls ever, but the game itself is garbage.

    There is a specific class of mobile gamers who are using gamepads. The gamepad is great for sure, you have a separate button for each finger, however the gamepad is more often than not bigger than the phone, so you are losing convenience and need clothing with huge pockets.

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