GregorGizeh

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Coleoptera 4 ever in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
My smartwatch broke and I'm heartbroken in c/goodoffmychest@lemmy.world
[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Okay i dont want to shill on lemmy of all places, but i personally use a very similar watch i chose for the same reasons as you: i wanted an actual, physical wristwatch, with basic smart functionalities and a long battery life.

I settled on the scanwatch light made by withings. Looks like a classic wristwatch with a small black and white smart display as well as the standard health functions such as an activity tracker/reminder and pulse meter. The battery holds for 2-4 weeks on a single charge, depending on your use case.

I have had it for about six months now and am pretty satisfied. Only drawbacks are the need for the proprietary companion app and the somewhat archaic charger you have to clamp the watch into, though due to the long battery life you very rarely have to deal with that.

We need to stop using /s unless there is a need. in c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Personally i just go with whatever conveys that i am not being serious, such as any of these 🙄🤧🙃🤔😏.

Though i suppose i should say i am not 12 and have no idea what the cool kids use, probably 💀 or so

Anon goes to school with a menace in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Record girls (at school) to jack off to (later)" i would guess. mega fucked

One big happy family. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"always" in this case is when you have two or more gpus in your system, which limits the ability to "just" run a vm considerably.

Is "retard" a slur? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

This is important. While we as a society have learned to be more inclusive than ever before, behind all that pretense we forget that what people generally consider as "retarded" isnt desirable. It is a genuine developmental impairment that negatively affects the individuals cognitive abilities. Not one parent in the world is glad their kid is special. They may love and support them just the same because they aren't fucking ghouls, but if they had one wish no questions asked I'm sure virtually all of them would wish for their child to be "normal".

And therein lies the truth/problem. We use retarded as a slur because it describes a condition of inferiority. Shifting the window of acceptable speech will not change this, only rephrase it. Policing language never truly works, eventually a different word for the same meaning takes hold, so all this does is spin the wheel of synonyms.

TIL Disney's Star Wars Hotel was a massive waste of time in c/til@lemmy.world
[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why not let people enjoy things if it gives them happiness?

(Not a fan myself, as a disclaimer)

There's a proton AMA happening on reddit right now. Feel free to use this oportunity to ask about anything you'd like proton to do in c/protonprivacy@lemmy.world
[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 22 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I agree with the sentiment, but this is also a silly demand. Of course they do their ama where they have the most reach, and possibly share the info in smaller places such as this.

TIL: males have 25% more neurons in the visual cortex than females in c/til@lemmy.world
[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I dont think we need to tread so lightly around this topic, since we already know that brain mass does not directly tie to intelligence from the simple fact that women have smaller brains on average but are not less mentally capable than men.

Nobody arguing or even just reading this in good faith would try to frame this as women being mentally inferior.

They were just having some innocent fun in c/justguysbeingdudes@lemmy.world
[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 days ago (9 children)

Wait, are you saying inebriated people can't consent to fuck, but can consent to get killed? That sounds like an incredibly stupid (legal) take.

If people cannot consent to some overall inconsequential intercourse (any unintended consequence can be alleviated medically), why on earth should they be able to consent to get shot at, which can very possibly lead to permanent injury or death?

German inflation rate dips to lowest level in more than three years in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (11 children)

The slowest loss of buying power in the last three years means very little when it was preceded by absurd inflation since around the covid lockdowns, is my point. Yes it is good news, but often deceiving good news. People dont have more money, their money is just worth slightly more for a slightly longer period of time.

German inflation rate dips to lowest level in more than three years in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (14 children)

Price for arbitrary good x ("agx") three years ago: 10 currency

Agx price two years ago: 20 currency

Agx price one year ago: 30 currency

Agx price now: 35 currency

What good news 🥰

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How to close facebook accounts remotely? (lemmy.zip)
 

Hey guys, I am trying to get rid of my old Facebook accounts. I have not been using them for years, in fact I dont know their login data and for one i dont even have access to the email address any more.

I am a EU citizen and attempted to instruct them to close the accounts per email, since logging in requires me to consent to them using my data or pay money (probably illegal here too).

They sent me a quick response basically to go fuck myself, even after I offered to provide personal identification to verify I am the account owner and reminded them that I am an EU citizen and that my data is subject to those laws.

How can i force these fuckers to comply with my request for deletion of the accounts and associated data?

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Loudness equalization on linux (lemmy.zip)
 

Hey guys, I made the switch to Linux about a week ago and have mo complaints so far. Except maybe this: I can't seem to find a way in Linux to get proper loudness equalization like I got on windows.

My issue is that I have a bunch of media, especially shows and movies, that are suffering from way too loud gunshots, explosions, music and so forth and really quiet dialogue. I know this is because sound engineers make the audio fit for cinemas and not my living room, it is a problem nonetheless.

Under windows there is a simple toggle in even the most basic sound cards and settings called loudness equalization, that corrects those perceived differences quite effectively, which Linux is lacking. A bit of web search led me to the term ReplayGain, which seems to be the proper name for it, and I enabled it for my media from within the player apps. However it doesn't really work like i am used to.

Sounds and language constantly change volume mid sentence, which is very irritating to me. ReplayGain also doesn't really help avoiding those sudden bursts of loudness, I still blast awake my neighbors on accident when watching a move later at night.

Is there some way to get at that windows audio codec or whatever they use, that works so much better?

Thanks for reading

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How to access files on other drives? (lemmy.zip)
 

Hey guys, so i just now pulled the trigger, formatted my windows installation and installed Linux for the first time. I went with bazzite, which seems very gaming friendly and idiot proof with its rollback functionality.

Now to the issue: I have 3 drives in my computer, one 500gb SSD which i used for the OS. This one can be accessed fine as expected. The other two, a 2tb SSD and 1tb HDD however, dont. I cant seem to find a way to access them, and i have all my media on there / want to install games onto them.

How can i access them, and tell the OS that these two are also part of its system?

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Change the integrated music widget? (lemmy.zip)
 

Hey guys, I am somewhat new to android (went straight to grapheneos) and am a bit annoyed with this widget.

It looks good, but the skip buttons are tiny and my gorilla fingers have trouble hitting them reliably. Is there a way to change to a different layout with bigger buttons or even gesture support?

I am aware that most music apps come with a widget for the home screen but I specifically need the one shown on the lock screen and pulldown menu to change.

Thanks in advance!

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How to identify “unavailable" videos on yt? (lemmy.zip)
 

I hope this is the proper place to ask, though probably only indirectly on topic for this community.

What I am looking for is a way or tool to extract from a YouTube playlist the information which of my saved videos (usually very niche music from about a decade ago) are no longer available in it (so that I might procure them elsewhere).

With google being google, and the condensed information of "x videos are no longer available" that is displayed, I am fairly sure the information isnt gone gone, just hidden from the user.

Is there a way to get at that info?

Thanks in advance

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"Echte" deutschsprachige RSS feeds? (lemmy.zip)
 

Hallo, ich hoffe das Thema passt hier mit rein, auch wenn es nur angrenzt an das Privatsphäre-Bewusstsein. Also folgendes:

Ich habe kürzlich einen RSS reader installiert, und mir einige feeds abonniert, in erster Linie Nachrichten, um die elenden daten-oder-geld-banner welche auf vielen seiten heutzutage verwendet werden, zu vermeiden.

Leider musste ich nach langem zusammenklauben der feeds feststellen dass der Großteil der Anbieter den feed nur als Weiterleitung auf deren Website behandelt, was den Sinn des ganzen ja komplett verfehlt.

Die einzigen die ich fand, welche tatsächlich auch information darüber verbreiten und zumindest halbwegs seriös sind, sind die Tagesschau und n-tv.

Das ist aber leider recht mager, kennt jemand hier vielleicht noch andere gute feeds, welche auch tatsächlich feeds sind und nicht nur links mit clickbait Überschrift?

Interessieren würden mich allgemeine (globale) Nachrichten, innenpolitisches, und allgemein zeitgenössisches linkes bzw. progressives Gedankengut. Meinungsmache aber nicht, journalistische Mindeststandards und eine gewisse Neutralität sollten schon eingehalten werden.

Erwähnte feeds: https://www.tagesschau.de/XML/rss2 https://www.ntv.de/Politik/rss

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Tried my hands at a crossover 🫡 (lemmy.zip)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip to c/helldivers2@lemmy.ca
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The civics were a tossup between shadow council and police state but I really couldn't justify not using one of the other two, they fit so well.

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Looking for an emulator (old nintendo) (lemmy.zip)
 

So i recently got my first android phone after having been an iphone user for years. So far i am really happy and especially enjoy finding foss alternatives to as many apps as possible.

However i cant seem to find a gameboy emulator, one oft the things i missed on ios all those years. Mostly for gba games, maybe gbc too. Does someone here have a recommendation? All the ones i found on fdroid were incompatible.

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Schwer zu ersetzende Konzern-Dienste (lemmy.zip)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip to c/datenschutz@feddit.de
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Hallo, nach meinem vorigen post von vor ein paar Wochen (https://lemmy.zip/post/12072494) bin ich jetzt dabei mein leben insgesamt von so vielen Konzernen wie möglich zu befreien (das schlimmste bisher war der Wechsel von spotify zurück zu lokalen Dateien die mir gehören, man findet fast nichts mehr außer mainstream releases).

Klappt soweit ganz gut, allerdings scheint es keine wirkliche alternative zu Google oder Apple maps zu geben. Alle Dienste welche ich mir angesehen habe waren leider zu unzuverlässig oder unvollständig.

Ich muss auch endlich mal meinen Gmail-account wechseln (habe ich seit bald 20 Jahren, wird sicher spaßig die Adresse überall zu wechseln). Gibt es da etwas empfehlenswertes? Ich habe proton ein paar mal in Kommentaren gelesen. Bin ich damit gut beraten?

Dann gibt's noch „Nischen-Apps" wie die banking apps meiner Sparkasse oder das digitale busticket welches in meiner Region verwendet wird, beide sind im Grunde alternativlos, aber nicht notwendigerweise sparsam mit der Datenerhebung.

Letztendlich sind da dann noch die verbleibenden messenger (telegram und discord) welche ich auch gern los wäre, ist aber leider komplett abhängig davon was alle anderen benutzen. Besonders discord missfällt mir, die sind fast so schlimm wie facebook mit der schnüffelei. Ich habe aber mal bei oberflächlicher websuche einige alternativ Clients entdeckt, vielleicht tut sich da ja was auf.

Vielleicht hat hier ja jemand ein paar tips?

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A really low priority feature request (lemmy.zip)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world
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I was wondering if you could add alternate icon support for the Android version, so it can be themed properly.

Obviously this is purely cosmetic, but it would be a very nice addition

Update for future readers: the functionality actually already exists, choose one of the themed icons for voyager from the list.

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I just realized a change in phrasing (lemmy.zip)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip to c/tenforward@lemmy.world
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So it just occurred to me that during the TNG production era there is a shift in ship nomenclature:

  • TNG: The Enterprise
  • DS9: The Defiant/Yukon/Danube/etc.
  • VOY: ~~The~~ Voyager
  • (ENT): "Ennurprais" is all that’s left.

Seems towards the later shows they stopped referring to the ship as a, well, ship and just addressed it as a character? Why?

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Empfehlenswerte Smartphones? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip to c/datenschutz@feddit.de
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Hey, ich bin momentan auf der Suche nach einem neuen Smartphone und würde gern so "offline" wie möglich sein:

möglichst kein OS / keine Software von den großen tech-Konzernen, kein Tracking, Login, telemetrie etc. Wo es nur geht. AI Features finde ich grundsätzlich interessant, möchte aber wenn dann nur lokal laufende (offline) Funktionalitäten.

Ich hab mich bisher eher wenig mit meinem Datenschutz auf dem Handy befasst und bin daher noch recht planlos was das Ganze angeht. Empfehlungen oder allgemeine Anregungen sind gern gesehen 👀

Edit: danke für die guten infos, ich hab mich jetzt für ein Pixel + grapheneOS entschieden.

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