IcedRaktajino

joined 3 months ago

...it's a suppository.

Talk to the hand! Cause the face ain't listening.

Veren zol fun dir a blintse

Pretty decent unless there's a lot of animation / video in them. Calling, texting, looking up something on the internet, bank app, auth app, etc all work great. Some of the stock Android components don't work super great with it, though, like the quick action buttons (though, arguably, they don't work great on any Android phone either lol).

Feels sluggish at times but that's just the e-ink being what it is. I mostly treat it like a dumb phone that's also an e-reader.

If you need a good read, I highly recommend "Deep Space Nine: Millennium" trilogy. Weyoun is the big bad, naturally, and he's got all the smarm we know and love with a heaping helping of religious zealotry on top (he's literally Kai Weyoun in the book and is the combined worst parts of Kai Winn and Weyoun (except Weyoun 6).

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I've always joked that coding as a hobby is just digital knitting lol.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 101 points 6 days ago (25 children)

Literally me for decades. My astigmatism wasn't diagnosed until 2-3 years ago despite yearly (or semi-yearly) visits to the optometrist. Thought that was just how lights looked in the dark lol.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 37 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

I've gradually weaned off of smartphones over the last 18 months. Currently daily-driving the Minimal Phone and loving its distraction-free (or at least distraction-lite) ways.

I may not be analog like the article is highlighting, but I have basically eliminated the doom scrolling and have reignited my passion for reading (the one "distraction" the Minimal Phone does well is being an e-reader since it's got an e-ink screen).

Roughly 1,600 TikTok posts were tagged #AnalogLife during the first nine months of 2025

I'm just going to ignore the irony of that and appreciate it at face value 😆

 

The latest must-have accessory is a "stop-scrolling bag" -- a tote packed with analog activities like watercolors and crossword puzzles. We spend hours glued to our screens. "Analog bags," as they're also called, are one way millennials and Gen Zers are reclaiming that time. "I basically just put everything I could grab for instead of my phone into a bag," including knitting, a scrapbook and a Polaroid camera, says Sierra Campbell, the content creator behind the trend.

The 31-year-old keeps one bag at home in Northern California, carrying it from room to room, and another in her car. The trend has quickly spread on social media, part of a bigger shift to unplug. Roughly 1,600 TikTok posts were tagged #AnalogLife during the first nine months of 2025 -- up over 330% from the same period last year, according to TikTok data shared with Axios.

"It speaks to an incredible desperation and desire for experiences that return our attention to us, that fight brain-rotting, that are tactile ... that involve creating over scrolling," says Beth McGroarty, vice president of research at the Global Wellness Institute.

I'm sure we're past that now and firmly in the "you're just gonna have to deal with it" phase.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thanks. Now I'm gonna start calling AI news summaries "tAIbloids" and make fun of the people who use them. 😆

 

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

New research coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants -- already a daily information gateway for millions of people -- routinely misrepresent news content no matter which language, territory, or AI platform is tested. The intensive international study of unprecedented scope and scale was launched at the EBU News Assembly, in Naples. Involving 22 public service media (PSM) organizations in 18 countries working in 14 languages, it identified multiple systemic issues across four leading AI tools. Professional journalists from participating PSM evaluated more than 3,000 responses from ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity against key criteria, including accuracy, sourcing, distinguishing opinion from fact, and providing context.

Key findings:

  • 45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue.
  • 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems - missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions.
  • 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information.
  • Gemini performed worst with significant issues in 76% of responses, more than double the other assistants, largely due to its poor sourcing performance.
  • Comparison between the BBC's results earlier this year and this study show some improvements but still high levels of errors.

Mine is also from the "Born to be a Bureaucrat" song but it's the "born to be all obsessive and snotty. I made my friends and relations fill long applications to get into my tenth birthday party" part.

 

Solved. Thank you @sandbo00@feddit.org . It's an MHF4 connector. Will leave the post up for future people with the same question.

I've been playing around with an Orange Pi Zero 2W the last week. When I finally got the point of putting a case together, I was going to replace the little whip with a U.FL->SMA cable for an external antenna. However, the U.FL connector is too large for this.

This connector is the same form factor as U.FL but about half the size.

Is micro U.FL a thing? My Google-fu is failing me, the acronym stew is thick here, and I'd really like to wrap up this project with a nice external antenna. OrangePi hasn't been helpful - they just call it "Wifi + BT Antenna connector" like that explains it all lol

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As a general rule, I will never click a link unless it clearly states where it's taking me. Except I needed to see what the error meant, so I clicked open on it. Yay interstitial ads! 😠

 
 
 

In a game that's all about decision-making aboard the U.S.S. 'Voyager,' of course players are going to be asked to tackle one of the most infamous decisions made in 'Star Trek.'

Last month, we were very excited to see the announcement of Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown, a new survival game from Daedelic Entertainment and Gamexcite that tasks you with charting the U.S.S. Voyager‘s journey home from the Delta Quadrant as you repair the ship in the wake of the event that flung it 70,000 light-years across space in the first place, and make your own decisions from the captain’s chair about where to go, who to fight, and who’s on your crew.

And yes, that means you will be able to decide whether or not there is justice for Tuvix.

...

Star Trek Voyager – Across the Unknown still doesn’t have a release window, but aside from being available to wishlist on Steam for PC players, it’s now been confirmed that the game is also coming to Xbox Series X and S as well as PS5.

Trailer


Edit: Me after seeing all the Robet Dalys in the comments:

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Edit 4: Color correction and trying to make it less dark. I also finally seem to have found the correct slider in GIMP to turn DS9 into a sitcom (or maybe a Mexican soap opera?)

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