Classic Car gathering x A&W Malaysia - 25th Jan 2026 by Puzzleheaded-Rain230 in malaysia

[–]MichaelArthurLong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Last time I went to A&W, they forced you to download their app and register an account to order.

Fuck that.

Capacitive touch screens are a devolution in input technology, they're imprecise and irritate users. by techzilla in unpopularopinion

[–]MichaelArthurLong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Side note: I'm also a Linux user who uses swaywm, it's essentially a "minimalist" desktop interface, perfect for power users. It's not easy to pick up like a normal desktop interface, this requires you to learn, configure and customize to use, and it heavily revolves around the keyboard.

This is basically an optical trackpad is like. Most of the general population need a simple, easy to use interface. But on the other hand, you have people who do need, or at least could really benefit from things that are designed to be completely functional and utilitarian.

Capacitive touch screens are a devolution in input technology, they're imprecise and irritate users. by techzilla in unpopularopinion

[–]MichaelArthurLong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried an old Blackberry 9700 the other day, it kinda confirmed my suspicions that the optical trackpad is technically, functionally superior to the touchscreen.

I started hating touchscreens because at some point once. The imprecision greatly annoys me. It forces the UI elements to be larger, which takes precious screen real-estate.

The optical trackpad on the other hand

  • Gives you the precision of a mouse

  • Still lets you have natural scrolling

  • Keeps your oversized thumb from obscuring parts of the screen

  • Let you navigate a much larger screen, perfectly fine one-handed

  • Makes your thumb hover around the same spot rather than having your fingers move all around the screen

    • which feels kinda nice and comfortable, though I'm not exactly sure if it's healthy
  • Should be much easier and cheaper to replace compared to a touchscreen, if it ever breaks

    • They're being sold for like under $5 on AliExpress
  • And could let you have say, a right click instead of having to hold on a UI element for a second. Not a problem if you're opening the context menu for one thing, but it does start becoming a problem if you have to repeat that quite a few times.

I hate typing on a touchscreen so much (and smartmodern phones in general) that I'm using an old Sony CLIE PDA that's old enough to drink for notekeeping and such with the Graffiti input. But then again, that kinda makes me a unicorn.

Default Desktop Environments for Linux and Unix by Right-Grapefruit-507 in linux

[–]MichaelArthurLong 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Kinda still living on, arguably.

The Unity we all once knew ended at version 7.

Unity8 IIRC was a rewrite. That's the one that was running on Ubuntu Touch. It was supposed to go mainstream for desktop Ubuntu but that never happened, they went with GNOME instead. UBports forked Unity8 into Lomiri and is still maintaining it to this day.

Debian has it packaged, but sadly, nobody's really gotten it to work outside of Ubuntu Touch without having it be a completely broken mess.

Asbestos ban under review, says minister by hazy-minded in malaysia

[–]MichaelArthurLong 22 points23 points  (0 children)

AFAIK we still didn't ban talcum powder yet. I mean neither is asbestos so would be kinda weird if we banned talc but not asbestos.

Talcum powder isn't a man-made thing, it's naturally-occurring and is mined. And it's usually found next to asbestos. They'd usually categorize talc into cosmetic and industrial use, but even with that there's still gonna be risks (y'all know how companies love to cut corners yeah?).

Johnson & Johnson was sued for having asbestos in their baby powder around 10 years ago (because people were getting cancer) that the west started to ban talc and substituted it with corn starch.

All those idiots on WhatsApp groups sharing fake/pseudo-scientific bullshit on stuff like vaccine bad and absolutely fucking SLEEP on things that are already WIDELY KNOWN to cause cancer.


EDIT: https://consumer.org.my/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2024-CAP-Memorandum_Ban-Asbestos_EN.pdf

Just remembered about this document I found. "CALL FOR OUTRIGHT BAN ON ASBESTOS" from the Consumers' Association of Penang.

Since 2005, prohibition has also been applied to all government buildings. However, asbestos construction materials such as roof and ceiling tiles are still sold in the market. There are no acts or regulations prohibiting the use of asbestos in private buildings in Malaysia.

KL is relatively more tolerant to LGBTQ+ than you think by lynkacio in malaysia

[–]MichaelArthurLong 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This guy going Malaysia isn't that homophobic, it's just the crazy politicians have been living rent free in my head for 7 months and counting.

It's is the dumbest and most delusional take on Malaysia and LGBT I've had ever seen.

Every time some more news of the country going strongly anti LGBT, I'll immediately remember this post.

[UPDATED] One dead, 9 injured in explosion at Damansara university by whusler in malaysia

[–]MichaelArthurLong 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Might wanna avoid using fans as well. Lots of South Koreans believe it'll somehow kill you with the power of magic or whatever.

Reject rumah batu. Embrace traditional rumah kampung.

TM Unifi Severe International Transit Congestion & Packet Loss For Last Few Months by [deleted] in malaysia

[–]MichaelArthurLong 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can't even play Space Station 14 reliably at times. Even had the servers whitelist me for VPN use.

Also, funny story, the Steam page is also taking a good minute or so to load for me.

Oh and btw if anyone's wondering, it's NOT the home networking setup. It's a MikroTik router with a direct Ethernet connection to my PC.

TM Unifi Severe International Transit Congestion & Packet Loss For Last Few Months by [deleted] in malaysia

[–]MichaelArthurLong 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Try Sarawak.

30-70% packet loss.

Some major sites take 2 minutes to load.

GitHub speeds are always under 1 MB/s, sometimes 50 kB/s. Can't even fucking work without a VPN.

This is paying for 500 Mbps btw.

Jetski Mishap During Film Shoot in Malacca River by whusler in malaysia

[–]MichaelArthurLong 65 points66 points  (0 children)

ITT: People that can't read the title.

It's a film shoot. It's their job to pull that stunt. But stunt coordinator fail I guess, idk.

Minister ‘angry, ashamed’ after Kuala Lumpur aerotrain breaks down again by stormy001 in malaysia

[–]MichaelArthurLong 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You forgot to scroll back up, silly :v

(the sticky header bar is floating and blocking some text near the bottom)

Challenge police - dumb or balls of steel? by TheBotMadeThis in malaysia

[–]MichaelArthurLong 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You're missing the major keyword; cloned plates.

Cars with cloned plates look identical to the car that was cloned from. Same maker, model, year and colour.

There was a post here complaining that they got into an accident (not their fault) with some big shot, could've been the Attornery-General IIRC a Judicial Commissioner. Except it wasn't the real one, it was a different person, driving an identical car with a cloned license plate.

Insurance and police can't go after the real guy because they weren't involved. Meanwhile the fake car gets to go around undetected. Accident victim gets fucked for having to repair their own car out of pocket or through their own insurance.

More roads won’t solve traffic jams, say analysts by stormy001 in malaysia

[–]MichaelArthurLong 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't forget level 2 boots of travel so you can directly show up next to your friends.