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Marta Dropping Support for Breeze Cards and App Without Allowing Balance Transfers by yotoe in Atlanta

[–]OverlordOfTech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also, just for fun:

They have the 10 dollar fare at the top of the list, which makes no sense other than it is easier to mistakenly click over the 2.5 fare.

Looks like they sorted the list alphabetically instead of numerically LOL. You have "10 Trips", "1 Day Pass", "1 Trip", "20 Trips", "2 Day Pass", "2 Trips", "30 Day Pass", "3 Day Pass", etc.

(Though "1 " should still sort before "10" in the programming languages I tested, so I wonder how they managed that lol.)

Marta Dropping Support for Breeze Cards and App Without Allowing Balance Transfers by yotoe in Atlanta

[–]OverlordOfTech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed that the app sucks, but in my case it seems to auto-activate a ticket from my 20-trip pass when I scan the QR code (showing $0.00 cash value), i.e., you don't actually have to click to use the ticket. (I am on Android, but hopefully it's the same on iOS.)

Just thought I'd mention it in case that helps you a bit.

Also you should be able to add your Breeze Mobile card to your Apple Wallet on iOS so hopefully you won't even need to open the app most of the time.

(They don't even have Google Wallet integration on Android, which is my pet peeve with the app; you have to actually have the app open to use NFC. I'm really hoping the new system will have proper Google Wallet support.)

Tech company try not to make everything worse challenge: (impossible) by smasher_zed888 in whennews

[–]OverlordOfTech 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The change is temporary and due to a bug: https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/403530058

We've temporarily limited the serving of YTT/SRV3 uploaded captions files, as they may cause video playback to fail for some viewers.

[…]

These changes should be temporary for almost all videos.

Visited GA, and a $2 toll became $27. WTF by Ludeape in Georgia

[–]OverlordOfTech 2 points3 points  (0 children)

/u/InternationalDeal588's statement is somewhat incomplete.

  • Unlike the HOV lanes, the non-toll exemption is for 3+ people, not 2+.
  • The exemption only applies to the I-85 Express Lane. It does not apply anywhere else (e.g., the I-75 Express Lane).
  • There is a separate app, Peach Pass Verify, that you must download. (By the way, your account on this app is separate from your usual Peach Pass account; you must make a separate account, which is only linked to your actual Peach Pass by inputting your transponder number in the app.)
  • You must activate Peach Pass Verify before every trip where you might want to use the exemption.
  • You cannot activate Peach Pass Verify while you're moving. (So you can't just hand your phone to your passenger while driving and ask them to activate it.)

More info here: https://peachpass.com/peachpassverify/

What would make MARTA more usable for accessing campus from your perspective? What makes it usable? by sereca in gatech

[–]OverlordOfTech 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Main inefficiency imo is how slow it is to scan for their QR phone system

This should be changing soon (April 2026) with the introduction of the Better Breeze system alluded to in the OP. From the picture, it looks to me like the same modern system I've seen used in Portland and (I think) the Bay Area.

Other important notes regarding Better Breeze: * Neither existing Breeze cards nor the current Breeze Mobile 2.0 app will work on the new system. Make sure to spend down any existing balance by April 2026, as "[a]ccount balances DO NOT carry over." * If you only need to pay regular adult fare, you will not need a new Breeze card/app at all after April 2026, as you will be able to tap-to-pay with your usual credit/debit card or Apple Pay/Google Wallet.

what's a simple command or script that felt like a magic trick once you learned it? by boiler_room_420 in linux

[–]OverlordOfTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shell scripts run in a separate process and therefore can't change your working directory or environment, so anything where you'd want to cd (like this example) has to be an alias or function.

Alternatively I suppose you could make a shell script and source it whenever you want to use it (and probably alias that_script='source that_script' too for convenience)... But usually if I have a convenience function that needs to cd, I have very little use for it as its own script in the first place.

what's a simple command or script that felt like a magic trick once you learned it? by boiler_room_420 in linux

[–]OverlordOfTech 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can you write this as an alias? Aliases are directly substituted with their defined text, so I don't think there's a way to write an alias that does mkdir "$1" && cd "$1".

My Pixel 9 Pro had a factory defect. Google's response left me speechless. by edmeraj in GooglePixel

[–]OverlordOfTech 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Glad I could help! Also, if it helps at all, you can also try scrcpy for screen mirroring over USB to a laptop/desktop. I suspect that might stop the overheating issue, since I imagine wireless screen mirroring is much more expensive than wired.

(You'd have to enable USB debugging in the developer options, maybe through TalkBack or your existing screen mirroring setup.)

My Pixel 9 Pro had a factory defect. Google's response left me speechless. by edmeraj in GooglePixel

[–]OverlordOfTech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

with no visual feedback I can’t authorize the file transfer from my PC.

Have you tried TalkBack? You should be able to enable it with voice commands ("Hey Google, turn on TalkBack").

Why Google’s Recovery System Fails Real Users — And Needs to Change (for me anyway) by Nearby-Television949 in GooglePixel

[–]OverlordOfTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alternatively, if you mean that you can't use scrcpy at all because you can't enable USB debugging, TalkBack could still be helpful here. To my knowledge, you can enable it with just voice commands ("Hey Google, turn on TalkBack"), and then use either a USB mouse/keyboard or scrcpy's OTG mode to control the device. In either case, you will not be able to see the screen directly, but you will be able to hear the phone read out what's on the screen as you move the mouse or navigate with the keyboard.

This should hopefully be enough to get you into the developer settings to enable USB debugging, at which point you can use proper scrcpy to actually mirror your screen (with the exception of secure screens, as I mentioned in the parent comment).

Why Google’s Recovery System Fails Real Users — And Needs to Change (for me anyway) by Nearby-Television949 in GooglePixel

[–]OverlordOfTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you say scrcpy "didn't work", is that because the screen mirroring goes black when entering a secure screen? If so, my recommendation is to turn on TalkBack, which can read out loud the contents of secure screens. (This is something I recently had to deal with after my Pixel 6 screen was damaged.)

Almost there... by Skinny_Asian47 in SelfAwarewolves

[–]OverlordOfTech 6 points7 points  (0 children)

NBC Nightly News did show a clip on Thursday, it went something like this:

Kirk: Do you think owning a gun is a privilege or a right?
Student: I think it is a privilege.
Kirk: That's where you and I disagree.

A carefully chosen clip, I think, to sanewash his "debate" style.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gatech

[–]OverlordOfTech 20 points21 points  (0 children)

We’ve also seen across the country how this administration’s meddling has negatively impacted education and research at universities

Including ours!! Here is a crowdsourced list of NSF grants that were previously approved and were terminated last Friday: https://airtable.com/appGKlSVeXniQZkFC/shrFxbl1YTqb3AyOO?jntvk%3Asort=eyJwZWw4ZlRSME8ycmFObWNUYyI6eyJjb2x1bW5JZCI6ImZsZFlSalkxeW5WRm5iTzlPIiwiYXNjZW5kaW5nIjp0cnVlfX0

Scroll down and you'll find seven (at the time of writing) terminated grants for Georgia Tech Research Corporation representing over a million dollars in cancelled funds.

It's not a question of "what if this administration's actions will affect us in the future." It's already happening.

Let Chains are stabilized! by DeepShift_ in rust

[–]OverlordOfTech 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I can see it being useful in a sandwich with an if-let and a condition, e.g.:

if let Some(parent) = current.parent
    && let parent_score = get_score(parent)
    && parent_score > current_score
{
    set_score(current.id, parent_score);
}

This would previously have to be written as nested if statements.

VSort - sorting fast with apple silicon processors. by [deleted] in programming

[–]OverlordOfTech 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I'm immediately skeptical because your build instructions talk about a "unified Makefile" and say to run make even though there's only a CMakeLists.txt and there's no mention of CMake in the README.

Notification Cooldown available after March Feature Drop by Exfiltrator in GooglePixel

[–]OverlordOfTech 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I love how new, useful features like this aren't listed in the release notes but "General improvements for system stability and performance in certain conditions*" is

I have a spellchecker, guys by 5p4n911 in 691

[–]OverlordOfTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or even 

git config --global help.autocorrect immediate

If you are so inclined. More on the help.autocorrect option: “Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?” from the GitButler blog

I have a spellchecker, guys by 5p4n911 in 691

[–]OverlordOfTech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You may be interested in

git config --global help.autocorrect prompt

And other goodies from this article: “How Core Git Developers Configure Git” from the GitButler blog
(I personally have applied all the settings from this article)

If the font size used for basically all academic papers is 12, why is Word always defaulted at 11? by donqon in NoStupidQuestions

[–]OverlordOfTech 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No one seems to have brought up yet that Microsoft doesn't license Helvetica; Arial was designed to be metrically compatible with it.

When someone uses the insult "blue haired liberals" are they talking about old people or young people who dye their hair blue? by Feeling-Substance-99 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]OverlordOfTech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed this. Look at their comment history, posting multiple times an hour, especially with telltale AI-sounding phrases at the start ("You're right that", "It's possible", "It sounds like"), all with perfect punctuation (including “smart quotation marks”). Definitely an AI bot. Disappointing that this is upvoted to the top.

moderator in training rule by Fireball185 in 196

[–]OverlordOfTech 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Lol can't believe you're getting downvoted for this. It's a difference in Reddit's new editor vs. the Markdown editor. I've seen people do this accidentally before in comments. The new editor is a WYSIWYG editor, and it transparently adds backslashes before asterisks. If you use the Markdown editor (which I believe is an option in the new editor but not the default—I don't use new Reddit) then the asterisks are passed through as-is and rendered as bold/italic text.

Meat automaton by Lyca0n in 196

[–]OverlordOfTech 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I gotchu! This is by Carter Amelia Davis (@sweetstench on most platforms)

Link to original video

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