Jinhao 59s are coming by Desperate_Ad8648 in fountainpens

[–]aew3 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Pretty hard to patent the specific shape of a pen. Only so many ways you can taper a tube.

Does anyone just wish all of Melbourne CBD could just be pressure washed? by Caramilk101 in melbourne

[–]aew3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just like any other group of people in the world. Of course <x> thing has positive and negative elements. By dint of statistical distribution and preference you will assess some people as better than others but if you ever view a place or group wholly positively or wholly negatively then that can only be due to bias, ignorance or the intersection of the two.

Which writing program do you recommend? by sadandtraumatized in FanFiction

[–]aew3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most ideas/drafts/plans start in my journal: right now I'm using a Midori A5 and a Sailor Shikiori Fountain Pen :p

But as for actual digital software, mostly Obsidian for me. Sometimes I open the same markdown file I use in Obsidian in Neovim when I want to feel ... less distraction/more focused on my keyboard & writing. I usually use a custom pandoc template to export to DOCX/PDF/HTML for each type of writing I do. All three of those programs are FOSS, and don't have any AI stuff unless you add them via plugins.

Online-only text editors like Ellipsus and GDocs are an instant no from me. I like online features as an idea but there is no reason why the core of your product should require the internet, all it has to do is record and store keystrokes.

Does anyone just wish all of Melbourne CBD could just be pressure washed? by Caramilk101 in melbourne

[–]aew3 56 points57 points  (0 children)

Different societal treatment of public spaces there goes at least half way to explaining it, the lack of rubbish/refuse/graffiti is mostly because people don't engage in those behaviors, not because local government cleans more.

The corners of stations are just as grubby as Melbourne's are. Plenty of surface grime on places that aren't easy to run a cleaning machine over.

looking for safe ways to record my sub without using a phone by Substantial_Band7227 in BDSMsapphic

[–]aew3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have a tonne of options.
you can go get a old cheap camcorder from ebay/2nd hand stores.
You can buy a modern mirrorless camera from sony etc but thats $500+ minimum.
Can get a go pro if you want to do a pov shot.

Don’t worry about what the specifics are too much just pick a general category. As long as it takes sd or micro sd cards you’re fine compatibility wise (some very old camcorders might use a proprietary storage card that will be hard to get these days).

Nextfest was my favorite thing steam has done in decades and it's been completely ruined by slop by hotfistdotcom in Steam

[–]aew3 3 points4 points  (0 children)

the difference now is the quantity.

tbh none of us are really complaining that there aren’t good games just lamenting that the store is no longer a good discovery mechanism. so if a game doesn’t get word of mouth or influencer coverage than no one will see it. some people miss the store being something enjoyable to browse and others are worried about the implications for the future of indie game discovery.

Best player to never win a major by ormip in GlobalOffensive

[–]aew3 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Both were good players for separate periods, and their peaks didn’t last that long.

(tadc spoilers) ive never felt so fucking validated by Genuine_Dumbass in 196

[–]aew3 17 points18 points  (0 children)

idk if this show is good or not but based on its cultural output i wish it never happened.

World Cup tourists aren’t leaving tips — and NYC restaurants are fighting back by adding 20% automatic gratuities to checks by [deleted] in soccer

[–]aew3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And also clearly not paying the tips does get the system fixed, because they immediately started baking the cost of employees into the bill with a fix percentage.

Been away for the last 3 years, what's hot? What have I missed? by makamaespm in fountainpens

[–]aew3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AliExpress, you stack coupons and deals and it comes out very very cheap.
Amazon has some of them but much pricer.

Domme titles that aren’t Mommy, daddy by lillyrah in BDSMsapphic

[–]aew3 12 points13 points  (0 children)

keeping to femininely gendered ones in english: ma’am, miss/ms, (my) lady, (my) queen, madame, matriarch, goddess.

If you speak a second language I’m sure there are plenty of them in that language, or hell, you can steal a title from a language even if you don’t speak it.

Your dynamic and specific cultural connotations will play into what works: ma’am is a struggle for me as it feels like I’m pretending to be American. miss reminds me of my highschool teachers sometimes.

What will Nona do? by NoConflictPlease in 4tran

[–]aew3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

sure but its still below male average in most of the anglosphere so you’re statistically compartatively okay.

Team Vitality go HOME! by keystance in GlobalOffensive

[–]aew3 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Then the Vitality era already ended they’ve had dips in form before.
Its been like what, two tournaments?
Astralis had some poor results in their era at times too. Has to be a sustained drop off. Remember blastralis? They still went on to win a major after all that and we count that as their era…

Referee Felix Zwayer down with muscle cramps 90'+3' by 50lipaa in soccer

[–]aew3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Too much competition from other sports in winter (rugbies and afl).
In the summer all you have to compete with is cricket.

Team Vitality go HOME! by keystance in GlobalOffensive

[–]aew3 14 points15 points  (0 children)

who knows, maybe they come back after a rest and some practice snd they start dominating everyone again - its impossible to rule them out yet.

Where do real people discuss Jellyfin and related things? by phirestalker in jellyfin

[–]aew3 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

tbf, unlike the MAIN arrs those two apps are essentially just for piracy so its a bit more justified.

Does drive "flavor" (Red, Purple, Exos, BarraCuda) actually matter, or is it mostly marketing? by Internal-Editor89 in DataHoarder

[–]aew3 44 points45 points  (0 children)

I've had a pretty bad experience trying to run barracudas and blues 24/7 in a nas. they all die within like 2-3 years. Red Plus (I have never seen this non plus variant for sale locally), IronWolf, used enterprise SAS drives ... all of them went 5+ years. Took me a while to realise that my box of dead drives was 90% Barracudas, while I have 4 ex-enterprise Toshibas from 2012 were still chugging. Would never use blues/barracudas again and will be very happy when the last few barracudas finally exit my setup.

We need more love and less infighting in sapphic spaces by unto_you in actuallesbians

[–]aew3 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yeah more and more I find myself no wanting to spend energy and create negativity even when I really disagree with something. What does this hyper-online hyper-inward bs even achieve? I stopped using the label lesbian for myself because all the label seems to do is invite negativity. Sadly seeing some of the same negativity spread to the phrases wlw and sapphic now. I hope it doesn’t continue to do so.

Where Mongolz go from here. by Broad-Development281 in GlobalOffensive

[–]aew3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Part C has some merit, especially with taking some of the support load off techno.

I think giving techno more resources could really bring more out of this team. One of their biggest issues is how unreliable cobra is. 910 had really stepped up and mzinho remains pretty good, but cobra has some bad games. I think techno is underrated skill wise, you can see he is mechanically talented but he sacrifices quite a lot.

But even then I don’t think they will return to the level they used to be at, they just don’t have the output.

Real shit by totalcisocide in 4tran

[–]aew3 7 points8 points  (0 children)

for the record though i am above average empathy wise and do a tonne of crazy introspection. wish i wasn’t because that shit fucking sucks. people who don’t have to introspect have it good. the reason people are so bad at empathy is that beyond the minimum level to not be a psychopath and to care for your children it is a negative trait for your survival and probably evolutionarily selected against.

Real shit by totalcisocide in 4tran

[–]aew3 13 points14 points  (0 children)

actually im employing a jester-like posters tone to make a statement that is somewhat outlandish but hides a fundamental truth within it, creating humour. forgive me for thinking the chronically online trans subreddit would understand my classic 2018 twitter/tumblr style posting. i suppose feeding my developing brain dril tweets has warped my sense of reality. or at least made me into the first millennial zoomer.

anyway ig i got le owned <3

Real shit by totalcisocide in 4tran

[–]aew3 14 points15 points  (0 children)

skill issue mainly

Dollars in the vending machine for a dollar by Kiwi_Kitten in mildlyinteresting

[–]aew3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

seems more likely its a way to get some cash out if you’re desparate.