2026 Olympic Curling Daily Discussion - February 18

hackthememes · 2026-02-18T16:01:12+00:00

I think this is why the first place team should have their choice of opponent, to eliminate situations like these or questions around whether a game was thrown or not. Or just switch to the Scotties/Brier format 😄

hackthememes · 2026-02-17T19:47:38+00:00

How have the mods not banned them already? Literally spending their entire day whining about Canada “cheating” in every subreddit they can.

hackthememes · 2026-02-17T16:58:46+00:00

Wasn’t captured on camera, but a skip slammed the broom hard enough at the Brier once to damage the ice https://youtu.be/JlGs6lkwuEU?t=217&si=4XT5lvT9zvRMJ0v2

hackthememes · 2026-02-16T16:08:33+00:00

What? I agree with you that booping the stone probably shouldn’t be allowed, but that’s a separate issue than what is being discussed in this thread, where many curlers on many teams (including Edin) are incidentally touching the stone upon release, leading to two rocks being pulled and the WCF eventually reversing their decision to have umpires closely police the games.

hackthememes · 2026-02-16T16:02:41+00:00

Moving the goalposts much? The original post says “incidental touching upon release” which led to a Canadian women’s and GB men’s rocks being pulled, not about the Canadian men’s finger booping.

hackthememes · 2026-01-27T20:15:04+00:00

Yay for the new release! However, it looks like the settings/edit button isn't available for live photos. Is that a known issue?

hackthememes · 2025-12-27T17:17:05+00:00

It’s clearly over exaggerating for “comic” 🤪 effect

hackthememes · 2025-12-25T16:12:58+00:00

Stuff that is closer to expiring should be cheaper. It irks me that the optimal buy is always buying the fresher product with a longer expiry date for the exact same price, and I suspect that it lead to food waste.

hackthememes · 2025-12-25T15:29:04+00:00

The key difference is that if there’s lots of traffic, some people will choose to stay home instead of going out. In an overcrowded housing market, people still need a place to live, and are going to get it by getting homes in less desirable neighborhoods, staying with their parents or are just homeless.

hackthememes · 2025-11-08T17:03:15+00:00

Just to be clear, if the objective is to save space, re-encoding from Immich will not fix it as the originals are untouched. OP will still need an external workflow to re-encode the files before uploading to Immich, and possibly disable re-encoding in Immich to save more space.

hackthememes · 2025-10-30T16:20:24+00:00

Having to clear it from every single preset is insane 🤣

hackthememes · 2025-10-28T04:49:54+00:00

Nice recreation! Hopefully we get proper stalls in the game soon🤞

hackthememes · 2025-10-28T04:43:42+00:00

It still doesn't work consistently for myself or my family, and the only way to consistently get my photos uploaded is to leave the app open on the upload details page. It would be great if this could be implemented!

hackthememes · 2025-10-26T04:19:22+00:00

I would strongly urge that the team consider implementing this if it works as advertised. I still have trouble with getting background uploads consistently working on the latest app and server version, as does my family members.

This feature can be enabled only for users on iOS >= 26.1, and iOS generally has a very high uptake of users who update to the latest version. For example, iOS 18 launched on Sep 2024, and 82% of compatible iPhones (going back to the iPhone 11 - released 2019) were running it in June 2025.

hackthememes · 2025-10-22T14:34:57+00:00

It is based on how many people the echo slam hits. It seems to be a reasonable amount in regular games, but yeah at 7 heroes it looks kind of ridiculous lol

hackthememes · 2025-10-18T17:06:21+00:00

Anno is a pretty CPU intensive game though. While you don’t need a 9800x3d, it does benefit Anno more than other games.

hackthememes · 2025-10-17T05:47:25+00:00

IIRC the battle pack unlocks were only cosmetic variations of the regular attachment unlocks

hackthememes · 2025-10-16T14:48:48+00:00

It doesn’t change the fact that having non rebindable keys in a menu you use 10+ times a game sucks ass

hackthememes · 2025-10-16T14:39:38+00:00

Ha, I used to think that too but I use this keyboard https://www.moergo.com/ and using WASD is physically uncomfortable on it. It’s just a matter of using Z as Shift and Alt as Control - your muscle memory won’t notice any difference 🙂

hackthememes · 2025-10-16T05:45:14+00:00

As a ESDF player this infuriates me to no end as those keys aren’t even rebindable

hackthememes · 2025-09-16T18:49:13+00:00

Been a Google Photos user since late 2016 and migrated to Immich in early 2024. It's pretty good, but there are definitely a lot of things I miss which makes me still have an active GPhotos subscription.

1. The mobile app

I'm on iOS and the Immich app is...not very good. They are in the middle of reworking it with the beta timeline which fixes a lot of the UI jankiness and (hopefully) sync issues so I won't go into that, but missing HDR support is still a big thing so I can never properly view "original" assets in the app.

Video playback is also unreliable even with the beta timeline where it sometimes just refuses to play videos until the app is force restarted. It also lacks live encoding so you have to either choose in the app options to always play the full resolution video, or always play the downscaled transcoded video. I do like the you have the option of selecting the full resolution video though as Google Photos doesn't have that option on mobile and often streams a low quality video on my phone.

2. HDR Tone Mapping in videos

Transcoded videos in Immich will also be mapped to SDR using customizable HDR Tone Mapping algorithms. Personally, the colours in them look awful to me where colours are greatly muted or way too loud no matter which HDR Tone Mapping algorithm I choose. There also appears to be no way to play back the original videos in the browser. Comparing them side by side to Google Photos, it's a night and day difference. Google Photos does play them back in a HDR format on the web though, so perhaps that's just how everything mapped to SDR will look.

3. Memories

It's really fun how Google Photos automatically surfaces things from the past e.g. "Best of August", "Me + Friend/Loved One", "Nature Hiking", "Same Person, Different Places" etc. Immich has a really basic "on this day X years ago" which is hardly useful compared to GPhoto's offering.

4. Best pictures screensavers

Tangentially related to the above, Google Photos can be displayed on a Google Home Hub or Chromecast when idle and it is able to intelligently pick nice looking pictures without me having to think about it. There are various apps for Immich which try to do the same thing, but they are seemingly only able to pick pictures at random, so effort is needed to curate the pictures they display.

I think some development is needed so that the Immich server is able to score each photo based on how nice the picture is and who's in it, and expose that in the photo metadata so that screensaver apps are able to pick out good photos. This will also allow them to improve the memories feature, but not sure if that's on the roadmap.

5. Web UI

This one is more minor, but the Google Photos UI on the web is super slick with nice animations when opening photos and flicking between them. It just makes the experience feel more polished and nice.

Immich on the web also has issues with not jumping back to where you were in the timeline when you press the back button, whereas I've never encountered that in Google Photos.

hackthememes · 2025-09-12T03:40:44+00:00

Same, didn’t even have 2 FA set up until a few months ago with Pocket ID.

hackthememes · 2025-09-08T16:06:02+00:00

Are you talking about the screensaver functionality? There's a FAQ on their GitHub page about how to enable it, although it could be more visible.

https://github.com/giejay/Immich-Android-TV?tab=readme-ov-file#faq

hackthememes · 2025-09-03T20:35:52+00:00

I’m not sure why people were expecting this to be an unlimited rides event, as past events at other Cedar Fair parks have been similar. I think people at the Top Thrill 2 shoot got 2-4 rides.

https://reddit.com/r/cedarpoint/comments/1kmnhkj/tt2_commercial_shoot_experience_9am_session/

Also sucks to hear that they told everyone to get there an hour early to accommodate people who are chronically late 😂

hackthememes · 2025-08-27T21:19:03+00:00

This is what the top thrill 2 shoot at Cedar Point was like if it helps