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troy

@troy@opencoaster.net

Armchair theme park critic & web dev person. EV fanboy. proudly working for First + Third

Things I enjoy:
#ThemePark #ThemeParks
#Disneyland #UniversalStudios #SixFlags
#EVs #ElectricVehicles
#WebDev #WebDevelopment
#Javascript #Typescript
#TailwindCSS #WordPress
#Nachos #Tacos
#Planes #Trains
#3DPrinting
#Horror #Haunts
#Space #NASA #Science #STEM #STEAM
#fedi22

He/Him

Follow my music: @troy

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christianselig, to random
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The wildest bag someone recommended from this post is the TomToc Navigator. It's 40L, but only weighs 2.8 lb, has water bottle holders, compression straps, great laptop/iPad compartment, and one massive clamshell bucket for clothes. And it's only $80, which concerningly cheap

If they used X-Pac or a nicer material it could be even lighter and more durable, add in stowable straps, would be an absolute slam dunk
https://mastodon.social/@christianselig/112417643959065431

troy,
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@christianselig I have a tomtoc bag for my ROG Ally and was surprised how nice it was for the price too. Pretty thoughtful features. Definitely not the highest quality but you know price and such. I’m gonna have to look the Navigator up now

virtualbri, to apple
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntjkwIXWtrc

I don't...just no Apple. This is not the iPad take you want to be known for.

Destroying all these mostly tactile experiences for a tiny screen?

I love my iPad, but no....

#Apple #IPad #Advertisements

troy,
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@virtualbri Quite a few dislikes too.

troy, to random
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Had an early dinner at Bistrot Chez Remy. Mixed greens and the steak. Ordered it rare and they nailed it. The mustard sauce was excellent. Was it worth 40 bucks? Probably not but it was a fun for a first time experience.

Mixed greens salad with a poached egg and a side of fresh bread.
Steak with fries

tannerman, to movies
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What is wrong with this picture? https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/a24-civil-war-posters-controversy-1235876340/

troy,
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@tannerman "Yet the images make the film look like a movie with twice that budget." - Do they though?

gedeonm, to AppleInc
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I love the smell of new software in the morning! After 20+ years of monitoring your Mac, iPulse finally comes to iOS https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ipulse-monitor-your-device/id6474695786

troy,
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@gedeonm how is pocket god still up that high when it’s last update was like 8 years ago? Wild

mikey, to random
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It's been less than a week since Nintendo shut down Yuzu and we already have a successor: "Suyu"

Emulation is legal in America.. can't stop open source!

troy,
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@mikey hah the name tho 👌

Yuzu would still be around if they didn't try to "profit" off it. Seems the Suyu devs are aware of this and going to keep it purely OSS.

trinitybat, to random
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@magicaltrash I just saw this pin trading trash can at Epcot and thought of you.

troy,
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@trinitybat @magicaltrash omg that’s amazing. I friggin love it.

thor, to random
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All these small instances that haven't enabled captchas, manual approval or invitations, thus becoming victims to the spambot...

Verifying an email address doesn't really prove anything these days. Too easy to make one. The spambot is taking advantage of that fact, plus the fact that instances don't have to pass any tests to access the network, even if users do.

We can't teach every new instance owner to enable extra checks. We also can't assume that every new ActivityPub server that appears can be trusted.

It would be easy enough to filter problematic content if you ran everything through something like Bogofilter (simple but effective spam classifier) on the way in or out. Could also be used to alert admins to problematic accounts and posts. You can train such classifiers to look for other things than spam, such as slurs and hostile language.

Not something your average could implement. Such filtering should be implemented by the Mastodon team. But they're allergic to "algorithms" there, so I doubt that's going to happen.

troy,
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@thor there’s a lot of things it seems people running even moderately sized instances have no clue about and don’t bother learning about until too late. CDN costs, spam, moderation, backups, list goes on. Wish the docs on all projects were expanded to cover these things.

troy, to random
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I must be the only one not seeing spam in their feed. There’s been some attempted signups but that’s about it.

troy,
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@mikey ahhhhhh I never look at that so explains why.

troy, to random
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It’s insane you can’t have a magic band attached to multiple different resort rooms. More insane that it isn’t obvious that it can’t be linked. Even more insane that the hotels can’t do anything about it. Disney IT, please make this make sense lol

cstephens2, to Disneyland
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Last night, I was able to pick up the new straw clip for a friend. He's super cute, but it turns out you could only buy one if you bought a beverage too. There was no indication of that in the announcement nor on the app, and none of the prior straw clips required a beverage purchase that I can recall. It seems pretty crappy to take advantage of Stitch's popularity to require you to purchase a beverage you might not want just to buy this.

image/jpeg

troy,
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@cstephens2 you can just get it without a drink via mobile order at galactic grill at least

troy, to random
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Vision Pro secured. Really easy pickup but a bit awkward when I told them I just wanted the fit test no demo.

troy, to random
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friendly reminder to also check that your automated backups are running (you have automated backups right?) and that they're non-empty, and ideally actually usable!

troy, to random
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YouTube has been running really slow in safari the last day or so and I thought hmm, surely it's not adguard, YT said they weren't limiting the speed of people using ad blockers (I have premium so shouldn't matter). Sure enough, disable adguard and now YT is really fast again. Sus.

troy, to random
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Caved and just bought PalWorld on Steam.

andrew, to fediverse
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Any other getting new account spam on their instance for Vietnamese garbage can manufacturers?

How big of a market can there possibly be for garbage cans?

troy,
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@andrew Those spammers forced me into approval required for signup and at least now they put that theyre spammers in the reason field.

troy, to random
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@bookstack saw your post about attachments which reminded me I was going to ask about this, it's been a request for a while and wondering if it's something even considered? It's (afaik) the only thing remaining keeping me from switching my personal stuff over completely.

https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/issues/1449

troy, to 3DPrinting
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You’re mine now Mick

mikey, to steam
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Starfield won the Steam Awards "Most Innovative Gameplay" award.

Will Ferrell laughing GIF with the caption "We are laughing"

troy,
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@mikey the labor of love win too, such a pointless award

troy, to random
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Oh right I can post this now without getting sued. Suck it Disney.

Steamboat Willie animated Disney cartoon

troy, to random
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That’s cool

Car tire with screw punctured into the tread

mikey, to random
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I did Tesla home service for the first time in years. I was actually shocked how smooth it went. They came out, popped on the new tire and all was done. Having everything done through the mobile app is so perfect.

troy,
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@mikey It's wild how the quality of service center vs remote service is. The folks that drive up have been amazing every time but the SC all treat you like an idiot that broke the car and Tesla is perfect.

snazzyq, to random
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Historically, my vehicle purchases have been driven by what I can make content on (life of a YouTuber lol), but while I’m fascinated to see the tech, it looks awful and I just don’t think I can swing the insane price tag ($100K!).

troy,
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@snazzyq Also the fact that they don't want you to resell it should be a huge red flag.

troy, to random
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Firefox folks want people to switch but here's the problem, it's still janky as heck. Im just trying to get 1password working and it just wont. Not having 1pass work is a blocker. Back to Chrome I guess.

screenshot of 1password extension settings

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