LaserdiscTurtle

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[–] LaserdiscTurtle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Interesting to know that all Hario papers are now made in the same Japanese factory. In his last video on papers I remember him saying that there were two factories in Japan and one in the Netherlands, each with different properties.

[–] LaserdiscTurtle@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The Sega Mega CD and the 32x were genuinely great pieces of hardware...but nearly all the games were awful. I love the Mega CD in particular, and I say that as a Nintendo kid.

[–] LaserdiscTurtle@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

UK here, stuck with only Channel 4 showing it with the English dub and yikes...that was just awful. There were several times where I thought "That was the best take you had?" While not as unintentionally comical as the "Uzumaki" dub it still just took me right out of the experience. The original Japanese soundtrack has some genuine VA legends including Mamoru Miyano, Megumi Hayashibara, and Koichi Yamadera...while the English dub seems to be a bunch of bored teenagers cold reading the script.

Hopefully Channel 4 will eventually add the original Japanese track, but I don't think they ever did for "Uzumaki", or maybe Crunchyroll will get it eventually. I'd rather not have to sail the seven seas.

But for now I won't be going back for episode 2.

[–] LaserdiscTurtle@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I hope this comes to Google's foldables too. I rarely need more than the two apps I can currently split screen, but something like Open Canvas so would certainly add more flexibility.

[–] LaserdiscTurtle@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Metroid Prime 2 is the only main Metroid game I've still not completed. The whole light/dark mechanic was just so joyless and punishing. I'll still be buying this and giving it another go; a few quality of life tweaks and this could be enjoyable.

[–] LaserdiscTurtle@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Sorry, I missed this comment until now. Thanks for the tip, I'll check Zen out.

The multi window feature I mentioned in Chrome is for foldable phones. Chrome allows you to open two separate instances and have them on either side of your screen; much like you can do on a desktop. I love the multi tasking aspect foldable phones allow, but very few apps allow you to have two instances of them running like that.

[–] LaserdiscTurtle@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Firefox because it's plugins make mobile browsing bareable. I have a folding phone so I wish that Firefox would hurry up and copy Chrome's multi window feature, and then it would be the perfect browser for me.

I use Firefox on desktop too, but I've been experimenting with Arc the last few weeks to see what the fuss is about.

[–] LaserdiscTurtle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I used to use this one...but for some reason I just never found any of the settings made it as noticeable and useful as an actual notification LED so I just switched to using an always on display.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jamworks.aodnotificationledlight

I too miss notification LEDs...yet another thing sacrificed to the alter of bezelless design.

[–] LaserdiscTurtle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Another vote from me for out and almond milk. If you do any kind of milk steaming or latte art then oat is great for that...and I just like the flavour of almond milk. It's really nice with breakfast cereals too as it adds a nice nutty flavour to everything.

There is nothing wrong with Soy milk, but with coffee you have to be careful you don't curdle it due to the high temperature.

 

Looking for some troubleshooting advice. I've had to spend a lot of time away from home lately so haven't been taking as good care of my Wilfa Uniform grinder as much as I usually do, so I gave it a rather thorough clean at the weekend after months of just letting it build up.

On Monday I noticed that when grinding it sounds like it's struggling; as if there's a bean in there that's catching and throwing things off every second or so, even when there are no beans in there. It's not a motor whine or anything like that; the only way I can describe it is it sounds like it's grinding on empty, and then suddenly coming into contact with something every now and then. I've opened it up and cleaned it out again and there's no signs of a anything obstructing the burrs, and no sign of damage. It still seems to be grinding fine, but the sound is pretty worrying.

I think I might have accidentally cleaned off some of the lubricant on the ball bearings, but this is purely just a guess. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

 

My house doesn't currently have a doorbell of any form (100+ year old house, I guess no one ever installed one along the way), and lately we've been suffering a bit of antisocial behaviour so I've been looking into getting a smart doorbell.

Despite both my wife and I being tech literate people the only smart home devices we have are a few smart bulbs which we control through our phones (both Android and Apple).

Given that we don't have, and are not interested in getting a smart speaker or hub, are there any video doorbells that send meaningful notifications to your phone?

So far Google Nest Battery Doorbell looks like it would be the best all rounder for our needs, but it seems that it just sends a regular notification to phone that would be stupidly easy to miss. I also looked into Eufy and found contradicting things about how phone notifications are handled.

Ideally I'd want to get a ringing phone notification that wakes the phone and displays the camera interface, like a phone call, that way it would get immediatly noticed and not just lost amongst other regular notifications. I can easily set a different notification sound...but that isn't much help as my phone is always set to vibrate mode.

It sounds like Ring doorbells have the style of notification I'm looking for, but they seem to have an awful reputation and we'd like to avoid a subscription if possible.

Is there anything that fits my admittedly limiting criteria?

Thanks in advance for any tips, help, and advice : )