But isopropyl alcohol and enough elbow grease will get it off, if it’s just a coating on plastic.

Do beware, however, that you may want to dilute the alcohol to some degree, or simply use a lower concentration form of it. Too strong and it may eat at the underlying plastic just as much as the coating and ruin it.

If the Otterbox case had a rubberized coating on it to try to improve grip, and with it being 6 years old, there’s a possibility it’s the culprit. You could try ditching the case for a little while, and/or getting a new case and swapping them out, clean the surfaces again and see if you feel the stickiness again after handling your phone and other stuff.

However, often with those rubberized coatings, the degradation (when severe enough to feel sticky) is more immediately apparent and you’d be more apt to avoid touching anything else afterward. Also in my experience I don’t recall it transferring to other surfaces much, but then again when I dealt with it I noticed ASAP and cleaned my hands right away.

More direct link to their ArtStation page here: https://trufanov.artstation.com/

Also these are some great mechasaurs! Thanks for sharing this artist’s work!

From login/paywalled Financial Times article that this is citing:

Data from Similarweb shows active daily users in the UK have dropped from 8mn a year ago to only around 5.6mn now, with more than a third of that fall coming since the summer riots.

• Require you to type the instance before you can start typing your credentials.
  • This complicates things and adds an extra step. This also wouldn’t completely solve the problem.

First thought in a similar vein to this, have a pause for credential & instance review before passing them along?

E.g. Type everything in as-is, but instead of log in promptly sending anything, it displays all the information you just entered again with some simple message like, “Does everything here look correct?” and Yes/No or something of the sort.

It complicates things and adds a step as well, however I think it would do a better job of encouraging people to double-check for any typos than what you mention in what I’ve quoted above. Bonus of this idea is that it also keeps external ties to a minimum.

As noted, seeing as they’re neither consistently active nor terribly large (Adulting is the largest of the two with any posts), building them on other instances now would probably be just as well. They’re decent enough topics to try to build communities around imo.

throwing knives (which just seem to breed like rabbits and accumulate in droves)

Every time they’re thrown, even just into storage, another emerges from the Forge of Being.

This may be related to the version your instance is on and Thunder adjusting to accommodate different vote display options that your instance version allows for. You might look through Thunder’s settings regarding display and see if there’s an option to restore the display of vote counts.

Hope this helps!

I’m not sure if it’s offered as a part-time job, but you might look into localization jobs. Sometimes (often?) they may be the same exact job, but in the situations that they’re not it may help to find jobs you might otherwise miss.

The problem with AI translations with some languages is that their results can be far too literal and miss much needed nuance to deliver the desired message, so: localization. Like you said, translation, especially good translation, is an art, and a major part of that is in localizing the translations for different audiences.

Thanks! This tool seems really useful. It’s interesting how patchy service availability seems to be even in urban areas. 😕

Ah yeah, ya see, flip that switch and you bathe the computer with some extremely excited electrons

IT people don’t want ya to know it, but computers love electron baths. Takes them to a whole new level of performance!

This is buried toward the bottom of the release notes so I’m bringing it up here:

Added instance-level default sort type

Any admins out there considering changing their instance sort settings or asking people on their instance if they’d like this changed, given that we can individually set sorting anyway? Taking into account the inclination of people to never adjust default settings (I remain deeply curious about this tendency, as an aside), I think it might be worth at least bringing up to one’s instance community.

If they decide they want it to remain the same, all good, and even better, it raises some people’s awareness that they can change it themselves.

Appreciate the adjustments and responsiveness! Gave it another try after this and the different formatting hit the spot! Still need to use more to see more finely tuned results, but dig the idea.

Also as others have already said plenty, would be cool to see this cleaned up for an open source release. If you’d like to see how some others are handling a sorta similar idea but with RSS feeds, you might look to Nunti for ideas on how to approach it.

For those wondering about which models, from the article:

Toyota Motor Corp., based in Toyota city, central Japan, suspended production in the country of the Corolla Fielder, Corolla Axio and Yaris Cross.

Little feedback on the UI from taking a peek at this.

When I went into settings and adjusted post display style from card to anything else, it wasn’t clear to me that this wouldn’t apply to the new For You feed, which left me confused and less inclined to use it. I still gave it a try to make sure I wasn’t missing anything and to see how much the feed seemed to change with some light interaction, but I think you’d need to use it more than I did to see an effect.

Problem being: display settings not applying to the For You feed means I’m not going to use it much with the default card view.

Second part is that there was some comment display lag as I looked through posts, so if I looked at a post about cats with cat-related comments, those comments would linger and appear for a moment under a different post about possums. It’s just long enough to be noticeable, so thought it worth mentioning.

If at some point Lemmy.zip gets a wiki (if it doesn’t already have one), I hope one of the urls for it ends up as xyz.lemmy.zip

Huh. I had to take a quick glance at the timestamp of this article to make sure it wasn’t old, as this was the same issue that inspired a short-lived fork a few years ago.

I get where this article’s coming from, as I got where the people trying to fork it under a different name were too, however for better or worse I think what matters even more to people is that the software works well and has a good UX. If I remember right, I think Glimpse intended to focus on improving the UX but it didn’t last long enough to do much in that regard.

Better than my memory though, here’s an article that gives some insight into what went into the cessation of its development.

It’s really hard to gauge humanity when it really only takes a few terrible people to ruin things for everyone else.

Using that perspective to recognize the many other alright people I think might be a way for people to encourage one another and feel less wary of calling out bad actors. It’s a funny thing, but the same live and let live tendencies we appreciate from others at times seems to diminish the slight resolve necessary to push back against those negatively affecting many others.

Similarly, I think it’s beneficial to recognize the good as much as the bad, as otherwise we take the former for granted and can grow too jaded and overly cynical.

when you simply become the tail I think that makes you like a ferret, or other roaming furry cylinders

hmm, fluffy ferrets…

Thanks for this! I think I may have come across it at some point but never bookmarked it for whatever reason, corrected that now!