Weston ☔️

Software Engineer and Tinkerer

I have too many hobbies, please send help!

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Protocols, not Platforms.
Comma Abuser.
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Procrastination…

#swift #accessibility #engineering #gamedev #steamdeck #ai #sumo

Weston ☔️ boosted:
nixCraft 🐧nixCraft
2025-05-23

This is unpopular opinion, but for Firefox to live, Mozilla, as it currently operates, needs to die.

They forgot their core user base hates cloud and AI features. They want a simple browser that connects to web servers and displays pages. Meanwhile, executive are getting fat salaries and bounces while begging users for money on AI and other privacy intrusion projects like adding perplexity directly to Firefox. They lost their vision long time ago.

2025-05-22

@madiator2011 Right now I am playing Bowsers Inside Story, I had started it a long time ago on my old DS and never completed it.

How is Persona Q? is it related to a mainline Persona game or stand alone?

2025-05-22

The 3DS family's suspend on close is the BEST game suspend / resume feature ever implemented. It's soo cool to have it just sit on my desk and I can just open, play a bit, close.

There are no weird situations with resuming, it just works.

#gaming #3ds

2025-05-22

@ryanashcraft Also Foodnoms AI usage is probably one of the best uses I have seen. I dont have any issues (ethical or otherwise) with it.

2025-05-22

@ryanashcraft I don’t think LLMs are dumb exactly, but I’d like companies to stop turning functional interfaces into a chat prompt and I also worry we are going to accidentally eradicate basic critical thinking and research skills for most of the population (the parts that still have them at least).

It’s like buying a kitchen unitasker, but with much larger consequences.

2025-05-22

@davidbures The hard part about deleting a google account is the amount of things that might be linked to sign in with google.

I deleted a google account once and it was a huge pain to talk to customer support for various sites to get it disconnected.

Good luck.

2025-05-22

Showing a Youtubers face is becoming a lot more important. I am starting to get pretty skeptical of new channels being AI content farms (especially if the content hits a very specific point in quality).

If a new channel produces decent content but never deigns to prove they are a human I will be less likely to watch.

Sad but true.

2025-05-21

@NefariousAryq Ahh, yes I’ll buy your startup for one bajillion dollars.

2025-05-21

I finally found a video of someone fully disassembling a New Nintendo 3DS (non-XL) Sharing in case anyone is interested.
youtube.com/watch?v=QQM4f5tICu

#3DS

2025-05-21

@jake4480 So far my search has been unsuccessful. Lots of people put superglue in their 3ds hinges though.

2025-05-21

@jake4480 I went and checked the live site too, no dice.

2025-05-21

@jake4480 I am a bit scared. I downloaded that, and it shows how to replace everything but the top shell which is what I need to replace 😱

2025-05-21

I never appreciated how much more popular the New Nintendo 3DS XL was over the base NN3DS.

I am having a hard time finding much of anything in terms of replacement parts or guides.

Weston ☔️ boosted:
2025-05-21
**TL;DR:** A humorous comic about a developer's obsession with refactoring code, much to the dismay of a project manager.

**Extracted Text:**

* "i have big plans for this code"
* "please, no more refactors"
* "me"
* "PM"
* "big plans"
* "theycantalk.com"

**Image Description:**
This is a three-panel comic from "theycantalk.com" featuring cartoon beavers. In the first panel, one beaver says to the other, "i have big plans for this code," as they walk by a river. In the second panel, labeled "me" and "PM," the beaver representing the PM pleads, "please, no more refactors," while the other looks unconcerned. The third panel zooms in on the beaver with a vacant stare, repeating, "big plans." The comic humorously illustrates the developer's endless desire to refactor code versus the PM’s plea to stop.
2025-05-21

@jake4480 @Htbaa @rootcompute I used PayPal so at least if it's a scam they don't get my credit card number lol. I will post pics when/if it arrives.

2025-05-21

@Htbaa @jake4480 @rootcompute Ordered, hopefully I didn't just get ripped off. 🤞

2025-05-21

Is it just a fact of life that all dresser drawers eventually have the bottom pop out?

I have never had a dresser drawer that didn't do that.

#showerthoughts

2025-05-21

@hybridhavoc.com That's pretty strange.

2025-05-21

@rootcompute @Htbaa @jake4480 I guess I will check out AliExpress. I also found this but (link below) I am still on the fence if I will try it.

kasynparts.com/product/2015-ni

2025-05-20

Getting started on Murderbot. I don’t want to end up a season behind again like I was with Severance.

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