Acamon
@Acamon@lemmy.world
- Comment on what's the word for a leg elbow? 1 week ago:
Do you mean the popliteal?
- Comment on The horns emoji is the hearts emoji for boys 1 week ago:
Sorry to be a boomer, but in the context does horns emoji mean purple devil, brass instrument, or rock horns hand-gesture?
- Comment on Catchiest video game song? 1 week ago:
This is one of the songs I hum to myself to get rid of more annoying earworms
- Comment on Is there a community dedicated for serious discussion? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think crickets really means a lot when your commenting 1 hour after someone else…
- Comment on I have never met a woman named after her own mother 2 weeks ago:
My mother, grandmother and great grandmother all have same name, but used different short forms to differentiate.
- Comment on Is your sleep schedule actually messed up, or are you just aligned with a different timezone? 3 weeks ago:
I think that a lot about how many couples I know have mild friction because one of them is an early riser and the other more of a night owl. It can be a bit annoying, but for most of human existence splitting the time you’re awake and vigilant must have been quite an advantage.
- Comment on What would I need to do to successfully paint with my own menstrual blood? 3 weeks ago:
Friend did this for an art project, it didn’t smell. Like all blood it dries to a kinda browny colour, but beyond that it was fairly unremarkable. The reactions from other people were certainly interesting though!
- Comment on I'm working on a Sci-fi Point and Click adventure called Hope: A Sky Full of Ghosts. A demo is coming in a few weeks and would love a wishlist if that sounds like you jam. 4 weeks ago:
Looks cool!
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I think it was just that those were the four main classes in 1st and 2nd edition, with others seen as variations of those (e.g. paladins / rangers were basically fighter subclasses). In the Basic D&D line, they were the only four human classes.
Due to this, adventure designers would include challenges that took advantage of thief skills, or Turn Undead, or whatever, to help all players contribute. Therefore, a smart party would have a mix of the main classes, because they knew they’d encounter obstacles that needed them (although it was never hard and fast, and a good adventure had multiple routes to victory.)
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Do you mean math classes/teaching? At school or university? Or just ‘mathematics’ as a concept? It’s pretty hard to be less abstract, when the basic idea of maths is abstraction.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 5 weeks ago:
Many years ago when I thought about this, I realised I wouldn’t be able to put much of my modern knowledge and skills to use. I decided I’d learn to make basic matches by distilling urine into phosphate, which wasn’t invented until the 19th century, but I’ve forgotten the process. Collect lots of urine and boil it? Also, if you make white phosphate it can cause horrific toothache and they have to remove your jaw… So, I’m hoping another commentor will suggest a safer skill I can brush up to be ready for travel.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
“middle finger” is “the finger in the middle of the digits” not “the finger on the middle of the fingers”
- Comment on Oblivion Remastered troubleshooting 5 weeks ago:
I’m not criticising Linux gaming - I know basically nothing about it. Just my own experience over the last year, where I’ve tried buying and playing a couple of games and had difficulty getting them working, tried different Proton versions etc. But maybe I should be trying the window versions? My question was just innocent curiosity, but looking at my downvoters I’ve obviously touched a nerve!
- Comment on Oblivion Remastered troubleshooting 5 weeks ago:
I’m not very experienced with Linux gaming, and the last game I tried (xcom) crashed consistently, and reading forums people were suggesting using certain Proton versions and other stuff. I eventually gave up. I also got uncharted:LOT refunded because I couldn’t get it working in Linux. So if it’s “click install and click play” the great! It is straightfoward.
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 5 weeks ago:
I married my partner, after being with them for over a decade, and a few years of living together full-time. It was mostly for admin reasons (we just bought our home, and being married made things easier if one of us died). If it wasn’t for that I don’t think we would have bothered. We know we love each other, and had decided a few years before that if we’d get married if we ever needed to, so it wasn’t like we ever ‘proposed’. Just a tiny ceremony with two friends as witness, and we went out to a restaurant for lunch afterwards. I don’t think it cost us anything beyond lunch? Maybe a tiny admin fee?
But… I’m so happy we did! It’s weird! I never really cared, and rationally, I still think it hasn’t changed anything. But somehow it feels… really nice? I still regularly think (and tell them) “I’m so glad I married you”. I’m sure there are lots of other things that you can do to symbolise your relationship or commitment. If I got a tattoo inspired by my partner I’d probably have the same feeling of looking at it and thinking of them that I do when I play with my wedding ring (2€ piece of silly junk from aliexpress. And we each bought a bunch of spares so that when we inevitably lose them it’s not a problem). But actually a marriage is one of the simplest and cheaper ways (if you don’t choose or feel pressured into turning it into a stupid moneysink).
Tldr: didn’t care about marriage, got married for tax, and weirdly found it deeply satisfying in a completely unexpected way.
- Comment on Oblivion Remastered troubleshooting 5 weeks ago:
It’s working on Linux? Was it straightforward to setup? I’ve given up buying games on steam because of their terrible Linux support, and I’d seen a lot of comments about the steam deck version sucking, so I’d assumed the Linux version wasn’t great. But maybe the deck hardware is the issue?
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #11 1 month ago:
Thanks! Intresting read, and I like the style.
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 1 month ago:
In the UK you are free to basically just change your name if you want. In fact, part of getting it “officially” changed (like for a passport) is proving that you’ve been using the new name in daily life for a while. There’s a restriction about not using the new name for fraudulent purpose", so you can’t pretend to be someone else or whatever, but really what you call yourself and what you want others to call you is your business. I was genuinely surprised that most of the rest of the world thinks it’s acceptable to dictate people’s names to them.
- Comment on If we are in a simulation, maybe yawning is an animation glitch. 1 month ago:
Woof. I dread to think that I would remember in such precise detail all the dozens of lemmy posts and comments I’ve read this morning. But it’s quite a thought!
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 1 month ago:
Met my husband on grindr. Have no idea what the notification sound is.
- Comment on What is anti-propaganda? 1 month ago:
What’s that?
- Comment on Google To Subscribe To Your Emails To Find Content For Your Search Listings. 1 month ago:
I travel a lot, and spend time in a lot of random places, stay with friends and such like. My job means that I can set my own schedule most of the time, but sometimes I need to respond to something pretty urgently. So, there’s been plenty of times when I’ve been travelling light and suddenly been asked to pull a bunch of data from a spreadsheet and write some quick report on it, so usually I just ask whoever I’m with if I can use their pc for an hour and get it out the way.
It’s certainly possible do it all on a phone, but it’s much quicker and more pleasant to just use a proper keyboard and screen. And there have been times (like after a ill-advised encounter with a fountain in Rome) when my phone is temporarily out of action, so if I need to deal with travel arrangements on a public computer it might involve accessing my emails.
- Comment on Circuit tracing LLMs reveal some bizarre reasoning processes 1 month ago:
Yeah, I didn’t find it particularly bizarre. Both are very natural ways to process verbal information. Anyone who’s ever tried to do arithmetic in a new language knows that we don’t just abstractly do math, a big part is that we know that seven plus eight is fifteen. That’s why they used to teach multiplication tables by rote. It would be lot more bizarre if an llm had independently devised a reliable mathematical algorithm.
- Comment on Google To Subscribe To Your Emails To Find Content For Your Search Listings. 1 month ago:
Using email clients is fine on my primary devices, but I often have to use email on other people’s computers. I don’t really want to go back to carrying a usb of portable apps again. And some public computers have usb drive access disabled, understandably.
- Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on Google To Subscribe To Your Emails To Find Content For Your Search Listings. 1 month ago:
Anyone got a any opinions (or a link to a review) of the different options? Proton and tuta come up, are there others worth considering?
I understand that I’ll probably need to pay (otherwise I’m the product) and encryption / security is good, but the thing that keeps with Gmail (apart from inertia) is that it feels quick and easy to use. My only real experience of non Gmail sites over the last two decades have been terrible but mandatory work webmail systems that are slow, clunky and look a decade out of date. Or Hotmail, which sucks for a variety of reasons.
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 1 month ago:
Based on when I was young, I basically thought of anything from before I was born as “old”. Not consciously, just that everything from “my” decade seemed modern, and everything else was old.
Even now, movies from 20+ years ago look old, even though I remember them being super new when they came out. The Matrix had aged pretty well, but it defintely looks old. I thought LOTR was timeless, but I rewatched it recently and did start to feel it was showing it’s age (but none the worse for it!).
- Comment on If most of us believe what we're told, if we are obedient that way, and keep an eye on our possibly-deviant neighbors, and those neighbors know that they are being watched, that's good enough. 2 months ago:
I’m very close to blocking this account. I think I might have a lot of sympathy for OPs positions, but it’s impossible to know, because they never legitimately make an argument or point. Just pseudoedgy shit like this “showerthought”.
@rainrain@sh.itjust.works, if you actually want people to engage with you (instead of downvoting most of your posts into oblivion) attempt to have a mature conversation. Something like:
“Do you think that society is increasingly supportive of surveillance, and that online spaces have normalised judging other people and reinforcing norms without really understanding them as individuals.”
or "all public discussions must balance freedom of expression and maintaining a meaningful discourse. Do you think the pendulum has swung to far in the direction of censorship? If so, how can we allow more varied perspectives while still maintaining a space where sane people want to spend time? "
When you sound like a dumb edgy teen, or a lazy troll, most people are not going to engage positively. If you actually care about these issues your doing a fuckin awful job of promoting your position. Show that you understand the issue, and the pov of the other side, and then discuss what needs to change. If you’re just a troll, then at least mix it up a little. Severely lacking in teh lulz.
- Comment on Since militaries are authoritarian, even in democratic countries; What would a military of a stateless/anarchist society look like? 2 months ago:
As far as I understand it, most anarchists are opposed to unjust / unjustified / unnecessary hierarchies. There’s many advantages to having managers, team leaders, captains, etc. because it can be helpful to have someone coordinated actions between a larger group.
What anarchists would seek to avoid would be structures where power starts to consolidate around people beyond what’s needed. It’s good to have a leader for quick decisions in the heat of battle, or other emergency, but that person doesn’t need to decide everything outside of battle, because there’s time to have a more democratic or consensual decision making process. They also don’t need to be given more money, or not be accountable and replaceable by their squad.
- Comment on With the current state of the news, April's fools aren't fun anymore because they can't be distinguished as easily as before 2 months ago:
Yeah, I think the mean prank vibe sucks (obvs, ymmv) but the ‘fake news’ aspect was a positive. Like the original and sadly long lost art of og trolling, the purpose was to remind everyone that you cannot believe everything you read, and you should not suddly react to something just because you read it in a newspaper. If it sounds wild or incendiary, maybe check a couple of other sources before passing it on to friends and looking like a ‘fool’.
Unfortunately, we’ve past the stage where gentle friendly reminders of media literacy are likely to help. Most of us are all too aware we live in an age of misinformation (but don’t agree on what is ‘fake’) so it’s no longer funny.