ArcaneSlime
@ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Migrating here (or maybe keeping both) from @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.ml
Will put an eternal curse on your enemies for a Cinemageddon invite.
- Comment on YSK that Politico is a subsidiary of Axel Springer, a right-wing propaganda house 1 day ago:
Makes me want to follow him around screaming about raid shadow legends for his entire life so he gets absolutely no peace.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 2 days ago:
Sheeeit not recently, shot up to $120/oz recently, and it’s back down to ~$80/oz right now, but that’s still more than ~$35/oz last year.
- Comment on The Only Solution Capitalism Has Is to Sell Us More Useless Junk: Ad makers will never say the quiet part loud, but they increasingly know that we're unhappy and looking for solutions. 2 days ago:
Tbf they could try and sell useful things for a change, that might shake things up a bit.
Though I will say, the pockets on Levi’s are sufficiently deep (to completely ignore the metaphor), not JNCO deep, but I can carry my various mesh radios, phones, flipper zeros, pens, coins, eyedrops, knives, flashlights, airpods, wallets, and mace all at the same time. Just about the only things they don’t fit are spray cans and guns, but that’s why JNCOs existed (the cans) and why holsters exist.
- Comment on Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files 6 days ago:
Good! They’re the only ones who can fix it, so might as well direct your energy towards it instead of screaming into the void-forum.
- Comment on Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty 1 week ago:
Not just Israeli funded, started inside Amdocs even. Idk if it’s backdoored but it pisses metadata to all servers it federates with including matrix’s which you basically have to federate with as it’s the “default” and even if mossad were spying on that but still couldn’t read it that’s not great either.
- Comment on Genes be crazy 1 week ago:
Do stink bugs smell like BO?
Though when I do, I do smell it, and I shower regularly, and it only comes up when talking about stinkbugs, so I’m doubting your hypothesis regardless.
- Comment on Genes be crazy 1 week ago:
Idk if scooping them up and putting them outside is scary, but I’m told people can smell them just from being in the same room with them, or crushing them, and I’ve done (or been near) all of the above yet never smelled one. And they’re constantly sneaking in my house so I should have by now I think.
- Comment on Genes be crazy 1 week ago:
Can smell ants, love cilantro, can’t smell stinkbugs.
- Comment on Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files 1 week ago:
“Good question. Next question…”
- Comment on Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files 1 week ago:
If only Nvidia wasn’t shit when it came to linux support*
Don’t post your cries to random forums that can do nothing about it, send them directly to Nvidia at info@nvidia.com or call 1-408-486-2000 and tell them you’re a loyal customer who wants linux support or you’ll go to AMD who does it well. The more that do that the more likely you’ll actually get support for your hardware.
- Comment on [Episode] TRIGUN STARGAZE - Episode 5 discussion 1 week ago:
Meh I might skip this one then, thanks. I mean action and gore is cool but I liked the good writing in the OG, can’t just fall into the modern trap of “make it flashy nobody is listening anyway.”
- Comment on [Episode] TRIGUN STARGAZE - Episode 5 discussion 1 week ago:
Let me rephrase my question then.
Is it absolute dogshit like most reboots, or is it actually worth the effort of torrenting it to see?
- Comment on [Episode] TRIGUN STARGAZE - Episode 5 discussion 1 week ago:
New Trigun huh? Any good?
- Comment on I am looking for a Linux OS 1 week ago:
From what I hear, gaming = bazzite.
Also you can check compatibility of your games with ProtonDB.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
Nope, gotta kill your landlord and then get in a shootout with the cops when they come to
hisyour house, you heard the tankies. Time to die for their values soldier! - Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
Nope too bad off with your head.
-Some dickcheesed tankie.
- Comment on Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda 2 weeks ago:
So it’s GUIMP? I thought it was “GNU Image Manipulation Program.”
- Comment on Messaging apps - XMPP vs Matrix vs ??? 3 weeks ago:
IMO the main advantage that Matrix-Element has for normal users is the branding: Element is Element on the web, Android and iOS.
Delta Chat has this too, it’s the same on linux/mac/win, android, and iOS. There’s also Arcane Chat for android developed by one of the devs of Delta Chat as sort of a testing ground but that’s like an if you know you know thing, like my mom just thinks we’re all on Delta Chat. One thing is they don’t have a web interface afaik, you need the app.
Simple user+password login to a hosted (non-matrixdotorg) server takes 5-6 pages to click through.
And the recovery passwords and all that just seem to be out of reach for those who just use hunter2 for everything, if the complaints I got are indicative if most people.
I was spammed with racist copypasta on XMPP once too. But being in large Matrix chats guarantees being invited/messaged.
Good news for Delta Chat is they don’t really do groups like that, you can group chat but it’s more for like friends and family than strangers, I see that as a win in this use case, where if we need xmpp/matrix style public groups we can fall back to xmpp. You also have to accept chats before they go through and there is no discoverability so you won’t get random drive bys.
- Comment on Messaging apps - XMPP vs Matrix vs ??? 3 weeks ago:
They no longer recommend using a traditional email account, instead recommending chatmail servers like these (there’s more as well, but they have this small list to choose from in the app or you can bring your own). They say if you have to use traditional email use a dedicated account for delta chat, not one that also gets traditional email.
I like how they are trying to address metadata as much as possible, the onboarding is so easy my literal mother can do it, video/audio calling is in beta and works pretty well (some glitches, but it’s in beta), the webXDC stuff is cool but I don’t really use it yet, and I’m sure I’m forgetting something.
- Comment on Messaging apps - XMPP vs Matrix vs ??? 3 weeks ago:
Personally I like XMPP over Matrix because
- Matrix clients aren’t great (even element is buggy as piss on my phone and a shitty electron app on linux)
- Matrix is too difficult for “normal” people (I agree they should get good but they don’t and what good is a chat app without recipients).
- Matrix public rooms have a CP problem, and as such I can’t recommend people join it just in case, I don’t need my mom seeing that shit.
- Matrix was started as an Amdocs project before they defunded it and the lead dev went to form The Matrix Foundation. Amdocs is a Mossad affiliated company that infiltrated American telcom companies long ago. Matrix also pisses metadata to any server it federates with, including matrix [.] org, and I have no proof that Mossad is spying on that metadata but I have no trust either, nor proof that they aren’t, so I can’t trust matrix anymore.
Though XMPP also has had it’s own problems for me, so at the moment it’s my fallback and I’m trying out Delta Chat which I have been loving.
- Comment on YSK the four rules of firearm safety 3 weeks ago:
For sure all this, one note, rule 0 is
encounter one at the home of a friend or family member.
If you don’t know what to do (RE: these other four rules and how to operate that specific firearm) or are nervous, don’t goddamn touch it unless you have to. If it’s a safe situation and not something out of the ordinary like kids or burglars are around and the owner is dead, go get the owner of the gun or someone who is experienced enough to handle them safely. I
- Comment on YSK you can turn off Google's personalised advertising. This prevents them from using things like your browsing history, search history, or personal data to serve you customised advertisements. 4 weeks ago:
The only ads I ever click on are when I search something like “brother dcp-l2550w toner” and the first result is an ad for Staples where I was going to buy the thing anyway. Even if I saw an ad for that exact toner and said “ah, that reminds me I need more toner,” I’d still not click that ad but rather go search as described because I do not click ads.
There have been times I’ve been so annoyed by a company’s ads that instead of buying their product I go with their direct competitor out of pure spite (if I needed something like the item in question, ykwim).
- Comment on YSK you can turn off Google's personalised advertising. This prevents them from using things like your browsing history, search history, or personal data to serve you customised advertisements. 4 weeks ago:
Nah fuck them, they can mail my disroot acct, or I don’t have an email and they can call me, anything else send a note home with the kid, free courier. It’s not like gmail is incompatible with email, add my addr to the mailing list and quit crying.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 January 2026 Update Issues, Releases Fixes 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I’ve heard excel the hard one to replace if you need some special functions of it, idk tbh I’ve used excel like twice and basic stuff at that so LibreOffice works fine for me.
Lol I don’t even know what visualization means in this context, I’m definitely no help on this one! Sorry!
Hope so, it seems to be more common these days! I “recently” got a Framework16, which was my first dual ssd laptop (but unfortunately doesn’t meet your size requirements).
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 January 2026 Update Issues, Releases Fixes 4 weeks ago:
It has definitely improved in your absence.
But yeah I understand needing your programs to work. For some like Office you may be able to get away with a replacement like OpenOffice or LibreOffice, maybe not. Idk what PowerBi is but it sounds like a c/196 user’s uname lol, and from a cursory search it looks like Teams is supported with a .deb and a .rpm but I can’t attest personally.
I’d also recommend using a laptop with two SSDs if possible, one for linux and one for windows, to alleviate some of the headaches in dual booting.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 January 2026 Update Issues, Releases Fixes 4 weeks ago:
Try steam/proton instead of Wine
ProtonDB says it runs well, but idk if that includes mods.
- Comment on I have seen a lot of movies where the Catholic School Nuns smack a students hand for being disruptive or something is this a trope or a real something? Like most notable in Blues Brothers 4 weeks ago:
Wait do the nuns bugger? Thought that was only the preists.
- Comment on There aren't any ancient ruins with crazy traps and riddles 5 weeks ago:
Tbf there’s that one tv show about that one island in canada or something that had buried treasure and a bunch of traps but then it turned out the treasure had already been found and they think a freed slave found it when he bought the island back in the day or something like that.
Admittedly I’ve only seen one episode, a friend who watched it filled in the details on where it went lol.
- Comment on Is Winnie the Pooh considered "racist" now or are .ml folks using it as an excuse to defend Xi Jin Ping? 5 weeks ago:
It literally was started by Chinese people in China as an insult to Xi specifically. It isn’t racist, it isn’t applied to all Chinese people, it isn’t even “because Pooh is yellow.” People saying it is racist are just looking for a way to shut down criticisms of Xi, and crying “that’s racist” often bypasses people’s critical thinking abilities and makes them just capitulate because “well I don’t want to be seen as racist and I’m not the race in question so I don’t have the authority to decide if it is or isn’t.”
Could it be used in a racist way by some racist person who doesn’t understand the context? Sure. Does that mean “the act of making fun of a specific despotic dictator by using a children’s character he happens to resemble” is racist? No.
- Comment on US | Conservative lawmakers want porn taxes. Critics say they’re unconstitutional. 5 weeks ago:
“World shocked as children learn to torrent. ‘I thought we could actually stop people from accessing things on the internet’ one dumbshit was quoted as saying…”