tomkatt

@tomkatt@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Way shit’s going, at some point you’re going to have to break your own kneecaps and there will still be a fee associated with the self-service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what happens when you abandon Splinter Cell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve says it’s still waiting for better chips to power Steam Deck 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m fine with this. I’ve got over 100 PC games on my Steam Deck currently, plus over 1000 retro game ROMs. I’ll be fine with it for a good while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m down to buy it. I have a Steam Deck and it’s very comfortable to hold, other than the weight. This thing is basically the Deck controls without the screen and a bunch of the weight.

  Plus, I’ve personally found the gyro, trackpads, and back buttons to be extremely useful for games that don’t have controller support, or for simply easier use of existing buttons (like putting L3/R3 on back buttons). I’m really looking forward to this, looks way better than the 2015 Steam Controller.

  Lastly, that charging connector / wireless adapter all-in-one combo is just nice.

  My only concern would be haptics. This really needs to have good rumble motors, and not just trackpad haptics like the deck. The pad haptics are good for subtle effects, but near useless for conveying actual heavy vibration, explosions, stuff like that. Sounds like they accounted for this though:

  High definition rumble

  Steam Controller’s powerful motors are capable of handling complex waveforms for immersive, accurate haptics.

  That sounds closer to something like the PS5 DualSense enhanced haptics, and if so, I’m here for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly don’t understand what you’re talking about, but it sounds pretty cynical the way you describe it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For me the most important factor is partnership. My wife and I split up our responsibilities equitably and we each play our roles well. We’re also flexible enough to cover and support each other when needed. If you can’t do that for each other you don’t have a partnership.

  This is a big one. Like… I can cook, but I hate doing it. My wife went to culinary school in her youth and enjoys it. So she does nearly all the cooking, and I generally take care of dishes and laundry. She does the periodic sweeping, and I’m more inclined to mop and/or vacuum, take out trash, and general maintenance stuff. I handle our finances for the most part, but I don’t keep up on news and info well. She has time to keep up on financial, political, and tech sector news and keeps me informed on anything important so I’m aware of things going on that could potentially affect us financially. We’ve got a balance of chores that works for us, and doesn’t leave either of us annoyed or exhausted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in my 40s. I don’t have any kids, but am married nearly 20 years, home and property owner, bills, the household handyman “fixer,” managing health conditions, etc.

  1. Find work you enjoy. I know that’s easier said than done, but you spend much of your waking hours at work, and it bleeds into everything. Find a way to make it suck less. A bad job will suck the life out of you.

  2. Find hobbies you enjoy. Preferably more than one, you can burn out on things you enjoy as much as you can with work.

  3. Cut off negative people. Social connections are important, but be wary of social vampires, people who leave you exhausted and stressed. Cut them off, even if they’re your own family. If that’s not possible, keep as low contact as possible, put them on an information diet, and gray rock them.

  4. Make time to connect with your spouse. Cuddle in bed, talk about your day. Hug. Engage.

  5. Make time for exercise. Don’t say there’s no time. Don’t make excuses. Get it done. It’s one of the most important things you’ll do for your physical and mental well being, and should improve your energy levels over time.

  6. If at all possible, contribute to causes that matter to you. If you have the funds, maybe donate to your local food bank, homeless shelter, animal shelter, or maybe volunteer if you don’t have funds. It can help a lot to feel like your contributing meaningfully to society and your community, and jobs may pay the bills, but don’t always provide that sense of meaning and contribution.

  7. Practice gratitude. Spend some time thinking of the things you appreciate and are grateful for, the good things, even just small stuff.

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  None of this advice is particularly specific, but it’s mostly worked for me. Dunno what else I can suggest. You sound stressed and possibly burned out, so take some time to find your stressors that are triggering this feeling of being overwhelmed and “over it” and try to focus on the good and meaningful things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God ****** dammit, here we go again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I use utterly unique passwords for the most important stuff (banking and email), 2FA for those and most other things, and just throwaway crap passwords for things I don’t care about (web forums and most everything else).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Perfect Picture of Helth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Toss on some mushrooms, spinach leaf, and a bit of ground beef or sausage and you’re good to go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No illusions on my part. RAID5 NAS with periodic disk archive backups.

  • Books
  • Audiobooks
  • Retro game ROMs
  • FLAC music collection
  • Movies, TV, and anime series

  Got what I need locally and intend to keep it that way. I’m sick of sites like Amazon with “Buy Now” buttons that are really “rent now via restrictive terms and only via devices we approve until we decide you no longer need access.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m embarrassed to admit I don’t remember all the details, but yeah, <spoiler> Kurz makes it through. </spoiler>

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Full Metal Panic is probably my favorite series ever and it pisses me off they won’t release the final chapter in anime. They literally released the first half of the end, we’re like “we’re not getting cancelled, totally gonna finish it” and then disappeared.

  It’s not even finished in manga either. The only way to get the end of the series is via fan-translated light novel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neat write up.

  Power consumption is a big reason I ditched my full size server for an AMD mini-PC. Way more efficient with a tdp of 25w, and idles pretty low (sub-10w).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DIY YouTuber builds cheap VR headset and makes it open-source⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Basic headset would be good for sim racing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for recommendation to upgrade my Raspberry Pi-based home server⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use an AND mini-PC with Ryzen 5700u, 32GB RAM, connected with my home NAS. Similar software stack, the server is hosted via Proxmox, no issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a Zigbee antenna. Will have to double check. I’m pretty sure the lights work with the antenna, but scenes are only possible if you’ve integrated them (generally via hue through something like Homekit).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why it’s a great idea to refuse to install everything that’s possible, including smart switches, cameras, lights etc. that rely on the good will of some company to keep running.

  Even then you can get fucked over. I’ve used Hue lights for years, and back when I bought them, you didn’t need an account to use them, just an app and network connection. Years later, they forced an online login for the app, requiring you to be online to interface with the bulbs. You can kind of work around it with Home Assistant, but you still need the account now to add the bulbs, and I don’t think scenes work without an account either now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's true!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Benefits of living in bumfuck. Though to be real, I’d never buy or build in a HOA. It’s a choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's true!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It essentially all takes care of itself, it’s a whole ecosystem. There’s no standing water for mosquitos thanks to the foliage. There’s also lizards, the occasional frog, birds. The deer eat some of the taller stuff. Even with the deer, there’s at least one mountain lion in the area I’ve seen, which I presume helps keep the population reasonable. I dunno, it doesn’t really need any tending, other than to clear a path where I need.

  Aside from that, my neighbor has pine trees, and occasionally pine cones take root and need their root- balls shoveled out. That’s the only big maintenance because I don’t want the big trees on my property. I wouldn’t mind, but for two things:

  1. They always seem to root down near the road on my driveway path or walk-down.

  2. I have solar panels and can’t have them growing up on the southeast side side of the house, and that’s where they tend to fall.

  Besides that, I have to knock down the occasional wasp nest (paper wasps) on the house, but if they nest away from the house I leave them alone. It’s all minimal maintenance. If you let nature do its thing it tends to find a balance. Humans are the ones usually screwing it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's true!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I know this is a meme, but shit like this is why I allow wild growth on my property. First year I owned my home the ground got muddy as hell from the new build since the ground was all dug up and tilled.

  From the second year on I’ve only mowed a path for my driveway and the front walkway and the rest grows wild. Sweetgrass and other native plants anywhere from like 1 to 3 feet tall and the area is high desert (Colorado) so the “weeds” suck up any moisture they can get, no flood, no mud. It’s great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm tired of teen superheroes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure about the TV show but I’m pretty sure the comic spans over 100 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm tired of teen superheroes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I posted this on your other thread in c/rant, but will add it again here in case others might be interested in some of the books:

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  Consider more mature / adult oriented series, and literature. Marvel and DC will always appeal to the status quo.

  Try Image comics. Spawn started adult and things go on from there. Tons of shit goes down including the end and rebirth of the world. Savage Dragon has run on so long that characters who weren’t even born when the series started are grown adults with kids, and the main character is literally dead (not comic book dead, just dead and gone).

  In books there’s stuff like Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman, Murs Lafferty’s Playing For Keeps, Paul Tobin’s Prepare to Die! (a somewhat vulgar example at times but also hilarious, the hero’s power is to take a year off someone’s life by punching them. Most villains just surrender when he shows up, and rarely want to fight him twice).

  Also good is Marion G. Harmon’s Wearing the Cape series, wherein time passes, crazy shit goes down, heroes get hurt, die, retire, etc. Starts with the main character at 17 I think, but as of the current book she’s well into her 20s and married. This one is a mix of junior and adult capes, where superheroes are state and government sponsored as a legal requirement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm tired of teen superheroes!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Consider more mature / adult oriented series, and literature. Marvel and DC will always appeal to the status quo.

  Try Image comics. Spawn started adult and things go on from there. Tons of shit goes down including the end and rebirth of the world. Savage Dragon has run on so long that characters who weren’t even born when the series started are grown adults with kids, and the main character is literally dead (not comic book dead, just dead and gone).

  In books there’s stuff like Soon I Will Be Invincible, Murs Lafferty’s Playing For Keeps, Paul Tobin’s Prepare to Die (a somewhat vulgar example at times but also hilarious, the hero’s power is to take a year off someone’s life by punching them).

  Also good is Marion G. Harmon’s Wearing the Cape series, wherein time passes, crazy shit goes down, heroes get hurt, die, retire, etc. Starts with the main character at 17 I think, but as of the current book she’s well into her 20s and married. This one is a mix of junior and adult capes, where superheroes are state and government sponsored as a legal requirement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unified Theory of American Reality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  After a certain tipping point, stupidity en masse becomes indistinguishable from malice. The result is more important than the intent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, for some reason when I was looking at post earlier it was just the screenshot, no link. Maybe it didn’t load properly, happened to me sometimes with Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Got a link? I don’t know who this is but my curiosity is piqued.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  En Dash (single dash) usage is not standardized for literature to my knowledge, and is primarily used as a divider for ranges, in lieu of the word “through.” E.g. The year 1998-2006 (or 1998 - 2006) can be used in lieu of “The year 1998 through 2006” in text. It’s also used to denote negative numbers and compound words, of course. It can also be used to denote relationships, E.g. - The Johnson-Winters wedding party, or the Osea-Belkan War.

  Informally I’ve read that a a single dash can be read as a half-beat, shorter than a comma, but I don’t think it’s actually defined in style guides for writing.

  Fun fact: En Dashes and hyphens are not the same thing, though often used interchangeably, while a double-hyphen is often considered an exact equivalent to the em dash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My bad, I was probably overly aggressive there anyway. I’m a nerd and the idea of em dash as emoji horrified me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  An em dash is an emoji.

  The fuck it is. Em-dashes have existed in literature and text since long before the existence of computers and are a traditional form of textual form pause length:

  • comma (,) - one beat
  • em dash (–) - two beats
  • semicolon (;) - three beats
  • period (.) - four beats
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Rsync is great. I’ve been using it to back up my book library from my local Calibre collection to my NAS for years, it’s absurdly simple and convenient. Plus, -ruv lets me ignore unchanged files and backup recursively, and if I clean up locally and need that replicated, just need to add —delete.