tomkatt
@tomkatt@lemmy.world
- Comment on it's true! 39 minutes 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 23 hours 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 day 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 day 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 3 days 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. 3 days 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. 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days 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 4 days 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 5 days 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.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 5 days ago:
Fuckers.
- Comment on U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after 1 week ago:
Phrasing.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 1 week ago:
We just split duties there, and tbh our third run of the game was mostly custom characters just because the combat is so fun. For that run we sent Yrliet to the inquisition, spaced Idira, told Agents she wasn’t needed, and pointed Cassia off the ship at the first sign of trouble. Was actually a hilarious run, and ended up siding with <spoiler guy> at the end for the first time, who was as crazy as I thought but not actual evil and still emperor aligned.
We’ve also played a ton of Solasta, and looking forward to Solasta 2, but absolutely despised BG3. We want to go in adventures, not play a soft-core fuckin’ simulator.
- Comment on YSK that only by being yourself will you find people who like the real you. No one can beat you at being you, but you’ll only ever be second best at pretending to be someone else. 1 week ago:
In that case check out Tokyo Jihen too. Shiina Ringo’s great, but I particularly like her rock music with Jihen.
If you have any recommendations let me know. Always on the lookout for good music.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 1 week ago:
Rogue Trader is excellent. Wife and I have put almost 300 hours into that one with co-op.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 1 week ago:
I’m finding this sale underwhelming, and my backlog is already huge. Might skip it this time.
- Comment on YSK that only by being yourself will you find people who like the real you. No one can beat you at being you, but you’ll only ever be second best at pretending to be someone else. 1 week ago:
I listen to Japanese rock in my car on the way home. So is the real me an eccentric, or someone who’s accommodating of others?
No clue, but Tricot and Man With A Misson are perfectly good rock out tunes.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
It’s not about the devices. Kobo books are very easy to remove DRM from, and don’t require owning a physical Kobo device or their app to do so. All it requires is two Calibre plugins. Also, I might be wrong, but it seems Kobo has a lot more DRM free books in general, compared to Amazon.
Kindle has always required either the Kindle app or an actual physical Kindle to de-DRM.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
Might be too late. Winterbreak hasn’t worked since 5.18.1 and the latest firmware is 5.18.5. If you’ve been updating your firmware normally, jailbreak has been unviable since around April or May.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
To be fair, if you OCR the pages via camera, you haven’t actually circumvented DRM. That means it’s a completely legal backup, as the DRM on the original file was untouched and unaltered. This definitely does fall under fair use.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
Not entirely true. E-ink is trademarked by the e-ink company, sole manufacturer of e-ink displays.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
Amazon is full of shit. EPUBs only work by using send-to-Kindle which converts it to a file that works (either AZW3 or KFX. Despite the misinformation, EPUBs do not work on Kindle, except if you jailbreak, as you can then use KOReader to read them natively.
That last point is salient, as it means the hardware supports the format just fine. Amazon intentionally does not directly support EPUBs in their software.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 weeks ago:
Eww gross.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 3 weeks ago:
I upgraded from Windows 11 to EndeavourOS. No regrets, it’s a huge improvement.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 4 weeks ago:
Had to look up what asmr was. No, I don’t think that’s me. I don’t think I’d dislike it, but I don’t seek out that sort of content.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 4 weeks ago:
I just find his voice very irritating. I know not everyone feels that way.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for that. Not entirely as bad as originally indicated, but still pretty shady on LTT’s part
With everything I know of it, Linus was just rug-sweeping it before the exposé. Feels like Billet Labs got screwed but took the high road to prevent drama because LTT has a big community.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 4 weeks ago:
About the Billet Labs thing, they have shown, and Billet Labs verified it, that the original agreement was that LTT would keep the cooler.
Shown where? I’ve seen no evidence of that anywhere, and I was following that controversy when it happened.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 4 weeks ago:
For example they found out one of their main sponsors Honey were scamming their viewers and essentially stealing from people, they just kept it quiet rather than owning it.
That’s one of the things I was referring to. GamersNexus did an expose on the Honey thing and filed a class action suit over it because they were essentially stealing money from creators. Linus was complicit and aware and said nothing.
Let’s also not forget the time Linus literally received a prototype cooler from Billet Labs for testing, was supposed to return it after review, and he not only reviewed it poorly (and used it for the wrong hardware), but then basically stole it and auctioned it off, later referring to this as “a small mistake.” Supposedly he only offered to pay for the prototype after this was also exposed by GN.
Dude’s just scummy. I’ve no idea why people will defend him to the ends of the earth.