dellish

@dellish@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Naturally timelines need to be compressed and multiple characters condensed into a single person for runtime and clarity reasons, but it still does a good job.

  Now seems like a good time to give a shoutout to this video: History Buffs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinity vape gauntlet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Captain Planet!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And now for those who haven’t seen it, or haven’t seen it for a while, go and watch The Death Of Stalin. Brilliant relatively truthful satire of the events preceding and after the event.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Genius.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there’s a lot of “dare you to eat that” in food history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Genius.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Biscuit literally means “twice baked”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahhh, so similar to Facebook then. I don’t bother with that site either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest at this point toppling Embark Studios is pretty tough in my book. The games they make have the same feeling of passion that Bungie used to have. Great gun play, fantastic audio design and interesting ideas. I really hope for the best for Marathon, if for no other reason than competition drives creativity, but Bungie has had the soul sucked out of them unfortunately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve gotta know if you’re fuckable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahhh, the good ol’ cut off your nose to spite your face. Instead of finding another product to fit their niche use case, they throw all the toys out of the bath tub and have a cry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here we are, poised to enter intergalactic war, all because the US president raped some alien babies. The guy just can’t help himself!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In a similar-to-original-Wolfenstein way there’s Darkenstein. It’s a bit tounge-in-cheek, fairly silly, a lot of fun and free! Your dog has been stolen by Nazis and you have to try to rescue it. You gain health by drinking beer and eating sausage. What’s not to like?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How is that even admissible in court? It’s worse than hearsay, it’s madeupsay.

  If your honour pleases, we have used AI to turn this child’s crayon drawing into the defendant pleading guilty! I’ll allow it.

  For fucks sake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tune a fish⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They also love saying Koala Bear (they aren’t a bear) and Dingo Dog. No, they’re just koalas and dingoes. Americans just seem to like adding words where they aren’t necessary. My pet hate is “off of”, as in “Take your shoes off of the table!” No, just take them off the table, no need for redundancy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My only response to Discord⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, that’s pretty much what I’d expect a Bro haircut to look like /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10+ year manager named Joe was apparently fired for bringing cookies to be thrown away before their sell by date to a food pantry in my town⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Casey’s is actually one of the few ethical petrol stations

  The very fact we’re in this situation kinda tells me otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This. I will forgive most driving indiscretions if I see a wave/acknowledgement of wrongdoing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The sheeet of power⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but can you taste it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Hardware Revenue Has Been Dropping for Two Years Straight - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Halo 5 is only like 4 hours long. It’s absolutely pathetic, nonsensical and boring AF. Now you know all this, feel free to uninstall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK - All song birds on the planet are descended from ancestors in Australia.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Australia has song birds about the size of a crow, they’re called Magpies. They are at times aggressively territorial, extremely intelligent, family orientated and very pleasant to wake up to in the morning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, I see Bottles lets you use Proton as a runner so I’ll give that a try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It Not an Emulator all the way down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The closest I’ve come to getting it to work was SketchUp Make 2017 (the last of the free versions). I could get it to install using WINE but as soon as I ran it it would crash out saying I was not supporting graphics acceleration. Right now I’m trying to install SketchUp Pro 2021 using Bottles and just keep getting Invalid Handle errors all through the installation, mostly when it seems to be looking for certain KBs for Windows 7 and 8 I think. I have to dig through the Logs to hopefully find I’m missing a dependency somewhere.

  To answer your question I’m running Linux Mint and have an AMD Radeon 7970XTX that is more than capable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is great, but does it handle GPU acceleration yet? The main thing I still need Windoze for is SketchUp and I have never managed to get it to work because I get a GPU acceleration error. Any hints would be welcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump: The U.S. will 'now' start hitting Mexican land targets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How’s FIFA’s “peace prize” going? He’s going to directly attack another host nation,and continues sword-rattling about Canada. This is so fucking pathetic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. Rename to Unisoft and start making good games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I trust this rule is from 1998 and hasn’t budged since.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who care about book⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cretins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  [WhiteDate had] A gender ratio that makes the Smurf village look like a feminist utopia

  Lol. I like this Martha Root, I wish her many more happy hacking years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are famous chefs fighting PFAS bans?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Veritasium did a great video on this. The Teflon coating itself isn’t harmful, it’s the process of putting the Teflon on the pan that creates a large amount of PFAS. These celebrity chefs are being disingenuous at best, but these days I can’t even muster the energy to pretend to be surprised when people vote in favour of a puppy burning machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dead mosquito proboscis used for high-resolution 3D printing nozzle⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but does it have to be dead at the time?

  I’m really not sure why they felt the need to point this out in the article.