quixotic120
@quixotic120@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 18 hours ago:
your son sounds badass, read some shoujo and meet tom nook while spinning brat
- Comment on 79% of Americans feel burned out as they put most vacation time toward errands, doctor visits, and family care 1 day ago:
Even just taking time off to sit around and relax is difficult. I can’t remember the last time I did that for more than a “mental health day” because I was completely overwhelmed. Let alone actually traveling the country or world
- Comment on Magnus Carlsen: Chess champion quits FIDE tournament after being told to change jeans 4 days ago:
The difference is you need ice skates to skate on ice, you need baseball gloves to protect your hands, and while you don’t explicitly need running shoes you generally benefit from wearing a proper shoe for running if you are competing at a certain level. There is a function behind every one of your other examples.
What fucking pants you wear during chess is utterly meaningless unless you specifically want to create an air of superiority over people who do not dress “formally” (whatever that means). It is merely a means to exclude people who do not meet an arbitrary standard of appearance, which historically has just been a way to oppress lower socioeconomic classes and minorities. Fuck meaningless dress codes and props to him for standing his ground
- Comment on What are your most played games? 1 week ago:
oh my god Pokémon! For sure. This is just making me think of more: the games from when i was really young, like leisure suit Larry, police quest, day of the tentacle, sam and max, the dig, grim fandango, that are ultimately like 1-2 hours if you know what to do but in the absence of a walkthrough take like 600 hours of trial and error with endless save hopping
Those old adventure games used to be punishingly difficult
- Comment on Shinobi Undercover Volume 1 Cover 1 week ago:
I’ve found this series pretty solid so far
- Comment on What are your most played games? 1 week ago:
Red dead 2, persona 5/royal, sekiro, Elden ring, Stardew, Skyrim, tekken 7 and 8, botw and totk, animal crossing games in general going back to the gamecube one. Sank a lot of hours into taiko no tatsujin too
That also makes me think of all the games that didn’t track playtime or where my saves are long gone. Like really that’s just modern era stuff. The snes and psx final fantasy games, chrono trigger, secret of mana, earthbound, parasite eve, etc are all fairly long and I’ve played through them multiple times. Then there’s games like streets of rage and sonic 2 that aren’t terribly long but i played them to death. Oh and stuff like street fighter 2 and tekken, mario 64, so many hours of my youth that I probably should’ve been studying
- Comment on [Discussion] 【Oshi no Ko】 - Ch. 166.5 - Volume 16 Extras 1 week ago:
meh
- Comment on What games did you complete in 2024? 1 week ago:
Every game for the year?? That’s crazy
Highlights:
Tears of the kingdom: amazing game, sunk an absurd amount of hours into this
Like a dragon: infinite wealth: so good, favorite franchise, rgg consistently puts out quality and is the only studio ill bother to buy full price games from
Tales of arise: really good
Hi fi rush: extremely good, but no jet set radio
Bomb rush cyberfunk: not as good, much closer though. actually felt like next gen jet set radio. just wish they bothered to improve the formula at all from 2000 or whenever
Dead space remake: I found myself having to push through the end of this, got very tedious
Silent hill free game on psn (I forget the name, the suicide one): so heavy handed, awful writing, awful voice acting, but it was free so whatever
Silent hill 2: pretty great remake but wish I waited for a price drop.
Persona 3 reload: basically same as above
Ff7: solid overall, really liked it
Spider-Man 2: not as good as the first one but decent
Unicorn overlord: really good
Forspoken: not amazing but not nearly as bad as I thought it would be based on the initial reactions
Tekken 8: love it even though I fucking suck
Smt: vengeance: great
Dave the diver: played on a whim without knowing anything about it, sucked me in
I know there weee more but that’s what I can remember off the top of my head
Excited to play metaphor, hellblade 2, Indiana jones, riven remake, erdtree dlc for Elden ring, cyberpunk dlc, Alan wake 2, god of war ragnarok dlc, new taiko no tatsujin, armored core vi, like a billion more
- Comment on Hunter X Hunter Manga To Go On A Hiatus After Release Of Chapter 410 3 weeks ago:
The last few chapters were SO good. Ending on a high note, at least
- Comment on [Discussion] The Moon on a Rainy Night - Ch. 28 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like the scanlation team might drop? bummer, they’ve done a good job and are miles ahead of the official
- Comment on [DISC] Girl meets Rock! Ch 46 5 weeks ago:
I’m not a lawyer but I would imagine there’s all kinds of bullshit with licensing for international use of the songs. Probably why we will never ever see an authorized translation of the shiori experience either
- Comment on [DISC] Girl meets Rock! Ch 46 5 weeks ago:
I was wondering why it got dropped as it seemed popular. Copyright bullshit strikes again!
- Comment on Frog's Gift 1 month ago:
This is a regularly done conservative tactic. Attack research because it’s frequently stupid sounding. But sometimes stupid sounding research leads to incredible things.
Sometimes you research the mating habits of red eyed tree frogs and you learn a lot for conservation efforts and stuff about the species. Conservatives love this because they can hand wave and go “who cares about this thing I personally don’t care about”
But those science nerds sometimes do stuff like researching gila venom in the 70s which eventually led to ozempic now, one of the potential major treatments for t2 diabetes, a scourge of our morbidly obese modern society. This has gigantic positive implications for public health and financial benefits
- Comment on 2 months ago:
pfsense running on whatever hardware that doesn’t use too much power
- Comment on Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store 2 months ago:
The problem is proprietary systems that are mandatory to interface with. I have chrome installed for these stupid bullshit situations and as a result it’s constantly so far out of date that I just end up having to reinstall it the once or twice a year I am forced to use it.
Government interfaces are the one I run into the most. I recently had to log into nppes, the us government database for updating information attached to the national provider identifier number for healthcare practitioners. Super important thing, literally necessary to bill every single insurance in America and to join basically any practice. Locked out of the site unless you use edge or chrome. Like scripting on the page that makes the page blanked out for any other browser (including older versions)
Similarly I just had to pay the local tax bill in my county and their website had the same deal although they also supported safari. The website is blocked out with Firefox. but the website didn’t work right even trying all 3 of their “supported browsers” on 2 different computers and a vm lmao except I still have to figure out how to pay my taxes
- Comment on Look Back Anime Expands North American Release After Major Box Office Success 2 months ago:
This was pretty decent imo. Much better adaptation of fujimoto than chainsaw man in terms of art style. The 4 komas were great. I have high hopes for goodbye eri, which I think is the overall better story
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 41] 2 months ago:
Not part of the season but I saw look back today and would recommend
- Comment on there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites 2 months ago:
Depends on the piracy site. If you go to some of the pirate streaming sites or the blogs that host tons of pirated software with 30 rapidgator links that die after a month (instead of just using a torrent like a normal sensible person trying to share a 2-30+gb file that is begging to be taken down) without Adblock it’s absolutely comical how many ads there are. Even with Adblock those are the sites that manage to still have ads because they’re on the cutting edge of sketchy shit. It’s like seeing a late 90s to early 2000s website with how much random bullshit is pasted everywhere
Despite that I’m pretty sure that Amazon, google, etc do far more nefarious shit behind the scenes in terms of tracking/fingerprinting you and collecting data to sell
- Comment on Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete 2 months ago:
It’s a trivial repair assuming that’s the extent of the damage and there’s not any quirks associated with an extremely complex medical device that has no documentation whatsoever. Like maybe after not having the controller’s power supply connected for such a length of time there needs to be a calibration process upon bringing it back to life that can only be done with proprietary software
The biggest thing though is that by going in and fixing it yourself you open yourself to the possibility that the company will now say “oh this was worked on by someone else and that’s why it’s broken, we won’t work on it now”. That’s the state of repair rights in America, vendors are openly hostile to people who fix their own things even if they do it sufficiently. We used to have political representation that gave us regulations to allow us to work on and even modify our cars without impacting the warranty but that’s been eroded and there’s not really anything of that nature for tech stuff (other than judgements saying broken warranty seals don’t count for anything)
- Comment on LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers | LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking 2 months ago:
What kind of tv? For webos it’s potentially a bit complicated but also potentially stupid easy depending on which version of webos your tv has
I would strongly suggest avoiding nvm even if it’s supported unless you’re very comfortable with hardware hacks. The others are all software and fairly easy to do if you’re capable with following instructions. The most recent, dejavuln, is fairly simple but can be a bit finicky (you may have to try a bunch of times) but lg is also rolling out patches for it so if your tv is updated you may be out of luck. It’s hard to say because the patches aren’t rolled out unilaterally. Webos is a bit confusing and there are many “branches” that all have similar features but wildly different numbering. If your tv is patched block updates by either disconnecting from the internet or blocking the above sites in your router and watch the webos homebrew discord (linked on that site). There are people actively researching new exploits and if one pops up it’ll be discussed in the discord first (and if it’s a big deal, like they expect it to be patched, they usually ping everyone to let them know to do it asap)
- Comment on LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers | LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking 3 months ago:
As if android tv isn’t also loaded to hell with ads and reliant on streaming networks that basically all have increasingly obtrusive ads
Either only buy physical or pirate all of your media, set up a jellyfin server, set up a dns server that blocks ads (adguard, pihole) and point any device that can connect to the internet at it. Cancel all of your streaming subscriptions and use a coreelec box to watch your media from your jellyfin server. There are literally no other ways to not get obtrusive advertising.
If you have an lg webos tv like me you can keep it connected to the internet but root it, block updates in homebrew channel, install YouTube with adblocking and sponsor block, and then again make sure it’s getting dns from your ad block server. Add in custom rules for
us.ad.lgsmartad.com us.info.lgsmartad.com ngfts.lge.com lgad.cjpowercast.com edgesuite.net us.rdx2.lgtvsdp.com us.info.lgsmartad.com us.ibs.lgappstv.com us.lgtvsdp.com ad.lgappstv.com smartshare.lgtvsdp.com ibis.lgappstv.com us.ad.lgsmartad.com lgad.cjpowercast.com.edgesuite.net ngfts.lge.com yumenetworks.com smartclip.net smartclip.com
snu.lge.com su.lge.com lgtvonline.lge.com
These block ads and the last three block the update servers. The update blocking isn’t strictly necessary if you have rooted and blocked updates in homebrew channel but it will get rid of the annoying “new version” nag that pops up when you turn on the tv. You may have to clear caches on the tv
- Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years? 3 months ago:
That’s good to hear. I have a zigbee stick but haven’t found the time to repair them that way yet. I definitely agree they’re good products, it just left a real bad taste in my mouth when after years of using them I got a notification in the app that soon I’ll be required to put them online, which is nonsense
- Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years? 3 months ago:
Just fyi for anyone who would care about this: while hue bulbs are built well they are moving towards a model that requires you to put them on “the cloud”, even though they were sold for years and years without that requirement. The update will be mandatory whether you want it or not as part of Philips security being integrated into the app. It’s unclear what will happen if you don’t create an account and sign in at that point
So if you’re like me and put all your iot shit on an isolated vlan without internet access they may not be the best option for you. Or if you just don’t want to support a company that wildly changes the tos years after purchasing their (expensive) product. I don’t want my home shit on the internet, I don’t trust Philips to put enough cash or effort into securing their servers, etc.
The bulbs do work with zigbee though and that seems to be a viable alternative to using their hub/app although I haven’t tested it fully. This also means if you’re using them via HomeKit you’ll need some kind of bridge like home assistant
- Comment on Mental hell 3 months ago:
Depends on the program. Diploma mills for graduate degrees absolutely exist but many are extremely competitive.
- Comment on Regain Control in my ass 3 months ago:
Bleed in my ass
those bass drum hertas tho
- Comment on new foss adblocker for safari (macOS, ipadOS, iOS) 3 months ago:
It hasn’t seen a release yet, code is here:
github.com/arjpar/WebShield-staging/tree/ldev
I’m not endorsing it, never heard of it before this post, but this was literally the second line of the readme
- Comment on ruzzia is the only country unaware of the gun problem in the US 4 months ago:
Also nontraditional warfare that has technically been seen but not really (at least in an officially acknowledged way, maybe something like stuxnet?) like offensive cyber warfare. If things truly came to trading blows russia does have very talented cyber espionage folks and the us has shown many times that it has pretty shocking vulnerabilities on many critical points of cyber infrastructure. these probably haven’t been attacked because it would be a literal act of war to go after the power grid, weapons systems, water delivery systems, etc but if the gloves come off then you better believe these systems start getting attacked by state sponsored actors who will never come anywhere near american land
- Comment on How can I get a screw like this out? 4 months ago:
Put a rubber band between screwdriver and screw, otherwise the other things already stated like CA glue, filing a flathead groove, or drilling the cap off
in the future use the appropriate sized driver and retire drivers when they become stripped
- Comment on Why do radio stations all seem to go on commercial at the same time? 4 months ago:
they’re almost all owned by the same parent network (iheartmedia, which was clearchannel) so it’s stupid easy to coordinate
- Comment on How does Ohio have stock for the new cannabis stores that just opened? 4 months ago:
I don’t know specifically for that state but in many states legal and medicinal weed has been overtaken by a few companies that are quickly buying each other up and rapidly expanding into other states as quickly as they can. in true American fashion the minute weed is legalized nationally we will essentially have the groundwork laid for giant weed conglomerates, the weed equivalent of walmart. keeping prices as high as possible, lowering product quality, and making the experience worse overall
when I was on the west coast a while back legal weed was cheap as fuck and great. dispensaries were all over and randomly named. I’m sure there was intense rivalries and people pushing to consolidate but you could get stuff dirt cheap that was great. nothing like what I’m seeing here on the east coast with companies like curaleaf, truelieve, etc that charge $40-60 for a gram for shit that’s just okay. I quit smoking a few years ago though, maybe it’s better now, but I doubt it