CrazyLikeGollum

@CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you like to see a mainline Pokemon game created in the old style?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If it means a return to random encounters, no absolutely not. There’s a reason I don’t go back and replay the older games even though I have fond memories of them. That reason is largely Zubat. Fuck you Zubat.

  But also, aside from a handful of bugs and performance problems Scarlet/Violet and Legends: Arceus are the best the franchise has ever been. I’d rather they refine what they’re already doing and keep making things better rather then regress purely to appease someone’s misguided nostalgia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half Life 3⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll believe HL:3 is real when it is for sale, purchased by me, and played in it’s entirety. And even it just be a particularly vivid delusion.

  HL:3 is gaming’s dark matter. Until all other possibilities are definitively ruled out, it’s not HL:3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, the infamous “stinky cheese” email virus. Who knew zip bombs could be so destructive. It erased all of the easter eggs off of my DVDs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #12⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like it’s just the brand it’s sold under in that market.

  I was more just pointing out that they are the same thing, since it wasn’t clear if you knew that or not and I think it’s important that people know what the drugs they’re taking actually are. Tends to be safer that way.

  Hopefully, you’re either taking it as prescribed or having fun responsibly. Benzos can be fun, but they’re also some of the most addictive substances on the planet.

  Also, these articles you’re posting are some quality writing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #12⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact “Velium” is just a brand name for Diazepam. As is Valium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use your blinker in a car?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. You’re supposed to use it anytime you’re about to turn or change lanes, including if you’re sitting in a turn lane at a red light or backing out of a drive way of parking spot.

  Not doing so makes you a road hazard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Boredom is the key to learning something it’s just very likely that it won’t be the thing school is trying to teach. Especially if the thing school is teaching is the thing boring you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least as I understand it (and there’s a good chance I’m wrong) there’s nothing in US law preventing a state from seceding. It was determined that the way the southern states decided to do it in the runup to the civil war was unconstitutional (and possibly treasonous? seditious? Something like that), but there’s no law saying a state can’t secede. It’s just that there’s no defined process for it and the only way it has been tried was determined to be wrong.

  From what I’ve read on the topic, there is technically a way it could be done. The country would basically have to follow the same process as passing a constitutional amendment, just with an additional step.

  • The state in question would have to pass a ballot measure to secede
  • The state house and Senate would have to ratify that measure with a 2/3rds super majority.
  • It would have to be passed as a ballot measure by the majority of the country.
  • The US house and senate would have to ratify that measure with a 2/3rds super majority.

  So, not technically impossible just so difficult that it is effectively impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, not on a modern Xbox. On the OG XBox however…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers could access medical equipment and pose a threat to lives, Northeastern cybersecurity expert tells Congress.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, just remember the S in IoT stands for security and IoT devices are just embedded devices connected to the internet.

  And the Medical industry is the proof for the rule.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Bambu lab transparent petg just suck as a material?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  PETG is very hygroscopic. It’s one of those filaments that you should dry before using every time. Even if it’s a freshly opened package.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teslas have been consuming a lot of gasoline lately.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  PPS: ICE cars exploding in flames when shot is a Hollywood myth. Not so much for EVS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 3 episodes (all shows) for a newbie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  TNG: Drumhead, I, Borg, and Chain of command (or if you don’t want a two parter, take your pick of Q who, Measure of a Man, or Yesterday’s Enterprise)

  DS9: In the Pale Moonlight, Inquisition, and It’s Only a Paper Moon.

  VOY: Living Witness, Tuvix, and Year of Hell (or again, if you don’t want a two parter, go for Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy)

  TOS: The Devil in the Dark, The City on the Edge of Forever, and Mirror Mirror.

  ENT: Similitude, Regeneration, In a Mirror Darkly (don’t really have a good non-two parter to suggeat over In a Mirror, Enterprise doesn’t have a lot of great standalone episodes IMO)

  Movies: if you want to use these as examples, The Wrath of Khan for TOS and First Contact for TNG.

  And I don’t really have a list for LD, PIC, DIS, SNW, or PRO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that if you lose your Social Security Card (USA) more than 10 times, the Social Security Administration will have to, by law, refuse to issue anymore replacement cards, for the rest of your life.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not everyone has a passport.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The weather is definitely changing.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, where I live, growing up I’d go trick-or-treating in waist deep snow (I was much smaller at the time, so more like knee deep on an adult). Now, first snow isn’t until mid November and we don’t get massive accumulation until mid-december.

  Both high temperatures in the summer and low temps in winter have also increased by like 10F. What used to be a major heat wave 15 years ago is now normal. Sub-zero temps used to be normal for weekly lows in late January into mid-late February. We have multiple false breakups each winter where temperatures get above freezing for days at a time and all of the snow starts melting.

  Shit’s very noticeable if you’re paying attention over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some slow acting poisons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on your setting and desired outcome for the poisoner, uraninite (aka pitchblende) might be an option. It has historical uses in glass making and pottery glazing, which could provide justification for why someone would have it.

  It contains Uranium, which is radioactive, but I don’t believe will bioaccumulate, but can build up on surfaces, tools, and clothing providing a source of long-term radiation exposure. In addition, it contains lead, which does bioaccumulate, providing a source of gradual long term poisoning as well as radium which also bioaccumulates and is radioactive, providing an additional source of longterm radiation exposure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨calibre 8.0⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Calibre cant natively strip DRM from ebooks, but there are third-party plugins for it that can and integrate pretty seamlessly into the process of adding the book to your library.

  I used it to strip the DRM from all of my Amazon bought ebooks back before they removed the download option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “I’ll have you know there’s no pusseeee!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's weird that a room with just a toilet and sink is called a "half bath", when it in fact has zero bathtubs.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  True, we should call it the “shit 'n rinse.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As would Sony and Disney. It is surprising that WB is doing this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You also have to deal with whatever settings the uploader decided to use when they transcoded the original rip. Which can mess with the color grade and contrast ratio, the hdr grading, introduce noise, and otherwise fuck with the video quality and audio quality.

  Most people won’t care, but to some it matters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to Ryujinx forks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically, you’re allowed to make copies for personal use unless doing so requires bypassing DRM, encryption, or some other lockout mechanism.

  Emulation is still not piracy and neither is making a personal backup, but if making that backup requires anything more than a standard disc drive or a cart reader then it is a DMCA violation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homeserver advice: i9-14900KS vs. i9-10940X⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Might be a bit late on this, but ProxMox doesn’t really handle assigning threads to the e/p cores. That’s handled by the kernel and as long you’re running kernel version 6.1 or greater you should be good on that front.

  If you really need to, you can also pin specific VMs to specific cores. So that if you’ve got something that always needs the performance it can always run on the p-cores and things that aren’t as demanding can always run on e-cores.

  That said, especially if you’re over provisioning, it’s probably better to let the scheduler in the kernel handle thread assignments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨star bae⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And 1/2c is a pretty middle of the road escape velocity for a neutron star.

  The lightest known neutron star, at 1.4 solar masses has an escape velocity of right around 1/4c, while the heaviest at 2.35 solar masses is 3/4c.

  All of which assumes the neutron star isn’t spinning. Equatorial bulging caused by the rotation reduces the escape velocity at the equator relative to the poles and depending on whether or not you launch with the direction of the rotation you might be able to subtract the rotational velocity from your escape velocity.

  As an example, in the case of that 2.35 solar mass neutron star, it has a rotational velocity of approximately 0.24c. So of you launch with the rotation you get an escape velocity of 0.5c, whereas if you launch against it you’re looking at more like 0.98c.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Given that nowhere in the article does it say that 14% of people exclusively play on pre-2000 hardware I don’t find this that surprising.

  I’m more shocked by the last statistic, 11% of American households still use fax. Fax? Fuckin’ why? That’s like saying people still listen to music on Edison cylinders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does the 3-2-1 rule look like for you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think this meets the definition of 3-2-1. Which isn’t a problem if it meets your requirements. Hell, I do something similar for my stuff. I have my primary NAS backed up to a secondary NAS. Both have BTRFS snapshots enabled, but the secondary has a longer retention period for snapshots. (One month vs one week). Then I have my secondary NAS mirrored to a NAS at my friends house for an offsite backup.

  This is more of a 4-1-1 format.

  But 3-2-1 is supposed to be:

  • Three total copies of the data. Snapshots don’t count here, but the live data does.

  • On two different types of media. I.e. one backup on HDD and another on optical media or tape.

  • With at least one backup stored off site.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homeserver advice: i9-14900KS vs. i9-10940X⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t speak to AI performance, but given you’re stated goal of lower idle power consumption, I’d go with the 14900K, not the KS as you have listed.

  Reason being the $250 price difference between the two, when the KS is just a slightly higher binning of the K with an additional 200MHz on the boost clocks. With that higher boost being something you’re unlikely to practically see without a substantial and robust cooling system, I don’t think it’s worth the extra money.

  The reason I’d go with the K over the 10940X is the lower limit on it’s power consumption. The E cores are very efficient and can down clock substantially meaning it idles at really low power. The 10940X doesn’t have that benefit.

  Beyond that, I’d say look at IPC, per thread, per max sustainable clock of each core, to get a general out look on performance.

  Note: all of the above assumes we’re working within your listed options. My actual recommendation would be an AMD 7800x3d or 9800x3d.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LineageOS now officially supports the Pixel 9 series⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  source.android.com/docs/security/…/file-based

  I did not remember correctly, kind of. From AOSP, Android 7 and later use file-based encryption (FBE) rather then full-disk encryption (FDE). FBE is dependant on verified boot, which itself requires a locked bootloader.

  Custom ROMs may have back ported FDE, modified FBE, or implemented their own encryption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LineageOS now officially supports the Pixel 9 series⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is largely an anti-tampering measure. Without it you could have things injected into the system. For example, a stalker could install a hidden tracking program as a service and then return your phone without you knowing.

  Iirc it’s also a prerequisite for full-disk encryption on modern android. So, without it your user data is available to be dumped in an unencrypted state. Most phone thieves are interested in reselling the phone, so they’re provably not going to go through the effort and risk damage to the phone just to dump encrypted data from the chips directly. However, if it’s just available unencrypted from fastboot why not dump it? They could get info that could be used to blackmail or scam you or people you know. Or they could just sell the data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JetKVM's Source Code is now public! ✨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a link to the code? I know I could probably search for it, but if you’re going post about the code being public you could at least include a link to it.