MonkeMischief

@MonkeMischief@lemmy.today

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important Notice of Security Incident⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey that’s super helpful, I really appreciate it! Thank you! I haven’t checked in on the project(s) in quite a while. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important Notice of Security Incident⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Minecraft is still the hardest thing to host lol

  I’m actually considering hosting a Luanti / “MineTest” server for this experience, since my wife lost her Minecraft account / key thingy since the time we played in beta ages ago haha.

  I wonder if it’s any easier to host or not. 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific unprogress...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oop oop hrk! >=[

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific unprogress...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In this regard, I absolutely have come to agree.

  I always say: “The Internet should be for anyone! But it shouldn’t have been for everyone .”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific unprogress...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There it is. Now you can all see it! This is the violence inherent in the system!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific unprogress...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right, I try to remind myself to marvel at the incredibly cool science we wield every single day.

  But I’m also pained because I understand where the “boring future” folks come from too:

  Where would we be if all this incredible technology was actually designed for humanity and not simply for profits at all cost? If optimizing for humanity was the target instead of exploiting it?

  Smartphones, for instance. Small, networked computers! In your pocket! Wow! I’ve always wanted a pocket laptop! But they sure don’t feel like it. They’re designed to be content (mainly ad) delivery devices and data miners first, and useful machines second.

  (There are some tiny niche actual-computer palmtops now which are pretty cool.)

  I think that’s the part that gets people kinda depressive about modern science breakthroughs. The coolest stuff, the working folk don’t even get to tangibly feel much benefit from.

  Discovery is locked behind paywall research journals and implementation is marketed in the interests of capital and used against us to make us work harder for longer hours for less pay.

  What’s happening to space is a VERY stark illustration of all this. NASA unifying humanity and working globally on projects like the ISS was INSPIRING.

  Now it’s all about private interests and their stupid desires, like space hotels for the elite.

  I bet we’d marvel at technology designed for human beings, and not sheer exploitation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hot on the heels of the H2S, Bambu Lab announces the seven-color, wireless nozzle-swapping Vortek H2C⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to see open source printer devices doing this.

  I couldn’t care less about Bambu Lab, if anything they irk me because they’re driving 3D printing towards a “the magic black box just works until it doesn’t and then we throw it in a landfill and buy a brand new one.” model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Use this science wisely.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “You spin me right round baby right round like a record baby…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Use this science wisely.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “They said I could become anything, so I became everything.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Use this science wisely.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bursting through the doors OUTSIDE in a panic.

  Looking at some random shocked person pointing toward the park.

  Rushing to the park to see grass.

  Sobbing uncontrollably feeling all the grass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LPT: Go get a shot, now.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The worm is calling the shots here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolution: 🖕⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh goodness, it’s mounted to his HIP. At first glance I thought this was a whole other level of parody product lmao.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨when ur higher than sagan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “But this supplement was just researched and developed by an exceptionally clever homeschooling mom who wanted to take on big pharma!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do what you love⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s something I hope to bring to the table as a digital artist someday.

  I already know there’s plenty of hyper-introverted socially awkward artists who could absolutely flatten what I can do, but I feel very comfortable empathizing, working in teams, and figuring people out. I hope that’s seen as an asset some time.

  But for now, I aim to just do it for myself, and talk too much. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do what you love⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Rhinos Colleges don’t play, they freaking charge your ass.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit like this is why we need open source printers!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking at OpenWRT, good Lord I still want this for routers.

  For printers would be nice too though. I’m honestly surprised we can’t just build kit printers the same way we can build 3D printers, I mean, could we?

  Using something like Klipper but more kinda like CUPS?

  Get toner or ink in generic containers that attach to print heads? I dunno it doesn’t seem far fetched.

  I’m honestly done caring that “the normies won’t want it because everything that isn’t a smartphone with a one-button app scares them.”

  What will start as “enthusiast printer kits” should force openness on the printer industry at large.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go on, keep them.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🚨 PLATYPUS PSA 🚨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On the pain scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Black Holes...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a few in highschool that scared me big time!

  But I had to give them back at the end of the year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Black Holes...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wish I had answers, but converse to your handle, people expressing this kind of vulnerable, raw curiosity so that we all might learn something, is exactly why I love the Internet. :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a simple thing, but one good way to make games memorable is for the developers to leave you words of encouragement in the pack-in material.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember Star Siege and MechWarrior 3 coming with a big novella book of some sort, accompanying the manual, and Sim City 3000 came with a wire bound TOME of a book lol. RTS games would often come with big foldout tech trees and stuff too.

  The original manual for The Sims was really fun to read too because it was full of humorous witticisms at every turn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a Christian Anarchist, I often find myself lonely and without a third place as well, because of what churches have become.

  Yeah, I still haven’t found a church that I felt I belonged in. I got close once, but they couldn’t pay skyrocketing rent hikes and got taken over by a larger, faker, church. One that was more about feel-good seminars and recruiting free labor volunteers than anything Jesus actually had to say.

  Churches of old in the US used to be based. People of today wouldn’t recognize them. They helped the poor and were a third place and looked out for each other, they were also pro-union, and this became a huge “Problem” for capitalists, who saw Christians as annoying leftists who didn’t share their pathological obsession with money.

  There was a VERY concerted and well documented conspiracy by the moneyed class to infiltrate and rot American Christianity into the often capitalist, Republican-talking-point drooling zombie it is today.

  Highly recommend Behind the Bastards: How the Rich ate Christianity to see just how deep this goes.

  The Church used to be a threat to these barons and tyrants and bigots, rather than their lapdogs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This reminds me of the people who genuinely fall for “romance scams”, and the scammer has all the personality and vocabulary of a wet paper bag.

  And yet somehow someone will believe they’re some hot (barely literate) U.S soldier stuck in Kuwait until they can get a flight home to meet the victim for only $2000… Wait, $1000 more… But then there’s a $500 fee… And then…

  Blows my mind…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got one I’m betting we won’t find on here yet…

  Alone in the Dark 5, an incredibly ambitious game that fell short, but had some great ideas.

  One of which was how that incredible soundtrack by Oliver Deriviere drove this particular playable sequence, 59th Street .

  The whole soundtrack done in conjunction with “The Mystery of Bulgarian Voices” is absolutely stunning for an action-horror title.

  It was the best part of the game and an incredible example of meshing soundtrack with cinematic gameplay.

  . . . actually? All the stuff he does is freaking awesome, so see/listen to his other titles like:

  • Remember Me (Awesomely underrated!)
  • Obscure

  Other lesser known ones off the top of my head:

  • There Came an Echo (by Big Giant Circles. So good they used the theme in Stranger Things Season…2?)
  • Anything by Supergiant lol.
  • Oni (bungie / rockstar)

  I’ll probably add to this if I think of any more. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨well?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are all really interesting factors to consider and I appreciate the response!

  I’ll come clean, when I wrote it, I was just making a funny, like… A “decaying vacuum” would suck less over time. . .than a black hole. Lol XD

  To your point though, less likelihood of finding other life is such a wildcard, for sure. (Less likelihood of meeting cool benevolent spacefarers…but also less likely to be spotted by something like Mass Effect’s Reapers, or accidentally bring home Xenomorphs or extragalactic pathogens lol)

  And…not being able to ever see the beginning of everything…my curious mind says that’d be such a bummer but also…oddly beautiful? I’ll have to ponder that…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨well?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that might suck slightly less in the long run?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I LIKE CORN!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Hwat in cornnashun!?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our dancers have infinite curves⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Believe it or not, mathematics majors who didn’t put “engineer” on their resume. :(

  (This is not meant to insult anybody, aside from whomever is responsible for this “degree market value” idea.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iconic Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX hits 20 years old today — PS3 GPU forbearer was 'graphics champion' of performance and efficiency in its day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hehe me sitting here with my 9800 GTX++ wondering what the heck to do with it. 😂

  Kinda wanted to make a retro gaming machine but, sheesh I bet it’s such a power hog these days!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dead OS Walking: 30 Days on Windows XP in 2025 — fireborn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stability aside, I loved ME’s personalization stuff, all the themes and sounds and icons and everything they included out of the box to encourage you to make it feel like “yours.”

  I wish they had kept with that into later versions.

  Thankfully KDE fills that void for me now. :D