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- Comment on Enthusiast mulls reviving Sony's retro micro PC — Orange Pi CM5 planned as mainboard upgrade 1 week ago:
This remains one of my favorite pieces of 21st century industrial design.
- Comment on Enthusiast mulls reviving Sony's retro micro PC — Orange Pi CM5 planned as mainboard upgrade 1 week ago:
- Cool idea.
- Is this really an article about a reddit thread where some dude says he could do it but maybe later?
- Comment on In hindsight, "the Xindi attack" was a phase change into a much more hard-boiled season of Enterprise. 2 weeks ago:
S1-2 feel like the TNG formula, but with the twist of a primitive crew and ship.
Find “shields”.
Replace with "hull plating.
Boom. Script’s done!
- Comment on Alfredo Linguini 1 month ago:
I’m gonna level with y’all. I have a certain number of areas where my palate is reasonably sophisticated and bougie (a nice dry cider… perfection), but in many ways I have the palate of a latchkey kid in 1993. I love a dozen kinds of fast food, sugary breakfast cereals, and yeah, I prefer other recipes over it, but I’m write films of regular Kraft Mac and Cheese/Kraft Dinner.
All of which is to tell you that I’m not sneering down from some Michelin-starred ivory tower when I say that Microwave bowls of Mac & Cheese are FUCKING DISGUSTING. Whatever combination of powdered milk and thickeners and Satan-snot they have to put into the bowls to make the process work at all is just nasty. It’s an abomination before the Lord.
- Comment on FreeCAD v1.0 released. 2 months ago:
It’s, oh jeez, six months old by now, but back in the spring I went through all the ones I’d tried. I ultimately settled on the middle tier for Alibre, with a permanent license. Pricier than Atom, to be sure, but feature complete for any needs I can imagine for myself as an utter amateur.
- Comment on FreeCAD v1.0 released. 2 months ago:
I don’t know why Solid Edge doesn’t get more love. IMO it’s comparable to Fusion for basic part design, and it’s fully local.
I actually got a license for Alibre, so I’ll keep using that until my hair finishes turning gray.
I was running into some errors with the FreeCAD Appimage in Linux, but the Windows version is running fairly smoothly, and it’s finally getting enough helper prompts and heuristic interface things to be less unwieldy, but it’s still FreeCAD. For instance, I’m still trying to find the easiest of three or four kludgey ways to project a face onto a sketch, and none of them are as easy as the purpose-built tool for that in Alibre.
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- Comment on turned them into their final form! 2 months ago:
Gotta trust the experts on something like this.
- Comment on Jesus Christ 2 months ago:
or Josh. 🤣
- Comment on Jesus Christ 2 months ago:
Here’s an interview with a good number of the paintings. Del’s Jesus has BLUE EYES sometimes. 🙄
- Comment on Jesus Christ 2 months ago:
You’re closer to right than you know. This is “The Olive Press” by (in)famous white-Jesus Mormon painter Del Parson. The man paints Jesus through a very, very thick lens of the American Mountain West.
For the record, I had to look up the specific painting, but I grew up LDS, and red-robe white-guy mullet Jesus is a Parson trademark.
- Comment on From moms pov 2 months ago:
The fact that it’s all rehearsed and refined and outlined and stage-managed only makes it slightly less bonkers. This is the face these people are CHOOSING to present to the world.
Gets repetitive after a while, though.
- Comment on Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems? - The Old New Thing 2 months ago:
There was existing precedent for a tiny version of Windows that is barely enough to run a single program. The original Windows version of Microsoft Excel came with a runtime version of Windows 2.1, so that customers who didn’t have Windows could still use Excel.
Fun fact, the “DOS” version of AOL did the same thing but with GEOS. Pretty impressive that it all fit on one 1.44MB floppy.
- Comment on NASA landed on the moon, by shooting for the moon 2 months ago:
Hush!
- Comment on Ah, the old family favourite 2 months ago:
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Skittles Mini Gingerbread House Kit
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The Skittles one is literally visible one box over.
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- Comment on NASA landed on the moon, by shooting for the moon 2 months ago:
And if they’d done the math wrong, they’d have landed among the stars.
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 2 months ago:
The only thing I’ll say there is that with burgers you can sometimes get out over your skis and take a tumble. A lot of sit-down places think some giant watery meatball is a good burger. While photogenic, it is not necessarily good, and a short-order smashed patty or (smashed patties) generally taste a lot better and are easier to eat.
The best burgers are almost certainly not fast food burgers, but the worst burgers aren’t either.
- Comment on Three "Lost" Shining Force Games Have Been Preserved | Time Extension 2 months ago:
I know it was all simple tricks and nonsense covering up a fairly generic dungeon crawler, and that most people preferred the direction the franchise went afterwards, but as a kid I fell in love with the original Shining in the Darkness. Those sprites were friggin’ HUGE!
- Comment on Oh fuck no 2 months ago:
Intensifiers, goddammit!
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 2 months ago:
This. All of us Reddit Refugees (me included) fucked up when we arrived and put the cart before the horse. Lemmy is like a small town; you may simply not get all the specific communities you want, but there’s probably somebody with a similar enough interest that they’ll talk to you about the stuff you like, and they probably have things that you would like to talk about if you saw it. Higher-level categories should do fine unless and until a certain type of content starts to annoy other users by its sheer prevalence.
As someone else said, Lemmy is the niche community.
- Comment on ‘Oregon Trail’ Action-Comedy Movie In Development at Apple (Exclusive) 2 months ago:
At this point, the only way you get anything made for theaters is to find a nostalgic brand to tie it to. This will probably suck, because Speck and Gordon peaked with Blades of Glory, but conceptually I have no problem with a pioneer-themed action comedy, and it barely matters that they dusted off Oregon Trail to do it.
Recent experience has shown that you should be careful if the property you’re working on has extensive lore and loud fans, but I’m somewhat sympathetic to creatives who just want to get a project funded and are willing to glom onto to an existing property to do it.
- Comment on Original Super Mario Bros. Fan Port Now on Game Boy Color 2 months ago:
Even Nintendo starts with a cease and desist. Get that rom out there, and nobody will give a shit how shady the site or discord they download it from is. :-)
- Comment on Gandalf failed to consider incest, half my ancestors are related baby 2 months ago:
I heard some of that was a bit of humor that didn’t quite translate, but I’m sure it’s at least in the back of your mind, and you might want to consider whether being 3rd cousins, double-4th cousins, and quntiple 6th cousins starts to add up, LOL.
I found out my stuff through ancestry to track down my biological relatives when my daughter was young, and I still have people on there where the percentage makes zero sense based on the documentation I can find, unless there’s a bunch of stuff farther back piling on the centimorgans.
- Comment on I feel you, green guy. 2 months ago:
Sick of your shit have I become.
- Comment on A New Retro Gaming Console - MultiPi and MultiPi JAMMA 2 months ago:
Neat little pair of packages. Seems a bit pricy to me, but I don’t think I’m the intended market. I wonder what the Pi Pico on the JAMMA module is for.
- Comment on Gandalf failed to consider incest, half my ancestors are related baby 2 months ago:
LOL, I have heritage from Newfoundland, which I learned of as an adult (the heritage that is, not the existence of the very large island in the north Atlantic).
Apparently there was nothing to do on that rock for three hundred years except fuck your cousin. Based on what I’ve seen, nowadays they fuck their cousins or move to Alberta.
- Comment on If reality worked the way hiring managers and job interviews thought it did companies would have to fire everyone when they purchased new software since no one would have any experience using it. 2 months ago:
Counterpoint: They already know you can’t “do” the job-specific tasks because you don’t work there yet. If you know the tools, that’s extremely helpful as they teach what to do with them. If there’s pile A and pile B and they’re mostly the same except B already knows JIRA or Visual Studio or whatever, then that’s a legitimate differentiator.
When the existing team is forced to get new software, there’s a presumption that they already know what tasks the tools are supposed to help them do. There’s no “other pile,” so might as well suck it up and kill your productivity for ten percent for a year. It’s okay though; you can improve it by 1% from the original baseline for nine years after, because the McKinsey and Accenture people totally promised us that makes sense. Rinse and repeat.
- Comment on How to improve your Lemmy experience 2 months ago:
I just set subscribed to my default and prune my subscriptions. I like some politics, but I get enough from what seeps through in News, so I un-subbed from politics. I will seek out meme communities that are my speed and leave the rest to their own devices. I just take a peek at “all” every once in a while, and I tend to check out links people post in comments that interest me, but for the most part I have my corner of Lemmy more or less how I want it.
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 2 months ago:
My BS detector is on yellow alert, but here’s the reddit profile. I feel almost like the original OP may be preemptively floating the idea for some reason.
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 2 months ago:
No. No, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you’d get your ass kicked sayin’ something like that, man.