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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mindfulness⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Driving leisurely through a nice lush valley? God what a marvel of engineering this crumbling manual 1994 Kia shitbox is. Driving is so calming. Radio off, windows down, I want to hear the birds and the terrible engine. I don’t even care that second gear doesn’t bite anymore. This is nice.

  Driving in start stop traffic? God I hate how we’ve defaced our planet, our home, just to enrich these blood sucking oil companies. The Ottomans and the French built railroads and streetcars here during our servitude. And what did we do with that silver lining? Tore it all out to sell more cars and petrol. For shame. All of these people’s lives are measurably worse from wasting their lives on the road.

  Driving at a normal speed in a normal area with people driving around me at normal speed, pedestrians, street lights, traffic cops, nobody is crashing, I’m not crashing, I’m barely even thinking about doing it? bro what tHE FUCK WHAT

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Boy have I got news for you.

  Look up the Zizians.

  (Ok they’re only a tangential offshoot of people who maybe really like the Basilisk thought experiment and mostly don’t believe it. But hey. It’s underway!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you can't buy it, make it: EN25 corner that fits HDMI cables.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, I’ve never looked into what hardware is actually available at the consumer level. That is a lot of money to move a video signal from one place to another.

  FWIW I just looked at the AliExpress-tier options and they are much cheaper, but I don’t know about latency situation even if they do hit advertised bandwidth.

  I didn’t even know HDMI cables went up to 15m for the copper version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you can't buy it, make it: EN25 corner that fits HDMI cables.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Again, I just mean literally running Ethernet cables into standard conduits, terminating them, and sticking a HDMI over Ethernet box on either side. In order not to modify the conduits. I don’t know what the bandwidth is for that kind of solution. I’m not presenting it as the only and best option.

  Your solution is cool. My own conduits are surrounded on four sides by concrete, so pulling connectors through is something that I only have to do very very rarely. And more often than not I find myself having to change one thing to wireless or use something that can make use of multiplexing just so I can free up a bit of space in there to do something else.

  My own network is still an absolutely atrocious 200kB/s DSL through decaying, water-damaged copper lines. And those aren’t going through conduits, those have had concrete poured right over them. Over the 2x1mm thick flat two-strand “cable” that was obsolete when the building was built decades ago. RJ11. Plastic sheath that disintegrates into asbestos or some shit when exposed to sunlight. I’m not describing an ideal data transmission environment here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you can't buy it, make it: EN25 corner that fits HDMI cables.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes sense. I just meant standard conduit, Ethernet cable straight through the conduit. Not into the home network.

  I’ve pulled connectors through odd gaps, I know how it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you can't buy it, make it: EN25 corner that fits HDMI cables.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know everyone’s needs are different (I’m in Third World Nowhere, where building codes don’t exist and our solutions are limited by unusual practical circumstances), but isn’t HDMI-over-Ethernet a thing? I don’t know if I’d trust a 3D printed part with keeping water out in the long run

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am bereaved⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s another one, professionally voice acted for maximum effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LOVE THEM⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Extremely underrated game, even after it received popular sequels. I’m shocked nobody talks about the original Witcher game. I played it way after it was released in around 2017 and found it refreshing, like a slightly more modern classic RPG with actual classic game design, plus a few quirks (combat stances and so on).

  The enhanced edition looks perfectly fine. I think I’ve hit the stage in my life where I care more about graphics looking cohesive and how the art style serves the game’s vibe than I care about garish post-processing and needlessly complex models and textures.

  TW1, visually, has a sort of dreamy fantastical blandness with bursts of really cool visual interest. Isn’t that enough? Doesn’t that serve the concept of a video game well?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft says it provided AI to Israeli military for war but denies use to harm people in Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Once every few months I remember that there’s virtually no chance my name and information aren’t in these databases, especially now that my country has gone through a recent war phase. Even if I didn’t sign up to Instagram and Facebook when I was a teenager, my family, friends, and whole neighborhood use unscrupulous online services that can be used to map out communities like that. I live far from the border with Palestine but let’s not pretend that makes a difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the worst spelling you've seen?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m now thinking of that classic post from the old site that shows someone’s painstakingly cursive-written note of the entire text of a bluescreen (the old bluescreen with a lot of characters on screen) for tech support.

  And thinking of a slightly more tech inclined grandma who doesn’t quite get all of it having a problem with a torrent and just reading the infohash/magnet link to the ISP’s support call center.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I view others in social media⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Punchline Situation is Diabolical

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Updates Its User Agreement To Crack Down On Emulation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Been thinking of getting a used Switch Mini exclusively to solder in a chip and use it as a nice emulation handheld. As long as it doesn’t rat itself out over Bluetooth or something to its older brother gathering dust behind the tv (which has never been touched by the light of piracy), I should still be good I guess.

  It’s unfortunate, but what I’m actually worried about is that world where different devices will report on each other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Libre will really only ever be a French word to me so that’s how I always thought it would be pronounced. With an Americanish R sound.

  Leeb-roffice librɑɔfəs for you IPA enjoyers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the Raspberry Pi 4 -> Pi 5 is a very clear demonstration of this.

  The power requirements went way up, and therefore the needed cooling, after years of the 1->2->3->4 being pretty similar. And most importantly, the prices for those were similar (35 USD MSRP I think, or usually around 60 USD here). The new one is much more expensive than that and that hasn’t gone down without controversy.

  Maybe consoles are more visible to most people but the different versions of Pis are much more apples to apples and are designed to be drop-in upgrades.

  I think I’ll still be using Pi 4s for a long time personally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stumbled upon this art (?) in Korea⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. The image was very weird to me, but I’ve played some version of this as a kid. Team one makes this structure against a wall, team two send people to jump and crawl forward, the goal being to break the “bridge”. I can’t even remember what we fucking called this game, this was in Lebanon in the late aughts/early tens.

  There’s something about how most teenage boys are wired that made it feel exceptionally badass when your team was on the bottom and you didn’t crumple when it was the turn of one of the large gentlemen on the other team to jump.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I know you all have big plans for this man⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if I’d say Daggerfall to Morrowind was a step backwards. In terms of years they’re not all that far apart. But in terms of capturing the philosophy of their respective eras? I’d call them two different types of maximalism, before things coalesced into the distilled Skyrim experience.

  Both of those games were before my time, but the impression I get with Daggerfall is that this was right when PCs started getting enough memory to go crazy and build giant procedurally generated worlds. Morrowind is like that with maximizing graphics and sounds, it’s in that first generation of games that aged differently to everything that came before. As dated as Morrowind looks, it still looks really high effort and (dare I say it) artfully designed. It’s much more of a game, while DF feels to me like a game program. Am I making any sense?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see the humor in it anymore. Whenever it comes to even admitting the crimes happening to/in Palestine, it’s always decent people getting the entire book thrown at them, while others who actually do something evil get off scott free.

  You can’t just ask for accountability for crimes. You have to kiss the ring and you have to be made an example of. What we are seeing with the response to student action is actually unprecedented and it’s genuinely unhinged. And it’s not just the US, it’s most of Europe too.

  It’s not enough that our brothers and sisters in Palestine are getting rounded up and massacred. You have to support it with every fiber of your being or you’re a terrorist. After planing my whole life to move to the West I’m now genuinely scared I’ll be jailed for thought crime if it keeps getting crazier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am the one who's aware of my own identity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought about that as I was writing but it would be a little contrived to a general audience, maybe.

  I’ve commented about this link before. The gym bro thing is what made me wrap my mind around some things myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am the one who's aware of my own identity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly that could actually be interesting. Would probably be able to discuss some nuances and make the mainstream a bit more comfortable with some currently uncomfortable conversations. People can remember complicated things if they’re invested in the narrative.

  I’m a cis-het potato. If any of this sounds insensitive, I can fix it:

  Guy who doesn’t meet the stereotype of a “drug guy” has to cook up drugs to make ends meet. <Narrative device> makes him start making <common drug> for <uncontroversial illness>, which turns out to also be used by <some queer people> for <hormoney things>. At first he sees them as nothing more than the users he was profiting from in an hour of desperation, people who twist their sad lives around acquiring and consuming a substance, but over time as he gets further down this path he begins to understand them in a way that he (and most people) has never had to. “Upstanding-man-who-is-a-secret-chemical-man ally” can go in so many directions.

  With all its many many faults, I remember seeing Dallas Buyers Club as a judgmental kid, and it was successfully able to split “queer identity” from “sexual perversion” for me. I think this understanding was beginning to spread before a tipping point in the past decade. Personally I think people saw a lot of (Western) companies really go all in on rainbow marketing, going directly from “queer identities exist” to “these are being celebrated openly” without the critical middle “this isn’t a sex thing”.

  If you think it’s bad in the US or Europe (and it’s not always great, it’s not a competition) let me assure you the heightened negative attention has also made people who were able to be themselves under the radar here in the Middle East face more bullshit. The average person around me has gone from “This person gives me the ick but it has no effect on my life really, just stay away from me and my kids, it’s between them and God” to “This person should be fixed immediately before they shove their perversion down everyone’s throats.” The former is abysmal, but at that point they weren’t really seen as an active, growing threat. Unfortunately it’s not just “this isn’t a sex thing” that’s missing here, historically most people have thought “queer” = “perversion” = “pedophilia”, and this was fading slowly before being supercharged by all this torrent of negative attention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game is it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One day I’ll get around to playing Nomifactory CE. I’ve somehow played the base one twice over the past five years.

  I’ve been so alienated from friends playing the most popular game on the planet in multiplayer because I can’t play Vanilla for shit. Not since 1.2.5 probably.

  I’ll play no Minecraft for two years and then immediately nolife a modpack for two months.

  Good shit. The best value game I have ever bought, no question about it.

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

  I’ve always been curious about this stuff and I know I need to make some effort soon, ever since we moved our home recordings from VHS to DVD some 15-20 years ago.

  My understanding is that SSDs are also likely to lose data when unpowered for a long time, which is why they haven’t been recommended to me for external backup drives.

  “Spinning rust” is much cheaper than I thought, even if I have to pay 200$ in shipping to get a bunch of massive used server drives here. And it seems to not have that problem, with the downside of either needing to be completely powered off or wasting a bit of power when it’s not active. I’m still not sure where the HDD parking technology is at.

  Of course ripping all the physical media would also be nice. A lot of the original discs I have (most of my discs are straight shitty copies with one file, yay third world) have things like special features and multiple audio tracks, things like that. I wonder how those should be organized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a less stinky way to cook broccoli?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve also wondered if there’s varieties. Maybe where I live, they’re different tasting and smelling? Broccoli has only ever been one of the vegetables to me. Nothing repulsive (or even noteworthy).

  Even as a kid it was weird to see cartoon characters complain about specifically broccoli while I literally munched it while watching.

  Now when it spoils, yes, it can get a little sulfury, as can cauliflower, its cousin. But fresh broccoli?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They haven't made too many family-friendly cartoons about an abusive husband in a toxic relationship since they stopped making The Flintstones.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Flintstones was originally an adult-oriented cartoon, and became seen as family friendly as time went on and more things became available on TV.

  Its role was closer to the Simpsons when that was new, which also became more acceptable for younger people to watch over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help the homeless, go to jail: Fremont passes hard-line law criminalizing encampments⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I threw my fuzzy dice on the floor and 5 donuts is the absolute maximum donuts I’m allowed to eat today. Anything beyond that would just be unhealthy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub - Keriew/augustus: An open source re-implementation of Caesar III⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would love to browse a list of games like this. I know there’s a FOSS game list but it’s not exactly easy to browse. No thumbnails or descriptions or tags or anything.

  My eventual favorite game of all time could be in this list and I wouldn’t know how to find it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never even looked at it that way. I’ve always thought of it as something managers would find to be an ultimate value add.

  They overestimate how impressive their chatbots are and assume they can charge everyone a pretty penny for it. The massive costs are just a means to this end.

  That’s how it’s always looked to me anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me at CES today⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding of the tech is that there are virtually no scenarios where having the 3D cache on the second CCD would actually help right now, unless I’ve got something wrong? Like even applications with enough threads to saturate the 3D CCD couldn’t possibly need that many threads that that

  Unless you’re running multiple high-thread-count programs that benefit from the lower latency, and I don’t know what a realistic scenario for that would be. Some kind of multi-user scenario.

  Granted I would have liked to see identical CCDs. I’m sure asymmetry is something they’ve figured out by now, but for the $$$ they’re asking for, a few extra overkill headroom can’t be a ridiculous ask.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Longtime buddy of mine just got a gaming PC. What games would make up a good "welcome to PC" care package?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The souls games weren’t on sale, but I’ve passed the message along about the mods. I think he’s taking a break after pushing those games to the absolute limit but I’m glad something like that exists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Longtime buddy of mine just got a gaming PC. What games would make up a good "welcome to PC" care package?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Avant-garde is my jam, it’s just hard to convince people who aren’t into that kind of game to play. I love the Cosmo D games, for example, but I know most of my friends wouldn’t enjoy them if I recommended them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Longtime buddy of mine just got a gaming PC. What games would make up a good "welcome to PC" care package?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately he’s never been able to get into Outer Wilds despite it being one of my favorite games that I always shill. I’ll still push for him to play it.