WolfLink

@WolfLink@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petrichor⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There absolutely are petrichor scented things

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any tips for setting up a Mac? A 15+ years Linux user needs help⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll feel right at home in the command line. Install Homebrew or MacPorts. These are command line package managers. Many if not most of the software tools you are used to on Linux likely have Mac ports as well and you can find them either online or via one of those package managers.

  If you are going to download software from Apple’s Apple Store, you will need to make an account. You can install software directly from the internet without needing an account. You might need to tweak some “security settings” in System Preferences to run software not from the App Store.

  Unfortunately Xcode is something you need an Apple account to install. However, the Xcode “command line tools”, which includes a lot of common tools like gcc, I believe you can install by running “xcode-select --install” from the command line even without an account. There might also be other ways to get those tools installed manually / not through Apple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite 1000+ hour games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Minecraft FTL Destiny 2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG’s first 480Hz OLED gaming monitor is $1,000⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t run most games much above 100Hz with a 3090.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA President term limits⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or the Supreme Court makes something up about why it doesn’t count

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in the saddle.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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  Here’s my attempt! (Actually this is a rudimentary 8-bit processor, minus a few pieces).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spite⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The paper has at least 35 other sources it is citing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk 2077 released in December 2020. Almost 4 years later, what is your opinion on it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My theory with a lot of these games that “released badly and then come back” is everyone who disliked the game stopped playing and everyone who liked it kept playing so the crowd playing years later had a positive opinion of it through self selection more than anything the devs did.

  I personally liked both Cyberpunk 2077 and No Man’s Sky on release, and while they are better now, I don’t see the night-and-day difference the internet would make you think happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨your mom falls significantly faster than g⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  10% if

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s the paper no one read before declaring the demise of modern cryptography⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Error correction does fix that problem but at the cost of increasing the number of qubits needed by a factor of 10x to 100x or so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I started on lemmy.ml because I thought it was “the default one” to some extent. Learned that was a mistake pretty fast. Glad I found this one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Their trackpad can and does work via USB so ???

  I have one of their trackpads and it works great with Ubuntu over USB but not over Bluetooth for some reason. (It connects, but Ubuntu doesn’t handle it well.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some folks insist they'll only listen to their doctors?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t believe everything on the internet is a lie (although of course I don’t believe everything on the internet is true either). You have to read it and judge for yourself.

  In the case of getting medical advice, there is an inherent bias to finding anecdotes on the internet. The people who post are going to be the people who have something to say. That’s going to be either people who had a life changing positive experience, or who have something to complain about. The middle-ground experience is underrepresented.

  However, there is value in anecdotes. The doctor can tell you high likely a given side effect might be, but people on the internet might have a better description of what that experience is like.

  I try to take in as much information as I can when I am making an informed decision, including things like asking my doctor, finding anecdotes on the internet, and finding actual scientific papers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there ever a situation where a doctor can legally refuse to render aid to someone?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In a disaster situation they have to decide who does or doesn’t get treatment:

  www.mayoclinic.org/…/mac-20512735

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It comes full circle because the proposed solution is to increase the number of people who are able to work, with the idea that those people will take on more jobs, and those jobs will fund pensions.

  I think this is a bad idea because we already have more workers than useful jobs. An increase in the population wont really help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your response was

  It’s not about necessary jobs, it’s about paying into social security / pensions.

  In my answer those are two topics that are not directly related, although they are linked by both having to do with the economy.

  Hence I gave responses to both topics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the jobs aren’t necessary, then surely there’s a way to organize society without those jobs existing.

  This is the fundamental argument behind universal basic income.

  As to the question of how to fund stuff like pensions or UBI without everyone working, the answer is simply to tax those who are working more, especially those making huge amounts of money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We already have far more people than necessary jobs. One person with modern trchnology can produce way, way more than one person could even just a century ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After six years of hardware ray tracing, the best examples of it are modified old games, like Quake and Minecraft.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A couple newer games have raytracing that genuinely adds detail but it’s pretty subtle and you have to look for it. Cyberpunk 2077 is a good example.

  Portal and Minecraft are particularly good examples of raytracing because of how their sandbox aspects let you play with it.

  There absolutely is a factor that modern graphics are so even without ray tracing is doesn’t add a whole lot. I still think Destiny 2 is one of the best looking games I’ve played and it uses fairly “old” graphics technology. The reason it looks good is their artists do a good job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To add to how scary prions are, you can’t really cure them, and when the prions get on a surface, it’s extremely difficult to sanitize that surface in a way that will destroy the prions. A lot of techniques that kill bacteria or even viruses like alcohol won’t work on them. Heat works but you have to make it extremely hot, much hotter than what’s needed to kill something like a bacteria.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A VPN helps

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo 64 "Reimagining" Analogue 3D Delayed to 2025, First Look Revealed | Tech Raptor⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They use filters to mimic the appearance of a CRT. This can make games that were designed for a CRT look significantly better than rendering them directly for modern LCD displays.

  Some examples from a quick search:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Team Disbanded After Critically Lauded Platformer Fails to Meet Expectations - Report⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All (or at least the vast majority) of Ubisoft’s Steam releases require installing and using Ubisoft’s launcher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All-optical switch device paves way for faster fiber-optic communication⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When Comcast’s monopoly is broken up by the government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why won't this slice?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s how I would do this in blender:

  1. Import the stl
  2. edit the default cube so it overlaps the part of the stl you want to delete
  3. add a “boolean” modifier to the stl that is set to “subtract” the cube
  4. apply modifier
  5. export as stl
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should you trust that doctor?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He learned to magic because he thought it would let him fix his hands. Instead he learned the guy who he thought fixed his legs with magic just uses magic to control his non-functional legs.

  So he probably could do surgery but he’d probably magically control the needle instead of holding it or something. Maybe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Science or some other arcane wizardry PCM⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wdym “quarks centralize mass to one point” they are beholden to the probability clouds of quantum mechanics just as much as any other subatomic particle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive generational gap: Gen Z flocks to multiplayer, while 55+ sticks to single-player⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Co-op > singer player >>>>>>>>>> pvp

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO edge coming pre-installed isn’t a big deal. But I’d like to be able to uninstall edge and not have Windows periodically try to trick me into setting edge as my default browser again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop killing games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It needs a movement to get more signature. If you believe in it and are in Europe, go encourage your friends to vote. Gather some friends and make signs. Buy ads.