neidu3
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- Comment on Can you read and understand this passage? 23 hours ago:
Yes, but it’s really cumbersome to us foreigners.
- Comment on What's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything? 1 day ago:
Norway
- Comment on What's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything? 1 day ago:
Our royal family is mostly into sailing, I choose t9 believe that’s why we don’t have the same issue.
- Comment on What's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything? 1 day ago:
As a noggie, this resonates with me. My ideology is in line with nobody being more important from the Birthe lottery than anyone else. But my pragmatic side says that there are no pressing concerns that justify such a drastic change as abolishing the royal family.
They don’t cost that much, our regent is alright, and his heir apparent is pretty alright too. Might as well keep them around as a unifying symbol and as primary diplomats.
Plus, I have to admit that I like the concept of a lhaving an apolitical person with veto powers, in case some shithead starts something silly. I just hope said veto powers are used if needed.
Source: Met them both when I was in the army roughly 1.3 lifet8mes ago.
- Comment on What's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything? 1 day ago:
I’m intrigued. Which country?
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Ad an aside, I was surprised to see that when I wrote chatgpt a sentence written in an obscure (mine) norwegian dialect, peppered with slang and nonstandard contractions, chatgpt actually understood me very well. It seems LLMs are really good at checking possible root words and their origins to infer meaning when it’s not recognizing the word.
For example, I wrote “veitkji”, which is a contractions of “veit ikkji”, which is normally written “vet ikke”. However, cgpt correctly interpreted it as "some scandinavian non-standard dialect for “don’t know” "
- Comment on Is it normal for people to ask where you are from online? 1 day ago:
The two main bots in my IRC bot network were named Man14 and Girl41
- Comment on Trump to remove all US sanctions against Syria 1 day ago:
I… actually agree with him on this. For Syria to become politically stable, its economy needs to improve, and it is currently in shambles.
While it remains to be seen whether the new leadership can improve the country, at least allowing foreign investments gives them a fighting chance. - Comment on Ye song glorifying Hitler gets millions of views on X while other platforms struggle to remove it 4 days ago:
For once I think it’s causation and not corelation.
- Comment on 3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup? 5 days ago:
A huge tape archive in a mountain. It’s pretty standard for geophysical data.
- Comment on What is your favorite retro wargame? 6 days ago:
O was having a blast playing through Combined Arms recently. It’s a mod to OpenRA which provides a story an campaign that involves factions from all C&C and RA games, including the Scrin.
And best of all: Since it’s based on OpenRA it’s completely free.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
I did. I might fall back on that.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
I realized last night that despite being very fond if RTS games, Ashes of the Singularity simply isn’t for me. So I’m trying out AoE4 tonight, hopefully that’ll scratch my itch.
- Comment on When you count, your lips don't touch until 1 million. 2 weeks ago:
Ja
- Comment on When you count, your lips don't touch until 1 million. 2 weeks ago:
I only have to count to 5
- Comment on As a child of the 90s we grew up with PC Political Correctness. Is that WOKE but just in a different form? 2 weeks ago:
They’re related but not the same. Political correctness is about taking steps not to offend anyone. Wokeism is more about acknowledging societal issues and lack of inclusivity.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Short answer: 1000 came before 500.
Correct answer: An Amiga (don’t recall the name) was released at some point, and Amiga decided to make a cheaper alternative. This cheaper alternative was the 500, and the older model was retroactively renamed 1000.
- Comment on Why does it seem like everyone is so good looking and beautiful nowadays? 2 weeks ago:
Is this the opposite of “come at me bro” ?
- Comment on Linux help and actual pros and cons 3 weeks ago:
I generally recommend linux mint for beginners, mostly because it’s pretty great at working out of the box, and it pretty general purpose.
- Comment on How do some communities get like 50 members minutes after its creation? 3 weeks ago:
Yup, pretty much. I’ll lazypaste the response an instance admin made after I asked a similar question recently:
Probably the community follower bot which several instances subscribe to. It’s a way of automating new communities discovery
- Comment on I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game 3 weeks ago:
Ksp2 was severely botched by Take2… but if you’re into the genre you might want to check out Juno. In addition you might want to keep an eye out for KSA currently in early stages of development.
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 3 weeks ago:
Mysterious and important, I assume?
- Comment on Can I self host a VPN that sneakies through the China firewall? 3 weeks ago:
Yes. China’s great firewall mostly handles content filtering and deals with low hanging fruit. Getting around it is fairly simple, and the censorship is mostly focused on stuff that would otherwise be easily accessible.
VPN is your obvious choice here. CCP blocks most public VPN providers, so you’d have to roll your own.
You can set up a VPN concentrator somewhere in the world, and you would be able to reach it. As far as I’ve noticed, they don’t block VPN as a whole, and default port should work fine - the reason for this is probably that VPN has many commercial uses that they don’t want to harm.
Source: I run a (work-related) VPN accessible from inside china.
- Comment on I cannot hook an ethernet cable to a router because the router is using all the plugs. What is a backup to make a Lemmy instance with Yunohost? If there’s no other way, what else can I use? 3 weeks ago:
I recommend looking at businesses that are closing moving or upgrading. I have a literal stack of old switches retired from work. 48 ports, gigabit, and free.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 4 weeks ago:
Whichever method is approved by RFK Jr.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 4 weeks ago:
Contracting silicosis to own the libs. Then use some sort of donkey enema as a cure.
- Comment on Given how paintball guns work, could you swap paintballs for a waterballs? 4 weeks ago:
Freeze some water into suitably sized balls. I guess that technically fits the design spec.
- Comment on What are the best options for computers that explicitly support linux operating systems? 4 weeks ago:
Bought a brand new Lenovo Legion last fall. First thing I did was to nuke the harddrive and install linux Mint. Everything worked out of the box.
- Comment on Kitten Space Agency - A community for/about the game by the same name that aims to be the spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program 4 weeks ago:
Fair enough. I don’t share in your pessimism, though - They are well aware that many KSP fans are jaded by Take2 murdering the potential for a sequel, so they’re focusing on creating something viable before marketing. And I’ve seen the other games they’ve made - They seem to know what they’re doing, and with HarvesteR onboard (who actively participated in the previous townhall, so it’s not just for bragging rights) they seem to have quite a decent team put together.
- Comment on Kitten Space Agency - A community for/about the game by the same name that aims to be the spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program 4 weeks ago:
Well, this early in the process, trying to pick up what you can is really the only thing you can do. But I’m trying to condense as much confirmed info as I can in the “what we know so far” post.
As for steam, the distribution system is far from set in stone, other than them really wanting to avoid integrating the steam API in the game itself with the limitations this involves. It’s still possible it will be downloadable via steam, though. We’ll just have to wait and see.