ArsonButCute
@ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 7 minutes ago:
Corporate suicide is so fun to watch when you’re not stuck using their products.
- Comment on xkcd #3167: Car Size 23 hours ago:
While you do not need software devs for a button, once you have enough buttons doing enough things controlling them with a computer becomes much easier than controlling them using mechanical analog circuitry. This is the whole reason for SBCs like the Arduino, so people can make the transitionary step between “my project is simple enough to have physical logic built into it” and “my project is so complex it no longer makes sense for me to hand build the logic”
If you haven’t messed with physical logic gates before, I recommend it! If you don’t have a physical workspace to do it in, Minecraft actually Makes a ‘great’ sandbox for playing with logic circuits. Superflat Creative worlds are the bomb for that.
Start with a simple yes gate, then learn a not gate, then an And, then an Or, and build up from there!
You’ll find very quickly that once you need persistence involved, projects with physical logic can scale massively with each additional bit of storage added. Doing something with that storage? Good luck! As a result, nowadays we pay someone for a tiny computer they already made, and program it to make our buttons do stuff, instead of just having the buttons do stuff directly.
- Comment on xkcd #3167: Car Size 1 day ago:
I had no idea, I’ll have a to keep an eye out for those 👀
- Comment on xkcd #3167: Car Size 1 day ago:
If I could have a Fully electric mid 90s chevy S10 style pickup with modern safety features and no surveillance I would be sooooo happy. But no, if I want a truck I can buy old as fuck or get a wanktank. Closest option to what I want in the US currently is a Ford Maverick (which is literally just a rebadged explorer sport trac for the modern age) but that would mean supporting Ford, and like, fuck Ford.
- Comment on Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping 2 days ago:
I imagine this would be discouraged for corporate entities. Corps shouldn’t freeload.
- Comment on Gamepad for Linux Gaming? 3 days ago:
Re: xbox
You need drivers for it.
wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamepad#Xbox_Wireless_Co…
While the package names and how to install them will be different since you’re on mint, this section in the Arch wiki discusses your options for Xbox controllers.
- Comment on Gamepad for Linux Gaming? 3 days ago:
Xone is the one I’ve needed instead of xpadneo to get the xbox wired headset working with them.
- Comment on Gamepad for Linux Gaming? 3 days ago:
If you like Offset sticks, the Xbox elite series controllers are phenomenal, it will require additional drivers.
I prefer my sticks aligned, so I usually use my custom DS4 from scuf.
Sometimes I like my stadia controller, it just feels nice in the hands.
I hate the switch pro Controller, it feels… Off somehow.
For retro gaming I use an OG Xbox controller (custom USB bodge job) or my 8bitdo sn30pro+ while I like the 8bitdo, its bluetooth is Unreliable so I recommend using a cable.
- Comment on turing completeness 3 days ago:
I read recently they’re all tuned to give you almost perfect matches with people you’ll vibe with for a few dates then end up back on the app
- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 1 week ago:
So well seasoned cast iron IS non stick
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 1 week ago:
Just an aside, you can make Alkaline lemon water.
It do it:
- Peel a lemon using a vegetable peeler
- Squeeze the bits of peel (pith side up) into a glass or bottle. This allows you to express the oils from the peel.
- Add your Alkaline water to the Glass, the oils will rise to the top, some of it (very little as oils are hydrophobic) will mix with the water, giving it a lemon flavor similar to lacroix.
- Comment on What 1 week ago:
My GG-Grandpappy from Hungary (was it Austria-Hungary when he left?) did the same thing. I only ever met him once before he passed but I distinctly remember not understanding a word he said unless he was cursing.
- Comment on If video games actually determined our real world behavior, we wouldn't be violent we would be obsessed with powerwashing and all have CDLs. 1 week ago:
I guess I’m an immortal autocrat with foresight and pattern recognition good enough to be the global economy by the 16th century.
I play too much 4x.
- Comment on It really is heart warming when grandkids teach their grandparents how to use the internet 1 week ago:
Depends on your instance, I’m on dbzer0 and there’s no porn here. Defederated from all the nsfw instances.
- Comment on Don't try to stop me 1 week ago:
Compare: Both are fruit, both are roughly round, both have stems.
Contrast: The one on the left is redder and less shiny than the on the right. The stem on the right is green and less woody than the one on the left fruit.
Additional research necessary, consider vivisecting the fruits to see how their internals compare and contrast.
- Comment on Don't try to stop me 1 week ago:
Oranges have a thing wax-like outer layer. Apples have it too but its duller.
- Comment on PC Master Race 2 weeks ago:
I went for a lower end GPU from the previous generation at the time, a GTX 1650 the types of game I was playing at the time accomadated that decision.
- Comment on PC Master Race 2 weeks ago:
I’ll chime in:
Since purchase at $1200 for a custom build in 2020, I’ve spent $500 upgrading storage and my video card for my PC. It can push most modern games at 80fps with ray tracing on low and all other settings on high. Leveraging frame-gen it can do 2k120.
It also holds about 5TB of music and movies, and hosts them on a server which I can access anywhere via a URL pointed to my tunnel.
It also has a DAW, an IDE, and a Nextcloud instance, also accessable anywhere.
$1700 in for total liberation from the tech overlords is worth it. The 500+ games in the steam family library are just a bonus.
- Comment on Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old?? 2 weeks ago:
Awesome!
If you’re still looking for advice, another good piece I try to Employ is:
Always be working towards something, even if that something is just relaxation. Live with intention, because time unaccounted is time lost.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 2 weeks ago:
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Its 16, not 20, the earliest version “Cave Game Tech Test” was in May 2009.
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They’re still actively pushing updates, a really big one is scheduled for the holiday season. Additional biomes and mini-bosses were added last year with structures hinting at development plans for a 4th dimension. The lighting engine is being actively redone.
Minecraft is absolutely not gearing down into abandonware mode.
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- Comment on Black widow life 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies 2 weeks ago:
To many, something like that does look like self defense right about now. Unfortunately the situation appears quite dire from within, I’m afraid someone will do something and make things worse with martyrization. I can’t say I won’t celebrate when I hear the news that his McDonalds encrusted veins couldn’t do the job anymore and he keeled over in the night (because I’m almost certain that’s how its going to happen)
- Comment on I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies 2 weeks ago:
Is it not cause to celebrate that the figurehead of one’s source of ire is eliminated?
Like, let’s pretend for a moment he isn’t human, not because he’s a disgusting vampire but because for this analogy he can’t be.
So like, let’s pretend for a moment that 10 years ago a robot, who’s programming is visible to the whole public, was elected to office. That robot has one goal, increase the GDP. Nevermind that GDP is a bad metric, nevermind that no intelligent programmer would design such a machine this machine was not borne of intelligence, it was borne of the desire to raise the GDP.
Ok, so President Robot decides the very first thing we need to do to raise the GDP, is start deporting anyone that doesn’t look like president Robot’s programmed self image, something like this 🎃. If your smile isn’t creepy enough, and you don’t have enough ridges on your head, president robot says you’re up next for deportation. Nevermind that you’ve been here your whole life, nevermind that your parent’s came here 40 years ago. You don’t have ridges and a creepy smile, get on the plane. Dont like it? Ok protest.
So, its been 8 years, president Robot’s team of robots managed to change the metrics by which it is determined who becomes the next leader. This was of course, done quietly and accross many places. President Robot’s team is thorough of course, and has managed to make the new minimum threshold to take office only around 45%, that’s WAY less than what they needed before. So now, president Robot can be re-elected using only the robots made to keep president robot in power instead of needing real people who need to be convinced because they have “needs” and “families” and “rent to pay”.
So when president robot suddenly, after years of the whole country saying “You’re neglecting president Robot’s maintenance” finally seizes up and can’t pump oil through it’s clogged cooling and lubrication system, I’m sure people will celebrate. NOT because the Robot is dead. NOT because they hate the robot. But because the Robot can’t hurt them anymore.
- Comment on snail lyfe 2 weeks ago:
Lots, but not all, of snails are hermaphroditic.
- Comment on 16-inch laptop with Blu-ray drive, USB 4 and AMD Ryzen 7: Fujitsu FMV Note A launches 2 weeks ago:
Then my comment wasn’t for you 😊
- Comment on 16-inch laptop with Blu-ray drive, USB 4 and AMD Ryzen 7: Fujitsu FMV Note A launches 3 weeks ago:
You should read the EULAs you sign when you Buy digital media.
If it isn’t on a physical device that someone can’t take away, you don’t own it, and even then you still have DRM in the way of you and the data you bought and paid for. That’s why game consoles are being sold without disc trays, and why services like game pass are being pushed so hard. The writing has been on the wall for years, and ubisoft’s director even said it out loud.
Emulation from backup file still requires somebody rip the game, and if you download that you’re stuck in a legal gray area, even if you own a physical copy of the game. For some, that’s a dealbreaker.
- Comment on 16-inch laptop with Blu-ray drive, USB 4 and AMD Ryzen 7: Fujitsu FMV Note A launches 3 weeks ago:
Retro gaming and media rips.
You can literally pop a ps2 game and just play with pcsx2, don’t even have to rip it. Given the recent pushes towards “you’ll own nothing and fuck you if you don’t like it” it isn’t surprising to me that a company is offering a path back to media ownership.
Based on the specs for the machine, that’s the goal as well. I wouldn’t consider a 16 GB kit sufficient for much else than a media/web machine anymore, and that’s the default on the advertised rig
- Comment on If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything 3 weeks ago:
Amazon essentially killed local boilstones and then used the proceeds to become a massive megaconglomerate only challangeable by alphabet, apple, and meta in their sheer capability to control media flow.
They have spies in the form of Alexa enabled IOT devices basically everywhere. They also have the Ring camera. Recently they have stayed they will share data from Ring cameras with Palantir.
Amazon is insidious. Its evil is quiet in its spread.
The sheer size of Amazon, along with their business model, means they must employ vast swaths of people. In the US alone, over 1M people are employed by Amazon. Amazon plans to lay off half of them in the next 8 years while they shift to a robotic workforce.
These “too big to fail” companies are not evil out of some malaise for humanity. They are evil out of a cavalier disinterest in anything other than increasing the size of their hoards.
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 3 weeks ago:
Same.
I think my school might have had a mirror of their d2l brightspace instance though because it miraculously was still up, but taking multiple minutes to load pages
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Use it or lose it. My partner and I are 5 and 3 years on E respectively and both have no issue with that particular function.