farmgineer
@farmgineer@nord.pub
Software engineer and farmer living in rural Japan
- Comment on Wolfenstein 3 and new id Software game confirmed, as Xbox boss somehow unrelatedly shouts about one person soon wieldling "capabilities that once required entire nations" 1 day ago:
Wellp, looks like more studios go on the “do not buy from these people” list if it indeed is genAI.
- Comment on For those who use different usernames on different services, what is your system for naming them? 3 days ago:
Nice try!
- Comment on What are your pain points of using Piefed software? 5 days ago:
Images on PC will zoom into one spot when expanded and can’t be moved (firefox). It seems to be better on mobile firefox. Some images do work, so I’m not sure what the deal is exactly.
- Comment on Thrift shop find 2 weeks ago:
Does anything still broadcast to the frequencies it listens to? I don’t know which services are still around or where these days.
- Comment on Can the fascist horrors just be over already? 5 weeks ago:
Stop consuming anything unnecessary. Consume as much as possible from local, mom-and-pop stores where they still exist for your necessaries. General strike.
Until people start hurting the wallets and production of the elites, ANGH.
- Comment on When did Windows start going downhill? 5 weeks ago:
Being old enough to remember Windows not being common, it’s always been a mixed bag. It was interesting to see the transition from windows being a thing you sometimes invoked from the commandline to being the thing into which the computer booted. Gamers and others of course had opinions on all those system resources getting used when they weren’t even needed.
’98 was stable after some big patches for the most part. XP was really the move to make after that. I used to work tech support and had to learn and support all of the various flavors before XP. I’ve used XP onward moving as support gets dropped for the previous one, though one of my PCs runs only linux. If davinci would kindly be stable on linux, I would probably switch, maybe keeping windows around for any games I might really want to play.
- Comment on Oh they got me 1 month ago:
If there’s nothing else in the pantry, boil the noodles and serve with tuna. Separately make the jello for dessert. If you have other things, do that but make a sauce for the noodles as well.
- Comment on Japan Has No Space for Solar Farms Apart From Old Golf Courses 1 month ago:
There’s space. There is tons of agricultural-zoned land (and probably sanrin-zoned (literally montainforest; I don’t know what it would be in English… forestry maybe) as well) that is completely neglected. Indeed several farms near me now have solar on some or all. I haven’t personally seen any agrivoltaics with vertical panels yet which could be another option. My local has tons of farms for sale/rent that could be used since no one’s buying.
Additionally, there are plenty of areas that are monoculture cedar forests planted for lumber. I don’t buy “there’s no room”. I am, of course, glad to get rid of old eyesores and golf courses.
- Comment on I'm down with this 2 months ago:
You can keep the IMs. I would like MP3s, though. A library could have a computer that can be booked for research purposes.
I’m debating over on-demand video and better TVs. Maybe a compromise would be the community decides its own broadcast schedule so it’s not as instant but still allows some modern media.
- Comment on Archaeologists find 7,000-year-old headless skeletons in Slovakia 5 months ago:
Now the hunt is on for skeletonless heads!
- Comment on Email ownership, I give up. 5 months ago:
I used to run my own mailserver, but I haven’t in years now since it was so much of a pain. Not even the set-up part; that wasn’t the worst thing in the world. It’s uptime, back-ups, and other considerations that just require time and money I don’t have.
- Comment on Relatable 5 months ago:
Chaucer?! That hack? You young upstarts haven’t even read Gower, I bet.