HexesofVexes
@HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
Why, a hexvex of course!
- Comment on Ofcom announces new rules to keep children safe online 18 hours ago:
Ah yes, surveillance laws surrounded by references to CSAM to lock it in.
Ultimate way to protect your children from online harm - learn how to use a computer and actually keep an eye on them!
- Comment on Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification 1 week ago:
Sounds like an excuse to move my community elsewhere!
- Comment on WTF is the teacher doing 2 weeks ago:
That is not how you wake a sleeping student.
You do it by putting a sheet of complex questions in front of them, and then loudly saying “you may now turn your papers over, you have 1 hour to complete the exam”.
Jokes aside, if a student is sleeping in class, you probably want to have a word with the DSL to check up on them after class. Students only sleep if they’re exhausted or you’re really crap at teaching - get one of their mates to wake them quietly without drawing too much attention.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the feedback - currently weighing up disros (was thinking mint, but a few folks have praised fedora KDE based distros now).
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
How are you finding it?
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
So, oddly enough, I’m not a complete novice. My background is mostly just lubuntu, puppy, mint and a bit of debian. I’ve shifted away from Ubuntu after the pro service ads in terminal, and the absolute fucking nightmare that is snap.
I’ve done my time in “oh shit I fucked up Linux again” purgatory, and it’s my daily driver for work. Terminal is a place I’m generally ok with; I know enough to find my way around and fix things as needed.
My issue is I’ve never really run dedicated graphics from a Linux distro, and because of the continual updates and proprietary elements I worry about keeping up. I don’t mind breaking things, it comes with the territory.
That said, bazzite sounds interesting - especially the optimisation. The guides on the main page also alerted me to something I’d not considered - going to have to redo my filesystem on every drive. Thanks for the idea of an alt distro, will dig into this a bit more - if it’s built in fedora I might have a bit of a learning curve (never used it as a distro).
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
So, in the case of my aunt, there were a few teething troubles. That said, a lot of it was just requests to add web page shortcuts to her desktop.
The really big thing is that she’s stopped complaining about how slow her laptop is, and openly says she finds it easier to use.
Most of the troubleshooting is going to be around office software and games. It’s also going to be about replacing windows tools (I am really going to miss my “.bat cave”), and learning new troubleshooting skills (wine is a bit rough to troubleshoot unless you’re willing to get your mining gear out and dig deep into logs).
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the tips!
Lutris I’ve used with some success, and I’m somewhat ok with wine when it works out if the box (or troubleshooting using the wine wiki).
Do you recommend any other sites/guides for troubleshooting?
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
It’s going to be purchase a new hard drive and then jump to Linux Mint this August.
It’s not an experience I am looking forward to (5080S, I do a lot of modding, and enjoy fangames/indie games which do not always play nice with linux) but needs must - the Linux community in general is very friendly, so we’ll get through it, even if the first 6 months are rough. I’ll keep the dual boot and push the windows partition to 11 if needed by work, that way I can put off rewriting my elderly access database for another few years.
Honestly, Microsoft are committing suicide when it comes to home users. It won’t be sudden, but the wheels are turning, all the IT savvy folks are switching people over (already did my aunt’s potato, mum’s demi-tato is next week). Eventually, a tipping point will be reached and offices will start switching - I hope that day comes before I die of old age!
- Comment on Whose bright idea was it to give the morning people enough power to set the "business hours" anyways‽ 1 month ago:
Ah the eternal war of the dawnies and the duskies…
I think a lot of the issue is that it’s possible to shift to a 24 hour economy with morning and night shifts, but (like remote working pre-covid) we hear a lot of “it’s not possible”.
- Comment on Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery 1 month ago:
Had to be done. It’s just too damn close not to.
- Comment on Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery 1 month ago:
“Treatment request rejected, insufficient TC level”
- Comment on First Porn, Now Skin Cream? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out of Control. 1 month ago:
One of the experiences I will never forget was “teaching” an ICT class about 2 decades ago (I was a TA who got left to cover a class - good times).
The older ones of you will remember the trick (many of us used it for playing flash games like adventure quest!) - have two browser windows open, minimise the one with the thing you were not supposed to be doing on it when the teacher comes around - no evidence right?
These kids were doing the same thing - I swear I’ve never seen so much porn in my entire life. Oh and yes, a lot of it involved Japanese animation. This was on a network with parental controls enabled by the way, because it didn’t block those sites.
Here’s the thing - and we all know it, no matter what measures you put in place kids will find away around it. More crudely put “If little Timmy wants titties, Timmy going to move heaven and earth to find them”.
They’ll sneak a parental passport at 3am when you’re sleeping, or just VPN on in, or even invest in a fake ID. Nothing you do is going to stop that; you have to sleep some time, you have a lot of goals, they can stay up all night, and they only have one.
Catching your kids with porn and dealing with it is a game of whack-a-mole every parent has to play, and honestly it’s one they need to play. It’s about having those difficult talks and saying “it’s ok to want to look as long as you realise it isn’t real”.
Mass surveillance isn’t the way - if I were a government hostile to the USA (and soon the UK), I’d be working on making the best free porn site ever made. Think of all the free documents and credentials, think of all the blackmail material, think of all the harm that could be inflicted.
Admittedly, skin cream is likely to face less of a rabid drive from kids, and isn’t something you’d blackmail over. Then again, maybe little Timmy needs some lotion, or maybe president Puta wants to use my girlfriend’s skin lotion addiction to compel me to spy for Russia?
- Comment on Dagoth Ur 1 month ago:
It’s the “come to me through fire and war” that worries me more.
- Comment on Dagoth Ur 1 month ago:
Trump dressed as Dagoth Ur saying “come Muskar” popped into my mind prompting me to throw up in my mouth a little.
- Comment on It's going 1 month ago:
Have you considered upgrading to…
- Comment on US joins Russia to vote against UN resolution condemning Russia for Ukraine war 1 month ago:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…/c7435pnle0go.amp
Second source
It looks like the US is now backing a historically inaccurate narrative. Not exactly unusual, but particularly egregious in this case.
- Comment on Gamers go offline in retro console revival | The Guardian 2 months ago:
Early games were designed to delight, slightly more modern games are designed to both delight and advertise.
It’s the difference between “I can’t beat this boss so I’d better go level up for 20 mins, ooh I unlocked a new spell” and “I can’t beat this boss I had better prep for a 10 hour grind, this is so I can find the X to craft the Y so I can begin to make the Z which offers me a 1 in 10 chance to unlock the option to craft a new spell… Or I could just pay $5 to skip that bit by buying the spell…”
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 2 months ago:
Hi ho, hi ho, it’s back t’sea we go. We’ll wave our flag and loot some swag…
- Comment on Can I lose a beer belly working out one day a week? 2 months ago:
There’s a really good video on this - www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSSkDos2hzo
Adding a little exercise to your life is rarely a bad thing, but to shift fat diet change is the big one.
Here’s one that will have a steady impact - drink an extra glass of water with each meal (helps you feel full for longer), and invest in an apple corer (for easy apple snacks) - aim for an apple a day. It’s helping me slowly lose body fat by reducing caloric intake.
- Comment on There is no time for self care. Always go, never no. 2 months ago:
3 teas no lunch is even better - especially if you brew your tea to the consistency of tar…
- Comment on Are mods usually confusing as hell or am I just an idiot? 2 months ago:
For every mod you add, complexity usually increases exponentially.
Depending on the game, difficulty also varies: modding stardew valley is joy (117 mods in a pack, easy afternoon sipping tea), modding skyrim less so (oh god,these two amazing mods tweak the same tree, time to go patch hunting, 2 weeks later you play it only to spot obscure graphical glitches, all hail wabbajack automation!), trying to make a working multiplayer mod pack for rimworld is pure suffering (why do you hate me, why do two compatible mods generate mass instability?!? 4 months of bug hunting and unsalvageable runs due to strange mod interactions, gave up for now).
- Comment on Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software 5 months ago:
You know, one wonders if all academic works should be released under “academic license”…
Might be nice to sting these big companies for our free labour.
- Comment on fuckery 5 months ago:
We also need irrational fucks for the complex field don’t we?
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 5 months ago:
Almost:
Lengths are usually reals, and in this case the diagram we can use assume that A is the origin wlog (badly drawn vectors without a direction)
Next we convert the vectors into lengths using the abs function (root of conjugate multiplication). This gives us lengths of 1 for both.
Finally, we can just use a Euclidean metric to get out other length √2.
Squaring isn’t multiplication by complex conjugate, that’s just mapping a vector to a scalar (the complex | x | function).
- Comment on ... 5 months ago:
I dunno about science, but truth is proof. That just infers that science is various forms of proof, and I’m ok with that as it lets our notion of proof evolve as we do ^_^
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 5 months ago:
Hits buzzer
The big windows 10 problem is that it updates to windows 11.
- Comment on The ability to be spontaneous in life is directly proportion to the size of your bank account 5 months ago:
I’m richer than I’ve ever been, and I am far less spontaneous than I’ve ever been.
It’s not linear, it’s some weird polynomial equation!
- Comment on Risky Buisness 6 months ago:
"My dear, monogamy is an entirely relative concept with no fixed frame of reference!’
- Comment on Yes No 6 months ago:
I need a pasta of this for when I get asked to man the open day stall on a weekend…