Ephera

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda's Oblivion remaster passes four million players, breaks series concurrent records⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Skywind exists…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What purpose do carbohydrates OTHER than sugars serve in the body?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To perhaps lean more into why complex carbs are useful:

  Your body can’t really not digest something you’ve eaten. Once it’s in your stomach, it will be broken down and gets put into your blood. With the simple carbs, you get a lot of blood sugar very quickly and your body then has to deal with that. It does so by producing insulin, which tells the rest of your body to take sugar out of the blood. It’s put into either a limited, temporary storage (glycogen) or, once that’s full, into more permanent storage (body fat).
  Eating lots of sugar can also lead to your body producing too much insulin, which will cause too much sugar to be taken out of the blood, so you often have a high and then a crash/low after ingesting sugary foods.

  Ideally, you want blood sugar to always stay at a reasonable level, where it can supply your brain and muscles, but where your body does not have to start storing lots of it. And that’s where complex carbs are neat, because they don’t get broken down all at once, when they’re in your stomach/intestines, meaning their sugar enters your blood at a more sustainable rate. By eating them instead of sugar, you’re less likely to put on fat and less likely to have a crash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mindustry is basically Factorio with more focus on tower defense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People in the office who don't take used K-Cups out of the machine are the new equivalent "you kill it, you fill it"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, my first thought was that we’re talking about a K-size bra cup…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every. Single. Game. Ever.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also kind of breaks immersion when there’s tons of different enemies, but they never fight between themselves. Only when the player character shows up, they’re like, imma ruin this woman’s life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is this something only introverts struggle with?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Opposite of neurospicy. 🙃

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is this something only introverts struggle with?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, that for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is this something only introverts struggle with?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard before that it can be more difficult for folks on the autism spectrum, because we perceive more of the details in each voice, so it’s more likely to overwhelm us.

  But it certainly doesn’t have to be. Neuroboring folks also don’t find it helpful when two speak at the same time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is this something only introverts struggle with?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, depends on the situation. Personally, I wouldn’t call it rude when someone kind of free-fire responds to a question they hear. Best course of action is to just chuckle at them responding synchronously and ask for only one of them to speak at a time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unciv by yairm210⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, you mostly press the button in the top right to progress through turns as well as through the individual ‘decisions’ within a turn. And each decision is something like “What should this unit do?”, so it will automatically select a unit and you can instruct it by either clicking on the map to tell it where to walk/attack or with the buttons in the bottom left.
  In your first turn, one of those units is a settler, which you might tell to found a city. In that case, you also have to tell the city what building to construct, for which it will bring up the city screen and then you select that in the list on the left. Well, and if you do build a city, you also have to select a technology for it to research, which brings up another screen with the possible technologies in a tree structure, where you select one technology and confirm it.

  I’m sure, there’s tons of places one can get stuck on, but it is fairly linear gameplay, so don’t overthink it…

  Well, if you played it a few years ago, the tutorial was also still rather sparse. That should be better now, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a good way to import/export/migrate music playlists between platforms?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For those with traditional music files (MP3, OGG etc.), the file format for exporting playlists is called "M3U8”.

  It is literally a text file where each line is a file path.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but the law genuinely treats (near-)monopolies differently from their competitors. What’s legal for a small company does not have to be for a company which dominates the market.

  The thing is, laws are supposed to bring the greatest benefit to a society. In most cases, fairness aids that goal. But that’s not the case for competition laws, which is why they’re relatively unintuitive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It always seems like its time to move to linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, for me, the big thing was that I only found out you could test-run Linux without installing after I had made the decision to install it. Of course, having no real clue what I’d get into massively delayed the decision…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Utah lawmakers unanimously approve German-style balcony solar⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The German law has a passage which allows you to install it, no matter what your landlord thinks. Maybe that’s in Utah’s law, too…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every non US market could impose their will, simply by banning imports of products that use, or reference SAE instead of metric.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone else wondering WTF SAE is:

  Tools and fasteners with sizes measured in inches are sometimes called “SAE bolts” or “SAE wrenches” to differentiate them from their metric counterparts. The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) originally developed fasteners standards using U.S. units for the U.S. auto industry; the organization now uses metric units.

  en.wikipedia.org/…/United_States_customary_units#…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't Afford A Nintendo Switch 2? Buy A Switch 1, Nintendo Says - Insider Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, if it’s still shit and it’s getting even worse, I don’t know why we wouldn’t continue to mourn that, or at least call it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't Afford A Nintendo Switch 2? Buy A Switch 1, Nintendo Says - Insider Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, traditionally, console prices were subsidized by the more expensive game prices. They’d sell the console at a loss to then make that back per game. Them raising both the console price as well as game prices is what makes it awful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I don’t have first-hand experience with Arch for that reason either. Well, and also because I do want a distro to set things up for me. You could set up the snapshotting (with BTRFS and Snapper) on theoretically any distro, but not having to figure out how and what settings are good, that’s why I go with openSUSE.
  I might look into NixOS at some point. It obsoletes the need for OS snapshots, because the entire OS configuration is made in configuration files. But from what I hear, it helps to be a programmer (which I am) to really appreciate NixOS.

  And yeah, don’t know much about Bazzite either, but from what I’ve heard, it really has some design decisions that make it feel more like a games console. The atomic/transactional updates, for example. As I understand, updates and such are applied to a copy of your OS, which gets swapped in when you do the next reboot. This helps keep the system stable after applying updates, but implies that you can’t really just poke around manually in your root partition.
  It can be helpful for users not looking to experiment, but yeah, can be a pain, if you do want to.

  As for a real-time kernel, the JACK FAQ says you don’t need it, but the distro might limit real-time scheduling anyways: jackaudio.org/faq/linux_rt_config.html
  I’ve had JACK running on my system about a year ago, although I didn’t really have a need for low latency, so I can’t say, if it actually worked correctly.
  Perhaps also worth pointing out that “Pipewire” is becoming a thing, which tries to make interfacing with JACK and PulseAudio much easier. I believe, I also used Pipewire back then. But yeah, folks who’ve dealt with JACK a lot more than I have, seem to be really excited about it, so it’s presumably doing a great job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I always hesitate to recommend distros. 😅
  There’s tons out there and they all exist, because some smart person decided to put in lots of work, as the existing ones didn’t match what they wanted.

  If we exclude Ubuntu/Debian-based, that narrows it down somewhat. The other major distros are:

  • Fedora: Rather much tied to the corporate side (Red Hat / IBM), tends to be rather up-to-date. Kind of has a focus on GNOME, but other “Spins” are available.
  • Arch: Community-driven, pretty much a DIY distro, so the initial setup is somewhat challenging. It’s really up-to-date, so much that it’s referred to as “bleeding edge” (rather than cutting edge), meaning you might get faulty updates from time to time. It’s also often loved by minimalists, because they can decide for each component, if they want to install it.
  • Well, and perhaps the most niche of these – which is what I’m on – openSUSE: Has the best integration of KDE (not by a huge margin, but still). I like it in particular, because of its snapshotting system. It automatically starts snapshotting your OS (not the user files) once per hour or whenever you make changes to the installed packages. If something breaks, you can boot into a previous snapshot from the bootloader and roll things back.
    It’s the most “maximalist” mainstream distro, in that it preinstalls relatively much software. Personally, I think the other distros are a bit silly with their minimalist tendencies, but yeah, I’m biased. And well, downsides of openSUSE are that it is somewhat niche. You’ll find a helpful, tight-knit community, but it’s less likely that guides mention how to do things on openSUSE. Similarly, you’re less likely to find pre-packaged software for openSUSE. May have to compile from source more often, although SoS has a good amount of software, too.

  As for whether a different distro is too much experimenting, if you do jump into it, you’ll understand why I talked about the desktop environment instead. 🙃
  The DE makes a much bigger difference. Some people conflate distro and DE, because certain distros will have certain default DEs.
  But if you used the same DE on two distros, honestly the main difference you’d notice is a different package manager. Where Ubuntu Studio and Mint use apt, openSUSE uses zypper, Fedora uses dnf and Arch uses pacman. They handle somewhat differently, but largely do the same things (i.e. install/update/remove packages).
  Obviously, there are more differences to the distros, like how quickly they update and some of the default configuration, like the snapshotting I raved about, but ultimately it’s still a Linux system with much of the same software running on both…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that was kind of a general statement. Mint is boring. That’s what it’s good at. That’s why it’s loved and why it’s recommended for new users. Specifically, it’s similar to Windows in many ways. It’s somewhat more customizable, but that’s about it.

  With you having used Linux twice before, you could consider something less Windows-like, less boring. I’ll be talking about the desktop environment (DE) rather than distro, because it has much more influence on this. You can use these DEs on various distros.

  • My personal favorite DE is KDE Plasma. The default-layout is also Windows-like, but it’s got all of the bells and whistles and options you could imagine. It’s kind of power-user heaven and almost like a toolbox to build whatever workflow you want.
  • The other big, popular DE is GNOME. It’s more macOS- and Android-like and focuses on a specific workflow. People who can get used to that workflow, then often really like it. The workflow itself is sometimes frustratingly uncustomizable, but it’s also fairly customizable when it comes to the details, typically by virtue of also having lots of features, which can then be customized.
  • Well, and I guess, I’ll throw in Xfce, too, since that’s likely what you used, back when you used Ubuntu Studio. (Ubuntu Studio uses KDE since the October 2020 release, but used Xfce before then.)
    Xfce isn’t necessarily what modern beauty standards would get flustered by, but many folks like it for its simplicity and because it is perhaps even more boring than Mint (without being Windows-like). There’s a good chance that it still works a lot like back when you used it.

  Perhaps also worth mentioning that Mint’s DE is called “Cinnamon”, although it’s developed by the Mint devs, so if you like that a lot, it’s typically worth sticking to Mint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, Mint is still one of the top recommendations for new users. It gets support for the newest hardware at a bit of a delay, so if you wanted to follow suit with your new gaming PC, it might not be as great of a choice for that for now, but for your laptop, that’s what I’d recommend, if you’re not looking to experiment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What distro did you use before?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a very mild violation, but I like to play these puzzles: www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
  …except that I create a custom difficulty level which is quite a step below the easiest difficulty and then I almost rather speedrun the puzzles.

  The Rectangles puzzle at 5x5 size has been my crack for the past months and I’m at about 13 seconds now (using my phone as input).

  I mean, it’s very casual speedrunning. No one cares about my time, so I actually never timed myself before just now. But yeah, I just like the different challenge of thinking fast rather than complex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SuperTuxKart is moving to Godot Engine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess, they noticed:

  This article is currently inactive!

  🫠

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft is getting a visual overhaul you probably don't need because of all of those mods you've got installed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, I wasn’t trying to say that Luanti had an incredibly original thought with volumetric lighting. There’s been (pre-resource-pack) volumetric lighting mods for Minecraft probably already a decade ago. I was rather just wondering, when the proof of concept has existed for a whole decade, why do they decide to include it now. It probably would have worked well even on weaker phones three years ago already…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft is getting a visual overhaul you probably don't need because of all of those mods you've got installed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, half a year after Luanti introduced volumetric lighting. I find it hard to believe that Microsoft execs watch out for what Luanti does, but maybe a whole bunch of Android re-packagings of Luanti suddenly looked a whole lot better than Minecraft and that got through to those execs…? It’s a bit of a strange coincidence, at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Original link (in Spanish): xataka.com/…/foros-internet-estan-desapareciendo-…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good to exercise at home instead of gym?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, vegan foods with lots of proteins include: Beans, lentils, peas, nuts, peanuts, tofu, soy.
  Personal favorites are red lentils (cook pretty quickly and don’t need to be soaked before) and pre-cooked white beans (I just have a jar of those in the fridge and will scoop a spoonful into all kinds of meals).

  Proteins are cool, because they stick around in your stomach for a while, but they’re bad at filling you up. For that, salads and veggies are the best. Sometimes, I’ll eat an entire bowl of salad, which is not a lot of calories, but still fills me up.

  I would also recommend slowly changing your diet over. Your gut microbiota need time to adjust to a different diet. If you don’t give them that time, they can kill your will pretty effectively.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You should know there's a font designed to make reading easier, especially for people with low vision. It's called Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. It's free for personal and commercial use.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s the SIL Open Font License. The text can be found behind their “End-User License Agreement” link.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wouldn't look at a bug report without a video. Researcher maliciously complied.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Microsoft that made security their top priority? Surely, this has to be a mix-up.

  …man, they really make it too easy to dunk on them.