wizardbeard

@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just in time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can go do that now, no one’s stopping you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just in time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  While being forced to travel literal lightyears away from everyone they ever knew, and potentially outliving everyone they care about due to relativity shenanigans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Big has the most optional upgrades of any character in it. Try going back to his hut in the forest and picking up his bed for a better lure. There are more hidden around. I wouldn’t feel bad using a guide, as there’s not really any clues pointing to them like other character’s upgrades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So I told that librul teachin' lady that the only letters I need to know is U-S-A⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  May want to edit that to blank out the church name and two street signs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Helps that it has some of the most absurdly hype fishing music ever. Sounds like a boss battle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Organization.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That last row though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft just changed where your Word documents live — here’s why it matters⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean this softly, but I’m going to guess you haven’t used OneDrive recently, and haven’t used it where it’s been set up in a competent manner. The default settings absolutely are not conpetent, espiecally for how messy computers for personal use get.

  My workplace uses OneDrive to sync a specific set of user profile folders so we approximate having profiles and files that follow us without everyone needing a personal folder on a network drive that mounts at login.

  The only issues we’ve had are profiles auto-downloading too mant of peoples files and eating drives on shared machines (so you just have your meeting room computers wipe all profiles every reboot and schedule reboots nightly), and I’ve had some issues where OneNote hadn’t actually synced the notebook back to the cloud before I closed on one machine and opened on a different machine so I lost some notes.

  Beyond that, it’s handled even situations where I have the same file open siniltaneously on multiple machines smoothly. Syncs between login on multiple machines take 3 minutes max, and I can force it faster if I really need by pausing and resuming the sync.

  I’m sure there’s situations it’s still not suited for, like editing and syncing large monolithic files (think video files over 1GB a piece). It probably sucks big time on personal machines where you’re going to have a complete mess of every file type imaginable tossed in one big unorganized heap.

  But configured correctly, for general business use, it can work very well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft just changed where your Word documents live — here’s why it matters⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would be shocked if this hasn’t had some set of controls to disable it in Group Policy for months now.

  This is just rent seeking against Home users.

  People with One Drive through corporate Azure sjbscriptions (rather than the free “you have a microsoft login” tier) already have fairly robust controls available for handling and securing private data. There’s even special Azure tiers for government work that are even further secured.

  This is only going to impact home users and conpanies without strong IT teams. Which is an egregious amount of people, don’t get me wrong. It’s also a horrible anti-consumer move. But this isn’t “Microsoft fucks over their golden calf: business users”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 450 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You might like Mullet MadJack too, if you like frantic shooters with a “keep killing or die” element.

  Completely different style, and no customization that I know of, it’s 90’s cyberpunk anime styled. Each level you have ten seconds until your heart stops. Each kill gets you more time, and flashier kills like melee finishers get you more, as in universe your doing some sort of livestream death game. At the end of each short level, in roguelike fashion, you get to pick one of a few randomly selected upgrades/powerups.

  Look up some footage on youtube, it’s a lot cooler in motion than words can cover. But it’s definitely one to play with mouse and keyboard so you can do twitch movements fast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like it sucks at every level. From what I’ve dealt with on just software/drivers:

  You want to use scan to email through anything that isn’t a fully open, no auth, anonymous SMTP relay? Go fuck yourself.

  Wait… we changed our mind. We’ll totally support SMTP authentication, but with an arbitrary undocumented limit on the password length we can store, which is definitely shorter than the password length requirements for most SMTP relay suites. Certificates? Holy shit are you from the future?

  Or you can scan to network share, but I hope you enjoy finding all the hidden catches and caveats that are completely undocumented!

  You want an option so people have to log in at the printer itself to release their print job? Enjoy six different interfaces for five different underlying standards for how that works across two different manufacturers. And we reserve the right to just stop supporting that feature or change it entirely with any firmware or driver update. And if there’s a mismatch between the driver and firmware then we’ll just make the print spooler/job queue shit itself and require manual intervention to continue printing.

  You want our driver to properly communicate to end user software the paper sizes it supports? If it supports double sided printing or not? How it will collate multiple copies? Man, we can’t even care enough to indicate to software if we’re Black and White or Color. Best we can do is completely ignore the options you picked through your software and our driver and just do whatever we think is best. That’s a good compromise, right?

  For the price of these god damn enterprise mfds, there’s no excuse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s objectionable about it Apple? Hmm?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know GBA audio quality can be questionable, but I feel like Fusion’s soundtrack adds a lot to the game’s atmosphere. Worth playing with the sound on. Great game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube will start using AI to guess your age.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I’ve heard of other sites using info like having a saved payment card in your own name, or the age of the account itself to know that the user is over 18 without needing ID.

  But this is Google, they want to flex their analytics and get as much additional info on everyone as they can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve played a handful of games that precompile shaders at boot up without it taking 15 minutes, and they try to hide at least some of it behind the splash screens and such. This is absurd. If pre-compilation or caching is needed, just fucking do it.

  On top of what you said, that any company with the funds of Gearbox has no excuse for not being able to optimize it to happen during runtime without tanking FPS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Public toilets in China demand ad views for loo roll⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s been countless studies on this. That’s not how our brains work. After the short term, or a scant few outstanding ones that stay with you, the only thing left long term is the brand recognition. That steers your choices when you buy things.

  Put simply, people don’t have the mental capacity to keep a full list of every company that advertised to them in a shitty way in the front of their minds constantly, beside everything else required for daily life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favourite menu music in a game?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A mainstay on my shuffle playlists in the Encore Mode Save Select Theme, Double Take, from Sonic Mania Plus. Track is by Falk du Yeong, who did the music for the popular Sonic Fangames Before and After the Sequel.

  A recent one that Youtube Music (hooray for Revanced) revealed to me is the Main Menu theme of Mindwave, by Dorkus 64. Apparently the game is kind of a mix of WarioWare but with jumping into people’s minds as the setting? Can hear a lot of WarioLand 4 influence in the track. Weird, and an absolute bop.

  Honorable Mentions:

  • Main Menu Theme, Metroid Prime (or from the Remaster)
  • Briefing, Ace Combat X
  • Stage Select, Ape Escape
  • Time Station, Ape Escape (kind of cheating, it’s basically a menu as a hub stage)
  • All the menu themes from Sonic Mega Collection
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you considerably overestimate his level of influence. Just because Trump’s cult isn’t letting a good shooting go to waste doesn’t mean he was anywhere near as important or influential in life as they are acting like now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  After Guardian reveals secret spy project.

  Put the emphasis on Guardian, reveals, or secret. It’s all valid.

  Guardian didn’t reveal a secret here. This just finally got them enough bad PR that it started to effect the bottom line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are you talking like Microsoft didn’t know? They didn’t need “to check” or to “review”. They knew and didn’t care until it started impacting their bottom line.

  They didn’t fire those employees because they thought they were wrong. They fired them for making a scene. For drawing public and news media attention to it. To try and stop the protesting employees from influencing even more employees.

  This isn’t some “oopsie poopsies, we didn’t know! our bad!” thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there some sort of "underground" net for old computing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Beyond what has already been mentioned, there’s the gopher protocol for entirely text based sites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I mean... This is it.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually you can just go harder if you’re already going as deep as you can. Grab onto your partner and pull them towards you as you thrust.

  Alternatively, changing up the angle or position can get you deeper compared to standard missionary. Not as useful right in the moment, but a tool for later.

  Or they might want you to go as deep as you can and stay there with some grinding.

  Just pay attention to your partner’s reactions, go after what makes them feel good, and don’t over think things. After you get some space from it, maybe talk to them about it. Ask them to try and word things differently or something. Life’s too short to stay with someone that you aren’t comfortable being vulnerable with, and especially to stay with someone who would intentionally make you feel lesser during intimate moments (assuming that’s not a kink of yours).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh. I’d rather they have their meeting places out in the light like this than hidden away in the dark web or something.

  Just block, defed, move on. No need to feed their narrative of being the last bulwark against the bad guys by dogpiling them. People are allowed to be wrong and you won’t change their minds by storming in all righteous at them anyway. That will just entrench them more.

  If you truly want to turn them, there’s plenty of studies and research done on how to actually influence people and change minds. Some of it is even in leaked classified intelligence agency field guides, which is a fun way to end up on a list!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefly, the shinest damn show in the 'Verse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love Sheperd Book. I don’t think we ever got an explanation for why he had an effectively “no questions asked” pull with the Alliance, and I kind of like that.

  I would absolutely have loved more of the show and the world, but some aspects I think are better with no big resolution or explanation. Keeps the series and setting alive in my imagination.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where, indeed?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gonna bury it so deep in you it’ll need a tombstone baby 😏

  Ouch.

  “So how exactly did you break your pelvis ma’am?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. Pump the numbers and try to retroactively justify the absurd spending on it all. Everyone who accidentally opens it is another tick up for the user numbers.

  I’m sure they also have some stats based on installs that this will spruce up too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨labubu⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to see someone make a fully articulated one of these with custom software running on it so it writhes along with whatever furby stuff it’s doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“TO THE PERPETRATORS WHO STOLE MY ASS: I HAVE BOTH HANDS ENGAGED IN FINDING IT AND YOU WILL SOON FACE THE FULL FORCE IF THE LAW!!!”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nanotrasen thanks you for your brave sacrifice in contribution to robotics research and construction of a new Bio-Utility Techno-Tool on Space Station 13.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Super Mario Bros Remastered open source fan project brings an impressive remake to PC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It requires a ROM to extract the assets and levels, which so far has kept a number of reverse engineering/decomp projects like this one safe, even from Nintendo. Argument being that it needs to be your ROM that you dumped yourself of the game in question, which is legal.

  The majority of users are just going to download a ROM, but Nintendo hasn’t gone after these so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Lemvotes.org will show you votes on any post, comment, or by user, or anything on the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a foundational restriction with how federation works and was discussed back during the exodus from reddit when they cut off their API. Votes can’t be federated without identity attached, or you’d end up with a single vote multiplied by however many instances federated it to yours.

  This is the price of the fediverse being uncensorable. Everything you do on it is oublic, and norhing can be reliably deleted from the entire fediverse.

  There was some efforts to obsfucate voting by one of the m/kbin lemmy alternatives, to have each account have an associated hidden account with a randomly generated name that would technically be the account used for voting, so only the admin of your own instance could connect between your public account identity and your voting identity, but that could also just be defeated by basic pattern identification.

  As far as instance admins are concerned, this has been known from the start, and is completely outside of their control. That said, it could definitely use some more signposting for awareness. It’s shocking how often this entire discussion gets repeated by people who apparently never thought to look into how federation actually works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Don’t Patronize Us’: Data Center Charm Offensive Irks Opponents in Rural Georgia⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you think rural Georgia is such a shithole, why in the hell would it make sense to build a datacenter there? Just keep your shit out of their shit if you hate them so damn much.