Adderbox76

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 points 44 seconds ago

Sue them. Not for money, but for the release of the unredacted Epstein files.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

Unpopular opinion, but how the hell is Channing Tatum famous? He's a terrible actor; easily as bad as Taylor Lautner, and yet somehow his career keeps chugging along while the industry (rightly) shoved Lautner over a cliff after a while.

This all occured to me after watching the trailer for "Roof Man" or whatever the ridiculous name of his latest movie is.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Sure. And Serial Killers provide markets for knife manufacturers. What's his point?

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

Embezzlement is a bit sketch

Embezzlement from billion dollar corporations is a moral duty whenever the opportunity presents itself, so long as that embezzled money gets redistributed appropriately, Robin-Hood style.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

Mickey 17 was an overly inflated version of "Moon" with Sam Rockwell.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago

I live on my own, and so rarely is anyone home to get package deliveries, so Canada Post having the option to use their location as an RPO for things like Amazon and Ebay is a lifesaver for me rather than having it dumped on my porch.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Using AI to generate it is a legit practice because you aren’t wasting an artist’s time on shit that won’t make it into the game.

I'm sure those artist's would like to earn a paycheque regardless of whether their work is in the final game or not. That's my main beef with A.I.

Edited: The amount of slack I'm prepared to give in the case of placeholder assets depends entirely on the size and financial backing of the development team creating the game. Am I going to flip out about a small developer with very little money creating their small passion project for using AI because he can't afford a bigger dev team. No. I'll wish him/her all the success in the world so that they reach a point where they no longer HAVE to use A.I. to generate placeholder assets. But will I give a billion dollar company slack for using A.I. instead of paying artists? Hell no.

Long story short. If you're a big company with the money in your couch cushions to pay artists, than PAY ARTISTS. If your a small indy dev just starting out, A.I. placeholders can help you a bit until you can afford proper artists.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

This one time, I tried telling some mob guy that he was funny.

He did not take it well.

But turns out he was just fuckin' with me.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

Technically there is no such thing as a "completely secure system"

What Linux offers is the fact that by nature of being FOSS, there are millions of eyes on source code at any one time, and so potential exploits can usually be spotted and mitigated faster than waiting for the software maker to fix their own shit. And the fact that, in most cases with Windows, the call is coming from inside the house, so-to-speak; It's the operating system itself that is malicious and anti-user.

To put it simply: Yes...linux can be attacked just like windows. But we live in an open-concept house with no hidden corners, and we've got a pretty great neighbourhood watch thing going on. Versus Windows users who live a house filled with cameras and alarms, surrounded by a giant wall that they can't see over, and they have to rely on the security company to do anything about the burglar trying to get in.

I'll take my chances with the community approach every time.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 hours ago

Nobody ever says the AUR is safe. In fact they say specifically that it's not; for exactly the reasons you mention.

That's why it's the Arch USER Repository. You take your fate in your own hands when you choose to use it.

As for your comment about using a distro that has everything in the main repo? How so? Every flavour has software that isn't included in the main repos. For Arch based systems, that means either the AUR or Flatpaks. For Debian based systems, that means adding new repos to your sources, which is exactly as unsafe as the AUR in most cases, or using Flatpaks.

If you've ever added a repo on Ubuntu, than you've essentially used their version of an AUR. The end result is no different.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

My father used to make a very excellent Cherry Liqueur from the tree in his yard.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Kegsbreath's hair gel was left open again?

 

In a few days, the final two components will arrive to finally get a fully capable desktop PC again after roughly six months limited to a tiny chromebook wiped and replaced with Linux.

It took a while to have the spare cash to get a new/used system off of ebay with the intention of transferring the bulk of my higher end parts from my old desktop to that one, only to realize that the new desktop used a Lenovo 10 pin Power supply, so I'd have to order an adapter to be able to install my 750 watt PSU in order to install my 3060 Graphics Card.

That should be arriving this week, as well as an extra 16 gigs of ram to add to the 16 already in it.

So when all is said and done, what should be my celebration game after six months of being limited to an ex-chromebook with 4 gigs of ram?

  • EU4
  • HOI4
  • KSP
  • XCOM 2 (war of the chosen)
  • Rimworld
  • Civ VI
  • Uboat

Those are the ones that I've been missing the most these last six months. Which game, say you?

 

Need some advice.

I've been consistently upgrading my old desktop for a long time now; knowing full well that someday it would just not be uppgradable anymore and it wouuld hit it's upper limit.

I'm hoping it's not doing it now, right when computer memory is getting ridiculous. And I don't have the money for a new one.

A couple of days back, My mouse (any mouse) would move in fits and starts. It takes a split second to start moving, and when it does, it's already on the other side of the screen.

This SEEMS to be related to oncee every second, my CPU is "Spiking"; jumping from 40 to 50% to 0-5% ever second like clockwork. I don't know if one is causing the other, just that they correlate to each other. Typing is similar effected; it'll hiccup every second or so.

System Monitor shows nothing unsual. The majority of the resource usage is from Wayland (I'm on Manjaro), with nothing else taking up resources.

Any advvice on what kind of reports I can run to get a sense of what'ss happening, hardware wise?

I've rolled back the most recent update to no effect. I booted up a USB stick version, and had the same problem. So I'm sure it's a hardware issue. I tried various mice and keyboarrds, various dongles, etc... I suspect a power supply issue, but I don't want to spend the money on a new 750 watt PSU without confirming it. And the only other PSU I have in my house right now isn't powerful enough to boot all the hardware I've got installed.

Help please. This desktop is where most oof my work is accomplished (video editing, graphic dessign and 3D modelling) which is completely impossibel with a jerky mouse.

 

Hear me out here:

The Essential Phone was let down by a LOT of other factors. Camera Quality was the biggest for sure, but also the touch screen could be glitchy and in general not as responsive as it's peers. Lack of wireless charging, poor marketing, etc...

But...

As far as design goes; how it felt in the hand, the size of it, the build materials (ceramic and titanium), the screen-to-body ratio, the weight, even simply how it felt in the back pocket of your jeans. I have never met it's equal.

So much so that there is STILL a dedicated group keeping her going through projects like LineageOS and e/OS.

Heck, I still use it as my daily driver (on e/os) and ever time I think I'm going to put my sim-card into something slightly newer because the Essential doesn't have 5G, I quickly realize that I don't really need 5G that damn badly after all and I switch back.

Someday, the battery will stop holding a charge for more than a day and a half. Or someday, I'll drop it and the ultimate failure of the Ceramic back will slap me in the face. And on that day I'll be sad.

 

Been Manjaro for years and years. Latest update (due to my own screw-up...not the distro's fault) shit the bed and corrupted my timeshift backups (again...my fault...not the distro)

Wasn't too concerned because a) I keep everything on a backup drive, and b) I'm a big believer that every computer needs to be refreshed with a new install every few years anyway.

But now that that time is upon me, I got to thinking about maybe giving CachyOS a shot for the "performance improvements". But my desktop is coming up on 9 years old (AMD A10 processor). Would it even be worth it to try Cachy in that instance, or would the performance difference between that and Manjaro be negligible on that particular processor?

 

Still in the early early stages. Can be a little slow going since I'm treating this like a training project to strengthen my Python skills. Typing mechanics are nailed down, basic UI is in place.

Next is to get the functionality working for new-page, save, export, etc... and the correction tape mode.

 

I want to go back to the absolute basics for a while; to see if there's something from my old pre-computer life that I have lost.

When I was a teenager in the early 90s, I wrote like crazy on a giant, loud, electric typewriter. It whirred. It clacked. It needed me to manually hit the carraige return just like the older manual typewriters that it had come from.

The old days. No backspace deletion, no italics. Bold meant backing up and typing over the same word twice for effect.

There are apps like focus writer, etc... But I'm looking for something more

There is an online app called typewritesomething.com, and it has the option of installing it. But when I do, it's sluggish and imperfect. So I was hoping someone knew of something just like that, but in a locally installed program (Linux would be ideal, but WINE allows me to run Windows programs just fine and dandy)

Blank Page. Typewriter sound. No deletion on backspace. When you backup and retype, it has the effect of typing over the previous text. Manual carraige return. Literally no other features.

Any ideas?

 

 

I was thinking this while watching the SpaceX flight get scrubbed for the third time in as many days.

I don't know if it was the stream I happened to be watching, but it was just a heavy heavy circle jerk about how part of the goal of Starship is to have "30 minutes" to anywhere on earth by going suborbital.

But it struck me that business relies on consistency. Flights leaving on time, arriving on time. If I have a conference in Hong Kong, am I going to wait three days for the perfect launch conditions because my sub-orbital flight launch is delayed by a bad cloud somewhere in the launch zone?

Until orbital and suborbital launches ae robust enough to happen like clockwork in ANY weather condition, it'll never be popular enough to be feasible.

 

Since Wrestlemania there's been nothing but stories about John Cena winning an amazing 17th title, blah blah blah... It's a "History making moment", yadda yadda yadda...

Like...of course he did. It's the storyline. It's quite literally "in the script".

This isn't an achievement. Why is this in my sports news next to last night's hockey scores instead of next to an article about who was the bitchiest on the lastest episode of Real Housewives?

I get it. I loved Wrestling growing up. Back when we all WERE pretending it was real; Macho Man, Hulk Hogan, The Undertaker, etc... But I thought at some point they steered into the whole "entertainment" aspect when most of us grew the hell up and clued into the absurdity of it all.

 

It sure would explain the similarity between the ever more potential state of America and her novel The Handmaid's Tale.

 
 

For example, why do we say "Your pupils are dilated". They aren't. It's the iris aperture that is dilated.

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