VinesNFluff

joined 1 year ago
[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago

If this was an autocorrect goof I implore you not to edit it ever.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 8 points 2 days ago

Conservatives hate government overreach

Unless someone is gay

Then the government should reach all around to prevent them participating in public life.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 8 points 2 days ago

American suburbia has rotted your brain.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 5 points 5 days ago

The main draw of Mastodon for me (and why I didn't stick with the *key servers) is following hashtags. Really eases post discovery in an algorithm free world.

Otherwise the misskey forks have all manner of neat features to make using them a delight.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago

There's the part where all the firstborn sons die unless their parents paint the walls with sheep's blood.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago

Is porn an annoying project [spams a bunch of thinking emoji]

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

IMHO Krita is more of a drawing app (that's what I use it for) and GIMP (I wish I could make a wish upon the monkey's paw and get it renamed... To Libre Graphics Manipulation App. Or -- LiGMA) is more for editing stuff

But yo'ure entitled to your own opinion ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 3 points 1 week ago

Rare dotworld mod W

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, sex is cool, but have you ever closed like 50 browser tabs after finishing an annoying project?

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago

I'm from Mastodon

But I got to Mastodon from Reddit, so idk if that counts. :P

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 5 points 1 week ago

I am going to commit several violent acts (in Stellaris)

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At the same time, years of propaganda by monied interests have led us up to this point

See you're right but --

-- Those monied interests are also coming from within. The wealthy and powerful from America who see this as a way to consolidate and protect their own wealth and power.

Silicon Valley wanted Neofascism. Wall Street wanted Neofascism. Fracking Barons like the Koch Brother(s) wanted Neofascism. Some out in the open, like the afore-mentioned Koch(s) and Elon Musk, but make no mistake, every billionaire who "shuts up about politics" is most likely a Neofascist in private, because this benefits them.

The people in America are heavily propagandised, but that propaganda is funded and developed by and for the benefit of the wealthy within America itself.

Some people lean really hard into the whole "russian influence" thing because it is comforting. And it is entirely possible that there ARE Russian fingers in this pie -- Russia does benefit from a weakened America, in any way they CAN weaken it. Heck, China and the Middle Eastern powers do too, so maybe they have fingers in that pie too.

But never forget that it started with wealthy Americans, and not some foreign agent. And if every foreign influence walked away, it would continue without them.

Theoretically, The Revolution™ that lefties like me talk about could change things. Just like theoretically, a peaceful political reform could change things. Theoretically.

But I'm from the third world. Hopelessness is my ~~bread and butter~~ rice and beans. So I'm entirely accustomed to daydreaming of one day things changing, while expecting elections to change nothing, and knowing for a fact that any attempt at armed fighting would most likely end in a victory for the bad guys (they have the bigger guns).

The idea of "things are already fucked, have been since before you were born, if you want to make a difference, look out for yourself and those you CAN help, make a difference in the micro, because The System as a macro thing is outside your reach entirely" is in fact how most people have dealt with things since forever, and we survive.

 

Title.

Don't really want to give my soul to a tech megacorps, but I do a lot of writing for work and hobbies, and sometimes carpal tunnel gets the best of me.

 

I don't mean BETTER. That's a different conversation. I mean cooler.

An old CRT display was literally a small scale particle accelerator, firing angry electron beams at light speed towards the viewers, bent by an electromagnet that alternates at an ultra high frequency, stopped by a rounded rectangle of glowing phosphors.

If a CRT goes bad it can actually make people sick.

That's just. Conceptually a lot COOLER than a modern LED panel, which really is just a bajillion very tiny lightbulbs.

 

Cheekily "fixing" this post

 

Like, the nutrition facts table says it contains nothing other than some sodium. No sugars or fats or calories at all

Yet it clearly is edible, so what is it? Some concoction made mostly from indigestible minerals?

 

Title. Game otherwise works great. Windows-using friends say it works for them. Networking is also normal on computer.

I initially thought it could be anticheat related so I disabled mangohud and made sure Easy AntiCheat was launching etc.

But no cigar, the game loads and errors out like in the pic. :

It seems to do so immediately, too, like it's not even trying to connect?

Tried it on my Deck too, same error.

Do not have a Windows PC to try it on, but it's really confusing me, because it ran perfectly until today. :P

 

My younger friends all talk about this Jerma person like he's some kind of mythical entity. An eldritch being that cannot be explained for any attempt at explanation inevitably fails.

I am confused. From what I could gather he's like... A streamer? Content creator?

 

Way back in the day, every game had its logic tied to its framerate -- As anyone who's ever tried to run an eighties PC game on a nineties PC only to see it run at 20x speed and completely unplayable can tell you.

But in the modern day this is less common. Generally the game keeps chugging along at the same pace, no matter how fast or slow the frames are being presented (unless, of course, everything is bogged down so hard that even the game logic is struggling)

And yet, you'll still find a few. Any fan of Dark Souls who played on PC back when Prepare to Die edition first came to PC will remember how unlocking the framerate could cause collision bugs and send you into the void. And I recently watched a video of a gent who massively overclocked a Nintendo Switch OLED and got Tears of the Kingdom to run at 60FPS... Except everything was, indeed, running in fast-forward, rather than just being smoother.

This makes me wonder -- Is there some unseen advantage to keeping game logic and framerate tied together? Perhaps something that only really shows on weaker hardware? Or is it just devs going "well the hardware we're targeting won't really go over this speed, and we don't really give a fuck about anything else" and not bothering to implement it?

 

Youtube Channel SaveAFox, previously a channel about like, a fox sanctuary that showed cute footage of the foxes to get more donors, got hacked today.

It is now full of videos claiming to be from SpaceX and Elon Musk's ugly mug.

Thing is

It's not the first channel I've seen being hacked, nor is it the first to get that exact type of content spammed into it. Linus Tech Tips got hacked some time back (honestly I don't remember how long ago, but I was already on Lemmy, so it was within the past year and change) and it had that exact type of stuff before LMG took it back.

And there was another random channel that I saw suffer the same fate some months before LTT.

My question is -- Why Elon Musk? Why SpaceX/Tesla? Is Musk himself paying people to build zombie farms for him? I wouldn't put it past him but at the same time he has the funds to not need that kind of tactic -- He could astroturf by more "legit-looking" means.

Is it just because people who like Musk are more likely to fall for scams?

Idk, found myself wondering that.

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GBoard replacement? (pawb.social)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by VinesNFluff@pawb.social to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
 

Title.

I'm not sure I'm ready to go all "lineageOS full degoogle" on my phone because some rather necessary day-to-day apps for me will freak out if I have root, let alone a modified OS. Buuuut GBoard has gotten right in my tit, and now they're offering nightmarish AI generated emoji and I'm like "NO". So.

I don't really care about predictive text or swipe-typing or any of that stuff, I mostly just type normally.

The only nice-to-haves that might entice me would be support for one-handed mode and a configurable keyboard layout.

 
 

Title. Turning off the fancy effects (which can be done with Alt+Shift+F12) improves performance slightly, but having to toggle them on and off every time I start a game is... Y'know. A thing.

I was wondering if there was a way to automate it, like game opens -> they turn off, game process ends -> they turn back on

 
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