vithigar

joined 2 years ago
[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unless you really need to optimise for land use. An arbitrarily large solar array in space could transmit to a fairly small collector in the surface.

As for losing power to atmospheric attenuation, high frequency microwaves will pass right through most everything that would scatter visible light. Clouds, dust, etc wouldn't really impede it.

I won't say it's not a silly idea, because it is. It's fun to think about though.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Satanic is not the same as satanistic.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I never cared much for the orange juice, but minute maid frozen lemonade concentrate is amazing. I'm going to miss that one for sure.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 112 points 3 days ago (7 children)

For reasons similar to why plain bread doesn't show up in sandwich recommendations.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 13 points 5 days ago

I offer that it's actually worse, since it requires acting on it and knowing it's wrong.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

If you're using vague, borderline nonsensical phrases like "install files" when trying to find out how to do things that might go some way towards explaining it.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Old hardware is certainly possible. I salvaged it from my parents who were going to throw it out. It's got an A10-8700P and is limping along with a single 4GB DIMM. The thing doesn't even have a second memory slot.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I do like the dedication to Mint! To be honest it's generally my default pick if I need to slap Linux onto something. I actually tried putting it on the gaming table machine but for reasons I didn't feel like digging into it just did not cooperate, and Debian did.

CachyOS on the luggable gaming machine is mostly just because I hadn't used it before and wanted to give it a spin. So far so good.

As for the Windows machine, it's a gaming rig and at the time it was built, pre-steam deck, Linux wasn't quite yet in as good a position for that as it is now. I just can't be bothered to switch it mid-stream as it were. It's almost certainly going to be the last Windows machine I ever own though.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)
  • Luggable gaming rig: CachyOS
  • Surface Go 2: Mint
  • Old laptop strapped to the underside of the gaming table: Debian
  • NUC home server: Ubuntu Server
  • Steam Deck: SteamOS

Non-linux:

  • Gaming tower: Windows
  • Previous gaming tower repurposed as NAS: TrueNAS
[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

True size is possible just fine on a 2D surface. For both too large and too small to be even possible there must exist some transitional point where the size is correct.

You cannot have both the size and shape correct at the same time. Having the correct size means distorting the shape, and vise versa. One or the other can be correct, but never both.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

I have a handed down Surface Go 2 with 4GB of RAM. The thing was damn near unusable with its stock Windows installation. I've put Mint on it now and it's actually a nice little machine.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Ugh, I've run into this as well.

Several times now I've commissioned a professional artist to create posters of D&D/Pathfinder groups I've run campaigns with. I'm in a new campaign that started this month and did an initial look around to begin scouting out an artist for another and my god. Having to sift through all the obvious AI "portfolios" is bad enough, let alone trying to suss out the ones that are using it in less obvious ways. I've settled on filtering my search to only artists for whom I can find works prior to 2023 or so. It's insane.

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