swordgeek
@swordgeek@lemmy.ca
- Comment on How does one figure out what to do, after getting out and done with high school? 1 day ago:
You decide.
And you work at it.
Change your mind? Fine . Then work at it.
Don’t give up because it’s hard. Change only because it’s wrong for you.
And work at it.
- Comment on Question for nerds: If Captain Man from *Henry Danger* was in any other universe, and the writers took the character seriously, would he be overpowered? 3 days ago:
You’re obsessed with this stuff. Maybe find (or create) a more appropriate group for it.
- Comment on How do I tell my co-workers I'm not attending a wedding without creating drama? 2 weeks ago:
Grow up.
Reply to the RSVP with a polite “unable to attend.”
Tell your coworkers “I am unable to attend.”
Anyone who asks more than that deserves a slap and a discussion with HR.
Fuck 'em. It’s your life. Live it.
- Comment on Why doesn't the NHL include playoffs from lifetime stats for players? 2 weeks ago:
Lots of answers here, but let me give you an alternate viewpoint, from the NHL.
“Fuck you for caring about the sport, now give us some more fucking money! You want stats, hire a statistician. Except you can’t because you’re a POOR FUCKER!”
“Now shut up and buy another watery $35 beer.”
- Comment on How are wireless mice these days? 2 weeks ago:
I go the other direction. I HATE having a cord tethering my mouse, getting caught and moving after I take my hand off.
Batteries aren’t a problem. I get two days warning before the AA on my mouse actually dies.
But when I travel, I take a wired mouse.
- Comment on How are wireless mice these days? 2 weeks ago:
My son is a serious online gamer, and loves his ultralight, wired mouse. Maybe if you’re that serious, it’s worth it.
I’ve never had a problem with wireless. I’m playing Cyberpunk 2077 right now, and my Logitech m720 is flawless. I’ve had a series of Logi mice, and if this gets discontinued I’ll buy a dozen to get me into my 90s.
The technology is entirely mature niw. I’m not really convinced that even hardcore gamers can honestly tell the difference.
- Comment on I have an opportunity to study abroad in Budapest, Hungary for a semester. Should I take it? 2 weeks ago:
Yes.
Yes yes yes. Don’t hesitste, don’t second guess yourself, don’t make excuses. Go.
When us old people say ‘you only regret the opportunities you missed out on,’ this is exactly the sort of thing we’re talking about.
Do it!
- Comment on What's the best way to still something expensive that can't be shipped? 4 weeks ago:
Niche products usually have communities with buy/sell forums. Find one of those if you can.
Kijiji is a reasonable alternative to FB around here. Craigslist is not. Karrot may be an option, but it depends on where you are.
Contact a local makers group - they often have ties to all sorts of other groups.
You can trash eBay all you want, but 85% of a sale is more than 100% of an unsold item.
- Comment on Gonna turn 19 next month, any advices for me? 4 weeks ago:
Set up a retirement tax fund - equivalent to a an RRSP in Canada- and set up an automatic deposit of 10% of your after-tax earnings into it.
Assuming you can eat and cover shelter, of course.
Keep that up, and you will have an early, well-unded retirement.
- Comment on Is "American posing as a Canadian" a real thing? 5 weeks ago:
As a Canadian, I hate people like you. I mean, seriously - fuck right off.
- Comment on Is "American posing as a Canadian" a real thing? 5 weeks ago:
It absolutely used to be. Whether it still is, I can only assume.
But decades ago, there was a joke: “How can you tell if a tourist is American or Canadian? The Canadian only has ONE Canadian flag on their gear.” US folks did their best job of overdoing everything, and would plaster their stuff with maple leaves.
For many years, another sign of a Canadian was having an item from the Mountain Equipment Co-Op. Almost everyone travelling had a jacket, a backpack, or a container with the beloved MEC logo. Then MEC got turned into a shitty for-profit company held by American vulture capitalists, and now it means nothing.
So…yeah. At least historically, and probably now as well.
- Comment on What are you doing for digital estate planning? 5 weeks ago:
Just went through probate on my mom’s estate.
PLEASE leave information for any accounts that require payment or involve finances. Utilities, bank accounts, mortgage payments, insurance, internet bills, whatever. Don’t make anyone have to hunt that shit down, it can easily take a year.
- Comment on What are you doing for digital estate planning? 5 weeks ago:
Move to KeePass. It’s simpler in the long run, and they don’t sponsor dirtbags.
- Comment on What are you doing for digital estate planning? 5 weeks ago:
Aside from your house, you’ve given me great incentive to hunt you down and kill you. 🙃
- Comment on What are you doing for digital estate planning? 5 weeks ago:
Passwords are in Keepass. My son knows the software because he uses it. The master password is written down as part of my estate planning. That will provide access to every account needed to my successors.
I have a second password store with all of my questionable content. Not going to pass that on to the family. Let it all die horribly.
Still need to move local sketchy content to an encrypted volume, without recording a password to access it. Probably this winter. I want to be ready to die by spring.
- Comment on Why are lemmings so touchy about downvotes? 1 month ago:
I downvote when I think something is contributing noise to its community rather than signal.
- Comment on How do you defy an immersive sim? 1 month ago:
I just played through Fallout New Vegas “Dead Money,” and it got me thinking about this.
What made it immersive for me was that the constraints were (a) explained within the story line, and (b) effective in making the situation consistent.
In the normal game, you stsrt from nothing and eventually become massively overpowered, which is immersion-breaking because if you can do it, why not all of the NPCs? In Dead Money, you are strapped for resources, pressed for time, and feel the looming fear all the time. The experience is more visceral.
- Comment on How would you safely and privately child-proof a PC? 1 month ago:
Set it up im the living room. Make sure the kid knows that you can see what they do.
Parent.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 1 month ago:
Well, I’ll be a legend for the ages, but will die at Hoover Dam.
So…both?
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 2 months ago:
You answered half of your own question.
“it would raise the value of rocket producers like SpaceX and Blue Origin.”
The other thing is a complete lack of jurisdiction. At least theoretically, nobody can go after them for generating grossly illegal content in space.
Also, pure hypermasculine fetishism.
- Comment on What stratgies do you have for dealing with people who "live in your head rent free"? 2 months ago:
Hatred, anger, insomnia, self-loathing, political action, arguing on social media, and profound clinical depression.
Not necessarily good strategies, but that’s not what you asked for.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
sigh
Yanks.
- Comment on Are datacenters in space more lucrative than on earth? 2 months ago:
They shouldn’t be.
Space, especially LEO, is cluttered with way the hell too much garbage already.
Nobody should be allowed to put garbage up there for no benefit beyond CEO pocket lining.
Every single space mission should be carefully considered as a resource usage. Every object left behind in orbit should be scrutinized ten times as closely.
- Comment on Are datacenters in space more lucrative than on earth? 2 months ago:
Fuck no. They’re a stupid, terrible idea peddled by psychotic grifters.
- Comment on A Linux Version of Windows 11 2 months ago:
Running Windows apps “natively” is impossible, by definition.
That said, I could imagine a kernel module that ran everything Windows in a microContainer like Kata. More likely would be to have Windows executables intercepted and run under Wine.
It’s an interesting question.
- Comment on Why do older files tend to have file extensions in all caps? 2 months ago:
Worth mentioning that this wasn’t a problem on other systems. Unix had long, case-sensitive names before DOS existed.
- Comment on Why do older files tend to have file extensions in all caps? 2 months ago:
Or a collecter of
pornmature content. - Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Becauae making a good product is not their goal, and never was.
MS exists to monetize their products, or in other words extract maximum profit. When they were an underdog or compwtitor (Win 3.1 era), making a better product was the primary way to beat Apple et al.
But now they rely in integration/lock-in of their ecosystem, and making their products better will not increase their market share. That means improving their products is against their financial interests.
- Comment on If a famous person or character's likeness is copyrighted and you need to license it to use it, could you find a real-life lookalike and say you modelled your character off of *that* person instead? 2 months ago:
Years ago, a company wantes Tom Waits to do a commercial. He refused, so they hired a voice impersonator to do it instead. He sued, and won.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Not in the US, but here are some ideas.
- citizen’s arrest
- protest local government to have the perps arrested and charged
- doxxing
The last of these will eventually lead to the ultimate and worst response - retaliation and possibly civil war. Frankly, I don’t know if the US can avoid it at this point.