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- Comment on No Way 13 hours ago:
I love this one because his voice comes through SO clearly when I read the text.
- Comment on No Way 13 hours ago:
please tell me it says HEE on the back!
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 1 week ago:
When I switched over my home desktop to Mint, it was a very short time before I looked at Windows and said “I’m too old for this shit.” I mean, the reason I am a Mint fan in the first place is that I am a FOSS loving nerd but with a family and pets and hobbies and a career and a middle aged energy level. The decades I’ve spent fixing Windows based PCs is enough for a lifetime, thx.
I say consolidate old files you want to keep. Shuffle them between drives as necessary to be able to format everything. Go all ext4 on the drives you already have. (once you’re ready)
This is the way.
- Comment on My collection is growing 1 week ago:
After doing a bunch of carpentry this year, now I have metric and imperial sets of nice long hex bits for my high torque impact driver.
Something is gonna move, one way or another!
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 1 week ago:
Well yeah their business isn’t to “serve users.” It’s to “farm consumers.”
That’s why I’m glad I do embedded systems in a niche industry. I’m not trying to drive engagement across the globe. I’m just making a device that serves the needs of a user who has other important work to worry about.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 1 week ago:
This is just how I felt when I first switched, also to Mint. I’ve experienced it a couple other times too when switching from some proprietary application to the FOSS option.
I like to describe it as feeling the different priorities of the teams working on each project. When one is made by passionate users who care about it being good software for its purpose, and the other is designed by a committee to hit as many different corporate metrics as possible, it shows.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 1 week ago:
And let’s be honest, this is one of those many contexts where giving a shit and putting forth ANY amount of effort puts you ahead of 80% of the population anyway.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 1 week ago:
Sober is awesome, and I can actually have Roblox LAN parties with my son thanks to it.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 1 week ago:
Big wisdom in this.
Don’t assume it is “checking out” from society or taking the easy way out. The news will find you, don’t worry. Plus maintaining focus on your thing is something that can take significant effort.
I have noticed that the smaller I make my world, the happier I am. My free time goes into my family, friends, hobbies, and pets (which I guess is a big subset of the hobbies). I think a big part of the benefit is not just focusing on the people who can have the biggest effect on my life, but focusing on the people whose life I can improve the most with my involvement.
Our brains evolved to keep tabs on our clan or our village, not to monitor the events of the entire Earth in near real time, as if we’re going to do anything with that information. In fact, I think that “need” to be informed is often just an addiction manufactured by the need to drive engagement to validate 24/7 news as a business model.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 2 weeks ago:
Not only do those knobs sound awesome to use, but I could see them being cheaper and more reliable as well.
Instead of being mechanically connected to whatever custom parts to direct air flow, it can just be an off the shelf encoder sending a signal to a processor that already exists.
- Comment on Progress 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never had a pebble but they always looked great. If I wanted to go back to a smart watch but keep it more watch-like and less “tiny phone stuck to my body” then I’d be checking them out.
The benefit you described is one of the things that led me to wear one for so long. You get notifications silently yet they can be attention-grabbing (adhd sends its regards), and you can check them or the time or the weather without fumbling with your phone.
- Comment on Progress 2 weeks ago:
Love it.
And that might be one I haven’t seen, which is even better.
- Comment on Progress 2 weeks ago:
I love the amazing advances in hardware and general tech that enabled this progression.
However, what I am finding only works better and better for my brain and well-being is to push in the opposite direction. I went from wearing a smart watch 23 hours a day, 365 days of the year for several years, to not even knowing where it is right now.
I do most of my computing/gaming/browsing on an old desktop PC running Linux. I just replaced the fans in one of the PCs that’s 15 years old because they sounded like a locomotive.
The best part though is getting up to get a drink, hit the restroom, or even go chill outside with my pets for an hour and just leave my phone wherever it’s sitting. Just some time to exist and pay attention to my senses and the world around me without getting fucking notifications.
Or hell, even being at work and literally working on technology while being isolated from the outside tech world trying to get my attention.
Though if you have a smart watch that can save you from missing notifications during those times. That’s why mine had to go, lol.
- Comment on snail lyfe 2 weeks ago:
When snails copulate, two penises enter two vaginal tracts.
That reminds me of this sweet old love song by an old cowboy band.
[Outro]
Criticize what you wreck
We’re fucking you back
Fucking you back - Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 2 weeks ago:
I’m currently driving a low-mileage 2012 Mazda 3 that we have owned since new, and it’s pretty great. It’s a 40mpg hwy vehicle, is fun to drive on the back roads to work manually selecting gears, and I can load 8ft lumber and 10ft pipes into it lengthwise (it’s a sedan too, not hatchback) at home depot while the guys hopping back into their shiny $80,000 commuter trucks watch me.
I think I want to replace it with an MX5 one day. Recent Mazda interiors I’ve looked at seem to have kept a reasonable balance of physical controls along with moderately sized infotainment screens. So maybe a new one could be on the table. We’ll see how the next revision turns out.
- Comment on necessary read 2 weeks ago:
I bet that’s also roughly the time that some higher ups in that party realized it must never be allowed to happen.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 2 weeks ago:
From the perspective of the MBAs and economists, small landlords being nice like that is just an inefficiency that the invisible hand of the market will eventually sweep away in favor of cold efficient corporate management.
It seems to be that a local landlord is basically just a mom and pop shop that hasn’t closed down yet because it only needs to find one customer to buy its one service.
- Comment on If proton decay isn't true 3 weeks ago:
Not a physicist, but I thought the heat death of the universe also involved all the matter being sucked into black holes and turned into pure energy. There’s a big chunk converted up front in the accretion disk, then the rest is converted into hawking radiation as the black hole(s) evaporate over the oodles and oodles of years.
Whether or not there are also lumps of iron-56 or other matter floating around in the cold void probably depends on the real truth behind dark matter and dark energy and their long-term behavior.
- Comment on I would give my life savings for something that eradicates them from my apartment 😌 3 weeks ago:
Can you please write a metal-as-fuck version of Charlotte’s Web where your black widow blood line watches you work on cars, or just live life or whatever?
I am imagining her as kind of a black leather halloween catwoman punk or slutty version of the original, but only you can tell her real story.
- Comment on Happy 20th anniversary to the Corrupted Blood incident! 4 weeks ago:
That general approach was so common. It really is sad.
One of the really bad effects of modern society (american especially) has been conditioning us to think of ourselves as these independent entities separate from nature and from our actual physical communities & people. We just interact with those things when we require their resources, etc. Transactional relationships happen.
One effect of this is, of course, not being considerate to those around you. But as your example shows, some people are so bad about it that it’s not even a question of deciding whether to choose their own convenience over the safety of others. Considering the risk to others never enters the picture in the first place. When asked about it they would answer something like “my health is my concern, their health is their concern, and it’s also none of my business.” Said politely and without malice. It’s just ingrained that deep.
- Comment on And I won't delete them either for nostalgia reasons 4 weeks ago:
This effect can be really messed up once you have a kid and they get to the ages where you can remember childhood memories.
Things that took FOR FUCKING EVER as a kid just zip past in the blink of an eye when I’m the parent instead of the child.
- Comment on Spokesperson 5 weeks ago:
You drive a Hemi? Balls to the wall?
- Comment on Spokesperson 5 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, Woodstock '99 was his peak!
Looking back through my spotty memories, it’s like Kid Rock had his rise in the late 90s and then vanished from the face of the earth after I saw him at Woodstock '99.
…well then they resurrected the brand a decade or two later to help elect the worst person on the planet to the most powerful job on the planet.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 5 weeks ago:
I will keep that in mind. I look forward to taking my time with it. Thank you again!
I ordered the other book too, but Wright’s book here has definitely jumped to the front of the line.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 1 month ago:
I was really curious to check out that first book after your short version.
But damn, the subject matter of that second book might draw my attention first. The Buddhist approach & techniques made so much sense to me in a completely pragmatic way.
I might have to order myself physical copies of both of these to read outside by my koi pond on cool fall days. The fact that the whole scene will be so on the nose to the point of being cliched will just amuse me further, lol.
Thanks for the recommendations!
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 1 month ago:
There’s a Jesus quote about specifically this. Here’s the first search result.
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished” (Matthew 5:17–18).
That’s the convenient quote that conservatives can point to when they still want to enforce old testament shit. For instance, claiming to follow Leviticus when they’re being homophobic, rather than going with their homeboy’s forgiveness and loving the sinner.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 1 month ago:
Jesus was the OG Nigerian Prince!
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 1 month ago:
I think about this more than anything in those quiet “run the brain’s existential dread garbage collection routine” moments.
Self aware consciousness is just so wild. Like you say, how does it even exist? But it’s also so common on our little planet here (even if we only count the humans) that it is as commonplace as it is spectacular.
It feels like this magical “extra” thing, but at the same time the evidence kinda suggests it’s just something that naturally happens once you get complex life.
- Comment on Woof is dog for "You may test that assumption at your convenience" 1 month ago:
Yeah. If we think of gorillas as the T-Rex of the primate world, then on paper baboons are pretty much the velociraptors. About half the weight of a human, really fast, and packing 6 inch canines.
- Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic 1 month ago:
A lot of right-wing people use … as an excuse to not care about … at all…
I thought your comment would be one of those rare instances where you can make a sentence more accurate by generalizing it.
They REALLY like doing it with people, and ruining the environment and/or climate is just shitting on other people (especially the poor ones) with an added level of abstraction.