Zink
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- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 3 days ago:
Not necessarily, IMO. You tilt your head back to look up, but you don’t tilt your head left to look right.
I think it’s an issue of mapping potentially 6 axes of movement to a 2D plane. They don’t all line up the same way. Left and right in the game line up with left and right on the mousepad, but up and down in the game map to forward and back with the mouse.
Thinking of the mouse being glued to the top of your head works better for me.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 3 days ago:
I agree and oh man did I love that config.
But over the years there would be those asshole games that were still worth playing, or once I had a kid it would be some janky game he was having fun with.
So I actually managed to convert to WASD then years later to non-inverted.
It’s certainly not better, but it sure is convenient.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 3 days ago:
A conservative saying something that sounds reasonable in order to convince the listener that the opposite is true.
Conservative messaging 101 right there.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 3 days ago:
For some it takes a village.
For some like Charlie it takes an orgy. Of exclusively middle aged dad bods.
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 4 days ago:
He had shitty opinions
I think we should stop saying this.
He was killed for his actions, not his opinions. His members are the ones who kill for opinions.
Discussing his personal opinions feels like a bit of a republican both sidesing talking point, honestly. It was the same with talk radio hosts decades ago. People would argue whether Limbaugh or Hannity really believe all the BS or if they just do it for ratings.
I only remember caring about that distinction when I was still immersed in the conservatism I was born into.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
weather leads to climate, climate leads to fear…
Fear… leads to sOcIaLiSm!
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 week ago:
Harambe was 2016!
Not my joke, but it fits, lol.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 week ago:
The internet has made us aware of how fucked up our kind is.
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 1 week ago:
It was a rough time back then. But a simpler time…
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 1 week ago:
Whoa whoa, if my car is getting a larger percentage of incidental dinosaur from its refined petroleum products than the percentage of incidental spider legs and rat shit I myself am getting from my processed food products, I am going to be totally jealous.
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 1 week ago:
Do people ever actually think of the Jurassic period though, or do they just live in a society where Jurassic Park and Jurassic World have made that period’s name synonymous with dinosaurs?
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 week ago:
Oh there are many places named Washington in the US!
There’s a small city called Washington, PA. It’s easy to find because it’s also in Washington county!
If you find yourself in California, PA instead of Washington, PA then you made the same mistake as if you ended up in big-ass California instead of big-ass Washington: too far south!!
Oh yeah, you can also attend Washington and Jefferson College in Washington city in Washington county! :D
- Comment on Who could have predicted this? 1 week ago:
I think it’s more that I’m a person trying to give an honest recommendation to help a fellow human being, and it is the ADS that try to be like ME! :D
But you’re right. My strategic placement of exclamation points make it read like an infomercial script. Remember the meme about using occasional exclamation point in work emails to seem not insane!
- Comment on Who could have predicted this? 1 week ago:
My son is too, he just doesn’t know it yet. ;)
The PC is in another room but the desk for it isn’t in place yet. And he knows it exists. He’s just in third grade and is not quite an Operating System Snob just yet.
- Comment on Who could have predicted this? 1 week ago:
Linux Mint Cinnamon is awesome. I’m a developer for embedded linux systems and I run the current version of Mint on all my machines, even at work. Having a user friendly experience out of the box doesn’t make it not Linux/FOSS.
And if the ease of installation surprised you, just wait until you see what system updates are like compared with windows!
I updated two of my systems to Linux Mint 22.2 yesterday and the entire install process runs in the background in about 90 seconds without disrupting what you’re doing (I was in a meeting while I let it install). Then you reboot whenever convenient and that’s less than another minute.
- Comment on Jeez, it's like there's no appeasing you tyrants 2 weeks ago:
Hell yeah girl! 🤘🏻
- Comment on Jeez, it's like there's no appeasing you tyrants 2 weeks ago:
Same demographic here. Suuuuper traditional looking. Single earner for my family, wife is a stay at home mom and very involved with the elementary school, and my husky bearded self was outside all day building shit with power tools and tending to my animals.
And fuck all that judgey hateful angry negative bullshit.
Touch grass, he says? So tolerating the existence of blue-haired libruls is an internet recluse thing and getting out there in the real world will set you straight?
When is the last time you touched corn stalks? Pet a dog? Pet a dog-sized fish or turtle? Sprayed yourself with a hose to cool off? Stared at the clouds? Gazed at the stars? Played with a child or an animal? Cared for others?
It’s funny, you know. I remember a time when I would have answered like you. But the more stuff I learn, the more people I meet, and the more I listen to voices on the left & right while observing their actions, the more the blue-haired trans lesbians seem like me and the more voices like yours (including decades of experience with the trumpy parts of my extended family) are not just off-putting but kinda disappointing and sad.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I am not going to contradict any doctors when it comes to the risks, but for my ears and the way I do it, I haven’t ever hurt myself and my PCP says my ears are completely clear at each checkup.
I think I’m fortunate to have pretty light thin wax though.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
Did anybody else just get LOST flashbacks?
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
I got my MBA almost a decade ago, several years after getting my software engineering master’s first. We hadn’t started a family yet, and my employer had amazing tuition reimbursement.
It didn’t work on me though, even though there were some interesting systems, math, and psychology to learn about. I am still an individual contributor writing code daily, helping the younger engineers, and growing into my generalist graybeard best self.
Unfortunately my dark side training hasn’t given me much insight that you don’t already have yourself, most likely. I guess it’s worth pointing out that while most probably live in that fantasy world, there are some smart nerdy people in that world who might be driven to optimize their business like they’d min-max a dungeon crawler build. There’s just something else that went wrong along the way, lol.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
Some of us are real go-getters and realize we can bring the farm to us long before we retire! I am currently typing this on my Linux couch computer wearing lightweight clothes with literal dirt smeared on them, on a dinner break before I return to the back yard and continue today’s construction project. Sometimes being a “farmer” also means becoming a carpenter!
Granted, it works much better for the suburban homeowner than anybody living in a city and/or an apartment.
And when I refer to myself as a “farmer,” all my animals are family pets cared for as a hobby. There is 0% business plan. Well, probably negative %. When we have too many animals (usually too many fish in the pond) we give them away for free!
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 2 weeks ago:
I played about 75 hours of it back in 2019. Most of the time I was driven by the same thing that drives me to spend dozens of hours in open world RPGs wandering and finding stuff before doing the main quest. It also helped that it had good VR support, and I had just played a ton of Skyrim VR that same year.
But of course in NMS, there is no main quest to return to when things on the open road get slow. And you do not have the same had designed locations and loot to stumble across.
In retrospect I can see parallels with f2p games that are just an infinite numbers-go-up grind. The game is designed such that you do the same shit forever. (If my info is out of date though, I welcome corrections)
- Comment on THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES 2 weeks ago:
Very well put!
So many people would agree that the idea behind “stop and smell the roses” is a good and healthy one. And so few people would actually do it in real life.
I would even expand what you said to include things like living intentionally and experiencing the moment are part of that general skill of finding fulfillment in a world that will never be unbroken.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 3 weeks ago:
My son just started third grade. It is actually super easy to answer questions like this if you’re a kind person who allows others to keep their humanity if they are different, and if you actually cultivate a relationship with your child.
Explaining how two women parent a child? Wow, that must be tough my snoop guy. Better to just hide from the public like a little bitch, as you might say.
I mean, I’ve had to address things like the topic of death because of a grandparent dying young and a future sibling ending in a miscarriage. And the original due date recently passed too. oof.
But thank fucking god that in my family’s weakened state, none of us were assaulted by the vile image of two women holding hands and kissing a baby on the head at the same time.
Check this out though Dogg: if you were sent back 50 years in time with white skin and no memory, within a week you’d be fighting to bring back segregation. Cunt.
- Comment on These gender reveals are getting rather ridiculous.. 3 weeks ago:
The last time I made an IEWMD for a gender reveal it ruined the whole evening.
- Comment on THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES 3 weeks ago:
The “kids these days” part doesn’t do much for me but the central point of “everything is amazing and nobody is happy” absolutely does.
It resonates with me because I find more wonder in the everyday stuff we take for granted than I ever did getting getting dragged into church as a kid. My first flight was 35 years ago and I still sit by the window and look at the world from that “chair in the sky” perspective the whole time.
And just to be clear, yes of course the world is full of bad shit. Our amazing technology helps is be hyper aware of that.
- Comment on Modern Windows in a nutshell 3 weeks ago:
“WELCOME TO CLOCKO COM
ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE”
- Comment on Modern Windows in a nutshell 3 weeks ago:
Using a modern package manager in Linux after being used to windows for a decade or two was absolutely stunning.
But it was not unique. I see that kind of difference all over the OS as well as in FOSS vs commercial apps.
The difference in design motivations and important stakeholders is pretty obvious!
- Comment on Modern Windows in a nutshell 3 weeks ago:
oh jeez, lol. Edited to fix for any future readers.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 3 weeks ago:
My Celeron was overclocked and all, but sometimes that stuff just took too long and I tested the changes in fullbright!