e0qdk
@e0qdk@reddthat.com
kbin account: e0qdk@kbin.social
This is my Lemmy alt. I’m about 50/50 between kbin and reddthat these days, but my kbin account is more established. If you’re looking for my older posts, check there.
Interests: programming, video games, anime, music composition
- Comment on How many robots are there? 2 weeks ago:
Probably hundreds of millions or billions if you include things like washing machines, dish washers, automated gates, garage openers, etc. that automate specific tasks. Just the read/write arms in hard disks alone is probably a staggeringly huge number, if we’re counting things like that…
- Comment on Driving game poll 2 weeks ago:
Might be this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vk6hANjLeU
YT thinks I’m a bot and has me blocked for some reason, so can’t confirm.
On the original CD-ROM, it was SOUND/RADIO/STATIONS/Bluegrass/MUSIC/sp.WAV
Probably the best song in the game. Certainly the most memorable!
- Comment on Driving game poll 2 weeks ago:
I think I’d get bored pretty quick just driving around with no goal – although, I did have a fair amount of fun driving around Streets of Sim City as a kid and probably spent more time messing around my own SC2K maps than I did with the actual game missions, so I could be wrong about how bored I’d get of a pure driving simulator…
Regardless of whether I’d enjoy it, I have family members who I’m pretty sure would find it right up their alley – especially the classic car aspect.
- Comment on What was the first thing or video or music or whatever that was so called "pirated" from the internet? How did it happen and was the end user happy? 4 weeks ago:
No idea, but Lenna is probably one of the earlier images pirated over the internet given its history in testing image compression algorithms.
- Comment on Let's ask this AI app! 5 weeks ago:
Not good enough for me knowing there are Thomas Midgley Juniors out there:
On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for sixty seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems. […] Midgley later took a leave of absence from work after being diagnosed with lead poisoning.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
He was the jackass who invented both leaded gasoline and CFCs and inflicted them on the world.
- Comment on LEARN THE TRUTH 5 weeks ago:
Ah, the real Bugs Bunny.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 2 months ago:
I haven’t seen compelling enough evidence to believe in the supernatural.
That said, we do seem to be well on our way to engineering ghost-like phenomenon. People will set up LLMs and generative AI systems that imitate dead people, if they haven’t already…
No ghosts IRL? No problem! We’ll make ghosts!
Thanks Humanity. 🙄️
- Comment on Say no to BAYES 2 months ago:
Is this a Bayeskisser meme? 😛️
- Comment on What was your social media path? 2 months ago:
IM-based: AIM+MSN+etc… -> IRC -> Google Talk -> SMS -> (nothing for many years) -> Slack (for work)
Web-Based: forums (esp. GMC) -> Digg -> reddit (mainly) + HN (sometimes) -> kbin -> lemmy
- Comment on So Deep 2 months ago:
I don’t know about bears, but I wouldn’t it put it past a bonobo…
- Comment on Why does google decide to log people out of all their google accounts all at once with no warning? 2 months ago:
I use container tabs for that. Makes it easy to keep two logged in accounts side-by-side.
- Comment on How on earth do I fix my trackpad? 2 months ago:
if anyone knows a better solution to sharing videos that doesn’t involve making accounts, please let me know!
You can upload small files (under 200MB) to catbox.moe
I don’t know how to fix your trackpad issue though. Sorry.
- Comment on LE TITS NOW 3 months ago:
“Colder than a witch’s tits!”, as some of my relatives are fond of saying.
- Comment on What are your favorite RPG maker games? 3 months ago:
Demons Roots is probably the best RPG Maker game I’ve played that was actually playable as an RPG. (So, not counting things like To The Moon which other people have already mentioned.)
I wasn’t a fan of most of the sexual content in Demons Roots, but taking the whole thing as basically a giant love letter to fucked up doujinshi stories – i.e. to unpolished indie writing with wild genre bending plot twists in addition to the hentai stuff – I can accept it for what it is. The game has that RPGMaker wabi-sabi; it’s not especially well-crafted software… but the combat was OK (unlike a lot of indie RPGs), the music was good – a mix of original and mostly well chosen asset packs (I still listen to some of it occasionally!), and, without getting into spoilers, it did a couple of very memorable things…
- Comment on Micron to boost DRAM output with $1.8bn chip fab buy 3 months ago:
By “legacy” they probably mean that they work with the older process technologies, not that the fab itself is old:
In its May 2024 ’Hooray, we’re open!’ announcement, PSMC said it invested more than NT$300 billion (US$9.5 billion) on the facility, and that it had capacity to produce 50,000 12-inch wafers per month under 55, 40 and 28 nanometer technology nodes.
Those kinds of chips are still very useful for things like cars and washing machines and such where you don’t need bleeding edge chip tech.
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 3 months ago:
Most games have trophies designed by some corporate drone and consist of a handful of trophies giving for completing the storyline and the rest for token actions that you’ll inevitably do while playing.
Those are basically just publicly accessible analytics for how far people typically get in a game.
- Comment on Mount an ISO in Linux? 3 months ago:
As others have noted, you can use the
mountcommand from the terminal. On Mint, you should also be able to use the Disks utility that ships with the OS if you’d prefer to use a GUI. - Comment on Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew? 4 months ago:
OP has a ℂ now.
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 4 months ago:
Yes, and they’re often used together.
Celery is cold tolerant and can be grown/harvested in winter, IIRC. That might also be a factor in why it’s prevalent in soups?
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 4 months ago:
It’s an aromatic vegetable: thespruceeats.com/what-are-cooking-aromatics-5223…
- Comment on Any games I missed in the last 21 months? 4 months ago:
I haven’t gotten around to playing either of them yet myself, but Nine Sols and Astro Bot also come to mind as titles that got a lot of attention.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 5 months ago:
What does a mile per hour really even mean when you can turn back time? 🤔️
- Comment on We love PEGging ❤️ 5 months ago:
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- Comment on 5 months ago:
Is that… Hatsune Miku modded into Mario 64?
- Comment on Pornhub is urging tech giants to enact device-based age verification 5 months ago:
How is device-based age verification different?
You put your device in child safety mode, and it tells sites “I’m a kid, treat me like a kid” – otherwise the site can assume you’re an adult with full rights. Done. No intrusive ID requirements. No face scanning. No third-party payment shakedowns. Parents, in theory, can still stop their five year olds from accidentally accessing PornHub or other content that would disturb them by just clicking a button when they set up an account on the device.
It’s, frankly, the sane way to do this if we’re going to have age restrictions.
- Comment on The ‘Great Meme Reset’ Is Coming: From Jack Dorsey to Gen Alpha, everyone seemingly wants to go back to the internet of a decade ago. But is it possible to reverse AI slop and brain rot? 5 months ago:
- Comment on The osu! Open Source Client, Lazer, Has Been Made the Default Download Option for New Users 5 months ago:
I did do the tutorial (after fucking up the first time through the initial setup and only getting the recommended songs and going “?!?!?!” for a moment) so I know about Z/X but what I mean is it’s not entirely clear if I’m supposed to keep holding them while dragging. The UI’s clear enough if I missed entirely, but if I kind of got it, I’m not really sure if I’m doing it right. With the reversals and the circle closing-in timing and a lot going on on the screen visually, it’s a bit much all at once. TBF, it’d probably make sense if I spend more time poking at it; those were my initial impressions.
Thanks for trying to help me, btw, with your comment; always appreciated.
- Comment on The osu! Open Source Client, Lazer, Has Been Made the Default Download Option for New Users 5 months ago:
I’ve seen recordings of people playing this before in stream VODs a couple times before the player fired up another game, and, well, this post finally got me to try it.
The on-ramp for new players trying to make sense of it is, uh, not great. Trying to make an account on the website tells you to download the game. Okay… Trying to make an account in the game then sent me back to the website!? (Why not just let me register on the website in the first place?)
The basic idea of the circle mode is easy enough to understand – although I doubt I will ever get very good at this, at least with a mouse, and I’m still not quite sure on whether or not I’m supposed to hold a key down/click-and-drag or just click and then follow the motion? – but there are other modes that it threw me in (mania?) when I tried loading another song from the catalog and it was rather difficult to even figure out what keys I was supposed to push. (The diagram on the wiki was not helpful – I spent a while confused thinking I was supposed to use ASDF for a “4K” when it seems like it’s actually DFJK for some reason?) Probably all makes sense to someone who’s been playing it for years, but, yeah… Pretty UI, but the on-boarding could use some work.
Might be fun to poke around at for music discovery though.
Anyway, that’s my 2 cents worth from giving it a try.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 5 months ago:
Nice!
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 5 months ago:
Now if it just had a replaceable battery…
