dihutenosa
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- Comment on How do other countries view American super hero movie's always putting the threat in new york or whatever? Instead of their own country and have their own superheroes? 1 week ago:
What’s your personal media diet?
Books (mostly sci-fi - Permutation City by Greg Egan) are easy to fit into short slices of time.
Video games (Cataclysm: DDA, Dwarf Fortress) are nice when you have a hour or more to concentrate.
Music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6rCu2Daeyo) is always nice. Doesn’t demand much attention, if you can’t spare much, but can absorb any amount of it (more complex stuff like Maurice Ravel).
Movies? I tried movies, but they require dedication (if I’m going to sit for 2 hours in front of my PC, I’d rather do something fun - and movie theaters are a whole new level of hassle), the content is either boring or nerve-wrackingly stressful.
IIRC, the last movie I watched was some Star Wars something - it had spaceships just sitting just above a planet (instead of orbiting - why wasn’t it falling down like a stone?), and when one spaceship flew near another, there was audible sound (rumble) in the other one. I suppose they must have played this rumble over speakers, or something. I can suspend my disbelief and imagine the “laser” weapons that shoot slow-moving pink plastic-looking cylindrical things are mislabeled as “laser”, and are actually firing some particle beams or something, but I can’t forgive sound transmitted through space.
- Comment on How do other countries view American super hero movie's always putting the threat in new york or whatever? Instead of their own country and have their own superheroes? 1 week ago:
Sorry, my bad. Initially I meant it as a “not everyone is an American” group with sample size = 1.
- Comment on I say this as an ex-coder, but is it possible to ask for a paper ballot instead of using the stupid machines when voting? 1 week ago:
Where I vote, you plop your government-issued smartcard in your PC and cryptographically sign your vote. Of course, this raises a privacy concern.
It should ideally be impossible to determine who you voted for, or if you did, while still allowing you to verify your vote got counted. Last I checked, this was an active (and super interesting) area of research in cryptography.
- Comment on How do other countries view American super hero movie's always putting the threat in new york or whatever? Instead of their own country and have their own superheroes? 1 week ago:
Good point, thanks, I learned something.
- Comment on How do other countries view American super hero movie's always putting the threat in new york or whatever? Instead of their own country and have their own superheroes? 1 week ago:
Thou confusest my personal perspective with bovine excretions. I’ve heard the name “Batman”, none of the rest rings any bells. I am hereby offering an utterly personal perspective on Ameirican pop culture - we have no contact.
- Comment on How do other countries view American super hero movie's always putting the threat in new york or whatever? Instead of their own country and have their own superheroes? 1 week ago:
Easy! We don’t view, or watch, American superhero movies. Never saw them or their appeal.
- Comment on Any good tools for learning blind typing? 1 week ago:
Just type stuff. Take a frequeent word you use, then repeat it until fluent.
- Comment on Is using an ssd as a cache to speed up a harddrive still a thing? 3 weeks ago:
Yep, I’m running this setup. Honestly, I haven’t measured how much better it is than a plain HDD, tho.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The 2GB of RAM are going to hit you harder than the HDD, if you intend to run a modern browser on it…
- Comment on Need to clean my keyboard 1 month ago:
I too use Dvorak 👋
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 10th 2 months ago:
Started a new run of Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, got eaten by zombies in minutes. Will try again when I have time.
- Comment on Deal with it, Libby. 2 months ago:
Hard to tell from this distance, but the roof looks nice and waterproof!
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 11 months ago:
AI deepfake? Meh.