mushroommunk
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- Comment on Pizza Party and Casual Fridays 2 days ago:
Unionize. At my last company I got everyone to sign an email (I just collected replies and then forwarded on) stating they would not return to office. Boss sent from mandating full week return to only one day and providing other benefits
- Comment on What was a bad TV show season renewal you've seen? 3 days ago:
Stargate Universe season 2.
I’m a huge Stargate fan but even I admit season 1 was rough. It wasn’t Stargate, it wasn’t a new thing yet, it was a weird mess and I did not have high expectations for season 2 at all. I think sadly they didn’t get their 3rd season as it was finally starting to come into it’s own and would have actually been great then. One day maybe we’ll get more Stargate but with Amazon recently canning what they were working on I’m not too hopeful.
- Comment on I didn't realize masala, was spicy 3 days ago:
They’re so much variety to Indian food. Some of it is very much hot spicy. I used to work with a guy who would bring in his wife’s samosas for me and boy those things burnt like hell. Loved ever second. I should see if he’s down for a drink sometime soon
- Comment on Bit harsh? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, the topic comes up quite often in the Welsh learners server I’m in (obviously full of Irish, Scottish, and Welsh people). It gets pretty heated going both ways, some annoyed by “culture thieves”, others glad people are learning.
I wouldn’t say the tests are bullshit. Some of the marketing for sure but the science behind them is sound. The problem is most people don’t really take the time to understand it at all and what it really means.
The reasons behind it being a trend are quite complex, probably beyond the scope of a Lemmy comment lol.
- Comment on Bit harsh? 2 weeks ago:
That and Hollywood and pop culture (which would be what I expect other countries interact with the most) likes to homogenize and play to the most common elements.
- Comment on Bit harsh? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with wanting to follow your heritage.
I do have Welsh ancestry it’s helped me dig into, but I mostly did it because of my love for Arthurian legend. Wanted to learn more about it and in the process came across stuff in Welsh and just went down a rabbit hole and never stopped.
- Comment on Bit harsh? 2 weeks ago:
USA you mean. (America covers Canada and Mexico and Brazil and… Well you get the picture).
As with anything in the US it’s more complex than that. Most of my friends speak a second language to some degree. German, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, and I myself am working on Welsh.
Sure you get plenty of ignorant folk who call it useless, like most of my relatives, but plenty want to learn. US is not really one homogenous culture despite how it might seem at times.
- Comment on Bit harsh? 2 weeks ago:
It really helps to have a community too. I found one for Welsh that has weekly chats geared towards learners. Experienced learners have been helping people learn no matter how simple the question. They’ve even started developing games and learning tools in Welsh to help more.
There’s similar communities for most languages I’d wager.
- Comment on Bit harsh? 2 weeks ago:
One of the things Discord is actually good for! I learned Welsh and found a community specifically for practicing talking the language mentored by more experienced people.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Just using simple translation would not add all that formatting. Plenty of non English speakers use translation tools. People aren’t buying it because you on one hand say no AI/vibecoding but then on the other hand use lots AI tools on the site and for posting.
It comes across as very “oh no you can trust me I’m totally not lying despite the evidence otherwise”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
And the lack of formatting that I would expect from a human. No explanation for what makes it special or why we should care, just a list of features. This just screams vibe coded data grab
- Comment on people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 3 weeks ago:
Crap, here I was thinking they used a Nintendo Powerglove and a Virtual Boy
- Comment on In a rough estimaten for how much money it would cost for Wikipedia to quit asking for donation for like the next 10 or 20 years....or forever? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been waiting for the 2026 update. So many sights have seen such an insane spike in AI not scraping traffic this year that has to play in some.
- Comment on Soldering 20m and 40m low pass filters from QRP Labs for RPi WSPR 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I don’t know how much you know about electronics but usually you want inductors pointing every which way so they don’t magnetically couple, but looking at the circuit and the tolerance on the entire thing I guess it’s fine, this saves a little space.
I usually play in speaker crossover land (exact same concepts and circuits, low pass filter, high pass filter, etc) and get a little OCD sometimes.
- Comment on Soldering 20m and 40m low pass filters from QRP Labs for RPi WSPR 3 weeks ago:
Any particular reason you didn’t lay the third ring flat to reduce coupling between all three?
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 4 weeks ago:
www.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/1txmcyd/…/opxtour/?…
Second sentence is literally the GOG rep stating is part of their culture. The reply is the dev explicitly stating they avoided several of the runes sent because of the connotations. Comments are full of people pointing out that they did not use the rune they claimed they did based on the Unicode and pointing out that in history using the double rune has had no meaning.
The developers also pointed out in a different spot they changed their logo because the old one had connotations they wanted to avoid but that GOG used the old one, despite having the new less problematic one.
Nothing GOG said passes the sniff test.
- Comment on Sony 4 weeks ago:
That’s the girl from Pragmata isn’t it? Doesn’t scream AI to me
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 4 weeks ago:
They went back and forth with the community more and the devs but basically repeated themselves
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 4 weeks ago:
Except their excuse that it was part of their culture and why they use it in the first place holds no water according to the developers of the game (part of said culture) as well as many others.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 4 weeks ago:
They released a standard non-apology claiming it was part of their culture and that people just didn’t understand. They also stated their German team raised issue with the email and that they just ignored it
- Comment on The perfect day alone starter pack 4 weeks ago:
I shove it into the freezer before it’s baked at all. It gets the full bake when it comes out. I’ll have the other in the oven keeping my house smelling good.
- Comment on The perfect day alone starter pack 4 weeks ago:
I’ve almost always got a frozen one in the freezer just for that reason. Doesn’t take much more effort to make two than one when I make em, them keep one for a cozy day
- Comment on The perfect day alone starter pack 4 weeks ago:
I would not call it a driving sim at all. It’s the game Peak but centered around an RV. You goof around with friends getting an RV stuck in a mudpit and having to winch it out, or wandering around cabins looking for spare parts and getting attacked by snakes. Yeah sure you drive the RV but that’s a vehicle for all the other shenanigans (pun intended). It’s as much a driving sim as Mario Kart.
On it’s own the game is nothing, but with three of your friends three beers in at midnight on a Friday? Hooboy now you’re talking.
- Comment on The perfect day alone starter pack 4 weeks ago:
Swap pizza for lasagna, single player for RV There Yet or Trine, and water for zero sugar blackberry soda and I’m in
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Please please please don’t plant invasive species. They will destroy native environments. It will do literally nothing to stop those datacenters and just cause more harm.
- Comment on Any second now 🙏 5 weeks ago:
Pray for the US. Our heat dome is hitting this week.
- Comment on How do you keep your shit organized? 5 weeks ago:
Honestly I’ve started really evaluating if I’ll ever actually do whatever project the supplies are for and if not getting rid of them (donate, sell, whatever, varies by item).
Will I actually use that piece of scrap? Will I really ever make that thing? Am I ever honestly going to reach for that color/texture? I’ve probably cut my supplies in half doing this, got a few local people into oodworking by parsing things out, and they got to learn on my rejects that cost basically nothing to them. Now I can actually see what I’ve got and do things.
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 5 weeks ago:
Riot and square too. Like Riot’s business model is one that StopKillingGames recognized would likely get excluded as it’s obvious from the start you only get your purchases while the servers are running. And square has supported their two mmos forever already, everybody knows exactly what they get there.
- Comment on How do you avoid AI music? 5 weeks ago:
Not really. I don’t follow any specific ones. Just go hunting through DDG searches and stuff when the mood for something new hits me. Though, they’re are a few music communities here on Lemmy including an eternal playlist one where people post more songs all the time.
- Comment on How do you avoid AI music? 5 weeks ago:
Whenever I’m feeling a new genre I don’t have a playlist for I find an already made one. Old blogs and forums and such have so many curated lists. Lots of music communities exist and are still updating lists with new artists. From there I either find lists recommending songs/artists similar to the ones I liked (again plenty of human curated lists) or get recommendations from friends.
I follow some of my absolute favorite artists and they post inspiration playlists when they’re making new albums from time to time too that I’ll often listen to.
Basically I just don’t randomly search for songs.
