bryndos
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- Comment on Solved or not, what games have great detailed mysteries/conspiracy theories that you can completely miss? 4 hours ago:
Did you hear the one about what the bishop did to the horsey in chess?
- Comment on What do you do if you lose an argument, but it turns out that you were actually right? 4 hours ago:
It's a Doberman. Let it have its ears.
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/arresteddevelopment/images/d/db/1x01_Pilot_%2827%29.png/revision/latest?cb=20120301045528 - Comment on What's a word for "I actively endorse it for others even though I dislike it”? 22 hours ago:
Your sentiment is both positive and negative, so probably too subtle for one single word you might need a phrase or a clever oxymoron or something like "enthusiastic nonchalance".
Maybe you "critically champion" or "gallantly tolerate" it or something. Maybe try German.Frankly though, I'd save your hatred for the worthy, keep it pure otherwise you might not get the right mix of fear and anger to reach true endarkenment.
- Comment on Some of Android's Most Interesting Games Aren't on the Play Store 3 days ago:
unciv and mindustry maybe the most polished i've played on f-droid. they're probably on play store too idk.
pixel wheels is ok, but controls finicky - there's one lap record that i just cant get, but i'm sure on a keyboard i could.
- Comment on What do you do if you lose an argument, but it turns out that you were actually right? 4 days ago:
As soon as you're in an argument it's probably a waste of time.
Only continue if it matters to a real decision.
If it's a real decision and you have reached the point of an argument then it might be better to try to propose experiments or tests to increase the evidence base and directly address the differences of opinion.
- Comment on I'm a dev who has been working on my game for 2 years and my game title got stolen on Steam and they plan to release before I do. What should I do? 1 week ago:
https://steamcommunity.com/dmca/create
But be warned that it might tie up both games in bureaucracy.
You might hope that steam has the timestamps readily available to prove the sequence of events - though I'm a bit skeptical of cloud storage about that stuff. So you might want your own evidence from your own storage.It'd be good to try to find someone who has gone through it on steam, and of course a lawyer, if you can afford it.
- Comment on Human, all too human 1 week ago:
Mine's like mourinho wool though, it has all sorts of natural oils and ecosystemic stuff that either dissuades the virus, or causes it to hang out and party.
More seriously i thought the masks were not to protect the wearer but to protect others from their breath. That's why selfish fuck holes didn't want to wear them. If it protected them they might have considered it more carefully.
- Comment on What is the significance of a wave NOT changing its energy at diffraction? 1 week ago:
What would diffracted light waves look like if they did change their energy at diffraction?
I guess the energy loss would be either absorbed into the diffraction medium, or reflected, so it would change colour - or maybe do a cool prism / pink floyd thing?
- Comment on Human, all too human 1 week ago:
At least he can always breathe fresh hair.
important question for hipsters: did anyone get away without a covid mask by claiming their soup strainer was anti-viral?
- Comment on Is there any active forum/community for MX Linux users ? 1 week ago:
You'll be best off on the MX website forums I'd think.
I don't think i understand the concept of "mastering" a specific distribution though. They're all just (often overlapping) collections of tools, many of which can be swapped. Mastery involves knowing when to choose different tools, and adapting and developing bespoke ones when necessary - it's probably impossible in linux because there are are too many.
But more generally what's the difference between MX linux and debian?
I guess it doesn't use systemd which is quite a big difference to be aware of, but apart from that 90% of stuff is going to be the same. It must still have manpages and some package manager. You could probably even install apt if you wanted to.On here i think linuxmemes is the best place to get linux advice, just ask your question there and put "i use mx linuxBTW" at the end to make it a 'meme'. /s /not-s you'll get more engagement.
- Comment on When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket 1 week ago:
Yes, it seems like an "everyone else is wasting water so why shouldn't we" argument.
If i were in a drought prone area and there were golf courses watering all the time then I'd hope people would complain about that too.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Probably not materially faster than they leave - over the long run.
This first graph is mostly dominated by mastodon obviously we don't know who did or did not use reddit previously, but its a general pattern.
https://fediverse.observer/stats&months=96Similar pattern in monthly active users for lemmy specifically.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats&months=96I don't know about newer versions like pieface or whatever - but since the total fedi population is fairly stable any specific software is probably mostly shuffling the same people around.
Though maybe the dataset doesn't crawl stats for newer ones, I don't really know - but it feels pretty stable population with inflows and outflows more or less matching.
- Comment on How do I remove this printing that transferred from my dish washing gloves onto my cabinet door?? 1 week ago:
Other possibles to try are white spirits/paint thinners, or acetone/ nail polish remover.
Be careful they don't damage the surface, best to test on an unseen part first.Depending on the finish you could sand or polish it off with high grit sand paper, or even maybe rub with toothpaste as a very mild abrasive/polish.
- Comment on Is it possible to install a distro directly from online ? 2 weeks ago:
Yep similar to steam os / steam deck.
It's really good user experience, ticks all the boxes of what a lot of linux evangelists claim the windows will all want to switch to . It's even surprisingly usable in desktop mode (with mouse and keyboard).That's what you can do with linux on defined hardware and with a dedicated team paid by a fairly large corpo making cash out of the users.
But the linux user base is way more diverse than that - not everyone is going to want graphene , or steamOS type thing. especially not just to pander to windozers.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
But does it do any worse than c/linux? Does it gaslight you into nixos and give you anxiety about rollbacks/rebuilds?
/s /jk - Comment on AI Data Centers’ Water Consumption Breaks 264 Billion Gallons in 2025 as Devastating Drought Hits Nearly 63% of U.S. 2 weeks ago:
If their wastewater is clean and goes back into the usable water supply straight away then that's fine. But if it flushes into drains or evaporates then you might have to wait a while for it to come back as fresh rain - and land in the right places to fill up the reservoirs.
It might matter how they're designed/regulated and whether they keep the water clean and usable - which I assume costs more of other resources.
- Comment on What was the internet like before Y2K happened ? 2 weeks ago:
All the gifs and jpegs were in sepia.
Back then internet servers were getting a bit of flack from environmentalists for the destruction of cuttlefish populations.
But napster kept the masses placated so there was never a revolution.
- Comment on 340 Local News Outlets Now Blocking The Internet Archive 2 weeks ago:
To defend against ai or to defend their paywalls?
If they're not putting their "knowledge" in to public domain I'm not sure how bothered I am.
I think print media is pretty much dead as a way of accountability, and i think something sharper might be beneficial.
- Comment on The market is turning into a giant server ? 2 weeks ago:
Mostly it's just cheaper due to lower staff and rent costs, and maybe more efficient logistics, and less travel time / search cost for customer.
I still like in person shopping though, when i can, just pay the premium to be able to see what I'm buying and poke it a few times to check the quality.
Agree about large car park based shopping centres though, they're shite.
It'd be nice to have town centre back and real markets. Drive out the infestation of fucking hipster food stalls charging over a tenner for lunch. But there just isn't the trade to support more than a few real market stalls in my town.
- Comment on Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully. 2 weeks ago:
Yes , pretty common for large vehicles to have to to this sooner or later.
Driver shouldn't be operating such large vehicles if their training and licensing, and knowledge of turning circle isn't enough for them to know how to do this safely. - Comment on Why do businesses and other public facilities have a metal plate where the door knob should be? Is pushing open the door more sanitary or something? 2 weeks ago:
Business doors are often sprung to close automatically - possibly a fire regulation thing.
So they don't need a latch to stay shut. A knob or handle is often the way to release the latch.Flat plates vs say, a bar to pull can also naturally communicate push vs pull if it only opens one way.
- Comment on Is it ideal to renounce citizenship if moving abroad permanently? 3 weeks ago:
Why would another country let you in the first place?
- Comment on I found the Picasso gender bathroom 3 weeks ago:
If there is only one basin - and it's a multi user facility - then I'd rather not queue whilst some vain cunt is preening itsself in the mirror for minutes after washing its hands.
I'm not sure there's quite enough space to squeeze in, but probably doable.
They should budge the mirror left and the basin right. - Comment on Proof that math is real 3 weeks ago:
tree
- Comment on We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. 4 weeks ago:
fuck these climate change deniers
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 4 weeks ago:
roulette
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 4 weeks ago:
I'm glad this still exists.
https://progressquest.com/ - Comment on Would it be possible to model 9/11 using hot dogs for the planes? 4 weeks ago:
jenga towers?
- Comment on Why do I lose my temper if I'm blocked from a community or by a user? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I think that says something about them - crazy people.
Better off out of it. - Comment on Why do I lose my temper if I'm blocked from a community or by a user? 5 weeks ago:
How do you get to know you get blocked?
Do they send you a message like they're police or a judge or something - that's weird.
When i block someone, i just click block - i assume they never know.Blocking people is good though, I do it regularly when i feel I've wasted time reading some shit. Maybe you should block a few more just to get perspective on their side.
I assume I've been blocked by loads of people, but I don't really know how or why I'd know ?
