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- Comment on Chat, is this accurate? 39 minutes ago:
Can you lick a gas?
Or do you have to cool it down until liquid? - Comment on "My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs 4 days ago:
I think I had a demo of one of the mechwarrior games, but it ran slow on my PC, or was a bit boring, or something, I never got on with it.
It was in the doom era though , and very little could compete (from my perspective) - so probably i just played doom coop (until it turns into defacto deathmatch) anyway. I mean that was most of the 1990s the way i remember it.
Certainly the mechwarrior demo wouldn't have had networking anyway - but i feel like maybe it got less out of my meagre hardware than doom did.
- Comment on "My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs 4 days ago:
Honest question:
What were the best games developed directly by ms on it's own. I can only think of flight simulator, and that's not really a game. I just genuinely don't think I've played any.I mean ignoring minesweeper and space cadet pinball or whatever.
Oh maybe like forza motorsport? was that them?
It's weird that they don't brand them - I guess B2B is too important to them to risk reputation on frivolity. Which is odd because of all the f-words i could use about sharepoint, i think frivolous is about the nicest.
- Comment on Why do cooks and chefs cook in base 5 increments? For example setting the off at 350 , 375, 450 and so on. Is there a reason for this or is this how it always has been done? 4 days ago:
I know yanks hate decimal and stuff because of how hard the mental arithmetic is, but it's half of the more significant digit.
I guess and they wanted more precision than 10s, but don't see the need for sx, so they split it in half or the equipment is not capable of more precision.TBH - I don't know what a dungaree fezundheit is anyway, but I'd imagine 5F is way spurious accuracy already for a domestic oven. I reckon you'd need an industrial or scientific kiln for that type of accuracy - so it's probably more a psychology / user interface thing.
In which case the answer is, 'because enough customers are happy enough with it as it is.' - Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 6 days ago:
- Comment on Is there a way to make a recovery USB just in case shit happens? Will it still work without a recovery moment? 1 week ago:
There's a boot key press combination to interrupt normal start up and select an alternative boot medium. Usually things like f12, f1, del, or esc, mashed at the right time after power-on.
For locked down devices like modern smartphones and probably games consoles etc, it's a lot more involved, and it may be next to impossible to boot a different OS, but there's often a combo to get at least into a factory reset boot menu.
Edit:
lookinto 'system-rescue-cd' or 'knoppix' which are pretty useful USBs to have around lots of tools to try to mount and recover disks and move data . 'clonezilla' can also be useful to create a disk image before you try any risky steps.Beware Modern windows likes to encrypt which might impede those tools.
I've seen cases where the user doesn't know (claims to never have been told!) the decryption key.
In those cases recovery may be hard/complex in some scenarios.But a proper backup system (3-2-1 , fairly often) for important data is a far better way to prepare for "shit". And "the cloud is not a complete backup system" is not a bad a general rule.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 1 week ago:
oh right, cool. i'll stick to my chunky chunks then.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 1 week ago:
Is there such a thing?
I've had a few crappy ones, they're basically e-waste after a few uses or trips.
So I revert to a full size internal sata one or the same but in a 5.1/4" external caddy (powered). - Comment on 1 week ago:
You don't download or install aur itself. It's a repository of packages.
Helper programs like paru make it easier for you to connect to, search, download, build and update packages from the repo.
You can also use other methods, for example 'git' to clone the source for the package and build it yourself, but the helper programs should also help fetch dependencies.
As with everything in arch, the wiki is recommended reading:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_helpers
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository - Comment on Why Aren't there More Fem-Focused Werewolf Stories? 1 week ago:
Angua without the i.
I was going to mention her if no one else did.Maybe supports your point though as IIRC she was sort of forced into the watch by an affirmative action campaign from the city. I think there were some sexist attitudes from the male coppers.
Slightly tangential but there was a teenage fantasy series by David Eddings featuring some sorcerers who were basically clarting about as wolves half the time, one of the main characters, Polgara was i think effectively a werewolf, but it was by choice rather than forced by the moon.
Heh, this is interesting, i had no idea male werewolves went back as far as Gilgamesh. https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/although-male-werewolves-have-appeared-in-fiction-since-the-very-beginning-female-werewolves-are-relatively-new-literary-monsters-so-where-do-these-female-werewolves-come-from-and-what-baggage-do-t/
- Comment on Shrinkflation hits again! 2 weeks ago:
Straw is cheaper than rasp by weight.
- Comment on Was there ever a solid or scientific answers to which came first chicken or the egg? 2 weeks ago:
I think it you take any example of a chicken that is alive today and were able to trace back its ancestry far enough then you'd eventually find an ancestor that most reasonable people would agree is not a chicken. And probably many of those "non-chicken" ancestors did hatch out of "non-chicken" eggs. So I think that it is most likely that some "non-chicken" egg existed before, and forms part of the direct ancestry of, every chicken that has ever lived. If that's what you're asking.
Many of the arguments to support 'chicken' being first seem to add the assumption that "egg" must mean "chicken-egg". That assumption doesn't seem reasonable to me, especially in the context of ancestry. Maybe it would be reasonable to creationists though - so frankly if someone does believe that I'd just walk away and let them "win". I'd rather find a natural history museum and see if they have any proto-chicken exhibits than waste time with people like that.
My answer is also based on extra assumptions too. I've slotted the indefinite article in to the gap "[a] chicken", and worse replaced the definite article "the" with the indefinite "an" in reference to 'the' egg. People will argue about that, but the question is ambiguous, and needs to be more specific.
'Which came first the troll or the bait?' - Comment on Google reCaptcha intentionally failed without telling me, how is this allowed?? 2 weeks ago:
spoiler-title
She's a robot who thinks she's human.
Something, something, electric sheep.
- Comment on How did we reach to having 18 required for voting in elections? 2 weeks ago:
I think tellytubbies might make better leaders than my country elects.
- Comment on Google reCaptcha intentionally failed without telling me, how is this allowed?? 2 weeks ago:
Is this you by any chance?
https://www.alamy.com/sean-young-blade-runner-1982-image475408091.html
- Comment on Are there words in reverse order between two languages using the Latin Alphabet? 2 weeks ago:
This is not quite the same, but:
May day. (English)
M'aide. (French)
Help me. (English)
La Fête du Travail (French) - Comment on 2 weeks ago:
no
- Comment on Solved or not, what games have great detailed mysteries/conspiracy theories that you can completely miss? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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”? 3 weeks 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 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 ? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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] 4 weeks 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?? 4 weeks 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.
