BartyDeCanter
@BartyDeCanter@piefed.social
- Comment on "Buy more storage for only 19,99$ a month!" 6 days ago:
Ah, fair enough. Best of luck to you.
- Comment on "Buy more storage for only 19,99$ a month!" 6 days ago:
I have no opinion on OneDrive, because my only experience with it is through memes like this. Why do you put up with it?
- Comment on I subsist on caffeine alone 6 days ago:
I have type 2 narcolepsy and every genetic marker for high stimulant tolerance.
I’m hoping to get on the oxybates to see if they help, but my next sleep test isn’t until December. I’m wanting to try a few other meds, but they are both highly addictive and can mess up the test. My current plan is that if can’t get the oxybates after my test, to try some of the stimulants and alternate them as I pick up a tolerance. I might have to either find a street dealer or go to Mexico for them though.
I’m trying to avoid opioids as a substitute for oxybates, but I have to admit that trying codine to see if it helps is getting very tempting.
Looks like I made it almost five minutes past three, so now it’s nap time.
- Comment on I subsist on caffeine alone 6 days ago:
I’m on stimulants that require not just a prescription, but approval from the manufacturer, quarterly check ins and ekgs. It’s now two in the afternoon and I’m hoping I can make it until three before I have to take my second nap. I’ve been at a friends house for a mid-morning coffee, and after the second cup taken a nap in their guest room. I know exactly what I can and can’t do at finely defined levels of sleepiness. I know what it feels like when part of my brain is asleep but I’m still waking around because I have to feed the pets before I go to bed. I’ve woken up from a nap, drank a monster, had a one hour job interview and then gone back to sleep right after. I experience levels of tiredness every day that you can’t imagine and there are no words for.
- Comment on Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know? 1 week ago:
I’m in this picture and quite frankly it’s a great place to be. Everything either just works, I know how to fix it, or I at least know what is broken and not worth fixing.
Though that is a terrible style of air pressure gauge. Get a good dial one with the tube.
- Comment on What is the right name of these things? 1 week ago:
They go by a few names, depending on use. I would call them standoffs if the end has threaded hole in it that the thing they are holding can screw into, shelf supports if they go sideways into something to hold a shelf, or semi-threaded dowels as a generic term.
- Comment on Come in, sir, make yourself comfortable 2 weeks ago:
Ok but I dress right, so this is clearly unusable.
- Comment on The cashier said "hello" instead of "hi" 😳 4 weeks ago:
Also, and this is the cheat code to all relationships, regardless of gender:, be interested in them. Ask them questions about themselves and their interests instead of just trying to impress them with how great you are. Even, maybe especially, if you think you know something about what they’re taking about, play slightly dumb and ask questions.
- Comment on Portlandia was spot on 1 month ago:
Yeah, I make jams most years, pickles regularly, and at my old house we had an extremely productive orange tree, so I made a lot of marmalade. My current house has a lemon tree, but it needs to be seen by an arborist. Then I’ll probably get into making lemon curd.
- Comment on Hackerman 1 month ago:
I just did this yesterday. Its MAC tables had gotten corrupted in a way that the PiHole connection was flapping. It was wacky, direct IP connections were solid, external DNS lookups were working but slow due to the fallback, and internal ones were working sporadically.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That is definitely part of it, but there’s also just plain more textures and models because people complain if they see the same texture or models reused a lot, and they want ever increasing visual quality. An uncompressed 256x256 RGBA texture takes 256 kilobytes to store. A 4k version takes 16 megabytes.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
As others have said, it’s mostly audio and textures, with some of it being the choice of engine. Lossless CD quality audio and ultra high resolution textures and bump maps for a jillion triangle models take up a lot of space. The actual executables are relatively small, though certainly the layers and layers of frameworks that make up modern software development are somewhat to blame.
- Comment on It's a peaceful life 2 months ago:
- Comment on Growth 2 months ago:
Updated!
- Comment on Growth 2 months ago:
I’m not certain, but I wish you the best of luck in finding it. 😅
- Comment on Growth 2 months ago:
Bisexual - You’re over 35
Pansexual - You’re under 35
Omnisexual - You’ve spent way more time thinking about your sexuality than getting laid
Sapiosexual - You’re a straight guy trying to seem cool and intellectual
- Comment on Which browser do you recommend for a low-resource PC? 2 months ago:
I also run a very low end machine with 4GB ram. The issue often isn’t the browser or even the website, exactly, it’s the tons and tons of advertising and tracking crap that is in the background of most sites nowadays. Tue way around that is to run a solid ad blocker. uBlock Orgin is the best, but Google (and maybe MS? I don’t use windows) has fucked over plugins to specifically make things like it not work. So, what you want to do is run Firefox with uBlock Origin with the more aggressive blocking setting. Extra credit for setting up PiHole to block a different set of crap.
The one thing is that this will absolutely break certain sites. But fuck those sites, they’re fucking you.
- Comment on What happened to us Pirates? We used to sail the web and never even thought about reprecussions just sharing. Now it seems like it costs to be a pirate like a VPN and such. WTH happened? 2 months ago:
Thanks! I figure all this grey in my beard should be good for something.
- Comment on What happened to us Pirates? We used to sail the web and never even thought about reprecussions just sharing. Now it seems like it costs to be a pirate like a VPN and such. WTH happened? 2 months ago:
Oh definitely. And it really depends on your ISP. Before the ISP consolidation it took enough work that sending out those letters to every small local ISP that they wouldn’t bother for Jane Rando who downloaded a few episodes here and there. Now that (in the US at least) most people use one of two or three ISPs who all have a cozy corporate relationship, it’s harder to fly under the radar. But if you have a good privacy-forward ISP it’s not a worry.
- Comment on What happened to us Pirates? We used to sail the web and never even thought about reprecussions just sharing. Now it seems like it costs to be a pirate like a VPN and such. WTH happened? 2 months ago:
The Piracy Eras:
- Pre-DMCA: The golden age of piracy, no one worried about anything.
- Post-DMCA: Possible prosecution from big copyright, but also hard to track individuals down, so not a lot of worry.
- iTunes Music Store: Did more to end music piracy than any legal action. Cheap enough and easy enough that a lot of people stopped bothering. Pirate Bay for the rest.
- Torrent tracking/poisoning and ISP consolidation: More prosecutions against small pirates put more of a damper on it.
- Cheap Streaming: Did to everything what iTMS did to music piracy
- Expensive Streaming: Now. Bringing back pirates, but people are more cautious due to 4.
- Comment on Must have apps 3 months ago:
Just use M-x M-butterfly
- Comment on What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ? 3 months ago:
Looking back… none of them. I had an OG Gameboy, GBA, PS2, Wii, 3DS, and now a Switch 2. My favorite was probably either the first Gameboy or the 3DS. I loved all of the weird streetpass stuff when I was traveling for work. But I have great memories of all of them, and the S2 has been a lot of fun with my kids.