BurgerBaron
@BurgerBaron@quokk.au
How do you do, fellow kids? You gettin’ indoctrinated on the world wide web? Radical!
Come on down to your local Burger Baron restaurant, rated the #1 pizza in Onoway, BC! First established in Edmonton, Alberta…is one claim amongst many!
- Comment on "It’s time to come back to Firefox. The Internet you loved is still here." - Firefox brings together people from famous internet memes in the 2000s in a new marketing push 3 days ago:
HDR still not added unless you’re a Mac user, stereo audio only.
- Comment on Why does the microwave button have a "popcorn" button when every microwave popcorn brand says "DO NOT USE THE POPCORN BUTTON"? 4 days ago:
I switched to stove top loose kernels but that was due to the 2010’s PFAS scare with microwave popcorn bags. USA banned it so Costco/Kirkland should be safe.
Canada is still lagging behind a little so I’d look for PFAS-free labelling here.
- Comment on How does one figure out what to do, after getting out and done with high school? 1 week ago:
I knew what I wanted to do: nothing.
I don’t dream of work. So I became a manufacturing operator. More than half my work days in a year are pure idle time.
- Comment on What is Kratom? A friend of the family just died today. And that was the last thing he was using. Is it like K2? What type of high is it? 1 week ago:
Metta Beshar is a decent drug user/educator who has ADHD and went over his own addiction and widthdrawal in his video here:
Mind you it’s a combined video where he tries 7-OH as well. Not everyone wants to watch a video so:
Metta presents Kratom’s American story as an “ethnobotany 101” case study. Every time a culture meets a new substance it has no experience with, it goes through a chaotic phase of not knowing how to use it in a responsible manner. Going from raw leaf to a powder, to extracts, and now 7-OH pills which are getting banned all over.
Metta is still on and off user and doesn’t want to quit outright. He just dialed usage back. He describes Kratom withdrawal symptoms as runny nose, body aches, and insomnia like a less severe opioid-type withdrawal and says it’s “not as scary as a lot of people think” but that it depends on how deep and how long you were in. Tolerance creep he describes as starting at 2–3g → 6g → 8g before quitting after 4-5 years. Some people get dangerous with it and go up to 28g or even 50g/day. He also described the typical experience I’ve had with chemically addictive substances where you constantly find reasons to “treat” yourself as a reward for doing something.
His active user experience:
- Onset takes about an hour.
- Very relaxed, “sense of peace”
- Aches and pains greatly reduced — the neck kink nearly gone. He liked to take it after martial arts training.
- Feels like a “warm comfort blanket,” almost like cuddling someone you care about
- Subtle overall, no noticeable change to his mental processes
- Sedating, ready for bed
The active compound in Kratom is called Mitragynin which is a partial mu-opioid agonist. You get the opioid feel (relaxation, mild euphoria, pain relief) but with a built-in ceiling so it stays mellow.
Nothing like K2, Don.
- Comment on How do "pirates" go about getting their username uploaded with a torrent? Like Fitgirl or NoSteam or something? How do they become big and famous? Can the average joe do this? 1 week ago:
Consistently uploading stuff and then posting to piracy forums at first, until enough people know you’re not interested in spreading malware and then word of mouth spreads about your wesbite. You’ve made it when there’s a bunch of fake websites pretending to be you to spread malware and the USA starts trying to ruin your life.
- Comment on What are some awesome science YouTube channels for preteens? 3 weeks ago:
Even he thought he went too far with a video casting a gigantic cube of lead indoors recently 😅
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Forza Horizon 6 and Fallout 4 VR heavily modded of course.
Forza I disable all the assists and get sweaty. Fallout 4 VR eventually got enough 6 DoF mods to almost hit parity with Skyrim VR modded so I’m finally giving it a go along with community story expansions and all the other shit you’d want. It’s a weak game in the series but still fun to bumble around.
I just finished some old quality streamer bait slop with Water Park Simulator because I wanted to turn my brain off for awhile. It’s good for that, pretty stupid game besides. It’s hilarious how you can build huge water slides by the end of the game but pool depth never gets deeper so NPC just smash into the bottom of the pools.
Oh and I play Heros of Might and Magic Olden Era plus Emberward TDS on and off when updates come out.
That’s it for now.
- Comment on For those of you with LineageOS and rely on F-Droid/FOSS apps, how do you make extra money without gig apps like DoorDash? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know anyone like that but if I were to I’d have a second phone which I would only use for said gig apps and nothing else.
- Comment on Fight! Fight! Fight! 3 weeks ago:
Here’s an example of Democrats fighting Socialist boogeyman I read today:
- Comment on Eeeep 3 weeks ago:
A bad day for that Rally car driver’s spine whatever they did.
- Comment on Das Fluten Duten 3 weeks ago:
Or it’s a Scooby Doo episode, that’s where the monster jumps out.
- Comment on How do fonts for people with dyslexia work? 4 weeks ago:
Opposite for me, I use these fonts where available despite not being dyslexic. I can read just fine but it can strain my eyes to focus since I have really bad astigmatism and also an immune system disorder that causes inflammation in my dominant eye, a lot of stuff can trigger flare ups so I try to reduce eye strain wherever possible.
- Comment on Can also ask your mom 4 weeks ago:
Looks like it’s “Sowing the Seeds of Love” by Tears for Fears, never heard of ‘em.
spoiler
I love your tweet edit job OP
- Comment on Is it more accurate to call current 'Artificial intelligence' (AI/LLM) as Counterfeit Intelligence? 5 weeks ago:
No since the problematic word is “intelligence.”
- Comment on Fact Check: **TRUE** 5 weeks ago:
Mr. Hands is meatspinning in his grave, he was just born too early.
- Comment on I will not be opening for Ed Sheeran 1 month ago:
I will, for the fans still paying to see him in Epstein’s Arena.
I’ll take a big fan with me, point it at the crowd, and shit in a bucket. You can guess where this is going.
- Comment on What was the actual reason for the crusade against NSFW games? 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t fully credit them, at best. VISA and MasterCard have their own puritan history, that fringe group is a scapegoat to do what they wanted to do anyways.
- Comment on The Steam Frame Is More Than Just Another VR Headset - Aftermath (Chris Person) 1 month ago:
I’ll cheerlead universal compatibility any day even if I have no reason to buy this myself. No new games means I don’t care. I’m in the “been there, done that” group.
There’s one VR game I’m interested in playing and that’s https://github.com/Crementif/BotW-BetterVR
I don’t think that alone worth $1500 before tax and shipping to Canada 😅
I tried with Index but my 12th i5 isn’t good enough either so I’d need a new computer as well…looks outside ah, right.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Tu Yu is the hardest person to sing Happy Birthday to.
- Comment on my year 1 month ago:
He’s strict with drugs still including pain killers in hospital. Did his vasectomy on camera without numbing.
One exception was for his pay to view stunts video he did a couple years back where he found a willing quack to inject something directly into his spinal cord and then immediately sprint until he was temporarily paralysed. He was okay with that since it was brief, not fun, and not psychoactive.
- Comment on Be prepared 1 month ago:
That was oddly specific AND relatable.
- Comment on KytyPS5 (PS5 Emulator) can now run GTA V at 60fps for few minutes before crashing 1 month ago:
PS4 and PS5 emulators I don’t think any of them actually emulate the CPU at least. This is more like QEMU and WINE, sort of. They do emulate some stuff like parts of the firmware, memory management, input/output systems, API.
The first PS4 emulator that got in-game with a few 2D titles was literally just a modified version of QEMU as a proof of concept. Only ran on Unix based operating systems because the PS4 runs a modified version of FreeBSD.
- Comment on Why are lemmings so touchy about downvotes? 1 month ago:
I’d combine Slashdot’s voting system with the original iteration of the long defunct Facepunch Forums Smartness system. It was rather mean but I loved how it boosted overall communication quality because it forced users to spellcheck and avoid using slurs.
Facepunch also had emoticon reactions like Pylova/Piefed although our system is pretty shit with WAY too many emoticons, so much so that they’ll fail to all fully load in.
Basically a new account started with 5000 points. Different spelling or grammar mistakes along with slurs lost you differing amounts of points. You gained points with error free posts/replies, but it was balanced in such a way that you’d lose points and get auto banned when you hit 0 pretty quickly if you didn’t try to improve. Uncorrected errors would be underlined, colored red, and visible to everyone else. IIRC you could edit posts and correct them but you didn’t regain lost points by doing so, just avoided having shameful red errors.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Does the food even cost them anything besides…wait, do they even have mana pools?
- Comment on If I sign up for a torrenting site like torrent galaxy or something, and leave my computer running then will other people get seeded? Or do I have to upload a file or can I just have it finished? 1 month ago:
Thannnkssss, Mullvad!
- Comment on Bunnies are metal 1 month ago:
Same as a cat with skin/fur issues showing up to a vet then yeah.
- Comment on If I sign up for a torrenting site like torrent galaxy or something, and leave my computer running then will other people get seeded? Or do I have to upload a file or can I just have it finished? 1 month ago:
Pic related, fuck. Started with 5 seeds, now there’s just one. Unconnectable.
- Comment on If I sign up for a torrenting site like torrent galaxy or something, and leave my computer running then will other people get seeded? Or do I have to upload a file or can I just have it finished? 1 month ago:
If I sign up for a torrenting site like torrent galaxy or something
That’s a public tracker/index. You don’t need to sign up at all to connect to a public tracker swarm.
and leave my computer running then will other people get seeded?
Yep. You can set bandwidth limits if your upload and/or download internet package is bad so it doesn’t interfere too much.
Or do I have to upload a file or can I just have it finished?
Hit and Run is considered bad manners and selfish behaviour. You can get away with it on public trackers, but private ones typically ban you for that. It’s called leeching. It’ll be based on your total upload/download stats, or your ratio in other words.
- Comment on Why doesn't gnu.org load on my WiFi? 1 month ago:
I’m sure there’s a reason. My first thought is it sounds like a DNS issue, but I’m not sure why unless you’re using something like NextDNS and got a false positive block. If the VPN works, makes it even more likely.
- Comment on What did you call me? 1 month ago:
▲ ▲ ▲New computer science cannot triforce!
Neither can I, special characters misbehave here :( lol
