halcyoncmdr

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I found voter irregularities in my home district do I have to hire a lawyer to prove it.? Or just let it go and the Florida Orange win?⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s illegal in most places. Votes are anonymous specifically because people have been threatened to vote certain ways in the past. If you aren’t given proof of voting a specific way you can’t be forced to vote a specific way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitcoin investor moves $8 billion worth of crypto after 14 years, originally bought for less than $210,000 — 80,000 BTC transferred from Satoshi-era wallet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably lost the wallet and forgot about it, and found the USB drive while moving furniture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't let it be you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The third of it that voted for exactly this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Producer Recommends Laid Off Workers Should Use AI To 'Help Reduce The Emotional And Cognitive Load That Comes With Job Loss'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean that would save millions and millions of dollars right off the top. Between salary, bonuses and stock were talking hundreds of millions in some cases. Maximum shareholder value increase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, Satan dared to defy his father and was thrown out of the house.

  None of these fucks would dare defy their daddy Trump.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When voting for judges in elections, how are you supposed to know which are good? (Since none of them publicly express their political opinions, judges are *supposed* to be neutral)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Any backers if there are any, searching their name online to see about controversial decisions.

  And then I default to replacing them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun Lunch Fridays⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Beans on toast?

  Checks out. Especially for the crazy people that refer to all sliced bread as toast, whether it’s toasted or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨98 degrees upstairs, ac stopped working at 8am.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of downtime at work at 3am. Might as well poke the Europeans since they’re awake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨98 degrees upstairs, ac stopped working at 8am.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That is not why fahrenheit works the way it does

  You’re entirely right, but it’s fun to trigger people like you with a couple words that ultimately mean nothing.

  You are projecting your own ignorance over billions of people, because you yourself have no idea how it works.

  You mistake ignorance for simply not giving a fuck. I know what Celsius is, I know how it converts, I just don’t care.

  It’s very entertaining to be able to trigger people at will to crawl out of the like bugs and talk shit online, wasting their time on a topic that doesn’t matter in the slightest. It’s usually the Europeans, they seem to have a superiority complex about this specifically for some reason and love typing at length about it. Most other countries outside the EU region don’t bother, probably because it doesn’t matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨98 degrees upstairs, ac stopped working at 8am.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You do realize the reason fahrenheit is set up that way, is based on the human perception of temperature. 0-100 is the general range or cold to hot. Of course some inhabited areas end up outside that range a bit, because humans are adaptable but generally speaking it allows for far more graduation in every day real world scenarios. Metric is good for science, but not ideal for casual everyday usage of hot and cold.

  Your body doesn’t really care what the boiling point or freezing point of water is. But you should and generally do need to preemptively plan for environments outside the fahrenheit scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have searched far and wide⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Hunger Games probably made a crap ton of people learn the word.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a screen made by Microsoft to match their aesthetic and settings pages, of course. But it’s the exact same Google account sync system that every Chromium has, unless you’re specifically using an unGoogled version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is literally the standard Google sync account stuff in every Chromium browser. Don’t want it? Pick a browser that isn’t Chrome based. That basically leaves Firefox or a handful of brand new alpha buggy browsers no one has heard of with dubious update potential.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Edge is a Chromium browser. This is the standard Chrome sync stuff from nearly every one of those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes trains⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AmTrak is designed to suck. Freight lines own most of the rails, and while they are required to give priority to passenger trains, they avoid this in several ways. Like having the freight trains too long to fit on side rails so the passenger trains are required to stop instead to make way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me today with Bitwarden having server side issues...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, yeah it’s just a docker app running on TrueNAS. To be honest, the hardest part was getting cloudflare setup, but only because I’d never done it before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me today with Bitwarden having server side issues...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I literally just did this a couple weeks ago and it’s been great so far. Able to run it on my NAS through the same Cloudflare tunnel I use for Emby.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EBay used to be a wild place⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s still known for electronic ~box~ sales. Especially around graphics card releases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨House members erupt into a screaming match following senators forced removal from press conference⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Beach towels are usually less absorbent on one or both sides. You don’t want to absorb the water from a Damp beach into the towel you’re laying on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨House members erupt into a screaming match following senators forced removal from press conference⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ll use the same bullshit definition they sstartes to seed into the public discourse via Fox News a year or two ago… That ANTIFA means Anti-First Amendment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senator Alex Padilla forcefully removed and handcuffed after questioning Kristi Noem at press conference in LA⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure there’s gotta be a law against the federal government officially attacking a state to remove democratically elected officials.

  Because that’s exactly what her statement says they are there to do. Nothing about immigration or protests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dune: Awakening Draws Nearly 100,000 Players On Steam Before Full Release⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Played for about 2 hours yesterday and that’s exactly what is happening. The game prevents you from plopping your space right on top of another base but the blocked region around it isn’t very large.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For random password dumps going through thousands of accounts it’s probably fine, but if you’re targeted for some reason and they get just a couple passwords. With even just 2 passwords, that system may be obvious already to someone looking to gain access to your accounts specifically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm something of an expert myself⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Often this is because of those little shit pin connectors for the power button getting pulled loose. How has a better, standardized option not been made for those yet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone Hiring?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t say a red flag at this point, every fucking company says it now, regardless of size. But it is something to take note of and watch closer. Just wait until you see what kind of family before really committing.

  Is it a dysfunctional family that expects everyone to go above and beyond for nothing on return and punishes you for not? Or is it a family that pays attention to when things are happening outside work to help in any way because they actually get that happier employees work better?

  I’ve worked for both personally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No it’s exactly the same, you just notice it more because of the different context of a limited fantasy realm versus open stellar exploration.

  Oblivion and Skyrim also have a bunch of procedurally generated content. But it is more easily ignored, because these are dungeons and caves and not numerous planets where you are walking for upwards of 15 minutes or more across open terrain to visit the same dozen locations. And having dozens of loading screens to stitch each small segment together.

  Starfield as a concept doesn’t work with the engine, because the engine is incapable of adequately creating an open environment at that level. If it could, they would have given it to us instead of Skyrim in space. We got Skyrim in space because that’s the limit of the engine. Bethesda’s insistence of continuing to use it, and claiming that it’s not an issue, despite the clear deficiencies in the released product, is a slap in the face to every player. It’s the definition of “You’ll take what we give you, and like it”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The graphics aren’t the problem. The Creation Engine is not just graphics, it handles everything about how the game works. How the AI works and responds to events, how NPCs handle tasks even when not actively interacting with the player, etc. Graphics is only one part of a game, and that’s not the source of the issues.

  Oblivion Remastered still uses the Gamebryo engine from Oblivion for everything with one exception, Unreal now handles the graphics. That’s why the game is nearly identical to the original in every way except graphics, it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Medal of honor on the PS1⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My strongest memory of Medal Of Honor is the undercover missions. Flipping the ID badge out over and over again like an idiot because the animation was funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s Skyrim with a coat of lead paint.

  It’s been clear for over a decade that the Creation Engine (let’s be honest it’s still Gamebryo) has run its course. It is not a viable option for a modern game anymore. It has architectural limitations that simply prevent a modern gaming experience.

  There have been so many Creation Engine apologists since Oblivion trying to justify its continued existence through multiple new Fallout and Elder Scrolls games, always trying to say that it’s fine. Starfield was the chance to prove that the limitations aren’t actually architectural and that it could be used for a modern game. Clearly that’s not the case. Taking just about any other modern open world RPG to directly compare, Starfield feels like crap in comparison. Hell, even the launch version of Cyberpunk felt better than Starfield.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will pay a $1.375 billion settlement to Texas over privacy violations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a settlement… Meaning that Google figures not that this amount is less than they would pay if it went to court and they lost. Since there is no way they’d be spending a billion dollars on defending this in court, they know they would definitely lose, and paying an insanely high penalty is the best outcome for them.