tomkatt
@tomkatt@lemmy.world
- Comment on I'm not a good liar but need to pretend I like my current job and not rant about how much I dislike it till I find a job I like more. How do I make my coworkers and supervisors believe this lie? 2 months ago:
Performance improvement plan. Sometimes a legitimate way to help an employee who is slow or failing at takes to improve and perform better.
More often it’s a management ploy to start a paper trail to legitimize terminating said employee without repercussions, regardless of actual performance metrics.
- Comment on Why is DNS often joked about in the I.T. Industry? 3 months ago:
DNS is often misconfigured.
On the linux side of things, people like to manually edit /etc/resolv.conf when it’s actually a symlink and changes to it don’t persist on boot (the real file location varies, but it’s usually in something like /etc/system/resolve).
On the Windows side, people love to ignore that reverse DNS exists, even though so many things use it. They also freaking love CNAME aliases and break stuff in interesting ways (for example, a “load balanced” configuration that’s all just the first node acting as all three nodes of a cluster or pool).
Many people only know enough DNS to be dangerous and come up with really jank workarounds to get things running because they don’t understand the proper solutions.
- Comment on I need new glasses. The only insurance-approved place I can shop online will cost $250 with my needs. I went to a "cheap" glasses website that doesn't accept insurance: $250. Yay, America. 3 months ago:
Don’t be. I’m fortunate to be able to afford it, and it’s just part of the cost of living to me. In my 40s now and been wearing glasses since I was 10yo.
I’m just happy I’ll be able to read fine print and see stuff close again without needing to take off my glasses.
- Comment on I need new glasses. The only insurance-approved place I can shop online will cost $250 with my needs. I went to a "cheap" glasses website that doesn't accept insurance: $250. Yay, America. 3 months ago:
I recently went for glasses and eye exam. Near sighted with astigmatism, and now I need bifocals on top of it. Bifocals with line aren’t common now so doctor suggested progressives. I’m fine with that.
I’m also a special kid who can’t wear polycarbonate lenses because I’m hypersensitive to chromatic aberration. So need Trivex lenses as well. Throw in an anti-glare coating and my cost (with insurance) is like $460.
The sad part is given my needs and how few carry Trivex in my area, I consider it a decent deal.
- Comment on It just does. 3 months ago:
Yeah, but JIF is like… sugar and palm kernel oil garbage. It’s a peanut butter product, not peanut butter.
Peanut butter should have one or two ingredients, max. Peanuts, and maybe salt.
- Comment on And they don't fold well either 4 months ago:
Get a quality bamboo pillow with crushed memory foam filling. You can control how much fill goes into the pillow, and if you change your mind you can always add or remove some of the fill.
- Comment on Cyberfish 4 months ago:
All praise the Omnissiah.
- Comment on I wish I was as bold as these authors. 4 months ago:
Don’t waste your time. It’s honestly fucking awful. Reading it was like experiencing someone mentally masturbating in real time.
- Comment on Windows just changed the desktop wallpaper and re-added the search bar without my permission after an update 5 months ago:
Face it, they can do whatever they want with your computer and you’re powerless to stop them.
Not my computer. They can’t do shit if it’s not installed.
- Comment on Windows just changed the desktop wallpaper and re-added the search bar without my permission after an update 5 months ago:
This is why you should not trust them regarding Recall. They will not let it go. It will be forced on you eventually.
- Comment on Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds - Expansion Announcement 5 months ago:
Try this config. I posted about it above. It’s worked well for me to the point I’m no longer even comfortable playing GW2 on a keyboard, I’m able to react much more quickly to everything with the gamepad setup. Most important thing is always use action camera for combat and general exploration unless you specifically need the mouse for something.
- Comment on Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds - Expansion Announcement 5 months ago:
Here you go: steam://controllerconfig/413080/2866090215
Paste that steam link in a browser while Steam is open and it will pull up the controller config.
Control mappings have face buttons and R1/R2 as attacks, L1/L2 as button layer modifiers, Joystick mouse and more. F-keys are on the d-pad, and most mouse related functions are active while holding L1. Back button is your "interact. L1 + R3 switches between “action” camera and regular mouse mode for aiming. Action camera is better for combat, and is the mode I use like 90% of the time. Dodge is on R3. L3 swaps weapons. There’s also key combos for all the mounts, special action abilities (N key, on L2+back)… basically, everything you could possibly want to do in-game, there’s a controller way to do it. You may need to remap some of the mount buttons, I forget if I did custom mappings for some of those, as I have a lot of mounts (everything except roller beetle and gryffon).
Hope it works for you. I think it’s a great config, but my perspective may be skewed since I’m highly accustomed to it from muscle memory and using it for years (with Xpadder even, before steam controller mapping was a thing). I’ve used this config for every single class in the game and dialed it in so I can play literally any class without issues, including ones that have a number of aiming skills like engineer and elementalist. Actually, elementalist is a blast for this, dpad was perfect for switching elements compared to fumbling with F-keys.
- Comment on Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds - Expansion Announcement 5 months ago:
I dunno about this one. Waiting to see what the crowd thinks as far as reviews. Secrets of the Obscure was as mediocre as they come and I have doubts now.
- Comment on Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds - Expansion Announcement 5 months ago:
I’ve been playing it on a gamepad since 2012. I’ll see if I can get my Steam config link for you later.
- Comment on Learn how to count with Bill Gates 5 months ago:
How about Windows NoPrivacyOnlyAdsForYou Edition? Kinda rolls nicely off the tongue.
- Comment on With US Workers on the March, Southern States Take Aim at Unions 6 months ago:
Don’t worry, they’ll surrender to the union this time too eventually.
- Comment on I was handed this lovely flyer while grocery shopping 7 months ago:
Yeah, don’t accept trash from strangers.
- Comment on What are y'all buying on the steam sale? 8 months ago:
I played it for 440 hours and I still don’t feel done with it.
- Comment on What are y'all buying on the steam sale? 8 months ago:
Have a ton of games already, but I picked up Nuclear Blaze and Streets of Rogue on the cheap.
A week prior to the steam sale, got a good deal on River City Girls 2 and Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries on Fanatical, $15 for both together.
- Comment on You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next? 1 year ago:
Shit.