HexesofVexes
@HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
Why, a hexvex of course!
- Comment on Dune game 3 days ago:
But we already have dune video game at home.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 2 weeks ago:
It’s on my old netbook, it will never leave.
That thing is nearing 20 now I think!
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 2 weeks ago:
Shit, I’m old…
- Comment on X's new 'encrypted' XChat feature seems no more secure than the failure that came before it 2 weeks ago:
I saw xchat and felt hope…
- Comment on I feel attacked 3 weeks ago:
Hey… Wanna go down the geometry rabbithole?
It has points at infinity, area as a function of angle defect, a triangle whose angles sum to 0…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The big issues with age gaps is mostly down to protective probability. By 30 most folks are experienced enough at life to make up their own mind.
Hope it goes well for you both!
- Comment on Don't ask for more pixels 5 weeks ago:
Microcosmic example. Take 3 people - a newborn (A), a professor of biology (B) and a professor in philosophy ©.
You’re easily able to argue that both professors are more intelligent than the newborn (A<B and A<C). However, you’re unable to establish (in any meaningful way) whether B<C, or C<B; even B=C is out. This is because both professors have knowledge the other does not, so trying to meaningfully equate or order them in relation to one another is an act of futility.
This is a fun example of a partial order that most of us see every day (in a less extreme form).
- Comment on Everyone loves some good food; 5 weeks ago:
Someone woke up this morning and chose violence.
- Comment on You just want a break sometimes 5 weeks ago:
So do I, but not everyone is so lucky!
- Comment on You just want a break sometimes 5 weeks ago:
“ennui and a trapped feeling … no control over your own life”
That describes adulthood for a lot more people than we’re willing to admit. Adulthood often has the illusion of more choices, but for many those choices have one realistic option.
As a kid, there is at least the feeling of “I’ll grow up and it will be great”, as a working adult it used to be “I’ll retire and it’ll be great”; these days it’s “well, I hope there isn’t teams meetings in the afterlife”.
- Comment on Impossible 5 weeks ago:
It will also be in 50 years time.
- Comment on Nintendo Updates Its User Agreement To Crack Down On Emulation 5 weeks ago:
Enshittification is apparently a journey, not a destination.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 month ago:
Adds to the ever growing list of copy-blight examples
- Comment on do crimes 1 month ago:
There is a added bonus here as well - some researchers will not only send the paper, but also offer to answer questions AND send other related papers.
Some academics out there are just really friendly people.
- Comment on do crimes 1 month ago:
Short Answer - Universities
Long Answer:
To get and hold a job as an academic, you must continually produce “high quality research”. To get the job, in the first place, you must also be seen to do this.
“High quality” is often metriced by universities to mean “published in high impact journals” and “well cited”. This metric is known to be faulty, but universities really dislike change.
So, to get a job, you have to give up your rights to your research, and to keep your job, you have to do likewise.
Worse, in the current financial climate, academia is seeing unprecedented cuts, which further entrenches this issue.
- Comment on Ofcom announces new rules to keep children safe online 1 month ago:
Ah yes, surveillance laws surrounded by references to CSAM to lock it in.
Ultimate way to protect your children from online harm - learn how to use a computer and actually keep an eye on them!
- Comment on Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification 2 months ago:
Sounds like an excuse to move my community elsewhere!
- Comment on WTF is the teacher doing 2 months ago:
That is not how you wake a sleeping student.
You do it by putting a sheet of complex questions in front of them, and then loudly saying “you may now turn your papers over, you have 1 hour to complete the exam”.
Jokes aside, if a student is sleeping in class, you probably want to have a word with the DSL to check up on them after class. Students only sleep if they’re exhausted or you’re really crap at teaching - get one of their mates to wake them quietly without drawing too much attention.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
Thanks for the feedback - currently weighing up disros (was thinking mint, but a few folks have praised fedora KDE based distros now).
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
How are you finding it?
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
So, oddly enough, I’m not a complete novice. My background is mostly just lubuntu, puppy, mint and a bit of debian. I’ve shifted away from Ubuntu after the pro service ads in terminal, and the absolute fucking nightmare that is snap.
I’ve done my time in “oh shit I fucked up Linux again” purgatory, and it’s my daily driver for work. Terminal is a place I’m generally ok with; I know enough to find my way around and fix things as needed.
My issue is I’ve never really run dedicated graphics from a Linux distro, and because of the continual updates and proprietary elements I worry about keeping up. I don’t mind breaking things, it comes with the territory.
That said, bazzite sounds interesting - especially the optimisation. The guides on the main page also alerted me to something I’d not considered - going to have to redo my filesystem on every drive. Thanks for the idea of an alt distro, will dig into this a bit more - if it’s built in fedora I might have a bit of a learning curve (never used it as a distro).
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
So, in the case of my aunt, there were a few teething troubles. That said, a lot of it was just requests to add web page shortcuts to her desktop.
The really big thing is that she’s stopped complaining about how slow her laptop is, and openly says she finds it easier to use.
Most of the troubleshooting is going to be around office software and games. It’s also going to be about replacing windows tools (I am really going to miss my “.bat cave”), and learning new troubleshooting skills (wine is a bit rough to troubleshoot unless you’re willing to get your mining gear out and dig deep into logs).
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
Thanks for the tips!
Lutris I’ve used with some success, and I’m somewhat ok with wine when it works out if the box (or troubleshooting using the wine wiki).
Do you recommend any other sites/guides for troubleshooting?
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
It’s going to be purchase a new hard drive and then jump to Linux Mint this August.
It’s not an experience I am looking forward to (5080S, I do a lot of modding, and enjoy fangames/indie games which do not always play nice with linux) but needs must - the Linux community in general is very friendly, so we’ll get through it, even if the first 6 months are rough. I’ll keep the dual boot and push the windows partition to 11 if needed by work, that way I can put off rewriting my elderly access database for another few years.
Honestly, Microsoft are committing suicide when it comes to home users. It won’t be sudden, but the wheels are turning, all the IT savvy folks are switching people over (already did my aunt’s potato, mum’s demi-tato is next week). Eventually, a tipping point will be reached and offices will start switching - I hope that day comes before I die of old age!
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 2 months ago:
I mean, build on that idea a little further.
Sex is an extreme example, but now consider the cases of opening up a bit; showing emotional vulnerability; taking that first step of trust; telling that special someone you actually do love to play with Lego.
All of these carry the same risks for all involved - the social ramifications of a failed attempt to bond is somewhat higher than in our current “clout hunting” era (remember, clout doesn’t just exist online).
Relationships are complex critters - some are built on risk, some are built on the aversion of such, and some are built upon a complex dance between the two (for what is life but a twistedly beautiful lottery)?
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 2 months ago:
Language kid.
If you get drunk, hook up with another drunk person, and end up pregnant, who exactly is to blame? Your life choices are hardly stellar (nor are theirs); you can argue they should have known better, but so should you.
That ship on that blame has long since sailed. It sailed by the night before when you were both laying your regrets.
Risk now comes from your choices and theirs, and oh my won’t that be fun?
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 2 months ago:
Let me offer a scenario; two drunk people who wouldn’t normally go near each other spend a night together. The morning comes, regret is in the air for both parties, which of these two people is most at risk?
The correct answer is: “the one who doesn’t accuse the other on social media”.
Just remember, no-one gave any indication of gender there. It’s not really about gender at this point - it’s the fact we’ve constructed a world where a casual encounter has the potential to become the prisoner’s dilemma if it is regretted afterwards.
That’s not a world where people take risks on a date, especially if physical intimacy is on the cards. To much risk!
- Comment on I wonder if the "money can't buy you happiness" people ever lived in a car. 3 months ago:
*pay increase above actual inflation/bill increases.
My pay has gone up every year, but each year I end up poorer as my bills eat the extra, plus some more!
- Comment on Whose bright idea was it to give the morning people enough power to set the "business hours" anyways‽ 3 months ago:
Ah the eternal war of the dawnies and the duskies…
I think a lot of the issue is that it’s possible to shift to a 24 hour economy with morning and night shifts, but (like remote working pre-covid) we hear a lot of “it’s not possible”.
- Comment on Dagoth Ur 3 months ago:
It’s the “come to me through fire and war” that worries me more.
