Limonene

@Limonene@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a game where reading an immersive in-game manual is one of the main gameplay aspects⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  From the same develeoper: store.steampowered.com/app/716490/EXAPUNKS/

  See the game’s manual: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=25…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams status⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was getting marked as “away” in Microsoft Teams every day, even though I was working. I just wasn’t using Microsoft Teams, so it marked me as idle.

  I wrote this Autohotkey script after my boss started complaining. It clicks on Teams every 2 minutes:

  global running := 0
  
  ^+1::
  {
  	global running := 1
  	while running == 1
  	{
          CoordMode("Mouse", "Screen")
          oldx := 0
          oldy := 0
          MouseGetPos(&oldx, &oldy)
          prev_active := WinActive("A")
  
          Try
          {
              WinActivate("ahk_class TeamsWebView")
          }
          Catch TargetError as e
          {
          }
          CoordMode("Mouse", "Window")
          Send("{Click 80 40 Left}")
  
          Try
          {
              WinActivate("ahk_id " prev_active)
          }
          Catch TargetError as e
          {
          }
          CoordMode("Mouse", "Screen")
          MouseMove(oldx, oldy, 0)
  
          sleep(115000)
  	}
  }
  
  ^+2::
  {
  	global running := 0
  }
  
  

  It has the side effect of preventing my computer from entering screensaver/lock screen when I really am away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts and prayers for them.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Benjamein has my sympathy. No person should have to watch a commercial.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#StopPayingGames⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When you buy software on a DVD, you own the software, at least until you install it and go through the clickwrap agreement that revokes your ownership. With enough lawyers, you could probably poke some holes in that clickwrap agreement anyway. But they probably have more lawyers than you.

  In the olden days, we installed software by copying it off floppy disks onto our hard drives. There was no clickwrap agreement, because there was no installer. We owned that software.

  GOG advertises that purchasers own the software they buy. www.gog.com/en/news/welcome_to_gog

  Lots of open source software can be owned. You have to do something that grants you ownership in the first place, like buying it on a disc. Downloading it for free might or might not, I don’t know. But no FOSS license I know of has any clause that revokes ownership. The GPLv2 has a specific clause that says

  You are not required to accept this License

  so you can always choose to reject the whole GPL, and revert back to the implicit rules of commerce, “Pay money, receive thing” which confers ownership.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#StopPayingGames⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did Steam shut down games people bought?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When your computer says "You don't have permission to edit this file":⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  chmod can do 95% of everything I’ve ever needed, just with the “user” and “other” category. Private files, public-readable files, public read-write files, programs I compile but anyone can run… all that is just in the “user” and “other” category of chmod.

  It gets 99% if you add the sticky bit (used on /tmp) and the “group” category. Serial ports are owned by root:dialout, and mode 660. To get serial port access, just add the user to the dialout group. For group assignments in college, each partner pairing had their own group they could use. Group work files were mode 660 so groups could edit each others’ work, but other groups couldn’t peek.

  For the last 1%, use setfacl. It does everything that explorer.exe’s security tab can do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolution Factsberg⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s homologous with a human’s middle finger. That doesn’t make it a middle finger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I type an apostrophe and use print screen on a European Spanish keyboard?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “You’re a distinct character” is a compliment, not an insult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You gotta try #19⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
  6. It’s like eating a cracker.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NSFW post⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here are my boobies: Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How should a news article website financially sustain itself?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, but it’s not like this.

  I’ve tried supporting multiple news sites, but it’s always something. Like the site just crashing before I can get to pay, or an endless captcha, or my credit card being rejected as sussy, but the credit card company claims they haven’t declined anything. I’ve tried multiple credit cards, multiple computers, Firefox and Chromium, always the same.

  The Onion is the closest thing to news I successfully paid for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An intelligence of pure malevolence.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Castielsprostate has been using HP inkjet printers for too long. They need to get a Brother laser printer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam and itch.io are the only ones that treat Linux users as first class citizens.

  Steam, itch.io, and GOG are the only ones that offer any Linux games at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon enjoys videogame music⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Counterpoint: The Crosscode soundtrack.

  Forest level: accordion, guitar, only a bit of flute, no violin.

  Forest level 2: accordion, choir, and xylophone.

  Forest level 3: steel drums, guitar, some other kind of guitar.

  Ice level: flutes, bass guitar.

  Ice dungeon: french horn, synthy violin.

  Lava level: (none)

  Desert level: Exactly what OP said.

  Desert town: Totally different from what OP said.

  Beach level: guitar, flute, piano, very little steel drums, no ukulele.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon misses flash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Flash had a ton of vulnerabilities. It felt like one zero-day RCE per year.

  Flash never had a good FOSS implementation until years after Flash Player was discontinued.

  I was very happy about the death of Flash Player, but neutral on the death of the Flash format.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current events dictate that I post this.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t, but I’m assuming they just haven’t heard anyone say that it’s good to be nuked by NATO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current events dictate that I post this.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And don’t forget about people of Jewish ethnicity who are not religious. I respect them too, though I oppose Israel’s genocide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumerism ahhhhh moment⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with this. Ads contaminate your mind, so make sure to use ad blockers. But also help your friends set up ad blockers, because if their minds are contaminated, it will spread to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norway anon pirates⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  8 years ago, I sat with my then-girlfriend at her parents’ house thinking of things we wanted to watch. We thought of like 20 shows and films, and each one we looked up was not on her parents’ Netflix.

  Netflix’s selection has only gotten worse since then.

  Nothing anyone wants is on Netflix.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have an idea ☝️⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sapphire Safari is sorta like that. It’s basically Pokemon Snap, but porn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is fossil fuel still used?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Corn ethanol isn’t really renewable either. It works better if made from sugarcane, but it’s still a big food-vs-fuel problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is fossil fuel still used?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Renewable liquid fuels have the same energy density.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is fossil fuel still used?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe two reasons: first, political will. Fossil fuel companies are large and entrenched, and have lots of experience lobbying governments. They block things like carbon taxes.

  Second, a strange sort of game theory where each player (each country) thinks “My individual contributions to greenhouse gasses are just a small part of the total. They won’t cause global catastrophe. Just an incremental increase in the existing catastrophe. The incremental harm won’t fall directly on me; it will be divided among many countries. If continuing to use fossil fuels provides some small economic advantage, it outweighs the portion of the harms that will land on me. As for the harms I experience from other countries’ carbon emissions, there’s nothing I can do to prevent them.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is illegal in some places. It should be illegal everywhere in the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't act confused. Just say it⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A pretty piggy A pretty Polly (a common name for a parrot)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radon⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Refrigerator Wifi Firmware”

  3 words, but my job is still bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🚣 🚣⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell no. I want to be unable to use that emoji for at least a year, preferably a lifetime.

  (The Unicode consortium betrayed us, and themselves, by putting emoji in Unicode.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aGDCE6Nrz0

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ah, progress.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If any cops or cop apologists wanna disagree with this: show me a good cop who arrested an ICE. Because ICE is breaking the law, and as far as I can tell, nobody’s arresting them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does streaming compare to "analog"?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, true, but that’s mostly fixed costs, and has a pretty low incremental cost for each video delivered. The fixed costs we have to pay regardless.