Adderbox76

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 37 minutes ago

Who'd have thought that an Archaeology dad-joke would be the thing to make me snort-laugh today.

Well done. And thanks.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 points 48 minutes ago

Dick the Birthday Boy was literally the first thing that popped into my head.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

It's never a bad idea to learn another language.

It's never a bad idea to learn. period...full stop.

The act of learning anything wires our brains in a thousand different ways; increases our critical thinking skills. Increases our verbosity and our ability to communicate our own ideas more effectively. It increases problem solving skills, etc...

The very act of learning is something that should be practiced every day with something, whether that's a new language, or a hobby, or being a history buff...it doesn't matter. What matters is the learning itself.

So if Russian is what is giving you that interest right now, do it. At the very least, chicks dig polyglots.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm not saying he didn't do it. In fact I'm pretty sure at the end of the day it will come out that he did.

But Pepperidge Farm remembers when news reporters remembered to use the world "allegedly" in their headlines until after the trial was concluded.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

Maybe tomorrow he'll finally settle down...

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 68 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

I honestly don't think the problem is that Capitalist's don't understand that concept; they very much do.

They also understand that the money for raising that floor would likely come from taxes on them; and so keeping the floor low means that they can keep even more profit.

It's not a lack of understanding. It's pure unadulterated evil.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

I've always tried to avoid fast travel as much as possible simply because exploring and random encounters are the best way to l ensure you're levelling up as necessary.

If you just fast travel between story beats, you can find yourself underpowered and having to "level farm" to get back on track.

Besides... Exploring is often more fun than the actual game.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Black cat. Orange cat won't remember the betrayal for more than maybe five seconds.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 days ago

Morgan Freeman Narration:

They did not.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

History largely proves otherwise...

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

Liberals of today are quite literally the Progressive Conservatives of yesteryear, before Preston Manning and the Reform party took "Progressive" out of their ethos by merging the Reform Party / Canadian Alliance Party into it and thus hijacking their mandate.

So really there's no irony about it. The harder right Liberals crossed over to the new Conservative party to play in Stephen Harper's sandbox. The old-guard "Progressive Conservatives" who were not comfortable moving more right moved over to the liberal party which ended up moving a little bit to the right as a result.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 days ago (7 children)

I always hear about Dwarf Fortress being the spiritual progenitor of Rimworld; "It walked so Rimworld could Run" kind of thing. But honestly everything I'm reading in the comments makes it sound even MORE fucked up than Rimworld (in the best kind of way).

 

Still in the early early stages. Can be a little slow going since I'm treating this like a training project to strengthen my Python skills. Typing mechanics are nailed down, basic UI is in place.

Next is to get the functionality working for new-page, save, export, etc... and the correction tape mode.

 

https://gizmodo.com/drew-struzan-rip-movie-posters-star-wars-back-to-the-future-2000672066

I share the gang's love of classic movie posters, and Struzan was the best of the best.

RIP.

 

I'm tired of collecting phones, and frankly I'm a little money strapped and kind of want to coast by on older phones for a while. But I'm wanting to de-google as much as possible.

Of the last few phones I've had, all are working well. Most have been able to be kept relatively up to date with LineageOS, and a couple have /e/os/ versions available for them (one official, one community)

  • Essential Phone (Community Build e/os/...not sure if still being updated or not though.)

  • Moto One Hyper (No e/os/ build. Sadly not a popular enough phone)

  • Moto One 5G Ace (Has an e/os/ build. Currently being used as a DIY game emulator on LineageOS)

  • Motorola Edge 2023 (Current Phone. No e/os/ build. It's essentially a canadian variant of the Motorola Edge 40 Neo...which are the only two newest phones to use the Dimensity 7030 chip, making it incompatible with the regular Edge 40 or 40 Pro e/os/ builds.

I'm using /e/os/ on my Essential phone (though not daily driver) to get a feel for the software and the Murena app/account. I'm willing to give up my game emulator to put it on the newer phone if I like it (though it would suck to lose my FFVII and Chrono Trigger playthroughs)

Ideally my Edge 2023 would have a build. But I'm not going to expect a chipset used by only two phones total to garner that much development focus (and rightly so)

Anyone have more long term experience with /e/os/ and Graphene and tell me what Graphene has stronger?

Thanks

 

I want to go back to the absolute basics for a while; to see if there's something from my old pre-computer life that I have lost.

When I was a teenager in the early 90s, I wrote like crazy on a giant, loud, electric typewriter. It whirred. It clacked. It needed me to manually hit the carraige return just like the older manual typewriters that it had come from.

The old days. No backspace deletion, no italics. Bold meant backing up and typing over the same word twice for effect.

There are apps like focus writer, etc... But I'm looking for something more

There is an online app called typewritesomething.com, and it has the option of installing it. But when I do, it's sluggish and imperfect. So I was hoping someone knew of something just like that, but in a locally installed program (Linux would be ideal, but WINE allows me to run Windows programs just fine and dandy)

Blank Page. Typewriter sound. No deletion on backspace. When you backup and retype, it has the effect of typing over the previous text. Manual carraige return. Literally no other features.

Any ideas?

 

 

I was thinking this while watching the SpaceX flight get scrubbed for the third time in as many days.

I don't know if it was the stream I happened to be watching, but it was just a heavy heavy circle jerk about how part of the goal of Starship is to have "30 minutes" to anywhere on earth by going suborbital.

But it struck me that business relies on consistency. Flights leaving on time, arriving on time. If I have a conference in Hong Kong, am I going to wait three days for the perfect launch conditions because my sub-orbital flight launch is delayed by a bad cloud somewhere in the launch zone?

Until orbital and suborbital launches ae robust enough to happen like clockwork in ANY weather condition, it'll never be popular enough to be feasible.

 

Was having a shower thought about this this morning after putting in a quick hour into an EU4 run.

I feel like it's odd that I don't follow the whole "This is how you win with "country x"...period" vibe. Other than learning the mechanics, I don't use specific guides because I don't feel like there is one specific "win condition". My entire vibe in any Paradox game is to do weird things and see what happens.

If I switch Portugal to an Autocracy, pick a fight with Castile and then bankrupt myself hiring mercenaries, that's STILL a successful game to me because that's the entire point. History is a series of random events, what happens if "other" random events occur. To me, THAT'S the fun part. Not learning the one perfect strat to conquer the world with "country x". But to play around with different events, knowing that even losing is still a successful game.

 

Pick up EU4 the way I pick up all of my games....on a steep steep discount when the next one is announced.

Started CK2 legitimately (ahem) when it went free-to-play on Steam. Don't like the idea of subscriptions for games, so picked up a couple of DLC on summer sales, etc... for dirt cheap. Figure "hey...I'm not an addict...I can handle only having one or two crucial DLCs. It's fine.

7 expansion packs later and, even on summer and winter sales, the amount comes to far more than what the subscription would have cost, but by then it's already been done.

EU5 gets announced. Both EU4 and HOI4 get steep discounts and new starter packs that integrate some DLC into them. Figure it's a good time to get into both games, but I won't need any extra Expansion packs because of the new included content and because there's just no way either of them can truly compare to my beloved CK2. Once again eschew the subscription for both.

Fast forward to five extra expansion packs later (4 for EU4 and 1 for HOI4) and once AGAIN, I've spent more than the bloody subscription would have cost me in the first place.

I still don't like or believe in subscriptions for DLC, but damn the addiction is real...

 

Since Wrestlemania there's been nothing but stories about John Cena winning an amazing 17th title, blah blah blah... It's a "History making moment", yadda yadda yadda...

Like...of course he did. It's the storyline. It's quite literally "in the script".

This isn't an achievement. Why is this in my sports news next to last night's hockey scores instead of next to an article about who was the bitchiest on the lastest episode of Real Housewives?

I get it. I loved Wrestling growing up. Back when we all WERE pretending it was real; Macho Man, Hulk Hogan, The Undertaker, etc... But I thought at some point they steered into the whole "entertainment" aspect when most of us grew the hell up and clued into the absurdity of it all.

 

It sure would explain the similarity between the ever more potential state of America and her novel The Handmaid's Tale.

 

Any idea why post video thumbnails are showing in three distorted diagonal bars?

Once you open the video full screen it plays normally.

 
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