Adderbox76

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Why do so many piece of Hardware come with windows only software requiring admin right for installation in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Why are corporate IT policies the way they are?

I thought about this the other day when asking my IT department why they won't let me carry a USB stick between home and work to be able to work from home and instead lock down the USB access and instruct me to use Google Drive instead....

I decided that most corporations only cosplay their IT security inasmuch as it only matters up to and not beyond the point of economic convenience.

If any of these companies truly cared about security, they would at the very least be using a hardened fork of Chrome with Google Services stripped out. They'd be self-hosting their own servers connected only via a VPN or some sort, etc... etc...

But that shit takes money and staff to maintain it. So they'll give everything to third parties to manage instead and then send out pop-quiz emails about phishing every couple of weeks followed by sternly worded emails when a person fails it.

(Sorry...off my anti-depressants until pay day, so I have a lot of micro rants that have built up...haha)

What are some fictional side characters that have deeply resonated with you? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I feel like this was the ultimate sin of Andromeda (a game that sadly had far too many sins)

It had some great combat mechanics (that I hope get ported over to the new one). But the characters are just ultimately so damn forgettable. There's no reason or need to get to know them. And when you're main character is just a nepo-baby, that's a problem.

At the very least they could have made Cora Harper an interesting character as the person who has trained her entire life only to be superceded by said nepo-baby. But nope...she's just immediately cool with it and all you can do is find her a fucking rose garden.

What...a....waste....

The only somewhat interesting characters that should have been fleshed out more was Sloane Kelly, the security chief who led the rebellion and became the head of the exiles. SHE could have had an interesting storyline in an Aria T'loak type of way. But she's just relegated to killing her in order to advance another boring plot.

What are some fictional side characters that have deeply resonated with you? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

I've played the trilogy multiple times with multiple different agendas for the character (today I'll be a racist like Ashley. Today I'll be smart-ass, etc...)

And the only hard-and-fast rule is "always...kill...Alenko".

I've actually gotten all the way up to Virmire multiple times with the intention being "okay...not this time." only to have the thought strike me right at the moment of truth that i still have two more games to go with him hanging around and at least the space racist has boobs to distract me.

Poor poor Kaiden.

Does the average person know markdown? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Most IT nowadays is just simply the ability to google. What sets a professional IT person apart from an amateur is that the professional has an educated guess as to what to google in the first place.

Non-professional: "My computer is making a weird buzzing noise"

Professional: "What are the symptoms of a bad cooling fan?"

Does the average person know markdown? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Does the average person know markdown? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I guess they commonly know to use asterisks for italics and bold

I wouldn't guess that at all. Pretty much everyone I know in the "normie" world would AT BEST use ctrl-i and ctrl-b if they're not just pressing the icon in the gui.

Hell, most of them look at me like I'm a goddamn morlock when I tell them to Shift-delete in order to skip the recycling bin.

What are some fictional side characters that have deeply resonated with you? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I'm going to cheat and say that with the exception of everyone's favourite space-racist, most of the side characters from the Mass Effect Trilogy are far more compelling than Commander Shepard.

My 4yo brother is in the mood to answer questions in c/askmeanything@lemmy.ca
[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Has anyone asked what your favourite dinosaur is yet?

Is video media easier to understand than books? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

For the most part, yes. By design. Conveying something in a movie is more challenging in that it has less time to do it than a book has less time to do it. So it HAS to be, to some degree, more blunt and on-the-nose than a book can take its time being.

You can write five pages of internal description discussing what your main character thinks about the world around them. But you can't show that in a movie and so you have to figure out how to get the gist of it across in a few lines of dialogue and some emoting.

It's why show don't tell is a rule. You have to simplify a movie in comparison to a book or else your audience will be sitting through a ten hour film.

would you rather retire or cryogenically freeze yourself to see a new world? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

When I thought the world had a future, I would have opted for cryogenics.

But I am 100% that we are on our way to the big reset button.

Not necessarily extinction, per se. But a societal bottleneck where a man-made catastrophe throws the survivors back technologically and we have to start the climb all over.

Getting past that point to the realm of actually achieving the technology necessary to unfreeze me seems unlikely. So cryogenics is just death with a preserved corpse.

I'll take death. The sooner the better, lately.

Trump says his Golden Dome missile defence program will include Canada in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Trump will be dead and in the ground, either by bullet or by hamburger, long before any of this ever reaches the functional stage anyway. I can virtually guarantee it.

YSK - a very comprehensive guide on how to avoid "very" in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

The very first thing written by a something called "proofreading services.com" is functionally wrong. That's a helluva start.

"exact" and "very accurate" are not the same thing. Not by a long shot.

"Very accurate" still leaves room for innacuracies while "Exact" does not. So why exactly would I trust a service whose very first sentence is an error?

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Flight Attendant Tantrum Cancels Transatlantic Flight (jalopnik.com)
 

Just immediately reminded me of this gem from a while ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3BtmeUhOHU

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I've been a Manjaro user on my desktop for a very long time, and it never occurred to me that it could do this... (lemmy.ca)
 
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Manjaro on Chromebook (lemmy.ca)
 

I finally pulled the trigger on replacing my ChromeOS completely with Manjaro using the Mrchromebox script. Other than some glitching getting the audio to work correctly, everything runs great.

For the first two years I had this chromebook (Asus 433 flip) I thought that it wasn't worth the risk and that running the debian container via Crostini was plenty good enough.

Well it turns out that:

  • A. No...it wasn't much of a risk at all. It was actually really smooth, including disconnecting the battery to disable the hardware write protect. I honestly don't know what I was worried about. and

  • B. I may have thought Crostini was good enough. But man oh man...it's a night and day difference having Linux running natively on this old girl rather than through a container that had to boot up every time I use the first linux app of the day.

Anyway. Just wanted to share. Been using Manjaro on pretty much all of my computers for years, and now I can take the "pretty much" away and just say "all of them."

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Minimal Menu? (lemmy.ca)
 

So....I updated my Manjaro to Plasma 6. Any chance that Minimal Menu (or something similar) exists?

I was not happy to find it gone. It's been a part of my system for so long that I honestly just forgot it wasn't default.

Now it doesn't even show up in the widget search and I'm honestly not sure I can live without it, largely because I can choose to centre it in the display on launch rather than having to choose either a) full-screen or b) right above the icon.

I can't even describe how upsetting it was to reboot after the update....

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Say what you will about the Will Smith iRobot movie.... (gizmodo.com)
 

...but its robot designs were well ahead of the curve for the time.

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Open Creative (lemmy.ca)
 

Just popping in to post about a community to discuss FOSS creative software like GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Kdenlive, Blender, etc...

https://lemmy.ca/c/open_creative

I've used them all at one time or another. Since moving to FOSS as much as possible ten years ago, I've learned a LOT about most of the programs, and consider myself a near expert in some (Kdenlive, GIMP) and fairly competent in others (Blender, Scribus).

I feel like having a place where anyone who uses FOSS creative software can both ask questions, share advice, and celebrate each others works, would be a nice addition to the Fediverse.

So feel free to join and post your work, your questions, your news or your tips and tricks.

I'm a one man band as far as modding and maintaining for now, so thanks in advance for your patience while I learn how it all works on the back end.

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GIMP Segmentation Fault - FYI (lemmy.ca)
 

Anyone having a recent segmentation fault with GIMP 2.10.36 when closing a file without saving changes, the issue has been fixed and will be merged into the next point release. 2.10.38.

More info here: (scroll to bottom) https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/10785

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Video Editing Practice Footage (lemmy.ca)
 

Putting this out into the community for anyone who needs it.

When I was first learning video editing, I had trouble finding good narrative content to practice with. There was plenty of stock footage, etc... but nothing scripted where you could craft a scene between two characters.

Cinestudy is the best for that. In fact I'm using footage from there for a book that I've been working on about narrative editing in Kdenlive.

https://cinestudy.org/

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Welcome to Open Creative (lemmy.ca)
 

One of the main things that I have been missing in Lemmy since moving over from the other site has been the myriad communities for the various bits of FOSS software I use on a regular basis.

Any any given day, I'll use Kdenlive, LibreOffice, Blender, Gimp and Scribus in the course of getting work done both personally and professionally, and I kept waiting for the day when I wouldn't have to go back to the other site to keep up to date with them.

While some (Blender) eventually got communities in the fediverse of their own, few are very active. So I felt that I should at least try to create my own in the hopes that it draws some activity.

So if you're joining because of a shared love of FOSS creative software, welcome. I'm hoping to post news and other articles from around the web, as well as being a place for questions and advice from user to user.

Maybe it'll be just as dead as all the others. But I hope not.

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As someone who worked (briefly) as a freelance writer online, the tl;dr bot is my enemy and I want it dead. (lemmy.ca)
 

The tl;dr bot that pops up on every link to an article on Lemmy is depriving those websites of clicks, which deprives them of ad revenue.

The only thing that will accomplish is forcing those websites to do the very thing that we rail about; replacing their writers with crappy A.I because they can't afford to pay for actual content.

We rail against the enshitification of the internet, but when there's a legitimate way to fight back by giving these websites a page view/read/click etc... so that they can attract advertisers, we would rather have a bot summarize it for us, giving them nothing.

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Can't Connect Android Phone to ChromeOS - Wrong Password (Even though I KNOW it's correct) (lemmy.ca)
 

Like the title says. Just upgraded my Android phone, got it set up and working like a charm. Went to connect it to my chromebook in the chromebook settings and it won't let me get past the "sign in with your google account" screen.

Keeps saying "wrong password". But not only have I been already using that account/password not only on the new Android Phone, but on my Chromebook for the last year...but I also LITERALLY copied and pasted it from my bitwarden account after it failed to take the typed password three times.

I'm stumped. Help please. Thanks in advance.

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Three Months of Blender Practice. (lemmy.ca)
 

I feel like I've come a long way, but still feel like I have a long way to go before I feel truly good.

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