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  • No, all the cans went off just fine.

  • Can't sleep, he's watching
  • Hotels almost always have blackout curtains.

  • whatcha gonna watch?
  • Or some shit about shop class.

  • How do you know you aren't smart?
  • I went to decent schools in a decent district, they had "Academically Gifted" programs for elementary and middle school students, with "honors" and "AP" classes for high schoolers. A structural problem I think they had is they were operating kind of on video game logic: "You're smart so for you we're going to make classes harder for you." You're doing too well on Medium, we're bumping you up to Hard.

    Which basically did the opposite of what I really needed. I didn't need more and longer assignments. In most subjects you could go a little deeper in detail with me and I'd keep up. In math class, I needed more concrete explanations of what the numbers meant. Math class is so often just "Here is how you do this algortihm. Follow these rules and you get the answer." "Okay, I got 7." "No, you were supposed to get -2, you forgot the transistational property of non-equal equality. You need to talk to the guidance counselor about your future because at this rate you're not going to pass this class." Funny how I did extremely well in chemistry and physics where they explained the math in concrete terms that I could build an intuitive relationship with.

    I think there's also a problem where...Picture a mathematician. What do you see? A man in a sweater vest in an ivy covered building filling a chalkboard with greek letters and arcane symbols that prove some deep truth about reality, right? That's what it looks like to be good at math, so that's what we're going to make math class look like for every single citizen. Never mind that administrators rarely do math at all, a lot of office workers are fine with a 4-function calculator, meanwhile a carpenter needs a functioning understanding of trigonometry. In academia, aesthetics is more important than reality.

  • Tried Stardew
  • Stardew Valley is basically a love letter to/greatest hits compilation of the Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons franchises. It's kind of the opposite of a management game. There is a little bit of automation later on, but most productivity gains come in upgrading your tools which can either plow more soil in one whack, cut down a tree faster, water large patches of fields, etc.

    I definitely see where you fell off because at first it feels like you don't have time for everything, the clock runs no matter what, there's only so many minutes in a day etc. Here's the thing though: There's no failure state, and the game repeats forever. Each day is short, but days never stop coming. So plant and water a little patch of crops, then look around the town, talk to people, explore. More gameplay styles open up as you play; it's possible to focus on exploring the various mines or fishing or whatnot rather than farming.

    Definitely do give it up for Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone. It's amazing what the man built single-handedly.

  • The US government wants devs to stop using C and C++
  • I do know that Linus is on record with low opinion of C++. I have heard of him compare the cult-like following Rust has with the whole Vim/Emacs tribalism thing.

  • D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models
  • I could be a lot happier with Synology. Honestly. When it's time to replace mine I'm just going to build one.

  • D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models
  • I'll allow it (my authority: some jerk that doesn't even have an account on this instance).

    Part of Reddit culture was hyper narrow focus on the topics of subreddits. I wouldn't be surprised if the mods of r/samsung_galaxy removed "Overall I like my Pixel better" for being off-topic, even if it was a reply in the comment chain "I have both a Pixel 5 and an S22 and the S22 has the better camera." "Other than the camera which of the two phones do you like best?" 7 day ban, rule 4: mentions another brand of phone without also mentioning a Samsung.

    That doesn't happen here on Lemmy as much and I don't mind it. While a NAS isn't necessarily directly a piece of gaming hardware, I think a lot of gamers might have one. Any who stream might save video of their play sessions to a NAS, etc. So I think this article is of peripheral interest to PC gamers.

  • Is gaming with Coreboot (or any other open source bios) viable?
  • My understanding is there are few desirable motherboards that support Coreboot.

    Don't like Intel Management Engine? or processors that shit themselves? go AMD.

  • Trump tariffs will make video game consoles up to 40% more expensive
  • I built a gaming PC during the Trump administration, I had to order the CPU from an ebay seller in Korea because there were none in North America and the GPU i took out of my father's old Dell because there were none to be had at all retail.

    I built a PC earlier this year and the case I wanted was out of stock everywhere but everything else was really in stock.

  • Murdering someone is the easiest and quickest way to earn yourself a page on Wikipedia
  • nah just publish a really racist book or something."Flick Flickerson, author of the controversial title Every Slur I Know..."

  • 👌👌👌 It stinks!
  • IDIOT CONTROL! BEES ON PIE, BURNIN RUBBER TIRES!

  • Thorin is very proud of his new PC case.
  • I bet he did. Nice and roomy.

  • How much of a game changer was USB-C for you, compared to other cables?
  • True, but keyboards, mice, wireless adapters etc. haven't moved to C yet. I use PCs and desktop peripherals and industry adoption if USBC has basically stopped 1/4 of the way in.

  • How do you know you aren't smart?
  • or even... I'm slightly above average, they put me in honors classes etc. functionally because I played Magic School Bus games as a kid and showed up to 2nd grade already knowing what an herbivore was, I got more boring homework to do for my entire adolescence. Whatbreally doomed me was "academically gifted" math class was just skipping a grade and my math performance never recovered.

  • It's crazy that a 60 ton metal airplane can just fly
  • you want to really bend your brain about airplanes, go looknhow the air conditioning on a big jet works. the phrase "air pack" will help in your search. I don't know which is more impressive, that it actually works or that someone thought of it.

  • How much of a game changer was USB-C for you, compared to other cables?
  • Really hasn't been much of one. I still own devices that charge from MicroUSB, a lot of peripherals are still USB-A, there hasn't been any significant movement by the industry overall to move everything to C, so mostly it means I just need to carry more cables.

  • This must be a wholesome family-friendly game
  • I only learned of Bad Fur Day years later. During the N64's heyday I knew Conker only from Diddy Kong Racing.

  • Mindustry: an extremely high quality (and difficulty) FOSS tower defense game
  • Mindustry looks like one of those games you'd find on those "1001 Games!" cds back in the 90s thatbalways had the Hugo Whodunit games and the shareware version of Wolfenstein 3D. It has that MS Paint look to it.

  • What are you going to do, no matter how small, to make the world a little better?
  • I took a drive today. Around my old stomping grounds, streets I haven't driven down in years if not decades. Past the hospital where I was born, past the high school I graduated from. Down the highway where my driver's ed teacher when I was 15 kept bitching at me to lift my head off the headrest. I made sure to drive that stretch of road with my head on the headrest.

    I drove past my great grandmother's old house, where some of my earliest memories were formed. It's been standing abandoned long enough that trees are growing through the porch now. Past the Yamaha dealership where I bought my first motorcycle, which is now a machine parts warehouse. Past the airport where I got my pilot's license.

    I stopped at the lake by my old college and walked the trail around it, stopping at some of the little fishing piers, benches to look at the lake and the woods. I stopped at the foot bridge over the creek that feeds the lake and just looked upstream and listened to the water babble over the tree roots.

    The entire time I was out, my mind could only do two things: hum Auld Lang Syne and envision swimming straight out to sea.

    On a related note, the above text felt like an answer to this question.

  • Brick Pattern End Grain Cutting Board

    Walnut and maple., it's an inch and a quarter thick, 12 1/2 inches wide and about 17 inches long. While it is an end grain cutting board I actually built it with kneading dough in mind, I don't intend to cut on this one, not for awhile anyway. Built it this weekend and baked some bread with it today. Which is why my mixer is covered in flour. I'm really happy with this one.

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    Brick Pattern End Grain Cutting Board

    Walnut and maple., it's an inch and a quarter thick, 12 1/2 inches wide and about 17 inches long. While it is an end grain cutting board I actually built it with kneading dough in mind, I don't intend to cut on this one, not for awhile anyway. Built it this weekend and baked some bread with it today. Which is why my mixer is covered in flour. I'm really happy with this one.

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    Crash Blossoms

    I picture them as an all girl hard rock band with a sound similar to Veruca Salt.

    It's the name of a grammatical quirk where unrelated parts of a sentence can be mistaken as a noun phrase. Comes from a headline "Violinist Linked To JAL Crash Blossoms."

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    What's your personal little conspiracy theory?

    I'll go first: r/kitty. One of the hundred grillion cat subs back on Reddit, the culture in this one was you posted a cat picture, and the only word allowed in the title or in any comments or replies was "Kitty."

    Someone is using that subreddit for covert communications, I just know it. Either on the level of "if u/PM_me_your_nostrils posts an orange cat, we attack at dawn!" or there's some steganography going on with the pictures, but that subreddit was too stupid to be as active as it was.

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    TIL miniblinds with pull cords to raise and lower them are now illegal to sell in the United States

    Replacing a broken set of blinds in my house and apparently no one sells the old standard kind where you pull the cord to raise them, I guess because kids and/or pets could tangle in the cord? Bit of an education in miniblinds today.

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    Double check my Linux gaming build Update w/ Build pics

    Greetings buildapc!

    I built my current rig during the parts drought during the pandemic or whatever, I scraped together whatever I could find and then stopped keeping up with PC parts for a few years. Looking to build a new rig, PCPartPicker attached, just looking for some double checking for any details I missed.

    Use case: Linux and Linux only. It's gonna run some FreeCAD and some LibreOffice and a lot of Firefox and a lot of Satisfactory. I'm trying to build it in time for Satisfactory's launch on September 10, I've heard tell of a Ryzen 7600X3D coming imminently that I don't want to wait for.

    I have a Gigabyte M34WQ monitor (1440p ultrawide 144Hz FreeSync) that I'd like to take full advantage of in Unreal engine games like Satisfactory, the upcoming Subnautica 3 and such.

    My budget is $1500, I can exceed that but for every $100 over I'm going to read you a vogon poem.

    This is to be my first desktop AMD GPU. My current rig (Ryzen 3600/GTX-1080) is Nvidia, it was all I could get my hands on, and the 1080 predates a lot of the whiz bang acronyms like DLSS RTX OMG LOL, I have no idea how well any of that from AMD or Nvidia works in Linux, I don't particularly care about raytracing. Word on the street is AMD is less of a pain in the head to deal with on Linux and Wayland stands a chance of running, so...

    thoughts/suggestions/donations?

    Update: Sub in a 7700X CPU and a 7900GRE GPU and...IT'S ALIVE:

    !

    Everything but the case arrived so I decided to go ahead and test bench it.

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    Planter Box Contest Entry

    Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I present to you The Tale Of The Cedar Planter Box.

    Solid cedar, mortise and tenon joinery, with a nice bead detail on the slats. Garden hose sold separately, pine straw not included.

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    BackInTime turns on my monitors

    I use BackInTime (which is basically a front end for rsync) for backups, and I run one every night at 1 AM. This is on Linux Mint Cinnamon. If the computer is locked/the monitors have gone to sleep (computer isn't suspended), when the backup begins the monitors turn on, and will then stay on all night. I don't want to waste the power or wear out my backlights.

    How can I stop it from turning the monitors on, or how can I get it to turn them back off?

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    I built a table for my porch

    I posted this one to !woodworking@lemmy.ca too, as I do most of my furniture projects, but I'm particularly proud of how this one came out. Solid white oak with genuine mortise-and-tenon joinery.

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    A shaker table for the front porch

    I'm working on replacing my porch furniture, and the side table was the worst of the lot so it got replaced first.

    I've built a few little tables by now and I've got a lot of the process down. I used this one as an excuse to practice making actual mortise and tenon joints instead of the loose tenons I've used in the past. The mortises that the center brace sits in were chiseled by hand, the others are routed.

    I'm thinking of making a couple outdoor-friendly morris chairs to replace those old iron ones. That'll be a minute though.

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    [SOLVED] {TV series or movie unsure] two characters act out scene from Empire Strikes Back for young children

    I think I saw this in a youtube video taken out of context so I'm not exactly sure when it was made, or if it was a TV show or a movie. And while it could obviously be from any time after 1980 because it references Empire Strikes Back it felt 21st century to me.

    It seems to be a future post-apocalyptic setting, the power isn't on, everyone's dressed in rags, there's scavenging etc. and in a moment of down time two of the main characters act out the lightsaber duel from Empire Strikes Back to entertain the young children who live there, and the kids gasp at the "I am your father" bit.

    What's this from?

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    Oak plant stand w/ intermediate shelf

    It's actually just friction fit together in this picture; as I type it's in the clamps as the glue dries. Tomorrow some final touch up sanding and the first of four coats of spar varnish, then a few decades on my front porch under a couple potted plants.

    There's an education in all this oak; it looks conceptually simple compared to the shaker tables I've done so far, right? IT AIN'T! Each leg cambers out by 5 degrees in both directions, and that tiny difference make this project SO much more obnoxious than a table with vertical legs. Laying things out accounting for that compound miter at the top and bottom is "fun." The upper and lower frame rails are no longer the same length, they're different but related lengths. That lower panel? Can't be installed with the frame assembled. Hell I didn't even bother attaching it in any way, it's just captive in there.

    Unlike the previous tables I've built that are held together with floating tenons, the rails are thin and fit entirely into mortises in the legs, which meant some chisel work squaring the corners of the mortises, so I gained quite a bit of experience with chisels here.

    But, another project nearing completion.

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    I tabled again

    A simple shaker style table in white oak, finished with spar urethane and kitty approved.

    The breadboard ends on the panels were an education on this one; on the top they aren't strictly necessary, but I felt they were needed on the lower panel so that the movement of that captive panel wouldn't rack the legs. Found out I prefer making the tongues with a router rather than the dado set on the table saw.

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    Using a shop tablet that definitely exists

    This is the follow-up to my previous post about a Linux tablet for my workshop. based on the suggestion by @yojimbo@sopuli.xyz , I went with a Lenovo Duet 3i, apparently also known as an 82AT and/or 10IGL5. Sprung for the Pentium version with 8GB of RAM. It has arrived, and I've got it set up to start using.

    The Hardware Itself

    For a shovelware-grade machine, it's not bad at all. I'm sure they were sold in big box stores as the budget tier barely capable of running Windows 10, which is why there's so many of them for sale in barely used condition.

    2 USB-C ports came in handy for charging and installing Linux from a thumb drive. The screen is surprisingly good for a machine of this price point, and it runs cooler than my cat.

    The Linux Experience

    SHOCKINGLY good. Linux Mint loaded right up, though I wouldn't recommend it on this machine. Cinnamon is not intended for tiny touch screens.

    Fedora KDE Spin ran quite nicely, but I ended up installing Fedora Gnome. I generally hate Gnome but for a machine that will run FreeCAD, a PDF reader and a web browser, maybe a calculator, it'll work.

    So far, I haven't found anything that doesn't work. It suspends and wakes from suspend, keyboard works, backlight controls work, both cameras work, auto-rotation works, keyboard works in attached and bluetooth modes, Wi-Fi works...

    I think I just saw that graphical glitch @yojimbo@sopuli.xyz mentioned for the first time, I looked over at it and the top panel was near the bottom of the screen. Moving the mouse around seems to fix it, though yeah if that behavior continues or worsens I'm probably going to try either X11 or...something.

    Overall I'd call it "quick but not fast." UI feels responsive, but...put it this way I watched Neofetch run. Any disk operation at all is a bit slow.

    Gnome is...Gnome. I would hate to live in Gnome on my main machine. I think it'll do here; it's mostly navigable by touch screen.

    FreeCAD works amazingly well and is surprisingly usable on a touch screen, though to do anything serious you do need to be able to right click and use the Ctrl key. I think it'll do what I'm after. Going to start building a shelf either today or in the next couple days, will report back how it works in service.

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    captain_aggravated Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works

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