POV you're playing geoguessr and the map is long flat expanse in the middle of bumfuck nowhere but you know it's the US because of the roads and yet have no idea other than it's a random midwestern/plains state
Not quite answering your question, but I highly recommend reading Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demrick. It's a really interesting book about daily north Korean life based on accounts of defectors. It does a really good job at humanizing North Koreans and understanding how the country works for day to day life.
A friend of mine had purchased all of the Sims games and wanted to see if they could play it on Linux and if so they'd switch to it. The issue is that while the Sims games work on steam, they had purchased it through the EA app, which does not have a native Linux version. It turns out that if you purchase it in the EA app, it won't let you transfer it to Steam even though they bought and owned the damn game. Very ridiculous policy.
This is copied from a Reddit post that I found. I figured this solution should be archived in a non-Reddit place in text format so that other people would know how to fix this.
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In this video, I cover how to install and use the EA App on Linux using Lutris, a universal launcher that supports many game launcher services.
https://youtu.be/cLZw8hiu25o
This video will cover the standalone installation of the EA App on Linux, and not when it is launched separately by a game purchased in Steam.
Step 1. Install Wine.
https://github.com/lutris/docs/blob/master/WineDependencies.md
The installation of Wine will differ slightly depending on your Linux distribution, but in all cases, you will be installing it using a package manager.
Although Lutris does uses its own Wine builds, it is still recommended to install all of Wine dependencies to ensure a working installation.
On the Wine Dependencies page on the Lutris Wiki, scroll down to find your distribution’s family and then follow the instructions.
Step 2. Install Lutris.
https://lutris.net/
To download Lutris, click on the Download link at the top of the main page, and then follow the installation instructions for your distribution.
Again, much like Wine, it is likely you will use your distribution’s package manager to install Lutris. Once installation is finished, launch Lutris using your application launcher.
Step 3. Install EA App.
To install the EA App using Lutris, click on the + button at the top left corner, and choose the Search the Lutris website for installers option.
In search bar, type in EA App.
You will need to scroll down to find it, but the option you want is the EA App, 2022, Windows entry.
Click on it, and you should be presented by two options, choose the Standard option by clicking the Install button.
From here, specify an installation location, review the files, and click Continue to start the installation process.
If you get asked to install any dependencies, click Yes.
Eventually, you will be presented with the installation wizard for the EA App, so click Let us Go to proceed.
Shortly after, you will be greeted by a blue screen, but you can close this, and the installation process will finish successfully.
Step 4. Launch EA App.
Now that the EA App is installed, double click the entry in Lutris to launch and you will be asked to sign in with your credentials.
Once signed in, the process is identical to Windows, you can browse through all available games to purchase or install ones already in your library.
Once a game is installed, double click to launch.
One final thing to note, I recommend disabling the In-Game overlay as this can prevent older games from launching, something that also happens on Windows.
To do that, click on the hamburger menu at the top left, navigate to Settings, Application, and toggle off the In-Game overlay.
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Woah, thank you for this. I've wanted to learn more about torrenting and how music files work anyway so actually sitting down and needing to study for this is a big plus.
I knew I regonized that structure. Read the caption you put and yep, I've been there. Absolutely awe inspiring piece of architecture.
After looking more closely, some of them do look AI generated. I still think the idea of the images is nice but it is annoying to see how it messes up the details.
More Frutiger Aero photos because I can't stop thinking about how beautiful it is:
One thing about it is that it ain't the most homely of aesthetics and architectures. It's almost always in the context of a workplace, airport, shopping center, etc. In an ideal world I'd live in a mid century modern house and work in a frutiger aero workplace.
Edit: just found this really cool website https://frutigeraeroarchive.org/
Yeah, one thing that I'm not a fan of with some of the pictures that I selected is all the white. I like it better when there's other colors and white is just the accent.
I don't wanna use Spotify anymore and would like to build my own offline collection of music. The issue is, I have hundreds of albums saved on Spotify that I love listening to. Downloading each individual song would be a royal pain in the ass to do. A lot of the stuff on the megathread doesn't seem to work anymore for music specifically. I also would like to have high quality audio files. Any ideas how to go about doing this? I have no idea how torrenting works.
Frutiger Aero. This is what the future should have looked like. It's a beautiful balance between nature and technology. I love the glossy, transpartent, rounded nature of it all. The colors are bright and fresh but relaxing at the same time.
I'm also a big fan of mid century modern. It does a good job at incorporating a natural look. On the outside, the buildings are usually low profile and blend into the landscape well. On the inside, there's a lot of nice, quality natural materials like wood and stone that are used throughout.
I'm curious, what about it makes it for tech people who like music?
That looks really cool, but is too high for my price range unfortunately. I usually get nice things used (and reduced price) but this is too new to do that.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/23671247
> I'm currently eyeing either an iPod classic 5th gen or a Surfans F20, but definitely want input and suggestions on getting a decent portable music player. > > Basically, I'm trying to find something that has good audio quality, is not touch screen, reasonably durable, repairable, upgradable, etc. Big storage capacity is a plus. I don't wanna stream from it or have Bluetooth, mainly just wanna play audio files I load onto there and listen with my ear monitors. Totally fine altering hardware and software in order to get it to the point that meets what I'm looking for. > > Any recommendations for this? Many thanks.
I'm currently eyeing either an iPod classic 5th gen or a Surfans F20, but definitely want input and suggestions on getting a decent portable music player.
Basically, I'm trying to find something that has good audio quality, is not touch screen, reasonably durable, repairable, upgradable, etc. Big storage capacity is a plus. I don't wanna stream from it or have Bluetooth, mainly just wanna play audio files I load onto there and listen with my ear monitors. Totally fine altering hardware and software in order to get it to the point that meets what I'm looking for.
Any recommendations for this? Many thanks.
Temporary Secretary makes much more sense than Steel and Glass
Album recommends if you're interested: Dreamtime Return, Structures From Silence, and Empetus. He makes cool synthy ambient music and instrumentals.
My bad. Idk who that is and my sarcasm detector was off.
I'm pretty sure it's about Allen Klein. Allen helped john write how do you sleep, which was a paul diss track that john regretted later. Steel and glass is also a diss track and has the same tune as how do you sleep. John explicitly said that steel and glass ain't about Paul. Allen Klein is from new york.
You could have multiple fans especially if it's a desktop. Check if there's another one.
Most of my pants have gotten big on me, but it feels wrong to go out and buy new ones when these work fine, so I've been wearing them with a belt anyway. The problem is that when I sit down they bunch up around my crotch and it looks like I have a massive boner when I don't. Obviously, I don't want this to keep happening and am wondering if anybody knows of a way to fix this. I have relatively little expierence with sewing or tailoring but I do have access to a sewing machine. Any advice would be appreciated.
What's more solarpunk than using old hardware destined for the dump to host a cool website?
Every time after I shave, I get more acne in those areas. I use a safety razor and an oat based cream. I always wash my face beforehand. Is there a way I can reduce the amount of acne I get after shaving?
I have some desktops (the tower kind) lying around and I'm wondering if there's a way that I can connect them all to one display and combine their computational power or at least make them all accessible in one place. I want to get into server hosting but only have one monitor. They're currently running LMDE.
Any ideas?
Using mullvad VPN. Keeps giving me the bad https status 403 message no matter which server I switch to. Anybody else having this issue or has workarounds?