otacon239 @ otacon239 @lemmy.world

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Somewhat unrelated, but at one point, one of my friends watched all 5 of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies at once. They had multiple TVs and laptops arranged.

I never did figure out why.

I agree with everything here, but this was at one point the case with pancake gaming. I’m not saying that we deserve it, but it’s always been the tradeoff with Linux. I’ve never gotten a Linux system running with the expectation that it will work 100%. I admittedly essentially dropped my use of VR when I switched, but it comes down to a cost benefit analysis.

I just made the choice that an OS that wasn’t fully functional was better than an OS that didn’t respect me as a user. I’d much rather things not work in good faith than to have a working product progressively made worse for financial gain.

Something something something dark side. Something something something complete.

You are correct. Never was good at remembering voice actors…

Vaas from Far Cry 3.

This scene is always such a treat: https://youtu.be/rKMMCPeiQoc

Also Alan Tudyk Stephen Merchant in Portal 2.

Edit: Was just recently watching something with Alan in it and got them mixed up 😅

David Lynch’s Eraserhead immediately popped into mind. There is very little dialog and the main character is almost entirely wrapped in his own thoughts. Also just a very strange and surreal movie. It feels almost like you’re not meant to see it.

I’ve have amazing luck with both Beelink and Minisforum computers. They’re relatively cheap and excellent quality.

I personally use the Beelink ME Mini and it’s been able to handle just fine about any server tasks I need it to, not to mention the wildly expandable storage.

The kite is an excellent example of where black and white can actually make your image worse.

Black and white is really useful I find for when you’re just learning. It’s good at teaching you the importance of contrast and framing and gives you an easy limit to implement

These aren’t bad in black and white, just not taken with black and white in mind.

And for anyone new to it, if you’re always saving in RAW anyway, you can always get the color version back in post. Really makes it easy to do spot color this way as well.

I know the Index is obviously compatible as well as the Pico 4. I know there’s not a ton of options, but you can definitely still do it on Linux.

It’s called getting a new email address and calling the old inbox your past life.

Consequences? For Amazon?

lol… lmao even

It’s a famous comedy skit. https://youtu.be/kyBH5oNQOS0

The full show, Live at Carnagy Hall is great and I honestly recommend most of Carlin’s standup.

• shit
• piss
• fuck
• cunt
• cocksucker
• motherfucker
• tits
• fart
• turd
• twat

My first thought as well. “To the surprise of no one…”

It bothers me to no end that there isn’t regulation to shut all the lights off for unoccupied buildings and parking lots at night. So much light and energy pollution for no real benefit.

Gaming and streaming each have different requirements. Gaming needs low latency, but doesn’t require a lot of bandwidth. Streaming requires high bandwidth, but is okay with a decent amount of latency.

Bandwidth is the amount of traffic you’re sending through your pipe. It’s a lot easier for your provider to keep this steady and they can guarantee a certain level of service here. Make sure you look into how much bandwidth you’ll be getting and how much bandwidth your streaming setup requires, then give yourself at least a 25% headroom.

Latency is how quickly that traffic makes it from your computer to the internet. This will have a far bigger impact on your actual performance in-game. If you’re in the competitive scene, the other players will likely all have cable/fiber connections and they will have a real advantage on you as they can see you faster and react more quickly. This isn’t as much of a problem if you’re a casual player online or with friends.

Your quality of cell service will have a major impact on latency and it will also probably be inconsistent throughout the day as there’s more and less cell network load. This means that you could find yourself where certain games only run well during certain parts of the day.

All this to say, usually cell providers have a return policy before you’re locked into the plan. Try it out with some stress tests and see how it plays out. Keep in mind you’ll likely need enough bandwidth to both stream out of the network and enough to watch the stream to monitor it as well.

After I’ve spent several years away from algo-feed-based social media, I can’t imagine going back. The sheer amount of content that I didn’t consent to witnessing was wild. The frequency of shock and gore was pretty much at least weekly, if not daily.

It wasn’t until I left FB, joined Reddit, unsubbed from all the defaults, and started adding subs as a whitelist rather than a blacklist, did I start seeing my reactions to news shift. I started becoming way less reactionary over time and engaged far less with bait.

When they killed 3rd-party apps and I came to Lemmy, there was a lot less content, but it was also obvious the advertisers weren’t here generating bait. I’m now back to a blacklist on Lemmy, but I also don’t get hit with engagement bait here like I did on previous platforms.

“Lay your eyes upon my field of fucks and see that it is barren”