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Finished watching "Dead End Paranormal Park". It was mostly harmless. Not groundbreaking but it is "just a cartoon". LGBTQ representation aside it the show is unfocused and the episodes themselves are lacking the energy to stand on their own. The pace accelerated towards the end but didn't manage to fully have any lasting impact as a whole.
about 4 days ago from web-
@adiwan That's sounding sadly par for Netflix, post-BoJack. They coulda had another with Tuca and Bertie, but nnoooo, they had to fall asleep at the wheel.... Disenchantment is disenchanting me as of late, feels like every season is bookended by interesting big-P Plot moments, and filled with trivial slice-of-life misadventures. A whole season of not exploring themes and character, ending with some sudden developments and cliffhangers, only to be semi-resolved in the first 2 of the next season and shunted aside until the final 2 or 3....
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@scribus Centaurworld was good. Not my jam but good. Carmen Sandiego was good. Glitch Techs is also very fun. Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts too. Kid Cosmic is a definitive recommendation. Dogs in Space is a good "nothing to see else"-watch.
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@adiwan Yeah, Carmen Sandiego was good, even if they did whitewash the history of the Samurai caste.... Lol
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Watched the first two episodes of "Dead End Paranormal Park" on Netflix and it didn't impress me. The show lacks the energy and snappiness to appear to be fun. The characters and voice acting are quite dull. There is a looming feeling that it is a soulless Gravity Falls rip-off. Sure it is a different setting but I cannot get rid off that impression.
about 6 days ago from web -
Thinking about retiring my Thinkpad x201. I LOVE the keyboard but it makes problems. When I hit the power button to turn it on, there is a 50:50 chance that the screen is blank and does nothing. It caused me some bigger problems with sleep mode and did the exact same thing on wake-up. Only turning the laptop completely off and on again helps, but on sleep mode all RAM content is gone. Hibernation is fine but it takes longer as a normal boot.
about 8 days ago from web-
@scribus For a few reasons I also miss my Asus EEEPC 1000H keyboard. It was tiny but usable. It made me appreciate mapping Home, End, PgUp, and PgDwn to the arrow keys using the Fn Key. It made me like it so much that I remapped the "previous track", "next track", "play/pause", and "stop" buttons on the X201 keyboard to those in Linux.
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Big corporations use their power to suppress everything that can threaten their business. Microsoft famously adopts free and open standards and alter them such that they are dominating them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
about 9 days ago from web-
@zeldatra Apple loves to Stockholm-syndrome their customers. Upgrading the hardware or even repair? No way! Soldered storage? Sure! Using slightly different chips and software-locking hardware components! Of course! Installing unauthorized software on the iPhone? HELL NO. No filthy hands, hardware or software should taint it.
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@adiwan "Have you used certain hardware and software ever since you bought the machine? Well, not anymore! Every update takes power from you! It's not a bug, it's a fee-chur!"
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So now I have a set of folders synced between my iPad and my computer so animation I do on the go just appears on my desktop when I get home. Pretty convenient. For some reason I thought Apple was anti-convenience.
about 9 days ago from web-
@scribus yes, and also because iMessage doesn’t work on Windows PCs. Kinda just thought they were trying to keep that ecosystem as closed as possible.
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I just saw someone abbreviating "Daily Active Users" as DAU, that made me chuckle. In tech circles in Germany "DAU" is known as "Dümmster anzunehmender User", which means literally translated "stupidest assumed user".
about 10 days ago from web -
Going to finally see Bob’s Burgers today after being delayed by relatable setbacks such as my co-worker getting COVID, me having to work 70 hours, and then me and my entire family getting COVID
about 11 days ago from web -
Well I've already pitched a papaya on every other chat forum I have, but why tf does YT's top result for a Rubik's Cube have NO USEFUL INFORMATION in it?? https://youtu.be/7Ron6MN45LY
about 13 days ago from web-
@scribus Whenever I look up for something to know how it works I almost exclusively find videos that only scratch the surface of the thing and mostly those videos end up with "Now you know how it works". Tutorials are also a bane in my existence where the tutorial is more about everything else but the topic it tutorials about (including 1/3 of the video dedicating to personal banana of the video creator and a good portion to social media call to action blah blah).
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I'm debating with myself if I should buy and play TUNIC https://store.steampowered.com/app/553420/TUNIC/ . And if I do, should I buy it from GOG or Steam?
about 15 days ago from web-
@scribus There is a sideloadable program "Heroic Game Launcher" that is a layer for the GOG and Epic store that allows to install their games with convenience.
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Repairing the remote control for my parents. It has a small broken tab for the battery compartment where the latch of the door grabs into. I'm remodeling it using the good old trick with superglue (Cyanoacrylate) and baking powder. I let it dry and harden for a while and then cut off everything with a knife that is preventing to close it properly. Tedious but better than to model and 3d print the whole thing.
about 14 days ago from web- Scribus likes this.
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Bob's Burgers was a good movie (:
about 16 days ago from web-
@scribus Kinda funny it was PG13 when it had no blood, Hitler, or fairy sex workers... but Bakshi's "Wizards" was only a PG.
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@scribus Pre-Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom? You’re taking your kids to that borderline R-rated cartoon.
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@zeldatra Hell even post-Indy, my parents taped it off our yuppie cousins' cable and showed it to middle-school me, haha
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Hi all! Does anyone still use this site?
about 17 days ago from web -
This morning I startled the woman at the baker's shop. It was a few minutes after opening and nobody was lining up. The woman was preparing the coffee machine and I walked to the counter. I wasn't particularly sneaky. I mean I wasn't quiet on purpose. When I said "hello" she jumped up as if I wanted to rob this place. Not that extreme but it was a big reaction.
about 18 days ago from web-
@adiwan I'm just gonna pretend that this is why my joints all pop, not because I've been falling apart for 3 decades, but out of courtesy for people I may accidentally sneak up on otherwise
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@scribus Occasionally my knees pop loudly as well. Not today, but there were days when walking up the stairs made of stone sound like they are wooden.
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Hearing Kingdom Hearts IV’s theme song will be an Eminem feature to try and appeal to people who liked that period in the early 2010s where every pop album had Eminem on it
about 18 days ago from web-
@scribus only slightly related, but Em DID sample Kingdom Hearts on his Kamikaze album. I hate that I know that.
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First time in like ten years that GeneralZoi’s Pony Maker has been useful to me.
about 19 days ago from web-
@zeldatra Haven't wasted a thought on that damn pony generator trash in a long time. It creates a shudder along my spine when I remember the flood of OCs coming through the DeviantArt groups I followed.
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My D&D group adopted a Xorn, a gem-eating monster, and named it Ruby. We bought some Xorns to smuggle them to a mine in order to sell them there but we kept one, as my character was good enough in animal handling that it got tamed.
about 21 days ago from web-
@scribus He did not do that much of research and neglected eating enough mushrooms (doesn't like them much) and neglected using supplements.
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I hate it soo much that I cannot minimize Thunderbird to tray. I also hate it that the window name (or icon) doesn't show that a new mail is in the inbox.
about 22 days ago from web -
I need to use Thunderbird for a while until it receives a bugfix.
about 22 days ago from web -
I'm totally annoyed that my beloved email program KMail has huge problems with GMail IMAP. Google disabled the plain authentification method (username + password) and only offers its OAuth method. For some reason it kinda works and kinda does not. I get over the day dozens unnecessary authentification requests. I can fetch mail for 10minutes - 1 hour and have to reauthenticate it again.
about 22 days ago from web -
People without perspective for a good future and without a safety net tend to behave reckless.
about 23 days ago from web -
Also the desperation that causes the violent behavior in the first place should be addressed in the same way.
about 23 days ago from web -
I know it's a little more nuanced and a very loud minority is blocking any progress to regulate weapons but on the outside it ain't looking good.
about 23 days ago from web -
The US surely do like guns. They surely do like using those. They surely cannot get enough of them in order to use those too.
about 23 days ago from web -
buying a gun to protect myself from the gun owners who bought a gun to protect themself from the gun owners who bought a gun to protect themself from the gun owners who bought
about 23 days ago from web-
@scribus I was thinking more like a cane with a shotgun barrel at the tip so I can trick people into thinking I’m frail and an easy target
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I bought some cheap wooden spatulas and created some different shapes with my bandsaw in order to enhance them. I don't want to use anything metallic with my Teflon coated pans. The default shape is too rectangular for scraping the walls of the pan. It doesn't get very well into the rounded corner. So far I'm quite satisfied with the results. Even when not, each spatula was only 1.50€.
about a month ago from web -
Nothing quite so uniquely sucks as waking up with the same headache with which one went to bed
about a month ago from web-
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@thelastgherkin Dang that was a good one
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Today is Father's Day in Germany. As usual drunk men are roaming the streets. Today I saw two guys on one e-scooter driving on the bike path. They hit the curb and almost face-planted.
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Today we celebrate a day with towels because a funny author died on a treadmill.
about a month ago from web -
OMG PowerShell scripts have the worst syntax
about a month ago from web -
I genuinely believe we need a constitutional amendment securing the innate human right to kick the everloving goddamnit out of people who make -- or kowtow to implement -- moronic ass-backwards software design choices. Why in any god's holiest of names would the Keyboard Settings be ANYWHERE OTHER THAN SETTINGS > KEYBOARD??? The HELL I gotta go under papayaing "Time" for this you god damned useless batcaves!!? Who decided this, and have I missed out on the opportunity to skin the dumbass alive and roll them in rock salt?
about a month ago from web-
@zeldatra Why does YouTube have two (or more, I've just found 2) ways to link the tv app and the mobile app, one numeric and the other alphabetic. No idea why there's not just one way, they couldn't pick one?
