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Oh boy. I search for a new laser printer for my parents as theirs refuse to cooperate. The exact model I own is now about 100€ more expensive than I bought it over a year ago. WTF.
Saturday, 21-Nov-20 13:13:02 UTC from web -
The new Animaniacs series slaps.
Sunday, 22-Nov-20 10:06:45 UTC from web-
@scribus I just watched all the 13 episodes. It's good. Not overwhelmingly good. Good good. Some jokes and segments were not to my own taste but the rest was good 'ol fun.
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@adiwan @scribus I enjoyed it quite a bit, although I definitely thought the Pinky and the Brain segments were generally the better parts of the episodes they were in. Not that the Warner Bros. segments were bad at all, they were pretty funny, I just thought P&B had waaaaay less misses.
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@mrmattimation Pinky and the Brain operate from a well-established formula and it s not very surprising that their segment is the more consistent one. I still agree that they were mostly the better part of the show.
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Because I'm somewhat of a dumbass, I only recently learned that one of Ireland's symbols is the harp. I had some vague familiarity with the Guinness harp (though I don't drink often) but I didn't really connect it. It's on Euros too of course, but I either didn't use any when I went to Spain or wasn't paying attention.
Wednesday, 18-Nov-20 22:54:42 UTC from web-
@adiwan Yeah, I've seen a mixture of different designs and countries since I've gotten here. The US started a thing a while back for the states. Not sure if they ever stopped since the original coins are still in circulation. Wasn't paying much attention to the years.
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@thismightbeauser I think they completed the first run of 50 states a while ago, and have gone into a couple cycles of state-themed stuff, like birds or trees or something, but we've been on a "coin shortage" all pandemic so I haven't seen quarters in weeks at least, lol
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Hellllooooo, 1993!
Monday, 16-Nov-20 16:46:54 UTC from web -
It depresses me that there are less and less new PC cases with space for optical drives (CD/DVD/BluRay). I'm starting to look around for a new PC. As my PC is older and my case has only USB2 ports and an unreliable headphone jack, as well as showing wear I want a new one. My current case is from Cooler Master from 2006. This one in black/silver https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/B0009SZQY8.2.jpg
Saturday, 14-Nov-20 17:55:36 UTC from web-
@scribus What even happened to floppy drives, EDO RAM, user-upgradable CPU cache, manually selectable device IRQ, Soundblaster, 3Dfx, CRT monitors, PS/2 keyboards, ball mice, IDE, SCSI...?
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@adiwan I'm willing to let go of ball mice, but I still want me some PS/2 ports because damn it you only give me four USB ports and expect two of them to be mandatory input devices???
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@scribus I'm glad my monitor has an integrated USB hub. I have a mouse, keyboard, scanner, drawing tablet, VR headset, and an external HDD, a microphone, and a webcam attached to almost all available ports of the whole system. I use the front ones occasionally for the SD card reader. So I'm pretty much maxed out.
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papaya Apple. I mean, grape Apple. I mean, seriously, EFF YOU oh wait that's censor evasion but all the same kiwi APPLE!!
Friday, 13-Nov-20 18:45:37 UTC from web-
@adiwan No; I had to spend three hours "updating" to record three minutes of audio...
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Oh yeah. More websites to add to my block list.
Thursday, 12-Nov-20 15:25:45 UTC from web-
@vcgriffin What?!? AOL as an internet service provider is dead. AOL's only purpose is to be used by people like father for the email address.
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Somewhere at Google, a DevOps engineer is mangoting his pants right now because YouTube's CDN went down. Glad I don't have that job!
Thursday, 12-Nov-20 00:50:38 UTC from web-
@oracle It's not just YouTube, Google Play is also offline. GLOBALLY!
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Putting out my daylight lamp. I feel how the limited sunlight is affecting me.
Wednesday, 11-Nov-20 15:24:19 UTC from web -
Changed my tires today. Because my father used a pneumatic drill last time I had a hard time loosening the screws. I had to literally stand on the wrench to have enough force to get over the friction.
Sunday, 08-Nov-20 14:12:12 UTC from web-
@adiwan Eh, it's California. It's a local gag that you can surf in the morning, and ski in the afternoon. Or vice-versa.
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@scribus I could do that too but the North Sea is toooo damn cold haha I don't know if the indoor skiing halls are open in Summer.... The mountains near me are not tall enough for snow all year around. I would need to drive to the Alps and it takes about 8 hours to get from where I live. But it isn't worth the time and gas.
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@adiwan Ah, yeah, it's not a year-round snow, here. Maybe further north, yeah, but then the surf becomes a different story, lol.
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Almost gotta respect how many times CNN can publish "BREAKING: We Still Don't Know!" like being told on Wednesday that it could take until Friday or longer didn't already inform us of things like "We don't know yet, and it will take time to count."
Saturday, 07-Nov-20 15:42:10 UTC from web-
@adiwan I suspect his talk about "being so embarrassed that he leaves the country" was code for "finding somewhere without extradition to the US to die in penury," but maybe that was just wishful thinking.
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@scribus He has a memory of a goldfish and an ego as big as Jupiter. His stubbornness and rabid followers will pull him back. Presidency two: electric vote-a-loo. The Fluffle Puff show will repeat again. As much as I have no wish for that I am emotionally preparing it as soon as possible.
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@adiwan I've said it before, but I'll believe everything because I can't believe any of it. XD
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I think I might change my name to Cassandra. Hey, if Vincent can become Alice...!
Friday, 06-Nov-20 16:46:28 UTC from web-
@adiwan Well, it's less that I'm claiming to be 100% correct about events that have yet to pass, and more a satirical statement in reflection on the fact that people are surprised that Donald Trump is doing exactly what he said he'd do four years ago. Like, if it's that widely shocking when an asshole, who said he would be an asshole, is an asshole, then clearly "having seen it coming" MUST be among some kind of ~SpEcIaL pOwErS~ or whatever.
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It's election day! And as your former headpony I demand you vote.
Tuesday, 03-Nov-20 16:24:58 UTC from web -
Is it a sin to drink Scotch while listening to Irish music?
Sunday, 01-Nov-20 09:45:01 UTC from web -
What a terrifying time to be a minority US American
Saturday, 31-Oct-20 17:45:49 UTC from web-
@thismightbeauser Don't worry. Compared to the rest of the world the US is a minority.
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@adiwan I'm not sure what positive to take away from that being in Europe as a US minority.
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Well it was early in the morning, I was tired, thought to myself, "I really hate myself, I'm going to upgrade the production servers from Ubuntu 18 to 20 LTS". Backups, who needs backups, I don't think the dependencies have changed in this version release.
Wednesday, 28-Oct-20 22:17:33 UTC from web-
@oracle I'm crazy with my "rolling release" Debian Experimental. Any time used *buntu and dist-upgraded it was always a hell and ended up in a complete re-install for the sake of saving time fixing each issue individually.
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@adiwan I know what you mean, the LTS releases bundle too many programs together in my opinion. In my f-up, it was the upgrade to python 3.8 that caused most of my problems.
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@oracle My upgrades aren't peachy either. Often I have to manually handle a less than fortunate set of dependencies due to conflicts or just unavailable packages. I don't mind that as I make a little game out of it and the frequency of those problems is not that bad. Strangely most of the time samba and python are the cause of an issue.
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The game jam rankings are published https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/vaguely-named-horse-game Not too bad from 3206 entries. http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875651
Wednesday, 28-Oct-20 14:04:26 UTC from web-
@scribus Overall top 8.3%! I'm more proud of the "Fun" category, which is in the top 2%. The Overall category is wishiwashi and undefined.
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So uh, how long has registering new users been busted? It's fixed now.
Monday, 26-Oct-20 01:55:31 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark You call it busted. I say it's an effective anti-spam-account measure.
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@ceruleanspark I mean I haven't registered since day one so
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Great! From formerly 4 Corona-infected it has jumped up to almost 80 in my area. 0.032 % of the local population.
Sunday, 18-Oct-20 09:15:09 UTC from web -
Damn. I bought another 3D printer.
Wednesday, 14-Oct-20 10:06:10 UTC from web-
@adiwan @scribus Not much of a point either, since we already have metal 3D printing in the shape of 4+ axis mills. You just put in a sufficiently big piece of metal and load the 3D model to the CNC software and let it work.
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@nerthos Oops, *mill OR hot extrusion
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My company laptop is so configured that it automatically locks the screen after 15 minutes of inactivity. There is no way to alter its behaviour because this was set by the admin via a policy. HOWEVER I used a AutoHotkey script that wiggles the mouse by one pixel back and forth once every 14 minutes.
Tuesday, 13-Oct-20 09:33:14 UTC from web-
@scribus I'd say it's a creative workaround. I also could use a slightly flaky optical mouse that glitches from time to time and moves the mouse cursor slightly despite standing still.
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I'm somewhat unhappy with Unity's HTML5 WebGL export. I have exported my game jam game https://adiwan.itch.io/lasso-loop-whiplash-webgl and it has ugly z-fighting and weird lighting issues at some overlapping geometry. I looked into everything I could, like adjusting the far and near plane or all shadow and lighting settings. I'm stumped. The compiled versions are fine.
Thursday, 08-Oct-20 14:23:23 UTC from web-
@scribus There has to be some limitation beyond the obvious. I had to change the color range from linear (HDR) to gamma because it was a hard requirement for that. My developer friends are also stumped and cannot help me with educated guesses other than what I've already done.
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Damn I think I do need a webcam after all
Wednesday, 07-Oct-20 15:50:51 UTC from web -
My game jam game is finished https://adiwan.itch.io/lasso-loop-whiplash
Tuesday, 06-Oct-20 16:32:50 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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@adiwan The "natural" approach makes sense, too. If I'd come to it fresh, it may have been different. May have a totally different experience going back to it
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@scribus The "natural" approach always has some baggage to it. If you're used to drive a lot of remote cars/planes/boats you're fine with tank controls. Some games work better using a mouse pointer to command the character to walk to (Diablo or any good Point & Click adventure). Such decisions are huge and always wrong (for some people).
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Also I have a bad habit of giving my victim really wicked altitude, which of course means he ain't hitting things on the ground, lol.
Tuesday, 06-Oct-20 18:28:40 UTC from web-
@scribus That's a "problem". It is fun but it ain't helping. I already put 2 times the gravity onto him (the hips). Putting more would create too much friction and force making the physics more unstable.
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I don't know if dude meant to do it, but he ended up making just about the best possible fan video for "Scatman (Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop)" https://twitter.com/jonathanfly/status/1300976651380109313?s=20
Friday, 02-Oct-20 20:54:38 UTC from web-
@scribus Impressive. Too bad there are a ton of cut-off faces (chin). With a little bit more care in the selection of source faces it'd be a lot better.
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@adiwan Yeah, it was an experiment at this point, but a dang promising looking one! You know, if you disregard deepfakes and just think of neat computer morphs for their own sake, or improving movie CGI FX.
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For the self-reported healthiest and smartest (don't call him that) it's highly sus.
Friday, 02-Oct-20 14:36:46 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Oh. That's a bit of an overreaction? I don't know.
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@scribus It'd be very ironic if he died from COVID. Who would be the one running for the presidency?
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@adiwan By my understanding, Pence, by default. If Pence is unable, and the Party wins, or if the Party wins and then the candidate is rendered unable, then the Party gets to just appoint someone from their ranks. I think? Never really been in the position, myself, haha
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Wednesday, 30-Sep-20 17:37:40 UTC from web
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@adiwan Indeed, I suppose I could "catch it live when it airs" or source an "alternative" "home media" . . . :p
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@scribus I have, for the most part, no other choice than to get those "alternatives" when it comes to getting the original English audio, or even for seeing the newest episode on day of release.
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As you may have guessed from the fact that the bill keeps getting paid, I am in fact, still alive.
Monday, 28-Sep-20 22:26:35 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark Finally, good news in 2020
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@ceruleanspark huzzah
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I've bought a not-dakimakura. It's a slightly slimmer and shorter pillow and the cover is blank grey. I really need something stabilizing my sleep position when lying on the side. I tend to sleep on my stomach and it hurts my sleep quality. I wanted a wider pillow but there are no covers... or at least blank ones. At 150cm x 50cm there are only sexy anime pillow covers. I have too much dignity than to embarrass myself with frivolous prints on pillow covers.
Monday, 21-Sep-20 10:01:15 UTC from web-
@adiwan I've got a body pillow, myself. Can't really testify as to how I sleep with it, since I'm asleep at the time, but plain gray cover all the way, heheh.
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