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  1. Got into a project that was adjacent to an old project. It's cool to see that my old accounts and permissions weren't removed.

    about 3 months ago from web
  2. I HAAATE that people at my company misuse PDFs and PowerPoint slides as a replacement for internal pages that could be HTML.

    about 3 months ago from web
  3. Normal human thoughts like "Do my eyeglasses smell funny?"

    about 3 months ago from web
    • @scribus Cleaning cloths have sometimes strangest odors. Whenever I got free one-time-use ones they smelled more often than not very unappealing. Similarly, the wiper fluid (with anti-freeze) for my car I bought for this winter has the nastiest smells close to the point wanting to replace it. The one I had before was way better and had the usual smell of isopropanol, which I prefer.

      about 3 months ago in context
  4. It's not that I'm not empathetic towards people who lost everything in the recent LA wildfires, it's more that I don't consider washed-up media influencers living deliberately uninsured in a mansion they know they shouldn't be able to afford to be "people" like you or me https://apnews.com/article/california-fires-los-angeles-water-lawsuit-548b08e13f256079ff0ffc4e7a9c55a3

    about 3 months ago from web
  5. Ooof... Dodged a bullet. BambuLab 3D printers are now unrecommendable. I low-key thought about getting one but BambuLab went full on locking down the firmware to prevent 3rd-party software to connect to the printer. They had in the terms of service that they would block printing alltogether if the firmware won't be updated. Now they are gaslighting the users that this isn't the case as they have changed their website.

    about 3 months ago from web
    • @adiwan The way companies do that garbage, I don't even want to buy anything from anyone anymore. It should be considered theft, plain and simple - I had a tool that did X, and now it has been taken away against my will. If corporations were people, they'd be doing a B&E to take away my tools like that, and I would have a chance to kneecap them with a golf club.

      about 3 months ago in context
    • @scribus I fully agree to that statement.

      about 3 months ago in context
  6. Oh BOY I sure can’t wait to get customers complaining all afternoon about how many helicopters there are in the sky

    about 3 months ago from web
  7. I've been using GIMP for years for simple image editing. It was always a pain. It is still a pain to use. The more recent changes to dialogue windows made me crawl up the walls. F U GTK. It is a KRITA household now.

    about 3 months ago from web
  8. Today is kind of like if on the anniversary of 9/11 we made Osama bin Laden president

    about 3 months ago from web
  9. The backpack I'm using for over 15 years is still holding well enough but I feel like I've grown out of it. It was fine for a good while but my use-case has shifted dramatically. Nowadays I use it for holding all my bike stuff and for some emergency storage whenever my shopped items don't fit in my bags. The stuff I have in my backpack right now gets more in the way lately because the items are oddly shaped for the compartments they are. A poncho, umbrella, small first-aid kit, repair tools, hand pump, tote bags, paper tissues, N95-masks, pens. I wish I could sew one myself.

    about 3 months ago from web
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    • @awl I use my backpack almost exclusively when I use my bike. So my needs are pretty much the same all the time. On good weather days I don't need to carry an umbrella or poncho but they will be definitely not there when I actually need them if I don't have it always packed. I hope I don't overpack. I was once thinking about carrying a set of new chain and hoses but these might be overkill as I would need more time to fix that than to push the bike back home.

      about 3 months ago in context
    • @adiwan hydraulic brakes? If so man that’s kind of higher end

      about 3 months ago in context
    • @awl I just have good ol' ordinary rim brakes that are attached to a bowden tube. Also my hub gearing brakes when backpedaling.

      about 3 months ago in context
  10. Very fitting that Hell on earth started with the fires in California just before Trump gets in office again.

    about 3 months ago from web
  11. And so tonight my laptop dies because God just seems to want me to kill myself or something idk we

    about 4 months ago from web
  12. I can recommend Blue Eye Samurai on Netflix. It is bloody, gory, and contains some sex scenes and nudity.

    about 4 months ago from web
    • @adiwan You had me at being someone whose tastes I've come to trust, endorsing something I've heard good stuff about already, maybe I should finally get around to it

      about 4 months ago in context
    • @scribus It is not without its faults. A few music choices are not so smooth and the brutality made me flinch a few times. However in general I enjoyed the story. The characters were believable and the choices they made were properly inferred by the culture and past actions. What the series did well is to reveal the exact amount of backstory and story beats to create tension and make me fear of the outcome of a few characters as death is cheap in that world. I also seen some glowing recommendations of that series and last night I was bored enough to jump into it, so much that I was on the verge of binging it way past midnight. I think it is a very good weekend binge but be aware not to start it too late in the day. Plan at least 6 hours with breaks to watch it.

      about 4 months ago in context
  13. My poor Blackberry is deteriorating faster than I expected. It shuts down at 40% battery charge when there is a bigger power draw. Effectively I have to keep it on the charger all the day to make sure it's not dying immediately but it also makes my situation worse because it is constantly on the charger. My search for a new smartphone has been accelerated.

    about 4 months ago from web
  14. I hope 2025 is as exciting as 2024 was

    about 4 months ago from web
  15. The state of Linux desktop environments for old hardware (i.e. ASUS EEE PC 1000H) is abysmal. I love KDE but the current version is unusable. The same goes for GNOME, which is furthermore hampered by being unusable because of UX reasons. Even the "classic" Gnome is horrible performance-wise. MATE is a tad better but I don't like it. The only real choice I have is XFCE. It is fine with a huge GNOME-influenced asterisk. I'm looking into Enlightenment but it also irks me a lot.

    about 4 months ago from web
  16. It’s a little weird that one of the most well-known and revered Christmas films of all time came out twenty years ago and stars Will Ferrel, right?

    about 4 months ago from web
  17. Think I might see the new Sonic later today

    about 4 months ago from web
  18. good lord do not ever let me make a video game, i am certain i am violating every coding best practice

    about 4 months ago from web
    • @zeldatra At least you got practice, even when it's not the best. I'm a software developer for over 7 years and in my last project (ended a few days ago) it is littered with crimes I did. Mostly because I was not given enough time to do it properly. It is of great value to know which "technical debt" one has caused and how to mitigate it next time. There are only a few principles one has to follow to write good code like writing modular code that has as few dependencies as possible to solve the problem, naming the variables and functions and classes clear enough such that they convey their intent unmistakably, and writing code that can be reused. The last point is a nice to have but for a small project it is probably too much hassle except it is really needed more than once in the program. Otherwise software is malleable enough to be rewritten with the power given by the knowledge of hindsight, meaning good ol' refactoring.

      about 4 months ago in context
  19. Kaito never enters a building in Lost Judgment that requires him to take off his shoes. I learned this when his feet suddenly disappeared after I entered a shrine in Infinite Wealth.

    about 4 months ago from web
  20. Also Yagami (and Kaito’s) entries in the party database seem to genuinely stem from RGG just adding protagonists sequentially with each new game going back to Yakuza 6; Kiryu is 1, Majima is 2, Yagami is 3, Ichiban is 4, and his yakuza 7 party + Masumi Arakawa fills out the remainder before we suddenly start getting LJ side characters; seems the ones who follow you around worked internally like Y7’s party members even though most of them don’t ever join you in combat.

    about 4 months ago from web
  21. http://rainbowdash.net/url/876675 Kaito’s here now too just because I wanted practice

    about 4 months ago from web
  22. “Suck Up!” is the right way to do a generative AI-based video game. No stolen art assets, no cheap Unreal Marketplace sets with a shoddy text to speech voice actor, just a whole lot of fun attempting to gaslight a neighborhood of ChatGPTs with their own personalities.

    about 5 months ago from web
  23. Well... Got a cheap burner so I can lay my old Blackberry to rest

    about 5 months ago from web
  24. Cities Skylines 2 is so great, I love how the entire town will all choose one road to drive on so no matter how many new highways you build they will all decide to clog up a suburban street forty miles away because they all decided that is the best way to work

    about 5 months ago from web
    • @zeldatra Such realism tho (/s(?))

      about 5 months ago in context
    • @scribus I tested it by building a second “express” highway that covers the same distance and takes you STRAIGHT into key locations with no exits, inspired by I-66 from Virginia to DC where the USDOT did exactly that, and nobody took it. They all preferred to drive on the original. I’m guessing the only calculation the game makes is distance traveled and not “does taking this road actually save me any time”.

      about 5 months ago in context
  25. Psychics and astrologers should know better not to advertise here.

    about 5 months ago from web
  26. 12 hour work days effed me up. I'll probably sleep through the whole weekend.

    about 5 months ago from web
  27. Hello Chat
    It's been years, and I'm 2 years on HRT. Life has been hectic but great.
    What's up?
    Also grug, can't upload image on phone >:(

    about 5 months ago from web
  28. There are theories about a hollow earth, which are obviously stupid. I have have also a theory on my own: the hollow head theory, which shows more and more signs each day that provide evidence that it might be true.

    about 5 months ago from web
  29. Ah... Projects that search for people who can do EVERYTHING THE BEST. C++, Java, Python, Bash. Everything at expert level and at least 5 years of DOCUMENTED JOB experience. Also at least of 3 years of experience in transportation and logistics related projects. DUDE... I can rather deliver a unicorn than these specific requirements. I'd like to get into that project, however the project owner is very strict with these requirements.

    about 5 months ago from web
  30. One sleep later I'm not less angry and baffled by Amazon's Like A Dragon series.

    about 6 months ago from web
    • @adiwan I get not wanting to tell the exact same story in the exact same way again, like what's the point of that, but if it's not AT ALL the original story then what's the point of THAT?!

      about 6 months ago in context
    • @scribus There are some clever alterations, and some character backgrounds got streamlined and more fleshed-out, which I can appreciate, as well a character that got only mentioned in the games and is somewhat integral to the story has more of a spotlight. For me it's a problem that given what we got in the live-action series is vastly different in the core of all.In the game Haruka is Yumi's daughter. Kiryu was in love with Yumi but she died in the end. There is a huge portion with Kiryu bonding with Haruka and then adopting her in the end because Haruka is a constant reminder of that lost love and her being the daughter he could never have with Yumi. This aspect is completely missing as Yumi is alive and Haruka's mother is Yumi's sister. I can glance over some things like Kiryu emoting heavily and him not being an ordinrary money-collecting Yakuza. It makes me want to watch the adaption from 2007.

      about 6 months ago in context