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Oh BOY I sure can’t wait to get customers complaining all afternoon about how many helicopters there are in the sky
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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-
@scribus It was always kinda janky. I always credited that feeling to the fact that I'm more familiar with photoshop. GIMP has limitations but was for the simple stuff I did fine. Now all the flaws accumulated to a point that boiled over the threshold of any tolerance I had towards GIMP.
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Today is kind of like if on the anniversary of 9/11 we made Osama bin Laden president
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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-
@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.
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@awl I just have good ol' ordinary rim brakes that are attached to a bowden tube. Also my hub gearing brakes when backpedaling.
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Very fitting that Hell on earth started with the fires in California just before Trump gets in office again.
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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-
@scribus You need to open it, disassemble it, and clean it with isopropyl or distilled water.
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@nerthos And I super don't want to take apart a MacBook, lol, I will never get it back together again. I totally know you're right, but a 10+year old laptop with no-doubt irritating construction just felt more like a spray isopropyl situation in the moment
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@scribus The just reward for the apple user lol
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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-
@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.
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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.
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I hope 2025 is as exciting as 2024 was
about 4 months ago from web-
@scribus Year of Luigi every year!
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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-
@scribus I want to keep it conventionally usable. I'm not going fool hacker-mode by using one of the many tiling window managers. Right now I got Enlightenment to behave and runs well enough for now. If all my patience is gone I'll go to Windows XP.
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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?
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Think I might see the new Sonic later today
about 4 months ago from web -
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 5 months ago from web-
@scribus ironically perfectly in line with a recurring theme in his first game that he is not number one despite his name implying otherwise
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“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 -
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-
@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”.
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Psychics and astrologers should know better not to advertise here.
about 5 months ago from web -
12 hour work days effed me up. I'll probably sleep through the whole weekend.
about 5 months ago from web -
Am chaffing a laff at the FrankerZ I said but oh my god I didn't understand tone at all or social context wowwwww
about 5 months ago from web -
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- dezzie again likes this.
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@metaltao Been a while
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@nerthos Dude it's good to see you! And lmfao yeah
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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-
@adiwan And this new standard coming out next year? We'll need you to have three years experience in it by then.
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what if i started hanging out on here again would that be crazy or what
about 6 months ago from web-
@liquidusmira would be.
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@awl hey good to see you again. it's been awhile
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@liquidusmira yes. Much has changed
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wait so many of you still exist on here what. what
about 6 months ago from web-
@dezzierose What "what"? lol
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@scribus its been a decade my brain is having trouble processing it
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@dezzierose that's what i'm saying
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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?!
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@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. 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.
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What happened? It's already Wednesday? Where did the time go? Where is my free time? Where is the time I wanted to spend on my hobbies?
about 6 months ago from web-
@scribus Where is the "slippery when wet"-equivalent sign? I need someone to sue for the time slipping.
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Did anybody get to see the recent aurorae?
about 6 months ago from web-
@awl Envy, lol. They were supposedly vivible from about an hour away from my house, but I didn't trust that I would be the only one making the drive, kinda expected a horde of headlights to drown it out :-/
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@scribus yeah you’re far enough down south people would lose their banana over it. I had seen them off the north shore last two years living in the car.
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@scribus AURORA BORABALIS?
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Well it doesn't have a keyboard, but it does have seven times the battery, cooling fans, and a projector that I otherwise would never have even considered to include but actually does seem kind of fun https://www.unihertz.com/products/tank-3-pro
about 7 months ago from web-
@scribus A mini projector seems kinda gimmicky. I can't see myself using it more than a hand full of times during the device's lifetime. The battery size might be big enough to not to be allowed on flights.
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@adiwan Ah... It's close to the allowable limit. Might still be a problem if other devices are on the flight as well.
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@adiwan Yeah, I was more thinking along the lines of, "It's not a 5G with a keyboard, but it is 5G from a company that does make keyboarded phones." And it's not like I need the projector but it might be a fun party trick, lol
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colorful cartoon pony with a symbol on its flank annoying a system administrator by hanging up posters of ai generated ponies on a server rack (AI generated) https://i.imgur.com/u7EqESb.jpeg
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Oh my User the UPS application process is practically a lottery at this point ;_;
about 7 months ago from web-
@scribus I still have a background check in progress from Door Dash dating back to when I had nothing to do during Covid and tried to use my free time to earn extra cash with low effort gif work. To this day if I go to check the app they tell me my background check is still in progress.
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@scribus it hasn't completely escaped my thought process that the background check shows that i've never had any kind of legal judgment made against me, not even a speeding ticket, and somebody simply didn't believe that could be correct
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I bought a foot switch pedal. I intend to use it for the push-to-talk function for voice chat in Discord. I got myself a metal one for industrial applications for 11€. I'll connect an arduino Leonardo (Atmega 32u4) to the switch inside and it's practically done. I've already written the few lines of code, just a simple interrupt for the raising and falling edge of a pin that triggers a button press and release. I don't need any configuration of the key during runtime. There are foot switches for the PC available but they look cheap and I don't trust their software. Also I want it to use on my work pc so I can't say if the software will be blocked or trigger the dumb anti virus software.
about 7 months ago from web-
@scribus It's not in my use case as I need just the ON/OFF function of a button. I guess it'd be possible to use a program like Voicemeeter or Sonar to be controlled by an analogue input for a distortion effect. I don't know how to implement it (in concept I know but not in practice).
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Aw man... My Blackberry battery is so cooked that it crashes when the charge is at 30% upon getting a call.
about 7 months ago from web-
@adiwan I am seriously contemplating just accepting that the Unihertz line is a couple OS versions old, it's still newer than I've got ATM
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@scribus Yeah. It's pain. Agony. Suffering. At this point I'm giving up the keyboard dream as the battery pain is steadily increasing and no real alternative is in sight.
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