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  1. 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
  2. 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 5 months ago from web
  3. Think I might see the new Sonic later today

    about 5 months ago from web
  4. good lord do not ever let me make a video game, i am certain i am violating every coding best practice

    about 5 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 5 months ago in context
  5. 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 5 months ago from web
  6. 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
  7. http://rainbowdash.net/url/876675 Kaito’s here now too just because I wanted practice

    about 5 months ago from web
  8. “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
  9. Well... Got a cheap burner so I can lay my old Blackberry to rest

    about 5 months ago from web
  10. 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 6 months ago from web
    • @zeldatra Such realism tho (/s(?))

      about 6 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
  11. Psychics and astrologers should know better not to advertise here.

    about 6 months ago from web
  12. 12 hour work days effed me up. I'll probably sleep through the whole weekend.

    about 6 months ago from web
  13. 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 6 months ago from web
  14. 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 6 months ago from web
  15. 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 6 months ago from web
  16. 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
  17. wait so many of you still exist on here what. what

    about 6 months ago from web
  18. Lots of people on Twitter going CRAZY over the fact that somebody got phone camera footage of Rockstar North’s lobby from the window and wondering how he did that. You do realize that’s a video game company and not the Pentagon, right?

    about 6 months ago from web
    • Like it’s a public street. The biggest threat to your wellbeing for a heist of this magnitude is campus security rolling up and telling you to knock it off.

      about 6 months ago in context
    • @zeldatra It is as exciting as shooting a video of the entrance of a super market. What do they expect? Spoilers leaking from the offices that are behind secured doors to the lobby area by themselves? I got juicier stuff from the companies I worked for and that is already somewhat public knowledge.

      about 6 months ago in context
  19. Tomorrow is the day of the live-action Like A Dragon series. Definitely gonna see it with subtitles and original Japanese audio track.

    about 7 months ago from web
    • @adiwan if they don’t dedicate an entire episode to racing rc cars what even is the point

      about 7 months ago in context
    • @zeldatra Right! We, the fans, demand Pocket Circuit Racer! On the same note I'd like to see Kiryu giving pocket tissues to a poor soul on the public toilet, Kiryu trying to get a Bun-Chan plush from the crane game, him giving up on Mahjong, searching the city for lockers, and Kiryu getting lessons from Komaki.

      about 7 months ago in context
  20. making a video about wokeness, feel like it’s an untapped market

    about 7 months ago from web
    • @zeldatra Plot twist: It's about problems getting proper sleep which in turn increases the likelihood in developing cognitive and perceptual problems resulting in poor judgments, hallucinations, feeling irritated by minor things to the extend of being actively hostile and feeling too tired to make changes to help against those problems.

      about 7 months ago in context
  21. 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 7 months ago from web
  22. Did anybody get to see the recent aurorae?

    about 7 months ago from web
  23. Mostly, though -- it's that battery capacity

    about 7 months ago from web
  24. 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
  25. I'm glad this website's popularity peak wasn't during the AI art boom. That would have been hell to moderate

    about 7 months ago from web
  26. 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

    about 7 months ago from web
  27. Oh my User the UPS application process is practically a lottery at this point ;_;

    about 7 months ago from web
  28. Listen okay, it's been a minute since I've used this site.

    about 7 months ago from web
  29. 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
  30. 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