SmoochyPit

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SmoochyPit ,

I’ve got a bunch of games and homebrew on my 3ds, so I’d bring that.

SmoochyPit OP ,

Here’s my best shot at explaining. Unlike my grandma, you’ll know more about video game and internet culture already :)

The character is Alyx from Half-Life 2. “Source Filmmaker” is an app that lets you pose and animate characters from Valve games and is frequently used for meme videos. It was likely used to pose Alyx’s face this way.

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/c0ab79c0-431d-4f3a-9d82-2ed2f18a11a2.webp

Here is a picture of this meme that I saw before this one (I think it’s the original for the format).

This was most a meme from a few years ago, around the time when air fryers were becoming more popular and squid game had recently released.

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/d1abd991-cf25-4c87-b2b2-2e6b5bb808ac.webp

The meme pokes fun at the “elitist” attitude many people with air fryers had, as they swore by using them for everything. A key trait is the smirk expression the person in the picture has.

SmoochyPit ,

Utah, USA checks out 😏

SmoochyPit ,

Windows and MacOS are “noob-friendly” for those who use them for simple purposes and out-of-the-box. As soon as you want to do something more advanced, you’re back to googling and installing software from a variety of sources.

Many linux distros are like that too (others are just not noob-friendly at all), but centralized package management and documentation are nice.

I’m really glad to be away from registry editing, 50 app icons in the tray, and navigating my way through settings to control panel so I can actually fix my audio devices or network options.

I’m on Arch now, so I still have plenty of configuration and software, but I know the systems and choose explicitly which ones I use. If something isn’t working or is annoying, it’s my fault.

Beehaw, what are your thoughts on Thomas Berry's 10 principles?

this is a sort of novel follow up to a question i asked previously, which was your opinion on right of nature laws, which recognize natural entities as having "personhood" or legal rights comparable to humans. Berry was a theologian who wrote extensively on the rights of nature and ecology generally. one of his lasting works are...

SmoochyPit ,

These type of thoughts are the kind that could only come to somebody when they’re tripping balls and/or in serious harmony with nature.

In all seriousness, the first principle makes me think of the many religious people who attribute rights to a god figure or figures. In the religion I grew up in, god was the figure who gave specifically white men certain rights. He is also the one who determined what rights many people didn’t have. I personally find comfort in the second principle, that the universe is “self-referent in its being and self-normative in its activities”.

Principle five seems ambiguous about the “roles” of Earth’s subjects. I think that’s where many people would disagree with one another, since certain roles are subjective (ex: in national conflict, hunting animals, natural resource extraction/usage).

The last principle really makes me appreciate our relationship with the universe and what humanity is capable of, despite how dire existence in our world often feels.

SmoochyPit ,

I don’t anticipate it, most consumers don’t take the time to be critical or try alternatives. :(

SmoochyPit ,

I’m learning Boolean Logic in my Discrete Mathematics course, and it’s really cool! Lots of writing for the proofs though 😮‍💨

SmoochyPit ,

Thanks! I’m just beginning to learn about types of proofs, I think this course just provides an overview of some common ones (I learned proofs by exhaustion, proofs by counterexample and direct proofs today). Hard work, thinking through the processes 😅

SmoochyPit ,

Great book. Very dystopian.

SmoochyPit ,

US healthcare sucks. I’m gonna have to stop seeing my therapist, as they’re out of network, and financials are too tight right now. Also I can’t get my stimulant prescription, it’s constantly in high demand and low supply. Can’t afford name brand, of course.

SmoochyPit ,

Lmao, no for real though, having jumped between different meths and amphetamines, I have to wonder if it’d be easier and cheaper to get my hands on methamphetamine than some of these prescriptions. There’s a guy at our local park who I suspect may know about that.

SmoochyPit ,

I think GNU/Linux (What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.) is a great fit for non-technical people when they don’t have an established workflow on another OS. If their needs can’t easily be translated over, though, I think it’d turn users away.

GNOME Sees Progress On Variable Refresh Rate Setting, Adding Battery Charge Control ( www.phoronix.com )

As pointed out in This Week in GNOME, there's been some continued work on Variable Rate Refresh for the GNOME desktop. The VRR setting within GNOME Settings continues to be iterated on as the developers iron out how they'd like to present the Variable Rate Refresh setting for users. The developers have been discussing how to...

SmoochyPit ,

I think the compositor, Mutter in Gnome’s case, has to explicitly request VRR from the display driver via the Wayland protocol. So it’s a bit of each.

SmoochyPit ,

Ah, I see, thank you for the correction. Does Wayland only encompass communication between clients and the server? I’ve seen some code calling the wlroots functions for requesting VRR and some of how the Nvidia open kernel modules respond. Is requesting VRR a part of Kernel Mode Setting, then?

SmoochyPit ,

Agreed. Windows’ HDR support is rough. It’s fine for gaming, but you can’t display SDR and HDR content together like MacOS. I think that’s why Apple holds a big part of the market for creatives.

SmoochyPit ,

I’m in favor of both.

Moldy posting can be fun in sarcastic contexts, but I’m not opposed to a full ban since lots of moldy posts makes the sub overall moldy, too.

Gen ai is plagiarism and discourages creativity.

SmoochyPit ,

Not a big or wild project, but my sister had an LED light strip attached along her wall which stopped working. Did a bit of troubleshooting and found that the strip had torn near the connector. So I soldered the connector wires to a new segment of strip and fixed it :)

SmoochyPit ,

My bigger concern is the normalization of and exposure to those ideas and concepts (sexualization of children). That’s also why I dislike loli/shota media, despite it being fictional.

That said, I still think it’s a much better alternative to CSAM and especially to actually harming a child for those who have those desires due to trauma or mental illness. Though I’m not sure if easy, open access is entirely safe, either.

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