Strayce

@Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org

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Strayce ,

Psygnosis did a remake in the late '90s.

There is also an indie VR game I've played that's heavily based on it, damned if I can remember the name tho. I believe it's on sidequest.

what's your current linux distro?

wanting to hop into the world of linux on a dual boot method (one of my favorite games unfortunately cannot be run on linux at all, and it's a gacha. I don't want to gamble with my account being banned, so I'm keeping windows for it specifically.) this'll be my second go at it, I used Pop!_OS briefly but had some issues with...

Strayce ,

Opensuse because I like green.

Strayce ,

Thank you for the phrase "ass logic". It just became a permanent part of my vocabulary.

Strayce ,

Surprised I had to scroll this far to see DooM 2. Guess I'm getting old.

Strayce ,

Article is inaccurate. NewsCorp isn't journalism.

Strayce ,

Very little of the competition in any sector is actually better. It just depends what flavour of enshittification you prefer.

Strayce ,

I self host nextcloud, jellyfin and set of servarrs. Next project is probably searx. Unfortunately there aren't really options in at least a few categories.

Strayce ,

Suck the roof of your mouth with your tongue to stop a sneeze.

Strayce ,

She had nasal surgery. Doc taught her this to prevent sneezing out the packing.

Strayce ,

I have smol web Gemini blog that I put up to practise writing regular posts in a low-pressure environment. Mostly themed on the intersection of food, technology and politics. As expected, I'm terrible at updating. I do plan to migrate to WordPress eventually.

Strayce ,

Positive: Everyone has a voice

Negative: Everyone has a voice

Strayce ,

If you like Garbage you'll probably like Curve.

Strayce ,

Money. Plastic is so integrated into the supply chain that divesting from it would require retooling probably thousands of bottling plants, at significant expense, with no guarantee of ROI.

Strayce ,

We don't have Sun Chips here so I'm not aware of this, but I'd be really curious to learn how much of that freakout was genuine and how much was engineered by entities with a vested interest in maintaining status quo.

Strayce ,

Meadow's Edge

Strayce ,

Decided to throw OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on an old laptop the other day. Haven't fooled with it enough to run up against any limitations yet, but I gotta say I'm pleasantly surprised so far.

Strayce ,

foremost proponent of corporate ethics

abandoning a pledge to pay direct suppliers a living wage by 2030

So, the "foremost proponent of corporate ethics" is NOT already paying a living wage? Fucking rofl.

Anyone ever swap careers from Corporate to Non-Profit or some other Cause: If so, how?

I worked in the food industry for a while before returning back to school to get a degree in tech thinking it would be my path to a better life. While at first I thought where my career was taking me provided exactly that, I'm absolutely miserable working a corporate job in tech. I've seen several layoffs, AI is taking over, and...

Strayce ,

Pretty much what @GreyShuck said.

I jumped ship from corporate IT to nonprofit food relief. I was lucky to be in a good enough financial position to just quit and start volunteering. When opportunities came up to take on more responsibility and training I took them, and eventually got taken on as paid staff. That NFP eventually folded and I've been thru a few different for-profit jobs since, but I always try to have at least one volunteer gig going, just to keep a foot in the door.

Strayce ,

Either that or bad speech recognition and someone left the mic on

Strayce ,

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/a273937f-5329-4408-bb81-c626abf1eac1.png

There should be a way to give directly to the developers

I realize that, after all this time, I have never payed for my all-time favorite games I grew up playing (Fallout 3 & Skyrim). I can pay for it, but I really do not want to pay the money to the Bethesda’s marketing team, CEO, and whoever bullshit middle man who wants a cut of that. I want to give directly to the team that made...

Strayce ,

This is the one valid use of that "tip screen" what's his name proposed the other day.

Strayce ,

School work:
Left = Jabref
Center = texmaker
Right = PubMed, Elsevier, sci hub, etc

Gaming:
Left = discord
Center = game
Right = game guide, YouTube, media

Work (I hate literally all of these programs):
Left: slack
Center: Asana, onenote
Right: gdocs

Strayce ,

One of my math teachers spent an entire semester teaching us how to gamble. He used it to teach us how statistics and probability worked. Final assessment was to set up mock bookie offices for a fairly famous local horse race.

With discord planning to show ads, how can the fediverse/lemmy benefit from another proprietary program making itself worse? (Like it was with reddit)

Do you think that the fediverse has something to gain with the enshitfication of discord? Are there voice chat programs in the fediverse that can benefit from it?

Strayce ,

Reddit was an easy switch for me because there wasn't a social cost to leaving. There's no way the discord communities I'm part of are switching, way too much hassle.

Strayce ,

I miss the niche subs, but I comment more here on threads I normally wouldn't bother with because I know I'd get buried. Interactions here are slower, better thought out and generally more positive. I have actually witnessed someone back down from a position when presented with evidence a couple times and that was a breath of fresh air.

Strayce ,

Mine actually came with earplugs and have an onboard EQ setting for this specific use case. Check your manual and see if there's something similar.

Strayce ,

Fairly sure it's because of the difference in environment. Gut bacteria tend to be anaerobic fermenting species, whereas the external part and blood are more aerobic. It's been a while since i did physiology and microbio tho, someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Strayce ,

Fallacy fallacy taken to its logical conclusion.

Strayce ,

I recommend starting with the CEO of Kellogg.

Strayce ,

Neat trick, but the device is already of questionable value (a portable device that doesn't work outside your house). Jailbreaking it doesn't really add much functionality. 6GB storage isn't particularly useful in 2024.

Strayce ,

Considering how much of Reddit is already bots, I'm sure this will end fantastically.

Is anyone else worried about the apple vision pro?

i wouldn't normally be concerned since any company releasing a VR product with this price tag is obviously going to fail... but it's apple and somehow through exquisite branding and sleek design they have managed to create something that resonated with "tech reviewers" and rich folk who can afford it....

Strayce ,

I mentioned this in another Apple Vision thread, but that was one of the proposed use cases for Steve Mann's original EyeTap device.

Strayce ,

Steve Mann invented probably the first mediated reality device, the EyeTap, in 1984. Of course, it was a freaking CRT and mirror array strapped to your head, but one of the original proposed use cases was to remap advertising billboards into whatever you wanted. Fast forward 40 years and we're using the same concept to beam ads directly into your eyeballs.

Strayce ,

Depends what you mean by "believe in". Could it work? Sure, why not. Do we live in one? Hell fuck no.

Strayce ,

I just wanted to throw the AU/NZ plug into the mix since nobody is really talking about it. I don't have enough knowledge about this kind of thing to really have a take on it, but I'm interested to get an international perspective.

ANZ/NS3112

Strayce ,

Hah. Yeah, I definitely prefer the size over UK plugs. It feels wrong to me to have a 230v wall voltage without a blanket requirement for earthing, but as I said, I don't know enough about it. I'm quite open to being wrong about that.

Strayce ,

I don't know why I never made that association before, but now I can't unsee it.

Strayce ,

We'd have something similar. Maybe more fragmented like Usenet + telnet BBSes + gopher + IRC, or a closed standard like hypercard that you had to license. People want to communicate and put stuff out there to be heard, it'd have happened somehow.

Strayce ,

As much as I enjoy hating on Apple, their track record popularising niche technology is admittedly pretty good. They made mp3 players mainstream, then everyone else scrambled to catch up. They made smartphones mainstream, then everyone scrambled to catch up. I wouldn't be surprised if they managed to pull off the same thing with VR/AR. Just don't mention the Newton.

Strayce ,

o7 cmdr

Strayce ,

Lower Decks x CrossCode. I'm not sure how, but it works.

Strayce ,

Never seen this before, but if I'm reading it right, it looks like it auto sends keywords from your documents to Bing?

Strayce ,

My favourite is the mimic accidentally/on purpose placed inside a bag of holding. Any time the party take something out of it there's a nonzero chance it'll be a mimic instead of what they were after.

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No clue. It's a secondhand story I read years ago in a thread somewhere I can't remember.

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