nickwitha_k (he/him)

When playing Forbidden West, I pretty quickly concluded that Faro was based on him. And the Zeniths were very much Bezos and friends.

I get it but don’t “get it”. I suppose I tend to think in terms of small groups rather than manipulating crowds of rubes that have been keeping in a state of perpetual outrage through decades of right-wing talk radio and TV, and are so desperate to be told what to do that P. T. Barnham would say “Hey now, that crosses a line.”

I’d still suggest that it might be less charisma and more an audience so primed that they’re near auto-ignition being subjected to a Hitler-fanboy who picked up a few things from professional wrestling.

Then again, I also don’t “get” celebrity worship and numerous other NT things.

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*uncanine-y

He’s also had a lot of help due to being born with an emerald spoon in his mouth.

Maybe it’s being neurodivergent but I have never understood his “charisma”. He’s always been a vile, crass, babbling, moron whose only “secret” to deal making had been finding rubes that didn’t think his lifetime of theft of service, as well as just plain theft (that for was never prosecuted as it should have been because white collar crime) magically wouldn’t apply to them.

I’ve done a lot of SysAdmin and DCOps stuff in the past so, thought I’d give you some plausible suggestions (haven’t dug deep into Lemmy DB stuff and DNS/Federation of the stack, so not sure all is practical).

Scenario 1 - Preserve and merge when access is restored

Setup

• Spin up two VMs/VPS (or one that has enough grunt for two Lemmy servers). Call them robak.slrpnk.net and slrpnk.net and point DNS appropriately.
• Pull federated content from other instances and place it on robak, set as read-only.
• Sync important comms to (new) slrpnk.net without content.
• Allow users to sign up, vetting as possible (all mods). Keep a list of those that are vetted (call it vetted.list). Inform all users that any non-vetted users will have their content dropped when access is restored.

Merge!

• Once access is restored, ensure that (old) slrpnk.net is set to read-only.
• Schedule a maintenance window (announce more time than you are likely to need).
• During the maintenance window, put (new) slrpnk.net into R/O, or just block external access.
• Query the db on (old) slrpnk.net for all users.
• Subtract the vetted users from vetted.list from the list.
• Drop all records from the resulting list of non-vetted users from (new) slrpnk.net.
• Insert the records from vetted and new users (those without conflicts) into the DB on (old) slrpnk.net.
• Validate that everything is working
• Cut over DNS and spin down the new VMs/VPS.

Scenario 2 - Server is in DC or Admin able to facilitate access

• Get a db dump/backup.
• Spin up temporary slrpnk.net on a VM/VPS.
• Use backup of temporary server to restore data to original, when possible.

That sucks.

Exactly. The actual cost of durable goods tend to be pretty consistent, when corrected for inflation. It’s just that wages are so terrible compared to what they should be, if they were not completely divorced from the value created by labor.

… You can probably just pair a Joycon 2 with the deck to get the functionality. Since the steamdeck does not feature detachable controllers in its design, an external controller is needed. Any controller that connects via Bluetooth or other wireless standard pretty much works - Bluetooth as a standard even allows a single device to use different profiles.

If the feature for “mouse mode” is implemented in the Joycon 2 hardware, there should be little effort needed to make it work with the deck. If it is a proprietary host/device driver interaction, it probably uses standard HID signals because those would take a good amount of time and money to reinvent, so, reverse engineering everything needed for the driver should be fairly quick and easy for people who deal with Linux device drivers.

Personally, I tend to just use the trackpad on the Dualsense controller as a mouse. It works, no bother.

No. Capitalists use technology to further their goals. Technology has no agency, makes no decisions, and is not a philosophy. It is literally just knowledge. Capitalism and human bad actors are literally the problem as they have been for all of recorded history. This is also seen in other primate species like baboons who are able to live relatively peaceful and low-stress lives when they organize in cooperative, pro-social troops.

An oft-overlooked part of this is the fact that it is also a socioeconomic issue. Due to half a century of wage suppression, the diminished purchasing power of the majority of the population would not be able to handle the shift to more durable goods. Wealth/income inequality is a major hurdle for reducing single use plastics and disposable goods.

We’ve already kinda got that: !retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

I haven’t play Call of Lootbox in a long while. Bet they still haven’t done anything to fix spawns.

Gabapenten has can have serious side effects for some people, dont just go get some and go “o we gonna be good.”

FTFY. Everyone’s brain chemistry is different. For some, it can be a lifesaver in low doses for anxiety, for some (like me) it can be used as an adjunct to acetaminophen/paracetamol in a combination that is more effective for pain than opioids (had a minor hemorrhage in an adrenal gland - not fun), and for others it can cause extreme depression and other behavior changes.

Noone should take it without the supervision of a medical professional.

Destroying substantial strategic military capacity in a country with explicitly anti-LGBTQ+ laws is an unexpected way of starting Pride Month.

Protest non-voter apologia, excuses, and mental gymnastics

Some day, maybe, they’ll take responsibility for their own actions. Today is not that day.

You forgot this: /s

You do you, AI bro, you do you. Suggesting that anyone else use a tool that is meant to generate text that sounds confidently factual, without factuality actually being a requirement for the output is silly. Maybe if using a local LLM with a RAG (with the vector DB populated with known good recipes) and having the temp set properly. Then again, LLMs are language models and not good with numbers because they are fundamentally not designed for that kind of thing.

At that point, it’s less work to just grab a cookbook from the shelf and find a recipe by looking it up in the index. If it’s not in there, it’s probably available in a niche source which can be directly looked at.

Like those that use glue to keep cheese from sliding off the pizza.

In case you’re not joking, please don’t trust this technology with anything that you are putting into your or someone else’s body. You’re going to have a bad time.