oh yeah we play that constantly, but it isn't fun to anyone.
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You what really pisses me off, when certain people in the Linux community talk about "optimization" and "bloat".
No you're not gonna notice the twenty extra megabytes in ram usage by using another init system, no you're gonna notice the 3% improvement for certain games that custom kernel might theoretically bring, no by using hyprland you're not even saving that much resources, none of that really makes a difference.
Tbh you could probably gain more performance by setting the ram speeds higher in the bios, experimenting with overclocking (if theres enough thermal headroom), or upgrading some component (like an older ssd or ram). Or alternatively changing settings in the games you play. Or even a step further (this idea will shock some people), maybe don't focus on numbers and just enjoy what you have. If its good enough than its good enough, if its not than tweaking it won't make it good enough.
I tried using a pie zero as a PC for a little bit. Maybe it'll be fun to try that again and really optimize it
I've only ever used my zero as a mail server, but the pi 3 did a bang up job of being my daily driver for a few years.
Oh really? Didn't someone in the Linux community notice a backdoor in the code because it delayed the startup by something like 200ms?
There's a big difference between caring about whether a given game runs at 130FPS or 140FPS and noticing a new quarter second delay in database queries on your test db ar work. That quarter second per queey delay is going to stack up very quickly across the thousands or even millions of queries made in a day in a production database
It's not surprising that when a tool that usually works immediately suddenly starts freezing for quarter of a second every time you use it, that you notice it.
As an autistic person, this just sounds like being autistic.
It is crucial for both your mental and emotional wellbeing and mine that you absolutely refrain from getting me started
I can't even begin to get started, that's how don't get me started I am
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@LadyButterfly This is basically just me every day with my students but they don't seem to enjoy it nearly as much as I do. Weird.
I can’t believe people just go around making up games on the fly. Like who thought this was a good idea?! There’s no way you’ve possibly playtested the rules to ensure everything is balanced. Without corporate oversight and a solid profit motive there is no way some “friends” in a “car” could make a successful game. The premise is just absurd.
And then to think you could go around sharing your dumb “game” freely on the internet in forums and such?
Don’t even get me started…
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Reminds me of Soup is for Women which I think was basically prompted in the same way, asking her to go off on a weird rant about something being not "manly".
Han solo didn't "shoot first", he was the only one who shot, period.
Greedo didn't shoot the wall (and miss a 6ft target sitting 2ft away), that was added (poorly) many years later for a special edition.
They changed the movie because in the interim years, George Lucas was feeling like it made Han Solo look less "noble" and more scoundrel-like.
Han Solo is supposed to be a scoundrel, he's a damn smuggler. The bar they meet him in is described as "a wretched hive of scum and villainy".
George Lucas has an incredible talent for fucking up the intent of the author in a story that HE'S THE AUTHOR OF, it would be very funny if it weren't so annoying.
TBF, Han was a smuggler around the time of ANH, but he got there by running drugs for Jabba's auntie for years... Han Solo was a plug first, and don't even get me started on the Chewie/Scooby thread.
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OK, do "the fediverse"
That shit's never gonna take off unless they pull their head out of their ass and remember how Reddit and Tumblr attracted their users; with high-quality amateur porn.
The first sub-reddit ever created was NSFW and Tumblr basically ceased to exist once they got rid of the porn.
But, how do you incentivize people into posting high-quality amateur porn on your site for free instead of selling it on OF or Patreon?
The platform doesn't sell ads, and their decentralized nature prevents the fediverse as a whole from conducting business in any traditional sense.
But, even if it wasn't for all that, as a user, I don't have a good way to browse the available smut; I have to remember and visit each community separately, and a lot of content gets reposted. There's no way to activate a "NSFW only" mode or anything.
Don't get me started.
Useless, it'll never take off. Normies don't want to have to pick an instance to get started. They'll just go to reddit or Bluesky. Then there's the tankie problem. Hexbear and ml are going to scare away those who can figure out how to pick an instance and register.
Oh and since everything is duplicated on hundreds of servers, it's wasteful of resources to. Worried about SSD prices going up? Well the fediverse ain't gonna help either.
There's only like 5 people who post things and the mods can be just as bad as reddit mods. Post something and get banned from 25 communities.
Need me to keep going?
Well, at least no one owns and controls Lemmy unlike Reddit 🥹
Master class!
It's the same problem with Linux.
Most people don't even know what a distro is.
There’s only like 5 people who post things
I suspect Reddit would be about the same without all the repost bots.
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The aliens in Signs are idiots for invading a planet that’s 70% water. And if they landed in a cornfield in rural PA in the middle of summer the humidity would have killed them instantly.
And what’s worse is Shyamalan lives in PA and should know this.
Lol I actually grew up near where the movie took place and now I feel stupid for never thinking about the humidity factor. Summer in PA is underestimated by those who think "it's the northeastern US, how bad can it get?". For those of you who don't know, most summer days you can see the humidity and you're drenched in sweat about 2 minutes after you exit a cool shower.
In the mountains it’s not too bad but Chester country might as well be Leesburg in July.
I disagree. If water is essential for their spaceflight, IE fuel, reaction mass, ect then it's fine that they would invade.
Humans have invaded the Sahara desert, which is hot enough to kill, the arctic and Antarctic which is cold enough to kill, the submarine realm which can crush, freeze and drown us, and even the moon, which is hollow and full of dangerous reptillians.
We go to extremely dangerous places to fulfill our need for resources and territorial ambition
Yes but they wouldn’t show up bare-ass nekkid on a planet full of water if they knew it dissolved ‘em!
I almost wonder if it's like Mt Everest climbers who climb without oxygen tanks, they do it more to prove that they can than for any rational reason
Alien invasion is always stupid. Interstellar travel uses so much energy, it can power a civilisation for a year, and that's for just below light speed from our nearest star. Their tech level would be high enough to just scoop up whatever resource they want from astroids, if not ourright skimming from gas giants or stars. Oh, you need genetic material? Musquito drones would do the job. I mean, only the Predator movie makes sense as they just come here for hunting.
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So, Autism: The Game. I live this reality.
There’s a variation of this on Dropout’s “Make Some Noise” with 3 people where one player starts a rant, then is told to stop mid-rant, and the next person picks up where it stopped and takes it in their own direction.
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