mnemonicmonkeys

joined 2 years ago

A gallon of milk is over 7lb

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Unfortunately, I can't give good advice on what to do in your situation.

That being said, I can point out that Ohio is a single-party recording state. If your had recorded your brother's threats to your parents, that could be thrown out as evidence and get you in trouble. However, any conversation that you're a party in is fair game for recording.

Please note, I am not trying to give specific recommendations. All I'm doing is pointing out what is and isn't legal in the state.

Stay safe out there

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I didn't notice anything in the first book, my ex-Mormon friend did; and I think it was more to do with the writing style.

In the third book, it got more pronounced. I only know broad strokes about Mormonism so it's hard to put a finger on more than a couple of details. That being said, the two spirits merging together to destroy/remake the world plays into some Mormon beliefs and plays into their focus on being doomsday preppers. Plus, the whole pivot to the main character handing the book to Sazed at the end to spread its teachings was a huge nod to John Smith allegedly finding the Book of Mormon and starting the church.

Those things are what caused me to do a bit of digging on Sanderson and finding out he went to Brigham Young University (and I just found out he teaches there too). Brigham Young is well known for being a Mormon University, since it's named after the religion's 2nd leader (and iirc he was also the guy that pushed the church to go poligamist)

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Quit injecting Hollow Knight into everything

being the most powerful branch.

Theoretically

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

No. Twitter was always a terrible idea that was doomed to be slop

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Just FYI, the series devolves into Mormon propaganda in the first trilogy. I wasn't sure why the third book felt so off until I saw that Sanderson went to Brigham Young University. I also talked to an ex-Mormon friend of mine, and he apparently noped out halfway through the first book when he saw the signs

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

The reaaon for that is that with Naval production rates, China will have the opportunity to invade Taiwan with numerical superiority over the US in the Pacific Theater until 2028.

That being said, there's only two 1-month windows out of the year where the weather is calm enough that they can pull off the amphibious invasion, and neither of them include June

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

On Chromium, when you're in a tab group you get a narrow toolbar on the bottom to quickly swap between tabs or even close tabs. When looking something up, you can pick 2-3 pages in the results to open up in the group and flip between them quickly to compare and build consensus. Without that on Firefox, switching between tabs takes 3 taps and it's really annoying.

In addition, tab groups end up filling the same function as separate browser windows. They server as a way to scroll through tab topics in a very condensed manner, since I can have one tab group for Skyrim mods, another for gardening, one for 3D printing, etc. So then you scroll through topics instead of having to scroll past 20 tabs on one topic, 12 tabs on another, etc.

What I personally don't get is why Mozilla insisted on implemented them on desktop instead. Tab groups are just redundant in that application. Maybe someone else finds a use for them (and that's good), but it'd be better for them to fill out a missing niche first before adding more.

Also, I've noticed some people recommend Firefox's tab collections. Those are not the same thing. They're just glorified bookmarks.

That's still a shitton of Europe

 

Can everyone please stop claiming and speculating that Valve's new hardware will be loss leaders? If you watch LTT and Gamers Nexus's first videos on the announcement, they actually spoke with Valve's engineers. And the Valve representatives already said that the new hardware WILL NOT BE LOSS LEADERS.

There isn't even evidence that the Steam Deck was a loss leader. All GabeN said was that the lowest cost launch model was priced "painfully", which doesn't necessarily mean it was sold at a loss, it could easily have been sold at a very tight margin.

And no, low margins does not meet the definition of a loss leader. A loss leader is a product sold below cost, in that every unit sold actually costs the seller money.

I get the desire to speculate on new hardware. It's fun and it helps pass the time until we hear more info from Valve. But there's limits to what is reasonable. Valve has already stated that the new hardware won't be loss leaders, so hoping and/or claiming they are isn't reasonable.

Sorry for the rant, but all of the comments that seem to have only skimmed headlines are quickly getting to me

 

I'm going to making the plunge to Linux on my main gaming PC soon and I'm trying to make the final decision between Bazzite or Fedora. I've done enough customization on my Steam Deck that I know Bazzite will handle almost all of my use cases for this system, with one potential loose end.

I'm getting back into Skyrim modding and am planning to pull my portable Mod Organizer 2 install over. I've seen guides on it for Linux, so that's not as much of a concern. But, I'm wondering if it'll be a problem with Bazzite, as it's an immutable distro.

I have 3 drives on the system: 1 for the OS and 2 for storage. The MO2 install is very large between its internal downloads folder and tons of installed texture mods. Because of that, most of the modding will be done off of one of the storage drives. I'll also need some extra software like Microsoft C++ compiler.

Am I going to be fighting Bazzite the entire time with this setup? I'd prefer to run Bazzite if it won't be a hassle, but I'm not opposed to running Fedora if need be

 

A friend of mine linked me to this seller earlier today. They have some pretty tempting deals, but I've never heard of them before.

Has anyone bought from them before and was it worth it?

 

I've been kicking around the idea of running a server for games and chat woth some of my friends, but worry about everyone getting cut off when there's a disruption.

I've started looking into kubernetes out of curiosity, and it seems like we could potentially set up a cluster with master nodes at 3+ locations to hose whatever game server or chat server that we want with 100% uptime, solving my concerns.

Am I misunderstanding the kubernetes documentation, and this is just a terrible idea? Or am I on the right track?

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works to c/anime@ani.social
 

If anyone else is watching this series, the music that kicks in around 24:30 is straight from the Skyrim soundtrack, specifically the title "Awake"

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
 

Before anyone thinks I'm talking about the new Decky plugin: no, that's not what this is about.

I'm trying to get universal FSR up and running on my deck. I've looked up several guides like this one, but no matter what I do the FSR option won't show up.

To me it looks like a software update changed how the settings work, and none of the guides have been updated to reflect that.

Does anyone know how get it up and running? I've been trying for hours with no luck.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works
 

I got this cart racer a few days ago and ended up spending a whole day playing. In terms of mechanics, I think it gives even newer Mario Kart titles a run for their money, plus it has mod support so players can make their own tracks, characters, and vehicle options. And the base tracks are nothing to scoff at, they work for both novices and speedrunners, with parts of the track unlocking as laps are completed

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

Over the past few months I've been thinking about what would be the best way to help me and my parents improve privacy and data storage.

With all the posts with cluster PC's recently, I'm wondering if the best option is to make a couple of NAS's with Raspberry Pi's with RAID, keep one at my place and another at my parents' house, and syncing their data with 2 private folders: one for myself and one for my parents.

But that opens up a few more questions. How to sync the data to match? Syncthing? Kubernetes? Should I go ahead and add Nextcloud to the Pi's? Should I make the Pi's expandable so other services can be added later, or plan to hook up a separate Pi to handle that? What else could I be missing?

 

As the title suggests, over the last couple of days there's been an influx of doomer comments over the SKG petition. While it's fine to disagree, I'm finding it suspicious that there weren't comments like this posted a week or 2 ago

 
 

Currently getting my first media server set up, and I'm wondering what the best directory would be for all the stored files. For reference, I'm working with Ubuntu server to follow the guide I'm using.

Mainly, I'm wondering if I should migrate /home/ to my RAID array, or leave /home/ where it is and create a new directory on the RAID array. Currently the server will just be for my use, but might expand it for others to use

 

I've been wanting a suppressor for my rifle for awhile, but with the incoming administration I'm worried about having my fingerprints on file due to the tax stamp. On the other hand, I'm seeing a bunch of people recommending suppressors on the subreddit and they don't seem to care. Is my worry reasonable or unfounded?

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