psycotica0

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[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 13 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The difference is that a tip is "you're already getting paid to do your job, why would I pay you to do your job?". Whereas this is "you gave me this for free, so maybe if I make a bunch of money I could show appreciation for that gift" or pay-it-forward so the next guy can also get a free start, etc.

And yes I know they're are busted places on this Earth where basically servers don't already get paid to do their job and are thus reliant on tips as income, but that's a different problem...

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Chatta-newfy-doofy-poopy

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Right, right, because of the crushing weight of responsibility should you transfer HPV between people. I understand. Well, I have good news for you! 😉

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago

Mmmmmmmmmmm... I like the sentiment, but I don't think I agree. Real estate speculators are who you're describing, and they suck, but I don't think anyone would be shocked that they're like scalpers.

Landlords don't really care about hoarding or scarcity really, they're buying things to rent to people. Like blockbuster. I mean, letting other people live there is basically the point, it's not exactly hoarding...

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think GPD is a company, and they make a device called the GPD Win 5. And I think that device is in the class of Handheld Devices called "AMD Strix Halo". And so a representative of GPD has said that the {GPD Win 5} will be the first {AMD Strix Halo} handheld device to ship with native Bazzite support.

Now, what I can't answer without Googling, which I refuse to do on principle at this point, is what an AMD Strix Halo is, though I assume it's like a Steam Deck. And I don't know how anyone thought "AMD Strix Halo" was an acceptable name for a class of devices. And I'm also not sure why GPD thought GPD Win 5 was an acceptable name either. I guess, like, you win at games? And this is hopefully the 5th in the GPD Win family? But this name is too verby to me.

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I didn't know enough words to parse that title on my first 5 read-throughs... but I think I've got it now. And that's nice!

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The New York financier?

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

Right!? It'd be like if you were eating a banana and you just threw the peel away. It's against nature!

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago

FROM THE TOP ROPE!!!

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

When you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything.

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know these are crazy people, but I love the casualness of "having surgery and/or performing blood rituals" 😛

Whichever.

 

Hey folks! Back in the PS2 days I had Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and besides the quests and stuff I also loved just driving around and going on little road trips and stealing planes.

And then in the PS3 era I had Just Cause 2, and the voice acting was terrible, and the quests were kinda dumb, but wow was it fun to just drive around and go on little road trips and steal planes. And your dumb little hookshot was nearly immersion breaking it was so unrealistic, but instead it was a ton of fun zipping through the air from 150 paces to kick a dude off his motorbike...

Anyway, I'm wondering what people's opinions are on these kinds of games these days! I know Cyberpunk has some driving, but I don't know if people enjoy cruising in it. I really liked Breath of the Wild, which is not really the same but had some screwing around times. I know there's a GTA 5 which I never played but it's probably good, I think there's a Just Cause 3 but I haven't looked into it. Some people love Red Dead 2, which I mostly bounced off of but maybe I was wrong.

Do you folks have any favourites in this "genre"? Things I should check out? Stories of worthless hijinks? Thoughts?

 

Hello! I've just started using StreetComplete, and I want to make sure I understand the answers before I go through and make a bunch of garbage data.

In this picture, is the kerb a ramp, or flush?

The sidewalk deflects downwards, but it's not a ramp ramp like the example picture.

How about this one?

The kerb itself dips, but the sidewalk on this one looks more flat and does simply run into the road. And then it has the texture, obviously. Is this one different from the last one?

Also, just to check, I marked both of these sidewalks as "concrete". That's correct, right? I wondered about "concrete plate", because they're segmented, but the picture made concrete plate look much more substantial.

My other question was based on the "lit" tag for a bus stop. This bus stop has a street light near it, but there's no light on the bus stop itself. It sounds like that means it is lit? Would a non-lit stop just be one that is fully dark at night, then, with no kind of lighting anywhere near it at all?

This one is further from the street light, but still has line of sight. Lit?

Thanks very much for any help you have!

 

Hello folks! I have these switches in my bathroom.

The rightmost is the lights, and the middle one is the bathroom fan, and I'd like to replace that middle one with something I could load tasmota on (or some other open source firmware), without replacing the other switch, the sockets, or the faceplate.

I haven't seen any smart switches that have a form factor that would fit through this faceplate, though; they seem to mostly want to be the entire electrical box.

If it weren't for the electrical plugs I could maybe replace this with some kind of 2-gang thing, which isn't really what I want but could be fine, but as it stands I'm not sure what my options here are.

I don't need the new switch to necessarily look like the old one, I just want it to fit in the same box and use the same faceplate. Do you folks have any recommendations?

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