wizardbeard

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Nope, he's lying again. This sort of hype disguised as thin-ass critique has been one of his main tactics for years. Not worth giving him even the benefit of the doubt on the headline

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago

Living here in jersey, fighting villains from afar...

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago

Or you can take that out and backfill with 90s era pop culture satire. Megas XLR is a masterpiece.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 hours ago

Fair enough, still seems silly as hell to me. Windows is perfectly functional for corporate, and even software development use as long as the team managing the image and standard settings at your workplace is competent.

Yeah, being able to customize everything to meet your preferred workflow etc with Linux is preferable.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago

Odd to use it as part of job hunting though, which is the context in this image.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Sure, but kind of silly for someone who would take a stand against MS to the point of refusing a job to be happy with Google.

Then again, they also expressed they'd be happy with Apple/Mac

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Piefed experimented with having a secret account with a randomized name associated with each user, and the secret account would be the one the showed as the source of the vote rather than the real account. Pattern analysis would still reveal who was behind it, and the admins of your source instance could see the link between the real account and the "voting account" behind the scenes.

I don't know the specifics, but if I remember correctly it ended up causing some issues with how activitypub federates stuff I think plus community moderators had some concerns, so the feature was removed.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 82 points 9 hours ago (11 children)

They say while using gmail.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

The fuck I am.

You're the one that equivocated military service (and implied killing through it) to simply

[choosing] wellbeing over others' lives

Choosing wellbeing over others' lives is the thing almost all of us do almost fucking constantly, and explicitly what I was talking about.

Military service and murdering people is not.

Edit: Draw your line in the sand wherever you want, murder is a perfectly valid line to have and one I agree with.

Just don't pretend that you don't choose wellbeing over others' lives too. If your issue is with military service and murder, stick with that.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago

Sometimes? Often, lol.

Pretty sure some bingo cards have even been made.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

It's not possible due to how lemmy and federation work. Potentially your instance could hide it from their own web ui, but any other instance could just choose to not respect that flag and display your profile fully through their instance's web ui. All the comments have to federate anyway, much like votes which are also not private at all through lemmy.

The only reason it's even partially possible on reddit is because the only copy of your comments as data are on reddit's db. They aren't sent to other instances outside of reddit control because that's not how reddit works. So when reddit hides it through the UI, there's not another server to surface the comments. And reddit killed the third party API, so it's not trivial to just ask the API for all comments from a specific user.

It is however, trivially easy to just use a search engine for results from reddit with the username in question and find all the comments manually. It's a deterrant, not a real solution.

 

Figured I'd toss up a quick whine thread.

Daughter skipped her nap and is peak obstinant today. Having to "trick" her into following the schedule.

"I don't want bath! I want read book!"

We'll read some books in bed after your bath sweetie.

"Noooooooo!"

Well I'm gonna get a bath, see you later.

"No! No I want baaaaath!"

Just max threenager today.

 

Like traveling back in time via blunt force trauma to the head

 

If you like video game music, you already know this one. But this cover using real instruments is one of the best I've heard of this composition.

Man, I am so overdue for a CT replay. Just have to choose between my copy for DS or the "Plus" romhack.

 

The band has been described as doing metal/fuzz/stoner rock. This is from their album Black Hole Space Wizard Part 2. Part 1 and 2 make a complete story.

Humans escaping from a dying earth about to be devoured by the titular wizard, ship crashes with only one survivor. This track is the survivor trekking across a desert.

Will probably post a couple more from them.

 

Dankpods used 12 computers with different hardware to test the performance of 5 games in 1080p and 4K, comparing the average fps results of the games' built in benchmarks to determine which OS ran the game better across the same hardware: Windows or Bazzite.

Some notes on methodolgy under this spoiler

Each game uses the same in game graphics settings in Windows and in Linux. The Linux distro used was Bazzite, using the version specific for the graphics card hardware fpr each individual machine. To be clear, this means that he installed the Bazzite version for (legacy) nVidia as appropriate.

Each bazzite install was fresh, no copying installs or swapping around a drive with it pre-installed. After install, it was updated using system update and rebooted, repeated until no updates remained.

Screenshots of some of Dankpods's comments to this effect:

There are many comments under the youtube video pointing out that in many of the Linux runs, it was not actually using the correct driver, comments about the experience using other distros, and comments about various potential fixes and workarounds.

This misses the point. Dankpods intentionally tested this way, and used Bazzite, to try and show what this would be like for the average gamer schmuck without a ton of technical skill interested in switching to Linux. Out of box experience matters in this situation, even though it's not quite fair to compare that between free opens source distros and an OS created by a megacorp. To the average end user, it won't matter. They just want it to work.

Prepare to be upset. With this particular testing methodology, Linux doesn't really win overall.

I'm interested to hear the community's thoughts on this.

 

An absolute classic youtubepoop. Can't believe it's 17 years old.

Just about any line from this activates me like a sleeper agent. This is going to be stuck in my head for a month, at least.

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Check the new pinned post in .ml's meme community. Here's the post itself:

There's so much goofiness to unpack here.


And a bonus, this small comment thread. We're totally not a marxist instance guys but we totally are a marxist instance guys and it's such a good thing:


I can't mentally square how someone could claim their instance is general use, run a general meme community, and also openly state the community purpose is to further specific ideology. Wow.

Nothing against surfacing lesser heard voices, but that's not the place for a generic meme comm (go make a leftymemes equivalent or something), and we all know that isn't what's really going on here.

 

Someone gifted this to my wife and I after our successful IVF. Still haven't put our photos in it, and everytime I see it I giggle.

Miracle Love Baby sounds like some magical girl anime shit.

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