wizardbeard

joined 2 years ago
[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

It's even better when you can't do most of the socially acceptable de-stressing vices due to health conditions.

My lungs are fucky with asthma, so no smonking or vaping. Genetically recessive liver issue that I hit the jackpot on means I can't drink, or have too much sugar, or long term it might just fucking fibros-ify my lungs. Short-term it gives me migraines, nausea, and exhaustion if I try to cheat it or forget. Leads to some really sucky times after holidays when I just eat too much dessert.

I'm not going to self harm. Body is enough of a mess without adding extra pain and scarring.

Jacking off and gaming it is then.

Isn't at least one of them actually a marine research vessel, run by a group he founded/funds?

I get that he's not our friend like a lot of people think just because his company is less shit, but he seems to have at least a crumb of his soul left.

These are but short windows into a rich tapestry of lives. Of course we may find them confusing, lacking the proper context and life experiences that led to this specific moment. Truly, how can any person hope to bridge that chasm and truly understand another?

One thing I can say for certain though, is that a Dennys ought to have ham.

That statement, stated a little less bluntly, can and has absolutely worked for me.

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

reworded to ~~actual reasons.~~ sound good for an interview.

Potato potato, but if someone is already having trouble playing the interview game, I think that last sentence could come across wrong.

Like you said, you take your actual reasons: I have bills to pay, you're a reasonable distance away, you're hiring. And you find the truthful but carefully worded way to make it sound acceptable. I've always considered this interview question more of a test of communication skills than culty company loyalty test.

Like, if something's wrong because your co-worker fucked it up are you just going to vomit that point blank at a customer, or do you have the ability to word it better?

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

If you're not active on the comms on awful.systems, I think you'd like it. Most users are aware of Yarvin etc.

!techtakes@awful.systems

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I wonder how many people are browsing this thread to help improve their personal word filters, although the names in the title would probably hide it from anyone that has those set up already.

RES supports filters, a number of lemmy apps do, and I think piefed has it built in.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I dunked my mobilek in the toilet. Now what? Does this count as intercourse?

Edit: I've learned an important lesson. Don't make a special lady wet or she'll break your mobilek and cover it in pee.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

EDIT: Misunderstood your comment.

As far as cloud infra goes, rumor has it that a lot of Azure's underlying shit is on Linux already. Would explain the cross compatibility work with WSL, PowerShell, .Net, etc over the past decade or so.

Original responseIt's a wonderful dream, but you underestimate how many systems' server components are still built to run on Windows Servers, and I've yet to find a vendor that doesn't support it.

Plus the extremely long tail of places running legacy software for as long as fucking possible because they refuse to spend money on newer shit.

"Soon" is relative. I think it's more likely that containerization will make the underlying OS matter less and less. It'll end up being a matter of licensing, support, ease of management with existing tools, that sort of shit. Ultimately the suits want someone to be able to yell at, even if raising a ticket with Microsoft is like pissing into the wind.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Holy shit, you've got a line on artisinal cheese duck fleshlights? I've been in the market for ages!

I appreciate and agree with this sentiment entirely, but the people who need to hear it won't.

Lots of people crowing about the (I think it was) Chinese idea of solidarity, where the peaceful protestors shouldn't undercut or decry the violent protestors because they're all on the same side. They missed that the incredibly oversimplified concept is meant to flow both ways.

Yes, this isn't enough, but that doesn't mean this isn't also an important step in the right direction. The way this is worded definitely sounds like a party switch. If he's the horrible asshole everyone here thinks he is, it's not like it ever takes long for these folks to demonstrate it again.

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

I don't make it a habit to check, but it has been fun to check and call out in precisely two scenarios.

  • One user and I deep into a sub thread on a multiple day old post arguing about ettiquette here. Was weird to get multiple downvotes on those sorts of comments. They were using their "abandoned" alts.

  • Another thread where I had repeatedly asked someone to share the source for their claim despite them insisting that I just wasn't googling right. I offered them to edit literally every comment (multiple thousand) on this account to sing their praises. Downvoted with no response.

 

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.

 

Honestly? That's rookie numbers.

 

Bah humbug.

 

PrefaceI'm not trying to call out the mod action of removing my post from the comm so much as I'm calling out the complete lack of mod action leading to the comm becoming shit and having the current top post by scaled, hot, and active being a post that explicitly targets another lemmy user.

That out of the way... !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world has clearly been slipping from the purpose of the comm for a while now. Most of the posts are actually infuriating and/or political. I understand that what qualifies as either of those can be different for different people, but I feel most of this shit clearly isn't mundane or simple enough to fall under the label of just mildly infuriating.

Here's some examples from the first page right now, sorted by scaled.

While I could have sworn the sidebar had a no politics rule, it doesn't at the time of me writing this up, so politics are arguably acceptable, although I personally feel these all clearly don't match the theme of the community, violating Rule 7.

Sidebar, and expanded rule 7

A few other posts have been made calling this out.

Mod harder and [META] What actually constitutes "mildly infuriating" content?

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Beyond all that mess, we have what was the final straw for me.

Rule 1 (and less so 5), and the current top post by scaled, hot, and active.

I cannot accept that a post to mildly infuriating that targets a specific user while not even removing their username is respectful, and I personally consider it harassment (while it may not violate rule 5 as there is no call to action). Removing the username is usually the bare minimum even in the fucking reddit brigading subs, for plausible deniability.

And regardless of whatever arguments can be had about interpretations of the community's specific rules, it's a dick move. Just block the guy. It reminds me of the god awful reddit dogpiling and brigading. I don't want any of that to come to lemmy.

So I reported it, then saw the recent posts asking mods for action that got no response. I then looked at the mods.

  • LillianVS@lemmy.world (Aer) has not been active in two years.
  • STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world (Striker) has not been active in one year.
  • Tenthrow@lemmy.world had not appeared to be active for six days at the time I reported the post, but upon checking the community mod log was likely active two days before (assuming that the other two wouldn't be just lurking and modding for over a year).

So I did something dumb as hell. Roughly an hour after I reported it, I made my own post (now removed from the comm). I find people who make call out posts about others, and the absentee mods allowing it, mildly infuriating. Yeah, childish as shit. What's done is done.

Modlog:

Removed for "doesn't fit community", but what do you folks think? Does it really not fit when the top post is what it is? Personally I think both should be gone, lest that comm descend further into shit.

Either way, now that I have this yell into the void out of me, I'm blocking the comm. Maybe I should have made my post in actually infuriating? (kidding)

 

That is a threat.

From some back to school flyer.

 

We understand that this is a jarring and sudden change, but we're proud of our audio team's ability to create suitable replacements with such short notice. We hope that in time, these new sounds will grow to hold a place in your heart just like the old ones.

(Original post: https://lemmy.world/post/38428736)

 

I have so many great memories from childhood vacations to Mystery Flesh Pit National Park. I cant believe the disaster happened all the way back in 2007.

At least someone has been collecting and documenting everything they can find from the old place: https://www.mysteryfleshpitnationalpark.com/

I still can't make it all the way through the disaster report.

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