Carighan

Carighan , 11 months ago

I suppose their name could also be meant to imply that they’re meant for sharp people, to write down ideas with.

However, in all my time in meetings I would say they’re rather meant to write ideas on flipcharts with that’ll lead to a sharp decline in business value. 😑

Carighan , 11 months ago

i think this could be a huge asset to lemmy

In what way? Replacing the current federation protocol, ActivityPub?

Carighan , 11 months ago

Oh, I see what you mean. Uuuh, doable I suppose, but then again, why bother when it’s going to be encrypted in transit anyways (HTTPS and all) and both the sender and the recipient naturally have to be able to read it do to anything with it.

This protocol sounds more like something for torrenting or so, so that you could seed a file without knowing what it contains and hence have plausible deniability.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Plus, ActivityPub is server-to-server, it’s one instance pulling data from another. I guess what you mean could be a user accessing their instance but like you say, Tor already covers that.

It could be more relevant for something like the… name escapes me… the instagram fediverse site. Or well some file sharing system of course.

Carighan , 11 months ago

That sounds promising, because like you I really really really do not like the DnD system. But to hear that the game is decent in spite of that makes me curious about trying it soon, TYVM. :)

Carighan , 11 months ago

Well yeah, LTT has long gone fully corporate. This was a problem years ago already, it was just always weird seeing so many flock to their channel when it was clearly a rote production like a 15 years ongoing weekly crime drama, not an actual tech channel.

Their production value is often stellar, don’t get me wrong. But that’s it. That’s all they have. It’s all about optimizing the production to maximize ad revenue.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Both share the actually relevant bit: The item went from LTT having it to them not having it, having not given it back to the owners either.

Carighan , 11 months ago

I’m not entirely sure you’d want that, tbh.

Think about how logistics work, and how fuel has to be spent. You don’t want a decentralized network for physical goods. That’s extremely inefficient and wasteful.

Even if it’s just about the final point of sale… we kinda already have these aggregations of individual merchant stalls? We call them “malls” mostly, nowadays, or “markets”, depending on type. They exist, but keep in mind that a lot of stuff is centralized behind the scenes, be it maintenance, logistics or chains.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Aaaah, okay. I keep thinking I heard of exactly this in the German city of Hamburg before, or even the entire area. But I can’t find anything about it right now. But I’m sure I had heard of this. There was like this meta-shopping-system, and then the orders were fulfilled by each company individually, they just pooled their catalogues basically.

Carighan , 11 months ago

In other words, there’s going to have been a moment where the last proto-human to do it hung off a tree branch with their feet for the very last time in the entire evolutionary branch that would eventually become us.

Wild to think about it, I agree.

Carighan , 11 months ago

This mostly happens because they’re probably both cotton.

As you wash them, the oils the fabric was soaked in for protection slowly get removed, and the cotton fibres are rather crinkly. They can grab onto loose and weakened other fibres. This is also why some of them “ball” on the outside (no clue what it’s called in English). Now on the inside, it’s the shirt pulling loose fibres off the inside of the weapons, the tiniest break-offs.

To alleviate this - you can’t entirely fix it, other than wearing different combinations of materials instead of cotton on cotton - wash your sweaters inside-out, which you should do anyways, in particular on printed sweaters. Instead of the insides of the sweater rubbing together and depositing lots of loose broken fibres for the t-shirts to pull off, those will get pulled off inside the washing mashine.
Note: This increases the speed at which you get the “balling” (since now the outside rubs against itself), but on fibres that can do this you want to eventually use a fabric shaver every so often anyways if you don’t already.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Haha, yes in this case it is. It’s rather a typo from “Caraighan Maconar”, an Aes Sedai of the green Ajah from the Wheel of Time novels. Been using that forever, never realized how close it is to “cardigan”, usually people think it’s “Kerrigan” from Starcraft. 😄

Carighan , 11 months ago

Ah, I wonder whether this will make Mobvoi finally release that Wear OS3 update for the TicWatch Ultra they’ve announced since before they sold the watch.

…

Ah who am I kidding. 😂

Plus I’ll be honest, having owned a smartwatch now: I don’t need one. All I used it for was paying, and frankly pressing a button to unlock it and tilting my wrist takes at best marginally more time than pulling the phone out of my pocket (which unlocks it since my thumb instinctively touches the fingerprint scanner doing that). In a lot of ways I just realized that an external screen for my phone that’s a mere 20-80cm away from it is just no good. It’s not a separate device after all, plus even then the tiny screen would make it near unusable anyways.

That being said, Horizon is an insanely pretty watchface, even if in Germany the weather is entirely off every single time.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Yeah it was a present in my case, but I definitely learned my lesson to avoid that company if I need any updates at all.

Carighan , 11 months ago

I’m really not happy with using Discord at all for any organisation open to outside users. We got Lemmy for posts about, well, Lemmy. We got something like Mastodon for external updates.

Use what is there.

Carighan , 11 months ago

OTOH, Vice is a private company.

One could argue I guess that per country, international companies need to have distinct subsidiaries and those need to be fully owned and operated in that country only with no international cash flow.

But it’d be quite difficult to enforce, I’d imagine.

Carighan , 11 months ago

In private hands this cannot work anyways IMO. We need to force an interoperable standard if we want to stop companies from screwing everyone over just to make a line go up.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Plenty are, it’s just that the largest companies built those places, they cannot trivially liquidate them. Plus they usually own the whole land, so cutting part of it away is not easy.

They still should. For many jobs office work is a completely unnecessary waste of:

• Productivity (via constant distractions)
• Time (commuting)
• Money (via the building maintenance costs)
• Space (the actual building)
• Resources (heating and shit)

But managers are loathe to ever admit any failings, our market culture frowns upon this. Hence admitting that your building is no longer needed is not a thing any manager to wants to bring up in a meeting to their bosses, so back to the office it is. :<

Carighan , 11 months ago

Imagine how much space we could reclaim for homes to reinvigorate those bars and eateries! :o

Carighan , 11 months ago

Well far as I can tell they’d need to be defederated again.

It’s an inherent flaw, but also as far as I understand it’d also mean all communities would have to be re-pulled and that only happens as someone accesses them. Meaning that by itself a newly federated “copycat” instance would not actually show any communities or content on the isntance it federates itself to.

Lemmy is pull-based, not push-based.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Oh, quite a lot over the years, but to pick a few I can readily think of:

Cyberpunk 2077: My one big prepurchase the recent few years. And it turned out to be laughably bad. I mean I was expected it to be fairly buggy, but even given that it far outdid even my worst imaginations. Not only was the game insanely unbelievably buggy on release (and frankly it still is, they only patched the actual breaking issues not the constant barrage of weirdness), but it is just… not very good? It has pleny really good components, but the sauce sticking it together is devoid of any design or soul, leaving it to feel like a can of ravioli with too few actual ravioli in it.
Doesn’t help that the main quest was, IMO, bad to the point of caricature. At least the handful of amazing secondary quests more than made up for that one. Still, overall one of my biggest disappointments of my 30 years of video gaming, especially in how underdesigned it is even ignoring all the bugs.

Divinity Original Sin 2, specifically co-op: I don’t know. This got hyped so much for that particular feature. Yet while the combat moment-to-moment gameplay is hilarious in co-op, following the actual story - basically why I play these kind of games - felt supremely irritating, more so because of how frequently characters get forced into conversations the other player then has to opt into no matter where they were at the time or what they were doing. In a lot of ways I wish co-op would have been more restrictive, to more readily support co-op story consumption.
But it’s also weird, because like I said, combat-wise the co-op is amazing. Still, was quite disappointed overall.

Overwatch 2: Feels like a cheap pick, but wow was this a disappointment. Between the dropped PvE, the frankly insulting replacement they’re now rolling out for it and their complete unwillingness to acknowledge the switch to 5v5 in hero reworks and balance changes - and hence how half-arsed the entire balance feels - this makes me long for an OW1 clone that really just freezes OW1’s state, as clearly trying to modify it didn’t work out.

Ultima IX: I don’t know how many here are old enough to remember this. It was so hyped. It looked so gorgeous. It was so amazing to see it all in this 3D. And then when it came out, not only could it at best run at glorious 10FPS on my machine (and I had a beast of a PC for the time), it was also buggy and underdeveloped enough that I figure it might just have been CDPR’s inspiration for how they worked on CP2077. Plus, in U9’s case, there’s the extra insult that the story and dialogue is quite inconsistent with the previous games, which was a real head-scratcher. Just a disappointment all around. A really big one.

The Dig: This is a weird one to remember. Because in a lot of ways, I also would say The Dig is one of the best point&click adventures ever made. But it was so bewildering and disappointing to younger me, I just came off the supremely accessible and clever Fate of Atlantis having played it late, and there was so much hype for The Dig, so naturally I got it. I was so disappointed.
Now to be fair, looking back upon it now I can recognize that a mix of my hype and the way FoA went against a ton of industry standard for the time was priming me for said disappointment. It’s a good game in a lot of regards, in particular in selling the actually alien vibe of it. But it also has “logic” that would make Sierra Games proud. At least I didn’t have to use a necklace on the moon (IIRC) 😂.

Carighan , 11 months ago

I mean they have their own drug-runner submarines. You underestimate how big and professional cartels are.

Carighan , 11 months ago

This is an unrealistic and unachievable endgame, so who cares if people want to live without Covid vaccines (again, unless it’s causing healthcare collapse).

Hrm, I would say one benefit not to be underestimated is that vaccination ought to be entirely normalized. The more and the more readily it is done, the more it normalizes the process.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Uh, I don’t know how it is where you live, but over here the vaccines are free? All of them, too.

Carighan , 11 months ago

No wonder, while plenty right wing parties are on the rise here, too, overall people are at least somewhat less removed from actual reality.

Carighan , 11 months ago

To be fair, I don’t know where world is hosted by at least according to my local law here they’d be right: linking to piracy can get you in trouble.

Now usually you can safely ignore this still, sure. Unless you’re large. And with world being so big I could see them being the very first target someone would drag in front of a court if they are in a place where such laws exist. It sounds stupid, but I can understand why the devs would not want to go through that.

Carighan , 11 months ago

I guess it speaks more to how many fins are cleanly by nature when it comes to their travel and camping?

Because, yeah, sure, above a certain critical mass this is good. Less animals plundering bins and so on.

Try that over here, and it’s the opposite. We need more bins so people stop throwing trash everywhere when there’s always a bin within arm’s reach pretty much.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Samsung’s Emoji are what I’d imagine would happen if I asked AI to make Apple’s emoji’s but only with pieces pulled from Google’s emoji.

They look pretty damn bad. All around. I’ll never understand why they don’t at least give up and pay JoyPixels, considering they can’t even beat those in quality. 😑

Carighan , 11 months ago

Aye, very much this.

I don’t know it is in other countries but here in Germany some “baseline” news is provided from money collected via a tax, which is very awesome as it ensures everyone has access to at least some news source. On top of that there’s Wikipedia, as you say, but beyond that everyone still has to be aware that investigative journalism takes a lot of time and effort.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Have they fallen that much? Or am I confusing them? Because I remember they were pretty well established and did comparatively good investigations?

Carighan , 11 months ago

platonic ideal of ice cream

OP never even specified ice cream.

So this leaves a lot of interpretation what kind of objective rating we should apply. For example if it’s about the underlying material used (vanilla beans vs cocoa beans) we could also be looking at economics and availability.

Carighan , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Conservatives are such deranged, clearly mentally unwell people.

From the article:

The conservative Idaho Tribune called Lauritzen a “left-wing activist” who […] is active in local politics […]

How dare she?! Active in politics?! Unheard of!

The article also blasted her for liking posts on social and emotional learning — a style of instruction that encourages healthy self-awareness, decision-making, and interpersonal skills

Oh no! A teacher actually teaching children instead of just slapping and whipping them like in the “good ol days”. What an outrage!

Carighan , 11 months ago

Probably because in our atmosphere we more readily criticize bosses taking 90%+ off the top, while in the US it’s entirely normal that any increase in prices goes entirely into the manager pockets and the servers continue to be paid just enough to physically survive so they can show up for work again.

And sure, it happens a lot over here, too. But to a lesser degree, and not as readily. The base climate is different.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Oh I love kids. Totally.

When they’re not mine. Means I can give them back when they get defective and need maintenance.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Since then, provincial and federal ministers have sparred over the controversial decision, exposing tensions between Alberta, which favours natural gas for power generation, and the governing Liberals, who have the broader ambition to decarbonize electrical grids across the country by 2035.

Wow, damn.

I mean if it were nuclear, that’d be one thing as a stop-over. As in, you got the nuclear power plants, you were supposed to decommision X% by 202X, but since money is needed everywhere and only so many people exist to work on issues you’re pushing that out to focus on reforestation, decommissioning coal/gas plants, etc etc.

That’s one thing. In fact I wish Germany hadn’t in the wake of Fukushima omg-scare-closed our nuclear power plants and instead just hard-closed all gas and coal plants. But eh, bit late to worry about that one now. Still, opting for fossil over either nuclear or fully renewable is… a bit of an odd choice, yeah. To put it mildly.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Yeah, people always seem to think the AfD is one united front.

But they span the whole gamut from Tucker Carlson ultra-right-wing-but-also-no-grasp-on-factual-reality to literally-a-fucking-nazi-wanting-to-burn-jews-themselves-in-their-own-oven.

They’re abhorrend as a party, and the fact that so much of the shit media in Germany low-key supports them hard and pushes people towards voting for them (namely and chiefly the Axel Springer media landscape which is sadly huge) and as a result they get quite a significant number of votes is… “worrying” to put it mildly. As a German in particular, I have genuine plans how and where to move if shit hits the fan, which at the present rate it will. >.> (Ireland, probably)

Carighan , 11 months ago

Like all right-wing parties they lack any actual real agenda. That is, they’re not interested in running the currently existing state, they want their fascist WW3 Nazi Germany with them at the helm. Rather, their entire political “argument” right now is “Current stuff is SHIT!”. That’s how they get all their votes, from people being angry and disappointed.

But, much as I like to ramble about current politicians (since you can’t call the AfD fuckers “politicians”), things can be shit outside of the control of anyone in particular. As if Höcke could have handled COVID. Imagine what a disaster it would have been if he had any say in it. Imagine how even the nascent efforts at climate would be worse. Inclusion, Russia, education, health, there’s not a single topic the AfD would improve if they got power. And they were openly do not intend to improve anything. They’re completely open about it.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Yeah one issue in Germany is that we’re actually quite tolerant. The downside of which is that even rampant fascists like Höcke cannot be removed from the country. Despite how “correct” it would be.

And if you now want to ask: “But where would he be deported to?” - not the point. He doesn’t need to be deported to anything, he just needs to be deported from something. Toss him and a bunch of his brownnosers in a rowboat, drag him outside the 3 mile radius, let him figure the shit out since he’s apparently such a good leader. They ought to trivially be able to survive that!

Carighan , 11 months ago

I will say that I hate to call something like Cyberpunk an RPG at all. It feels almost entirely like a shooter, with the RPG parts somewhat tacked-on. This is more evident even with the missing 6th spec tree and how, even after massive rebalancing, the whole level-up and spec-system are entirely irrelevant without a lot of mods.

Don’t get me wrong, modded the system works well.

But as installed, it’s just all rubbish and feels almost forgotten by the devs.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Yeah true, you’re right. Nevermind my comment. 😅 Especially on the background of wanting an RPG for non-RPG players.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Yeah this is a weird thing. It’s okay as a patch, but it also has to come with or even after an actual cure.

Plus I hope we use a space ship that transforms into a mega maid.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Ouff, a fair few of the big players:

• MS Office > LibreOffice, it’s not even remotely a contest. This is not because of any personal preferences, nor because of functionality. I’d just be an asshole for being the guy who breaks interoperability, which we have long established. Since this is squarely a work-first product, and everyone is just trying to get through they day and go home to their families, I won’t make their day worse. Hence, MS Office preferred.
• Photoshop > GIMP. The latter is good for simple edits, but anything even moderately complex is not only far easier in Photoshop, it’s also flat out faster, owing to far better hardware utilization.
• Google Maps > any alternative really but specifically OSM, for cars and public transit (I don’t hike much but I heard good things about OSM for hiking though there are of course specialized apps for that since you want to bring specialized hardware for serious trips). While I can make OSM work, it’s just such a hassle, and often so buggy and wrong I might as well just wing it entirely without navigation then. In particular for public transit.

Carighan , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

I don’t have it, Germany, on Android 12.

(edit)
Nevermind, showed up after a restart, so I guess it was just waiting to install the relevant google service update.

Carighan , 11 months ago

I am not truly sure I could blame either side of that.

The government were - and are - people who explicitly campaign with/for this shit. You could be angry if they didn’t completely trash the country, its finances, and its health system to enrich themselves, after all that’s their very agenda. Voters for them - much as I cannot understand why anybody would vote that way - would rightfully be angry if they did stuff like care for anybody but themselvs. The voters would have been lied to.

At the same time, the doctors can only do so much to protest while also ensuring patients get as much care as possible. I talk to a doctor frequently. She was recently diagnosed with advanced-stage breast cancer while around the same time her mum was also diagnosed with cancer. You know what she did? Go to work. And do long hours. More than she is paid for. Becaue there’s no alternative. No one else can see to the patients. She would rather need to recuperate herself and care more for her mum, but there’s just no option. That’s so fucked up I lack words, and it also means the UK has a natural doctors problem: The ones that don’t move away because fuck, why wouldn’t you?!, they die off faster rather than slower or at least quit the field to protect their own health.
At some point, doctors end up having to force the issue. If they don’t do it, things never improve.

Carighan , 11 months ago

The newest Spellforce was fantastic, so I’m tentatively interested now.

Carighan , 11 months ago

OMG! I did not know this! Wow. TYVM! <3

Carighan OP , 11 months ago

Interesting, for me that is opposite. 😅

I suppose what mostly the me for a loop is the per-character-per-statistic progression that results in another type of badge? Leading to multiple hundreds of individual progression bars now, all for some badge that I haven’t even yet seen anywhere except the post-game screen.