Heavybell

Heavybell , 8 months ago

I ran 2000 back in the day and didn’t really have any problems with it. IMO it breaks the pattern somewhat. XP was better, of course, but 2000 was a good OS.

Heavybell , 8 months ago

Wing Commander: Privateer. I dunno, there’s something special about a sandbox-trading-combat game where the story must be stumbled upon.

Heavybell , 8 months ago

Keepass fIle in my own nextcloud instances, synced to my phone so I can also use keepass2android. This way if something happens I at least have another copy of it, beyond my backup system.

Heavybell , 8 months ago

I came here to say almost exactly this, tho I take issue with the use of the term “bought” since you don’t buy a subscription, even if that’s the language they keep pushing.

Heavybell , 8 months ago

Yes, give it to me.

Heavybell , 8 months ago

Are you saying Antifa are tankies?

Heavybell , 8 months ago

AFAIK a tankie is someone who is a fan of authoritarian communism or socialism… I forget which but the key part is the authoritarianism part, I think.

Heavybell , 8 months ago

Here’s my (fallible) understanding of the nugget of truth behind the soy nonsense.

Plants contain something called phytoestrogen. It has a similar shape and function in plants to estrogen in humans. Soy contains a lot of it.

However, since it is made of different chemicals to estrogen it does not act like estrogen in humans.

Still, because it has the word “estrogen” in it, a lot of idiots think it will cause you to become weak and grow tits if you eat soy. You know, like a woman. Hence the “soyboy” memes and the use of the term as an insult, mostly by woman-hating alt-right goons.

It’s possible your friend is covertly falling for the fallacy, or perhaps their concern is several times removed; i.e. they fell for someone’s lie based on a lie based on a lie based on bigotry.

Heavybell , 8 months ago

I mean, you’re not wrong. And someone else replying suggested maybe soy does have some effect. However I feel like the MtF trans community would be up in arms with joy if they could just drink soy milk instead of taking estrogen pills, plus we’d probably have heard something from asian countries where soy is consumed a lot more if it was that bad for you.

Heavybell , 9 months ago

I’ll be very surprised if AI is actually “baked into” the OS. A client to their cloud AI will be baked in, but that’s not the same thing IMO.

(btw powertoys is great, multimonitor support is great too, if they finally fix the task bar I might finally go to Win11)

Heavybell , 9 months ago

I use Start 10. It’s good, and I’ve tried Start 11 on a Win 11 VM, but while it sort of lets you ungroup the taskbar it wasn’t a great experience. I want MS to do it for real.

Heavybell , 9 months ago

I still think NFTs could be used to make a form of DRM that is actually fair to the consumer, by maki g it so you can resell your digital goods and also make it so your digital rights don’t vanish as soon as the seller gets bored. But nobody in a position to make that happen wants that.

Heavybell , 9 months ago

Not talking about that kind of thing. When I say digital goods, I mean things like games, things we currently have DRM for.

Of course, there being no reason to buy a game new if someone is selling it used, that part would never work.

Heavybell , 9 months ago

DRM could be fair to the consumer, it just isn’t in the interests of the publishers to make it so, and as a result the versions of it we have are not fair to the consumer.

Heavybell , 9 months ago

It is theoretically possible to make a system that would let people make personal copies of software, songs etc for backup purposes and do all the other things they should be able to do with something they have bought, without letting them give copies to everyone for free or otherwise go into competition with the creator without doing any work themselves. Just no such system has been made because publishers want an unfair system.

Heavybell , 9 months ago

Okay but what happens when the platform goes away, or decides to change the rules? That`s the only part I could see NFTs actually potentially answering. If the ownership verification was all done client-side via a blockchain it could potentially survive the shutdown of the store you bought it from.

Don’t get me wrong, I can see problems with this. And potentially this could also be done with simple public key cryptography.

Heavybell , 9 months ago

How is it unfair? To me fair means making sure the creator gets paid without stomping on the rights of the purchaser; in particular, the right to keep the thing after the publisher has gotten bored of selling it, and the right to sell it, though that last one is a difficult proposition with digital goods, seeing as they don’t devalue.

Heavybell , 9 months ago

This is a big part of why I’m sticking to 1440p for as long as it’s a viable option. Not like my imperfect vision with glasses on would benefit from more PPI anyway.

Heavybell , 9 months ago

github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

PowerToys has a bunch of cool features, and a bulk rename utility is one of them.

Powershell can also do it if you feel like learning more about it. I don’t know about the command example you gave, and am away from my PC so I can’t test it, but using pipes in powershell something like this might work: ls [[insert wildcard here e.g. *.txt]] | % { mv $_ [System.IO.Path]::GetFilenameWithoutExtension($_.Name) }

Just remove the double brackets and put whatever your filter was. The results of which get passed into % which each in turn into the code block as $_. So for every result of the ls command, it runs mv (move/rename).

Heavybell , 9 months ago

The CEO did sell a bunch of shares before this was announced, I hear.

Heavybell , 9 months ago

New installs not new releases. So if you put out a game a few years back and suddenly a bunch of people start installing it on their new PCs, you’d get hit with this fee… assuming it is legally enforceable.

Hell, even if it isn’t strictly legally enforceable, if you still need to deal with Unity in some way in future you could be forced into dealing with this fee in order to get Unity’s cooperation.

Heavybell , 9 months ago

My old boss loved VB.Net. I still remember a time when I helped him out by solving mysterious bug for him.

He used to have this class he copied about to do database stuff. Not the worst thing of itself, but it was oddly specific in some ways for reused code. E.g. It had a function that took an enum value and returned connection string. And of course what options were in the enum varied.

So I come in one day and two other devs are already peering over his shoulder trying to help. The program is crashing when it tries to connect to the database and they can see for some reason the connection string is a single letter. I ask to see the function that is getting the connection string and see he’s removed the parameter, but the compiler didn’t pick up on it because:

• VB.net lets you call functions that have no parameters without parentheses
• VB.net is type lax, so an enum can be treated as an integer without casting
• VB.net uses parentheses for array indexation as well as method invokation
• .Net strings can be indexed like an array of characters
• VB has no character type so VB.net treat characters as 1-length strings

So instead of passing an enum to a function, it was calling the function with no parameter, then using the enum value to index the returned string into a single character, which was then treated as a string and passed to the SqlClient constructor.

Heavybell , 9 months ago

Phantasy Star IV does not reach the same level, but you should give it a try anyway. It has some neat things for its time, if you can put yourself back there. Like comic style “cutscenes” in a 16-bit game, and hidden combination attacks.

Heavybell , 9 months ago

I know this guy.

Heavybell , 9 months ago

Nah, he’s cool.

Heavybell , 9 months ago

Boomers assuming people become conservative as a function of time as opposed to a function of “getting theirs”. I have no evidence but it seems to be you’re less likely to become conservative without having amassed some wealth to conserve…

Heavybell , 9 months ago

Yeah, and you can eat Milo raw or put it on icecream, I wouldn’t think to do that with most other hot chocolate powders. Tho I also gather from context that Drinking Chocolate is different?

Heavybell , 9 months ago

I’m very happy with my Wertheim stick vac, way more than I was with the Dyson I had before. It used to give me strong static electric shocks whenever I used it. The Wertheim actually has some metal studs on the handle supposedly to help with grounding. No idea if that is why, but it has never shocked me, not once. Plus you can actually remove the dust container if you want, you don’t have to take the whole handheld unit to the bin. Oh and the trigger is a toggle, not hold to vacuum.

It is battery powered, but it came with two batteries and a free standing stand that charges the spare when the vacuum is undocked or fully charged, so if I ever ran out of battery (never happened), I could just swap the spare in. Plus I guess if the battery degrades, I can get a replacement probably.

Heavybell , 9 months ago

Good, I hate that guy.

Heavybell , 9 months ago

Wow so he’s not only a climate denier but a misogynist piece of shit too?

Heavybell , 9 months ago

1 is truthy, but not the exact same thing as true, and the distinction can be important.

Heavybell , 9 months ago

Fake. How can you be sad with two tacos?

Heavybell , 9 months ago

The one time software as a service comes through in our favour…

Heavybell , 9 months ago

I know Germany is shutting down its reactors and without Russian gas they need to get a reliable baseload power generation from somewhere… :/

Heavybell , 9 months ago

The twitter format is a pub/sub format, it’s not really about group discussions. It’s for if you are a creator or business and want people who care about your output to be able to follow your announcements. E.g streamers who want to announce when they’re about to go live, artists who want to post their content (though personally I wish they’d do that on art gallery sites), game devs who want to give news to fans, etc etc.

Heavybell , 9 months ago

I’m not an artist but I know a lot of them and basically only use twitter to follow them. And honestly, the ball is in their court. I see a lot of them complaining about shadowbans and it being impossible to grow a following. But nobody wants to jump ship to a place without an audience.

The problem being there will be no audience sitting around a new platform waiting for a show to start. They need to start double posting, IMO. Being the change they want in the world. They don’t have to quit twitter, but posting content to twitter and mastodon (for example) would give their audience a reason to move, would give them a chance to grow, etc.

There’s even apps like PostyBirb that can do the multiposting for you.

Heavybell , 9 months ago

You don’t need to add “-like”, The Verge. This fits the definition of malware.

Heavybell , 9 months ago

The planet is fine, and will be fine after we’ve gone, much like it was fine after the other mass extinctions. What’s dying is the environment that supports human life. Less snappy, granted, but I feel like emphasising that this is our problem and not something we should do for others might be worthwhile.

Heavybell , 9 months ago

There’s a point to my pedantry here. Did you read my whole post or just the first few words?

Heavybell , 9 months ago

Petition to force anyone talking about software to use “trendy” or “fashionable” instead of “modern”.

Heavybell , 9 months ago

Does Starfield count? I know it’s not out yet but I have no plans to get it until/unless it starts getting near universal praise for quality and stability.

Heavybell , 9 months ago

I’ve been curious about this, but I am unsure what to use in place of Defender.

Heavybell , 9 months ago

There was a time when I thought like you. I had no AV until Defender became a thing, and was fine. But these days I keep hearing about more and more exploits targeting your browser, or libraries in the OS that your image viewer might be using, etc etc.

Heavybell , 9 months ago

Fuck that guy. Don’t let him influence you. Install gentoo or don’t, for your own reasons.

Heavybell , 10 months ago

This is a good analogy for the reparation argument, nice work.

Heavybell , 10 months ago

The first two lines seem like they probably came from X, the old standard UI system for *nix. The last line is just saying that your 2nd partition on your 3rd disk was checked with no errors found. This is fine.

Given that the UI then starts up you can ignore these messages. They’re there in case the system fails to start up after that point.

Heavybell , 10 months ago

Okay? These aren’t from the bootloader tho.

Heavybell , 10 months ago

Yes, that’s right.