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herrcaptain ,

To give the dude some credit, a while back it was kinda in-style to hate on gluten or think you’re intolerant to it, so maybe this is just a reaction to that?

herrcaptain ,

Seriously - that stuff is powdered magic. I started cooking with it a few years ago and it’s a total game-changer. The only challenge was forcing myself from adding too much. It seems to have an actual acrid taste if you add so much that it’s obvious.

herrcaptain ,

I can see it potentially working in some desserts, but as you’ve experienced it sounds like you’ve gotta approach it with a really light hand.

herrcaptain ,

I wheeze-laughed at “Ran out of keys to bind years ago, has to use pedals under desk to switch between layouts.”

Now I kinda want to do that.

herrcaptain ,

Ooooh yeah. I didn’t even consider that, but it looks like it comes from 4chan so there’s a good chance you’re right about the dog whistle.

herrcaptain ,

I’m pretty sure Emacs has a portal to Narnia somewhere in there.

herrcaptain ,

I think the thing that saves me from doing stuff like this is that as I get older I’ve begun to hate extraneous cables on and around my desk. For the longest time I’ve stuck with cabled peripherals, but I think my next buy will be wireless in that department. Now if we could make this foot pedal wireless…

Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not (arstechnica.com)

Earlier this year, Microsoft added a new key to Windows keyboards for the first time since 1994. Before the news dropped, your mind might’ve raced with the possibilities and potential usefulness of a new addition. However, the button ended up being a Copilot launcher button that doesn’t even work in an innovative way....

herrcaptain ,

This article should have been titled, “Why the fuck does my mouse need an AI chat -prompt builder?”

Seriously. I want my mouse to do one job - move around the screen and let me click on stuff.

herrcaptain ,

I’d probably do two things:

  1. Properly learn to code and spend much of that time developing open source software.
  2. Immediately move out to the woods to start a wildlife sanctuary.

That said, while I’m a huge proponent of UBI, I definitely don’t think it could ever work this way (though I get that this was just a fun thought experiment).

In actuality I see the outcome of a UBI as working class people having a little more time and energy to properly invest in themselves, either through education, self care, etc. Studies have shown that largely people continue to work (or better yet, start their own small business), albeit not necessarily at the backbreaking and emotionally-draining pace they currently do.

herrcaptain ,

Don’t let them pressure you! My wife often nags me about my cable drawer, but my tendency to hoard old tech has saved the day more than once.

We once drove halfway across Canada to a wedding, which was at a campground outside of Montreal. As they were setting up for the reception someone in the wedding party asked if I knew where they could get a particular video adapter. I was like, “Oh, I’ve got one in my bag.” I hadn’t brought that adapter across two provinces for any real reason, but it sure came in handy.

Another time we were visiting a friend about an hour away. He mentioned needing a power cable for a desktop computer. I was like, “Oh, I’ve got a whole desktop in the trunk of my car. You want the whole thing or just the power cable?”

herrcaptain ,

Good call. For what it’s worth, when I store a desktop in my car it’s typically because it’s old and I haven’t gotten around to stripping it for parts or dropping it off at the recycler.

herrcaptain ,

Yup! The only remaining Windows system I personally use is my work laptop. I feel like its lack of customizability holds back my workflow but I’ve kept Windows on it so I don’t get rusty for when I need to support my users. At this point I think I’ll just spin up a decommissioned box for Windows testing and finally throw Linux onto my work system.

You’re so right that we’re all beta-testers now. If I recall correctly, MS and Google both laid off a ton of their QA people like 10 years ago and now the customers are functionally QA. Our M365 tenant just dealt with over two straight weeks of email issues. According to the actual MS advisory, this was due to a code update pushed to production to “increase reliability.” No shit!

herrcaptain ,

Do I get bonus points for being vegan and using Arch?

herrcaptain ,

Thankfully, no. The only thing I’m evangelical about is the ISO 8601 date standard.

herrcaptain ,

Hell, we could straight-up consider it a medical anatomy exhibit.

herrcaptain ,

Okay, I guess I’ve gotta play the crow here … Is Arch really such a bad choice for a beginner these days? Obviously building it the “proper” way would be a bad idea, but there are tons of Arch-based distros with GUI-installers. I currently run Garuda on both my personal devices and the install process really couldn’t have been easier, and almost everything worked out of the box. The stuff that needed tweaking was all minor and mostly related to this being my first foray into KDE in over a decade. Let’s face it - that’s a pretty high bar even on Windows systems these days.

Granted, the rolling release aspect means inevitably you’re gonna get a borked update that you have to revert, so that’s a stumbling point for a complete newbie. It’s not like that doesn’t sometimes happen on other distros though - or even Windows. On the other hand, the AUR means little or no manually compiling stuff. Plus, the best wiki in the community (even if you don’t use Arch). And gaming (at least on AMD) is rock solid.

Hell, I have a fifteen-year-old intern at my work (through his school). He’d had almost no exposure to Linux when he started with us, so as a learning project I had him set up Arch with Hyprland from the console. The little bugger did find the install script, but even then he had to learn a bunch of stuff and still had a running system in about an afternoon.

ANYWAY, I’m not saying that Arch should necessarily be the first distro for most beginners, just that it’s not as daunting as most people make it out to be.

Setting up a computer for Grandma? Mint.

Already something of a power-user in Windows? Depending on your use case, Arch is worth consideration.

herrcaptain ,

If you wish to make an apple pie compile Linux from scratch, you must first invent the universe

-Carl Sagan

herrcaptain ,

Probably with the aid of their fainting couch.

herrcaptain ,

I feel like CK3 or Rimworld are better used for this cover.

A legitimate question one might ask in CK3 is “How do I kill the pope?”

In Rimworld you might ask, “How do I make hats out of human leather?”

Unless modding has gotten out of control, I don’t think either of those are possible in Minecraft.

herrcaptain ,

Ok, I should have guessed that mods would make things weird.

herrcaptain ,

These cicadas better be careful. That recent incident with the acorn suggests that cops will start blasting at unexpected sounds of nature.

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....

herrcaptain ,

Ah, the ol’ “Please use Edge” update screen that pops up every few months.

herrcaptain ,

That’s pretty advanced usage - hiding stuff from yourself.

herrcaptain ,

Beyond that it’s legitimately useful for logging into a second account on a site or for various testing purposes as a web developer. Though if you’re consistently using it for the former, containers are a better solution.

herrcaptain ,

Absolutely! I do that all the time.

herrcaptain ,

Unfortunately with the upcoming FO4 patch in a few days, a lot of those mods are gonna be broken for a few weeks/months. Bad timing by Bethesda on that front.

The show caused me to finally buy FO4, and so I immediately hopped onto Nexus and downloaded the highest-rated mod collection for the game. It has over 700 mods, so something tells me I won’t actually be playing much of the game for a while yet. (I wouldn’t deign to play a modern Bethesda game without mods.)

herrcaptain ,

That’s what I thought when I saw the number of mods in that pack, but after a bit of tweaking (a few mods that cause crashing in Linux) it’s been quite stable. I’m only about 10 hours in though.

herrcaptain ,

So it’s also infused with microplastics. They should add that to the marketing so people know what a great deal they’re getting.

herrcaptain ,

Does he by chance have a small, rather curious monkey with him?

herrcaptain ,

This one is sad because she was obviously mentally ill and not getting the help she needed, but it’s the best example I have of the city I grew up in.

We had “Toonie Lady.” She would roam around downtown begging for a Toonie and would get very upset if you gave her anything else, even if it was more.

For the non-Canadians, a Toonie is a $2 coin.

herrcaptain ,

Curious George’s “friend” is a dude who wears exclusively all yellow.

herrcaptain ,

I dunno, I think they’re kinda … neat, I guess? Like, yeah, they’re technically pretty ugly, but somehow in a way that makes them interesting.

herrcaptain ,

I actually just tried looking that up, to see if such a word actually exists in English. I found a stack exchange thread asking this same question but no one had a suitable answer. So, yeah, I guess it’s up to you to contribute to society by inventing and popularizing this new word. Enjoy your new destiny.

herrcaptain ,

Sounds about right for these folks. Anytime you see an email like this it’s always FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: the Illuminati KILLED MY DOG with COVID masks!

herrcaptain ,

I’m thrilled because I’m always happy for new RimWorld patches and DLC. Also, the theme of this DLC is exactly what I’m into. On the other hand, I’m annoyed because I was feeling like playing it again soon and now I have to wait for the 180ish mods I use to update, which will likely take at least a few weeks. Such is life on the rim.

herrcaptain ,

If so, I wonder if that timeline lines up with when I was trying SearX. For the first few days I was blown away by the results, and then suddenly they became absolute garbage. I ended up switching back to DDG.

herrcaptain ,

“The system is currently working just fine, but we know that with each increasing year, risk of data degradation on the floppy disks increases and that at some point there will be a catastrophic failure,” Tumlin told ABC7.

Have they literally been using the same set of disks for decades? Surely they can just … make fresh copies on new disks? As far as I know, they’re still being made for specialized industries just like this.

Certainly, they should upgrade their system - this just doesn’t feel like the most important reason to do so.

herrcaptain ,

Yeah, I’m guessing there must be some archaic code in their system (probably undocumented and which no one understands) keeping them from taking that step. I’ve worked in the embroidery industry for quite a while and our machines used 3.5 inch floppies for years. We finally upgraded to a drop-in USB replacement like 5 years ago.

herrcaptain ,

I’m down with the sentiment of the comment, but I legit find I get way more arm/wrist pain from gaming than from spreadsheets. I think there’s much more prolonged button-pressing involved in the former. Some games are worse than others.

Right now my elbow is killing me from too much Project Zomboid over the last few weeks. A day of spreadsheets and QuickBooks today was almost a break from it (not that I didn’t go right back to PZ after work).

herrcaptain ,

Thanks for the tip (genuinely). Unfortunately in this case I actually don’t have arm wrests at all - I literally removed them from my chair years ago. There’s just something about this game in particular that really messes up my left elbow. No other game does that (normally it’d be just my wrists, if anything).

herrcaptain ,

I’m with you, but it’s not even about having to sell their yachts. These leeches have so much goddamn money that they could lose most of it with no materiel impact to their lifestyle. They just horde it out of a combination of addiction and lust for power.

On an open, straight road, a giant tortoise can actually hit quite reasonable speed. (lemmy.world)

(Not my image, so I didn’t actually measure this buddy’s speed, sorry. I don’t know where this was actually taken or what tortoise species this is. This may LOOK like a left hand drive country, but do the tortoises know the traffic laws? …that’s another matter, you know.)

herrcaptain ,

Not sure if a joke or not? I opened the post expecting a gif of a tortoise running down the road but was met with a static image.

If so … nicely played.

X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs (mashable.com)

On Monday, it appears X attempted to encourage users to cease referring to it as Twitter and instead adopt the name X. Some https://twitter.com/t3dotgg/status/1777425000133468582 began https://twitter.com/___frye/status/1777432913497465082 that posts https://twitter.com/__justplaying/status/1777433986500853845 via X for iOS were...

herrcaptain ,

People on X with Nvidia cards are gonna have a bad time.

herrcaptain ,

Florida

herrcaptain ,

Upvoted due to being weird and neat, but I’m not sure I trust the data source of two “cleanroom consultants.” They’re obviously in the pocket of Big Skin.

herrcaptain ,

Most people use the service to access streaming content legitimately.

Yeah, citation needed on that one. I know they’re pushing their own streaming to try to pivot toward “legitimacy”, but I think we all know why the platform is so popular.

herrcaptain ,

Oh, for sure. I get that they need to play the optics game and I (for the most part) am happy with Plex in its current state. I definitely agree they have to walk a fine line.

However, I think it’s inevitable that they’ll eventually go the way of every for-profit tech company and continue to water down their platform. I’d love to move to jellyfin but my previous run with it was much less smooth on the user side than Plex is. Hopefully in time it’ll be just as bug-free, but even then I’m not looking forward to onboarding all my users.

herrcaptain ,

Good to know. Regardless, as much as I expect it to be inevitable I’m gonna put it off until I really feel the need.

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