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mindbleach ,

Riker ghosts a three-fingered lady and the military arrests him.

mindbleach ,

Picard explains why his post-scarcity techno-utopia can’t give medicine to bronze-age dirt farmers and gets Shinzo Abe’d.

mindbleach ,

Security chief dies of contract negotiations.

mindbleach ,

Angry drunk gifts bartender his wife. Forensic accounting leads to a duel where the prize is divorce.

mindbleach ,

Nobody listens to Worf.

Nobody listens to Worf.

Nobody listens to Worf.

Nobody listens to Worf.

Nobody listens to Worf.

Nobody listens to Worf.

Data listens to a deck of cards.

mindbleach ,

Data ignores a direct order on the advice of his poker hand.

mindbleach ,

Write drunk, edit sober.

mindbleach ,

Mad TV proposed an island of stability.

mindbleach ,

Alcohol is considered a performance-enhancing drug in darts.

For programming, it works the same way as playing music: your focus narrows. Your brain can’t do other stuff, either because it’s busy moving your neck in time with Meshuggah, or because it’s been lightly poisoned by delicious ethanol.

mindbleach ,

E ruined themselves. They push generic garbage on certain keywords, no matter how specific the rest is.

mindbleach ,

It won’t be up to them.

mindbleach ,

You can say fuck.

Really, it’d be the least vulgar part of this.

Little help here linux guys? Trying to figure out what distro to use

Yeah. It’s another one of these. But! Here me out! So I have some experience using Linux. Run some VMs for services I run in my home, I switched my surface book 3 (funnily enough) to ubuntu for my work computer as I was getting more and more frustrated by windows 11 and it turned out really good. Was able to completely get off...

mindbleach ,

Just use Mint.

I’m on Mint 20 and had an unreasonable number of monitor configurations. Initially tallscreen + square, then tallscreen + square + 32-inch HDTV, then tallscreen + widescreen + TV, then tallscreen + 42-inch HDTV (because I ran out of desk), then tallscreen + 42-inch HDTV + widescreen on the floor as a dedicated AGDQ window, and now I’m only using an enormous 4K TV.

I’ve had issues, but never “it can’t handle it” issues. My little RX 580 occasionally produced a black frame on one monitor or other - I assume because none of them ever had identical refresh rates. The larger issue was instantly forgetting my monitor configuration every time one of them was unplugged or lost power. As if losing the square monitor caused the rotated screen to fall over.

mindbleach ,

Ubuntu for those used to Macintosh

Still sour about one fucking guy deciding to flip the interface to left-handed the day before a long-term feature freeze.

mindbleach ,

Maybe also don’t split your moon-shot remake into two fucking games. You didn’t milk it - you squandered it. Learn something.

mindbleach ,

Christ, seriously? No wonder.

mindbleach ,

GNU/Nice.

mindbleach ,

Fucker would nuke Nanking.

mindbleach ,

It’s a thing.

mindbleach ,

“Those countries reflect poorly on socialism.”

“How dare you, they’re not really socialist.”

mindbleach ,

Words mean what they’re used to mean. Even the word “government” is wildly different between Europe and the US. We flip out over headlines like the government of Belgium has collapsed! and it’s only as much of a kerfuffle as the House trying to elect a Speaker.

mindbleach ,

But when the same things happen under other systems, that’s different.

mindbleach ,

… would you be happy in prison, on the basis that there’s food and housing and you can take correspondence courses?

  • and most importantly no fascists in government

Like it matters what color the Secret Police’s armbands are. But hey, your kids will be taken care of! Even if… something happens to you.

mindbleach ,

So many Greek ruins obliterated by a careless musical number.

mindbleach ,

Yeah, Toriyama’s actual black characters look way worse.

mindbleach ,

Deleted by GCP.

maegul , (edited ) to fediverse
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The fediverse won’t succeed at putting up a substitute and that’s a problem?

Just an impression: All the pieces seem to be there. But what’s required is a team, with devs, PMs and coordinators, dedicated to making a particular place in the .

That’s resources and decently sized financial and organisational demands, especially to get a critical mass of users.

Is the fediverse up to that challenge? If not, is it an issue worth addressing?

@fediverse

mindbleach ,

Additionally: adoption is a feature you can’t design. Any site that’s just people talking is either firmly established or in deep trouble. The middle ground cannot last.

I don't know anything about Linux and the idea of installing it frightens me. Where do I start?

I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but here’s the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open...

mindbleach ,

Step one is back up your data.

Step one is always back up your data.

mindbleach ,

Late 90s PC, because anything was possible. 2D? Yeah, go wild, it’ll be fast. 3D? Software rendering is the wild west! Voxels, polygons, texturing, raycasting, every game looks unique because they’re all making it up as they go. Even consoles were on PC because emulation was faster and better than owning a PSX or N64.

These were not the best games of all time. Most sucked. You can get a taste of that in PC Gamer demo discs, or like half of Civvie11’s videos. But it was an era where nothing was easy, so people reached for the fucking stars.

mindbleach ,

1980s 2D had the same “every machine sucks uniquely” vibe as 1990s 3D. If the same game on two platforms looked remotely similar then someone busted their hump getting it right. By default, you were getting a game that looked and sounded as good as this system could manage, rather than being a smoothed-over downgrade of some canonical example.

Ironically it wasn’t always a great era for pick-up-and-play-ability. Late-70s games were so limited that arcade sensibilities were nearly the only thing possible, and even text-centric computer games lacked the memory to bore you with backstory. By the late 80s they could push the early inklings of an unskippable cutscene and a tutorial level. Dunno if that’s better than ZX Spectrum games getting mercilessly sink-or-swim.

Coincidentally that arcade vibe also matches the late 90s: it’s how most Dreamcast games feel.

mindbleach ,

1900 BCE - 2023 CE: “Awww!”

2024 CE onward: visible trauma

mindbleach ,

Neither ever worked for lineart. Photos? Used to be reliable, occasionally bordered psychic, now just dumb. Drawings? Yep, that’s a drawing. Did you need anything else?

mindbleach ,

That’s just meta-misgendering and talking over women. No kidding they treat you like an asshole. That’s not a contradiction; you’re just being an asshole.

mindbleach ,

A soldier singlehandedly got multiple safe zones exposed via Facebook.

mindbleach ,

Benjamin Franklin time traveler netorare.

That’s enough internet for this morning.

mindbleach ,

Are you suggesting Ben Franklin already fucked a time traveler?

mindbleach ,

Hot glass looks like cold glass.

mindbleach ,

Geeks, muggles, and sociopaths.

mindbleach ,

The moment I knew discourse about image AI would never be sensible was when someone expanded The Birth Of Venus and people were talking shit about the composition. Like the goal was to improve on Botticelli… not to demonstrate this absurd magic that was impossible six months earlier.

mindbleach ,

Presumably just cost and yield.

mindbleach ,

ITT: That doesn’t count!!!

mindbleach ,

‘We’re only defending the imaginary ideal!’

That’s not how words work. Things mean what they are used to mean.

Y’all understand this perfectly when describing “capitalism.” That word becomes synecdoche for every level and aspect of modern reality. By definition, capitalism is only really the part where having money makes money, but nobody has any trouble understanding what you mean when you refer to its consequences and implications. Nor would you respect if libertarians split hairs about “corporatism.” Like oh, this isn’t capitalism, because it lacks X and Y and Z, which have never existed, so how dare you talk about bad things that actually happened.

mindbleach ,

Yeah sure dude, existing in a context is why people condemned police states.

‘People who don’t know the difference between these terms must be using the more-recognizable one as an oblique criticism of the gap between theory and practice’ is the most .ml take I have ever seen.

mindbleach ,

… do you understand that criticism can come from outside your own belief set?

mindbleach ,

Ignoring what other people mean is not a yes.

mindbleach ,

Making up what you’d rather hear is worse.

mindbleach ,

You have repeatedly ignored explanations of what people are doing and why, to instead engage in scoffistry at opinions sourced from the vicinity of your pelvis.

Repeated efforts to highlight how that’s what you’re doing, and get back to what people say and mean, led you to dismiss people entirely. “Perhaps what you mean isn’t worth much?” is a confession.

mindbleach ,

More boring projection. Good night.

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