NuXCOM_90Percent

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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 points 41 minutes ago* (last edited 38 minutes ago)

Why would that be so ludicrous? It is meat and cheese with a lubricating sauce on bread.

That said, I would actually argue the distinction there isn't the form factor but the cooking method. For pizza/"pizza", you start with raw dough and add toppings to it and then cook. Rather than adding toppings to a cooked dough (i.e. bread). Although I want to say there is a style of pizza that actually cooks the dough first for some reason? I am inclined to blame Chicago just because they are usually the food criminals. Also I've never actually made one but I assume at least some of the chain store sausage rolls (?) the Brits like are also starting from toppings in raw dough but... let's just say Chicago learned their food atrocities from somebody...

But, regardless: The point is that all of these are mostly just regional/cultural equivalents of the same meals. Tacos and sandwiches mostly fulfill the same role of being a way to eat leftovers without getting your hands too messy and were popular with "lower class" workers. Soups, chilis, and curries are mostly a way to get a bunch of ingredients into an easy to cook (and leave in the pot) format that can also be stretched pretty far with stuff like rice and bread. And so forth.

And, again, once you actually start cooking you realize this and realize how easy it is to translate skills from one cuisine to another. Flavor profiles are very different but you rapidly realize you are doing mostly the same motions when you are making a Japanese or Indian curry or a British stew and so forth. And... you can then consider different cooking vessels and the like and how that might actually work better than the traditional style (just make sure you call it "fusion" so people don't get pissy).

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Part of the "problem" is that the current gen launched basically at the height of COVID. People were distracted when it came out and studios took a huge productivity hit at a time when they would be pushing to get those games out.

But it is coming up on 5 years and console generations tend to be 6-8 years if memory serves. Considering how much work goes into prepping the hardware, it makes sense to see "leaks" now for what will likely hit shelves in the fall of 2027 or 2028.

But I think the bigger issue is that we kind of all know these are "just" computers and most games are multiplatform. Combine that with backwards compatibility and there really aren't that many distinguishing games of a generation. Which is why it is a common refrain that this is probably the last "console generation" with the future being closer to PCs where you just have new hardware every few years and upgrade when a game you want needs it or you get bored.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 24 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Everyone insists it is brain damage or illness or whatever.

He is a con artist, plain and simple. He saw an opening to run on a populist platform and did. And then he very rapidly pivoted towards the party that will always vote for him no matter what he does.

The sad truth is that there are a LOT of very blatant con artists in the "leftist" sphere. Mostly we just don't talk about them because the hope is they are still doing more to "raise awareness" while they get rich or because... we just can't be bothered to deal with the massive waves of hatred that come the moment you point out the kind of stuff they say or just how massively rich they have become and so forth.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

Even then. My general experience is that all of those "please don't share this outside of our private tracker" style stuff is the same crap as everywhere else: They just want to feel special or encourage people to pay for ultra premium and so forth.

As for the actual truly sensitive stuff: If you are posting that to a "community" you are already the equivalent of a War Thunder player. And, quite frankly, there is zero reason that stuff like that should only be shared with a select few randos. Either it is evil shit (at which point I hope they DO get caught) or it is something that should be given to responsible journalists to share to the world at large.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

And said multibillion dollar company doesn't give a shit. It is just the local store that has to deal with shrinkage. Which mostly just equates to profit numbers, likelihood to get their share of hot items, and so forth. Which, medium term, leads to even more shit going behind the locked doors and said store shutting down because nobody wants to find a sales associate so that they can buy toothpaste.

Like almost all things, the "I am morally righteous because I target this" just ignores that you are still fucking with individuals. Which is one of the biggest "strengths" of capitalism: The people taking the abuse aren't the oligarchs. It is your neighbors. And they are also the face of inconvenience when they actually try to advocate for their own rights.

So... how about you drop the "Doing X to A is righteous but doing it to B is bad" and consider growing up a bit and understanding that you are fucking people over either way. And decide how you feel about that. And, to be clear, nobody cares: You do you. Just understand what you are doing rather than focusing your energy on mental gymnastics because you can't stand to think you might do a bad/"bad".

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 hours ago (5 children)

Just like chili is a stew (which is a very thick soup) and hot dogs (and tacos) are open faced sandwiches and so forth.

Pretty much all of these memes fall apart if you at all know how to cook. Which is probably why they are so lasting.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 12 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

The thing to understand is that people are deeply and willfully ignorant. The vast majority of people today have no idea that "grab them by the pussy" was even a thing.

And you can see that in so many discussions online. How often does someone actually answer a question or explain what that something happened and get told to "touch grass"? And while that is a global phenomenon, it is also something that very much came out of right wing politics. Think about how many "kid sitcoms" basically depict the nerd or teacher as a loser because they know facts but the protagonist knows Street Smarts. And how many end up negating even that because the protagonist knows one factoid and the "smart person" breaks down because they were wrong once?

The "problem" is that "the epstein files" have been the rallying cry of the alt-right for well over a decade. So they actually WERE aware of this even if they were completely in the dark on trump's long history of being associated with epstein.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 37 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

It is a mixture of two things:

  1. The vast majority of republican politicians aren't idiots (rank and file republicans on the other hand...). They know that trump only benefits trump. They remember the last few elections. And they know trump stabs EVERYONE in the back eventually. So when he calls for a favor or tries to appoint them to something they don't return his calls or make up excuses. So it is really just the dumbest of the dumb and the evilest of the evil in his rolodex who he can call on (see: HH Helmseley of the WWE...)
  2. He knows the epstein shit isn't going to go away so now he is normalizing sexual assault among his base.
[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip -1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh snap! Some of those people getting sent to fucking die in the desert might have a legal claim to getting released?!?!?! you know, assuming the trump admin ever even bothers to look for their body.

That could be the difference between someone getting checked into a fucking concentration camp vs walking free.

Look... I love a "Germans love their paperwork" joke as much as anybody. NOBODY was ever turned away from a concentration camp after they were put on the train because it wasn't clear if their name was Goldstein or Holdstein. Just like the republicans won't care if it is Joe Gonzalez from Hollywood California or Joe Gonzales from Hollywood Florida.

Fuck yeah. The Oath of Enlistment (and similar oaths like commissioned officer, federal employee, etc) literally compels those who took it to engage Trump the way they do any other enemy of the US / threat to the constitution. But have they? No.

Then they are fucking complicit. But hey, at the Seattle Trials I am sure a bunch of them will be glad to say "I was just following orders".

But are there smaller steps of resistance that can be taken by that group?

And "Tee hee hee. mess up the paperwork but not too much" ain't fucking it. And pretending it is is just refusing to acknowledge the reality of what is going on AND giving the "just following orders" jackasses any cover at all.

If it seems small and insignificant, do it anyway. It’s better than nothing, and that shit adds up.

No. Messing up the paperwork of people being sent to an oubliette to die does not "add up". If anything, it contributes to the actual goal.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 0 points 18 hours ago

There is a BIG difference between dud artillery shells and not crossing your t's on paperwork that the nazis don't even fucking care about because they are imprisoning and killing people.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 11 points 20 hours ago

Opinions are like assholes. Some people's are covered in shit because they are too stupid to clean up after themselves.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

No, it fucking isn't.

"Ha ha ha, they are gonna feel so awkward when they go to check the logs of all the brown people they gassed and think they executed ten people from North Carolina when it was REALLY South Carolina"

 

So I used to really like the 8bitdo controllers but firmware updates and reconfiguring on Linux is... not a thing. Theoretically a windows VM can do the former and I can use my android phone and tablet for the latter but... no. Combine that with finally getting around to playing Crosscode (beautiful game that goes on for way too long and has the jankiest engine ever used in a video game) and I ended up back on just an xbox series controller.

Then I found out that apparently Valve are finally adding support to Steam Input for 3rd parties so that I can theoretically map those back paddles and the like without grabbing my phone and shuffling dongles. And I also remembered that I have all those extra features on my Steam Deck that I never use because my brain isn't smart enough to remember two full control schemes per game.

And doing research on the 8bitdos and gamesirs and the like... at BEST you get a brief mention of "this has steam deck support but let's look at my phone games instead". Knowing how clicky a face button is is nice but I would also REALLY like to know polling rates under bluetooth, what modes expose the gyro, etc.

So is anyone aware of any websites/blogs or youtubers who tend to go into even a shallow dive on gamepads and Linux? Configuration software/firmware updating, what features are exposed on what connection type, etc. Would obviously prefer someone who understands what Linux is, but even just a heavy focus on the Steam Deck would probably provide enough data (for me, at least).

 

So with newer wayland+wine/proton improving HDR support, I figured... I would actually try. And, rather than needing to debug everything all in one go, I'd rather take a few incremental steps.

So is anyone aware of games with native linux clients/binaries that support HDR? Preferably with a menu setting so I can determine if the capability is detected rather than "I guess that light looks bright?"

 

So Amazon finally closed up the kindle 4 pc loophole (bah) and that means I need to learn how to find ebooks for the authors who insist on releasing exclusively on kindle.

Looks like ebook-hunter and the like are the way to go for that (and I set up a reminder to try to get an invite to myanonamouse and we'll see how that goes). But... that site uses tiny-files which is straight up cancer. Not the end of the world to click the same link and close the same blocked pop ups five times in a row for a one off but... yeah.

Back in the day we used apps like jdownloader to make this less painful but from checking out the flatpak... that might be actively malware at this point AND it wants me to install definitely malware browser plugins and the like.

So is there a better alternative? Preferably something I can run in a container on a random server.

Thanks.

 

I've used proton for a year or two now and it is fine. Great for use on my phone when I want to use public/airport wifi and it sort of kind of works with gluetun (the rotating port is annoying but it still is a forwarded port).

But I've increasingly been annoyed with Proton as a company and am looking to migrate my email/domain to fastmail in the very near future. I COULD continue to just pay for the vpn (60 USD a year is pretty reasonable) but also feel like this is a good opportunity to "shop around"

Checked the wiki and other FAQs (which all basically crib from said wiki) and they all basically boil down to proton or mullivad... except that mullivad apparently stopped allowing port forwarding which is a bit of an issue for any torrents and the like.

So are there any other good options?

Thanks

 

No worries tesla owners of lemmy: your president is addressing your biggest concern

 

This is a grey area for piracy since you need to own the ebook but... you also don't really "own" anything purchased in digital distribution and this is removing DRM from that. Suffice to say, if this were Nintendo they would try to sue you so it is probably more piracy than not.

Confirmed working as of a few minutes ago since I wanted to rebuild this with KVM.

Based on https://www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/comments/1c2ryfz/ and comments thereof.

  1. Create a new virtual machine. I recently used KVM directly but also had success with Virtual Box.
  2. Install Windows 10
  3. Disable internet access for the VM.
  4. Download and install Kindle 2.4.70904 (SHA256 2e2e4e5bb9fd585947244a4a62ce5baca47818c439d0213cc9a5a96f9a692119) from https://kindleforpc.s3.amazonaws.com/70904/KindleForPC-installer-2.4.70904.exe
  5. Run the Kindle app and disable updating (Tools > Options > General > disable "Automatically install updates..."). Optionally change the save path.
  6. Run the batch script disable_k4pc_download.bat (SHA256 656fbabfa9d1bb3fd1160100391fbf3886597633178e37cffcffe747d3b66567
    ) under step 2a at https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=361503 to ACTUALLY disable automatic upgrading
  7. Re-enable networking.
  8. Download and install Calibre. 7.13.0 from https://download.calibre-ebook.com/7.13.0/. This version is known working and all efforts I found used Windows so I went with the msi (SHA256 7c1b57b6f55076cc646a30eb6394ec00df18be373c3badf80d7ee39152ccffda
    ) since this install exists solely to strip DRM before I then add them to my Calibre-Web server.
  9. Launch Calibre and install the KFX Input plugin from the built in plugin manager
  10. Separately download the 10.0.9 version of the DeDRM plugin (newer may work but, again, lazy) from https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/releases/download/v10.0.9/DeDRM_tools_10.0.9.zip. SHA256 of d46e7ff94a46dc871eb9b7e639e6da1883823cd5a9d705d53f51bd9c251aabda
  11. Launch Kindle, login, and download whatever you want to strip DRM from. I did run into some weirdness where I had an exclamation point after logging in but restarting the k4pc app allowed me to download books.
  12. In Calibre, add all the books you downloaded by clicking and dragging the .azw file from Explorer to the Calibre window. You must do this from the downloaded directory as DeDRM is dependent on metadata in the same directory. This can be automated using a batch script pretty trivially.
  13. Then convert them to a non azw3 format (mobi if you are putting it back on a Kindle. epub otherwise).
  14. And then all the epub files in your Calibre library should have had DRM removed and be ready to import into your real Calibre library (or in a random folder on your computer)

Update (so someone tell that dipshit who steals guides to upload his copy):

Looks like Amazon have blocked sufficiently old versions of k4pc from downloading ebooks now. Unclear exactly what the criteria are. Some people think it is any book published after Apr 22 2025. Others (self included) have noticed it applies to purchases after that. My suspicion is that different publishers have different deals with Amazon and their cutoffs are based on that.

So either way: The above is mostly useless now. Yay.

 

So I picked up a facebook quest 3 to get back into PCVR and to have some standalone fun too (also to force Valve's hand to release Deckard sooner than later because that is how things work).

Wouldn't mind getting an actually comfortable headstrap and maybe checking out what games are worth looking at. But it is REALLY hard to figure out which outlets are worth listening to and which are just playing the SEO and "sponsored but not really" bullshit game.

So... any suggestions? Thanks.

 

Bit of a weird question but how do you store and organize your models/STL files?

I do most of my CAD in OnShape these days so I have The Cloud for all the convenience and future horror of that. And... when I grab stuff from one of the sites like thingiverse... I SHOULD save the model but I don't and it has only bothered me once when I lost my webcam cover. And I probably spent more time searching for a replacement than it took to just make my own.

But I want to get more into kickstarters (... I feel dirty) and buying cool models and those I DO want to archive and save.

Most likely I'll just make a folder structure and sync it to my NAS with syncthing. But are there any better/more elaborate solutions? One of those "have server, will spin up container" things but figured I would ask first.

Thanks.

 

I've been using News for Nextcloud for the past year or so and love it. But it recently broke (refuses to pull any feeds) and reading the github issues... that app ain't gonna last much longer.

Briefly looked at the awesome selfhosting page and going to do a read through of those when my brain is a bit more sane. But any suggestions? My main requirement is that I need to have multiple android devices able to connect and sync even while off network (I can handle the anxiety that comes from tunnels).

 

Anyone know of any good sites for (good) STLs of the popular tabletop/wargaming miniatures?

And, more importantly, anyone have any good experiences with them? My gut would be that the vast majority are pointless in FDM and require the granularity of resin. But I have also seen some wild prints that take advantage of ridiculously thin layer sizes to have insane detail. And, if it isn't a complete fool's errand, this would be a fun set of projects to fine tune both my printing ability and my painting skills.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
 

So for the past couple of years (... coming on a decade?) I've liked the 8bitdo controllers a lot. Build consistency is a bit of a shitshow but you can tell almost instantly if you have one of the bad ones (and it is usually a matter of just loosening one screw unless the PCB itself is cracked). And the Ultimate Pro Whatever The Hell With Charging Dock is really nice and I love that I never have to worry about my controller needing new batteries when I am on my PC. In theory I can just plug it in but that gets into a mess with games that auto-detect what is connected and so forth. The charging dock that doubles as a receiver is delightful.

But when I switched to linux for fulltime gaming a while back... things got messier. 8bitdo has no linux support whatsoever. Mostly that is "fine" because the controller is a controller and I can use a phone app when I want to change what the rear buttons do. But I can't update firmwares. Which, again, is "fine" except I finally wanted to get back into Crosscode and have learned that shitshow of an html5 engine ONLY supports xinput on PC and apparently the functionality to tell the 8bitdo to present as an xinput might only be in a beta firmware? So all the joys of debugging but with very non-technical resources on google.

Not the end of the world (was mostly planning to moonlight to my xbox anyway) but kind of the straw that broke the camel's back as it were. Because Crosscode is a mess of a game technically that even the devs acknowledge was a mistake (AMAZING experience though) but what happens the next time I run up into a corner case? Not ready to throw this in the bin and rage purchase a new gamepad but very much ready to start browsing what my options are. Especially as (some) third parties are actually pretty good these days.

So what gamepads do you folk use?

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