ProdigalFrog

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[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 10 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I'm quite fond of the term Quisling.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Reposting a comment I made on a similar post about the 180 mental gymnastics MAGA are displaying.

What you're witnessing here is described in When Prophecy Fails, a study on cults and how they justify continued belief after experiencing events that should disprove their belief.

Cult members will simply invent new reasons to continue their belief and remove the cognitive dissonance they may feel, which oddly results in a further entrenched belief, instead of a weakened one.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago

Clicking the sun icon at the top right of a piefed page to enable dark mode is pretty darkly-ish. There's more themes available for people with an account as well, accessible via the user settings page.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

AFAIK he's never spoken of the IWW before.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

I did build the big ship, but I don't think I used the planters effectively. I just remember needing to frequently recharge it and repair it.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I also wasn't a fan, mainly due to how often you need to resupply to stay alive. You get a very small window of opportunity to do actual exploration before you need to go find more food and water, on top of gathering a bunch of other materials.

I liked parts of it, but ultimately just got frustrated with the tedious parts and bailed.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

One of the reporters for More Perfect Union, a leftist pro-union organizatiom is from west Virginia and wears a mullet.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

True, for anyone who has a more modern AMD laptop, it would fare well with Parsec.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago

I will admit I became a bit giddy at the prospect of using a beefy Linux rig like it's 1971, as our Lord and Saviors Dennis Richie & Ken Thompson intended. 😌

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The only reason any of this is easily possible by laymen is thanks to Systemd.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You still can, as far as I know! It's just that I don't think X would have the throughput for games. I recently learned about that functionality in a Cathode Ray Dude video, where he shows how it even got ported to Windows 3.11!

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Well I'll be damned! AMD does seem to have up their encoder game with the Navi series onward.

They were rightfully called out as having pretty bad encoders before that though, which I personally experienced on an RX 480 I used to have in my system. It made parsec a bit blurry and added quite a bit of latency.

Also, I would stand by the recommendation to avoid older office PC's with AMD graphics, since none of them are going to have Navi graphics.

 

From a commenter under the video:

Summarized the measurements, with rough timestamps:

Stock blades (6:43): 1 m/s, 64.3 W,

simple airfoil (7:55): 0.8 m/s, 66 W

modern airfoil (9:12): 1.2 m/s, 64.5 W

stock motor no blades (13:49): 53.8 W

BLDC motor no blades (16:24): 8 W

BLDC stock blades (18:27): 1.8 m/s, 59 W

BLDC stock blades at reduced speed (19:35): 1.0 m/s, 27.3 W

 

Yes, this is the same WordStar that George R.R. Martin uses to write Game of Thrones!

 

The creator also did a video showcasing it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1h9qwBylAg

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