addie

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[–] addie@feddit.uk 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You are not joking. Comparing a $2000 Purism Liberty with eg. a $200 HMD Fusion. The Fusion has somewhat better screen and battery; much better processor and camera. More RAM, the option of more storage, has NFC. It's also designed to be easy-to-maintain, but is somewhat thinner and lighter despite having a larger screen area. Are 'made in USA' and 'open-source drivers' worth paying 10x as much for a noticeably worse phone? (It's not really 'made in USA' either - it's a mix of US, Chinese and Indian parts assembled in the USA.)

I think that the people who believe a US-made iPhone will also cost $2k are kidding themselves - economy of scale and all that, but it must be substantially more.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

Think there should be an 'accessibility' option in the settings menu? I remember it being pretty decent - god mode, slow down, item highlighting, and the 'half damage' option were in there.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago

It used to really annoy Bill Watterson that he'd have to draw his Sunday Calvin & Hobbes strips so that they could be 'rearranged' for newspapers that didn't want to give it as much space; the top third might be removed entirely, and then the remaining two rows of three might be cut-and-paste into three rows of two. He hated taking to waste the top line on a throw-away gag, and couldn't lay out the whole thing as he'd like. His post-sabbatical strips where he'd arranged a different deal were so much more interesting.

Jim Davis, on the other hand? Garfield comics are made for this.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Loved it, but absolutely hit a wall with it until they released the "take half damage" difficulty patch. Then I found it fun again. I love a challenging video game, but the "slightly loose dodging controls" and the requirement for basically perfect execution to defeat the bosses didn't sit well with me. The Garden Knight was bad enough, the ones that come after it were just silly.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I really like the book - I think it's one of his best. Subtle 'unreliable narrator' mind-fuck from beginning to end, nicely written and characterised. The film of it is an abomination, though.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 71 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Nothing to me says 'sexy' quite like your grandad and your great-grandad being the same guy, or your (great * 5)-grandmother / grandfather being one man and woman, when most people have that responsibility spread between 64 people.

Close family. Must have made Christmas easy - having the in-laws round isn't so bad when they're your own blood relatives too.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Have been through Bosnia. The food is superb, the beer is cold and the people are friendly. Croatia got the best of the scenery in the break-up, though.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

Cats develop bigger cheeks under the influence of testosterone. So I'm assuming that lad struggles to walk normally due to the enormous pom-poms he's got hanging off the back, because his face is ROUND.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 11 points 1 month ago

Which is ironic, because Fallout 4 is the game that caused me to no longer be hyped for anything else that Bethesda had coming. Fallout 76 and Starfield didn't disappoint, because I was expecting them to be shit from a company that had lost its way, and they delivered spectacularly.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 11 points 2 months ago

Three months of using Arch and you've not included your 'btw' when claiming to use it? Most suspicious.

But yeah, agree completely. I made a new-years resolution about five years ago to try 'Linux only gaming for a month' rather than dual booting; worked so well that I wiped Windows a few months later and have never missed it for a minute. That was for Mint, which is great but hard to keep cutting-edge. Decided to try Arch instead, and after a couple of false starts (hadn't read the install guide carefully enough to have networking after restart, that kind of thing) it's been absolutely superb - rock solid, got everything I want at the very latest versions for work and games, best documentation of any distro.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not such a massively high bridge as the description makes out, and the valley looks a lot calmer a little downstream. Prepare a thin rope, long enough to span the gap. Cross over downstream, either in a little boat or on foot when it's dry, with one end of the rope. Walk back up the valley with your end, and your mate carrying the other. Tie the thin rope to a strong rope, pull that over. Tie the strong rope to the bridge, pull that over. Fasten both sides. Done.

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