wizardbeard

joined 2 years ago
[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

Recently experienced this with my wife. We both described ourselves as internally organizing information "like bullet points".

She means memorization of countless individual facts all stored/categorized at the same level.

I tend to use bullet point lists to organize things hierarchically. Least indented is the high level takeaway, indented ones below are extended info for the less indented point above. That's how I tend to organize knowledge. I've learned that apparently this is not as ubiquitous as I believed.

It illuminates some deep seated causes behind a some of the friction in our relationship, but unfortunately it doesn't do much to help me see any way around them unfortunately.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The people you hurt by doing stuff like this is almost never the rich people at the top. It's the former co-workers and others at the low end of these hierarchies. The ones who always end up having to clean up the messes.

This isn't some grand stand against injustice, it's being a dick.

Plus, there are countless better ways to do something like this which are still impactful and less likely to be caught, but I'll leave that as an excercise to the reader.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 months ago

https://rentry.co/MR-EverythingWindowsExplained#installing-windows has further info, but tl;dr- install without a key, then use MASgrave after it's installed.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Samsung A52 5G. Has a headphone jack and microSD card slot, both of which I use. Good storage amount and power. Can emulate Gamecube games decently when I get the itch. Overall I've been happy with it for years.

Not a fan of the optical under screen fingerprint reader, and I've only been able to have it recognize my finger probably 30 times in the multiple years I've had it. Lights up the whole room at night when it tries and fails.

WiFi seems a little spotty as well. Have definitely had times where I know I have a strong signal without interference or congestion and it just loaded and loaded and loaded something that came up in less than a second on a laptop in the same conditions.

The glue holding the back on has failed. Dropped it years ago, the back cracked, and through dust ingress and heating and cooling over time, I now have to tape the back on. I dropped it more recently and cracked the screen glass.


So I'm in the market for a new phone. Nothing reasonable has MicroSD anymore, so I guess I'll just need to get something with more storage than my current combined total. Really don't want to budge on the headphone jack, but I think I might be forced to concede there as well. Usually I buy a new phone outright, but it's not in the budget right now. Looking like I'll have to use my carrier's upgrade process. Google Pixel 8 or 9 is looking decent. Would probably install GrapheneOS. Thoughts?

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 months ago

Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death is where that quote is from. It's not a fiction book, more an analysis of how the entertainment industry has changed public discourse in 1985, but I still found it an interesting (and concerning) read.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago

It may make you happy to know that ED has solo mode. Player fleet carriers are still around (as they act as psuedo stations out past the edge of developed space) and the markets are still effected by player actions, but you don't have to worry about Cmdr Immersion Breaker screaming by in his hot pink jankmobile, or ganking you with it.

It's also worth noting that compared to the size of the universe in ED, the amount of "crafted" environments is relatively small (but definitely there). The universe is so big that depending on where you are in it, you can also go long periods without encountering other players. It's a simulation before any sort of RPG.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Why would you not go with Teams? I assume you all are using Microsoft Office if you were using Skype. Pretty sure Teams is included in the Office 365 license.

It's literally Microsoft's successor to Skype.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This looks like a "joke" gift. Why would any company have this printed on metal and then poorly embossed?

This is repugnant, but it reminds me so much of the joke signs about unattended children being sold that I have a hard time believing it is serious. Again, just vile, but it being embossed metal makes it a little too "wacky" to me.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago

Matches the lowest historical price. Both for the game and with the DLC pacakaged in.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Please no. The last thing PC gaming needs is the further normalization of mobile style microtransactions.

Is anyone really asking for this? I can't think of a single high profile mobile game that isn't already available on PC natively.

And this is going to absolutely ruin any semblance of balance in the multiplayer games balanced around mobile players when people can far more easily use a PC to make macros and such. It's already possible, but the hoops to jump through make it less likely.

Everything about this just seems intensely unpleasant.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yep, there's a few. Most are general time speed adjusters that allow very fine grained tuning, where you can pause time or change the speed per map.

I use Time Master, as it also allows you to just pause on demand with the pause/break key.

I've got mine set to half speed everywhere except in the farm house, but I'll probably tweak it some more. I'm playing with over 1000 mods because I'm insane, and I'm still tweaking my settings.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago (5 children)
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