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Cake day: December 9th, 2023

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  • We also mean dying as a place where you can meet and have interesting conversations that even when heated invite you into learning and thinking differently.

    Lack of limitless quantity of voices does little inherently to degrade the quality of conversation, though of lack of diversity certainly does.

    I have met singular people on the fediverse that I have learned more from and that contain more powerful words than entire swaths of corporate social media. It isn’t because normies suck it is that there is no oxygen in the room in those places like there is here and it leads a culture of constant self betrayal, and a feeling of ever present glare.











  • This is why so many highly intelligent people devote as much time in their lives to art as they possibly can.

    It is only through art that you can begin to subvert an architecture of stolen and foreclosed futures.

    In another world maybe Pynchon just became an unbelievably good editor for aeronautics technical journals.

    Let us not forget that the rich, even on the allies side of WW2 (insofar as the rich keep up the theater of needing to pick a side) would rather not have had even a single Alan Turing if they could not impose a conservative trauma upon him and make him deny his basic self, and so he was executed and bigotry was preserved at a terrible cost we can never know the full extent of.

    History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake.

    edit I am imagining the person who downvoted me was like “hey, I feel excluded as a homophobic computer nerd by this statement” -> downvote



  • I meant nested desktop mode.

    Download a file from a webrowser in nested desktop mode and then check in normal desktop mode where the file is. Can you access/see it? Is it in the spot that webrowser normally downloads too?

    I think it is just the thorough and thoughtful way Linux explicitly deals with folder permission structures, opening a nested desktop creates an enclosed workspace within the current context, you aren’t supposed to use it to go everywhere and do anything on the OS I think.




  • I am flying the shit out of attack and transport helis in Operation Harsh Doorstop on my steam deck which is truly a joy to fly with. The helis are fairly realistic which means flying them like a maniac is addictive as hell .

    I have also been playing a lot more pvp Beyond All Reason as I continue to get more comfortable with playing using onboard joysticks and gyro controls. The biggest problem I have is RTS players can’t wrap their head around me not using a mouse (they aren’t very imaginative I guess, I don’t understand). This means that in situations my control scheme is less efficient than a mouse, players have ZERO patience with me but in the situations where joysticks + gyro is more efficient than mouse (certain types of micro, also placing buildings accurately but quickly) people either think I am a much higher level player trolling or that I am drunk or something because my cursor movements just don’t look like a mouse is doing them.

    sigh just gotta wait longer until stuffy pc gamers who think a mouse is the only way actually shut up and listen, not holding my breath…

    https://flathub.org/apps/info.beyondallreason.bar




  • It’s interesting what a bubble lemmy users are in. There is a reason it is not taking off.

    Yeah, we don’t have millions in VC or private equity funding to dump into marketing and to smooze with the tech press enough for them to actually do their jobs as journalists and cover the fediverse with a modicum more of nuance then “Mastodon is just for nerds, even the Mastodon CEO says so! Use Bluesky, it is corporate and its marketing promises what the fediverse already has so in that sense they are equivalent and lets be honest that means you should use Bluesky.”


  • Yeah I know that is how they see it but the generational wave they have been coasting on was the fact that computer nerdy kids would learn the ins and outs of Windows software long before even entering the workplace.

    Microsoft has been taking advantage of the fact that kids like me would be so excited to learn computers that they would learn the basics of just poking around the desktop before they could read.

    Nowadays that is gone, there is no playful connection and the sea of change will butterfly-effect into the future and cause a million symptoms of an issue we all know Microsoft will never actually value or address.

    Microsoft has been functioning this entire time with a special unspoken in with nerdy kids who grow up to build important and valuable computer tools. Microsoft has steamrolled that, and on the scale of 10+ years I am not sure there will be anything Microsoft can actually do to mitigate the strategic defeat that is going to cause even if they are able to be honest and lucid about it at that late date.

    More and more computer nerdy kids are going to learn the shit out of Linux because it is where they game and it feels welcoming to them (i.e. it doesn’t feel like sneaking into a suffocatingly boring office full of identical cubicles that gives periodic blaring notifications on a gambling casino nobody your parents know can afford called the Stock Market).

    I can’t understate how much this will lead to Microsoft completely losing the plot because no one could ever suggest this as a danger in a Microsoft boardroom and be taken as seriously as they should.

    gets popcorn I for one am going to enjoy the show