IngeniousRocks (They/She)

Today I made vegetarian salisbury steaks using impossible patties, store bought broth, and fresh veggies and herbs (and some stuff I had laying around). I spent less than $15 total (costco, price per unit) on the ingredients. It took 2 hours of cooking.

Assuming a wage of $25/hr, lower than adequate but relatively high in service fields in the US (those who work enough that delivery is super tempting), my meal cost me $65 including my labor. That’s less than it’d cost for delivery of a similar meal, is higher quality than I could get for delivery, and I’ve got leftovers for tomorrow, which I wouldn’t get with delivery.

Delivery is a scam. Gig economy Based delivery doubly so.

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Whomst’s?

Even knowing the other possible orientations I still had to force quite hard to see the cube change, once it did though it shifted between forms easily without much effort.

Ughgggh. Am I gonna need to get a device I can put propriety garbage on for school?

I should be fine right? A software dev program couldn’t possible force you to use windows right?

Linux doesn’t really have issues with NTFS, you just need to install the drivers.

My entire server storage is NTFS (except the boot drive) because its migrated from a windows system, but I use linux.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NTFS

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NTFS-3G

Just pay attention and whenever you see or hear something that Makes you say “wait what?” Go look it up and educate yourself.

You don’t necessarily need to participate in the conversation, observe it, gather opinions and cross reference with trusted sources.

Of course in person you can’t just whip out your phone and look stuff up, or shit I guess you can, but you can always say “I’m not informed enough to speak on this, can I get back to you?” and in my experience people will respect that, giving you a chance to go educate yourself on whatever the topic at hand was.

Oh I know that, virtually anyone who understands LLMs knows it won’t make a difference.

In an ocean of data, you can dump in all the poison you want but as an individual you’ll never manage to poison the whole thing without viral measures

The only long S I know of the the ß used in the german language. I’m a big fan, and use it frequently in my handwritten notes.

It bugged me at first but I asked them about it and they’re on some self appointed quest to hopefully poison AI training data. Its really not that big a deal.

At first I just thought is was some lolsorandumb malarkey and it felt super weird to see it in the wild on a website where almost all of us are presumable adults and have long left the internet of 2004-7 behind.

Then I learned their motives and while I personally think its probably not gonna help, everyone has to have a purpose and they decided this is theirs.

After a few years of Living downtown in a not great city my automatic on the street response has become a short “Fuck off bud”

I’ve never been followed after saying it, Only after trying to not be a bitch.

Bud if its not feasible for you don’t do it then.

As I stated in my original comment, some people use readymade suites and pay for support, that is their perogative.

I find I do Better quality work when I build my own toolkit, and tie the tools together my way.

To borrow an example from my father in reference to working on cars:

Sure you can buy a mechanic’s toolbox that will have everything you need but those are cheap, mass produced tools desogned to fit the needs of the everyman. If you buy an empty toolbox instead you can fill it with the tools you use, then you can have higher quality tools for the things you actually do with them and not waste space on tools you don’t ever touch.

Use two tools if one doesn’t get the job done, is kind of my point here. Sure you can pay for the convenience of f360, or you can build your own toolkit. Its like 2-in-1 shampoo, if it does both things it probably isn’t the best at either of them.

Re: missing out

I’ve got friends who tell me they won’t switch to Linux because they want their anti-cheat games. I usually tell them if they took the time to learn their system they’d understand why they don’t want anto-cheat games.

In the last 20 years, I have not found a single piece of software (games excluded, i pay for art when payment is asked) that I, a regular person on the internet, have not been able to source a free open source alternative that while potentially equipped with a steep learning curve is often as good as if not Better than many corporate solutions once learned.

People can pay for pretty, super convenient UIs and proprietary solutions with support contracts if they want to, thats their perogative. I prefer to learn the software myself and if I hate the UI that much that I’d be willing to pay, its worth either just sitting down and making my own with pyside (its quick and easy, learning curve excluded) or paying a freelance dev to make one bespoke.

Corporate suicide is so fun to watch when you’re not stuck using their products.

I know fascist flesh is vegan but still, that’s nasty don’t eat that you don’t know whats in it

I once spent weeks dealing with a bizarre bug on my PC, couldn’t figure it out. When it persisted in a live environment I knew it was hardware.

I found a charred moth bridging two pins on my motherboard on an unused fan header, I think it was causing enough of a voltage drop to cause issues because I don’t see how a bridged fan header could cause issues otherwise

Re: xbox

You need drivers for it.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamepad#Xbox_Wireless_Controller_/_Xbox_One_Wireless_Controller

While the package names and how to install them will be different since you’re on mint, this section in the Arch wiki discusses your options for Xbox controllers.

Xone is the one I’ve needed instead of xpadneo to get the xbox wired headset working with them.

If you like Offset sticks, the Xbox elite series controllers are phenomenal, it will require additional drivers.

I prefer my sticks aligned, so I usually use my custom DS4 from scuf.

Sometimes I like my stadia controller, it just feels nice in the hands.

I hate the switch pro Controller, it feels… Off somehow.

For retro gaming I use an OG Xbox controller (custom USB bodge job) or my 8bitdo sn30pro+ while I like the 8bitdo, its bluetooth is Unreliable so I recommend using a cable.