I plan to switch soon from Manjaro to Endeavour, and hadn’t yet decided whether I wanted to stick with Xfce. Well, with this endorsement plus reports of good overall performance I think I’ll give Plasma a shot 🙂
I think this is outdated advice. Most folks seem to say the memory usage is similar, CPU/GPU usage is a bit higher in Plasma if you leave effects turned on, and disk usage is higher in Plasma.
I primarily care about RAM and my experience with KDE on the Steam Deck is pretty good so it seems like a solid choice.
Detectives are investigating after a skydiver was found dead in the front yard of a residence near an airpark in Florida, authorities said Saturday....
I can’t believe I’ve never seen this as a headline before. Has it mostly been suppressed in the past? The article itself acknowledged that EMTs have certainly seen skydiver deaths.
I’d outlaw sauce bottles which make getting it all out harder, especially the ones which don’t have the opening at the bottom and make it impossible to put the bottle with the opening facing downwards.
Car locks that trigger the horn and lights. Whatever asshole engineer decided that was a good idea (instead of just making the key fob blink or something) clearly has never had neighbors.
I used to have a friend who was hooked on Diet Dr. Thunder (walmart brand I think). I asked why not Dr. Pepper and he said “it doesn’t have the same artificial metallic zing!” lol
I guess I should finally finish the first one, huh? Good game, but I guess I got bogged down 3/4 through it trying to figure out the story and some of the harder secrets. Probably should have just pushed through because I enjoyed the main puzzles way more.
Cool, I didn’t know ACLs were a widely available thing but the infographic explains pretty well! Sounds really useful when granular controls are needed, but I could also imagine it being a huge pain in environments already built out and scripted around regular permissions. Still as always, options are good and an ounce of planning is worth a pound of troubleshooting.
I do low-key hate seeing a directory named “dir” and a group named “me” though. That’s chaotic neutral shit at the very least.
They often have to make fake food for photo and video shoots. Real food melts under the hot lights, or doesn’t retain its shape and color and consistency for the hours needed.
For Weird Al’s music video I Love Rocky Road, they used mashed potatoes covered in latex paint instead of ice cream! At one point Al had to take a big bite. He said it was quite nasty and of course spit it right back out haha
Some of this is dumb (not all, just some). We should be going after the FDA for their contrived distinction on “natural/artificial” and shoddy labeling requirements. The companies are always going to do whatever nets the most profit within the rules, which often means using the cheapest or most minimal ingredients.
Let’s take candy as an example. I mean, I don’t expect lemon Starbursts to contain actual lemon. I think everyone is mostly fine with that being ‘artificial’ flavor.
But what is artificial, exactly? Chemists don’t really make that distinction; just like the FDA, if a molecule is extracted from a living thing it’s called a “natural product”. But that doesn’t actually tell you anything about the molecule itself or mean it’s different than it would be if synthesized from components chemicals in any way whatsoever.
Pineapple and pear flavors are just one simple ester each, I’ve easily made them in a lab. Any lack of “real” taste is probably just a matter of sugar or acidity balance or missing texture. If a commercial product is made well, you’ll never know the difference because it’s the exact same compound whether it comes from a farm or an industrial vat. That one ester molecule is literally indistinguishable from either source (assuming it’s been isolated / ‘purified’ sufficiently).
But strawberry and apple are much more complex fruits, with dozens or maybe hundreds of esters and other flavor compounds. Fake strawberry and apple might never be convincing. You can easily tell if those tastes are ‘artificial’ when they lack the nuance of having the right mix of many flavor chemicals.
Now, that claim about the 100% tuna sandwich… that’s totally misleading and a good basis for a lawsuit IMO. Nobody is synthesizing a convincing fish protein at scale.
EDIT: Lots of clarifications. EDIT2: Can folks please explain when they downvote? I’m on topic and discussing nuances of the issue here.
Yeah LEDs certainly produce less heat but that’s not going to keep guacamole from oxidizing or a soufflé from losing its puffy structure after a while on a set. Often it’s just more economical to make a fake than to keep a kitchen stocked nearby and a chef on staff the entire time.
Customers should still totally complain if the real items they purchase don’t look close enough to the fake ideal they were advertised though.
Here’s the one advertised as Pineapple Passionfruit where the ingredients don’t list actual passionfruit. It has “natural flavors”. Maybe that includes extract from passionfruit, maybe it’s entirely from other fruits, but they’re not required to say.
The FDA makes a distinction between “natural” and “artificial” flavor based on source, but my point is that distinction itself is sometimes completely pointless and misleading. For some flavors there is truly zero difference. I suspect that’s the case for passionfruit, so it’s possible customers are worked up over nothing.
(I would highlight pineapple but Starbucks actually claims there is real freeze-dried pineapple chunks in their drinks, and that seems easy to verify)
That still includes real fruit, but Starbucks has the liberty to name the drink based on its flavors and not solely on the ingredients. I’m not claiming that’s entirely ethical, but it definitely seems allowed per the FDA rules.
Right? it’s easy to have a knee-jerk reaction. But compared to all the terrible things companies do, flavoring is super minor. The FDA doesn’t really restrict them much here as long as the ingredients are generally safe to consume.
I’d like to see more people angry about sugar & corn syrup content, that’s actually bad for our bodies and there was half a century of bribes and disinformation behind it.
Why would that be a problem? A boot image should only contain the commands to get the main system started after POST. It shouldn’t contain any kind of logs, traffic data, or user data. In fact it should be read-only.
I’m helping a friend of mine writing a long essay exposing the abusive, monopolistic and anti-consumer practices of Microsoft. First, we’ve created some sort of table of contents with the different topics we want to cover and now we’re gathering sources for each of these topics....
Forced Windows OS patches were the final nail for me. One of them in the early days of Windows 10 Pro conflicted with graphics drivers and completely soft-bricked my PC.
Totally agreed, this is one of the most annoying things left about Steam and especially the Deck.
It’s usually not too bad since you can pause downloads. But if the game you want to play has multiple GB of patches to download you could be stuck waiting a while.
If you’re in desktop mode you can schedule a shutdown. But I’m not aware of a way to trigger it based on a finished Steam download queue unfortunately.
I was going through this wonderful thread lemmy.ml/post/4540882 and found many of you talking about discord as it’s a crime against knowledge for not allowing indexing on it. I think we are talking about indexing by search engines like DDG and Google here and I know that discord questions don’t show up in search results and...
I know Valve has a good reputation but I really don’t want another company owning both a major storefront and a major game engine. It’s not great to have Epic in that situation, but at least they provide competition to Steam.
If Unity fails hopefully that means another game engine company can grow and take their place and keep market competition strong.
Unity has announced dramatic changes to its Unity Engine business model which will see its introduce a monthly fee per game install beginning on 1st January next year - a move that has already send shockwaves across the development community....
How could they even enforce this? Couldn’t devs just include a wrapper or small firewall (or settings for Windows firewall) with their games to block Unity’s analytics?
I once discovered the most absurdly garish necktie in the universe. It was almost a plaid-type pattern of tightly intersecting horizontal and vertical colored lines. But every color was vibrant neon. No really, neon blue, neon orange, neon green, neon pink, neon yellow. There was no background color. It was almost uncomfortable to view, like my brain couldn’t process all the input.
And I don’t even know how to describe the texture. I guess it was like… corduroy? All bizarrely thick, ridgy fibers. Nothing at all like the silk of a normal tie. It had heft, with weight and warmth more akin to a scarf.
I was a broke student at the time but I’m still kicking myself for not buying it. Surely it didn’t even come from planet Earth. I could have owned an alien artifact, the necktie with quantum properties so advanced it could clash with every other garment imaginable.
So far, Starfield is an awesome game, but now I have an urge to pick up my character on no man sky, and I’m having trouble putting that game down right now....
I keep trying NMS hoping to find a good game in there somewhere. I’m over 100 hours now, mostly because I’m a dork who likes collecting spaceships.
But all the mechanics – the crafting and movement and languages and even the terrain generation – are frankly pretty terrible. It’s like Hello Games intentionally hired people who don’t know how to design these things.
Why do all the space stations look identical inside? Why do I have to learn one single alien word at a time, including “a” and “the”? Why are there no rivers or waterfalls or glaciers or swamp basins? And why can’t I customize my ship appearance when the game itself can clearly generate one from a dozen random parts?
So at 4:30 in the morning, I was woken by an interdimensional alien monstrosity I can only imagine is one of the creatures David Grusch was alluding to in that Congressional hearing a few weeks ago, and after an hour of running away, suppressing my screams, and unsuccessful attempts at smashing the thing, I have captured it in a...
I think you’ve got it backwards. Most likely this is the creature’s ancestral homeland where thousands of generations found a niche with enough food and safety to reproduce to this day.
That means YOU are the alien and invaded by parking your ship (house) here.
Most likely it just wanted to escape, and get back to a place with food and a mate. It doesn’t understand why it’s trapped. Imagine if you were out in the forest and fell though the roof of a cave, then found yourself trapped with an angry bear. Kinda of like that.
The bug didn’t set out to frighten you. So you’re already torturing it by keeping it confined. I would find the nearest nature park or reservation and let it go there.
I’m not saying you have to welcome this thing anywhere near your house (I wouldn’t either). But I’m not sure you have the healthiest relationship with our fellow living beings. I recommend some David Attenborough documentaries as a bit of cleansing, might help you feel better.
You’re saying that doesn’t describe the current state of No Man’s Sky? The only notable buildings I’ve found are the same 3 tiny cookie-cutter outposts dotted randomly all across most planets. Oh sorry, 4 now if you count the camps from the Interceptor update and happen to be on a dissonant planet.
I feel like it wouldn’t take much effort to do better so that’s sad if Starfield hasn’t.
I think you’re on track. My best guess is that he was harvesting “pickling peppers” (i.e. peppers that would later be brined) and somehow the -ing ending turned into -ed. Probably for the sake of cadence in the tongue twister.
There is no capsicum fruit that grows in an already pickled state. Hopefully that’s not a surprise to anyone. This video is a good overview of the varieties out there if you’re curious though: youtu.be/BtsiuA7ETd8?si=rAUNaoQmDQvmLN_5
For example, I am terrible at Super Meat Boy, but just playing it has really improved how I play platformers and games that need faster imputs overall.
Similar answer and probably cliché, but for me it was the first Dark Souls. I finally played it about 2 years ago after avoiding it for a long time and thinking it wasn’t my thing. I thought I hated games that didn’t allow animation cancelling because they weren’t “responsive”. If I hadn’t heard so many people insist it’s great I would have given up because the character doesn’t react to every wild button mash.
Boy was I wrong. Once I understood the combat it was like Zelda (my OG favorite franchise) but better. And brutal. Playing through it subsequently made Elden Ring much easier than it probably would’ve been otherwise. Exploring every nook and cranny and overleveling helped a bit too I’m sure.
On PC with mods for upgraded resolution and textures (and dsfix) DS1 was a quite good experience. There’s still a bit too much BS like hidden paths and even NPCs that are way too obscure, and the game falls apart near the end, but learning to navigate the platforms of Blighttown and besting all the different bosses sharpened my skills like nothing had in ages.
I’d really like to try out some E-bikes. There are so many models these days, and I already enjoy cycling. Unfortunately I think the potholes all over my city might disagree with any decision to buy one.
When I read about how most of our thoughts are repetitive, I wondered if it would be possible for us to have a thought that is completely new or original by will. Is there some way we can have unique thoughts whenever we wish to?...
As in six equally sized stars all in the same orbit equidistant from each other, like a hexagon? That seems incredibly unlikely. How would that form? Even if the primordial disc of gas and dust somehow coalesces into six even clumps, any outside perturbation (e.g. from forming planets or neighboring star systems) would nudge those clumps out of balance and eventually cause some of them to crash into one another.
For a more likely arrangement, think about our closest neighbor, the Alpha Centauri system. Binary sun-like stars (A & B) dance in a somewhat eccentric orbit, one a bit larger and brighter and the other a bit smaller and dimmer. Then over 10,000 times further out, a faint red dwarf (C, aka Proxima Centauri) circles them both!
Binary stars are very common, supposedly moreso than even lone stars. If you want to imagine a six-member system, starting building it up like Alpha Centauri but with more pairs. Put a very large pair at the center, a midsize pair circling both, then small stars (perhaps independently captured) on the far outskirts. Something like that would at least be a more reasonable starting point.
But your initial thought isn’t exactly stupid though; the universe is absurdly huge (far more stars than grains of sand on Earth) so probability is such that even rare or seemingly impossible things are bound to happen somewhere.
Hey all! I’m planning on redoing my setup on my PC hooked up to my TV. What I have now works, but I want something a little more streamlined. I mainly use it for watching videos on Piped (YouTube frontend) and tv/movies in Jellyfin, but I recently set up Sunshine/Moonlight for game streaming, and my current setup doesn’t...
You don’t need weird controller macros if you just get a keyboard with a trackpad.
I use a Logitech K830 with my HTPC. It’s not the cheapest but it’s been reliable for 10+ years. It’s backlit and uses a USB WiFi dongle.
If you want something small and low price, the Rii i4 has mushy keys but gets the job done. I mainly use that with my Steam Deck but it connects to almost anything USB (WiFi dongle) or Bluetooth.
I think I got mine before multitouch was even a thing, so I can’t really hold that against it. And of course it’s not as responsive as modern touchpads. But that’s unfortunate if Logitech isn’t updating the spec.
Who has a better model these days? Wireless and backlit with an integrated trackpad and rechargeable battery was always a rare combination.
EndeavourOS Moving to KDE Plasma by Default (endeavouros.com)
EndeavourOS is moving to KDE Plasma for its live environment and offline installer from Xfce. You’ll hear no complaints from me!
Dead skydiver found on front lawn of Florida home: "The worst I've seen" (www.cbsnews.com)
Detectives are investigating after a skydiver was found dead in the front yard of a residence near an airpark in Florida, authorities said Saturday....
What silly inconvinient stuff would you outlaw if you could?
I’d outlaw sauce bottles which make getting it all out harder, especially the ones which don’t have the opening at the bottom and make it impossible to put the bottle with the opening facing downwards.
What are your 'name brand only' items?
What do you refuse to get generic versions of?
The Talos Principle 2 | Demo on Steam Available Now (youtu.be)
Is there anything we can do to fix social media echo chamber, what changes should be done to lemmy to stop it from turning into one?
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1645ad5f-762a-446f-8f05-638e28fb7aaf.png
[News] Here’s the first proof a refreshed Steam Deck is nigh - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
A visual guide to ACL Access-Control Lists (lemmy.g97.top)
You can have any B-tier superpower you like. What do you choose?
I’d be Cables Don’t Tangle Man.
What was the time a pet showed some serious signs of intelligence? (lemmy.world)
I’ll start....
SteamDeck 1.5/Premium/LE?
I’m just thinking out loud here....
Language Learning Apps Harvest Data (sh.itjust.works)
I should have known if the apps free, you’re the product. Duolingo appears to harvest the most data compared to other language learning apps....
Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike (www.vice.com)
Fed-up consumers are increasingly going after food companies for misleading claims (www.npr.org)
Mango Dragonfruit Starbucks Refreshers are missing mango, Strawberry Açaí Starbucks Refreshers lack açaí and Pineapple Passionfruit Starbucks Refreshers have no passion fruit....
Leaked Microsoft documents detail an employee performance review system where managers are quietly asked to adjust workers' results to limit the highest ratings (www.businessinsider.com)
Mullvad Annouce Removal Of All Disk Infrastructure - Now RAM Only (mullvad.net)
Today we announce that we have completely removed all traces of disks being used by our VPN infrastructure!
Why do you hate Microsoft?
I’m helping a friend of mine writing a long essay exposing the abusive, monopolistic and anti-consumer practices of Microsoft. First, we’ve created some sort of table of contents with the different topics we want to cover and now we’re gathering sources for each of these topics....
"Update and shut down" option?
The absolute worst possible time for system and game updates is when I am booting up the device or starting a game....
Is there no way to index discord chats? Is Matrix a viable discord alternative?
I was going through this wonderful thread lemmy.ml/post/4540882 and found many of you talking about discord as it’s a crime against knowledge for not allowing indexing on it. I think we are talking about indexing by search engines like DDG and Google here and I know that discord questions don’t show up in search results and...
For Free! (lemmy.ml)
The Unity Games That Could be Impacted Most by Controversial Fees, From Silksong to Cult of the Lamb - IGN (www.ign.com)
Unity reveals plans to charge per game install, drawing criticism from development community (www.eurogamer.net)
Unity has announced dramatic changes to its Unity Engine business model which will see its introduce a monthly fee per game install beginning on 1st January next year - a move that has already send shockwaves across the development community....
What feature/utility/app are you surprised is not installed by default in Linux distributions?
What's the coolest thing you've found in a thrift store?
Or just second hand in general
Starfield has made me obsessed with no man’s sky
So far, Starfield is an awesome game, but now I have an urge to pick up my character on no man sky, and I’m having trouble putting that game down right now....
How do you torture an evil hell entity you capture in your room?
So at 4:30 in the morning, I was woken by an interdimensional alien monstrosity I can only imagine is one of the creatures David Grusch was alluding to in that Congressional hearing a few weeks ago, and after an hour of running away, suppressing my screams, and unsuccessful attempts at smashing the thing, I have captured it in a...
Bethesda says most of Starfield's 1000+ planets are dull on purpose (www.pcgamer.com)
How did Peter Piper pick pickled peppers?
Were the peppers already pickled on the plant somehow? Is there a type of pepper called pickled peppers? What is a peck anyway?
Hurricane Idalia blows flamingos as far as Ohio (www.bbc.com)
What are some video games that made you a better gamer?
For example, I am terrible at Super Meat Boy, but just playing it has really improved how I play platformers and games that need faster imputs overall.
Biden-Harris Administration Announces $15.5 Billion to Support a Strong and Just Transition to Electric Vehicles, Retooling Existing Plants, and Rehiring Existing Workers (www.energy.gov)
If you were asked to think of something you never thought of before, what would be the most reliable way to do it?
When I read about how most of our thoughts are repetitive, I wondered if it would be possible for us to have a thought that is completely new or original by will. Is there some way we can have unique thoughts whenever we wish to?...
Looking for a better HTPC setup
Hey all! I’m planning on redoing my setup on my PC hooked up to my TV. What I have now works, but I want something a little more streamlined. I mainly use it for watching videos on Piped (YouTube frontend) and tv/movies in Jellyfin, but I recently set up Sunshine/Moonlight for game streaming, and my current setup doesn’t...
Hey. You. Fill in the blank. (upload.wikimedia.org)