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empireOfLove

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Yet another Reddit refugee from the great 3rd party app purge of 2023. This account is mostly for learning how Lemmy works and may be purged once I get around to hosting my own instance.

Obligatory fuck /u/Spez.

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I respect the devotion to always collecting information from both sides, but if you think hexbear isn’t 100% echo chamber and logical fallacies, then I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you

empireOfLove, (edited )
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Of course theyll pull the first season, how else would the network drive people to go sign up for their separate shitty streaming site that barely works for an additional $9/mo?

Meanwhile your friendly neighborhood pirate has the first, second, third AND fourth seasons, as well as all the extras and the Christmas special, always available all the time…

empireOfLove,
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then you find out the power went out, and your boomer habit of using a normal AC powered alarm clock (so you can keep your phone away from your bed to improve sleep quality) just bit you in the fucking ass

empireOfLove,
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Yeah. A clock with a full backup battery (not judt time keeping) is on my list of things I should get but can’t be assed to go look for.

empireOfLove,
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Just keeps me from using the damn thing. Whenever you’re in bed you should be sleeping, your brain gets accustomed to that habit of lay down = sleep.

If you have your phone there while laying in bed and decide to pick it up to scroll lemmy/instagram/youtube/whatever, the stimulation and blue light will make you want to not sleep. Plus you might end up burning two hours of your sleep tine and not realize it…

empireOfLove,
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mine has a backup- it’s a coin cell to keep the time saved, not to run the alarm.

i’m sure true rechargeable battery clocks exist that would further solve this problem if I bought one; but that would both require effort to find a good one, and also run against my other boomer habit: being a fucking tightwad lmao

empireOfLove,
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…no?

I have some big red LCD shit from the 90s that i got out of a box at my parents house lol

empireOfLove,
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notifications do bother, i usually have DnD mode set up to turn on automatically. i’m not quite tin-hat enough to blame the 5g signal waves tho lol

empireOfLove,
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like, do you wear it while you’re sleeping even? or just on a charger pedestal

I do have an old samsung Gear 2 that I don’t use anymore. Could use that and skip pairing to my phone. I just don’t wear smart watches, because I never wear a watch at all (blue collar industry habits, can’t wear any bands that might get caught in moving machinery)

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He doesn’t have a chance in the popular vote. He already lost it once (twice, technically). And with how polarizing he’s become, only the more extreme fringe actors are outright supporting him, and those with real money want a “safe” candidate that allows them to keep grifting behind the scenes without causing such a big ruckus. He’ll lose a lot of big donor support, and people are growing tired of the constant outrage news that he generates.
We’ve seen how he performs a symphony of a clusterfuck in a 4 year term, and not even the GOP itself is jumping right at the idea of embracing another 4 years of that struggle- they’re waffling at the idea, and a lot of the extremist upstarts that got a foothold under Trump now want to knock him out of it so they can have their own moment of glory. But Trump was a one-time shot. He was THE face of “The Big Businessman, doing a Business” that appealed to the older, more bootstrapy kind of crowd that still unfortunately dominates the actively voting public. All the younger extremists are trying to parrot him and can’t quite get away with the same level of “crazy” energy without looking actually crazy, since they don’t have the gold-plated toilet of “American Success” to back them up.

But regardless of that, will every hard-right extremist fight tooth and nail to ensure he still wins, including but not limited to high treason, rushed gerrrymandering, voter intimidation (or outright slaughter) and the active dismantling of every aspect of democracy down to the local voter box level? You bet your ass they’re gonna try here.

empireOfLove,
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folder.old

then it’s all fun and games till you’ve been fucking with it for 3 hours and you get to folder.old.old.old.old.old

empireOfLove,
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Coming soon: 5000 spam copes of the same relabelled, stolen mods by every single scammer in existence

empireOfLove,
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Damn guess I’ll just never buy it till the inevitable port then.

empireOfLove,
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It would be OK to be Carter though since the dude’s almost 100 and has done enough good in his life to deserve a final rest. Man’s absolutely based.

empireOfLove,
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And Roller Coaster Tycoon! (although it was technically under Hasbro at that point)

empireOfLove,
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Yeah. They got sold once around 1996 and then again to Hasbro in 1998 after they were failing IIRC. So they were kind of an amalgamation of a bunch of different companies

empireOfLove,
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Plot twist: there are no biters, the planet just spits lava at you

empireOfLove, (edited )
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I always make hot lemon-and-honey “tea” when it’s fuck-off cold out. It’s what my mom did for sore throats (which I did get, and still got, frequently in the winter) so it’s super comforting.

Just squeeze about 1/2 of a lemon into a mug of hot water, then drizzle in honey to taste. Best done with a highly flavored local clover honey imo. And you can use a teaspoon or two of the storebought squeeze bottle lemon concentrate if its all you have.

empireOfLove,
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Yeah I’ve got 141 messages waiting on my lemmy account that I can’t be bothered to clear

I feel obligated to respond to most if not all of them because of lemmy’s need for content, and I just don’t wanna. But I also don’t want to just clear them entirely. Some are dating back multiple months…

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That would require reddit to actually be making a profit…

empireOfLove,
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how do you convince someone that bitter coffee is not good coffee?

That’s the neat part; you don’t.

empireOfLove,
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Jpg at 70% will lose a significant amount of detail. It is a “lossy” format, you cant judt compress data for nothing.

AVIF is significantly more efficient than jpeg, so it loses less image data for higher compression (smaller file sizes).

JXL supports both lossy and lossless compression, and is supposed to be more efficient yet over AVIF. However it’s got proprietary all over it because Google et al. For thst alone I would shy away from JXL and go AVIF.

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TF2 sniper approved. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gs-Tx7vI_EA/maxresdefault.jpg

empireOfLove,
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You forgot

  • have a weird little pokey spine sticking out the back of their neck
empireOfLove,
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definitely one of those “wow the writers did a LOT of coke this weekend” scripts

but yknow it was the 80’s so I don’t exactly blame them

empireOfLove,
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Wube is the most absolutely massively based game development company in the world and you cannot tell me otherwise.

empireOfLove,
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You say that like they haven’t already done that. The sheer amount of optimizations they’ve put into factorio are insane, I’d almost guarantee they’ve invented some new data system that’s never been seen before and haven’t told us.

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Yeah but that would go against the hexbear narrative of “neo-USSR good because communism, anything western-adjacent is imperialism bad”

Nuance, or frankly any political intelligence, is not their strong suit

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No one on hexbear likes Russia in its current state.

Meanwhile in this thread by hexbear users: “nothing Russia is doing is that bad, they should just become citizens, stop hating on russia”

For “not liking” Russia imperialism, they sure spend a lot of fucking time apologizing for Russia’s imperialism. We can hate multiple despotic shitholes at the same time, they are not mutually exclusive.

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https://lemmy.one/pictrs/image/8fd5182a-01d0-4bf4-bd91-fb96815ecc84.jpeg

empireOfLove,
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Instead let’s stay here till 2:30a playing dumb video game, become sleep deprived, and hate my entire existence in the morning even more than I already did

empireOfLove,
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the lead will be perfectly safe until someone crushes them up into a bunch of powder with a front loader, and then dumps in the nearest unsealed landfill

also lead mining/production is not waste free in of itself

empireOfLove,
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Cant browse directly. Appears to be offline and gone.

empireOfLove,
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Wish I knew. Their DNS record is still up on NameCheap and it’s not like there is zero server at all (domain not found), my browser resolves the name fine so its being refreshed, it just never loads any data when I browse to it.

Maybe their backend fell over and their admin hasn’t realized it yet. Idk.

empireOfLove,
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most coherent hexbear meme creator (it makes less sense than a lobotomy victim)

empireOfLove,
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Yes

https://lemmy.one/pictrs/image/6cbfc6ac-ca9e-4f4f-a595-5bf0523f1186.jpeghttps://lemmy.one/pictrs/image/c55fb199-080f-4850-9511-a3e782f001dd.jpeg

empireOfLove,
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They are, but if you so much as move a fraction of a millimeter towards the front door they will be instantly up and under your feet. They’re border collie mixes so they are ridiculously high energy lol

empireOfLove,
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you may have weird cache settings that is storing large amounts of the torrent data in memory. this is not inherently bad- reduced disk IO hits extends disk life and increases performance, unless your system is memory constrained and it’s affecting other programs.

how are you viewing memory usage? virtual memory pages and true physical memory usage can be displayed very weirdly on a lot of linux systems

empireOfLove,
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Meanwhile me, who is behind so many layers of badly configured ISP NAT that there’s no way anyone knows exactly what computer is downloading what: 😈

empireOfLove,
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Recommends Installing Linux

*through Windows

empireOfLove,
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Trigger discipline: not

empireOfLove,
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I pirate damn near every piece of media I consume.

I also have my automatic 401k contributions at work cranked up to like 15%. I never see the money in my bank account so I don’t even think about it and force myself to fit into a smaller budget- which is the best way to save.

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You’re helping the planet too. The most environmentally friendly appliance in the world is the one that’s already built!

empireOfLove,
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Make sure you change the specified nozzle size in the printer’s settings (not just slicer settings). That matters for the stepper scaling.

Consider you are now extruding a larger volume of filament through a larger nozzle. The reduced amount neckdown from filament size, and larger volume of plastic to cool, means you also need to now print at a LOWER temperature than you would with a 0.4 nozzle, else the plastic will be too liquid and want to run out of the nozzle faster than the filament is pushing it. You also now have more plastic mass pushing against the surface tension, and the increase mass can also not solidify on the part surface fast enough and want to droop over the edge. Back it down to 230c, or even as low as 220c, as well as increase your part fan max speed. See if that improves things.

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clicks instantly

empireOfLove,
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racist bait meme

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beamNG was one of the games that drove me to build a new PC this summer with an actually modern CPU. That physics engine is completely unparalleled but damn have you gotta pay for it.

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oh shit are those beans

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