Reil

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[–] Reil@beehaw.org 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Cross the wrong people and you end up not dead, but irrecoverable. Cement shoes, buried alive kind of stuff. Cross a different set of wrong people and you become a labrat. To avoid either scenario, you'll be in a constant state of "undocumented" or false-documented which will keep you in a pretty consistent state of poverty.

[–] Reil@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Looks like I've blocked 2? One for bigotry reasons I can't recall, and the other for being just having annoying posting habits (applying a license to every comment like those facebook chainletters).

[–] Reil@beehaw.org 6 points 1 week ago

The Steam Deck models itself much more after handhelds and consoles, anyway.

Sure, you're not getting The Most Detail And Power Available Right This Moment, but having a stable target for developers means getting a healthy library for players. It builds value for the customer, who won't want to swap out consoles super frequently to keep up with devs who'll stop targeting old hardware.

[–] Reil@beehaw.org 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Could make sense. If they're smart, they're trying to get a cut of the "exclusive Discord", patreon, Substack kind of money flow.

If they're wildly stupid, they'll try to take over and paywall popular existing subreddits.

[–] Reil@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

Love the CEO sketches! And they're not even in the top five things Brennan has done, probably!

[–] Reil@beehaw.org 6 points 7 months ago

If you're a little clever with interpolation, you don't need to run at 1000s of frames per second! You'd just calculate how much time after the last frame it would take to cross the line at the last known speed and position.

[–] Reil@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You're right-- I am in the States, but your input is still welcome!

I don't have an Awesome Socks subscription, but I do have a Sun Basin Soap one with good.store! I like Daydreamer, even though it sorta reminds me of allspice (and therefore chicken).

[–] Reil@beehaw.org 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Snaps are a relatively recent way of packaging application installations in certain flavors of Linux. Steam is Valve's game distribution platform (amongst other things).

There's an unofficial Snap package to install Steam and it apparently doesn't work so good

[–] Reil@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago

American marriage tax codes are written to benefit the sort of couple with a stay-at-home-spouse. Having one person without an income (or with a significantly lower income) in the marriage effectively pulls you down in the tax brackets as a whole.

[–] Reil@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the input, all! I've had a bunch of the more 'obvious' ones down, but there are a few that I hadn't heard of (like CASA and Feeding America, who I have 'equivalents' to but will likely diversify out to), or hadn't thought to contribute to (Propublica, UNHCR). Good stuff, everybody.

 

What are your favorite charities? What do you regularly give to? I have some empty space in my "secular tithing" budget that I'm looking to fill in.

[–] Reil@beehaw.org 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and capitalist hardware.

Fire at will, commander.

[–] Reil@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

Homestuck.

Not in the reading of it, which I did out of the momentum of Bard quest and Problem Sleuth, but in the way that it rippled through the online media landscape and affected discourse and things like Undertale, webcomics, and crowd funding.

Not in any "profound" way, but in a measurably gigantic one.

 

Phones are getting better support lives these days, but they still physically outlast their software support. How important is that safety net/blanket for you?

 

My profile currently shows that I've made 1 post and 11 comments, which tracks with what I remember doing, but only two of those comments (and no post) seem to be showing up in my profile when I view it. Has anyone else had part of their lemmy history vanish into the ether?

 

Basically 2.5 minutes of condensed free association.

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