Hey that’s super helpful, I really appreciate it! Thank you! I haven’t checked in on the project(s) in quite a while. :)

Do not compare evils, lest you be tempted to cleave with the least of them!

–Victor Saltzpyre

(A raw line probably inspired by somebody else lol)

My highschool was a smaller charter school that was essentially a bunch of connected / encircled modular buildings.

I actually kinda miss it because it had different vocational paths and I ended up in a student-run computer shop. We actually fixed things around the campus and other people’s machines and stuff. Shame that sort of thing kinda fell out of relevance, job-wise!

We also had a large computer lab where we played things like CounterStrike Source, Battlefield Desert Combat or 2142, and sometimes Unreal Tournament maybe?

Lol anyway, to your question: I think I might have been popular-ish. In the sense that I think I was a sort of “ambassador” between groups.

I made friends with the drama kids, the nerds, had some goth friends, stoner / skater friends, and I’d often introduce them to each other. I had my “circle” but I was that guy who sorta knew almost everybody.

I think the thing I miss most is that everyone saw each other as individuals back then. Surface level you might fit with a “group” sure, but we tended to see each other as people and for the most part they got along.

But sadly when I moved away after graduation, only like one friend really made the effort to keep up with me over the years. :( Quality best friend though!

But I still think of them often and hope they’re doing okay in this crazy world…

Recall where, or by whom, by chance? No worries either way just curious. :)

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Oh yes, the only reason this establishment wears a “christian” mask is because the church used to be a foil to capital, but as always the money deployed its favorite strategy: “If you can’t beat them, absorb and pervert their belief system until it too, becomes a revenue stream.”

You’re right, nothing is sacred or meaningful to them. Wouldn’t be surprised if an ICE goon gets the Medal of Honor at this point.

My “trick” with this is to mv files I’m very sure I want to be “deleting” into /tmp . If it instantly turns out to be a mistake, I can pull it back. Else, it gets purged on reboot.

This is usually A-okay for my home server since it reboots so rarely! A desktop machine might give you a little less time to reconsider. But it at least solved the “trash is using 45% of my hard disk now” issue haha.

In the very worst case scenario there’s the “Drop everything and run photorec / testdisk” as a last resort!

“Especially basic white ones. I’ll take my upvotes now. I’m glad this isn’t reddit!”

transformer models

Surely, more than meets the eye!

Minecraft is still the hardest thing to host lol

I’m actually considering hosting a Luanti / “MineTest” server for this experience, since my wife lost her Minecraft account / key thingy since the time we played in beta ages ago haha.

I wonder if it’s any easier to host or not. 🤔

Mint was my first serious move to Linux too! It’s so user friendly and clean.

I’ve been running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with an Nvidia GPU for quite a few years now on my gaming / 3D art rig though, and I’ve really enjoyed it. My Win10 partition has been dormant and shrunk for a very long time. :D

Just make sure you stick with the default of using BTRFS at least on root, to get that snapshot rollback support!

For being such an up to date distro, it’s ridiculously stable. Usually issues I’ve had have been Nvidia problems, but I’ve been able to roll back until they resolved. Things have definitely gotten much better over time.

Wayland has also matured wonderfully and things like multi monitor setups with different refresh rates work just fine these days.

Totally get what you mean about KDE too, I really enjoy how much easy customization it has!

Hope you enjoy it as much as I have!

I haven’t used it for a while, but I remember Spotify recommending some pretty neat and niche stuff. It just really depends what you feed it to begin with.

If you start with “Popular top 40 corporate-bred pop artist of the month”, it will swiftly taylor the algorithm to more of the same, and once it’s got an idea it mostly goes one direction and it’s really difficult to get it to recommend other styles that aren’t Harry.

Fun puns and anecdotal evidence aside: Spotify sucks especially because of how it pays artists next to nothing.

I personally skim Freegal from my local library, Bandcamp on Fridays, and buy MP3s from 7 Digital if I want to support the artist. (I don’t know 7 Digital’s revenue take, but I at least get to own the music forever, and in FLAC if I want!)

algos won’t show me Swedish power metal

Any algorithm that won’t let someone discover Sabaton, is a defective algorithm.

No idea about today, but Pandora used to be cool for this in the “Music Genome Project” days.

Ha, cool! I need to give them a more thorough listen.

I wonder who else’s first exposure to them was that incredible “Urban Ninja” video that was really popular when YouTube was cool…20 years ago 😨

https://youtu.be/D2kJZOfq7zk

Oh wow thanks for the heads up!

It’s always such a bummer to see open source codebases close off. :(

I’ll definitely keep an eye on Gaggimate!

Gotchu Bro/Sister:

Wife’s already got Fellowship of the Ring Extended (of COURSE) ultraHD in the player.

I’ll pop us some popcorn, and gladly point out all the fun trivia, like how when Aragorn kicks the helmet in Two Towers it was so legit because the actor ACTUALLY BROKE HIS TOE.

Why did I mention Two Towers when Fellowship is in the player? Heh. . .you didn’t think we were stopping after Fellowship, did you?

The doors are already locked and planned bathroom / snack retrieval breaks are posted on the wall.

Whaaaaaat this is what keeps me addicted to Lemmy. This looks like a fun project.

Found a sweet HackaDay about it if anybody’s interested :)

https://hackaday.com/2022/11/20/homebrew-espresso-maker-modding-with-gaggiuino/

Also that’s the only way we’re saturating that 2Gb bandwidth LOL.

Debian? :p

“I heard them say we’ve reached Morrowind. I’m sure they’ll let us go.”

Morrowind will always be wonderful to return to. I miss all the imaginative player house mods. OpenMW has been so AWESOME.

Also:

YoU wOuLdN’t StEaL a LiMeWaRe pLatTeR