Strayce

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[–] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 12 hours ago

Not quite to that extreme but same problem here, amongst others. Although I only played the demo.

[–] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Trauma Team IRL

[–] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not sure it's my favourite, but Wipeout XL/2097 deserves a mention.

[–] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago

French hip hop fucking slaps. Do people still say that? I don't know. Anyway, here's Keny Arkana.

[–] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Tried the demo briefly without knowing much about it. It's weird and janky. Audio levels are all over the place, perspective feels off, conversation camera clips inside characters or cuts off their heads, object physics don't work right. Ladder interaction is counterintuitive. Some of this might have been rectified since the demo shipped. Little bit too much inventory management for my liking. Level design is .. strange. That might be a demo issue too tho. Seems like the authors feel some kind of way about communism but I didn't play it long enough to figure that out. Shame, it feels like there's the bones of a good game here.

[–] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some banking and similar apps don't work, or have some features nonfunctional (like NFC). You can always use the website and carry a card like we did in 2012.

[–] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm either really late genX or really early millennial depending how you define it, but Pump Up The Volume was the one that did it for me.

[–] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

There's a couple things at play here.

Firstly, the math. Nutrient requirements in a given population tend to be normally distributed (there are a couple that aren't). RDA is considered enough to meet the requirements of 98% of people. EAR (estimated average requirement) is the middle of the bell curve, so most people's actual requirement will be closer to that. RDAs are used for diet planning in individuals though, so as to minimise the risk of deficiency. There's a huge margin of safety between EAR and anything that would cause problems from excess (e.g. Vitamin A toxicity) so using RDA won't cause issues there. Actually working out an individual person's requirement for a specific nutrient is a bunch of really complicated biochem, so it's easier and safer to just aim for the RDA in that context.

Secondly, RDA is kind of a misnomer. You don't actually need to eat that every day, because the body stores and uses a lot of nutrients as needed. It's really supposed to be used as more of an average over time. This is why it's important to eat a good variety of different foods within the main food groups. Meatless mondays don't cause you to instantly collapse from iron deficiency.

Third, there's a commercial aspect to it. Food manufacturers love using RDA because it lets them imply their product is healthy, and they love it when public health messaging is "eat more X" when X is a major component of whatever they produce, or something that's cheap to fortify (e.g. iron fortified cereals). This way they can encourage people to freak out over "oh no, I need this product or I won't hit my RDA!" Really, most people better off eating generally healthy (roughly 50% fruit and vegetables, 25% protein and 25% whole grains) with a good variety of foods than aiming to hit the RDA of everything, every day. There are a few caveats to that for certain nutrients in some circumstances, but on the whole, no. You don't need to hit your RDA every day, but it probably should average out over a week or so.

[–] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 112 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Schrödinger's asshole. It's testing boundaries. If you say something, they'll claim it was just a joke. If you don't they'll keep going and likely get worse.

[–] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I have the same thing. Someone once called it "resting murder face" because apparently if I forget to smile I just look like I want to stab someone. That plus having a deadpan sense of humour and generally flat tone of voice makes me come across as a total asshole unless I make extra effort. Even when I'm sincerely trying to be nice people assume I'm being sarcastic.

[–] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm old enough that I remember when 28FPS @ 320x200 was considered a target, and my vision isn't as hot as it used to be. So long as I'm not noticing any obvious issues, I don't really care enough to check.

[–] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Depends on the reason and what you find most motivating. Addiction is tricky and it's rarely just one thing. Caffeine is physically addictive but there's also psych and lifestyle aspects to it.

If it's about the caffeine, try switching to coffee or tea. If you want to go cold turkey, caffeine withdrawal peaks at about three days with symptoms lessening to minimal after about nine.

If it's a convenience thing, try keeping a water bottle on you and just drink that. If you find water too boring or your local water tastes bad, try it carbonated and/or with a twist of lemon or other fruit. I'd suggest avoiding places where they serve it, but that's near impossible. You could take note of what situation you're in when you tend to do it, and try to rejig your routine around that. You could also not keep it in the house; it's a lot easier to not put it on the shopping list than resist the temptation when it's right there. Then there's health and money. Of course you know they're not great for you so I'm not going to harp on that, but you could try focusing on it more (but try to frame it in a positive way; not "ugh soda is bad", but rather "hey drinking water is good!"), or give yourself a goal to save up for purely with what you save on soda.

 

I have some downtime at the moment so I'm thinking of reviving my personal blog again. I have enough experience with managed services that I'm reasonably confident to self-host. I'm aware that WordPress / Drupal / Joomla will most likely do what I want, but they're way overkill for my needs and I don't need the extra headaches.

Currently I'm leaning towards ghost, even though activitypub is only in alpha as far as I know. Plume isn't actively maintained any more, which is a shame. WriteFreely is a great project but doesn't suit my aesthetics and doesn't support themes as far as I know. I know connecting a flat-file CMS to activitypub is possible, but seems like way more trouble than I'd like to go to.

Is there anything I've missed that I should be looking at?

 

I'm pretty deadset on switching my Legion Go over to Bazzite (for the controller support). One of the games I play a lot of is Elite Dangerous. While I'm quite sure I can get that up and running, there's a few third-party tools I use like EDMC and Voice Attack. EDMC and the like I'm fairly sure just need to get pointed to the logfiles, but I'm not sure how well VA will operate in a Linux environment. Anyone out there dealt with anything like this? It's not a deal breaker if it just doesn't work, but I'd like to know ahead of time.

 

Normally I'd go to r/mousereview for this kind of thing, but fuck that website.

Can anybody recommend me a mouse that isn't going to fuck out inside of a couple years? Was previously using an Ironclaw until the USB port went, replaced it with a Basilisk and the scroll on that one's started to jitter up and down now. I have fairly large hands and tend to use knuckle claw grip. Wireless is a must, builtin battery preferred, but requiring a single AA isn't a dealbreaker. I don't mind heavy, prefer a little weight tbh.

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