Well, crap, entropy really is nature’s tendency if we’re not constantly maintaining every little thing. Better go tell my mom in law…at least she uses the clear stuff but didn’t know anything about the rest!
We used to get a ton of hummingbirds too, but since we added bird seed feeders and see a lot more sparrows and stuff, we haven’t seen any hummingbirds lately. I hope they’re okay. :(
Honestly I always loved looking at birds but in the city it started seeming like there were just so much less of them…
We started putting some bird seed out back, and I didn’t know so many were even in our neighborhood! It’s brought me a lot of happiness to see them all gathering around.
Especially the little sparrows and mourning doves. :)
… I’m in my 30’s so, damn. 😆
Troy named a capuchin monkey “Annie’s Boobs.”
Haha nice! There’s also this gizmo that looks really promising. I think this is the one where they were talking about an LTE module. Or yeah, could always just tether!
https://mecha.so/comet#overview
Also this DIY project that seems a bit more… Involved.
Man, TIL. That’s pretty disgusting. :(
I need to try Homarr again, but carefully.
I think my first experience ended with it causing a massive memory leak because I didn’t configure it properly and its error logs got crazy out of control and crashed my server lol. 😂
Sounds basically like an average run of Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, lol.
Half the year in sick days? Is this satire?
Edit: Maybe I missed a really obvious point somewhere lol.
I’m part time, but if I don’t miss any hours at all the entire year, I “earn” 19 hours of “vacation time” / PTO. There is no “sick time”. 😂 Basically a week off per year if I blew it all at once and didn’t want to make up the hours somewhere else. The pro strat is just “don’t get sick” I guess /s.
I like to jokingly describe my everyday attire as “surplus chic”, because the stuff lasts like decades and I need lots of pockets. I feel self conscious sometimes that I might be mistaken for some fashy.
But you know what? We concede WAY too much ground to these bullying troglodytes. Off-the-shelf clothes shouldn’t be enough to be an obvious “uniform.”
Don’t let these bastards take your khakis. “We” already let them take the flag, and patriotism, and the second amendment conversation, and Nordic / Viking symbology for some frickin reason.
We didn’t fight hard enough for it, just said “Ah well we’re the opposite of those things, please don’t take those too.”
I’m reminded of an anecdote that makes me laugh every time. When my wife was in high school she was stopped for wearing gloves (fashiony, Hot Topic kinda things). “Gloves are commonly worn by gangs.” They said. She responded:
“Well, hope gangs don’t start wearing pants any time soon!”
XD
We need that attitude. Some friggin proudboys wanna take the symbol of the flag our forefathers died over? They think because they put some nazis in the whitehouse and shit on senators’ desks we’re gonna give up our tactical wear and doorkicking boots? Like we should be afraid to rock red white and blue because we might be mistaken for one of them?!
They should be worried they might accidentally be mistaken for some actual damn Americans. Who is the real U.S.A? If I recall correctly the “U” comes from the UNION winning that particular dispute.
We should be rocking that Gadsten flag, warning them not to tread upon us.
They want to co-opt khakis, polos, even entire colors? We should adopt it harder.
Good luck telling who’s in their stupid goon squads. They need to be reminded that hate hath no friends.
TL;DR: Wanna take our country’s freedom, our rights, our flag, our guns, pickup trucks, cowboy hats if you’re into that kinda thing, our freakin’ KHAKIS?!
Molṑn fuckin’ labé, pendejos.
Yep. Alt-righties / racists are still on the “secret cabal of Jews is why your life has problems” schtick, so if you see “goyim” being thrown around or “You know, ((THEM))” it’s usually a dog whistle.
It’ll get used like “sheep” like “eat slop, goy”. As if people who aren’t anti-Semitic are somehow “sheeple” letting themselves be manipulated.
That kinda thing started getting used heavily around meme communities like iFunny where you could never be sure if it was being “ironic” or not. (Although I heard the FBI caught various violent racist groups trying to recruit through there).
It started to break out, unfortunately.
Cyberpunk / Deus Ex imagined Batman was SO GOOD and for some reason they just stopped bothering with it.
I’ll never understand letting that genius storyline slip through the cracks. That show was awesome.
Well there have been some strides. Games using EAC (Easy Anti-Cheat) seem to work fine now. EAC tends to be more acceptable because it’s well known that it shuts down as soon as the game is quit.
A lot of these other solutions like Riot’s thingy or whatever Battlefield 6 uses, seem to enjoy (and insist upon) running even while the game isn’t, which is positively sus.
So yeah in the case of Nprotect, I really don’t know. I’ve heard on Windows it’s pretty invasive and jank though, with the usual security assurance of “Lol just trust us bro.”
It’d be neat if it would be contained on a Linux system but also…wouldn’t that void the point? It seems they wouldn’t be satisfied with allowing Linux players if that were the case.
The uncertainty is the frustrating part. =\
Nice! Buuut what about “n protect gameguard”? Does it sandbox it or…?
Watched a video recently about how they engineered GTA3 to load this impression of an enormous city on the PS2’s miniscule amount of RAM. He showed how the city loads and unloads itself around the player, which was crazy genius for the time.
He also explains how because of those memory limitations, you could end up going to grab a sweet sports car and would suddenly find everyone else was driving one too lol.
It was by Game Maker’s Toolkit. https://youtu.be/cIbCxbrBCys?is=EtKDSUr8BcpU8tuK
I love stories like this and I’m not even big on GTA. I sure did like Saint’s Row 3 and 4 though. XD
I missed out on Helldivers 2 because I’m on Linux now and I’m NOT putting that shitty kernel-level rootkit on my system over a game.
Which really sucked, having enjoyed Helldivers 1 a ton, and seeing all my Steam friends playing it. :(
LOL was gonna say that doesn’t sound like Stan 😂
That’s exactly it. It used to just mean “People who played games.” Then it got soiled and politicized.
So to their point, yeah, there’s huge groups of people that don’t care about “gamer problems” because they don’t see themselves as “those people”, even as they…buy and play lots of games.
They sell us out as well as themselves, and are completely oblivious to the consequences.
I may be ignorant af here but…I think culturally, they aren’t nearly as cynical as we are about the corporate hellscape, at least not publicly.
The attitude seems to be that companies, especially Nintendo, are a home-country brand, seen as successful and good at business, and therefore should be respected for it.
This is the likely the same attitude that leads to their abysmal work culture that prizes literally working yourself to death, or at least as close to it as you can.
I think the death grip is loosening though, primarily driven by younger generations seeing through the bullshit.
And that’s where you put up little martin hotels, to encourage dozens of those adorable little high-velocity mosquito-slayers to move in, which could make living in Oklahoma somewhat bearable!