How many millions did they pay to some yuppie marketing firm to come up with this jack-assery.
Awww shucks. Thanks. I appreciate the compliment.
thinks he’s being handed the power to write regulations for his own companies
As soon as Kamala said in the debate that Trump can be entirely coerced with flattery and fawning, I picture Elon watching that and jumping up shouting EUREKA!
I have a couple of 80s Rokkors that I use with a speedbooster on my lumix g9, a 50mm and a 35mm. Despite having to do some math in terms of converting things like focal length, etc... because of the adaptor, It's WELL worth it.
I made a Bluesky account and I'll generally try to post to it the same amount as my Mastodon account. But despite the so called "exodus" from Twitter, I don't find Bluesky to have any of the people I'm interested in following any more than Mastodon does. So it's a wash.
I'm keeping it around to see if more of my friends show up. But that's about all.
Oh man...I have an entire ten page paper on the go about this topic and it just keeps growing. One day I'll publish it in a blog or something, but for now it's just me vomiting up my thoughts about mass market manufacturing and the loss of zeitgeist.
The examples that I always use are a) Camera Lenses, b) Typewriters, and c) watches.
Mechanical things age individually, developing a sort of Kami, or personality of their own. Camera lenses wear out differently, develop lens bokehs that are unique. Their apertures breath differently as they age No two old mechanical camera lenses are quite the same. Similarly to typewriters; usage creates individual characteristics, so much so that law enforcement can pinpoint a particular typewriter used in a ransom note.
It's something that we've lost in a mass produced world. And to me, that's a loss of unimaginable proportions.
Consider a pocket watch from the civil war, passed down from generation to generation because it was special both in craftsmanship and in connotation. Who the hell is passing their Apple Watch down from generation to generation? No one....because it's just plastic and metal junk in two years. Or buying a table from Ikea versus buying one made bespoke by your neighbour down the street who wood works in his garage. Which of those is worthy of being an heirloom?
If our things are in part what informs the future of our role in the zeitgeist, what do we have except for mounds of plastic scrap.
I'm pessimistic that it will actually hold until election day. But the thought of potentially sending Hank Hill back to his propane and propane accessories job brings me some joy.
I generally never last very long in a playthrough of The Long Dark
On the safety issue, I have a personal pet theory that a lot of "sudden acceleration events" in Teslas come from the one pedal system they use for both gas and break.
We're dealing with decades of ingrained muscle memory that says when you're about to hit something/lose control/etc.. you slam on the brakes. I know in some vehicles they say "in case of emergency, turn off one-pedal mode". But seriously, in a split second emergency you're going to remember to do that?
Phillip J. Fry is getting very very tired of questioning his state of shock...
12% of Democrats say Kamala Harris should do the same if she loses.
I'm increasingly of the opinion that no matter what happens, Donald J. Trump should not be allowed to take power and should be prevented from doing so by any means necessary. If he somehow wins this election, his sentencing for the 34 felony charges needs to immediately decided before January 6th before he has a chance to quash it.
Well no shit. He figured out that as long as you never "release" a finished game, you're not going to be blamed for "bugs" while still collecting money on in-game purchases.
There's a reason he made sure that the in-game store was perfected and ready to go long before the game was anywhere near completed. It's been the plan ever since he and his team realized that the ultimate scope was likely out of their reach.
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gray ball, about the size of a typical dodge-ball.
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Featureless, sexless "humanoid"; like a "suggestion of a person" or a "fuzzy shadow".
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Round table. Nondescript. Most similar to one of those tall, small round tables you find in pubs. But again, featureless.
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Nothing happens when the human pushes it. The human can't push it because the human has no physical form.
I think it differs a bit from province to province in Canada, but where I'm at, you can either work 8.5 hours with a half hour lunch, or 9 hours with a 1 hour lunch. It's up to the employer. 15 minute breaks are paid, but not guaranteed (if it's busy). Lunch breaks are unpaid and mandatory.
Similar to you, but I can't remember if it was a potato.
Like others, ive had things go down the wrong pipe before; everyone has. But this time it was completely blocked; no air in or out.
I live alone, so it was the scariest moment of my life. By the time I was able to dislodge it enough to breath by slamming my diaphragm down against the edge of a counter enough times, my eyesight had already begun to go dark.
Thought for sure that that was it for me right there.
Please tell me you just forgot the /s tag...
JT just needs to announce who's on the list and I'm willing to bet we'll see why exactly PP doesn't want a background check done on him.
Didn't say anything about auto-updating. Just can't be bleeding edge and use proprietary drivers, that's all. Other (AMD) use the open source drivers, so they don't have that issue. And that's great. But if you use the NVIDIA propietary drivers, you can't race ahead of them.
That doesn't make the drivers bad; they work perfectly fine; and have far far far better performance than AMD. There's just the trade-off that you can't be bleeding edge when using them.
You take the good you take the bad you take them both and there you have...the facts of life.
You're argument that drivers are bad because you can't fuck around with your system without them breaking is disingenuous. If you buy a brand new Wacom tablet, and it turns out that it's too new and the Kernel doesn't support it yet, or no one has written a patch to get it working, you don't claim that Wacom is a shit company. It's just a fact of life that you have to wait for either the kernel to update or for someone to get a patch working.
But when it comes to NVIDIA...holy shit... WORST, period, COMPANY, period, EVER!!!! And that's just hypocritical.
Not an assumption.
I freely admit that it's an anecdotal fallacy in that it's based entirely on my own experience and may or may not reflect the larger reality. But it would only be an assumption if it's something that I was just guessing was true, whereas I've been around the Linux world long enough to see it first hand.
Disk and Device Manager Popup appearing twice
This is a relatively new issue, although I don't recall any recent updates that would have caused it.
When I plug in a USB stick or other device, the disk and device manager pops up twice; one is the normal one away from the edge of the screen, it goes away after about five seconds (like it should)
The second, behind it, is tucked up right against the edge of the screen and does not go away until I trigger and then minimize my application launcher.
Any ideas? I'm running Wayland because of the Maalit keyboard. Haven't tried to see if it duplicates it with X11.
StreetComplete vs Organic Maps
Just a super quick question about helping to update the map locations.
Between StreetComplete and Organic Maps, which is faster for submitting recommended changes to the OSM team in regards to things like business hours, etc...
Someday soon (if it hasn't already happened) a book will be published that was written and edited entirely on a phone/tablet with a touch keyboard.
I can't even imagine writing long form on a touch keyboard. But with a lot of people eschewing laptops/desktops for their mobile devices, it's really just a matter of time.
edited: Missed a "T" in the title.
A passenger was kicked off the flight after asking for a blanket and every other passenger got off with her
Just immediately reminded me of this gem from a while ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3BtmeUhOHU
Manjaro on Chromebook
I finally pulled the trigger on replacing my ChromeOS completely with Manjaro using the Mrchromebox script. Other than some glitching getting the audio to work correctly, everything runs great.
For the first two years I had this chromebook (Asus 433 flip) I thought that it wasn't worth the risk and that running the debian container via Crostini was plenty good enough.
Well it turns out that:
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A. No...it wasn't much of a risk at all. It was actually really smooth, including disconnecting the battery to disable the hardware write protect. I honestly don't know what I was worried about. and
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B. I may have thought Crostini was good enough. But man oh man...it's a night and day difference having Linux running natively on this old girl rather than through a container that had to boot up every time I use the first linux app of the day.
Anyway. Just wanted to share. Been using Manjaro on pretty much all of my computers for years, and now I can take the "pretty much" away and just say "all of them."
Minimal Menu?
So....I updated my Manjaro to Plasma 6. Any chance that Minimal Menu (or something similar) exists?
I was not happy to find it gone. It's been a part of my system for so long that I honestly just forgot it wasn't default.
Now it doesn't even show up in the widget search and I'm honestly not sure I can live without it, largely because I can choose to centre it in the display on launch rather than having to choose either a) full-screen or b) right above the icon.
I can't even describe how upsetting it was to reboot after the update....
Say what you will about the Will Smith iRobot movie....
The researchers said their new robot can synch its facial expression with yours. You know, to make it friendlier.
...but its robot designs were well ahead of the curve for the time.
Open Creative
Just popping in to post about a community to discuss FOSS creative software like GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Kdenlive, Blender, etc...
https://lemmy.ca/c/open_creative
I've used them all at one time or another. Since moving to FOSS as much as possible ten years ago, I've learned a LOT about most of the programs, and consider myself a near expert in some (Kdenlive, GIMP) and fairly competent in others (Blender, Scribus).
I feel like having a place where anyone who uses FOSS creative software can both ask questions, share advice, and celebrate each others works, would be a nice addition to the Fediverse.
So feel free to join and post your work, your questions, your news or your tips and tricks.
I'm a one man band as far as modding and maintaining for now, so thanks in advance for your patience while I learn how it all works on the back end.
GIMP Segmentation Fault - FYI
Anyone having a recent segmentation fault with GIMP 2.10.36 when closing a file without saving changes, the issue has been fixed and will be merged into the next point release. 2.10.38.
More info here: (scroll to bottom) https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/10785
Video Editing Practice Footage
Putting this out into the community for anyone who needs it.
When I was first learning video editing, I had trouble finding good narrative content to practice with. There was plenty of stock footage, etc... but nothing scripted where you could craft a scene between two characters.
Cinestudy is the best for that. In fact I'm using footage from there for a book that I've been working on about narrative editing in Kdenlive.
https://cinestudy.org/
Welcome to Open Creative
One of the main things that I have been missing in Lemmy since moving over from the other site has been the myriad communities for the various bits of FOSS software I use on a regular basis.
Any any given day, I'll use Kdenlive, LibreOffice, Blender, Gimp and Scribus in the course of getting work done both personally and professionally, and I kept waiting for the day when I wouldn't have to go back to the other site to keep up to date with them.
While some (Blender) eventually got communities in the fediverse of their own, few are very active. So I felt that I should at least try to create my own in the hopes that it draws some activity.
So if you're joining because of a shared love of FOSS creative software, welcome. I'm hoping to post news and other articles from around the web, as well as being a place for questions and advice from user to user.
Maybe it'll be just as dead as all the others. But I hope not.
As someone who worked (briefly) as a freelance writer online, the tl;dr bot is my enemy and I want it dead.
The tl;dr bot that pops up on every link to an article on Lemmy is depriving those websites of clicks, which deprives them of ad revenue.
The only thing that will accomplish is forcing those websites to do the very thing that we rail about; replacing their writers with crappy A.I because they can't afford to pay for actual content.
We rail against the enshitification of the internet, but when there's a legitimate way to fight back by giving these websites a page view/read/click etc... so that they can attract advertisers, we would rather have a bot summarize it for us, giving them nothing.
Can't Connect Android Phone to ChromeOS - Wrong Password (Even though I KNOW it's correct)
Like the title says. Just upgraded my Android phone, got it set up and working like a charm. Went to connect it to my chromebook in the chromebook settings and it won't let me get past the "sign in with your google account" screen.
Keeps saying "wrong password". But not only have I been already using that account/password not only on the new Android Phone, but on my Chromebook for the last year...but I also LITERALLY copied and pasted it from my bitwarden account after it failed to take the typed password three times.
I'm stumped. Help please. Thanks in advance.
Three Months of Blender Practice.
I feel like I've come a long way, but still feel like I have a long way to go before I feel truly good.
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Stumbling a bit on how to get some animations to work correctly, (gauges and gear doors where the local axis doesn't line up with the global axis). But making some good progress on getting the details modelled in.
Content search?
Does Jerboa's search function only work for communities or am I don't something wrong?
On the web, as well as other apps, a search brings up the choice between communities, users, comments and posts.
Haven't been able to make that work on Jerboa.