punkfungus

I’m playing Baldur’s Gate 3 at the moment. I was 30 hours in before I realised I could fast travel directly from the map screen instead of walking back to a sigil. In my defence the previous game I played worked that way, and I’m playing on a TV which is fairly far away so the text is hard to read.

Not wrong about OP, but also both major desktop environments on linux ship with “app stores” that are friendly to anyone familiar with a phone. So it’s still easier installing software on linux than searching for and downloading .msi and .exe files on the internet (and hoping the version of MSI afterburner you found is the real one).

That just sounds like your keyboard is broken. Your keyboard switching its own functions does not involve the OS

This one is the rarest of the game

This one is less rare but actually more difficult. Far more people attempt it so it has a higher achievement rate.

Paper slicing is a reasonable test, but you still have to make sure you’re getting rid of the burr. A burr will cut paper just fine but in actual use will dull very quickly. Having at least one finer grit and a strop makes this fairly easy. Doing it on one grit can be quite tricky.

+1 to not stressing about it though, half my knives have a patchwork look of different bevel angles along them from learning to sharpen. So long as the current bevel is consistent all the way to the apex they work just fine. Presumably a knife that is being sharpened is meant to be used and not admired for its looks.

You should be glad it’s apologizing. On the occasions I’ve used it to try to actually write code for me it’s had a tendency to blame me for its mistakes.

It writes a function that gets stuck in an infinitely recursive loop that never exits, I point it out and it’s all “Aha! You’ve fallen for a classic recursion trap!” What do you mean I’ve fallen for it?

Between those experiences and seeing the hot garbage some of my coworkers vibe coded, it was enough for me to relegate LLMs purely to the “ask questions that you would have searched for on StackOverflow” role. And it frustrates me that search was made so impotent that it’s not a real option to avoid the LLM entirely. The multiple answers and perspectives on SO were often really valuable.

You go on believing that wild straw man version of me you’ve conjured up buddy.

That’s very obviously a figure of speech, and you’re very obviously motivated to interpret it literally just to have something to attack me over.

I’m curious exactly how I ended up in this hypothetical scenario where I’m in your way, and you are apparently justified in mowing me down because I don’t want to hear your music.

Charming. “I get to either blast my music at you, or maim/kill you with my vehicle, your choice”. You sound like a wonderful person.

So to summarize this conversation, I expressed that it would be nice if people stopped blasting their music in natural spaces. Then you projected a whole bunch of bad intentions onto me, expressed that you believe you have a right to rape everyone’s earholes, and that if someone dares suggest you not do that they are an ableist bully and you’re ready to pull a knife on them.

But I’m the problem because I’m being unreasonable and impolite.

Then you have the gall to suggest earplugs. The default state for people not blasting music is that they are not imposing on anyone. The default state of people blasting music is that they are imposing on everyone. How about you get some headphones?

The person upset at being imposed upon by people doesn’t see the hypocrisy as they angrily defend their behaviour of imposing upon others.

The chip on your shoulder might be visible from orbit.

You seem to have some issues going on, and you’re projecting an awful lot of malice onto random strangers who don’t like someone else’s loud music imposed on them. I hope you work through those issues buddy

We literally never stop accommodating you. Are you being physically confronted over your music in public all the time? I doubt it.

We live in a populous world and the “I need loud music at all times” folk have absolutely no boundaries. There is nowhere to go where there is no chance of disturbance. Which is why it would be nice if some people would back off of blasting music in places of respite.

I found it kinda funny that enabling the marketplace in VSCodium was your example here, given how much of a vector for malware that is itself. It’s malware all the way down.

You can download .vsix extensions from the marketplace and import them into VSCodium manually just FYI. And it won’t auto update so it will save you next time a supply chain attack inevitably hits and starts infecting new versions. Assuming the downloaded version isn’t infected in the first place of course.

It’s possible, I’m just wary because mushrooms seem to be a very popular topic for AI slop generation. The picture you linked shows the stipe looking more like I’d expect so it could be the particular combination of lighting and macro lens making it so gold and reflective in the post here. Very rare indeed to find any kind of mushroom totally clean of any dirt though, particularly in such a wet environment. I can’t really look any deeper because I don’t do Instagram.

Fungi are indeed magical and sometimes quite alien. I do some of my own macro fungi photography.

I suspect this isn’t real. For one thing it looks nothing like Gliophorus versicolor, and for another it looks far too perfect for any mushroom found in the wild.

I went with the Qidi Q1 Pro and I’ve been very happy with it. Orca Slicer’s built in profiles for it have worked great so I didn’t have to tinker. It runs Fluidd so once it was connected to the local network I could monitor and control it that way (and it will display directly in Orca Slicer).

There is a setting in the printer’s interface to restrict it to local network only (and just to be absolutely certain I blocked it in my firewall as well). There are no penalties for not connecting it to the internet.

It continues to have strong player numbers in general, which is probably why it never goes on a decent sale. Best I’ve seen is 25% off launch price. My patient gamer ass is not paying that for a years old game, no matter how good it is.

Canon does make Linux drivers for at least some of their printers (like mine), but they can be hard to find. I can’t remember exactly how I got to mine but I know it took a few attempts.

Maybe you’re particularly unlucky though, because my Canon works perfectly with either the built in CUPS driver or the one from Canon.

I was watching live when Trump called in, and the astronauts were clearly trying to emphasize the benefits of diversity and co-operation, and I’m quite sure none of that sunk in. Trump was too busy mispronouncing names, not knowing the difference between the name of the mission and the name of the craft, big noting his own role in funding NASA (while his administration has been actively attacking NASA) and generally waffling on because he likes to listen to himself speak.

The next call after that also had the NASA director comment something like “I’m sure this call won’t be as special as that last one” whereupon commander Wiseman burst out laughing so I’m pretty confident those involved in the mission are not in Trump’s camp. Which is to be expected, because their jobs require them to be humans with functioning brains.