simoncion

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by simoncion 3d ago
> Honest question: If the feds were actually tracking you on your way to church, how does that impact you? Why do you suppose that stalking is illegal? Before you write up any "clever" retorts, remember that many illegal acti
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by simoncion 3d ago
> ChatGPT was the fastest growing software of all time not that long ago. Google+ was the fastest-growing social network of all time not that long ago. When you're one of a pair of VC darlings that have effectively-infinite money
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by simoncion 5d ago
> If you believe Epstein was some puppet-master of the ruling class... Huh? The guy was a fixer for upper-crusters. Think "That sales guy who can -and is willing to- do anything for a client to close a big sale" times a milli
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by simoncion 5d ago
> Windows also does a neat trick Linux lacks: automatically adding more swap, up to a limit. Given that one can have swap files , and can also use LVM LVs for swap, and given that userspace OOM killers that work way better than the bu
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by simoncion 5d ago
My short answer is "Not frequently, but when I do, I'd be very angry about having to screw around repartitioning a disk instead of fiddling with an LV, VG, or some PVs.". I use LVM on all my non-appliance Linux systems, [0]
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by simoncion 5d ago
And using LVM for "partitioning" bypasses a lot of this silliness. Do 'lvcreate --contiguous' and you should be good to go if you're using most any non-toy initrd. Given that every r/w filesystem you're go
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by simoncion 5d ago
> Can you fathom that childhood is only tiny part of everyone life... The loudest parents absolutely cannot. I don't know if this is because of the sleep-deprivation-induced brain damage that caring for a tiny human for their first
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by simoncion 5d ago
> It should be “is this a child-locked device?” No, that leaves vulnerable adults unprotected. It should be "Is my thing in one of the categories of things that this device says this user is not permitted to do? If so, I shall not
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by simoncion 7d ago
> Not that they wouldn't mess up all the time... Sounds like being required to ship a "complete working game" didn't matter much . Weird. > And paid expansions were often the size of a whole game by themselves. An
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by simoncion 7d ago
> They need to continually attract new players. I'm not so sure about that, but otherwise agree with your comment. I'll gently point back to my hunch that many (most?) of the NMS updates are large-scale tests for things they&
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by simoncion 7d ago
> It wasn't an actual game on launch and it's barely one now. I'd argue that it was barely a game at launch, and it's still barely a game today... it has always been a sandbox with very little game in it, and that&#
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by simoncion 7d ago
> ...my impression is that they are releasing updates to No Man's Sky as a marketing effort... Given that they don't (often? ever?) advertise Light No Fire alongside the NMS updates, I'd say that the updates into NMS are l
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by simoncion 7d ago
> I come back after every major update and still find myself bored after a few hours. Yep, me too. It's a decent sandbox to spend a bit of time in, and it's fine that that's all it is. > Adding new content is great, but
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by simoncion 7d ago
> I could play for two hours and still feel like I accomplished nothing except for "interacting with the world". Two hours is like three or twelve story missions, depending on where in the story you are. Did you spend most of t
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by simoncion 7d ago
> the game now has Y and Z. i did not purchase the game expecting those updates. Yeah. Back in the day, those would almost always be paid expansions... if not whole-ass sequels. There's a subset of video game players these days who
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by simoncion 7d ago
> I think people are regurgitating takes from early in the game's development... Some are, sure. But -I say as someone who enjoys the game for what it is and still pops in every now and again to mess around with it- there's not
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by simoncion 7d ago
> I think you're conflating different requirements/usecases. I disagree. protoculture's core statement seems to be: A lot of people think VMWare Workstation is the pinnacle product of the company and I have NFI how thi
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by simoncion 7d ago
> Understanding alien languages isn't fun (and weirdly, has no UX thought put into it?) FWIW, most of the systems in the game that have been there since the beginning have changed significantly since v1. IIRC, back in the v1 days yo
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by simoncion 9d ago
> I actually had so many troubles with vmware on windows... I assume this means that you were using Vmware Workstation? The VDDK is for Vmware vSphere , which -IIRC- runs on Linux and coordinates computers running ESXi, which are where
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by simoncion 9d ago
Two things: 1) What I called "automated content detection" is apparently called "automated content recognition", abbreviated as "ACR". 2) That weeks, months, or years of locally-stored activity I mentioned can
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by simoncion 9d ago
> And what exactly would they use that particular access path for ? Uploading the weeks, months, or years of locally-stored activity [0] data? Text compresses really well and local storage used to be very cheap. [0] ...mic voice transc
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by simoncion 16d ago
> I am not convinced you processed what I wrote... I did. There's at least one huge hole that the system -as described- seems to not account for: > If they use an official [root partition] published by their distro, then it is
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by simoncion 17d ago
To summarize: stickynotememo: "How would you install packages (or update the kernel)?" You: «You'd use sudo or su (of course) but I'm going to distract you from that with an advertisement for the work I'm doing on m
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by simoncion 23d ago
> I usually don't have to walk more than a block or two to find one. That is not the situation in most of the city, whether it be "nice" parts or "nasty" parts. Restaurant districts tend to have more trash cans
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by simoncion 24d ago
I have a 10gbit LAN running over fiber with Mikrotik switches and cheapo Intel NICs. Works fine, and it makes remote disks quite a bit nicer than when they are over 1gbit.
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by simoncion 26d ago
> The current rate for a two bedroom in most of SF... And the thing about that "two bedroom" is that it probably would have been classified as a one bedroom ~fifteen years ago. Much-to-most of the time, an "N-bedroom&quo
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by simoncion 28d ago
> I certainly get a lot of websites that give me extra hassle about accessing from here, or some simply refuse to load at all. That's fuckin lame. Thanks for the detailed reply.
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by simoncion 28d ago
Hmm. I'm using Firefox on a full-sized computer (that is, not a phone or tablet). Do you get different results with Firefox on a full-sized computer, or is that your primary web browser? > Somehow Reddit thinks I care enough about t
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by simoncion 28d ago
Ooh! Are you doing that with xorg or Wayland? If with xorg, have you verified that VRR is working? [0] If you've verified it, how'd you make it work? It'd be quite nice to have both multi-monitor and VRR... unless I have to
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by simoncion 28d ago
> They finally killed the `old.reddit.com` subdomain for logged-out users this week... Is it a gradual shutdown? [0] works just fine for me, and I don't and have never had a Reddit account so I'm always logged out. I've vi

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