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  • I'll just accuse the person of never intending to make friends in the first place and say this instead: No. Go after people who actually act on these things directly instead of coming up with these little bizarre steparound antics ..

    ..trying to spin things as a '''lost chance at friendmaking''. Or get better at pretending.

  • What's the most irresponsible purchase you made that you don't regret?
  • An 8 inch mini monitor. I find myself . . . using it for everyyyyythhiiinnnng. Videos, documentation, Remote Desktop Sessions etc etc etc. It even has composite and BNC so I could hook up a playstation if I wanted to. :)

    I bought it just because the thought of having it was funny. And holy crap the size difference!!

  • Favorite colors are lame. What is your favorite color gradient?
  • 'videogame ice effect'

    I seriously love the over-the-top ice shaders used in all those early 2000s games. Ice always looked amazing, just this super bright white with pearlescent whitish-blue highlights that shimmered at odd angles and stuff. It's so cool.

    Like the bridge tunnel in IceFields from HaloPC in 2003.

    Or the almost-fully-transparent ice tunnel in Crysis Warhead (and firefall. Firefall had AMAZING ice shaders, it had some direction-based visual stuff going on where it had volumetric speckles all throuought the foot-thick ice).

    Honestly: ice-themed anything looks cool to me, color-wise

  • How often do you consume the stuff you pirate? How do you avoid "hoarding"?
  • I just watch and delete because I don't ever really watch anything more than a few times anyways.

    The only kind of stuff I've ever made backups of is dev software and old keygens because . well - that kind of stuff disappears too easily with the new&shiny fad.

  • CDs are better than vinyl and most people listen to music on systems that sound dreadful
  • There's also funfactor in having physical media and limited choice. A phone with an entire collection on it is just. . plain. standard. even boring. And the handicapped phone UI ruins the rest of the smartphone experience if you wanna do other things with the phone other than listen to music.

    Modern CD players also read newer formats, unlike the old-stock CD players off of ebay from 30+ years ago that only read raw CDA tracks

  • ‘Mocking god’: Religious right melts down over ‘Satantic’ Olympic opening ceremonies
  • It's fun to watch all the horrible religious missionary type people and tongue-amputators outing themselves like flies to a honeypot.

    People be trying sooo hard to sound like Gul Darheel the Butcher, 'scum' this 'i'll make you bow' that, lol!


    Alsoooooooo. . People depict the last supper all the time. This isn't pakistan - there's no death sentence for imitation.

    Unless you wanna go around lynching and yellow-badge-registrar'ing every four year old child who ever copycatted a religious painting in badly scribbled crayon.

  • Is it a good idea to get a high wattage phone charging brick and standard USB C cord to use for a laptop charger?
  • As long as it supports the USB-C PowerDelivery standard and has the supported voltages and wattage needed to do so. Most laptops will need 20v.

    For chargers as small as those little phone-bricks the main problems would probably be the wiregauge of the USBC cable and the heat. Being so small and without exhaust vents I imagine the poor little charger would be at risk of early heat death. But it's doable

    I've been able to normal-charge a 15 inch IdeaPad 82R9 using a little 1x1 inch 35watt GaN charger. But this was with the CPU locked to not go over 25% load(this laptop is FAST even with this sacrifice) and it makes that little charger get pretty hot. Without that CPU limit in place it actually drains faster than the charger can charge.

  • Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal
  • Of course there's a fee. Do they not realize how expensive it is to fileserve useless videogame data, provide versioning for that, updater systems, workshop storage, curation, promotion etc etc. . . without help?

    Is there not a fee for your competing storefront? How would it fund its daily operations?

  • Do you ever use the Internet Archive for anything?
  • I once used it every day for about two weeks trying to track down the original helpfiles and maxscript documentation for 3dsmax 4 and blender for windowsME. .. across various dead webpages, etc etc. Only ended up finding it on some completely unrelated warez disk. As for the really really old blender version? I don't remember. I don't even think I have the files anymore

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    Bianca_0089 @lemmy.today

    IMO buying an old PC and dedicating it just to retrogaming or youtube is a waste of COMPUTER potential.

    It's always been more fun to see people trying to actually program or do things like explore old software or play with ancient peripherals

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