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How can I improve my handwriting?
  • id suggest finding a style you like online, print off a few pages of text thats fairly large. then trace the original to train your hand where and how to move. then practice without tracing.

    No clue if it would actually work, but thats what i did when i got into calligraphy

  • PSI
  • i have 2 blue and gold macaws, and let me tell you, not much stops that beak when it wants to get through something. walnuts, hazelnuts, brazil nuts...child's play!

    i have to feed my guys 2x4s so they dont eat my house!

  • Tough Trolly Choices
  • id pull the right one

  • Nanaimo SPCA caging humans during Saturday’s Lock-in for Love event
  • wish i still lived there, id be all over that.

    my issue would be telling anyone around to NOT donate so i can stay locked up with the fury buggers longer! Since i have big assed birds now, i cannot have cats or dogs and i do miss them!

  • Gottem
  • my birds thank you for your act of revenge

  • Hello, PC gaming here: Are the consoles OK?
  • the factory much must grow

    i gotta learn to spell

  • The difference between sport bikes and cruisers
  • I have very mixed feelings about the bike tbh. Its the fastest bike ive ever owned bar none. It handles great at high speed, as it should since it was made for it. However after an hour or two, im super sore having to hold my head up like that while laying on the tank. I'm more built to lean back and cruse but got this bike for a screaming deal that i couldnt refuse. But damn is it fun, never had a bike that wants to lift the front wheel going into 3rd gear at 100+kph before.

  • The difference between sport bikes and cruisers

    I'm in my 40s and just got my first sport bike, been riding dirt bikes before I was 10 and street bikes by 14. I've always liked cruisers and choppers, never had a crotch rocket style.

    After a month of having a cbr600f2, I'm convince there is a correlation with how kids slept as as babies and what bikes they like to ride (if at all)

    Babies who slept on their backs better, like cruisers, babies who preferred to sleep on their bellies, like sport bikes!

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    Ant smell
  • i want to know how many things people had to snarf before realizing it was a tiny bug that they are smelling. how many ants were lost in noses over the years from people testing the theory?

  • LAN party from 2003
  • i can smell that room through my monitor, and 22 years later

  • There was very little wind in the 80s/90s as a result
  • i had at least 3 sets at all times back then.

    damn im old, stop reminding me ok?

  • 3dfx Voodoo - the graphics card that revolutionized PC gaming
  • i think i had a banshee at one time too, omfg im old

  • 3dfx Voodoo - the graphics card that revolutionized PC gaming
  • i cant remember what voodoo 3dfx i had, but seem to remember it was a good one. i even took off the original heatsink and put on my own cooler with fan (it had none, or a super small one if i remember right)

  • Cannabis
  • this is actually one thing that has pissed me off for 30+ years. to be fair, there is 2-3 types, one for smoking, one for hemp products (non smoking/not getting high) and the wild kind.

  • Nothing is stopping a single individual from controlling 100 accounts on Lemmy to upvote and downvote whatever they want
  • wait, so i am you, and you are me. would that make us one big happy family?

  • Which do you prefer? A triple monitor setup? Or one single 32:9 ultrawide monitor?
  • as someone who games on 3 27" curved screens, i think id like a single screen with no bezel much better

  • [Game] Farming Simulator 22 (Free)[Epic Games Store]
  • Yup, sure seems free to me!

  • [Game] Farming Simulator 22 (Free)[Epic Games Store]
  • Downloading it now. I've actually been wanting the game for a while now. Not sure how they can offer it for free, or maybe it'll just stop working after the sale. Perhaps its just a way to get us to buy the expansion packs. Either way, I'll be enjoying it while it lasts!

  • At some point in the future there will be a movement to completely drop all computer technology for privacy reasons
  • hutterites/mennonites already exist

    im sure there are more, but thats all that comes to mind right now

  • OMG Thank you bethesda

    Yeah, i cannot believe im actually saying this where it can be archived and thrown in my face at a later time, but damn. Thank you bethesda for FINALLY baking ultrawide into the game, now I dont need janky mods to make things work and look proper anymore! Dont get me wrong, the folks who made the mods I was using did a 1000x better job than I could have ever done, but im glad bethesda actually did it, seems to work great so far.

    Wonder if I can get my orginal save back up and running again.

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    Hey, so I'm back!
  • Oooof, guess im not all that well liked here!

    Banhammer incoming!!!!

  • Hey, so I'm back!

    Finally done the move, still setting up but at least I'm back online!

    Looks like shit kinda hit the fan a few times while I was gone, did y'all really miss me that much?

    I wont be online as often for a week or two still, but soon enough!

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    Open call for new a mod or two

    As most of you might remember, I had asked a little while ago how to go about picking a new mod (or two) to help out.

    First off, there is little to no work actually involved other than checking in, last report was 9 days ago, and when things like the bots who were mass posting happen, the admin are on top of that real fast and it was done and over with by the time I logged in again. I'm not asking because the workload is requiring it, no, its more that I was wanting at least one more person. This way a community this size (i have no idea if ours is considered large or active tbh) can have more than one active mod. Much less chance of perceived bias here, now there has been no mention of it to me but I don't want it to get that far even.

    I'm looking for one or two more folks to help out around here. This job is paid with bits and bytes sent to your pc or phone while your on this site, so do with them bytes and bits as you see fit, in accordance with all laws mind you. I'm more than willing to send you a digital cookie 🍪 once a month if that helps out.

    I'm not looking to pass the torch and split, like our last overlord, however if something would happen to me or my internet for a long spell, only the admin could pass off the mod to someone else.

    Anyone up for the job?

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    I think we need another mod

    Not like there is a lot of work, or reports. You are all a good bunch, plus the admin team seems to get to most of the reports before I do, making me more or less useless!

    So I'm thinking of bringing on someone else, this way I cant be bias, well less chance anyways, and the guy who got me to mod seems to have gone away, never to be found again. Hope hes safe!

    But yeah, I think one person being a mod with a community this large is not right. How do you all want me to pick the next superhero mod here? Eeny, meeny, miny, moe seems like a great idea to me, but I'm a stoner.

    Thoughts?

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    Ultrawide - Superwide

    Come across a few different aspect ratios, however 5760x1080 seems to be for rare idiots like me with 3-27" curved. My current setup is not ideal, but modding my desk today so im not so close.

    Overkill? Oh yeah, but I do enjoy it!

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    Controversial games of the past.

    I'm just sitting here thinking about all the hoopla around palworld right now and I was wondering what other titles out there have been in the controversy filled category in the past few years/decade? I can think of a few, but my game interests are kinda narrow.

    What are some of your picks?

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    I'm breaking the rules!

    Well, since the last idea I had for the community crashed, burned and the ashes blew away in the wind. So for shits and giggles I'm giving 24hrs to post basically whatever.

    No NSFW, or other stuff that breaks the basic rules of lemmy, just dont be me...dont be a dick.

    I'm posting this pic cause im wondering if the speakers are overkill? whats not shown is the 4speaker centre channel, or the exact matching rear speakers that are the same as the fronts. Fine. You twisted my rubber arm, I'll clean and take a current pic and post it in a bit.

    Lets see your setups...the 'battlestation' community here on lemmy is just a reddit repost bot and wont let original content.

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    What am I doing wrong?

    I'm kinda new to linux, however I seem to remember running a headless ububtu server years back. Also remember it took a long time to setup being my first headless server.

    So, to my current issues. I just installed mint on an old pc and just want to use it to run my security cams, store the files, and host my nas. Took me over 6 hours to get the raid setup properly, so much differing information on 'how to' for noobs like myself, but managed to get it working and moving files over to raid file now.

    Coming from mostly windows crap most of my life, its confusing where and how the raid is setup, and honestly I'm still not convinced I did it right, but everything I check says it is, and I'm sure it knows better than I do.

    Ok, now the issue, how in the ever lovin shit can I just share that stupid folder/disk to my network. 90% of the options are greyed out while looking at the properties tab, and need sudo access to change it, so whats the point in having the gui? Am I just dumb and smoked way too many doobies? Got samba installed, but not configured yet, only cause I ran across much more conflicting info, some said in mint its easy like windows...right click and share that shit, easy right? Even I didn't think so, and I'm ok with that, I'm really sick of windows and want to convert all the pc's but damn....stiff learning curve.

    Don't get me wrong, I ran DOS back in the day, and I was not bad at it, better than your normal user at the time but by no means a power user. So I should be able to grab the concept quickly, but I am failing. Total of 12 hrs on this now and considering just putting win7 back on this pig and giving up.

    I know no one can give me direct answers, and not looking for tech support, but looking for advice so im not wanting to 'hulk smash' this thing

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    Meme Monday is now live!

    Lets try our first Meme Monday and see how it goes!

    Lets keep it SFW, and pc gaming related. If you think its appropriate, post it and lets find out together. If it gets lots of downvotes, I wont remove it, but that will give me a good baseline for next week.

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    Free Friday is now over

    I'll be renaming it next week, hopefully we get some more interest next week, if not, no big deal. Hit and a miss, but I'm trying!

    0
    Free Friday Today!

    Hello All!

    Today is our first Free Friday (title change suggestions welcome)

    Rules 0-3 are in effect still, however tech support, build & game suggestions/questions and just about anything else you can think of, pc gaming related, is fair game today. Please save the meme's till monday tho.

    If you have a youtube channel, I dont mind you posting a single video, but its gotta be a lets-play or commentary about pc games/gaming. Please dont be posting your homies channel, or some creator you really like...lets keep this local to us for the time being.

    You have an idea thats not listed above? Post it and lets find out how the community reacts, but still better follow the basic common sense rules above.

    So, the first official Free Friday is now open!

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    Opening up the community a little

    A while ago I had asked everyone what their opinion on changing up the community here a little. Nothing major, but maybe drum up some other content. No shame to the regular posters, keep doing your thing, I am not trying to shut you out or even hint that I, or really anyone, objects to what you bring here.

    I do however have a couple ideas for 'theme days', and any ideas you have are welcome. I am not planning on turning every day into a theme, but was thinking of - Meme Monday, where meme's are not against the rules, as long as they are PC gaming related. I was also thinking of - Free Friday, so as long as its pc related, or gaming related, its ok to post. So if you want to ask about game suggestions, tech support, or something else in the off topic side, barring NSFW, ads, spam...etc, friday is the day.

    Now there are communities built around those I have suggested already out there, so if anyone feels like it would pollute our community, or have other objections, please let me know.

    If there is no real pushback, tomorrow will be set for our first free friday, lets see how it goes. I'm going to learn myself how to make/get a bot to auto post as reminders when it starts and ends seeing as we don't all live in the same timezone. Since I am in western Canada, and follow mountain time, for the time being, I'll use my timezone as the 'standard' for the theme days. this may change depending on how everyone feels.

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    Can you take the lint from your dryer and make clothing?

    I know its not quite that simple, I'd have to make thread first, and after I get enough, make clothing out of it. Could this actually be done? I can sew, but never made my own clothing nor have I ever made thread, so I don't know if it could actually be done or not. I'm 100% sure the time and effort would not be worth it, or money spent on stuff to produce the thread, etc. But looking at my lint garbage pale made me wonder.

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    How do empty nesters deal with over cooking?

    So, kids are gone, ex and I are no longer together (hence ex i guess lol) and I still find I over cook, I try to use less but it seems if I cook much more than a box of macaroni its too much. Sure I save leftovers, but one can only eat so much leftovers.

    How have you dealt with over cooking? Or maybe I'm the only one?

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    Mod Post

    So we have been around for a little while now and I was wondering what everyone's thoughts are for our little community. Do you have any ideas for changes, do you like it the way it is, should we open up the rules a bit, or maybe I should activate the delete button more often?

    I currently have no plans to change things up, its been a super easy job being a mod here. Please don't take this as I'm looking to overhaul the community at all, just want to know what you all think about the future of PC Gaming. Thoughts and suggestions are welcome

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    One of the few places in Canada I have not visited yet.

    I've been through most of Canada, missing a few small places on the east coast. I have been in the NWT way back in the 80s/90s but missed Yukon and Nunavut. Hopefully one day I can make it up there.

    I have to admit, I joined hoping to see some people posting pictures in the future!

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    Unimportant mod post

    Hello all,

    I am not sure how you have all been so good, but not a single post has been flagged, nor has a single comment. Nothing has come across my mod notification since I started here.

    Ok I shouldn't really be all that surprised, its a good bunch of folks we have here.

    Or I'm just not doing my job and no one has fired me.

    Either way, thank you all for making my mod job....well, pointless!

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    UncleBadTouch Uncle @lemmy.ca

    I have birds, nuff said

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