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Do you prefer to wear a smartwatch or a regular watch?
  • Yup, same here. Never really understood the G-Shock thing until I got one. The 5610U is truly one of the best watches hands down, and they're cheap. I find myself using timers and alarms much more because I may not have my phone at all times (around the house etc). Solar to boot? It really doesnt get much better, they're fantastic.

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  • My cousin and I would play all day because you could just make the lobbies so crazy with the bot options. It was almost more fun than actually playing haha. Spent hours and hours finding the best killrooms for the laptop gun sentry.

  • What we’ve lost: The MySpace war files and the impact of a digital 'Dark Age'
  • I don't remember the specific article I read that dove into this but it was essentially sold due to it being one of the first large data collections (user data). I'm not sure the extent its traweled now but before the social media machine took off, it was the largest if not one of the largest concentrations of actual data points to run algorithms against.

  • LTT, now sponsored by BP
  • Love that they clarified that after being called out, as if that somehow makes it more acceptable. "See? It was to charity guys, you think making money for charity is a bad thing?" While still missing the mark completely and refusing to send said prototype back.

    Talk about moving goalposts. They fucked up.

  • Why aren’t health warnings on cigarettes expanded to alcohol?
  • Not quite. Even the accepted amount poses increased threats to being diagnosed with cancer (it is a carcinogen at the end of the day): https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-effects-health/alcohols-effects-body

    It is incredibly worse with breast cancer too.

    "Evidence is consistent that intake, even intake of less than 10-15 grams per day, is associated with increased risk of this disease"

    https://arcr.niaaa.nih.gov/volume/40/2/alcohols-effects-breast-cancer-women

  • What builds has everyone been using so far? Which are the most fun?
  • I'm seeing if I can get through tactician with this build, and it seems like it's going well so far (no spoilers): necromancer wizard with weapon master feat to use great weapons. Haven't added armor yet since I'm relying on blur for dodge, shield reaction, and blindness for large threats. Almost done with act 1 so I'm not sure how the power fantasy will look like later in the game or what items are available.

    This has revolved around an item that sets intelligence to a specific value. So I was able to drop all int, put it into strength, and essentially be a lich-esque wizard. Been interesting to say the least and teleporting to baddies with misty step has been a lot of fun. I may go into the tadpole tree and spec into the skill that punishes when enemies miss their rolls (which they are disadvantaged from via blur and also the ilithid skill itself). The sustain is good with vampiric touch; and if I fall under half health for whatever reason, I have a greataxe that does additional damage.

    This game is amazing so far.

  • Systemd-Free Immutable Distro Nitrux 2.9.1 Is Out Powered by Liquorix Kernel 6.4
  • They both achieve the same thing in different ways, but it comes down to philosophy if that even matters to the user. You can build gentoo for example with openrc or systemd, and depending on what you do you'll need to integrate things differently (using elogind with openrc since logind is systemd specific). In gentoo it affects how you'll compile. Its really a non issue, but it all depends on what level folks wanna spend on something that could potentially be different. I use openrc daily on multiple setups and it took maybe a week of using it to get the hang of it. Its just operationally different.

    Does it really matter for most folks? No. But if its something you find interesting, it can be a nice change based on personal views and principles. I run openrc because I personally as a programmer don't believe in how "proprietary" systemd is designed, nor agree with the decisions the maintainers have made. That's just my opinion. At the end of the day it doesn't technically matter.

    This is a more hardcore viewpoint but it covers a lot of the issues folks have with it. https://suckless.org/sucks/systemd/

  • Sci-fantasy roguelike Caves Of Qud is getting a full release in 2024, after 15 years of development
  • I for sure feel this sentiment but damn does Qud hit that sweet spot. Like, sometimes I don't want to feel like I'm writing a dissertation - which is what CDDA can feel like sometimes - but I still want said depth, or at least the feeling of said depth. CoQ hits that sweet spot. So much charm too, love it.

  • Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web
  • Going to piggyback on this and just throw this here, which details the black box that is Apple data ingestion: https://gist.github.com/iosecure/357e724811fe04167332ef54e736670d.

    I had used iOS on and off for years but I feel like I'm finally done with both companies. Its a very interesting read. The only reason Apple seems like a better company with data is a) they aren't a full blown meta or alphabet and b) they market it more cleanly.

    The portion about the notification center and all of the integrations was pretty mind blowing for me. Like it makes sense when its spelled out - how invasive it is, which is also what makes it the perfect ad serving vehicle.

  • Google is already pushing Web Environment Integrity into Chromium
  • Yeah, definitely. Some form of extortion because ultimately that's what it will be either way. I mean, that's really the whole point of being the party that chooses what is authentic or not (and, what the definition of that word even means in this context). Monetary, data, whatever. Gotta keep the bottom line increasing for shareholders.

  • Google is already pushing Web Environment Integrity into Chromium
  • Yeah, definitely. Some form of extortion because ultimately that's what will happen either way. I mean, that's really the whole point of being the party that chooses what is authentic or not (and, what the definition of that word even means in this context). Monetary, data, whatever. Gotta keep the bottom line increasing for shareholders.

  • Unixporn @lemmy.ml mainframegremlin @programming.dev
    [Hyprland] Preparation for the desktop build is complete

    Decided to lean into a no Windows setup, including for gaming. I’ve swapped over from X on the basis that I’ll be using a 7900 XTX, and wanted to spend some time preparing a Wayland setup to reduce configuration time on the desktop.

    Dots are on GitHub, but I haven’t had the chance to rewrite the readme yet; the current tooling is as follows:

    • WM/Compositor: Hyprland, using XWayland USE flags for certain items (discord, obsidian)
    • Term: foot
    • Media: mpv
    • Code/notes: nvim using lazy.nvim, hooks into obsidian.md
    • Files: ranger

    What surprised me the most is that gestures worked out of the box which has been incredible. I just picked up an apple trackpad for the desktop as well, which works out of the box as expected.

    Edit: https://github.com/adrnbs/.dotfiles - again, take readme with a grain of salt as a number of items have been updated vs what is checked into configs.

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