CrazyLikeGollum @ CrazyLikeGollum @lemmy.world

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Not everyone has a passport.

Only an absolute lunatic or morally bankrupt cretin would believe that it's not pronounced "yif," as our linguistic founders intended.

Yep, where I live, growing up I'd go trick-or-treating in waist deep snow (I was much smaller at the time, so more like knee deep on an adult). Now, first snow isn't until mid November and we don't get massive accumulation until mid-december.

Both high temperatures in the summer and low temps in winter have also increased by like 10F. What used to be a major heat wave 15 years ago is now normal. Sub-zero temps used to be normal for weekly lows in late January into mid-late February. We have multiple false breakups each winter where temperatures get above freezing for days at a time and all of the snow starts melting.

Shit's very noticeable if you're paying attention over time.

Depending on your setting and desired outcome for the poisoner, uraninite (aka pitchblende) might be an option. It has historical uses in glass making and pottery glazing, which could provide justification for why someone would have it.

It contains Uranium, which is radioactive, but I don't believe will bioaccumulate, but can build up on surfaces, tools, and clothing providing a source of long-term radiation exposure. In addition, it contains lead, which does bioaccumulate, providing a source of gradual long term poisoning as well as radium which also bioaccumulates and is radioactive, providing an additional source of longterm radiation exposure.

I definitely had to look it up, as it's difficult and a bit confusing to parse and makes use of some rather dated slang, but yes it does make sense.

It means that buffalo from the city called Buffalo, who bully other buffalo from Buffalo are in turn bullied by buffalo from Buffalo.

Obviously. It's still just people hiding behind anonymized usernames and interacting with posts that are largely singular ideas.

The risks associated with being an asshole are largely removed and the ability to empathize is limited by lack of access to things like body language, facial expression, tone of voice, and real time communication. Of course people will be emboldened to be their most brazen selves in an environment like that.

Language is under every obligation to make sense. That is the entire purpose of it's existence. It is, however under no obligation to make sense to you.

True, it should be dogé.

Calibre cant natively strip DRM from ebooks, but there are third-party plugins for it that can and integrate pretty seamlessly into the process of adding the book to your library.

I used it to strip the DRM from all of my Amazon bought ebooks back before they removed the download option.

Accidentally turning on the radio, deciding to roll with it, going to the local classic rock station, and hearing Bleed It Out by Linkin Park is indeed a pretty terrible feeling.

I can't speak to the Quest support as I don't have one, but my Index definitely had issues when I first switched to Linux fulltime. I had been dual-booting for about a year prior to that. But over the last year, it's gotten better and most titles I've tried lately seem to just work the same way they did on Windows.

I do still have this persistent issue where my computer treats the headset as the primary display during bootup if have it plugged in, but that's OS independent and starts at POST.

I've also seen some changelogs a while back suggesting Valve was trying to get OpenVR and SteamVR more compatible and make them both work better on Linux. I don't know what issues you were having or how recently but it might be worth digging into again if it's something you care about.

I honestly haven't really noticed any major build quality issues. Just that the two separators on either side of the trackpad module don't quite sit level with the trackpad module itself and if I'm being really nitpicky there's slightly more deck flex in the keyboard than I like.

Other than those two things, the laptop is solid, at least under my usage patterns. If you were swapping IO modules frequently then I could see wear on the plastic edge of the modules and laptop body and maybe the usb-c connector itself potentially becoming an issue after a couple of years.

Been using a FW16 with fedora. It is pretty solid.

"I'll have you know there's no pusseeee!"

I'll second that. I've been using Fedora KDE for almost a year as my sole desktop OS with no notable issues and really only one minor gripe. Which is that my 240Hz monitor gains a distracting flicker at 240Hz, but if I set it to 120Hz it goes away.

VR gaming is still pretty niche and expensive if you want a truly good experience. There also haven't really been any major advancements in the space since the Valve Index almost six years ago.

Inside out tracking is still not where it needs to be and the base stations for outside in tracking are cumbersome.

Additionally, for the full promise of VR gaming to be realized you really need accurate full body tracking to include full hand tracking, a compact, easily stowable, but accurate omnidirectional treadmill, and some way to do all of the tracking without the need for base stations.

And all of that needs to be standardized across the industry.

I too enjoy VR gaming, but there's been basically no movement in the VR space in a long time, and to most people VR is a novelty at best. Unless someone gives us a decade's worth of advancement inside of a year or two, I expect modern VR will go the way of the virtual boy. Only to be revived again in 20-30 years.

True, we should call it the "shit 'n rinse."

But have you tried pizza on pineapple? A grilled pineapple slice with all of your pizza toppings on it.

Meanwhile in Japan: Train is 30 seconds late "here's a letter for your employer explaining why you were only 29 minutes and 30 seconds early for your 8 hour shift that will inevitably have an additional 8 hours of unpaid overtime tacked on to it."

What if I'm at work?