English Mobster @ EnglishMobster @lemmy.world

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Sometimes, when scrolling, I get "Your filters have blocked all the posts on this page" or "You have read all the posts on page 17" or whatever.

The pop-up gives either a "Next page" or a "Retry" button (IIRC). When I press it, I'm able to continue just fine.

Can there be a setting added (or something) that just auto-presses that button for me? I'm cool with just scrolling forever, and it seems a little silly that I get stopped by that prompt but pressing 1 little button fixes it.

I prefer Kbin but use Sync because I don't like Kbin's PWA. I'd love Sync for Kbin... once Ernest finally gets that API in!

Checking Kbin's Git repo, it looks like Ernest just merged a bunch of API stuff, so hopefully the next major release will have a working API.

EDIT: It would also be nice if there was a way to carry settings over to/from Sync for Kbin and Sync for Lemmy. I have a lot of sports instances filtered out in Sync, and it'd be nice to have some sort of "import" feature that imports all settings/filters from one instance to another (or one Sync to another).

FWIW, CashApp Taxes (formerly Credit Karma Taxes) is free for state and federal.

Except this one's answer is yes?

They gave examples of new high-speed rail coming online within the next few years. This year, 2028, and 2030...

This channel used to be great, but ever since she changed her format it's not been nearly as good. She spends so much time now on irrelevant details and pads things out to double the length of what they used to be.

I unsubbed when she stopped in the middle of one of her videos to make a dumb joke about being a weatherperson on TV. Like, the video stopped and it showed her presenting a weather forecast and she tapped the screen like she was stuck inside. I dunno; it just felt like bad taste to make a joke in videos like this, and with half the videos now being padding and fluff I just wasn't feeling it anymore.

It sucks because I used to really like her content in the older format.

More specifically - see the credits by any means necessary.

You do not need to fight any bosses or even play the actual game, necessarily.

The Pokemon Yellow Any% never has you leave your house.

The Baldur's Gate 3 Any% likewise doesn't have you fight anyone important and is over in less than 5 minutes. (There are Act 2 spoilers. Yes, you can reach Act 2 in under 5 minutes.)

As long as there's a shared skeleton, you can make any model work with any animation that has the same skeleton.

So all that was needed to be done was to figure out what skeleton the animations were looking for and then set up an equivalent skeleton for the modded race. Then you can just reuse the same animations the game does.

The heyday of /b/ (with the caveat that /b/ was never good) was 16 years ago now.

If we assume Hexbear is made up of Gen Z who are in their early 20s, they would've been ~4 years old. Hell, even the oldest Gen Z would've been ~10. Not exactly the prime age for /b/.

My guess is that Hexbear is a mix of Gen Z who never experienced the peak days of 4chan (and thus never got the edginess out of their system), plus Gen Alpha who are young and stupid.

A lot of Hexbear has their heart in the right place. It's just their minds are fucking crazy. Like, you can't support fascism and genocide just because "America bad".

Yes, America bad.

Yes, America institutionally bad.

Yes, America not fixable for at least a decade (or longer).

But that doesn't mean it's time to blindly support China and Russia. Especially when both countries are blatantly anti-LGBTQ. China shut down an LGBTQ center amidst a larger crackdown on LGBT rights; Russia is... Russia.

Like how Parliaments work - proportional vote.

56% R, 39% D, 4% I = 16 Republican representatives, 11 Democratic representatives, 2 independent representatives.

I think it's ironic that Adam lost the last game, and this game he's been disappeared.

I mean - Adam? Who's Adam? Laurie has always run the channel.

Steam has it on Proton 8-6, running Satisfactory Experimental.

I've been literally saying this for years. Yang had the right idea, and every year it becomes more obvious.

Most industries will be automated within 10-20 years, or so transformed as to be unrecognizable. I'm not just talking about stuff that can be done by AI art tools or a future version of ChatGPT (which is in itself a large chunk of the economy). There's also logistics (self-driving trucks, trains, taxis, planes, and boats), there's food service (burger-flipping robots are already a thing), there's groceries (robot stockers and self-checkouts), there's hospitality (Japan already has automated hotels), there's construction (we already see robots at construction sites), etc.

Within a couple decades I see no reason why these jobs would still be commonplace. Compare the world of the 1980s and 1990s to the world of today. Computers in the 80s and 90s are comparable to AI today, and in 2040-2050 I see no reason why we wouldn't be living in a completely different world.

It's true that some jobs will simply transform - programmers might become prompt engineers, for example. But many jobs will be eliminated completely, and I don't buy the argument that people will just find new things to do. At a certain point, people will be automated out of the economy - to borrow an analogy from CGP Grey, the invention of the stagecoach may have been great for horses... but the invention of the car was less great.

I firmly believe that UBI is the only way forward, long-term. COVID already worked as a trial for it, and we're seeing the economy contract in part because it stopped (in addition to other things, e.g. the Fed).

I don't get paid once a month. I get paid every 2 weeks.

At a prior job, I got paid every week.

Yearly is a good baseline, and also helpful for taxes (which Americans have to do by hand because of tax preparers lobbying against the government doing it for us).

China doesn't care. They'll betray anyone in an instant, because they're fascists masquerading as the "party of the people".

The fact that there are so many pro-China supporters on Lemmy that want this shit makes me sad. Lemmy.ml, Lemmygrad (same people), Hexbear...

2138, year of the Linux desktop.

AMD, Mesa.

If I run Satisfactory via Vulkan on X, it causes my entire desktop to flicker until I close the game, on all screens. Annoying, but at least I can make it go away.

If I run Satisfactory via Vulkan on Wayland, it crashes Wayland and my entire computer freezes until I hard reboot it by pressing the power button. That is absolutely unacceptable.

(Satisfactory on DX12 works fine for both, but the point is Wayland is still much more likely to fail catastrophically.)

Amen.

When something crashes on Wayland, my entire system goes down. When something crashes on X, I can at least kill it with a GUI. I refuse to use Wayland as long as it has the potential to freeze my entire machine.

(This is on KDE Plasma.)

I use KDE Neon as my daily driver (LTS Ubuntu + latest KDE, which is the desktop environment the Steam Deck uses).

I haven't had many issues. For context:

• I have to remote in to my work computer from home. I do that with Parsec, which I have via a Flatpak. Parsec has no issues and works identically to Windows.
• I also have to use a specific VPN. This VPN requires a separate program on Windows, but in KDE it's baked into the OS.
• Zoom is also a Flatpak. It has a few bugs that don't exist on Windows - namely Zoom likes to steal window focus whenever the host joins or someone shares their screen.
• I also installed Flatpak Steam. I had to use Flatseal to give it more access than it had by default, but that was easy enough. You can go through your OS package manager but since KDE Neon is built on Ubuntu LTS those packages don't get updated frequently.
• Most games run fine. Performance is usually a little worse than Windows, but I can still generally hit 60 - just with more dips than Windows has. Satisfactory and Jedi Survivor are the only games where I have seen noticeable issues compared to Windows. Baldur's Gate runs fine.
• Some games are borked. These are usually games that rely on anti-cheat or intrusive DRM.
• Running Windows programs can be tricky. Wine isn't intuitive to use. I usually use Bottles, but sometimes Bottles doesn't get the job done and I have to fall back to Lutris. Lutris is hard to use but generally pulls through. These are all Flatpaks.

I maintain a Windows installation on an old 2 TB NTFS hard drive. Linux gets my 4 TB SSD, but I've symlinked my documents folders to the NTFS drive so I can share things on Windows and Linux.

Sometimes I need to boot into Windows. Generally this is if I'm having issues connecting to my work computer on Parsec (these issues happened on Windows as well), in which case I need to fall back to RDP to go check on my work computer. My employer blocks me doing that from Linux, so I do it from Windows instead.

Otherwise, I usually boot into Windows to play Satisfactory, because it doesn't run well on Proton. Satisfactory's Vulkan renderer seems to implode on Proton as well for some reason; it causes flickering on X and crashes Wayland entirely. The DX12 renderer works but it just isn't as fast as it is on native Windows.

That said, I rarely boot into Windows. Maybe once every 2-3 months? But not beyond that.

Hey, that happened to me, too!

I got scheduled for a mandatory meeting with 1 hour notice. During lunch.

I asked my boss what it was. He didn't know either. I joked that it was us being shut down.

Sure enough, 1 hour later we were both writing LinkedIn recommendations and helping each other find jobs after it was announced that our whole studio was being shut down by corporate and myself plus all my coworkers were all now jobless.