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Joe Cool @ joe_cool @lemmy.ml
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Casper Van Dien is loving the Starship Troopers renaissance but still finds it mind-boggling some take it at face value

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  • All good. Maybe my reading comprehension was off.

    • Responsible guidance is a choice

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  • Mhhmm, bacon.

    Also you don't destroy your sewage treatment facilities that way.

    • Casper Van Dien is loving the Starship Troopers renaissance but still finds it mind-boggling some take it at face value

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  • Umm, I'm pretty sure Heinlein meant it as a system that could work. The book is definitely not the parody the movie is.

    • Never forget what they took from us...

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  • Rebel Galaxy rocks. Rebel Galaxy Outlaw is also amazing.

    • Never forget what they took from us...

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  • Steam version has Denuvo. GOG version doesn't. Other than that they should be the same. I noticed only differences in load times.

    It's a fun game and runs great on a potato. $5 is definitely worth it.

    • It'll end up as "Vote stupid parties, win stupid prices"

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    • It'll end up as "Vote stupid parties, win stupid prices"

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  • Yeah, free, happy and educated people don't suddenly wake up as fascists one day.

    • Exactly. Delete Reddit.

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    • Exactly. Delete Reddit.

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  • Just use: https://search.marginalia.nu/ It crawls forums, wikis and other human generated content.
    No SEO garbage, scammers or AI. (mostly) It's still very much an alpha.

    • A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back

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  • Yeah, even XP had Rover, the search dog.

    Ninite and Chocolatey helps a bit. But then you get to the point where there is no automation for a start menu entry for some packages. It's a bit of a mess.

    A colleague installed Python from the MS Store on Windows 11 it messed up all python software, PyCharm, the other python versions and some file associations. Quite a mess.

    • EVs Could Last Nearly Forever—If Car Companies Let Them

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  • It's true. I fixed a Samsung LED TV that wouldn't turn on. They used a tiny resistor that I thought was a fuse.

    That resistor was chosen so that it always ran hot and failed after about 3 years of normal use. I put in a bigger one with the same resistance that stays cold and now have the TV for 5 years.

    • EVs Could Last Nearly Forever—If Car Companies Let Them

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  • Can confirm. Use a fridge from 1974. 2 years ago thermostat failed. Replaced with digital one for $15. Now have a nice digital readout of the temps. Thing uses 180W 100W when running, less than bigger newer ones.
    It's even more ecological to keep it running since it still has the nasty ozone layer killing coolant that would partly evaporate when trashing it.

    EDIT: 100W just checked the type plate.

    • EVs Could Last Nearly Forever—If Car Companies Let Them

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  • You can still do that. They're called body repair panels. They are usually plain metal. You have to cut out the old, weld in the new, grind them flat, prime and paint them. This isn't cost efficient if your car is worth less than the paint you'd need. The parts usually are around $100-$300 bucks (if you don't need OEM parts) but the labor is expensive. And if you do it for cheap it will look like crap.

    • A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back

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  • vpn with network manager is amazing. All my client's vpn solutions just work. On windows I needed 5-6 different vpn clients that bluescreen each other on Linux I need zero proprietary software.

    • A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back

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  • Get everything: https://www.voidtools.com/ (the alpha version can also index the content of files). It's search is instant. As in < 1 second for any file on any of your harddisks (even ones not connected right now).

    For base linux cmdline tools I just install Git for Windows it includes tail, sed, grep, tee, iconv, less, scp and tons more. I need git anyways so win-win.

    • This is hilarious

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  • To be fair it's rather odd they call it that. Germans seem rather strange with English in general.

    They go to public viewings to watch on their beamers. Even when no one has died. Lothar Matthäus claims "I'm a German record player". They carry stuff around in their body bags and listen to music from "boxen".
    Merkel even told the english press about her shitstorm. Every day there is a cringe moment.

    • I'm writing this from a crappy laptop with 2GB of RAM and a dull screen.

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  • I liked it. It's not particularly hard or deep but the mechanics are nice, battles and encounters don't overstay their welcome. The interwoven story was done quite nicely. I played it on PC. It runs great on Proton and Windows 7.

    I haven't played the second one, but reviews consider it an improvement. Now that they removed Denuvo I might get it.

    • I'm writing this from a crappy laptop with 2GB of RAM and a dull screen.

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  • If an Ideapad 3 is a potato now what's an EeePC?

    • I'm writing this from a crappy laptop with 2GB of RAM and a dull screen.

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  • Unless they use Unreal Engine and don't know what they are doing. It can be pixely and run like ass.

    Octopath Traveler was the last UE based game that really ran well that I can remember.

    • I'm writing this from a crappy laptop with 2GB of RAM and a dull screen.

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  • On Windows: https://www.fxsound.com/ (now free and open source)
    On old Linux: PulseEffects
    On new Linux: EasyEffects

    Those really make your crappy speakers or headphones go the extra mile.