over_clox @ over_clox @lemmy.world

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Apple, and a number of the other big tech companies as well. Shit used to be easy to use, repair, customize to your liking, etc.

Now they don't want you to be able to fix a damn thing, plus all too many services and features and stuff have gone to the subscription model.

Fuck all with that, give us our stuff back and let us just use what we paid for.

Right To Repair!

I like the various silly artist renditions of what the mascot's skeleton looks like 😂

Vertigo was actually an expansion on Descent 2, I made the NoCD patch for it via a carefully hex edited mod based on another NoCD patch for the original Descent 2.

Any which way, yeah, anyone with vertigo wouldn't be comfortable or oriented in any way if they're watching or playing the game, no matter what version.

Nah, if you knew my dad at the time, he insisted there was nothing wrong with my vision. I actually was already a pretty intelligent kid, mostly from book learning at the time.

Book learning worked great for me, but only because the book was close to my face, which works fine for nearsighted people. So my dad was convinced, my vision was fine.

I was disappointed at my dad for quite a few years, but ultimately had to let my anger go.

A few years later, dad asked me why I didn't tell them I had bad vision. All I could tell him was "I didn't know, until I finally got to see good vision."

Nope, they sure didn't.

I actually thought about that as I typed out my short Ted Talk, it's really a shame isn't it?

Thank you for understanding, things might have went differently if I wasn't afraid of the teacher authority at the time and just walked closer myself.

Please, if anyone happens to see children acting 'strange' or whatever, please do have them checked out for the bare basics of vision and hearing.

Some of us weren't trying to be weird kids, we just perceived the world differently.

Ah, thank you very much in advance! It's a bit late here and I'm soon to head to bed, but I have used hdparm before, thanks for the reminder!

I'm saving your comment and will look into it more tomorrow, or soon at least. Thanks! 👍

At age 7, I got in trouble for 'acting out' when they gave all the students a basic eye chart test. When it was my turn, they put me on the measured out line and asked me to read the chart.

I asked "What chart?" The teacher pointed at the door. Apparently the chart was on the door, but all I could see was a large white/greyish rectangle from that distance.

Yeah, my vision was that bad. You know that big capital E on the top of the chart? Yep, nothing, I literally couldn't see the chart. So I didn't know what else to do but keep asking "What chart?"

They called my dad in and between him, the teacher, and the principal, I got scolded for 'acting out'.

The next year, age 8, they assigned seats in order based off the first letter of our last names, which happened to put me in the back of the class. I couldn't see a damn thing on the chalkboard...

So my parents finally had to take me to a proper eye doctor. They found out my vision was like -4.5, which is extremely nearsighted.

So I finally got glasses, and about 2 weeks of apologies from my mom. Every time she apologized, I reminded her that she had absolutely nothing to apologize for, I was just thankful I could finally see!

I never got an apology from my dad, the teacher or the principal though. It's a bit fucked up that they could have caught it earlier on when the whole reason they gave students the basic eye test was literally to catch obvious vision problems early on..

Indeed, it's not quite a game for everyone, especially if you're prone to motion sickness. Initially it only took me about a half hour to get a feel for the game, but configuring the controls can still be a headache.

Every time I set the game up on a new or different system, I tend to usually go for loosely the same sort of controls, but each new setup I might change up the controls a bit, like an endless guessing and testing game to see what controls might be ideal, at least for me.

By the way, Descent is considered a 6 Degrees Of Freedom game, not 4. But hey, at least they have a map feature, I'd go insane without the map sometimes..

I haven't actually played Free Space before, but I did manage to get a copy and archive it a few years ago.

I also got a copy of Overload and briefly tried that, but on my current hardware it only runs at about 3 frames per second...

The Descent developers were really ahead of their time and pushing gaming to the extreme!

My favorite game of all time is Descent, PC version to be specific, I didn't have a PlayStation when I first played it.

The first time I tried it, I had a 386sx 20MHz, and Descent, with the graphics configured at absolute lowest size and quality, would run at a whopping 3 frames per second!

I knew it was basically unplayable on my home PC, but did that stop me? Fuck no, I took the 3 floppy disks installer to school and installed it on their 486dx 66MHz computers!

I knew it would just be a matter of time before I got a chance to upgrade my own computer at home.

I still enjoy playing the game even to this day, and have even successfully cross compiled the source code to run natively on Linux.

But yeah I feel you on a variety of levels regarding the framerate thing. Descent at 3 frames per second is absolutely unplayable, but 20 frames per second is acceptable. But in the world of Descent, especially with modern upgraded ports, the more frames the better 👍

Interesting. Quote from the article...

"Hyperdontia or supernumerary is the presence of congenital presence of some teeth more than usual okay."

Okay...

Edit: The article reads as if it was AI generated, but hyperdontia is indeed a real thing.

If you're gonna try a stunt like that, you might say that you graduated from ITT Tech, which closed in 2016...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITT_Technical_Institute

Good luck on your job search 🤞

Sure, some of the effects are basically useless eye candy, but the 3D Cube thing is a non-intrusive, yet very intuitive way of switching desktops. The 3D Cube doesn't even activate until you use a hotkey combination plus the mouse. It's almost like having a virtual KVM switch if you're running virtual machines.

To each their own, but you might actually like the 3D Cube and possibly some other Compiz features once you see how they work and what they offer...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=W8UKuDidNQg

That's how you smoke it.

Don't ask, I've met more than my share of ice heads. Not my thing though.

I'm not familiar either, but if your mom is regularly also going through lighters and somehow going through too many glass light bulbs or aluminum foil for any sane person, well it's probably a good idea to not get supplies for your mom..

I can't even function without the Compiz 3D cube anymore, it makes it super easy and visually intuitive to switch desktops. Very handy for someone running 4 virtual machines simultaneously..

I've been running Linux since 2011, starting with our data recovery and antivirus scanning system at the computer repair shop I was working for at the time.

Even my boss didn't understand why I wanted to install Linux. Keep in mind, this is back when the TDSS/Alureon rootkit was going around on Windows systems.

I explained it like it was, that if our main backup/antivirus system was running the same OS as the infected computers coming in, then it was only a matter of time before our main system got infected.

So, he accepted my advice and let me set everything up. More or less just the bare basics really, smartmontools, gparted, firefox, google earth (just because), and a few other relevant programs to help with our daily tasks.

Then, one day when I was off work, a new employee decided to install some plugin into Firefox to share bookmarks and stuff across different devices..

Somehow, he borked the main tech user account, it wouldn't even login to the user interface anymore :(

I had to spend a few hours, with the skeptical boss over my shoulder, waiting to see if I could get the system back running right again.

And so I did, while learning lots of new things at the same time. When I learned the hotkeys to switch to other terminal sessions, then I figured out how to create a new account, erase the old account, and get logged back in and running.

The customer data backup drive was separate and detached through all that, so customer data was safe the whole time.

The boss almost said fuckit, reinstall Windows, but I was persistent. And that system helped salvage over 200 systems with the TDSS rootkit, which would have almost certainly doomed our backup system if it was running Windows.

I told that new guy to never fuck with my operating system setup or configuration again, at least not before consulting me and getting approval or even assistance first.

When you got a bare minimum of the past 100 customers' data backed up and virus checked, you don't dick around with the main backup system.

So, honestly, I can't think of a single truly costly mistake that Linux has cost me..

As far as that other employee that messed it up for a bit, well I dunno, it wasn't too long after that the boss fired him...

Superheroes wear their underwear on the outside, and nobody bats an eye. But only a supervillain would ruin an innocent peanut butter and jelly like this.

Tell her she can come out from under the bed.

Fast oil change shops, at least where I'm from, allow the driver to remain in their car if they want to. Personally I think that's about a dumb and risky policy, but that's how many fast oil change shops roll around here.

It's said that about 95% of car alarms are accidental triggers. Try working at an oil change shop, it'll happen at least 3 times a week. And down in the pit, the echo is so loud that the alarm might as well be inside your skull. And we absolutely cannot wear earplugs, the mechanics have to have clear communication at all times.

To make matters worse, some vehicles have aftermarket alarms and security systems where some bonehead thought it would be cute to make the doors automatically lock when you simply close the doors, even if the keys are in the ignition and the engine is running.