MonkeMischief

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[–] MonkeMischief 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

and if it bugs all you can do is wait for the devs to fix it for you.

"Oop, sorry, we only promised 2 major updates! Your 2 year old device is abandoned now."

--The mobile industry

We need a decently-hardwared Linux phone so badly...

[–] MonkeMischief 3 points 21 hours ago

Children of ~~Men~~ Guy

[–] MonkeMischief 4 points 21 hours ago

Ah I was gonna say Boromir. :p

[–] MonkeMischief 5 points 21 hours ago

Sounds like an absolute ghoul. :p

[–] MonkeMischief 6 points 21 hours ago

Rome fiddled while Tesla burned. :)

[–] MonkeMischief 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Thank god, ol' smarty Musky built a tunnel with no safety features for all those Teslas.

You. Could. Not. Pay me...To get into that stupid friggin' tunnel. How on earth did that thing actually get built?!

The flooding potential is bad enough, but otherwise, it's not a matter of "if" people are gonna die horribly of fire or toxic inhalation in a confined concrete space with no escape, it's absolutely "when."

[–] MonkeMischief 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

He along with others discovered the cure for fascism.

One such cure makes an exceptionally satisfying "PING!" after every 8th dose administered.

[–] MonkeMischief 4 points 21 hours ago

I'm guessing they mean catching dealerships setting their own vehicles ablaze to claim insurance money.

I don't see that happening really though, sadly in my locale, these stupid jellybean caskets are selling and there's more clogging up the roads by the day.

[–] MonkeMischief 27 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

...but investigators are exploring multiple causes, including arson.

I think it's quite telling that they're likely considering the strong possibility that these wonderous marvels of cost-cutting may have just spontaneously lit themselves ablaze without help, at rest, in a parking lot.

For a majority of other vehicles, that'd be an absurd conclusion. But Teslas contain a baffling amount of greed-motivated engineering and numerous fire incidents. It isn't talked about enough and I see more of these things by the day. There has to be some kind of "reputation management" going on.

Either way,

remember kids! If you see someone setting an unoccupied swastikar ablaze...No you didn't.

[–] MonkeMischief 9 points 3 days ago

People can do whatever they like, and heck I find CLI intimidating sometimes, but I'm always learning something new a little bit at a time.

I'm tired of seeing it in every field of interest that has any kind of payoff, whether art or FOSS.

"I'm [(almost always) a guy] who (maybe has kids and) has a job. I stopped learning anything after I got my job-paper / degree / highschool diploma. I shouldn't have to learn anything anymore. I am happy to shell out disposable sad-salary-man money (and maybe my soul idk) to any mega-corp that offers me a "create desired outcome button" without me having to think too much. It's [current year]! I shouldn't have to think anymore! Therefore Linux is super behind and only for nerds and I desire its benefits so much that I leave this complaint anywhere these folks gather so they know what I deserve."

Agh. I gotta go before this rant gets too long lol

[–] MonkeMischief 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've been seeing "comfortable" a lot, but I think honestly it's less comfort and more confusion. I know it's popular to portray us all as lazy, drinking our Big Gulp slushies and watching sportsball, but that's not the whole picture.

We all know it sucks, we might call our reps, our friends might go wave some signs...but ultimately we're culturally unaccustomed to organization, and that part cripples meaningful resistance. As the commenter below me stated, "lack of civic culture" and "hyper individualism" nails it.

Okay, we all want different things, we all struggle at wildly different randomized shifts because most of us are one missed paycheck away from disaster, how do we know who our friends are? No no, not the "Yeah man, that sucks lol idk." friends, the ones who will actually fight with you?

Consequently, we're suffering a massive lonliness epidemic where a lot of people not only have very little civic ties, they don't even have a network of reliable companionship! A lot of this is simply thanks to suburban dominance and nowhere left to meet that's not charging admission.

[–] MonkeMischief 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Hey, points for Lutris! Thanks for sharing!

I've had issues in the past installing stuff with Lutris, although for advanced scenarios like using community engines and stuff, that's really cool. I definitely have both installed on my machine for different reasons. Lutris handles EA / Origin stuff pretty well. (Titanfall 2 and Sims 2 Ultimate (not the Steam one) run beautifully on Linux, truly glorious!)

Electron annoys me as well, but I will say that I appreciate how Heroic hooks into GoG APIs. It handles auto-updates, cloud saving, play time logging, that kinda stuff that made Galaxy decent and had a degree of convenience-parity with Steam.

(Maybe Lutris does this too now?)

For a complete newbie , I'd say Heroic has a bit of a smoother and expected ramp to just "Download game and run." But if you want more control, Lutris definitely has more options!

I also can't recommend Bottles enough for other games that aren't from distribution platforms. Shockingly simple.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by MonkeMischief to c/memes@lemmy.world
 
 

Found this on iFunny lol.

 

Basically title. I'm a digital artist in the USA and not rich by any stretch. In fact, somewhat in debt. (Aren't we all.)

I also try really hard to not be a mindless consumer. I use old equipment as long as I can, repair, refurbish, etc...

All this talk of upcoming tariffs has me worried that, rather than being able to get a day-job at newly opened US manufacturing for electronics or something, I'll instead be paying +60% more on like everything.

I know tech is a depreciating asset, but should I try to upgrade now to hold out for the next ~5 years or so?

I was considering hunting down a motherboard/cpu/RAM combo for instance.

Are worries about tariffs overblown? Trying to figure out how to prepare as best I can with my meager resources before everything just...keeps getting worse.

I am getting paid for my digital art, it's not living money though. My spouse has a more stable income that enables me to keep trying.

Thanks in advance. <3

EDIT: Thanks a ton for all the helpful replies! I'm glad I'm not being overly paranoid.

Some of you have asked for system specs so here they are for the curious:

System Specs:

  • OS: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
  • Mobo: Z590 Aorus Elite AX
  • CPU: i7-10700k @ 5.1 Ghz
  • GPU: Nvidia RTX 3090
  • Mem: 32GB DDR4 (forget the speed...3000?)

I want to be clear: I don't mean to sound too panicked and I'm more than happy to be content with what I have and see my blessings for what they are.

However, as I'm trying to break into being a 3D Blender artist and gamedev professionally, I'm trying to strategize whether standards will significantly increase and leave me behind in the next 5 years or so. (Game industry, not trying to do Hollywood VFX models on my home rig or anything lol)

I don't game so much these days unfortunately. And if I do, like 5% of my library is particularly demanding. 😂

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by MonkeMischief to c/technology@lemmy.world
 

The Hated One has been pretty solid in the past regarding privacy/security, imho. I found this video of his rather enlightening and concerning.

  • LLMs and their training consume a LOT of power, which consumes a lot of water.
  • Power generation and data centers also consume a lot of water.
  • We don't have a lot of fresh water on this planet.
  • Big Tech and other megacorps are already trying to push for privatizing water as it becomes more scarce for humans and agriculture.

---personal opinion---

This is why I personally think federated computing like Lemmy or PeerTube to be the only logical way forward. Spreading out the internet across infrastructure nodes that can be cooled by fans in smaller data centers or even home server labs is much more efficient than monstrous, monolithic datacenters that are stealing all our H2O.

Of course, then the 'Net would be back to serving humanity instead of stock-serving megacultists. . .

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