At the very least, the price of OEM OS should be disclosed before one buys it.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 days ago

Israeli Hamas they couldn't find until now.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I mean, a 1-2-3 hour documentary or a paper would obviously exceed my look at them, even if they glance back.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

Do you have some links or recs to drop for me and others about squids? That'd be sweet.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Both capital punishment and waving 25 years off are extremes not worth picking, imho. In a somehow sane world the latter would land Abbot's ass himself in the court.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Every one of these cases is a failure of a society as a whole, may it big or small. Maybe it's an edge case, or a person with a mental condition whose actions we missed a chance to counteract in time. But from what I hear I can assume chinese propaganda encourages nationalistic feelings and some kind of a new chinese identity to keep their social fabric intact and productive, patriotic, and it seems that this person may as well be a byproduct of that. They have a personal responsibility for what they did, but killing them off wouldn't bring the dead woman back. He is a man, not a rabid dog, and just killing him doesn't solve anything but saving taxes, maybe. The goal is to start undoing the same corruption in others, and killing them cold is not encouraging for them to be open to be healed.

The same applies to why mentally ill persons don't self-report before they slip, do something and get caught in most countries.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 days ago

And it's not like w11 is free, the price of a PC with Windows installed comes with its' license's costs. It's not told to the consumer so they won't even know they are using a product they paid for, for them it's what a clean basic PC looks like. And that's what prevents many to care about it the same way they can be frustrated by a paid streaming plan with ads. To take is as a given, and shifting the Overtone's window of fucked up services even further.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 days ago

The more I read about them, the more I'm fascinated with how alien they seem to be to me. It's either them or crabs as the ultimate form that everything would come to eventually. Maybe even molecrabs we are yet to discover.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Compensatory sadism as an olympic discipline.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Recently some hallucinating z-blogger (allegedly, WarGonzo) posted that a group of british spec ops got deployed there, and how they are all pumped up to face them. Brits haven't even arrived, no surprise, but it seems the ouija board flipped over and hit this fortune-teller hard. Looking forward to his other predictions if that's the trend now.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 days ago

A fashy coward attacks helpless woman and child over them being of another nationality, only to stab a courageos bystander of his own. Let him rot in hell for all years he stole from her and wanted to steal from others.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 79 points 4 days ago

What wife? He's her step-dad now. That'd be ridiculous.

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I'm yet to do my first one if this post dosen't count, so I'm learning here.

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After writing a lot about it referencing my last playthroughs, I started it once again via OpenMW with official expansions and nude mode only, for it became kind of a habit.

So, initially it looks like an RPG, and we see these stacks of numbers in a character sheet affecting our speaking capabilities or our impotency to kill a crab, okay. If we dive more into it, we'd learn our ways not only around that, but also to become the most potent mass killer Nirn ever had. Alchemy loops to boost your intelligence and brew a better potion of intelligence are known for 20 years already, even in Skyrim, and the ways this game is completely broken are meta-knowledge making us love it even more.

But is it only an RPG?

More, than in other TES games, I encountered a lot of NSFL content. No, I don't talk about Suran's harlots, but about customs of danmers and the Sixth House.

We can go back to the Planescape: Torment, the game that starts in a morgue that people don't play these days (sorrely), russian Pathologic that hbomberguy praised and where kids with dog heads exchange stuff for razors and drugs, or that cringe project called Hatred, but non of them combined have the same amount of what is now considered non-publishable.

Besides encountering racism and cop's attention at any step (even if you are a dunmer, because you are still not a native), we have stories of imperials coming from Ilunibi and dying horribly due to corprus, that seems like a radiation poisoning. We have a cult that eats flesh and is one second from overthrowing the government, killing everyone who doesn't meet their criteria. We have all dunmers having dreams that make them insane and irrate, one step from starting a murder spree. We have gods, who by a treachery took their powers, and the center of the island being guarded by their weakening powers and literal bone ash from local funerals. We have a real gestapo from local officials, and we can participate in glory kills that are a custom of this wicked land, with us still be a member of churches and guilds. And don't even start talkimg about Fyr cloning himself into daughers, fucking them, and having a whole dungeon for adventurers to find either their award or a sudden death. Or that one quest when you search for a sex slave. And that all continues in a completely corrupt world where a duel or a bribe can significantly change the political landscape.

There's so much I can put Horror, Thriller, Grindhouse lables on, or those I don't even know. I'm glad it happened in my life and I can replay it now on any system, even on mobile phone. But it's even more vile than Fallout and it's one of the reasons it clicked with me. Morrowind is very russian, and it's popularity on our 4chan clones cements this. If your friend ever get vocal about moving here, get them Morrowind as a testing experience and then ask, if they still want that. Guess, they wouldn't, for their own good.

I would love to hear your stories about how beautiful or grim this game is.

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(Sorry if it's a miss, this community looked the most fitting)

After mentioning them somewhere in comments, I actually bought Shokz after years of sitting curious. There are a few brands that do them, so it doesn't matter what's the brand is. I bought what I've heard of and the cheapest model I could find at that.

So, what's the trick? As I'm cycling, walking and running a lot, I needed a headphone solution to be aware of my surroundings. They don't cover ears and don't actually emmit sound - they vibrate and make your bones serve as a membrane.

The obvious minus is that in a bus or other loud setting you can't hear shit. That's by design. And, logically but somehow absurdly, by shutting your ear with a finger, you can make yourself hear it okay. I did a full circle here, returning to the old headphones isolation problem, heh.

But what impressed me more, they do feel like some kind of a cyberpunk prosthetic. You can wear them all day and even the cheapest one that promises 6hr of activity lasts days on the idle. But as you call someone or watch a vid – here they are, with a little to no latency. Honestly, I feel like if there'd be implants, that's one of the basic ones we can try first. It's hands-free device with a bonus of being more stealthy and not isolating you from the world.

As a cheapskate audiophile who stayed with cords for a long time, I can say that the sound is okay. Keeping in mind that producers can't control the skull of a wearer, they can't nail the ideal sound, but I'm impressed with how nice IDM and metal plays on them - something akin to budget Senh, AKG and Audiotechnica. And unlike cheap Sony, they don't put up low freqs, that's a plus. BUT when I shared it with others, people in body reported less effectiveness due to thickness of skin and under-dermal stuff, so it's better to test it if you aren't skinny as a skeleton.

After being so open about plus sides, I'm to talk minuses. Since the software is proprietary, it doesn't have many controls and is very weird sometimes. As I bought a model that was for internal chinese market originally, it talked to me in Chinese, and it can only be switched to another language before any pairing, so only after unpairing I could've chosen English – and the same combination of button presses when paired was reserved to calling the last called number, so I fucked up a lazy weekend morning for a friend of mine calling them 4-5 times, damn it. Ah, and it supports dual pairing with a PC and a smartphone, but as I tested it this function worked weird and I sometimes manually disconnected them. Walking&working distance from a source device is around the second or third room, that fits most office and home listening cases. I could've probably wished for it to have an option to pick lesser distance since I don't usually have even a meter between my smartphones and them.

Ah, and going back to the bus problem - the obvious downside that you want to turn them to 100% volume that you don't feel, but your ears do. After the first day when I needed to move a lot in loud contexts and thus put them on max, I had a headache, because although I didn't register the volume, my head had a first row concert experience. So if you use these, keep that in mind too.

Have you tried them, is there a topic I haven't covered? As you can tell, I'm happy with them, so I would be biased. It's just with VR stuff, even from Apple, I feel like we underlook existing tech that already serves us as expander of our life experiences and powers.

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Said a terrorist, securing a black plastic bag over one's head for their transportation.

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To leave Borg and Necromorphs fight each other, so we can kill the winner

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VR PORN (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works to c/tenforward@lemmy.world

Testing newly smuggled equipment is exciting!

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works to c/tenforward@lemmy.world

What do you think of these and others characters of Star Trek if they ever granted such artifact?

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200% not a jolitical jopaganda

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works to c/lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca

I've encountered two problems. How to reproduce them? Here:

  1. I post a comment. Then I go back to it via my post history. I edit it and post it. Connect then can't find a comment and shows error. Pressing back returns me first to my cached unedited comment, then to my post history. After a refresh it appears edited.
  2. I had answered to a comment that was later removed by a mod. Someone replied to me. I tap either on that notification or on that comment in my history and connect returns a post without any comments at all. It's that comment with Grozev's interview: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/9158971

v1.0.171

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but I hope it would cause a couple of funny edits as I left entry text on a blank background

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A shitty recording of a good song, but capitalistic vampires are going out of their way to ban every upload of Acid Bath, lmao.

Let's fuck them over. There I post a magnet link to their discography. At the moment there are 4 seeds and 4 leaches.

I hope it doesn't go against the rules of that community.

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:08E7F6E72259469E630BECA13E1BE31CD8B12AD0&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt3.t-ru.org%2Fann%3Fmagnet&dn=(Sludge%20%2F%20Doom%20Metal)%20Acid%20Bath%20(%2B%20Golgotha)%20-%20%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F%20%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%8F%201991-2005%20(%2B%20%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%81%3A%20Dax's%20poetry%20book)%20-%202005%2C%20MP3%20(tracks)%2C%20VBR%20128-320%20kbps

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