qyron

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[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 months ago

I respect that.

I'm in no fashion whatsoever a prude or a moralist - hey, I admit the concept is actually interesting! - but I'm too stern to allow myself to go to a boobies bar and enjoy it with no concern on my mind. Let's call it a personal mental barrier.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That is actually a good thing?

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

No amount of consent in the world would aid in making me feel as not taking part of an exploitative arrangement. That would be my problem.

Regarding bad food... I've worked in hospitality. It can always be worst.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Don't think I be able to motivate myself to go to one.

It's one of those things that sounds nice in theory but would have disastrous outcomes if ever attempted.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Titty bar = topless bar?

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So, what we should take from this is that any foray into any art is useless, therefore we should surrender any and all creative impulse to faceless companies.

Fuck no.

I'd rather distribute my work for free and have it read and enjoyed nonetheless than not write at all.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 8 points 4 months ago (10 children)

I think I know the concept behind Hooters and other generic boobie bars (not an american) but I honestly don't think I could go to one of those venues and, if I went, I have serious doubts I'd be able to enjoy myself or the meal.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 18 points 4 months ago (3 children)
[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 11 points 4 months ago

They accomplish that and the already diminutive presence they have in the world will shrink even more.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

The Greeks were isolationists. Each city-state considered itself the center of the world. It wasn't on their list of priorities to share or spread their culture, unless it involved complete obliteration by conquest.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

So, you're talking about the people that emulated greek culture as they viewed it as more refined than their own?

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 26 points 4 months ago

And you are correct!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by qyron@sopuli.xyz to c/diy@beehaw.org
 

I need to build one that can be used outdoors.

Where can I find the schematics for this kind of circuits?

 

As per the title, I'm looking to find some titles to play with my kids, especially RPGs, as Baldur's Gate 3 as struck the eye here but I'm not willing to fork the money for the graphics card required to run it.

I've been considering going back in time and go into Neverwinter Nights but I don't know if it has a cooperative mode.

Can someone give a few suggestions?

The machines available are not that powerful (one AM3 based system and one soon to be assembled AM4 with a budget G series Ryzen). The rest are laptops reserved solely for work.

Any help is appreciated.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by qyron@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
 

While moving from one nest to another (we're lemmings here; RP it a bit) I realized I still have all computers I ever bought or assembled, except for those that literally broke beyond any hope of repair.

Some are no longer used daily but all work and being on a point in life where everything and anything in the nest needs to have a purpose or a function, led me think what actually renders a computer useless or truly obsolete.

I was made even more aware of this, as I'm in the market to assemble a new machine and I'm seeing used ones - 3 or 4 years old - being sold at what can be considered store price, with specs capable of running newly released games.

Meanwhile, I'm looking at two LGA 775 motherboards I have and considering how hard can I push it before it spontaneously combusts to make any use of it, even if only a type writer.

So, per the title, what makes a computer obsolete or simply unusable to you?

Addition

So I felt necessary to update the post and list the main reasons surfacing for rendering a machine obsolete/unusable

  • energy consumption

overall and consumption vs computational power

  • no practical use

Linux rule!

  • space take up
 

If this is the wrong place to pose this question, point me in the right direction

I discovered ZeroNet well before the pandemic and the concept was attracting, although, I admit, it was hard to adapt and everything felt... unfinished.

Because life happens, I eventually forgot about it and moved on to other waters, Reddit included.

With the current debacle of Reddit and other social sites/networks, I started wondering if ZeroNet or a fork of it could propose an alternative/add on to the growing Fediverse?

Running and maintainning an instance of any network is easy to realize that is highly time and resource consuming. I myself was forced to sign up to another instance because the one running in my country is constantly having issues.

By contrast, I never faced this sort of constraints when I was a user of ZeroNet. There wasn't anything even remotly resembling the reddit format or facebook but you could find a good deal of diversity there.

There was also the possibility of publishing/hosting your own webpage with no need to resort to hosting services, subscribe to mailling lists, cross link to external sources, etc.

It's not that I dislike the current fediverse: I have a Mastodon account and I'm here as well. But are we doing it all wrong?

From the perspective of someone with addmitidly very low technical knowledge, the current state of distributed social networks feels fragile, comparing with the alternative of having a truly distributed network where every user acts as a server themselves.

Please share your thoughts.

 

The title is a bit over dramatic but, per the title, if you could contribute with one piece of knowledge to a book that every single individual should learn from in order to kickstart a civilization, what would be yours?

My personal choice would be the process of soap making, from scratch.

 

I've been toying with the idea of having a little hobby computer store for years and I've reached the point where I feel I have nothing to lose in trying it.

I don't intend to make it my main source of income but I'd like to have some sort of formal knowledge base to resort to, regardless I've been acting as the tech guy for several years for a lot of people.

Where can I find some good courses/resources, preferably online, to improve my knowledge base?

I'm a long time Linux user so I intend to use my hobby to make some noise about it.

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