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USA approves $8.7bn aid package for Israel in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] tuckerm@supermeter.social 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I don't think it's so clear what some of the money is going to. From the article:

the package includes $3.5 billion for “essential wartime procurement” [...] and a $5.2 billion grant for air defenses. The ministry said the $5.2 billion for air defenses “will significantly strengthen critical systems such as Iron Dome..."

With Hezbollah launching rockets towards civilians, I am in favor of strengthening the Iron Dome. But it sounds like that $3.5 billion could be to resupply Israel for their attacks on Gaza, thereby enabling new ones.

What is your favorite movie of all time? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] tuckerm@supermeter.social 44 points 6 days ago (4 children)

The Princess Bride, with In Bruges being a fairly close second. But I think The Princess Bride stays permanently at number 1 for me.

Tech Bros Inventing Things That Already Exist in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] tuckerm@supermeter.social 10 points 1 week ago

The Juicero was seriously a major point in my personal ideological journey. Around 2013, I was still very convinced that Silicon Valley (and VC-backed startups in general) were a source of innovation that could do a lot of good in the world. I was starting to question that a little bit because I had noticed that every new startup was described as "like Uber for ," but I still largely believed that most SV startups were innovative and improving people's lives, or at least had the potential to do so.

And then the freaking Juicero came along, and I was like, "What the fuck? Do these people actually have no idea what they're doing? Oh my god, they don't."

Look, I'm not saying that if the Juicero didn't exist, that I would be some Elon Musk fanboy right now. Something else probably would have woken me up instead.

But in this timeline, in this current universe we are in, the Juicero made me see things differently. No one wants to believe that they were changed by the Juicero... but I was. And I... I... I don't know how I feel about that...

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Tech Bros Inventing Things That Already Exist (www.youtube.com)
 

I'm sure everyone in this community is already familiar with the concept that this video is presenting, and might even already know all of the examples he gives. But I got a laugh out of it, and I love his presentation style.

How easy or hard is it to hire a Hitman? I have seen movies basically where its just walking into a bar and asking. I also read news reports of so and so asking for a hitman. Can someone enlighten me? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] tuckerm@supermeter.social 6 points 1 week ago

You need some kind of special coin -- no, I'm not sure where to get one -- and then you go to this hotel right here. Then you go to the bar and ask.

Israel Planted Explosives in Pagers Sold to Hezbollah, Officials Say in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] tuckerm@supermeter.social 19 points 1 week ago

The way that they pulled off this attack is interesting from a cybersecurity standpoint, but we can't ignore the fact that Israel had no way of knowing who was near the devices when they exploded. They very nature of this attack made it impossible for Israel to know how closely they were targeting the bad guys or how many civilians were nearby.

Marjorie Taylor Greene rages at Mike Johnson and calls to fund government with Dems in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] tuckerm@supermeter.social 52 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That was a great explanation.

I remember hearing an interview with John Boehner on NPR (former Republican Speaker of the House) a few years ago. He was talking about the government shutdown that happened shortly after far right wing was elected in 2010. Apparently, a few of them barged into his office after the shutdown and demanded to know why the government had actually shut down.

And Boehner was like, "Um...you said you wanted it to?"

And the right wingers said, "Well we didn't think it would work!"

These are irresponsible people who think they should just get to play games in life.

Marjorie Taylor Greene rages at Mike Johnson and calls to fund government with Dems in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] tuckerm@supermeter.social 10 points 1 week ago

This headline is easy to read wrong -- my brain grouped the subject of this headline the other way at first. I read, "Marjorie rages at (Mike and calls to fund government)" rather than "Marjorie (rages at Mike) and (calls to fund government)."

Radio Free Fedi - sounds from the Fediverse to the Universe in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] tuckerm@supermeter.social 10 points 1 week ago

I've been loving RFF the last few months, it might be my favorite new thing I've found since I switched from Twitter to Mastodon. It also always shows you the artists' fediverse usernames so you can follow them, and they usually have a Bandcamp link if you want to buy an album.

They recently said that they could use some volunteer help. I haven't been able to check out what they need yet, but their matrix channel is #radioFreeFedi:matrix.org, I think that's where they organize things.

What are your favorite racing games? in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] tuckerm@supermeter.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes! And if I remember, those races actually lasted 24 minutes, right? I hadn't played a game that did that before. I loved the fact that there was an actual endurance/focus element to that race.

What are your favorite racing games? in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] tuckerm@supermeter.social 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit or Burnout: Paradise might be the closest to what you're looking for. They're both open-world games, but I don't think they really have that open-world filler that you see a lot of. They both got remastered releases in the last few years.

What are your favorite racing games? in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] tuckerm@supermeter.social 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

GRID: I absolutely loved the original Grid (I think it was called Racedriver: Grid in Europe) when it came out.

Project CARS 2 and Assetto Corsa Competizione: A while ago I tried using a PS5 controller on PC and using the gyroscope to steer left and right by tilting the controller. It works well enough when you get used to it. It gives you more granular control than an analog stick. You really can't tilt an analog stick 15 degrees consistently, but you can tilt the controller like that consistently. I'm not saying its as good as a racing wheel, but if you don't have one, it'll at least let you play games that might otherwise need a wheel. I played a decent amount of Project CARS 2 and Assetto Corsa Competizione that way.

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is a fun kart racing game. If you don't have a Switch and you want something like Mario Kart, you should pick it up. It isn't just a Mario Kart knockoff with Sega characters. Wait no... that's exactly what it is, but it's a good one.

Meta: !simrallyracing@lemmy.world is a community here.

UKOG: I raced against a cheater in c/simrallyracing@lemmy.world
[–] tuckerm@supermeter.social 1 points 1 week ago

Can't say that I have. I'm too much of a noob to play online. :P

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Mahal, by Glass Beams (glassbeams.bandcamp.com)
 

I heard this track a few days ago on a community radio station. The station was https://krcl.org/, which is a pretty good place to find new artists.

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As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline (getpocket.com)
 

Here's a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It's great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.

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[x-post @selfhost@lemmy.ml] Do you run anything on a RISC-V processor? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by tuckerm@supermeter.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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(also posted on @selfhost)

RISC-V is a non-proprietary instruction set that is an alternative to ARM. I had thought that we were still waiting for a stable Linux distribution on RISC-V devices, but it turns out many RISC-V machines can run Debian already.

Does anyone have a RISC-V device that they use regularly? How has it been working?

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Do you run anything on a RISC-V processor? (supermeter.social)
 

Lately I've been really liking the idea of having something hosted on a RISC-V machine. RISC-V is a non-proprietary instruction set that is a competitor to ARM. The idea of having a something running on an open source operating system, running on an open standard CPU, served from my house, gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.

I was under the impression that most Linux distributions were unstable on RISC-V. Turns out, I'm wrong about that. From a quick search, the following have official Debian images:

and the Pine64 Star64 has a community-maintained Armbian image.

Does anyone here have a RISC-V single-board computer doing anything practical for you?

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Live action "Meet the Sniper" video, with the real TF2 voice actors (www.youtube.com)
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Live action "Meet the Sniper" video, with the real TF2 voice actors (www.youtube.com)
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8bitdo made a Commodore 64 variant of their keyboard (shop.8bitdo.com)
 

The 8bitdo keyboard has been pretty well-received as a ~$100 wireless keyboard with ABS keycaps. I love the way this C64 color scheme looks.

I have an 8bitdo arcade stick, which looks like it uses the same knob as this keyboard for selecting the wireless mode. I love the way it feels every time I turn it on.

Unfortunately, the keyboard doesn't use QMK -- it uses their own mapping software, which is Windows only. This makes it a non-starter for me, since I rarely use a Windows computer these days. But I just might have to copy that color scheme for my next build.

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Is there an easy way of starting up services with just the nix package manager and not using NixOS? (supermeter.social)
 

Hi, sorry if that title isn't very clear. I just started learning about nix a couple days ago; I'll explain what I mean.

I'm trying to set up a web application that I'm currently hosting with Docker containers, but do it with nix instead, like what's shown in this blog post: https://carjorvaz.com/posts/the-holy-grail-nextcloud-setup-made-easy-by-nixos/

However, I don't have NixOS on my server. I'm using Debian, with the nix package manager installed.

Is it possible to use a nix config file, like the one below, when only using the nix package manager? Currently it errors when I try to call nix-build with it, giving an error about calling a lambda function that never called self. If I remove the self argument, it complains about config, and so on.

{ self, config, lib, pkgs, ... }:

{
  services = {
    nextcloud = {
      enable = true;
      hostName = "cloud.example.com";

      package = pkgs.nextcloud27;

      # Let NixOS install and configure the database automatically.
      database.createLocally = true;

      # Let NixOS install and configure Redis caching automatically.
      configureRedis = true;

      < other settings here... >
    };
  };
}

From what I've read, the services part of that creates systemd services, which makes me think that it only works if you're on a full NixOS system and not only using the nix package manager. But it's been difficult to find a clear answer on that, probably because I'm still learning what terms to search for.

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