Aceticon

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[โ€“] Aceticon 2 points 1 day ago

I second this.

Also works for things like cheap pieces of beef which normally require long cooking times before you can comfortably eat them.

[โ€“] Aceticon 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Also, for variety, there are a lot of kind of beans, plus there's chickpeas and lentils which can be made in the same way.

For even more variety, one can eat beans with rice ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] Aceticon 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

As a side note, it's a good investment to buy a pressure cooker at least for the beans since it cuts the cooking time to about 10 minutes (and this is assuming you've soaked the beans for at least 12H).

Pressure cookers will also cut down the cooking time of things that need longer cooking to not be too hard to chew, such as cheap pieces of beef.

Also consider chickpeas along with beans and lentils since you can cook them in the same way and they're the same kind of thing (pulses).

[โ€“] Aceticon 49 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The purpose of online petitions is to provide a means for people to psychologically discharge their righteous anger at something and need to be heard about it, by "doing something", with a "something" which the politicians can safelly ignore.

It's a lot harder to ignore large demonstrations and even harder to ignore people activelly campaigning at the grassroots level in their electoral circles to make specific asshole politicians loose their seats, so best have the ~~plebes~~ citizens discharge their anger on some automated online straight-to-trash People's Will recorder.

[โ€“] Aceticon 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I have a cheap ass Xiaomi smartphone (with a clean MIUI install rather than their bloatware-riddled default install) and a typical day of usage seldom eats 14% or more of battery.

(BTW, if it was now that Xiaomi removed bootloader unlocking, I wouldn't buy a phone from them)

I don't think I've ever seen the thing eat more that about 21% battery during a whole day of usage.

I suspect it's a mix of my own usage pattern (for example, mobile data is usually off), having a processor which is on the weak side coupled with modern battery tech so it's lower on consumption whilst the battery has more capacity than older ones, and having a non-bloated version of the OS so there isn't a ton of crap running on the background.

[โ€“] Aceticon 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow, your entire "argument" is literally nothing more than a collection of Strawmen, False Dichotomy Falacies and McCarthist-style slogans (yeah, sure mate, any critique of anything at all in modern Capitalism must be "Socialism").

Five paragraphs of tribalist muppet kneejerk slogans deployed in defense of the notion that Ideas should be Property, no less.

Only Socialists would want to have published Scientific Papers freely available to all and for there to be archives of published digital works in the day and age of zero cost publishing and distribution on the Internet: the evils of Socialism can only be avoid if for absolutelly everything, somebody somewhere is getting paid.

[โ€“] Aceticon 11 points 1 day ago

Exactly.

Not just for code, which is why there are people out there using LLMs as Therapists and just straightforward trusting ChatGPT "answers" as truthfully.

The "great revolution" of AI is an automated ideas salesman, which is why domain experts generally quickly figure out it's output is mostly bullshit when it's stuff from their expert domain, but people who only know a bit about a domain get dazzled by how much the LLM "knows" about it - when people don't know enough about a domain they tend to judge domain knowledge by the way somebody speaks or writes (i.e. as they have very shallow domain knowledge hence can't cross check actual facts, they judge "expertise" based on social and behavioural clues such as he kind of words one chooses or the confidence one shows) and what LLMs shine at is exactly the simulating of a knowledgeable person.

[โ€“] Aceticon 2 points 1 day ago

"It's just this once" every time.

[โ€“] Aceticon 2 points 1 day ago

Most Europeans outside Britain don't drink that much tea either.

Also coffee in Europe tends to be espressos rather than filter coffee, so more coffee (the actual beans) per unit of water than in the US (which is why you seldom find free-refills coffee in Europe and that only in places serving filter coffee).

[โ€“] Aceticon 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You can see how trully Freedom-loving mainstream Liberal parties are, even in Europe, by looking at the domains were Freedom Of Ideas clashes with Ideas As Property such as science publishing: almost all of those "Liberal" mainstream parties side with the Owner Class in expanding and increasing enforcement of the "though shall not share without paying" Intellectual Property laws that let some make money of something they are only able to own due to such laws (those laws are literally anti-natura in that ideas are naturally shared), rather than with the natural freedom of sharing.

The way States support and impose Intellectual Property is really just a facet of the broader societal problem of politics in Capitalist nations (even those disguised as "Democracy") not really working for the many.

[โ€“] Aceticon 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Try running the GOG games from Lutris instead of Steam (I also heard good things about Heroic Launcher, but haven't tried it).

Obviously for GOG games Steam isn't going to have the scripts that properly configure Proton and if you try and run the games directly with Wine yourself you get none of the modern conveniences in things like Steam, Lutris or the Heroic Launcher and have to actually learn the "old ways" of going through the log when game fails to launch, figure out the missing DLLs and which packages they're in and adding those yourself to the Wine instance you're using for that game with Winetricks.

GOG's support for Linux starts and ends at distributing the Linux installers for games which have Linux versions, exposing a REST API to their service that lets any app integrate with it - which is how Lutris and Heroic Launcher can download the game installers directly from GOG - and making sure the games are DRM free (which in my experience makes it more likely that GOG games work under Linux than Steam games: I've had to actually download and run pirated versions of Steam games for them to actually work in Linux but never had that problem with GOG games).

Steam on the other hand will do pretty much everything for you, directly from their all-in-one storefront+launcher app, exposing very little of the inner workings to you, but the tradeoff is that you're tied to their ecosystem and don't tend to learn how to do things yourself.

[โ€“] Aceticon 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They've always distributed Linux versions for games that have them an those are the ones which pop-up by default on the game's downloads pages if you're browsing their site from Linux, so it's not as if they don't support Linux.

What you mean is that they haven't created their own Linux distro and Wine fork like Steam.

Meanwhile because they ship DRM-free games with offline installers they're actually closer to the spirit of Linux than Steam: you have full control over how you run a game you got for them (for example, I try to run all games sandboxed with networking restricted to localhost only plus a number of other safety limitations, which I can do with GOG games launched from Lutris but not with Steam games).

As I see it Steam does a lot of handholding (both in Windows and Linux) in exchange for them retaining a ton of control over your gaming, whilst GOG just gives you maximum freedom but with zero handholding.

Maybe because I've been a Techie and Gamer since the 90s, personally I vastly prefer the later approach but I can see how people who grew up in the hand-holding era of computing would value convenience over control.

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