qyron

joined 2 years ago
[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for the help and link.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

That is exactly the layout of the card I was looking at.

Thank you.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 weeks ago

"I'll show you mine, if you show me yours."

Innuendo is nice.

Works for everyone, good mix of cheeky and bold, while not being too graphical and leaves room for escape routes.

I was the recipient of this one in my teens and it snapped into reality very quick.

Yes, I was that oblivious.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago

Amazon basically solved this problem for me: they locked me out.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago

You do understand all the ramifications underneath that simple and silly question, right?

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

I'm laic.

What beliefs a person holds to themselves is indiferent to me. And it should not matter to anyone. Relationships are a negotiated endeavour, from both parts, where everyone gives a little to reach a mutual understanding.

Unless a person subscribes views capable of leading to individual, personal and socially harmful and regressive thought and action, it does not matter.

Removing the religious view from your question: would you date a vegan, not being one? Would you date a non vegan, being yourself one?

Zealotry goes both ways. Both the believer and the non believer can entrench themselves in their views so deeply they become fanatics.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

It's minimum wage in my country and many live with it. Where I live you can find a house with three bedrooms for €300 to €400.

Downside? Small, slow, semi rural, no jobs town. You have to commute to work.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

As someone who grew up inputing passwords in Mega Drive games with one: there are worst things.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

So, they're lazy.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

No it wasn't and it never did.

The constitution itself allows for a very small group of individuals to control the entire country, from the first moment it was written.

It was never truly reviewed to allow a proper redistribution of voting power throughout all the states and it still allows for indirect election of the most powerful state figure, where it should instead by directly elected by popular vote.

The gerrymandering, the filibusting, two chambers system, common law system, etc.

The american government was never created to be a proper one; it was an emulation of the english system but even more botched.

The document itself should have been thrown in the trash and a new one written, the moment the civil war broke. And again it should had been trashed when the market crash happened.

There is only so much an ammendement can do.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Imagine if any country could manage itself, by thinking ahead and admiting bad actors could arise, thus preparing in advance for it.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I understand your take but it is not really hard to grab the basic mechanics and make a thriving city in any game.

The basic mechanics are universal.

What throws off the managing part is "enemies", "natural disasters" and other excitment mechanics.

A managed economy could happen and would be highly efficient, especially because running a nation is a collective endeavour. Individuals fail but groups have memory.

 

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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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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