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[–] roux@hexbear.net 2 points 13 hours ago

I've given up on the bootloader/rooting/custom roms thing a long time ago because of the frustration.

[–] roux@hexbear.net 2 points 13 hours ago

The echidna thing is just because of their spiky cars and that there's a fact on one of the commentaries that one of the cars has the exact number of spikes on it that an echidna has spines because someone in the fabrication team is a huge nerd.

That's honestly not that surprising considering George Miller.

[–] roux@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm not gonna pull up the wiki but I believe the canon is that they all live in a sunken city or airport and that's why they have access to all the car parts which provides trade and barter networks. I'm just not quite ready to eat dog food and bugs.

[–] roux@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I just want a legitimately functional GNU/Linux device with decent app support that works on US networks doggirl-tears

[–] roux@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

Oh no, don't do the thing we want you to do... that would be awful...

[–] roux@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'm already shitposting fodder as it is so I'll probably join the Buzzards.

[–] roux@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

For your first one, just follow the crowd with chants and try to network with people to find like-mindedness. If you strike of a convo and find people with similar politics, you've made a connection.

The usual rules are:

  • leave your phone at home if you can. If not, turn off biometrics.
  • cover your face
  • stay hydrated
  • keep an eye out for plainclothes cops and don't engage. They generally look like bored dads.
  • NEW: protect other comrades if you can. Our(US) 50501 shitlibs are targeting anarchists and communists at their brunch protests.
[–] roux@hexbear.net 4 points 5 days ago

Your comments are always appreciated meow-hug

dm me if you need help with next week's mega.

[–] roux@hexbear.net 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I hate to say it but I'm really thinking I need to just move away from the PSL. Our chapter is dead in the water as it is and there was some early drama that threw a wrench in the initial onboarding anyway. I wanted to find someone to step up so I could focus on more hyper-local project. We have situation where our local government is tyring t erase our uhnoused instead of giving them proper help, and we are working on the food co-op and a few other projects. There isn't a lot of us in this group so it's taking a huge effort of all of us together just to do these few things.

[–] roux@hexbear.net 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think you might need to unpin the last one. I am not sure how many pinned posts you can have for a comm. I know reddit only allows 2. I'm not sure what our protocol is on locking the old one. I'd say sure since the new one is nice and fresh.

[–] roux@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago

I made this last week because of liberals complaining about the LA riots:

[–] roux@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Currently the plan is after my friend talks to the leader of the 50501 group, I'm gonna see how that goes and then either message PSL higher ups and talk about dissolving the chapter or removing the nark. Friend, who is all about direct communication suggested talking to nark and explaining the whole thing and asking their side of the story and I'm considering that but I need to cool off first.

I feel like I wasn't great at vetting people, but also there is a weird dynamic with the anarchist being vocal about PSL(because, I mean they are anarchist and the schools of thought don't jive at time). I don't blame them for expressing their thoughts but I think it chased away someone I was gonna put in charge while I took a step back to focus on the Food co-op project. Now that's also seemingly off the table. I thought I was organizing material but this is really starting to feel like burnout and I don't think I can afford that right now.

At the end of the day, I have a screenshot of the city's PSL chat for leverage since the nark won't be able to bring receipts. I might need to ask if the higher ups are ok with the screenshot. It doesn't have any sensitive info but it's literally like: nark joined May 30th, I posted about removing cop lover June 14th, and that's literally it.

I hate that I'm spending so much energy on something so stupid though.

 

Is No Man's Sky a good game after all the updates and fixing and adding all the stuff they promised?

I love space stuff but am not the biggest fan of Minecraft style crafting/mining. I don't mind it in Stardew and factory games are a favorite genre of mine, for reference. Basically I like the mechanics but it matters how they are implemented.

I've been trying to find a game that I can just turn my brain off and chill after a long day and right now Stardew is starting to get a bit stale(or I'm just dreading winter since there isn't much to do).

The game looks beautiful and I did spend maybe 100 hours on Starbound, which is like 2D NMS I think, but even on sale, it's at the upper limit I'd like to spend.

The other game is Hyperlight Drifter and it's $6 right now so I'm probably gonna get that one regardless.

Edit: I went ahead and grabbed it. I think my kid will also enjoy watching me play it.

 

Hello disabled comrades! Sorry about the last mega going a bit long. It looks like we are all busy catgirl-sorry. I hope everyone is doing well! Anywho, here's the new one.

As always, we ask that in order to participate in the weekly megathread, one self-identifies as some form of disabled, which is broadly defined in the community sidebar:

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Mask up, love one another, and stay alive for one more week.

 

I would like to just reiterate that this a safe space for radlibs and illiterate patsocs. We do not tolerate tankie shenanigans here.

 

I'm honestly a little bit hesitant to ask this because don't wanna seem like I'm stepping on toes.

So I've been doing some thinking stuff over the last few weeks/months and am starting to question shit.

I've always been cis male presenting and for the most part it's all I've really known, but I'm not in the least bit masculine. Back in the early 00s, the term metro-sexual was a thing and I sort of identified with that but like, meh? Idk. Now that just feels chauvinistic for some reason.

Recently I've been thinking about my own gender identity and although I present as a male, I honestly don't really care. I also have that autism(or is it just ND?) thing where I feel like a being or entity in a human suit basically. Like my inner self is controlling the body that people see me as, which is, of course male presenting.

I've been looking a bit into agender and demigender and hit some of the checkboxes but not really all, but I also don't really know another term for essentially "male body but don't care". A reddit search brought up "gender apathy" and that's a kind of maybe I guess.

The only other conclusion is that I am just cis, but fully aware of it maybe? Like I have a way wider understanding of gender and even sexuality than I did a decade ago so maybe I'm just cis and just not toxic about it? I'm just "woke" maybe?

I guess call this a journal-post but def open for discussion. I'm just going through some heavy mental exploration. I'm not sure if there is even a question here. Just me being confused.

I guess a question could be: how do you know? How do you know where you land on the gender spectrum? Or am I just making a mountain out of a molehill?

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by roux@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
 

Long story short but I finally caved and made a TikTok account.

I'm looking for commie and anarchist content creators. Theory bro stuff too.

Oh and any neurodivrgent creators is also a plus. Autism, ADHD, OCD, depression, anxiety, etc. related content would be great.

Any creators you think are just all around chill are also welcome.

TIA.

E: For some reason I wasn't able to follow anyone but logged out and back in yesterday and was able to follow 14 more people before it shit the bed again. Is this a common thing?

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by roux@hexbear.net to c/memes@hexbear.net
 
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Intifada - Bambu (www.youtube.com)
 

I'm sort of on a kick lol.

 

I blame comrade JoeByeThen on my newfound obsession over leftist hip-hop.

 

Long story short, out of all the other things we've been struggling with, we just found out out utility bill hasn't been auto-drafting like it was supposed to and we are behind by 4 months.

We got help from our church but we still owe $400. We've practically burned through our savings while I've been trying to find a job and this sort of snuck up on us and it's a pretty big punch in the gut.

I really hate to ask since others have it worse off than us but anything will help. The goal is $400 but anything really will help. I'll probably take this post down in a few days because I don't wanna take away from our comrades that don't even have a roof over their heads.

My Venmo and Paypal is @rouxination.

My CashApp is $rouxination.

Thanks and love y'all.

E: thanks to those that chipped in. I'm gonna check back in the am and update again. My partner and I are working on budget stuff now so I am gonna take a break from thinking about money. I appreciate the help.

 

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3855446

So I have an interview coming up sometime in the next 2 weeks and I have to do a few coding and SQL problems as part of it. I wanna start practicing now because I've gotten a bit rusty on algs and such. Does anyone have any suggestions on like array sorts and such to work on or like code golf sites to use? I have Leetcode pulled up and will be working a bit through that today but I just wanna get in as much practice as I can leading up to the interview. I donno when the interview will be but I just heard through the grapevine that there will be one.

I've been working on my own webdev stuff but the most I've had to touch JavaScript for is basically conditionals and loops, so I feel like I've fallen down on the other stuff a bit.

TIA

 

So I have an interview coming up sometime in the next 2 weeks and I have to do a few coding and SQL problems as part of it. I wanna start practicing now because I've gotten a bit rusty on algs and such. Does anyone have any suggestions on like array sorts and such to work on or like code golf sites to use? I have Leetcode pulled up and will be working a bit through that today but I just wanna get in as much practice as I can leading up to the interview. I donno when the interview will be but I just heard through the grapevine that there will be one.

I've been working on my own webdev stuff but the most I've had to touch JavaScript for is basically conditionals and loops, so I feel like I've fallen down on the other stuff a bit.

TIA

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by roux@hexbear.net to c/vegan@hexbear.net
 

I already bitched about this in the vegan theory club cooking discord bub I'm still bent the fuck out of shape over it.

Ok, so my kid's birthday party was yesterday and the last 2 times I wasn't able to eat the cake because it was made with extra helping of animals. I just sat their on my phone and took a few pictures or whatever. I helped with set up and tear down.

We are also going broke because I'm too fucking stupid to hold down a job and after over a year and a half of trying to find a job, we are at the point where I am considering getting rid of the rest of our streaming services and pull our youngest out of daycare. We are barely surviving on a teacher's salary right now.

In the past, my partner has gone all out on our kids' parties but I was working so it was fine. This time, I wanted to try to save money where we could. In the past, my partner would get a cake from a local bakery that costs like $80 and only 1/4 would get eaten and I'd throw the rest away 2 months later because it got forgotten in the back of our garage fridge.

So this year I wanted to kill 2 vegan birds with one stone and make my kid's birthday cake. I could make it for way cheaper and also sub in vegan ingredients.

I buy all the ingredients and plan on making it Saturday. My mother-in-law decides to offer to make a cake for my kid after finding out we aren't spending $80 on a cake. I already bought the ingredients so I politely say no thanks. Because I am saving money, not wasting it. And because I wanted to enjoy cake at my kid's birthday party.

I got up early yesterday, put my earbuds in and threw on some baking metal. To be fair it was a box cake mix and the frosting was also pre-made. I was gonna do this as a test run before autistic hyper-focus takes over and I proceed to deep dive into making the perfect vegan cake. So I mix it up and bake it and do the toothpick test and it comes out clean. I wait for it to cool and frost it and it's good. Life is good. We good.

Well, It was on the softer side of done. My mother-in-law goes to cut the cake and it crumbles. She then proceeds, in front of like 15 people, to tell me that my cake sucks and I should have just let her make it because it wouldn't suck. In front of me, my partner, our kids, our friends, etc. So that's great.

I spiral, because I do that. and I'm still processing it. She seemed like she wanted to go out of her way to make a deal about it because she knows I'm vegan and likes to call it weird or whatever when she can.

I know this is all over a stupid cake but she really could have just laughed it off when it was falling apart instead of slopping it on to everyone's plate like she was a lunchlady in the 6th circle of hell or something.

That's it. That's my rant. I'm mostly just hoping that I could get it off my chest and move on.

I am always looking for recipes so if anyone has a good cake recipe that can adapt to flavors like vanilla or chocolate and such, I'm definitely interested. A tiny caveat is that the cake mix and frosting used palm oil and I'm really trying to avoid that because of how palm farming wrecked the environment.

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