Strayce

joined 3 years ago
[–] Strayce 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No place for piss bottles

[–] Strayce 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Lol, there's nothing about this that isn't awesome.

[–] Strayce 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Enemy Territory is still around in the form of ET: Legacy. Not sure how active it is but maybe you could find some willing players on here.

[–] Strayce 26 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not playing your imperialist simulator unless I can kill my personally preferred flavour of nonwhites.

[–] Strayce 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For anyone who misread the title as tragically as I did, 3M is the company. The amount is 2bn.

[–] Strayce 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Cool. Can they also drink and get married?

[–] Strayce 18 points 3 weeks ago

Reddit is a hellsite, but I have to wonder how different the results would have been if the poll asked about specific policies, rather than invoking the scary s-word. USAmericans are so conditioned to a knee-jerk hate response on that topic that a poll phrased that way almost feels like bait.

[–] Strayce 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Strayce 2 points 10 months ago

There's a strait/straight joke in there somewhere but I'm not smart enough to make it.

[–] Strayce 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If you use any diet tracking app, they'll have that data. Any supermarket loyalty program can infer a good amount. Some can be inferred from location data (eg amount of time spent at a restaurant). Menulog, ubereats etc will track it as a matter of course. that's just off the top of my head.

EDIT: I misread the question.

If you go up a level from the obvious interaction of marketing on food choices, there's still a hell of a lot of corporate influence on the food environment. Your job, your rent and utilities determine your food budget, which limits your choices. Your job and commute also determines the amount of free time you have to cook. Your commute is controlled in part by car and fossil fuel industry. If you don't drive, you're limited to what you can reach and carry via public transport or bicycle infrastructure (both also gutted by car lobby). Supermarket corps determine where the stores are, what they stock, and how much it is. So you'll find your choices limited by travel time, availabilit, and budget again. You can go up another level again and manufacturers and producers will have influence over (for example) the FDA, which determines safety standards of what you eat. So even if you consider yourself unpropagandised, corporations still control pretty much the entire food system and what you eat. Unless you're living off-grid and growing everything yourself, pretty much every food decision you make is touched by a corporation. Even then, you'll have to buy your seeds from somewhere.

[–] Strayce 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You could probably just do this with GZDoom.

[–] Strayce 1 points 10 months ago

WOW that's a throwback

 

I have some downtime at the moment so I'm thinking of reviving my personal blog again. I have enough experience with managed services that I'm reasonably confident to self-host. I'm aware that WordPress / Drupal / Joomla will most likely do what I want, but they're way overkill for my needs and I don't need the extra headaches.

Currently I'm leaning towards ghost, even though activitypub is only in alpha as far as I know. Plume isn't actively maintained any more, which is a shame. WriteFreely is a great project but doesn't suit my aesthetics and doesn't support themes as far as I know. I know connecting a flat-file CMS to activitypub is possible, but seems like way more trouble than I'd like to go to.

Is there anything I've missed that I should be looking at?

 

I'm pretty deadset on switching my Legion Go over to Bazzite (for the controller support). One of the games I play a lot of is Elite Dangerous. While I'm quite sure I can get that up and running, there's a few third-party tools I use like EDMC and Voice Attack. EDMC and the like I'm fairly sure just need to get pointed to the logfiles, but I'm not sure how well VA will operate in a Linux environment. Anyone out there dealt with anything like this? It's not a deal breaker if it just doesn't work, but I'd like to know ahead of time.

 

Normally I'd go to r/mousereview for this kind of thing, but fuck that website.

Can anybody recommend me a mouse that isn't going to fuck out inside of a couple years? Was previously using an Ironclaw until the USB port went, replaced it with a Basilisk and the scroll on that one's started to jitter up and down now. I have fairly large hands and tend to use knuckle claw grip. Wireless is a must, builtin battery preferred, but requiring a single AA isn't a dealbreaker. I don't mind heavy, prefer a little weight tbh.

 

But the guy behind it is a god-tier troll, and Cory Doctorow generally doesn't suck IMO. Enjoy.

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