Strayce

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[–] Strayce 7 points 22 hours ago

I think this was also the plot of the first Elite Force game. Been a while tho and I'm not sure if it's canon.

[–] Strayce 39 points 23 hours ago

They got funged

[–] Strayce 83 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well it was nice for a while there.

[–] Strayce 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Unlikely. Not going to say he's lying about his personal experience, but the symptoms aren't likely to be related.

If it was true, wouldn't countries where soy forms a large part of the diet (Japan, China) be experiencing this all the time? Pretty sure the Chinese CDC recommends eating tofu every day.

People see phytoestrogen and latch on to the estrogen bit, forgetting that the phyto- means plant. It's mostly incompatible with human hormone receptors.

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

Yeah I believe you, the app wasn't working for me, either. I was using my card all afternoon with no problems though. Not locked out of anything.

[–] Strayce 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Typical 7 news sensationalism, it was a tech issue on the frontend affecting app and web services. Transactions worked fine, no one was 'locked out' of their account.

Last line of the article:

Other services including ATMs, online and in-person payments, including tap and pay, were unaffected..

Pain in the ass, sure. But not as bad as all that.

[–] Strayce 3 points 4 days ago

works with just three distinct weight values: -1, 0, or 1.

That's a trit.

[–] Strayce 5 points 4 days ago

Started and finished Shady Part of Me (on special for like $3.50AU). Gameplay-wise it's really good; difficulty curve is one of the smoothest I've experienced. No real roadblock puzzles where I had to resort to a guide, but enough that had me stumped long enough that the eventual "A-HA!" moment was really satisfying. Very well tutorialised, puzzle elements are introduced cleverly and get recombined with other, previous elements to make some fairly complex puzzles. Plot-wise, IDK. It feels like it's intentionally vague to give an impression of depth that players can project their own ideas onto. Whether that's a good or a bad thing, I'm not sure. Only took me about five hours to complete with about 75% of the collectibles, but there's no way I'm going back to 100% it. Probably wouldn't pay full price for it, but recommended while on sale.

[–] Strayce 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Be cool if they could integrate with gadgetbridge

[–] Strayce 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If you're itching for Freelancer, there are modern options! There's a couple of different community patches / mods that attempt to bring it up to date, see: HD edition and Crossfire. There's also Underspace and Hell Galaxy which have free demos available. Similar gameplay and mechanics but much darker take.

[–] Strayce 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Vultures are always a pain in the ass tbh. Zippy little bastards.

[–] Strayce 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You might have better luck searching on the mobileread forums. Plenty of kindle hacks there.

 

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?

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Third-party game tools (self.linux_gaming)
 

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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