Trashbones

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[–] Trashbones 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'd be curious how that works? I always hated memorizing those things, and I'd love it if there was some way to easily derive those from a single relationship.

[–] Trashbones 5 points 5 months ago

The flatpak version can have issues integrating with the system, while the native install generally has fewer issues. These issues can crop both in the steam client and in the games themselves (since those processes are also sandboxed).

I personally can't use the flatpak version on my desktop (Fedora 42) because I can't get hardware acceleration working on the flatpak client and it's unusably slow. Other issues I've heard about with the games themselves running poorly also makes me disinclined to even try to fix it.

That being said, Fedora has a nicely packaged native install for the steam client, maybe if I had to manage the dependencies more I would feel differently.

[–] Trashbones 29 points 9 months ago (7 children)

How can you tell it's AI generated? This is a real question because I legitimately have trouble recognizing AI that doesn't have egregious issues like mangled fingers, and unfortunately I think recognizing AI content is going to be a survival skill in the next decade.

[–] Trashbones 39 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I assumed the joke was his "girlfriend" was a man who's been lying to him, at least that was my initial thought from the exceptionally hairy legs.

[–] Trashbones 3 points 10 months ago

Maybe an enclosure with inlet and outlet fans, and either a window AC unit or a dehumidifier dedicated to your printing room? I definitely recommend watching this video before investing in a dehumidifier, a lot of helpful information about how humidity works: https://youtu.be/j_QfX0SYCE8

[–] Trashbones 5 points 10 months ago (11 children)

Who are the tank triad?

[–] Trashbones 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, funny enough I have sorta the opposite problem using Firefox for PDFs: I like the side by side view of two pages and Firefox always loads books with single pages, zoomed way too far in for my taste. Have you tried it for PDFs recently? It's a new way of reading them for me, and I wonder if they've changed it since you used it last.

[–] Trashbones 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I actually really like Firefox for reading pdf's, how is it in chrome? I've never actually tried chrome for that because I was still using okular back when I still had chrome installed on anything.

[–] Trashbones 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This isn't a direct replacement for tab groups, but there's a Firefox extension called Tree Style Tab that organizes your tabs into a nested tree structure. I use it a lot to emulate tab groups and the way it lays out the tabs makes it much easier to read imo. It might be worth taking a look if tab groups are chromium's "killer feature" for you.

If you don't mind me asking, are there any other must-have features that chromium has that Firefox doesn't?

[–] Trashbones 1 points 2 years ago

There's actually a book series I enjoy, the Bobiverse series, that does an interesting take on it. In it a human, the eponymous Bob, gets digitized and becomes the AI of a Von Neumann probe. He's given the mission to make copies of himself, explore the galaxy, and build colonies for humanity.

Later on in the series...As he makes more copies of himself, it's found that the personality of the copies diverge more and more the farther from the original that they descend, and they eventually devise a statistical way to measure this divergence. No two extant Bobs are ever the same person, even though they're identical copies.

However, it's also discovered that if a Bob makes copy of himself, shuts down his original AI matrix, and only then the copy is turned on, that Bob will have no measurable divergence from the one he was cloned from. It's measurably the exact same individual, and it implies that in-universe there's some fundamental, tranferable property of identy. Arguably some kind of "soul".

Not only that, if the original AI matrix is turned back on then that one starts displaying the divergence that was expected of the copy. This is used in one case to transmit the data of a Bob to a waiting, empty AI matrix around another star to avoid physical travel and side step the teleporter problem.

There's a lot of sci-fi hand waving in it, but I thought it was a fun way to approach the question.

[–] Trashbones 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe try Hades or Dead Cells if you like roguelites/roguelikes? Fundamentally different genre but gives me a lot of the same vibes. You inevitably die every run, but you keep all the meta-progression/upgrade resources you found during that run. So really, dying actually just gives you a chance to spend those resources to get stronger rather than taking away your progress.

Roguelites sound like a good fit for you in general if you like challenging, arcadey games that don't punish you too severely for dying. It's usually expected that you die a lot lol

[–] Trashbones 1 points 2 years ago

This game is actually a bit before my time since it was released two years before I was born, but the original XCOM game (aka UFO: Enemy Unknown) is still one of my favorite games of all time. And it's just gotten better over the years with fixes and modding through OpenXcom.

I like the modern Firaxis games a lot too, and Xenonauts even moreso, but nothing has quite hit the same as the OG.

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