[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

I went to a high school on the larger side and one time some people 2 grades below me got into a fight. The next day one of them brought a gun to school. The security guards ended up catching him before anything happened but there was a solid hour where no one knew what the hell was going on and everyone was in full lockdown. The unfortunate reality is that those drills definitely save lives, even in a state with some of the strictest gun laws in the US (which I guess is a pretty low bar).

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately those shooter drills are not as useless as you would hope

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

IMO the GBC isn't really a full successor to the original game boy. Even though there were exclusives the actual system is more or less just an overclock/spec bump from the original game boy. Nothing about the system (architecture, input layout, developer experience, etc.) fundamentally changed Edit: aside from the PPU being able to handle colors on the screen.

On the other hand, the GBA is a different generation because it has a completely different architecture and development process. In order to maintain backwards compatibility, Nintendo basically just stuffed the original GB/GBC internals into the GBA alongside the GBA hardware, and it will just decide which CPU to use depending on the cartridge it has loaded.

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

You can get controller adapters to plug other controllers into the switch, you only need homebrew if you want to do it without anything extra.

I forget who makes them. It might be 8bitdo? There are probably a million clones by now though because this was something I remember seeing earlier on in the switch's lifecycle.

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Another thing is that the power profile of consoles (and computers in general) has gone up a lot since the earlier consoles. Even if it was well-designed, the thermal paste in all of the coolers would still get hard over time and need to be replaced. That wasn't as much of an issue with consoles like the Nintendo 64 that used a 20-watt wall adapter as opposed to the max of 200 watts* a PS5 can draw under load. (I don't have a PS5 so I don't actually know if this is accurate but it's what Google said)

The switch doesn't use much power either but having a battery and the thin profile makes that type of longevity a lot harder. (Granted, longevity is hard for anything with a lithium battery)

sigh, takes out 3DS that's still hanging in there

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's a setting you can change in your lemmy profile, and having the bot setting turned on doesn't stop you from posting manually.

I'm not sure if it goes the other way around though so bad-faith bot posts pretending to be real people could probably still happen if the bot setting is never enabled.

Edit: just to be clear Blaze is definitely not a bot but I don't think bots necessarily have to have the bot icon.

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 68 points 1 week ago

Hate to break it to you but people born in 2006 are turning 18 this year (and are technically considered "adults").

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I'm trying out NixOS on my laptop right now and I'm loving it so far, but I was thinking of setting up distro box for ubuntu (mostly for a few developer environments dependent on it) and arch (for packages that aren't on nixpkgs yet). I was wondering about the battery life hit on a laptop and I couldn't find anything definitive on google/ddg. Has anyone here noticed a difference?

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 59 points 1 month ago

Ok but like let's be real who actually fights with their wolves instead of just leaving them sitting in their base somewhere. Can the armor be dyed? That might help a bit

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 242 points 6 months ago

Another funny concept

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Zangoose@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

Alt text:Twitter post by Daniel Feldman (@d_feldman): Linux is the only major operating system to support diagonal mode (credit [Twitter] @xssfox). Image shows an untrawide monitor rotated about 45 degrees, with a horizontal IDE window taking up a bottom triangle. A web browser and settings menu above it are organized creating a window shape almost like a stepped pyramid.

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[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago

It looks like yay was storing AUR build files there, that folder took up about 160 of the 164GiB

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Alt TextA screenshot of a file manager preview window for my ~/.cache folder, which takes up 164.3 GiB and has 246,049 files and 15,126 folders. The folder was first created about 1.75 years ago with my system

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago

Can't tell if this is sarcasm (I've been on the internet too much today sorry) but just in case the Greek μ (mu) stands for "micro" since 'm' is already used for "milli"

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago

If I had the willpower or time to go through a multi-thousand line (not including the html templates) legacy Angular 6 codebase where almost every property is typed 'any' then I assure you I would have, it's driving me insane 🙃, also why I prefer backend

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