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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can't give precise numbers, but at least that I can notice, despite greatly filtering what I check, there's enough stuff to make running out of stuff to check rather unlikely. Besides, as I started using RSS feeds a lot recently, mainly for federated platforms (not just Lemmy ones), and the reader I use can hide posts marked as read, it's being a struggle to lower the number of posts to read in comparison to the sum of posts automatically pulled during the set up of each link.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

An AI is as good as its sources, and skimming through the domains from the posts, quite a few of those don't seem like very reliable ones.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Maybe take strolls on a local park or other scenic places, and take inspiration from what you see? Alternatively, maybe make things like short comics and fanarts?

Also, not directly related to your question, but keep your older doodles and drawings. Even if future you comes to find them ugly, it would still show you how much you changed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Doesn't appear to have a RSS feed either, and doesn't seem like Nitter supports it. 😔

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

From a quick look, it is on Bandcamp, for those that would rather have it DRM free (FLAC, MP3 and derivatives):
https://garoad.bandcamp.com/album/va-11-hall-a-prologue-ost-sounds-from-the-future

It's also on ITunes (only AAC and MP3), but worth noting getting to the store page is a bit cumbersome even with the link:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/va-11-hall-a-prologue-orignal-soundtrack-sounds/1190726465

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Iirc, it's a quote from iCarly, but I remember a character that is the archetype of being dumb and brute saying in awe, after reading a book, that "it's like a TV in your head", or something of the sort.

But worth noting places like Lemmy and Mbin support images too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I think that, while, yes, fragmentation hinders a system, it is also its saving grace, as it also stops a given family of systems from growing into what made the competition problematic.

Taking the Program Files folders as example, they have limited read/write permissions on Windows, so whenever possible, I try to install them onto a folder I make in the root of C:. But more and more, since at the very least Windows XP from what I could observe, Microsoft is training users into using only the users folder, and less and less programs give an option to install elsewhere, installing only on the Program Files folder instead. Meanwhile, on Linux Mint (my distro of choice), if AppImage (my to go medium of programs) isn't working well, I can always fallback to other means, such APT directly or downloading its .deb files then extracting them, getting from flatpak, compiling it myself, building a custom AppImage, running on a VM or emulator, or in the worst possibility, I make a dual boot between Mint and some other distro.

Also, although there are many package managers, from my experience, they usually work similarly. Some changes in syntax, options and names, but nothing outlandish. It would be, I think, like someone learning a close language to his/her mother tongue. And from experience, you can even organize installations in a more standardized way, although it will take some effort from your part to figure out how, since some adaptations may be needed (java 8 and sdl ptsd intensify).

And lastly, from what I can observe, stuff in Linux more often than not share logic or even methods with a lot other stuff in the system. Dunno if it's a bit of a bias of someone that's using Linux for a few years already, but the fragmentation usually feels superficial to me, with distros being more tweaks of the ones they stem from, and major changes being better observable when distros are sufficiently far apart.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago

So untrustworthy company is even more centralizing now?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

For context if someone doesn't get it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcYhYO02f98

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sadly I couldn't think of a better way yet. 😔

Though not due to piracy, I also end up with a lot of repeated, redundant and/or unwanted files, so I'm often having to delete them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I see. That's sad. But thanks for clarifying it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Not ideal, but what I do is to load all musics onto VLC, open the list view (Ctrl L on Linux), let the list fully load, sort by song name and check what appears repeated or that I don't want for other reasons. It also helps if the songs are metadata-rich, such as the ones bought from Bandcamp and ITunes (not Apple Music), so it's easier to differentiate them (given this community, I have no clue how/where from yours are). And lastly, there's a little plugin I found a while back that helps a bunch, vlc-delete, which adds the option to delete the currently playing file, and that, at least in the Linux version, benefits from motor memory since it can be executed with a quick succession of 2 Alt shortcuts.

 

Playing Final Fantasy VI once more, now modded because I'd been curious about this mod for years.
Also, I know there's an English version of the mod, but why make it easier when it can be harder? e.e"

Regarding the mod itself, I get a feeling even normal enemies were made stronger, with how much I was getting "kicked in the spleen" (Paine: "...spleen?") during the tutorial boss. This will be fun.

 

Wasn't in the mood to play yesterday. But in exchange, was so much in the mood earlier today that I got to finish it twice (somehow), first with the secret character, and then with Marion, the girl in the screenshot. Great game, specially when you don't need to burn through the money ~~you were to buy dairy with~~, and glad I used a sturdier controller, else I'd be with a broken action button like with Celeste on the Switch. 😅

 

This game is hectic

Taking a screenshot was a challenge on its own. =P
Also the first boss here on Gunbird 2 took me a few too many tries, and I'm fairly sure I picked the easier difficulty. (chuckles) I'm in danger

 

Just got through the stage. Overall fun, but I might have a few colorful words about that spinning wheel near the end. e.e"
Also luckily I managed to save the electric state til the end. Made the boss far easier.

Unrelated, but changed the title format because I thought the previous one was too visually polluted. Hopefully it looks better now.

 

Bad pun is still bad. =P

And Gunbird 2 seems to play a bit better than the first game.

 

Loving how each new stage is an extension of the previous one.

 

Bad pun is bad. "<.<

ahem

Already finished the PS1 version (a.k.a. the original but emulated PC release) and the second PC version, but with the differences the two versions have, the overall lack in information on the game, and having had a good time in the previous playthroughs, I decided to play the versions I could reasonably get (so no arcade cabinets, thank you very much e.e") so I could get a good idea of what changes, and the next version I could find was one of the Gunbird 1 and 2 bundles for the PS2, specifically "Gunbird: Special Edition". It also serves as a break from Sonic, since I'd been playing too much of the franchise, and too much for anything is still too much.

 

Sonic Mega Collection Plus plays great, even more so as a commercial emulator. Kudos for Sega.

 

Greetings, everyone!

I finished BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extended a few years back, but life happens and I couldn't play the rest of the series. Fast-forward to nowadays, and I decided to play the rest of the series, or, if anything, at least the main games. And reading on them, specially the one I played, since I remembered some quirks about it, I found a mention that apparently, part of its plotline is actually the plotline of Calamity Trigger, introduced in this edition. Is that correct? And if so, could I skip Calamity Trigger, or are there any benefits to playing it too?

Thanks in advance!

 

Are there any devices that, by default/by design, allow the user to unlock the bootloader totally offline, no ransom, validation, account, internet or whatever required?

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