It’s giving me vibes like…other people have been signing stuff in Trump’s name that he only discovers later, or that he’s signed a bunch of stuff that - discovering later - he wants to blame on other people.
Or maybe he just thinks he was President during Biden’s term. But I’m pretty sure even Trump can’t govern via social media post.
“Infinite” universes, like NMS or Starfield sound good in marketing, but if you’re really moving around them, at scale speeds, they can’t help but feel isolated and instanced. Even LNF, if it’s a whole ‘earth like’ planet, is huge. Earth has about 50M square miles of habitable surface - if you drop 10,000,000 people in there randomly, you’re going to have to walk half an hour to have a chance to find another player, if they happen to be on at the same time. It shouldn’t have the sharp breaks between biomes that fast-travel to a different planet gives, and I expect that will make it feel a lot more coherent.
The landscapers and cleaning staff are probably fine people.
Brother?
Even more frustrating, because when she turned 70, she admitted that she never liked cooking anyway, but will still tell us we’re doing it wrong.
Equivalent performance requires equivalent software, and developers have a long history of spending substantially more effort optimizing Windows performance than Linux performance. The video has several examples where shit still doesn’t work “right” in linux, even setting aside their explanation of why you can’t directly compare “120 fps” on their specific linux setup with “120 fps” on a specific version of Windows running on the same hardware.
Honestly, don’t know about recent versions, either. I got sick of Intuit extorting me to upgrade every few years, so I’m frozen in 2012 (which is obviously useless for taxes). According to https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=120 Quickbooks 2004 & 2007 run ok.
Didn’t realize Quickbooks was so much more complicated than Quicken; kind of assumed it was just some kind of business-reskinned Quicken.
Internet sarcasm is hard, and lemmy has a very general audience :) I’m always happy when someone gives me an excuse to do the math I was already curious about - it’s often not worth it, for just my own curiosity, but even a sarcastic or disingenuous prompt reminds me that there’s other casually curious people out there.
crypto - as in cryptography, not cryptocurrency - is just the library he’s using to generate the 128-bit random UUID. The snippet is interesting because he matched the original UUID in just over 5 hours. You’d expect to need more than 10^38 guesses to pick the same number again, which, even at 1 guess every microsecond, means something like 10^22 years.
Can’t speak for Quickbooks, but Quicken works fine in WINE; you can set up a shell script in ~/Desktop to start it, so it works just like on Windows. Quicken (and 20 years of fin data) was one of the last things holding me to Windows, and getting it transferred to linux was hugely liberating.
I made a self-hosted forgejo repository of /etc. Commit messages aren’t always informative, and I’ve never actually gone back to the repository to figure something out, but it’s there, just in case. Me cosplaying a sysadmin.
What else is going to drive corps to build faster rockets? Without WW3, the profitable strategy is to keep building the same rockets, just cheaper & crappier.
In my area, the “retail” cost of ACA’s benchmark plan for a single 50-year-old is $1145/month (up from $925 in 2025).
In 2025, you’d have to earn $130,000 to actually pay that, and someone making $60k would have paid just $466 after tax credit. Same person could have gotten a cheap “Bronze” plan for $340. You could get a bronze plan for $0 out-of-pocket below $40k income.
In 2026, anyone earning over $62k will have to pay the full $1145/month. Someone earning just $58,000 could get that plan for $466/month (after credits), or a Bronze plan for $280. Have to make less than $34k to get a bronze plan $0 OOP.
Got a https://www.amazon.com/Vollrath-Carbon-Steel-Fry-Pan/dp/B001TA773I to use on my induction. Seasons very much like ground cast iron, seems to sear and brown much better than my stainless (and far better than nonstick). It’s basically a stamped steel sheet, mill texture, smooth but not mirror. I don’t use the stainless anymore. The bottom of the specific pan I got is not flat, but slightly domed, so there’s always a dry spot in the middle with a ring of oil around the edges, which isn’t great, but I was shocked how noticeably different from stainless it behaved. It’s a hot, flat surface: what else is there?
My HA runs on a Pi for various reasons, including GPIO devices, but I’ve moved its database to the ‘big’ server. That means a lot less load on the SD card, no loss of data if the card fails, and just generally feels like a better way to do things. As I’ve accumulated containers, I don’t like that each of them runs its own database when I could just have one database to manage & backup, and not have a lot of replicated overhead.
Team Trump took the US trade deficit with each country, divided it by our exports, and called that a “tariff” being imposed by the trading partner. They then imposed “reciprocal tariffs” of 50% of that trade deficit, with a minimum of 10%. It is shockingly stupid from a regime known for shocking levels of stupidity.
Dunno, man: 40% of Americans believe the earth is less than 10,000 years old. Only 2% of them believe it’s flat, though. We are not an information-rich culture.
I have a pretty good backlog, but I think they’re all “That looks interesting and it’s on sale for $4” type things. I think, anything I’ve paid $20+ is to play right away. I will freely admit to collecting wildly discounted, ancient games, just in case there’s a moment of boredom and no new hotness waiting to try. I have no guilt over the fact they’re likely to remain unplayed forever.
I want it to be a successful product, that I can buy, and will be supported for a useful number of years. $800-1200 feels OK for that. $2000 feels like Apple Vision territory.
Jesus, man: haven’t you ever been excited about a thing before it’s on shelves? Speculated about a sports game before it’s over? Talking about your anticipation is part of the fun.
The ring of an eyebolt that used to hold the jackstay to Star of India’s main topgallant yard. Rusted through where water used to pool at the yard. I spent about a year, in 4-hour blocks, painting the main mast from top to bottom as a kid, and I can’t imagine a better way to experience San Diego bay.
Yeah, you should ignore that dude. Seems to have made a hobby of telling people “That’s not LAMF” and collecting downvotes.
I, for one, thought “Trendy R aqua” was great. The Mexican branch of Hydro Homies.