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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

The Aubrey-Maturin series of novels can be a bit impenetrable, because you kind of have to arrive to the series already able to speak 18th century British technobabble. The movie Master and Commander: The Far Side Of The World is kind of a Greatest Hits compilation of the book series, much more accessible to a general audience and just an excellent film.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

The one I remember being really weird was the PS3.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

What do you think the election of 2028 was going to look like after Kamala's term?

How many "possibly the last ever election"s were the Democrats planning to win in a row? There didn't seem to be any intention to back away from that precipice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Especially for emotional acting scenes. Sure use contacts for fight choreography so you don't have to retouch every frame where he's facing the camera but for the close ups?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

OMG there's an actual bird that looks that derpy? Holy shit. It looks like someone tried to bake an owl and it didn't rise.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I think Last Action Hero is an overall good movie with some flaws.

It takes a little too long to get going, the bit at the front that mostly establishes that his life is kind of dull and he prefers to go to the movies drags a bit. They play the "BECAUSE THIS IS A MOVIE" note a little too often and Slater just outright doesn't believe him for a little too long, he should have started to buy it before they go out into the real world. And the ending kind of just putters out? The bits where it's a send-up of action flicks is really fun and it's worth seeing for that, though I think True Lies is a better loving send-up of action flicks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

I think that's a false premise. Third parties are virtually always losing propositions due to the structure of our elections. In a race of red versus blue, if an orange candidate enters the race and some of the red voters vote orange instead because orange more closely fits their preferences, then blue wins with 40% of the vote when 60% of the electorate wanted a warm color.

I'll also point out that Obama campaigned on a message of hope and progress to two victories.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

As far as I can tell, it's not that people who would have otherwise voted for Kamala instead voted for Donald. It's that people who would have otherwise voted for Kamala, including many of those who did vote for Biden, just stayed home. "We've got policy plans and whatever" yeah that would never make it to implementation through a gridlocked congress and a hostile supreme court.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

I don't support the right nor do I intend to vote Republican. I'm not sure if there'll be another election, or if the next election held on this soil will be conducted under the same constitution. I don't know if I'm going to finish this decade living on this continent.

I've voted for Democrats since I registered to vote ~20 years ago. Support for the Democrats among young white men has been waning and this is why. More and more of us have been made to feel unwelcome and unwanted and have just...gone elsewhere or stayed home, with the attitude that neither one of these groups is building a future I can live in so fuck it turn on the Xbox. That's about where I'm at right now.

"The Left" is full of people who like to say words like equality and inclusion while really they're dreaming of their turn to be the subjugators. Basically none of whom are in any kind of actual office; the Democrats are a center-right party who have been apathetic and accepting of everything the Republicans have done.

As for the people on The Left, the feminists and the queers and the "It's not racist if it's against white people," I don't have to kill you but I don't have to save you. I didn't lose this election for the Democrats; the people who heard "Hey let's actually talk to young white men on their level and encourage them to vote for us" and said "I've got a better idea, let's spit in their face and demand they vote for us anyway" are the ones who implemented their own defeat. Congratulations. You're on your own.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

See? I'm the enemy no matter what I do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

A lot of 2D games made their art that way; earlier I called Factorio "Age of Empires with a 3 pack a day habit" because AoE's graphics are 2D sprites made from 3D graphics. I mean, think about it, would you rather draw the little villager walking frame by frame by hand in a pixel art editor in 8 or 16 different angles depending on if the model is symmetrical, or model and animate it in 3D and then frame capture it from several angles? Hell there's probably tools to do the latter automatically. I bet Blender can just do that.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 hours ago (7 children)

Throw that on the pile of "See what I mean?"

Being in the left means constantly fighting and being attacked by other leftists for being the wrong kind of leftist.

Yes, I've noticed the complete lack of civility, and thus a complete lack of teamwork, and thus an utter inability to accomplish goals. "The Left" doesn't get shit done, so what's the point of tolerating the infighting?

You come talk to me when you've figured out how to get along, work as a team, and are willing to court centrists into supporting you. And not a minute before. If you survive whatever's next.

 

aka Miss Monochrome

 

I'll go first: r/kitty. One of the hundred grillion cat subs back on Reddit, the culture in this one was you posted a cat picture, and the only word allowed in the title or in any comments or replies was "Kitty."

Someone is using that subreddit for covert communications, I just know it. Either on the level of "if u/PM_me_your_nostrils posts an orange cat, we attack at dawn!" or there's some steganography going on with the pictures, but that subreddit was too stupid to be as active as it was.

 

Replacing a broken set of blinds in my house and apparently no one sells the old standard kind where you pull the cord to raise them, I guess because kids and/or pets could tangle in the cord? Bit of an education in miniblinds today.

 

For tweens!

 

I use BackInTime (which is basically a front end for rsync) for backups, and I run one every night at 1 AM. This is on Linux Mint Cinnamon. If the computer is locked/the monitors have gone to sleep (computer isn't suspended), when the backup begins the monitors turn on, and will then stay on all night. I don't want to waste the power or wear out my backlights.

How can I stop it from turning the monitors on, or how can I get it to turn them back off?

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I tabled again (sh.itjust.works)
 

A simple shaker style table in white oak, finished with spar urethane and kitty approved.

The breadboard ends on the panels were an education on this one; on the top they aren't strictly necessary, but I felt they were needed on the lower panel so that the movement of that captive panel wouldn't rack the legs. Found out I prefer making the tongues with a router rather than the dado set on the table saw.

 

This is the follow-up to my previous post about a Linux tablet for my workshop. based on the suggestion by @[email protected] , I went with a Lenovo Duet 3i, apparently also known as an 82AT and/or 10IGL5. Sprung for the Pentium version with 8GB of RAM. It has arrived, and I've got it set up to start using.

The Hardware Itself

For a shovelware-grade machine, it's not bad at all. I'm sure they were sold in big box stores as the budget tier barely capable of running Windows 10, which is why there's so many of them for sale in barely used condition.

2 USB-C ports came in handy for charging and installing Linux from a thumb drive. The screen is surprisingly good for a machine of this price point, and it runs cooler than my cat.

The Linux Experience

SHOCKINGLY good. Linux Mint loaded right up, though I wouldn't recommend it on this machine. Cinnamon is not intended for tiny touch screens.

Fedora KDE Spin ran quite nicely, but I ended up installing Fedora Gnome. I generally hate Gnome but for a machine that will run FreeCAD, a PDF reader and a web browser, maybe a calculator, it'll work.

So far, I haven't found anything that doesn't work. It suspends and wakes from suspend, keyboard works, backlight controls work, both cameras work, auto-rotation works, keyboard works in attached and bluetooth modes, Wi-Fi works...

I think I just saw that graphical glitch @[email protected] mentioned for the first time, I looked over at it and the top panel was near the bottom of the screen. Moving the mouse around seems to fix it, though yeah if that behavior continues or worsens I'm probably going to try either X11 or...something.

Overall I'd call it "quick but not fast." UI feels responsive, but...put it this way I watched Neofetch run. Any disk operation at all is a bit slow.

Gnome is...Gnome. I would hate to live in Gnome on my main machine. I think it'll do here; it's mostly navigable by touch screen.

FreeCAD works amazingly well and is surprisingly usable on a touch screen, though to do anything serious you do need to be able to right click and use the Ctrl key. I think it'll do what I'm after. Going to start building a shelf either today or in the next couple days, will report back how it works in service.

 

Let's see if I can keep this relatively short:

I'm a woodworker, I do my design work in FreeCAD and then I print out my drawings on paper to carry out to the shop with me. It would be nicer if I had a shop-proof device to run FreeCAD in the shop with me because over the past year I found myself saying the following things in the shop a lot:

  • "Wait, let's go in and look at the 3D model."
  • "Ah dang I forgot to note this particular dimension on the drawing, let me go fix that."
  • "I'll measure this part up then go in and do some drawing."

So what does "shop proof" mean exactly?

  1. Wood shop be dusty. Last year I hauled 250 gallons of sawdust to the dump. To me this means that a physical keyboard needs to be able to function if it's been packed with dust and/or needs to be vacuum cleaner proof. I also think cooling fans are probably a bad idea; a passively cooled device is probably preferable.

  2. Not many outlets in the shop, so it needs a good battery life. I actually don't need a tremendous amount of performance, I've used a Raspberry Pi 3 for the kind of CAD work I do.

  3. FreeCAD does not ship an APK so Android is no bueno, it's gotta be GNU/Linux.

  4. It needs decent usable Wi-Fi because I envision using Syncthing to keep my woodworking projects folder synced between my desktop and this device. It doesn't necessarily need to get signal out in the shop (my phone barely does; I lose signal if I stand behind the drill press) but it does have to connect to my Wi-Fi when I carry it into the house.

I think this means I'm looking for an ARM tablet that can competently run Linux. Is there such a thing?

ADDENDUM:

Thanks to everyone who commented, I think I do have a plan of action: I'm gonna buy a used Lenovo!

To answer the question I posed, no it doesn't seem that a Linux ARM tablet is really a thing yet. Commercial offerings that run Android or Windows on ARM are often so locked down that switching OS isn't a thing, the few attempts at a purpose built ARM tablet for Linux like the PineTab just are not ready for prime time.

In the x86 world, it basically came down to 10 year old Toughbook tablets or 4 year old low-end 2-in-1s, and I think the latter won out just because of mileage and condition. A lot of the toughbooks out there will have 10 year old batteries in them, and they've been treated like a Toughbook for some or all of that time. The few Lenovo's I've looked at are barely used, probably because of how Windows "runs" on them.

I'll eventually check back in with progress on this front. Would it be better to add to this thread or create another?

 

My GTX-1080 is getting a little long in the tooth, I'm thinking of going all AMD on my Linux Mint gaming rig here, but...is there anything I need to do or install or uninstall to switch to an AMD card from an Nvidia one?

I've never done this before on a Linux system; I've got my Intel/Radeon laptop, and my Ryzen/GeForce desktop and that's most of my Linux experience.

 

It's one of those things I've never talked about with other people, the most I've really been exposed to journal keeping in pop culture is Doug Funny. People don't talk about their personal journals.

Ever since I was a teenager I've sometimes felt compelled to write about major events, and over the years this has become the habit of keeping a journal that I write in almost every day, and sometimes I go back and read old entries. "What was I doing this time last year?" I also sometimes keep notes or such intentionally for future reference.

So, if you keep a journal, do you go back and read it? Why?

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