[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Get dunked.

The Great Flying Spaghetti Monster created the Universe and all that exists, out of boredom, after indulging into too much beer.

Findings like these is just the GFSM messing with our colective hubris of knowing-it-all.

Those "fossils" were placed over night as decor, now that the ice melted.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

Year two Spring.

Very casually going along, playing one or two days at a time.

Decided I won't go deep into romancing until I have my house fully upgraded, putting some effort into crops for earning some gold. Need to do some mining to gather ores.

Maybe consider getting a coop. Really need iridium to make sprinklers...

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Can you expand more on that, please?

The more I read the text the less sense it makes to and not having watched the described scene, I'm at a loss.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

If a scientist came to me asking for funding to research on bodily odor (which has happened, if memory serves me well) I would be baffled by the request but I wouldn't outright deny it.

Sweaty arm pits. Stinky feet. Bad breath. Farts.

The lab would have to be declared a bio hazard area by itself. Too good to miss out. Just the chance to see someone trying to keep a straight face while taking in some of these fine bouquet of rancid would be too good to miss.

Imagine watching the footage of a day of work.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

That's... unnecessary kinky. But might be fun.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 days ago

Forgot cold brewers.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago

Write as you see fit your story should be. You can't please both greeks and trojans. If you think a given character is necessary, put them in your story.

And taking a risk of sounding ignorant and out of touch: why such concern for skin colors?

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 22 points 3 days ago

This isn't garbage, this is good banter.

A bored guy engraving runes at an height of 3.8 meters just to mess with the next guy reading it, an artist or worker sculpting his name into a work, ordered by the class in power (church) just to give the finger to the clergy, Mozart creating a piece to get revenge on the rich class that held him prisoner to work on what was asked to him instead of having liberty to create as he pleased...

Good, old fashioned, rebellion.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 50 points 3 days ago

This is what I call a master class on starting a soft revolution: you take over a symbol of the opposite ideology, in the most outrageous and ridiculous way, make it known to all, and completely subvert it and deconstruct it, piece by piece, until it stops making any sense to its former self.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 18 points 3 days ago

Somebody help get my ideas straight on this one, please.

To my knowledge, Bing and Google search engine are the default options available out there, to the point other search services relay service from those, give or take a few tweaks (DuckDuckGo, Startpage, etc).

Now lets remove those from the picture and what is left?

I read a post yesterday announcing Ecosia amd Qwant were joining efforts to build a fully european search engine (hopefully, yes, but I'm not holding my breath on it). Maybe that is an option. But what else?

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 18 points 3 days ago

At some point it just makes more sense to run emulators, like it is already done with the classic gaming consoles.

Ideally, we would get a push to release source after a given time, in order to have true conservation efforts.

7 Kingdoms had its source released and was almost instantly ported to run natively on Linux. And from someone who played that game as a teen and truly enjoyed it, I admit it's not that much of a game! There are thousands of titles that deserve this attention.

Off the top of my head I can think of:

  • Black&White
  • The Punisher (this title was even censored due to graphical content)
  • the original Starcraft and Warcraft
  • Pharaoh
  • Anno 1602 (I am aware a FOSS "clone" exists)
  • Evolva
  • Syndicate

I could go on forever...

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 36 points 4 days ago

Let me blurt it out here, people: you are looking at your next president. And I am aware that, currently, by law, a non american can not be elected for office.

yet

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by qyron@sopuli.xyz to c/diy@beehaw.org

I need to build one that can be used outdoors.

Where can I find the schematics for this kind of circuits?

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submitted 1 year ago by qyron@sopuli.xyz to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

As per the title, I'm looking to find some titles to play with my kids, especially RPGs, as Baldur's Gate 3 as struck the eye here but I'm not willing to fork the money for the graphics card required to run it.

I've been considering going back in time and go into Neverwinter Nights but I don't know if it has a cooperative mode.

Can someone give a few suggestions?

The machines available are not that powerful (one AM3 based system and one soon to be assembled AM4 with a budget G series Ryzen). The rest are laptops reserved solely for work.

Any help is appreciated.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by qyron@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

While moving from one nest to another (we're lemmings here; RP it a bit) I realized I still have all computers I ever bought or assembled, except for those that literally broke beyond any hope of repair.

Some are no longer used daily but all work and being on a point in life where everything and anything in the nest needs to have a purpose or a function, led me think what actually renders a computer useless or truly obsolete.

I was made even more aware of this, as I'm in the market to assemble a new machine and I'm seeing used ones - 3 or 4 years old - being sold at what can be considered store price, with specs capable of running newly released games.

Meanwhile, I'm looking at two LGA 775 motherboards I have and considering how hard can I push it before it spontaneously combusts to make any use of it, even if only a type writer.

So, per the title, what makes a computer obsolete or simply unusable to you?

Addition

So I felt necessary to update the post and list the main reasons surfacing for rendering a machine obsolete/unusable

  • energy consumption

overall and consumption vs computational power

  • no practical use

Linux rule!

  • space take up
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submitted 1 year ago by qyron@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

If this is the wrong place to pose this question, point me in the right direction

I discovered ZeroNet well before the pandemic and the concept was attracting, although, I admit, it was hard to adapt and everything felt... unfinished.

Because life happens, I eventually forgot about it and moved on to other waters, Reddit included.

With the current debacle of Reddit and other social sites/networks, I started wondering if ZeroNet or a fork of it could propose an alternative/add on to the growing Fediverse?

Running and maintainning an instance of any network is easy to realize that is highly time and resource consuming. I myself was forced to sign up to another instance because the one running in my country is constantly having issues.

By contrast, I never faced this sort of constraints when I was a user of ZeroNet. There wasn't anything even remotly resembling the reddit format or facebook but you could find a good deal of diversity there.

There was also the possibility of publishing/hosting your own webpage with no need to resort to hosting services, subscribe to mailling lists, cross link to external sources, etc.

It's not that I dislike the current fediverse: I have a Mastodon account and I'm here as well. But are we doing it all wrong?

From the perspective of someone with addmitidly very low technical knowledge, the current state of distributed social networks feels fragile, comparing with the alternative of having a truly distributed network where every user acts as a server themselves.

Please share your thoughts.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by qyron@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

The title is a bit over dramatic but, per the title, if you could contribute with one piece of knowledge to a book that every single individual should learn from in order to kickstart a civilization, what would be yours?

My personal choice would be the process of soap making, from scratch.

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submitted 1 year ago by qyron@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I've been toying with the idea of having a little hobby computer store for years and I've reached the point where I feel I have nothing to lose in trying it.

I don't intend to make it my main source of income but I'd like to have some sort of formal knowledge base to resort to, regardless I've been acting as the tech guy for several years for a lot of people.

Where can I find some good courses/resources, preferably online, to improve my knowledge base?

I'm a long time Linux user so I intend to use my hobby to make some noise about it.

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