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MentalEdge

@ MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz

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Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

  • Google Assistant will vanish from Android phones and connected devices in September

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  • OMFG.

    Gemini is neat, but it SSUUUUUUUUCCCKKS at being a voice assistant.

    It will frequently produce a fucking essay in response to being asked to turn the lights on or off.

    I just gave it a go again, 30% of the time it pretends to do what you ask without actually doing it. 20% of the time it flat-out refuses while never failing to mention that I really should enable gemini activity tracking. 40% of the time is claims this functionality does not exist, even though it was given the ability to "ask assistant" to do things only it can do (like identify music by listening to it). 10% of the time it will successfully hand off to assistant, which will then instantly do as asked.

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  • Worse.

    It will fucking lie and say it set a timer or reminder, and if you ask it "wtf" in response when it clearly didn't (if you notice), it'll fucking explain it's just roleplaying at being a voice assistant.

  • This cat's name is Mono for Monobrow 😂

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  • Orange cat, only in the brain.

  • Dualboot is evil, use only linux

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  • It does work.

    If you have two EFI partitions, Windows will stop looking once it finds the first one.

    Which is actually a problem sometimes, as it will stop looking and use the first one it finds, even if it's on different drive than windows.

    Imagine installing windows on a machine with two drives. Drive A already has an OS and an EFI partition, so you install Windows to drive B.

    Except Windows will still go ahead and drop the bootloader onto drive A. Potentially breaking the OS that's there, plus setting up Windows in such a way that it requires drive A to boot. EVEN THOUGH THAT ISN'T WHERE YOU INSTALLED IT.

    This is why guides tell you to install windows with only one drive connected. It's the only way to ensure it puts the bootloader and OS on the same drive.

  • Dualboot is evil, use only linux

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  • That certainly helps.

    In my case the solution is two EFI partitions.

    Windows finds the first and doesn't bother looking for a second one, which happens to contain grub and my efistubs.

    Windows will go ahead and clear the UEFI menu sometimes, but manually booting an efi file and then re-adding the grub and stub boot entries is small compared to having my stuff actually deleted.

  • Why can't comments be fully deleted on Lemmy?

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  • That's because you can't truly delete a comment in a chain without breaking it.

    If others replied to your comment, you deleting your comment would break the thread.

    So a placeholder gets left behind.

  • Today I learned haphephobia is the fear being touched

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  • Both terms are correct. There are a couple names.

    Haphephobia is the easiest to pronounce though.

    In the game we never really see Sam properly experience it. He just kinda pulls away from Deadman a little and he goes "oh you have a phobia".

    The scene where they both cram into the shower to talk about BB should have had Sam on the floor in a fetal position.

    But it doesn't. Several characters touch or go to touch Sam and he never reacts with more than an unspoken "pls no".

  • Dammit

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  • In a parallel universe: staff meetings, but underwater.

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  • Yes.

    Ocean water can also be supercritical. You can find videos on youtube of under-ice water flash-freezing out from a nucleation site.

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  • They have that too, but less of it.

    The feathers work almost like a dry suit. Trapping a layer of air to insulate their bodies and keep them exceptionally warm, even as they swim into water that's below freezing temps.

    They can't dive as deep though. Air is compressibly by the quickly increasing water pressure, so the cold will sap their body heat faster as a penguin dives deeper.

    Fat isn't compressible, so seals don't suffer the same problem.

  • lasik: wearing glasses with extra steps?

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  • It would be both.

    They seem to be describing a potential defect in the correction that can occur, which causes "lens flares", "blurring" or "smearing" of bright points of light. This is especially bad at night due to the contrast between lights and the darkness of the night.

    It's similar to a the effect you get with a camera when there are scratches or dents in the lens surface, or if it's greasy. Except it's in your eye.

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  • Eye surgeries always come with risk. When they go wrong, you can even end up with worse vision than before.

    If life is comfortable for you, I wouldn't change anything.

    I'm not sure why the surgery wouldn't help with near-sightedness. It modifies the shape of the lens in your eye, essentially applying correction directly to your body.

    How much can be done and in which direction, depends on the individual. As you're essentially working with a subtractive tool (using a laser to remove stuff) to modify the optical material in your eye. You're limited by the shape and amount of material in each persons eye in the first place, and you can't make changes that would require adding material. As such, there is a maximum amount of correction that can be applied before you run out of usable material, and it varies from person to person.

    If more is neded beyond that limit, you will still need glasses.

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  • And that's why astrology is different from astronomy.

  • The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything

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  • Oh good.

    That the plan got frozen wasn't nearly as publicized as it initially passing.

  • The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything

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  • Meanwile, in Finland, we outsourced our fucking vote counting system, to god-damn AWS.

  • I can’t expect anyone is allowed to walk through the nacelle catwalks.

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  • Oh shit! I remember.

    That actually confirms though, that they somehow "just know" when a stop is their destination. Even when there are multiple people in the lift going to different places.

  • I can’t expect anyone is allowed to walk through the nacelle catwalks.

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  • Has anyone though about the fact that the turbolifts are voice controlled, but don't announce where they're arriving?

    Lots of times we see people joining other people already in the lift. People always just announce their destination as they step into the lift, and presumably it figures out how to most efficiently get to each place the people in the lift are going, and whether to pick up more people on the way. But not once is anyone confused about whether to get off when the lift stops somewhere. And would it not be more efficient to announce where you're headed at the door, before a lift arrives, so that the system can group people going in the same direction?

    Does everyone just "know" the different decks and locations by sight? Is there a display that shows the current deck/location, or what direction a lift is headed?

  • I can’t expect anyone is allowed to walk through the nacelle catwalks.

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  • Obviously the turblift cabin is simply beamed in its entirety when crossing the gap.

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  • cats*

  • Bitwarden New CEO has extensive M&A, Private equity experience, Removes Transparency from its Motto

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  • No?

    I get that clients might break, but the web portal running inside vaultwarden isn't gonna suddenly stop working.

    Vaultwarden itself is self-contained. An API change won't do anything to it.

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    Player 2

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    Blep

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    Peek

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    Lap-boy

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    Brioche buns just out of the oven

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    Cast Iron Pizza

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    VidEo GAmEs CaUSe ViOleNCe

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    This dude spent an hour just purring

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    Irrelevant, old, posts in hot