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Count Regal Inkwell

@ VinesNFluff @pawb.social

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Nerd|Furry|Linux User|Ace|BiRomantic|Taken <3

Leftist with an incorrigible love for fancy aesthetics (mostly Renaissance Italy/Victorian England) that might be incorrectly read as a monarchist because of that.

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Unicorn, but also occasionally gryphon.

  • Ring the bells

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  • An explained joke might lose its funny in the moment

    But you also ensure future jokes riffing on similar ideas will land better. ;)

  • Ring the bells

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  • I don't get it

  • What's a really popular game franchise you just can't get into?

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  • And I am glad it works for all of you

    My eyes just glaze over really fast.

  • What's a really popular game franchise you just can't get into?

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  • Grand Theft Auto

    The whole concept is profoundly uninteresting to me

    And I feel there is a fundamental tension between the enjoyable part of the games (Over-the-top city chaos with lots of explosions, often aided by cheats) and what the games WANT to be (serious crime dramas I think?)

  • Who's in charge?

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  • I am Root!

  • The Army’s not sure what its new ‘Executive Innovation Corps’ will actually do

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  • We have a term here in Brazil, for appointed "job" positions that seem to have no responsibilities and are basically a way for rich people to place their relatives and such in places close to power:

    Aspone. Assessor de Porra Nenhuma. Translates to like "Advisor of Fucking Nothing"

  • On X11 and the Fascists Maggots

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  • How im also raising my little guy

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  • Column A, Column B

    The trick is to introduce your kid to your taste in gaming while they're young

    And then when they are in their tweens and want to game online with their mates, you set them up for it (with proper supervision and such, of course)

    And they WILL develop their own taste in gaming -- But they will have some common ground with you still.

    .... It worked for me and my dad (avid PC gamer, mostly plays strategy games and management sims though) anyway. Years later I convinced him to get Civ V and he completely destroyed me in it.

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  • I always wonder where are the mothers of these shitty young men?

    Like.

    If I even thought of going into a misogynistic phase during my younger years, my mother would have put me in my place, yanno?

    Are anglo mothers less sprited than latin american mothers?

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  • You're the one lying. Gnome 46. That's when it was added.

    "Location entry on click" and "Detailed timestamps for files" listed proudly as "features" as if they aren't default on every file manager that doesn't treat its users like babies too dumb to use their computers.

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  • Thanks, I was going to post a very similar rant.

    The "just works" argument IS a valid one and they would have a point -- IF Gnome's defaults were in any way sensible. They aren't. The entire workflow is a nightmare. (I made the apple comparison -- Well, uhh... MacOS is also a walled garden that doesn't let you change shit, but at least it's got very decent defaults)

    Gnome's file manager didn't let you type in FOLDER ADDRESSES until a few months ago, ffs. And sure you could, even then, use an alternative file manager.

    .... But at that point you are fucking with the premise of "just works", because you will need to use non-default stuff.

  • Whats a better name for 'graphics cards' that describes the kind of computational work it does

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  • How the turntables

    Nintendo called the 2d graphics chips on the NES and SNES the "PPU" (picture processing unit)

  • Removed

    More like "lemmy be positively fucking toxic"

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  • What is it with Lemmy and terrible-quality ragebait today?

    First the guy on nostupidquestions trying to say arguing in bad faith was based actually

    Now you

    Did the threadiverse afoul of some discord server where awful teens hang out?

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  • Gnome in general is undeniably made competently by competent and talented people. If it wasn't, it would break a lot more.

    Those competent and talented people also managed to make extremely bad choices at every turn, and seem ideologically opposed to the idea of customization, resulting in an environment that is fundamentally painful to use unless you very specifically fit the box of what they expect users to be like.

    It sort of feels like an Apple product, in that sense. Very well-made, but god forbid you don't want to do things exactly as they say you should

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  • My knees and back are fine

    My wrists and fingers are war veterans

  • On X11 and the Fascists Maggots

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  • Now I hate Gnome

    But:

    1. Harrassing the creators is cringe, even if they make (undeniably-very-competently-made-but-by-virtue-of-dumb-choices-rendered-into) bad computer programmes
    2. Wayland is good actually, Gnome or otherwise.

  • Are you being censored?

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  • Yeah. I looked down at my wang and there was just a black bar.

  • Whats a better name for 'graphics cards' that describes the kind of computational work it does

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  • I'm old enough to remember when these were called 'Accelerator Cards'.

  • Removed

    How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?

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  • I used both for a while there... But ehn, haven't touched my Reddit account in 3 years.

    Too many nazis, and besides, Reddit's main appeal (mentioned in the thread: Reddit has a more diverse demographic as compared to only nerds here on Lemmy) doesn't really call to me because I'm Lemmy's demographic to a T, a Linux-loving left-wing queer nerd.