Adderbox76

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What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend? in c/[email protected]
[–] Adderbox76 1 points 5 days ago

100% agreed. Such a fun show.

Maybe a young Margaret Atwood witnessed the unveiling of her time capsule book in 2114 and then travelled back in time to close the paradox loop by arranging the time capsule book in the first place. in c/[email protected]
[–] Adderbox76 9 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I think time travel is possible, but you can only change things from the perspective of the person who travelled back. The original timeline just keeps on going.

Person (a) travels back in time to kill Hitler and succeeds. That new timeline exists now without Hitler, but in the original timeline is already written in stone. There is no changing it. The moment that person travels back, they've created a new timeline. It's both impossible for them to change the original timeline, and impossible to ever return to the original timeline because if they go back to the future they'll only be travelling along the new timeline.

Trump says 'major tariff' coming soon on foreign pharmaceuticals in c/[email protected]
[–] Adderbox76 2 points 5 days ago

That was the first thing I thought watching it. Eerily too close. Makes it a bit more difficult to be entertained by it.

I'm not convinced that someone at the Heritage Foundation didn't read the book and think EUREKA!!! It's too on-the-nose for it to be a coincidence.

Or Atwood is a time-traveller and that's why she has a secret book in a time capsule to be opened in 100 years. On the day of it's opening, she'll pop up in a surprise since it's before she travelled back in time, thereby closing the paradox loop.

Having lived through the 2020s what kind of generational trauma are you going to pass on to your grandchildren? in c/[email protected]
[–] Adderbox76 20 points 5 days ago (9 children)

None. A very long time before any of this started going down, both my sister and myself informed my parents that neither of us were having children and that this particular line stops here.

Not because of any trauma (that I can remember). But we've both seen the state of the world and decided, with our respective partners, that forcing children into this shit-show is unconscionable.

Pretty in pink in c/[email protected]
[–] Adderbox76 5 points 6 days ago

Narrated by Morgan Freeman.

"And that, dear readers, was the last thing Dennis Nedry saw."

Echoing Trump, Canada's Conservative Leader Vows to Deport Pro-Palestine Activists in c/canada
[–] Adderbox76 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I check various polls daily. Yes, Liberals have flattened out. But so have the Cons. All polls still point to 80-90 percent change of a Liberal Majority and it's been that way for weeks with only a few percentage points changing either way. I'm not in panic mode.

edited to add: https://338canada.com/polls.htm

This scrolls through every poll daily and lists them individually. Conservatives have actually been dropping support (44 - 39).

We need spies. Canada is the only G7 country without a foreign intelligence agency. It's completely foolish to trust the americans. in c/canada
[–] Adderbox76 31 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

That feels kind of like a half-truth/obsfucation from lapresse.

While we may indeed lack a dedicated foreign intelligence service (I don't know...maybe they're just really really good at their job.) I do know that CSIS rolls a lot of those duties into their own purview. Whether that reaches the level of secret agent spy shit, who knows. But it's not like they're not out there figuring out threats to Canada.

Joe Rogan Slammed For Claiming Resurrection of Disability Slur Is 'One of the Greatest Cultural Victories' in c/[email protected]
[–] Adderbox76 5 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Can all newspapers, when writing about Rogan, now use the term "Noted r-word, Joe Rogan..."

Joe Rogan Slammed For Claiming Resurrection of Disability Slur Is 'One of the Greatest Cultural Victories' in c/[email protected]
[–] Adderbox76 2 points 6 days ago

100% think it’s a lost cause. I don’t think it’s going away. I don’t personally think it’s ableist and never did.

I don't think it's ever going fully away. But it is still important to call it out when we see it.

Echoing Trump, Canada's Conservative Leader Vows to Deport Pro-Palestine Activists in c/canada
[–] Adderbox76 29 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Keep on going, Poppinfresh. You're already polling well behind in your own damn riding and will likely lose your seat completely.

But sure...let's just keep paddling that Trump canoe regardless of the fact that the Trump brand has been suicide for anyone who is not Trump (because happily it seems the rest of the world is still slightly intelligent)

This is precisely why I know he's bought and paid for by the same people who got Trump, Modi, Meili, etc... into power in their own respective countries; because ANY actual politician would immediately serve their own self-interest and decry Trump in order to help him with victory. In fact that's what the rift in the Conservative party is all about right now; his own Conservative leadership is telling him to do exactly that on the campaign trail and he refuses. Why?

Because it's his job to be a Trump enabler, not a politician. He was Shenaniganned into the Conservative leadership role for precisely that reason; not to run the country, but to act as a surrogate for the same cabal of rich people who pull Trump's strings.

Who is a female media character you wish you were like? in c/[email protected]
[–] Adderbox76 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I guess I should point out that I'm a cis male. I didn't even look at what community I was in. Just saw an interesting topic on my "all" feed and immediately thought of two people I look at for inspiration in management. My apologies for intruding. Didn't mean to at all. Didn't even notice the community name. I'll show myself out.

Who is a female media character you wish you were like? in c/[email protected]
[–] Adderbox76 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Without muss, fuss or ego, she just takes control of whatever situation she finds herself in. And she's strong enough that everyone accepts it because she leads by example and proves that she knows what she's talking about every time.

Quiet confidence.

Very much reminds me of Tyrion Lannister telling his grandson that any man who has to keep saying he's the king is no true king.

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StreetComplete vs Organic Maps (self.openstreetmap)
 

Just a super quick question about helping to update the map locations.

Between StreetComplete and Organic Maps, which is faster for submitting recommended changes to the OSM team in regards to things like business hours, etc...

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Someday soon (if it hasn't already happened) a book will be published that was written and edited entirely on a phone/tablet with a touch keyboard. (self.showerthoughts)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Adderbox76 to c/[email protected]
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I can't even imagine writing long form on a touch keyboard. But with a lot of people eschewing laptops/desktops for their mobile devices, it's really just a matter of time.

edited: Missed a "T" in the title.

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Flight Attendant Tantrum Cancels Transatlantic Flight (jalopnik.com)
submitted 8 months ago by Adderbox76 to c/canada
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Just immediately reminded me of this gem from a while ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3BtmeUhOHU

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I've been a Manjaro user on my desktop for a very long time, and it never occurred to me that it could do this... (lemmy.ca)
 
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Manjaro on Chromebook (self.manjarolinux)
 

I finally pulled the trigger on replacing my ChromeOS completely with Manjaro using the Mrchromebox script. Other than some glitching getting the audio to work correctly, everything runs great.

For the first two years I had this chromebook (Asus 433 flip) I thought that it wasn't worth the risk and that running the debian container via Crostini was plenty good enough.

Well it turns out that:

  • A. No...it wasn't much of a risk at all. It was actually really smooth, including disconnecting the battery to disable the hardware write protect. I honestly don't know what I was worried about. and

  • B. I may have thought Crostini was good enough. But man oh man...it's a night and day difference having Linux running natively on this old girl rather than through a container that had to boot up every time I use the first linux app of the day.

Anyway. Just wanted to share. Been using Manjaro on pretty much all of my computers for years, and now I can take the "pretty much" away and just say "all of them."

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Minimal Menu? (self.kde)
 

So....I updated my Manjaro to Plasma 6. Any chance that Minimal Menu (or something similar) exists?

I was not happy to find it gone. It's been a part of my system for so long that I honestly just forgot it wasn't default.

Now it doesn't even show up in the widget search and I'm honestly not sure I can live without it, largely because I can choose to centre it in the display on launch rather than having to choose either a) full-screen or b) right above the icon.

I can't even describe how upsetting it was to reboot after the update....

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Say what you will about the Will Smith iRobot movie.... (gizmodo.com)
 

...but its robot designs were well ahead of the curve for the time.

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Open Creative (self.communitypromo)
 

Just popping in to post about a community to discuss FOSS creative software like GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Kdenlive, Blender, etc...

https://lemmy.ca/c/open_creative

I've used them all at one time or another. Since moving to FOSS as much as possible ten years ago, I've learned a LOT about most of the programs, and consider myself a near expert in some (Kdenlive, GIMP) and fairly competent in others (Blender, Scribus).

I feel like having a place where anyone who uses FOSS creative software can both ask questions, share advice, and celebrate each others works, would be a nice addition to the Fediverse.

So feel free to join and post your work, your questions, your news or your tips and tricks.

I'm a one man band as far as modding and maintaining for now, so thanks in advance for your patience while I learn how it all works on the back end.

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GIMP Segmentation Fault - FYI (self.open_creative)
submitted 1 year ago by Adderbox76 to c/open_creative
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Anyone having a recent segmentation fault with GIMP 2.10.36 when closing a file without saving changes, the issue has been fixed and will be merged into the next point release. 2.10.38.

More info here: (scroll to bottom) https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/10785

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Video Editing Practice Footage (self.open_creative)
submitted 1 year ago by Adderbox76 to c/open_creative
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Putting this out into the community for anyone who needs it.

When I was first learning video editing, I had trouble finding good narrative content to practice with. There was plenty of stock footage, etc... but nothing scripted where you could craft a scene between two characters.

Cinestudy is the best for that. In fact I'm using footage from there for a book that I've been working on about narrative editing in Kdenlive.

https://cinestudy.org/

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Welcome to Open Creative (self.open_creative)
submitted 1 year ago by Adderbox76 to c/open_creative
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One of the main things that I have been missing in Lemmy since moving over from the other site has been the myriad communities for the various bits of FOSS software I use on a regular basis.

Any any given day, I'll use Kdenlive, LibreOffice, Blender, Gimp and Scribus in the course of getting work done both personally and professionally, and I kept waiting for the day when I wouldn't have to go back to the other site to keep up to date with them.

While some (Blender) eventually got communities in the fediverse of their own, few are very active. So I felt that I should at least try to create my own in the hopes that it draws some activity.

So if you're joining because of a shared love of FOSS creative software, welcome. I'm hoping to post news and other articles from around the web, as well as being a place for questions and advice from user to user.

Maybe it'll be just as dead as all the others. But I hope not.

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As someone who worked (briefly) as a freelance writer online, the tl;dr bot is my enemy and I want it dead. (self.unpopularopinion)
 

The tl;dr bot that pops up on every link to an article on Lemmy is depriving those websites of clicks, which deprives them of ad revenue.

The only thing that will accomplish is forcing those websites to do the very thing that we rail about; replacing their writers with crappy A.I because they can't afford to pay for actual content.

We rail against the enshitification of the internet, but when there's a legitimate way to fight back by giving these websites a page view/read/click etc... so that they can attract advertisers, we would rather have a bot summarize it for us, giving them nothing.

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