HexesofVexes

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 hours ago

I think it's possible in 3.

King to f6, then advance the pawn on g5 forward twice for mate.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

That's it folks, close it all down, we just peaked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We'll agree to disagree I think - unless you are a specialist in anthropology (a doctorate perhaps?), in which case I'm happy to cede my position to your expertise.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Scholars, the real deal, are rare for a reason - few people choose knowledge over wealth and power. There lies the crux of the matter, since anyone who pursues the other two paths would be the antithesis of the system so designed.

It's a nice model, but it runs too counter to human nature to work; and there is precious little (if anything) that can change the nature of a species as expansive as humanity.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Very careful wording there - this leaves them open to...

a. Sell it to Reddit.

b. Pass it to their partner company who "archives" it.

c. Sell it to someone else.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

It has always been so really - it's a clever strategy really. It ensures you can be easily branded if you opposed it "don't you care about online safety for children", and ensures it remains in place as "government removes online safety for children" is a powerful piece of propaganda.

I keep meaning to team up with a sociologist and write a piece on this particular tactic; alas time gets away from me!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I'm just going to leave this here...

https://www.ageverificationfacts.org.uk/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Huh, neat. So as a percentage of the population, drivers break the law more often, and it is always more dangerous when they do.

Any chance of a link to those stats for the UK? It'll be great to show my students.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I think that depends on country...

"Cyclists should give way to pedestrians on shared use cycle tracks and to horse riders on bridleways." - nope, you hear a bell you dodge as they're not slowing down. Happens every time I use a shared path.

"Only pedestrians may use the pavement. Pedestrians include wheelchair and mobility scooter users." - nope, we get plenty mounting the pavement illegally; again, you hear a bell and you dodge. Happens 1--2 times a day on my trip to work.

I reckon people in a hurry just bend the rules more readily than people taking their time.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

"...to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them..."

Hey, that sounds really familiar!

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago
  1. Add censorship for mods containing adult (sexual) content.

  2. Slowly move the bar so that more content falls under definition of "adult" (themes of violence, LGBTQ+ themes).

  3. Continue to move the bar until desired level of censorship is obtained.

Well done, you've used moral panic to control your media.

Dark futures aside, why do I think that folks are just going to VPN their way in?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Honestly, I am a little scarred from snap.

Otherwise I'm agnostic on flatpaks - I've used a couple and they're ok? They just remind me of old windows games that dump all their libraries in a folder with them.

On a modern system the extra space and loss of optimisation is ok, but on older hardware or when you're really trying to push your system to run something it technically shouldn't, I can see it being an issue.

 

This year, so far, I've moved two older family members over from windows 10 onto Linux. I opted for an ubuntu based distro as I'm familiar enough to troubleshoot it, even remotely.

The first was a laptop, about 10 years old; windows was unusably slow. Luckily, the transition was smooth, Linux Mint took first attempt and no issues were had, everything worked out of the box except swipe scrolling - a quick tutorial sorted that out (terminal intervention was needed). 4 hours total setup (including a pile of desktop shortcuts), dual boot just in case she had issues.

The second was an older machine, a desktop, Frankensteined out of old parts (oldest being the motherboard at 15 years old). It ran windows 10 without a single hitch or slowdown.

2 days to get it "running", I had to repair grub to get the damn thing to boot after an install finally took. In the end I had to go with lubuntu with a manual cinnamon install because I hit my 4th mint install attempt and got a strong case of the"fuck thats". At the end I have a machine that has ghost headphones flickering into existence giving choppy sound that is pretty unusable. There is also horrific graphical glitches when booting (harmless, but I crapped a brick when I first saw it) - though I suspect this is just the fact there is an elderly Nvidia card in there.

A lot of time spent in terminal was unable to even identify what was happening - a first for me! My money is on a bios update, but yeah, not fun on old boards.

All in all, two very different experiences. It's not a warning against Linux (make the change now while the support is there!), just a warning that the road isn't always smooth. The bumps can come in odd places - you'd think the laptop would be the tricky one but nope, desktop rig was the worst.

Good luck out there with the change folks!

 

Clocks forward folks; off into BST we go.

 

For the past decade or so I've mostly had a windows rig for gaming, and a dual boot laptop for travel/work (windows for Microsoft Access/PowerPoint, Ubuntu for everything else).

An odd issue I ran across was drive data format; it caused unending issues with steam/lutris when installing games running under wine/proton to drives formatted for windows (they'd just not run, no error messages till one day I tried to force it via terminal and got an error I could search via Google).

In the end I just partitioned off the drive to a native Linux format and that fixed it (had to dump the contents of the drive to a portable which took a while!), but now I am wondering if there was another alternate workaround?

 

For when you need something to test video playback on your old windows 95/98/XP friend (files and instructions in description).

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The Internet in Europe Today (how-i-experience-web-today.com)
 

Not all art shows something beautiful - this really does feel like the internet of today without a lot of browser tweaking.

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Blackboard Ultra (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

We've received word that we're migrating from the older version of Blackboard to the new, "student approved", Blackboard Ultra.

We'll be migrating our courses by hand over the summer; how bad is this going to be?

 

A few years ago I stumbled onto this, and it provided a nice afternoon feature film. Figured the folks here would enjoy it!

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Might and Magic (Merged) (www.celestialheavens.com)
 

Truly a test of patience - this is an excellent modpack that unifies 3 classics together into the way I dreamed of playing them as a kid.

Found it by accident a week ago, and it's been my short nightly unwind (trying to do a solo run because I always wanted to).

 

Thought I'd share this list as it contains many emus I've not heard of before and I'd love to hear people's reviews on any folks have tried.

 

So, in the past, I used to make a bit of money fixing up comps for folks.

With slightly trickier cases, I used to boot up puppy Linux to check the more essential hardwares (and if it booted, back up essential files for the customer). My students are now asking how to manage similar things.

Alas, puppy is no good for a modern system, as it really does not like UEFI boot. I was wondering if anyone can recommend an alternative.

I'm looking for a very lightweight gui os I that can run some hardware diagnostic tools, runs on a wide range of hardware, that is easy enough to set up on a pen for novice users.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

So, kgen98 was one of the first genesis emulators, and it runs on dos.

I use it in one of my ICT classes (paired with a sonic 1 rom) on a floppy disk to demonstrate just how heavily compressed and optimised older games were.

It's an oddball that is definitely worth trying out.

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Gbstudio (www.gbstudio.dev)
 

A handy tool for developing vn style games for the Gameboy and Gameboy colour.

Great for people starting a game dev journey.

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