I did have reduced frights on and it didn’t work for me. I’ve even read some anecdotes about it being worse than having it off. It doesn’t remove the creatures I think it just makes them walk slower and makes the sounds less jumpy, I think.

Put off the DLC for so long (4 years now? 5?) that I’d have to relearn a fair bit to get back into it.

I remember being chased by a creature and noping out. I’m not built for horror games and that was a huge shift in tone from the idyllic feeling of the base game. I get that the thing I’m avoiding is basically a sprite with eyes and some music cues designed to feel a little stressful but I don’t know.

Pretty sure you get these if you move. These names are common in my part of the world and they’re never common in the place the name refers to. At some point an ancestor moved and it stuck to their kids.

Oh there’s absolutely no excuse for it not to open Terminal when you type terminal. I can’t replicate it on my side but I’ve probably turned that “feature” off ages ago. I’m a little surprised at the downvotes, as I’m making fun of Windows. Linux used to have a reputation for its learning curve, especially knowing CLI commands. Daunting stuff for the average user. It’s better now, and beautifully enough it’s Microsoft’s fuckery with putting unwanted shit in their OS that’s teaching people more about the inner workings of the system they’re using, both pushing them towards gutting the OS, and towards other OSes. In the Lemmy demographic that’s usually Linux, around me it’s actually been Macs, and those are even more egregiously expensive where I live.

Another way the esotericness tables have turned: the Windows configuration UIs have similar names, do adjacent functions, and aren’t listed anywhere in one place. You have to know what setting you want and where it’s found. There used to be one Control Panel, and a few advanced tools you could find in the Start menu. Microsoft wants to “modernize” some of these, so they’ve pulled parts of their settings piecemeal into their new Settings UI (which they call an app, I don’t like that). But you still have some settings that are still in the legacy Control Panel UI. You have a ton of settings that are still in standalone legacy settings UIs. Some of them look like Windows 10, some like Vista/7, and there’s a handful that look like Windows 95. You need to know that the display color calibration options in the Settings UI can be overridden by the vendor’s control software (that’s a whole rant), and that what you actually want is a standalone settings window called Color Management. You need to know what operations can be done in Disk Management, Disk Cleanup, Optimize Drives, you need to know that they exist, and you then need to know if the command you want is actually only achievable in diskpart. I have nothing against diskpart but I can’t tell you which among Terminal, PowerShell, or Windows PowerShell (or any of the x86 variations plural of each of them) is the right place to use it. I can intuitively tell it’s not Windows PowerShell ISE or Azure Cloud Shell though. Yay for computer literacy. I type cmd into the Start menu and it works from there, so I’m content with that. I can’t say Raspberry Pi OS has this many configuration locations but once you know the two or three places to look you’re done.

I know that I will have to move to Linux eventually. I’ve only complained about things in Windows that aren’t designed to abuse the users directly, which is a drop in the bucket, ethically at least, when you look at the responsibilities of the world’s most (or second most) influential company regarding personal computing. But I look at all this and feel like it’s accelerating the scary trend of younger people getting worse with computers. I was able to follow instructions correctly in a novel computer environment to set up a mini homelab with a bunch of Linux servers talking to each other. People my own age and slightly younger at work seem to know fuck all about the computers we use and that terrifies me. We were supposed to get better over time, not worse! There’s a new, younger IT guy, he’s not much younger than me, and half of what I’m procedurally required to ask his help on is something he doesn’t understand at all.

Home server mountain hermit life is no longer over the horizon for me, that’s all I can say really.

You’re not wrong but there’s something very funny about a gaggle of Linux evangelists complaining about it not being obvious what aliases to type to open something

AFAIK there was a memory leak in PowerToys. But it’s definitely ballooned in scope since it was first released. I suppose turning off the parts you don’t need would help but it really should still be more efficient. Doesn’t help that the Microsoft Department of AI Department seems to have started sinking its teeth into it as of the last few updates.

Few years ago, people literally had to rob the bank for their own money here. Thing was, when you went to the bank and you asked for your money and they didn’t give it to you, they were technically breaking the law, and you brandishing a weapon to while asking for something that is legally yours is not a particular crime. The thought of threatening a bank employee whose job was to be a verbal punching bag for an evil financial system wasn’t appealing to many people, and most people didn’t have enough in there for it to be worth it, so it wasn’t as common as the media made it out to be.

A lot of “robbers” used obviously fake “weapons” and that did work - while also giving plausible deniability towards the law (“I didn’t really make a threat”) and for the employee (“I was being threatened and complied” without actually being in danger).

You’d think our sordid history with capitalism would instill a lesson or two in our society but vapid “entrepreneur” culture and socio-economic pick-me-ism are at an all time high here and every day I am drawn more to the mountain hermit life and this is not a joke.

So, I’m not diagnosed with ADHD, so while I identify with a lot of things people post on this community, I don’t know how helpful my contributions would be. I still live in a part of the world where neurodivergence is still thought of as a condition of suffering so not getting diagnosed (or checked) seems like the better option.

Anyway, I’m baffled by people with aphantasia. A few of my family members claim to be like this. Personally if you tell me you don’t have six internal TV channels for your brain to constantly flip through over and over some part of me still thinks you’re pulling my leg. On top of a few radio stations full of familiar musical bits and pieces that I don’t know the name of and must find I must absolutely find where they come from wow I sure hope I don’t spend three hours on a Thursday night scrubbing through local playlists and listening/watching history and game soundtracks to find a six second earworm.

I’m seeding a handful. I think maybe one or two has a non zero share ratio, and none above 1. But it’s not clogging up any bandwidth for me, so I’ll keep it going for now.

This might have been the last AAA game I was hyped for, bought at full price, and enjoyed within its buzz cycle.

I should play it again.

On-device translation is also exactly what I want out of this tech and we have it. You can even just go to about:translations. This isn’t 2001 anymore, you shouldn’t be using someone else’s server to translate something quick for you. Not at first pass at least.

The second big one for me is how shocking I find it that timezone spoofing isn’t standard, now that so many people use VPNs. Why would someone connecting from Sweden have their clock set to GMT? Etc

Welcome to the Fediverse. Just a heads up, your post does read like botspam and people here are very protective of this corner of the internet. The emoji-led list isn’t helping.

I’ve set up older relatives’ phones to work in a similar way (iOS widgets and shortcuts mostly) so I really appreciate your effort here. But even if you just are just stepping in here to make a few posts and then leave, please make an effort not to talk down to us like you’re screaming into the void on Instagram or LinkedIn.

Edit: Your comments do read like they came out of a slop generator. And publishing your code, even if it’s not beautiful, even if you’re cleaning it up in the future, would be a sign of goodwill.

Trust is a two way street my friend. It’s up to you not to seem suspicious.

Everyone who has looked up useful stuff to print knows about Gridfinity, but boxes.py looks so cool! Reminds me a lot of an earlier era of computer software, when it seemed like half of all programs were made to help you do things off-screen, a lot more printing and scanning. Maybe that’s just me, I don’t know.

IIRC I played it a little and it was just mobile microtransaction hell after a certain point, no?

At least to me, Overwolf is the third or fourth iteration, following acquisitions, buyouts, restructurings, etc. The original FTB launcher worked perfectly fine. It’s mostly just obnoxious now and I make sure not to have it running in the background. No direct rent-seeking behavior just yet, I don’t have an account on there and it’s not a problem.

Right now I have it on my computer just use it to update packs that are only available there and then yoink them straight into MultiMC.

AFAIK it is owned by Curse and I guess those guys make most of their money from those godawful wikis and their ads.

I thought I’d check this before posting it, and it turns out it’s the other way around. Overwolf bought Curse. Worse, Overwolf is a company based out of Tal Abib… that’s two discoveries in one day. I was looking into getting a CaribouMini until I learned where that comes from. Less than two hundred kilometers away from me as the missile crow flies (and sadly, has flown). Great. Fucking great.

The shitty thing is that a lot of cool pack creators only publish through Overwolf, so I don’t want to delete it just yet, but I don’t like this at all. At best a minor security risk, at worst I don’t even want to know. I just thought it was just some shitty ad company’s Curse buyout as a billboard for more ads. For all the issues I might have with Nexus Mods, I don’t think they’re quite this bad. Concerning that this is the de facto standard repository of MC mods.

Did all my urgent housework on Friday evening. Got up at 8:30 AM. No sleeping in today, I have a game I want to play, and I’m going to spend a leisurely day that I’ve dedicated to it.

It’s now 8 PM. My computer is still off. I don’t even know what I did all day.

I think I should have been more clear, this is exactly what I’m asking about. I’m somewhat surprised by the reaction this post got, this seems like a very normal thing to want to host.

Doesn’t help that some people here are replying as if I was asking to locally host the “trick” that is feeding a chatbot text and asking it whether it’s machine-generated. Ideally the software I think I’m looking for would be something that has a bank of LLM models and can kind of do some sort of statistical magic to see how likely a block of tokens is to be generated by them. Would probably need to have quantized models just to make it run at a reasonable speed. So it would, for example, feed the first x tokens in, take stock of how the probability table looks for the next token, compare it to the actual next token in the block, and so on.

Maybe this is already a thing and I just don’t know the jargon for it. I’m pretty sure I’m more informed about how these transformer algorithms work than the average user of them, but only just.

Oh that’s a good point. I have only ever encountered these on Lemmy or similar places where you are clearly clicking a link that starts with “xn——————“ and then seeing how it ties together on my phone’s browser.

Maybe we shouldn’t be using these. I did find myself looking at domains with emojis in them, weirdly enough for someone who doesn’t use or really like them. But the fact that this extends to basically any Unicode character is an absolute security black hole.

Unless the standard is extended to have more guardrails/to make it impossible to resolve domains with the most egregious fake characters. Or better, to make characters interchangeable the same way domains aren’t case-sensitive.

The learning curve for understanding the actual web and its protocols looks more and more insurmountable to me every day lol

Welcome to today’s 10,000. Today’s episode is about Punycode. It’s basically a standardized way of putting unusual characters in a domain name.

The way the link is shown in your interface/client, it’s giving you the encoded version that looks nonsensical. But if you click on it, the link in your browser’s address bar will more likely render properly.

I’ve seen this done with URLs that contain emojis, this one contains katakana (?) characters.