captain_aggravated

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I've been told that I "bottle things up and then explode". How do you not "explode"? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Take a lesson from welding class: You release what you've got bottled up just right with a little spark and you get an intense yet precise flame. It's amazing what you can get done with skillful application of said flame.

What old technology are you surprised is still in use today? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

If you buy a brand new Skyhawk here in the space year 2025, it will come with a newly made Lycoming IO-360 that requires 100LL. I think they're still working on eliminating leaded avgas, I think because the Trump regime hasn't noticed it yet.

What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 28 points 8 hours ago (8 children)

A grill should run on charcoal. It needs to get very hot and that's literally it.

There's a universe where I attach some electronic controller with a PID loop or something to a smoker, to maintain consistent temperatures via damper control. I'm not buying that off the shelf built into the machine though.

What old technology are you surprised is still in use today? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

General Aviation is still using magnetos. The typical GA airplane is hilariously primitive.

The filters in my Corsi-Rosenthal Box look after 30 days of continuous use... in c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 15 points 23 hours ago

I mean, it sounds like an Einstein-Rosen bridge.

Subnautica 2 studio begs rioting fans for benefit of the doubt after leadership axed by owner Krafton: 'The team that has been working on the game day-to-day ... remains completely unchanged' in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Corporate fuckery is not a good smell to gamers. Smells like month old genital pus.

Just starting an article by explaining "Unknown Worlds Entertainment has been acquired by Somebody Interactive, the parent company of Hunka Chunka Studios and Rumpy Pumpy Inc" and we're already suspicious, because corporate acquisition means the game now has more parasites to fund - layers of upper management, investors, etc.

Then we hear about major names that are the people that had the vision for the original game being replaced "immediately" in a press release full of bullshit corpowank marketing boilerplate...it means this game is almost certainly going to be cancelled, the studio shut down and the staff laid off, probably after a lot of players have purchased the game in early access.

There's quite a bit of overlap in Subnautica and KSP's player bases, and we've already had our asses burned by Take Two Interactive.

So, I'm not going to be joining any early access campaign. I'm not paying for the game before it is finished, I'm not playtesting it for free, I'm not pre-ordering anything and I'm not buying any merch, and there's a reasonable chance I'm not buying the game at all, because it has already been smeared with the aforementioned month old genital pus.

I don't think I want to buy games from companies that have parent companies. Parent companies make everything fucking suck.

The filters in my Corsi-Rosenthal Box look after 30 days of continuous use... in c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 83 points 1 day ago (17 children)

"Corsi-Rosenthal Box" sounds like it's some theoretical physics thought experiment, but no it's some filters and a box fan.

Be tempted to build one of those for my shop.

The filters in my Corsi-Rosenthal Box look after 30 days of continuous use... in c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I read that as "our-SER-uh-pee" at first. I now have a new adjective.

There's one in every crowd in c/tenforward@lemmy.world
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Both chords and an obnoxious British accent? "CHEWDAAAAY IS GONNA BE THE DAY"

Lick it. in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I just like the idea of lampooning the vapidness of the whole trend, and I don't know whether it would be more effective to stencil LIVE LAUGH LOVE in impact font on diamond plate or to put things like "Obey Consume Submit" in the girly handwriting font.

Lick it. in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

I don't know if I can say if I use my table saw or my router table more. If I do have to make curved cuts or something I haul out one of my jigsaws.

Lick it. in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I want to label my toilet /dev/null now.

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Play FPS games with a space mouse? On Linux?!?! (sh.itjust.works)
 

I have a 3DConnexion Spacemouse. I bought it, and use it, for CAD work, but I'm drunk enough to think it'd be fun to play Satisfactory with. What do you think I'd need to do to map it to a controller or something? Am I gonna have to fuck around with the Python library? It's been awhile since I've fucked around with a Python library.

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How do we get the makers of FreeCAD to document their fucking software? (sh.itjust.works)
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I heard you guys like beans (www.youtube.com)
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Recommendations for home media infrastructure esp. software? (sh.itjust.works)
 

So here's the state of things right now:

I've got a Synology NAS with stuff like my movie collection stored on it. I think at some point I'll move my music collection up there, too. It's an ARM powered 2-bay thing, I'm not particularly interested in using any of Synology's software, and there's some stuff that won't run on that box because it's ARM instead of x86. I don't really have a "server" box running.

A few years ago I bought a "commercial TV" aka one that doesn't have Roku or whatever. For awhile, I ran OSMC (basically Debian Kodi) on a Raspberry Pi, which...I had enough problems with that it's unlivable. I'd rather just not have a television than continue to use OSMC.

In the meantime, I built a new gaming PC for my desk, the old machine (which happens to be in a Fractal Node 202 case so it already looks like a TiVo) has been moved into the living room. It's a Ryzen 3600/GeForce GTX-1080 machine with a bit over a terabyte of SSD and 16GB of RAM. It's still kicking bubblegum and chewing ass. Yes, it idles at a greater power draw than the Pi pulls at full steam, but it'll spend most of its time asleep, we'll be okay.

I'm currently still using Mint Cinnamon on it. Which is a hilariously unusable home theater OS. Plus I have my desktop (a Ryzen 7700/Radeon 7900GRE machine running Fedora KDE) and my phone (A Galaxy S10e) that I sometimes watch media on. Some questions:

  • Why does VLC error out when trying to play mp4s stored on my NAS? Is it because SMB is Microsoft fucksewage that doesn't actually work? Because that's my working hypothesis.

  • I have so little information on what Plex/Jellyfin even are, I gather Plex is at least semi-commercial while Jellyfin is the open source but worse option. These may or may not have a server component that has to run on a server-like box, which I don't and won't have.

  • On the client side, I don't know if they take the place of a DE the way Kodi does, or if it's a separate app, or if you'd have to exit Plex or Jellyfin to use something like Steam, or if Steam Big Picture mode would work as a media center, but can it get to Youtube...

Is there anything out there that works better than throwing my TV away and forgetting about it?

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Standing around in my driveway in the middle of the night (sh.itjust.works)
 

I finally caught a lunar eclipse. like five of them I missed due to weather, it's clear tonight.

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Cleaned the house, not that you'd notice (sh.itjust.works)
 

Did a lot of things like emptying the bathroom trash can, got rid of some packaging that was holding nearly nothing, put some stuff in some drawers, folded one load of laundry and loaded another. The place is technically better in a way that isn't apparent.

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Do the old Greek, Norse or Roman gods take godhood of modern concepts? (sh.itjust.works)
 

Like, would Hephaestus be the god of magnetos, distributors and capacitor discharge ignition systems? Or does that count as lightning and thus be Zeus' problem? Is Oden the god of whiskey because it necessarily must be made in oak barrels, or being booze would that fall under Dionysus? Is Mercury the god of SMS?

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What's your personal little conspiracy theory? (sh.itjust.works)
 

I'll go first: r/kitty. One of the hundred grillion cat subs back on Reddit, the culture in this one was you posted a cat picture, and the only word allowed in the title or in any comments or replies was "Kitty."

Someone is using that subreddit for covert communications, I just know it. Either on the level of "if u/PM_me_your_nostrils posts an orange cat, we attack at dawn!" or there's some steganography going on with the pictures, but that subreddit was too stupid to be as active as it was.

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