qyron

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[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz -5 points 8 hours ago

That's the point.

You, as a common citizen, should not have to. But the moment you feel like to share your thought or opinion, you should be identifiable and made responsible for it.

The current social media outlets shield behind the argument they act solely as channels while at the same time fostering and allowing for "anonymous" groups or individuals to spout whatever views they want, often views that deter from advancing social and civilizational progress. Hence the current state of the world, with authoritarianism on a rise and hight like there wasn't in nearly 70 years.

When the internet was made of individual websites, the person behind it was automatically made responsible for whatever they put on it. That was fair and reasonable.

Pushes like this, is assigning suspition/guilt before any wrong doing.

I will grant the overall facilitated acess to pornography is damaging the kids. There are already enough studies showing how the early access to porn is related to bad interpersonal relations on social, emotional and sexual level.

But this does not imply you should be identifying yourself to access adult content or anything on the web. Just impose curation. If it's available to the public, you're responsible for it.

Old school "dirty" books and magazines stores had controlled access and the really hardcore stuff was well out of reach of who should not get to it. Free porn is nice but there are things available that should be behind pay walls or at least registry, with identity verification.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 5 points 8 hours ago

Try reading it instead. Go old school. And while you're at it, write yourself and share it. Bring back the times of hand to hand banned knowledge sharing.

But now seriously: that is completely stupid.

As anyone considered the amount of money that "industry" generates. Considering the US is so economy driven and concerned with jobs, maybe that argument can raise concerns.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At some point, it will be easier to just not have a phone.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's achieveable if enough alcohol is added to the subject looking at the said painting. And with some exotic chemistry they may even start to taste or hear the colors.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

It was an abomination.

Dark bread (wheat/rye mix), homemade, mustard, mortadela, cheese, letuce and a slice of tomato.

Fit it's role.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

I want to but many artists are abandoning the format.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

Personal preference.

I like to buy and keep something. So beside the network coverage issues I face, I prefer to buy and keep my copies in my home, to listen wherever and whenever I want, without the need for an app or something alike to make sure the music I paid for actually plays.

Call me old fashioned.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

For reasons unknown, I've had 3 separate accounts on that site shut down. I'm done with them.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 days ago (4 children)

There is one artist on Bandcamp whose work I want to get but I understand Bandcamp is more geared towards indie musicians.

Is this true?

 

I used to buy a lot of music but physical medium seems to be on the way out and there are even artists that skip entirely publishing in such format.

Streaming is not my cup of tea nor a luxury I can adhere too, as I mostly work outside and there are spots where internet coverage is just non existant.

I would gladly pay for a service that would enable me to pull down and store music I pay for.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago

For health reasons, nothing to object. For pure vanity, it makes no sense.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 days ago

That I am a functioning human. Several conspired against it over the years.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago

I thought we had already invented that one. In two separate version. The first was the bathtub and the revised one being the shower booth.

 

I am not a regular consumer of energy drinks. Occasionally, I will buy and drink a can of a specific store brand energy drink, especially when the day is really hot. I enjoy the flavour.

What I've been taking note is that, usually, two days after drinking it, I will feel extremely psychically tired. I can sleep normally, even better, to a degree, have more dreams and even feel more mentally active during that period but after those 48 hours, I get extremely tired, to the point I can fall asleep if I stay still for to long. I can maintain myself awake if I remain active.

The drink itself has no unusual ingredients - taurine, guarana, caffeine, ginseng - but for some reason I am still unable to understand, it is the only one that affects me like this.

Note 1: I do not drink coffee. Caffeine from real coffee somehow alters my blood pressure radically. These energy drinks do not.

Note 2: I once drank one specific energy drink - a Battery - that kept me awake and functioning for nearly 60 hours. I was physically unable to sleep. When whatever kept me going ran out I slept for 30 hours straight.

Has anyone ever went through something like this?

 

Looking at my own digital dependency and comparing it to people I know, although being personally more of a tech geek than most, I find my dependency of technology lower.

Hardware wise, I tend to run everything I buy until it is rendered completely unuseable or it breaks down. This obviously ties with my preference towards FOSS but I think it is more of a tangent.

Services wise, I am a complete outlier. I never subscribed to a streaming service, I was quick to leave mainstream social media behind, I never boarded fads around wearables. Most applications that inhabit my acquaintances smartphones don't find a way to mine (Whatsapp, Amazon, Aliexpress, Uber, UberEats, etc).

This is the most extreme part of my behaviour but I have refused services that do not have a means of contact/interaction besides an application.

And I do not feel inconvinienced in my day to day life by this.

 

I just got served with this. It is a real novelty item.

 

Per the title, what options exist in Europe for independent authors and creators to make themselves known and sell their work/receive support from fans, besides through their own personal websites?

Smashwords was the almost default option for years for indie authors; Amazon also took their piece of flesh. Then there was Patreon.

It always made sense to me to have an european alternative to those sites.

I've already found Xinxii and am in the process of exploring it.

What else is out there?

 

Pretty much that.

I've been trying to get a degree since I was in my early twenties. Too many things happened and I never got around to do it.

I have close to zero probability to ever work in my field of choice, which is Social Sciences, with a minor in Psychology, given my age.

Theoretically, I could try to become a high school teacher, as there is a great demand for teachers in my country and it will only grow in the next years to come, but entering public teaching is extremely hard and was made even harder after schools were handed direct hiring; nepotism grew ten fold.

I would like to be the first in my family to get a degree, if nothing else to say that I did it.

There is no need of going into debt for it, as I can enroll in a college where I can enroll only in one or two classes per semester and only pay for those; tuition would be around €98 per class.

But I know myself. I like to work alone. I have no patience to deal with group tasks. Never could. I don't mingle, I don't socialize. And I really have something against stuck up people, be them be teachers or fellow students. I'd get in trouble really fast.

I guess that is it. What do you say?

 

My partner is currently job hunting and I've got to know some very ugly behaviours from interviewers and train staff, towards the people applying for those jobs.

From snarky attitudes, to blattant lies and attempts on trying to withold information or ignore legal impositions and rights, these companies are power tripping and the people in them are deranged.

Well, I happen to have a job and am fairly aware of my rights, so I'm considering applying for these interviews and throw some poison back at this people.

 

I know the lithium batteries are supposed to be a pain to recycle but how are the conventional ones broken down to recover all the materials?

I have a bucket I throw dead batteries into and picking it up made me realize just how heavy it is. That is a lot of metal. And metal is money.

 

Because this needs to be a regular thing, come forward warriors and announce the feats you have achieved! For the glory of the Empire!

 
 

A few years ago, almost out of despair, I moved away from Debian in order to be able to play a few games natively.

On those days, the main concern with running games on Debian came mostly from unavailable dependencies or older, incompatible versions.

Fast forward today, returning to Debian, all installers from GOG run smoothly, with no error, but many games report errors on launching.

So, as per the title, what crazy voodoo magic is cast upon Debian to create Ubuntu, Mint and others, making those derivatives gaming-capable but their base distro not?

Can someone enlighten me on this, please?

Out of many games I tried, I managed to run three: Kingdom Rush and the Frontiers sequel and Martial Law.

Other titles failed miserably, including Desperados, Eschalon and even Stardew Valley.

Because it's useful/required info:

system

  • AMD Athlon II x2 250
  • 8GB RAM
  • GeForce G210

It's a very reliable work horse, with maxed out memory. The GPU proprietary drivers are no longer available; running nouveau.

When launching from the console, I get this report (example from Stardew Valley):

start.sh: 7: Bad substitution

start.sh: 9: source: not found

start.sh: 12: get_gameinfo: not found

start.sh: 13: get_gameinfo: not found

start.sh: 14: get_gameinfo: not found

start.sh: 29: define_option: not found

start.sh: 32: standard_options: not found

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