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Comment on We can have a different web in ~tech
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Comment on Vegan recipe log in ~food
deathinactthree All of that will be fine, there's no special kind of stock you need to use and chestnut mushrooms are basically the same as cremini for this. Like the title says, it's easy. :) It'll still be...All of that will be fine, there's no special kind of stock you need to use and chestnut mushrooms are basically the same as cremini for this. Like the title says, it's easy. :) It'll still be good. Good luck.
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Comment on Vegan recipe log in ~food
deathinactthree Sure, plain yogurt would probably work actually, though I haven't tried it. And a vegetable oil spread is basically all Earth Balance is, so whatever you have is fine. You can use regular...Sure, plain yogurt would probably work actually, though I haven't tried it. And a vegetable oil spread is basically all Earth Balance is, so whatever you have is fine.
You can use regular vegetable or mushroom stock instead of the water and Better than Bouillon if you have it, I just use BtB because it's cheaper and more shelf-stable than having open quarts of stock in the fridge. They sometimes go bad before I can finish using them, vs. BtB which is a small jar that keeps in a fridge for a few months. Or you can make your own stock if you can't/don't want to buy it at the store.
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Comment on Vegan recipe log in ~food
deathinactthree Easy Mushroom Stroganoff Ingredients 1 cup rotini pasta 1 cup water 1 tspn Better Than Bouillon roasted vegetable flavor stock paste 1 tab of Earth Balance vegan butter OR 2 tblspns water for...Easy Mushroom Stroganoff
Ingredients
- 1 cup rotini pasta
- 1 cup water
- 1 tspn Better Than Bouillon roasted vegetable flavor stock paste
- 1 tab of Earth Balance vegan butter OR 2 tblspns water for sauteing
- 1/4 onion sliced
- 1/2 cup sliced cremini mushrooms (1 cup is fine if your pot has space and you want more)
- Kite Hill vegan sour cream OR a very small amount of tahini or peanut butter to taste
- Nooch, minced garlic, and ground black peppercorns to taste (you should not need salt as the stock will have plenty)
Optional
- Abbot's Plant-Based "Beef" for a more traditional beef stroganoff--cook this separately and add in last before serving
- Chopped green onions for garnish
Instructions
- In a large pot or large high-lipped skillet on medium heat, melt the butter (or heat water for oil-free sauteing)
- Add onions and mushrooms and sweat for several minutes until soft (DO NOT add garlic at this stage)
- Add dry pasta and water and nooch, raise heat to high to bring to a boil, and stir in the Better than Bouillon until thoroughly blended as stock
- Once the stock is mixed in, immediately bring heat down to a simmer, and set a timer for 12 minutes while the pasta cooks; stir occasionally
- Once the pasta is cooked through and the stock is almost fully reduced, remove from heat, mix in some minced garlic and vegan sour cream, and serve
Serves 3-4 people. Note that the only important ratio is equal parts pasta and water, so you can scale this up or down and just eyeball the other ingredients. I make this all the time, it's incredibly easy and only takes about 3 minutes of prep and 15 minutes total on the stovetop. I do highly recommend using vegan sour cream if you can find it at your store--you can use substitutes like the ones listed above to make the sauce creamy but IMO it's not quite as good.
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Comment on Announcing the Tildes Backlog Burner event for November 2024: Shrink your unplayed games list this coming month! in ~games
deathinactthree This is a cool idea--my backlog now probably consists of more games than I've actually played, and my eyes glaze over every time I scroll through the list deciding what I want to install next....This is a cool idea--my backlog now probably consists of more games than I've actually played, and my eyes glaze over every time I scroll through the list deciding what I want to install next. This will definitely help force me to choose what to play.
I like this card but I do think I may run into still having too many games to choose from to fit many of the categories--if that turns out to be the case then I'll try rerolling the card sometime in the next week or so.
Death in Act Three's Bingo Card
Mode: Standard Bingo! Finished 0/25 Considered a disappointment You can save/pet/care for animals From now-defunct dev studio A solo-dev project Has a lives system You control a party of characters You're giving it a second chance Nominated for The Game Awards A modded game Features a mystery Has permadeath Recommended by someone on Tildes ★ Wildcard Has driving Has a third-person perspective Has a skill tree Is considered relaxing A romhack or total conversion mod Someone else has played it for their Backlog Burner Has a score system Focuses on exploration Popular game you never got around to playing Uses a unique control scheme Adaptation of other media type (e.g. board game, movie) Is open-source -
Comment on Linux gaming and the Steam Summer Sale: What are your favorites? in ~games
deathinactthree (edited )LinkI also switched full-time to Linux last year, and gaming on it has been a positive experience. I've had only a couple of games not run (as in literally two), but for the most part it's been great....I also switched full-time to Linux last year, and gaming on it has been a positive experience. I've had only a couple of games not run (as in literally two), but for the most part it's been great.
For RPGs, Divinity: Original Sin 1 & 2 run natively on Linux, as well as the Pillars of Eternity series and the Wasteland remakes--you may already be familiar with them, but if not, definitely pick them up. A couple of lesser-known ones I've been getting into and are Linux-native are Roadwarden, Deep Sky Derelicts, Fell Seal, and Nowhere Prophet.
(Sims and 4x I'm not really into but I'm sure others will make great recommendations.)
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Comment on Should I be friends with this person? in ~life
deathinactthree At the risk of projecting too much of my own experience here, this sounds extremely familiar and almost identical to a situation I was in some years back. This is what really keyed me into it,...At the risk of projecting too much of my own experience here, this sounds extremely familiar and almost identical to a situation I was in some years back. This is what really keyed me into it, because I've said this statement myself word-for-word:
as long as I didn't engage with anything I consider to be unethical there couldn't be any harm done.
The problem here is that as soon as you have to make that qualification for a friendship, something is already wrong.
Assuming that our experiences are similar, the good/bad news here is that the situation is less complicated than it seems, and in fact you pretty much already identified it:
- Yes, she is attracted to you.
- No, she doesn't want to sleep with you.
- Yes, she wants you to want to sleep with her.
- She wants the emotional/sexual validation of not sleeping with you, but knowing she could.
Even in broadly happier relationships, many (not all) people still like to occasionally feel the dopamine hit and validation of being desired by other people outside of the relationship. By itself, this feeling isn't some egregious sin. It's what you do about it--ideally being nothing--and some people do what she is doing currently to you: using you as an IV drip of dopamine to feel like she is still desirable. If it makes you feel any better, you're almost certainly not the only person she is doing this to.
She probably does genuinely value your friendship and company, but being that IV drip is of more value to her. And here's how you'll know: if you don't do anything differently, your friendship will continue as-is with this ersatz version of "will they/won't they" until you start getting serious (not just dating, actually serious) with someone else. At first, she'll ask a million pointed questions about your partner under the guise of "just looking out for a friend". If she believes you two are truly in a serious relationship, you're going to gradually start to see less and less of her. She won't ghost you outright probably, but those trips are going to be less frequent, plans will start to get broken, and eventually it's going to degrade into "oh, it's been awhile, we should totally catch up" and it'll be a friendship purely in name only.
I would probably start distancing yourself from her, because one very important thing to understand is that even though you consider your morals to be ironclad, you're risking the "appearance of impropriety" around other people who may intentionally or unintentionally misread the nature of your relationship. Including her husband. Which, to my mind--and this is where I ended up coming down after negotiating this situation myself--means this friendship is, or is going to be at some point, significantly more trouble than it's worth.
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Comment on My Windows computer just doesn't feel like mine anymore in ~tech
deathinactthree Sure! I primarily use it for Excel files, as the web versions of PowerPoint and Word are much more capable now and usually enough. Excel on the web works okay for basic stuff but still has some...Sure! I primarily use it for Excel files, as the web versions of PowerPoint and Word are much more capable now and usually enough. Excel on the web works okay for basic stuff but still has some gaps, especially with its charting tools--it can read but can't create or edit a combo chart (two y axes) for example. But OnlyOffice can do the stuff that web Excel can't, and if you need it, its charting tools are better than native Excel's IMO--not more capable per se, just a nicer and easier-to-use editing interface if you spend as much time making semi-complex charts from data as I do.
It also has a tabbed interface for its whole suite, unlike native Office, so everything you work on regardless of file type is in a single application window that you can tab between. Its only drawback, besides struggling with very large Excel files above a certain size, is that unlike native Office it doesn't have OneDrive/Sharepoint integration and autosaving, so if you use those at work you'll just have to manually save and upload to your cloud drive. (OnlyOffice has its own cloud service that costs money and provides the same functions as OneDrive integration/autosaving but if your company is on MS there's no advantage to using it.)
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Comment on My Windows computer just doesn't feel like mine anymore in ~tech
deathinactthree I likewise tried to make the jump to Linux every few years, off and on since 2008, but although I was always interested in it, I never really felt like it was ready for prime time (meaning what I...I likewise tried to make the jump to Linux every few years, off and on since 2008, but although I was always interested in it, I never really felt like it was ready for prime time (meaning what I personally needed a computer to do).
After a lot of the same pain people are describing in these comments, I finally pulled the trigger about this time a year ago and moved to Linux full-time. I was tired of fighting my W11 install--I would say that I like W11 when it works, but in my experience across multiple machines since its release, it never does. Now I use Linux, beginning full-time with Zorin and since moving to Fedora, and it's pretty painless. Everything works, no ads or telemetry, it generally seems to run faster and better overall, and I'm not a Linux expert in the slightest. Couple of things finally made it viable that weren't true in all the previous years I tried to make the shift:
First, the web versions of Office got better in the last year or two, so I can do the professional work stuff I have to do via browser, or PWA for Outlook and Teams (which seem to be much more stable as PWAs in Linux than the native apps in W11 for some reason). Also, OnlyOffice is a native Linux app built in Office XML and works great for MS files if I need to work offline, although I notice it does start hanging on any Excel data larger than about 10k rows, otherwise very solid and 100% compatible. Historically, not being able to do basic professional stuff always ended up being the dealbreaker for me, and Libreoffice et al were absolutely not acceptable solutions for what I need an office suite to do. Now? No real issues at all. Worth noting that I don't need VBA for anything, which Linux still doesn't have a solve for, so YMMV. In fact I did have a use case for VBA when I first arrived at my current job, and switched my team off of it to a different (and better) workflow just so I wouldn't have to switch back to a Windows machine.
Second, Proton development has completely changed gaming on Linux, in that I can play 95% of my Steam/GOG catalog with minimal or no fiddling. Also worth noting that I don't play any competitive online games as I know some of the most popular ones (esp. ones that use anticheat) don't run, but I can play all the stuff I want to play, like Elden Ring, Cyberpunk 2077, Witcher 3, Skyrim, any of the Fallouts, Elder Scrolls Online, etc. I have about 1100 PC games in my library across Steam, GOG, Epic, etc. and although I certainly haven't tested every one of them, I've tested a lot of them, and in a year so far only 2 games didn't run at all, and maybe 2 or 3 required a little fiddling up front and then worked just fine. The rest ran out of the box once you turn Proton on for non-native games in Steam or Heroic Launcher (for GOG and Epic).
Again, I'm not proficient at Linux, just a casual hobbyist who found it shockingly easy to switch completely away from Windows when I would say even 3 years ago it would've been a fool's errand. My PC can do everything I want/need it to do and nothing I don't. Despite all the jokes people have made over the last 20 years, I can't help but feel like it finally became The Year of the Linux Desktop, but quietly, when no one was looking.
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Comment on Defunct studios discussion - Who remembers Black & White? in ~games
deathinactthree I don't think it could be called a "hit", but Defiant shut down in 2019 and I thought they showed real promise with their Hand of Fate series. Defiant was an indie studio based in Australia that...I don't think it could be called a "hit", but Defiant shut down in 2019 and I thought they showed real promise with their Hand of Fate series. Defiant was an indie studio based in Australia that mostly did mobile games and HoF was their first attempt at a full-fledged PC/console title.
Hand of Fate is a pretty innovative blend of a tabletop game, ARPG, and an unconventional deckbuilder where your cards aren't for powers, you instead use them to build the level you're on and define encounters. Also has one of the best narrators of all time in the character of The Dealer, an immortal being you are playing this game against for your soul, a la the chess game with Death in The Seventh Seal. The voice actor of the Dealer is fantastic as he comments on everything you're doing in the game, sometimes sympathetic, sometimes gloating and cruel, and never seems to run out of things to say.
The games are still available via Steam/GOG but they may get pulled at some point, hopefully not. I recommend them to anyone who'll listen.
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Comment on An announcement regarding Kris Nóva in ~comp
deathinactthree Oh wow, I had no idea, that's awful news. Like @0xSim, I also joined Hachyderm largely based on Nova's laid-out vision for the instance, and technology more broadly. Hope everyone close to Nova is...Oh wow, I had no idea, that's awful news. Like @0xSim, I also joined Hachyderm largely based on Nova's laid-out vision for the instance, and technology more broadly. Hope everyone close to Nova is doing okay.
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Comment on Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron in ~tech
deathinactthree I'm going to be the second of those people. :) There are actually a number of things I genuinely like about W11 over and above previous versions of Windows, but between undoing what limited...I'm going to be the second of those people. :) There are actually a number of things I genuinely like about W11 over and above previous versions of Windows, but between undoing what limited customizations/debloating I can do with every update like you said, and a surprising amount of stuff that just doesn't work (or has major issues) on what's pretty standard hardware, I recently as of two months ago switched to Linux as my daily driver. Which I've never done. I've been a casual Linux hobbyist for a decade but never took the plunge until now, and it's entirely due to the issues this thread is about.
As @first-must-burn said, this wouldn't work if I needed to do anything in Office365 that can't be handled in the web versions (although worth noting that OnlyOffice is built with Office XML and can get you pretty far). Fortunately earlier this year I moved most of the client data work I used to need O365 native for to Google Suite and can use the PWAs for Outlook and Teams which work just fine. I admit I'm lucky here--even a year ago Office compatibility would've been too much of a blocker.
I'm using Zorin OS with GNOME Shell which has been shockingly smooth so far. No major issues at all and the minor issues have all been easy fixes. All my hardware works, almost all of my games work, and it's been perceptibly faster than W11 on the same hardware. I'm pretty happy.
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Comment on How often do cook/order out/ eat pre-made food/ throw together food in ~food
deathinactthree Under normal circumstances, for any given 10 meals, I'll cook 7 of them, eat out for 2, and throw something together for 1. I don't really eat anything premade, such as cans of soup or microwave...Under normal circumstances, for any given 10 meals, I'll cook 7 of them, eat out for 2, and throw something together for 1. I don't really eat anything premade, such as cans of soup or microwave dinners--it's a general (not hyper-strict) guideline I have to "never eat something that comes in a box", because the nutrition is usually terrible and I can often make whatever it is pretty easily anyway, in an at-least-slightly-healthier version.
That's changed in the last few months because circumstances at my job that don't bear a dry retelling here have me eating takeout for nearly every meal lately. I really don't like that I'm doing that, but I'm working so many hours that I don't have much time to shop or cook like I normally do. Hopefully I can get back to normal soon.
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Comment on I passed my Yellow belt today in Taekwondo in ~sports.combat
deathinactthree Congrats man. As a fellow Old (I'm 45), I'm competing in my first martial arts tournament ever next Saturday. I don't feel ready for it at all, as I've trained martial arts off and on for a long...Congrats man. As a fellow Old (I'm 45), I'm competing in my first martial arts tournament ever next Saturday. I don't feel ready for it at all, as I've trained martial arts off and on for a long time but the style I'm competing in--Shuai Jiao--is still very new to me, having only properly trained it since late January. Still white belt. I fully expect to get rinsed but it's a bucket list thing for me. I'm okay with it.
I'm not OP, but to answer @monarda as someone who's the same age-ish as OP, yeah, there are definitely physical hurdles. If this makes sense, you can truly do most of the stuff you used to do when you were 25 from a technique level but the stamina and recovery piece of it both fall off. Not to zero, it's just harder. Also easier to get injured, or to be more specific, there are things you can't "walk off" as easily. But it's still fun, I still get a lot out of it, it helps my mental health more than I'd like to admit, and it's still worth doing.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tildes
deathinactthree This has been both the hardest adjustment for me to make, and the one I appreciate the most. I first became aware of Tildes a couple of years ago, and my initial reaction was "no thanks, it's not...Constantly wanting more content even if I've already had a satisfying amount.
This has been both the hardest adjustment for me to make, and the one I appreciate the most. I first became aware of Tildes a couple of years ago, and my initial reaction was "no thanks, it's not active enough." I only joined just ahead of the Reddit API fiasco, but I was honestly eager for a change anyway by that point.
But I was judging "active enough" by the standards of Reddit and Twitter, which at the time were my main (sole, rather) sources of consuming the Internet. Basically endless content, and definitely quantity over quality. Same thing many of us came here to get away from, but at the time I wasn't ready--I felt like stepping away from the firehose for any amount of time meant I was "gonna miss something important".
Tildes is plenty active if you compare it to poking around the Internet between, say, 2003-2007--that is, post-mainstream adoption of the web, pre-launch of the iPhone, which I'd argue put us where we are now. It's fine to read and participate with some forum content or what have you and say "that's enough". It's alright to go outside at some point. You're not really going to miss anything.
It's only been a short time but I find "smaller" communities like Tildes and Bluesky preferable...hell, almost nostalgic. I still technically have my Reddit and Twitter accounts active but I barely use them at all now and will likely delete soon.
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Comment on On "bullshit" jobs - New data supports the idea that some jobs are "so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence" in ~life
deathinactthree Without agreeing or disagreeing with the study, I can't help but consider that the methodology may be off. The data is based on self-reporting of workers and how they perceive their own work. In...- Exemplary
Without agreeing or disagreeing with the study, I can't help but consider that the methodology may be off. The data is based on self-reporting of workers and how they perceive their own work. In gauging actual usefulness, wouldn't it be more relevant to ask whether the recipients of that work consider it useful or not?
The abstract mentions how "feelings of alienation" may skew the data, which I think is a valid concern, but still sticks to analyzing the self-reporting. People generally measure their view of a job, and their motivation to do it, via "autonomy, competence, and relatedness", which would affect how they perceive it and by extension report their feelings of it. This is a fine thing to study, but in gauging the usefulness of an occupation, is entirely focused on the self. And thus, arguably, if we're looping in factors of alienation, it's kind of like looking at that value in a vacuum.
To talk about the social or objective value of work, it seems like it would be more productive to poll the people who are on the receiving end of that work, who depend on or engage with the results of it. What is perceived as useless to the producer of that work ("hey, we're not exactly saving lives out here!") might be seen as valuable--or at least, not useless--to the end user that the work is for. Otherwise it's a bit like asking the chef if the meal was good, and not the diner who ate it.
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Comment on What is your favourite cutscene/cinematic in any game? in ~games
deathinactthree To this day, still probably the opening intro from Descent: Freespace. The raw fear in the pilot's voice (seriously, terrific voice acting, really sells it) really sets up how bad the situation is...To this day, still probably the opening intro from Descent: Freespace. The raw fear in the pilot's voice (seriously, terrific voice acting, really sells it) really sets up how bad the situation is that you're about to fly into.
"Sir, we're sending a recovery craft--"
"NO! SEND FIGHTERS! I know they're following me, SEND EVERYTHING YOU HAVE NOW!"
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Comment on Lets talk roguelikes! in ~games
deathinactthree Alina of the Arena was the surprise hit for me this year. I bought it as part of a Steam bundle with several other deckbuilding strategy games including Tainted Grail, which was the game I really...Alina of the Arena was the surprise hit for me this year. I bought it as part of a Steam bundle with several other deckbuilding strategy games including Tainted Grail, which was the game I really bought the bundle for. I liked Tainted Grail but not enough to finish it, and Alina ended up being the one I played the most and liked the best. Just really tight mechanics and challenge ramp, with nice touches in the presentation--simple but creative pixel graphics, surprisingly good sound design for a game that's only 200MB. Huge amount of fun for the price and the install size.
Fans of dice-based roguelites like Dicey Dungeons should also check out Slice & Dice, a fantasy RPG where you have a party of different classes and roll dice to power up their spells. It's a simple but charming small indie game with a fun gameplay loop with tons of replayability and things to unlock.
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Comment on Lets talk roguelikes! in ~games
deathinactthree (edited )Link ParentThis is a good callout and as a lover of roguelikes I'm in the same boat. I like metaprogression generally, but something that makes a great roguelike for me is having a game that you could--in...This is a good callout and as a lover of roguelikes I'm in the same boat. I like metaprogression generally, but something that makes a great roguelike for me is having a game that you could--in theory--beat in a single run. Like, you probably won't, but you could, if you are both very skilled and very lucky. The meta is what helps you get closer to the goal over time, but shouldn't be the goal itself in the sense that it's absolutely required to get anywhere in the game.
Otherwise it's exactly what you said: artificial walls that force grinding the same not-very-many levels just to extend the game's playable time, without actually adding anything to the experience. This is exactly why I fell off of Hades, even though I think it's a very well-made game. (For contrast, my wife loved it, put probably 1500 hours into it, and platted it, and she doesn't even like roguelikes, so YMMV.)
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Comment on Lackadaisy (Pilot episode) in ~tv
deathinactthree Oh snapple, I'd heard they were making a show but didn't realize they already dropped a pilot. I should pick the comic back up, I didn't get a chance to finish it but I really enjoyed it.Oh snapple, I'd heard they were making a show but didn't realize they already dropped a pilot. I should pick the comic back up, I didn't get a chance to finish it but I really enjoyed it.
I've been leaning towards doing the same--I have a spare PC (my last gaming rig) with 3TB of storage and I'm thinking about setting up a server with a blog, which I used to do all the time but haven't in years. I'm kind of looking forward to learning about all the various pieces. I know just enough about doing a project like this to be dangerous, having had a hobby server or two a long time ago, but there's a ton about server setup and maintenance that I either never learned or have become super-rusty on.