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  1. Comment on Longshot - anyone has DVD or Blu ray of Convoy (1978) starring Kris Kristofferson, Burt Young and Ernest Borgnine in English? in ~movies

  2. Comment on I need more hilariously awful pick up lines to make my wife roll her eyes at me in ~talk

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    Alternate classic: if you're ever asked to buy limes, "Can we skip to the fun part? I'm bad at pick up limes."

    Alternate classic: if you're ever asked to buy limes, "Can we skip to the fun part? I'm bad at pick up limes."

    2 votes

  3. Comment on I need more hilariously awful pick up lines to make my wife roll her eyes at me in ~talk

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    There's a show I haven't thought about in forever, soo many gems. A few I remember: I’m pretty, you’re pretty, wanna go home and stare at each other? Girl, you’re like an itchy rash. You’re hot...

    There's a show I haven't thought about in forever, soo many gems. A few I remember:

    • I’m pretty, you’re pretty, wanna go home and stare at each other?

    • Girl, you’re like an itchy rash. You’re hot and make me very uncomfortable.

    12 votes

  4. Comment on Tildes Game Giveaway: June 2026 in ~games

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    Since you're drowning in keys and having trouble giving them away, I'm morally obligated to take a few: Interial Drift - you guys sold me on that big booty car sliding game Skabma – Snowfall -...

    Since you're drowning in keys and having trouble giving them away, I'm morally obligated to take a few:

    • Interial Drift - you guys sold me on that big booty car sliding game

    • Skabma – Snowfall - this seems like they've worked really hard on world building and atmosphere and use the game to explore culture. It seems very promising

    • Tin Hearts - seems like a 3d lemmings with an accompanying narrative. I have a feeling the story will be a sad one. Might be a hidden gem

    • Re:Fresh - sometimes you just need a cute, no stress 3d nice platformer.

    • Pumpkin Jack - sometimes you need a scary 3d platformer

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Tildes Game Giveaway: June 2026 in ~games

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    A friend introduced me to I wanna be the Guy before it became a meme/trend? It just constantly subverted expectations and makes you audibly go "what the fuck?". It will forever be my top wtf game....

    A friend introduced me to I wanna be the Guy before it became a meme/trend? It just constantly subverted expectations and makes you audibly go "what the fuck?". It will forever be my top wtf game.

    For the lucky ten thousand, it's free. It helps if you a little bit of gaming history to understand references (if you actually try to progress).

    If available, put me down for:

    • Chroma Squad
    • on your tail
    • Sunblaze
    2 votes

  6. Comment on Tildes Game Giveaway: June 2026 in ~games

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    I'm consume some of your shame I'll round out the bottom of the list: Eternal Edge+ Alfred Hitcock's Vertigo Bot Vice

    I'm consume some of your shame

    I'll round out the bottom of the list:

    • Eternal Edge+
    • Alfred Hitcock's Vertigo
    • Bot Vice

  7. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Of course a release is tagged and AUR is updated the next day -_- Which is fine, because my build, while it worked, plugins did not as I hadn't handle the python dep correctly.

    Of course a release is tagged and AUR is updated the next day -_- Which is fine, because my build, while it worked, plugins did not as I hadn't handle the python dep correctly.

  8. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Continuing my gaussian splatting adventures, I've finally managed to get lichtfeld studio to compile on arch. Dependency, linkage, vckpg errors oh my. I've learned waaay to much about vckpg and...

    Continuing my gaussian splatting adventures, I've finally managed to get lichtfeld studio to compile on arch. Dependency, linkage, vckpg errors oh my. I've learned waaay to much about vckpg and packaging for arch in the past couple of days, but it finally works!

    Part of the push for compiling it myself is

    A) the AUR PKGBUILD is currently broken

    B) changes to reduce vram usage have landed after the last release, and it's cheaper to fight the compiler than buying more vram

    So now I'm waiting while the splat trains and I'm beyond the point where the last release would run out of memory - progress!

    1 vote

  9. Comment on Steam Machine prices revealed, starting at US$1049.00 in ~games

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    I saw that too! Link to the discussion. I also saw a steam machine build based on the deskmeet x600 Pcpartpicker doesn't have some of the more exotic parts/bundles, but there's plenty of room to...

    I saw that too! Link to the discussion. I also saw a steam machine build based on the deskmeet x600

    Pcpartpicker doesn't have some of the more exotic parts/bundles, but there's plenty of room to golf on price and/or diy build volume if you're creative. Shucking/extending a prebuilt itx is probably the most direct approach.

    I'm half tempted to buy one and try my hand at the gamecube build now that we have omnidrive.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I've been nerdsniped and find the whole concept of photogrammetry, gaussian splatting, and mesh generation/extraction fascinating. I'm trying to setup my own pipeline around open source/source...

    I've been nerdsniped and find the whole concept of photogrammetry, gaussian splatting, and mesh generation/extraction fascinating.

    I'm trying to setup my own pipeline around open source/source available technologies, and am having a bit of fun learning. End to end, I've managed to produce a mediocre guassian splat of the Gerrard Hall data set in 1.5 hours, and have since learned about the importance of masking, not overfitting, etc.

    So I'm currently trying to find (or will make) a tool for masking with SAM3 + manual edits, after which I'll see how else I can improve my quality (short of buying a more vram).

    2 votes

  11. Comment on So I fell for a phishing in ~comp

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    I keep a cd in the back of a drawer in a cardboard sleeve + a separate bitwarden vault for important but rarely needed things. Nothing wrong with paper if that works for people.

    I keep a cd in the back of a drawer in a cardboard sleeve + a separate bitwarden vault for important but rarely needed things.

    Nothing wrong with paper if that works for people.

    2 votes

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  13. Comment on What about having an LLM teach you to code? in ~comp

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    You can go the other way, where you just elimate Googles AI summary. There's a few ways of doing this, like so: https://tenbluelinks.org/ Or using an addon to tack udm=14 to Google searches, which...

    You can go the other way, where you just elimate Googles AI summary. There's a few ways of doing this, like so: https://tenbluelinks.org/

    Or using an addon to tack udm=14 to Google searches, which handles the case of people manually visiting Google before search (the former just deals with when you use the omni bar to search).

    5 votes

  14. Comment on Arch User Repository compromised, 1500+ packages affected in ~tech

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    Unfortunately, some arch derivatives ship AUR helpers out of the box. Cachyos for example, ships with paru. They also ship with GUI package installers, like octopi, which allow you to select AUR...

    Unfortunately, some arch derivatives ship AUR helpers out of the box. Cachyos for example, ships with paru. They also ship with GUI package installers, like octopi, which allow you to select AUR packages (though it's clear you're doing so).

    3 votes

  15. Comment on Ceiling fan light switch replacement help in ~life.home_improvement

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    You might be able to open up the socket housing and see how it's internally connected if it's screwed together here With any luck it's attached by a screw down connection in the housing.

    You might be able to open up the socket housing and see how it's internally connected if it's screwed together here

    With any luck it's attached by a screw down connection in the housing.

  16. Comment on Ceiling fan light switch replacement help in ~life.home_improvement

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    So if there's no easy way to just disconnect the old switch and attach the new switch (I.e. The old switch is soldered or somehow internally attached to the socket, which is appears to be) just...

    So if there's no easy way to just disconnect the old switch and attach the new switch (I.e. The old switch is soldered or somehow internally attached to the socket, which is appears to be) just cut the wires of the old switch (as close as possible to the switch, or in other words as far as possible from the socket, see pic), strip the insulation from the cut ends, and use appropriately sized wire nuts to attach the new switch to the old wires.

  17. Comment on Ceiling fan light switch replacement help in ~life.home_improvement

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    That works! Now the question is replace it with what? Are we just bypassing the switch or do you have another one that you're installing? Pictures of that if so

    That works! Now the question is replace it with what? Are we just bypassing the switch or do you have another one that you're installing? Pictures of that if so

    2 votes

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  20. Comment on Website is unhappy in ~tildes

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    Whose site this is I think I know. His gateway threw an error though; He won't see me stopping here To watch the threads and comments grow

    Whose site this is I think I know.
    His gateway threw an error though;
    He won't see me stopping here
    To watch the threads and comments grow

    8 votes