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  1. Comment on Tetris The Grand Master 4 -Absolute Eye- in ~games

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    Love that place. It's been a whole since I've gone, so, I must have forgotten it was there.

    Love that place. It's been a whole since I've gone, so, I must have forgotten it was there.

  2. Comment on Tetris The Grand Master 4 -Absolute Eye- in ~games

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    Whereabouts is that? That's a cabinet I'd like to try sometime.

    There's a cabinet I found of Terror Instinct in Portland that takes a bunch of my credits in that arcade.

    Whereabouts is that? That's a cabinet I'd like to try sometime.

    1 vote

  3. Comment on Anyone interested in trying out Kagi? (trial giveaway: round #2) in ~tech

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    I'd be happy to give it a try!

    I'd be happy to give it a try!

    1 vote

  4. Comment on Against addressing root causes in ~society

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    It certainly gave me some pause while I was reading, but I don't think it outweighs the value of the main argument, at least in this case.

    It certainly gave me some pause while I was reading, but I don't think it outweighs the value of the main argument, at least in this case.

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Linus Torvalds weighs in on the Rust for Linux controversy in ~comp

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    The discussions around Rust for Linux are so much larger than marcan's involvement, so I think it's worth having a separate topic for this.

    The discussions around Rust for Linux are so much larger than marcan's involvement, so I think it's worth having a separate topic for this.

    15 votes

  6. Comment on What have you spent "too much time" trying to fix or streamline? in ~talk

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    Right this second I'm in the middle of deliberating with myself on whether I should just use the HandBrake settings I've landed on for transcoding my DVD rip of The World at War so I can throw it...

    Right this second I'm in the middle of deliberating with myself on whether I should just use the HandBrake settings I've landed on for transcoding my DVD rip of The World at War so I can throw it on to my Jellyfin server. I've been fiddling with settings for almost a week, even finding a command line tool (https://github.com/alexheretic/ab-av1 with its crf-search command) that lets you automate the fiddling of settings.

    My latest test run gave me a file around 45% the size of the raw rip, but I'm used to better size savings. However, The World at War's footage is very grainy film, which is a lot hard harder to compress, so I'm not sure how much better I could reasonably do. Every full transcode of an hour-long episode takes multiple hours to complete, so if I wish to continue fiddling, I'll be waiting a while. At this point, I think I'll just use what I have.

    3 votes

  7. Comment on What’s your “I didn’t know I needed that” item? in ~life

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    I'll second Darn Tough, and I've even taken advantage of the warranty - worth noting that they will give you store credit for the pairs you send in instead of a one-to-one replacement.

    I'll second Darn Tough, and I've even taken advantage of the warranty - worth noting that they will give you store credit for the pairs you send in instead of a one-to-one replacement.

  8. Comment on Starlink Direct to Cell in ~tech

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    Announced cell network providers so far. The prospect of my cell phone now also being a satellite phone is an exciting one. If I understand this right, I could be anywhere on the North American...

    GLOBAL PARTNERS

    Cellular providers using Direct to Cell have access to reciprocal global access in all partner nations.

    T-MOBILE (USA)
    OPTUS (AUSTRALIA)
    ROGERS (CANADA)
    ONE NZ (NEW ZEALAND)
    KDDI (JAPAN)
    SALT (SWITZERLAND)
    ENTEL (CHILE)
    ENTEL (PERU)

    Announced cell network providers so far.

    The prospect of my cell phone now also being a satellite phone is an exciting one. If I understand this right, I could be anywhere on the North American continent north of Mexico and still have coverage through the T-Mobile plan I'm on.

    4 votes

  9. Comment on Don't call it a Substack in ~tech

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    I'll never disagree with being skeptical of centralized platforms, but my experience as a reader of a few Substack blogs has so far avoided that centralized platform stink. The fact that they...

    I'll never disagree with being skeptical of centralized platforms, but my experience as a reader of a few Substack blogs has so far avoided that centralized platform stink. The fact that they provide full-text RSS feeds of non-premium posts puts them far and above all the other places desperate to keep you on their site or app.

    Anil's argument that the network effects of the Substack platform being overstated does resonate with me, as every Substack blog I've got in my feed reader has been a case of "this person's blog just so happens to be on Substack" and not "I discovered this blog through Substack", however I suspect readers who do use Substack for its own sake would see things differently there.

    Substack is, just as a reminder, a political project made by extremists with a goal of normalizing a radical, hateful agenda by co-opting well-intentioned creators' work in service of cross-promoting attacks on the vulnerable.

    If that was in any way the goals of Substack's leadership, then it's a resounding failure. I don't doubt there's some heinous rhetoric on the platform, but that stuff isn't getting into my RSS feeds. As long as I can keep up with the well-intentioned creators I want unsullied by anything I didn't choose to see, then hate will have no home in my Substack experience, and that's good enough for me.

    11 votes

  10. Comment on Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status in ~comp

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    My only question is why now? I'm assuming the relevant sanctions have been in effect since 2022, so how did these maintainers fly under the radar for this long?

    My only question is why now? I'm assuming the relevant sanctions have been in effect since 2022, so how did these maintainers fly under the radar for this long?

    3 votes

  11. Comment on Reddit moderators will now have to submit a request to switch their subreddit from public to private in ~tech

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  13. Comment on Steam Deck question: how good is the warranty, really? in ~games

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    Tildes ReExtended has you covered there.

    The other site has a tool called RES, an enhancement suite tool that I did use to tag folks. Is there a similar thing for Tildes?

    Tildes ReExtended has you covered there.

    3 votes

  14. Comment on What websites do you visit for your niche interests? in ~hobbies

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    Kanzenshuu is THE Dragon Ball fansite. Once their long-promised wiki opens completely, my status as a productive member of society will be in real jeopardy.

    Kanzenshuu is THE Dragon Ball fansite. Once their long-promised wiki opens completely, my status as a productive member of society will be in real jeopardy.

    2 votes

  15. Comment on New life for an old laptop as a Linux home server in ~tech

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    Can confirm - I've been running a home server for just over a year now with my old college laptop, a 10-year old massive gaming Acer Aspire, and it's been great. I had started off with Miniflux...

    Can confirm - I've been running a home server for just over a year now with my old college laptop, a 10-year old massive gaming Acer Aspire, and it's been great. I had started off with Miniflux and Samba on a Raspberry Pi 2 some time earlier, and the upgrade to the laptop was immediately noticeable. The only other major service I've added since is Jellyfin, but once I find some time, I'll be looking for more.

    I wonder if there's anything that could make use of that Nvidia card it's got in there...

    6 votes

  16. Comment on Crunchyroll announces the removal of its comment section across all platforms to 'reduce harmful content' in ~tech

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    A shame to hear. The only time I went to the comments was when I was watching Gundam ZZ, which has this odd problem of one or two lines being unsubtitled per episode, and generally there was a...

    A shame to hear. The only time I went to the comments was when I was watching Gundam ZZ, which has this odd problem of one or two lines being unsubtitled per episode, and generally there was a comment filling those in. It'll suck that people who watch from now on won't have that option.

    2 votes

  17. Comment on What's a life lesson you've applied that has changed your life? in ~life

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    I never had any use for the footage on my first dashcam, and I even joked that its mere presence protected me through sheer cosmic irony. But then within the first two weeks of buying a new car...

    I never had any use for the footage on my first dashcam, and I even joked that its mere presence protected me through sheer cosmic irony. But then within the first two weeks of buying a new car and installing new dashcams on it, I catch someone stealing my neighbor's trailer. Then a few weeks after that, right after returning from giving my old car to my sister, the back cam catches me getting rear-ended. Since then, it seems that the irony shield has returned.

    6 votes

  18. Comment on Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery | Title announcement in ~movies

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    Don't have to imagine: considering every Nick and Nora Charles movie was called Thin Man and almost every Inspector Clouseau film had The Pink Panther in the title, I think I can live with Knives...

    Don't have to imagine: considering every Nick and Nora Charles movie was called Thin Man and almost every Inspector Clouseau film had The Pink Panther in the title, I think I can live with Knives Out in a subtitle.

    1 vote

  19. Comment on Kroger’s panopticon: Making criminals of grocery shoppers in ~tech

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    What a coincidence. Just last night, I had my first encounter with these new anti-theft measures at my neighborhood Fred Meyer, the Kroger subsidiary where I'm from. The self checkout refused to...

    What a coincidence. Just last night, I had my first encounter with these new anti-theft measures at my neighborhood Fred Meyer, the Kroger subsidiary where I'm from. The self checkout refused to complete my transaction until signed off by the overworked attendant, because their cameras decided that my water bottle and prescription meds in the cart were unscanned items. Not that it gave me a chance to even know what the issue was until the attendant came over. So I spent several frustrating minutes punished for my honesty, while I fail to understand how this obtuse system prevents any shoplifting other than an honest customer forgetting something in their cart, because anyone who wants to not pay for their goods can easily walk past the checkouts.

    38 votes

  20. Comment on Hey, monthly mystery commenters, what's up with the hit-and-runs? in ~tildes

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    My comment writing process is pretty much the same, though I'm going to attempt to write this one without much re-editing. So hey, you're not alone!

    My comment writing process is pretty much the same, though I'm going to attempt to write this one without much re-editing. So hey, you're not alone!

    4 votes