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Comment on I just bought a 64GB iPad, anything I should know/do? in ~tech
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Comment on I just bought a 64GB iPad, anything I should know/do? in ~tech
knocklessmonster Link ParentGood tip! I'll do that asap.Good tip! I'll do that asap.
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Comment on I just bought a 64GB iPad, anything I should know/do? in ~tech
knocklessmonster Link ParentI actually used Duet in a Samsung tablet to extend my Surface Go's display, it worked surprisingly well. It's a Gen10 iPad and is at least as good as my Pixel, except the intentionally stunted...I actually used Duet in a Samsung tablet to extend my Surface Go's display, it worked surprisingly well.
It's a Gen10 iPad and is at least as good as my Pixel, except the intentionally stunted storage.
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Comment on I just bought a 64GB iPad, anything I should know/do? in ~tech
knocklessmonster Link ParentThis is actually my first iOS device ever. I had an iPod Shuffle but that barely counts as an iPod, since you just went by ear on what you were finding. I've handled some iPhones, but am not...This is actually my first iOS device ever. I had an iPod Shuffle but that barely counts as an iPod, since you just went by ear on what you were finding. I've handled some iPhones, but am not finding the iPad hard at all to get the hang of. Power-using will be a different issue, but I can find everything easily enough.
Thanks for the info on the stylus. I got an open-box Apple Pencil for $30. That said the stylus I have works pretty good and triggers palm rejection so it's still a pretty great option for $20.
iOS is very different from Android even if they may seem similar on the surface. Notifications work completely differently, the homescreen is pretty limited, and there will always be one or two extra steps to get things between your iPad and non-Apple devices.
I'm expecting a bit of friction, but it's not too worrying for me.
That being said though, for the things you want to do with your tablet, the iPad should do really well. I used OneNote on my iPad for a while and it worked fine enough.
The main thing was being able to lasso written text which is dead easy, for some reason it's buggy on Android, but even with my cheap pen, it works really well.
The A-series chips are also pretty powerful so you should be more than satisfied with gaming on the iPad. Thermals will leave a lot to be desired though so it'll get real warm real quick.
I've never pushed a tablet that hard, but will need to see what I can get out of the iPad then. My Pixel never really heated up, but it's mostly a note-taking machine or for some solitaire or something.
If you're in the US, there is no F-Droid type third party app store unfortunately.
I figured that out after posting. I'd say I'm disappointed, but I'm also okay stepping into the walled garden. I'm only a visitor, so I can work around any app restrictions that are too bothersome on my Pixel Tablet.
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Comment on I just bought a 64GB iPad, anything I should know/do? in ~tech
knocklessmonster Link ParentGoogle does something similar, I believe, so I already follow this rule. The watchlist thing isn't something I'll have much need for, I but that's good to know! Altstore was the only thing I found...if you subscribe to something in app, Apple takes a 30% cut.
Google does something similar, I believe, so I already follow this rule.
The watchlist thing isn't something I'll have much need for, I but that's good to know!
Altstore was the only thing I found and, while cool, doesn't seem to be much use. I'm surprised at what's in the App Store for indie/smaller games I do play, and am definitely looking at getting Binding of Isaac, since I remember being jealous of a dude I sat next to playing it on his iPhone.
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I just bought a 64GB iPad, anything I should know/do?
I'm not a very heavy tablet user, but generally like to have a tablet around for stuff I won't do on my phone. I bought a Pixel Tablet last year when I did my big tech upgrade (new phone, new...
I'm not a very heavy tablet user, but generally like to have a tablet around for stuff I won't do on my phone. I bought a Pixel Tablet last year when I did my big tech upgrade (new phone, new smart watch, new upgraded tablet), but found the experience a bit lacking with the more important stuff I use my tablet for, largely taking notes with OneNote, and very light mobile gaming (which I usually use my phone for, since it's right there).
I'm curious if anybody's got any advice for a non-dedicated Apple user with an iPad. I'm already thinking about synergy with my multi-platform apps like Microsoft 365, Google Drive (free tier) and Mega (which I use as a backup repo for large data that isn't documents like games, music samples, etc).
I'm thinking some music apps would be great to take advantage of the generally lower-latency audio capabilities of the iPad, but aside from that can't think of too much. Otherwise, due to the 64GB, it's going to be my cloud-oriented low-storage tablet.
I saved $70 on a black friday deal on Amazon, so I bought a pen to go with it, which isn't the Apple Pencil and would be curious to know if I'm missing out on a ton doing that as well?
Side question: I would be curious what the third-party app world is like as well, ideally something like iOS F-Droid.
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Comment on Is OneDrive for Linux Mature Enough Yet? in ~comp
knocklessmonster Linkgithub.com/abraunegg/onedrive is the only free client that exists. It works pretty good but doesn't do local storage. As menioned rsync can do it as well with the same issue.github.com/abraunegg/onedrive is the only free client that exists. It works pretty good but doesn't do local storage.
As menioned rsync can do it as well with the same issue.
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Comment on How well do you cook? in ~life.men
knocklessmonster LinkGive me a piece of meat, a couple of vegetables, a couple pans, salt, pepper, and oil I can probably make something moderately palatable. I could probably make a bunch of vegetables taste nice...Give me a piece of meat, a couple of vegetables, a couple pans, salt, pepper, and oil I can probably make something moderately palatable. I could probably make a bunch of vegetables taste nice alright, as well. I like to think I'm minimally okay, but far from "good."
My family (brother, mother and I) use various meal boxes which have pulled us out of our comfort zones, but that mostly involves making flavorful sauces, which are surprisingly simple, so I could probably come up with one as well, but it would be a bit dicier. I do have a tendency to goof up the recipes by missing one thing usually, but never really ruin anything, which is nice.
Growing up I was allowed to cook, generally, but never needed to. I always had an interest, and loved getting the hang of any basics I could.
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Comment on The Game Awards nominees 2024: Controversially, DLCs/expansions can now compete for GOTY in ~games
knocklessmonster Link ParentI think DLC should be its own thing at this point. All it does is outshine games who deserve a moment in the spotlight, even just as a nominee.I think DLC should be its own thing at this point. All it does is outshine games who deserve a moment in the spotlight, even just as a nominee.
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Comment on Daily driving linux (Fedora KDE) - My experiences after a week in ~tech
knocklessmonster (edited )LinkI've been using Aurora for 8-9 months after 15 years with Linux dual-booted, and it's basically Fedora Atomic KDE with a bunch of tooling (pre-configured RPMFusion, added packages OOTB like...I've been using Aurora for 8-9 months after 15 years with Linux dual-booted, and it's basically Fedora Atomic KDE with a bunch of tooling (pre-configured RPMFusion, added packages OOTB like distrobox+podman, VSCode+a bunch of dev tools in the -dev image, drivers depending on the image you choose for AMD, Framework and Nvidia), with a system to customize the image so you don't have to worry about it on your system day-to-day via your own devops pipeline (sounds intimidating, but it's pretty simple).
Sleep has been a consistent issue so I turned it off. It doesn't quite shutdown right 100% of the time, so I power it off at the PSU once the OS halts if the issue shows up. From 39->41, though, these are the only Fedora issues I had (the AMD driver goofed up, but that's a Linux issue, not a Fedora issue, I rolled back until it was fixed/updated).
One pain point I have is it seems that the Minecraft Official Launcher for non-Debian systems is kind of clunky requiring me to login to my Microsoft account every time I open the game. This will probably be solved by switching to a third party launcher in the near future.
Prism Launcher is what I use for Minecraft (single-player only), but it's pretty solid. You could also use Distrobox, which is absolutely great.
The one software that I haven't gotten around to installing yet is DaVinci Resolve.
What distro does DaVinci Resolve support by default? Use Distrobox for that as well.
The reason I'm suggesting Distrobox for the above issues is it will solve them fairly trivially. On my Atomic system the indended package flow is Flatpak for GUI, linuxbrew for cmd -> distrobox -> system-level customization (universal-blue, who maintain Aurora, provide tooling for this). I use Flatpak for most things, and Distrobox if the Flatpak workflow sucks (for example, bitwig + VSTs sit in an Arch distrobox, as does my entire music environment).
It's not 1:1 with Windows, but I find I can do everything I want just fine, which is games, music prodution (bitwig, renoise, livecoding), manage hardware (synth hardware to do firmware updates on), light development, and not really miss much. I've been tempted to try to switch to vanilla Fedora for while to get out of the atomic system, but I like what I've got too much. I also, finally, have decided I'm not using Windows on my home hardware if I can help it.
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Comment on Why do you live? in ~humanities
knocklessmonster LinkI was thinking about this and, morbid as it may seem, "Because I won't kill myself" is basically it. Not in a dark way, but it works when I'm really depressed. When things get bad I want to see if...I was thinking about this and, morbid as it may seem, "Because I won't kill myself" is basically it.
Not in a dark way, but it works when I'm really depressed. When things get bad I want to see if they get worse and try to beat it l, not that I've ever had it that bad (always had a roof over my head, lucked out on a wonderful job after college, etc).
I don't have a lot to live for beyond a curiosity for tomorrow, but I think that's enough.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
knocklessmonster LinkFactorio: Space Age TRAINS! I'VE NEVER BEEN THIS FAR! Sorry for the caps, I'm having a ton of fun. I have a transit factory, a train mall, am working on a red belt mall, and am really feeling the...Factorio: Space Age TRAINS! I'VE NEVER BEEN THIS FAR! Sorry for the caps, I'm having a ton of fun. I have a transit factory, a train mall, am working on a red belt mall, and am really feeling the progress, except for the current bottleneck at automating oil pumps, which is postponed while I refactor some stuff.
Vampire Survivors: I'm working my way through all the content and using Sammy the Caterpillar from the Tales of the Foscari DLC to get my gold up for fun. Not much to say here, but I'm generally enjoying myself in 15-minute sessions.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
knocklessmonster Link ParentMy favorite way to play Skyrim is normal mode with no fast travel. At one point I had a mod that disabled it (it could be toggled on/off in a mod menu), which let me have sessions where I got to...My favorite way to play Skyrim is normal mode with no fast travel. At one point I had a mod that disabled it (it could be toggled on/off in a mod menu), which let me have sessions where I got to run around and have fun in the world, or if something was super tedious just bop around.
It felt especially bad when you go from point A to point B only to be immediately told that actually you should speak to this person at point A again. So you fast travel back to the exact same place you just came from, not because you forgot something or anything like that, but because that's just how the quest is designed.
That was especially when I just fast travelled around because once you've hit an area it's basically done for three days. I played the hell out of everything Bethesda did between Morrowind and Skyrim for a few years but it did eventually wear on me.
Maybe that's why I've never fully beaten the main story line despite having played it countless times in these last 13 years.
I really do recommend railroading the main quest in Elder Scrolls and Fallout games at least once, they're pretty good.
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Comment on Sorry for the mess (post mortem for a Topic that went sideways?) in ~tildes
knocklessmonster Link ParentWhen you more or less saturate the algorithm with recommendations it becomes less common but sometimes something will push through. I started watching a lot of shorts and would get some wacky...When you more or less saturate the algorithm with recommendations it becomes less common but sometimes something will push through. I started watching a lot of shorts and would get some wacky right-wing garbage, and accidentally get more from watching it and going "wtf?". All of these sites with shorts (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube) also use time watched as a metric to serve more content, at least as far as shorts go.
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Comment on Sorry for the mess (post mortem for a Topic that went sideways?) in ~tildes
knocklessmonster (edited )LinkReally, don't sweat it. I saw solid discourse that was unrelated to the topic you tried to bring to hand which can happen with topics being presented by controversial figures. If you're aware of...Really, don't sweat it. I saw solid discourse that was unrelated to the topic you tried to bring to hand which can happen with topics being presented by controversial figures.
Should I have provided more context up front?
If you're aware of potential controversy I would acknowledge it. If you are unaware of the potential there's nothing you can address. It could help a bit by highlighting why one should engage with a post.
Vetted the creator better by researching their other videos or other online activity?
See above. If you simply weren't aware you can't know.
Am I doing the wrong thing by talking about it post-mortem?
Potentially, but you appear to have only been acting in good faith.
What I would have done is used my opening comment to highlight the discussion I would have wanted to see, and answer the "why" for the reason it was posted. I do this anyway when I post something because I think it never hurts to explain why I found something interesting.
That said the issue was largely between the participants and the content creator in question, and I wouldn't sweat it too much from your position.
The people who have been banned from the site were persistent in patterns of behavior that the site admin found not to be the sort of behavior wanted here, which is to say you have to try pretty hard to get banned. An oopsie, even as a heated participant in an exchange, is generally not an issue.
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Comment on What are your favorite “chore” games? in ~games
knocklessmonster LinkLittleroot is a simplification of the concept with a short story and plenty of fun distractions. It's clock is effort-based rather than time based. Like, you get tired that's the end of the day....Littleroot is a simplification of the concept with a short story and plenty of fun distractions. It's clock is effort-based rather than time based. Like, you get tired that's the end of the day.
Graveyard Keeper: all chores, sleep is even sorta optional since time marches on in a week-long cycle. You harvest parts from corpses and manage the graveyard while trying to leave this world you found yourself in.
American/Euro Truck Simulator: take jobs, drive, buy a fleet of trucks, hire drivers, give them jobs while doing your own, repeat. Perfect low-key sort of grind, and you can take long pan-continental hauls with enough DLC (regions cost money but are worth buying as you can afford it, a lot of effort goes into it and it's worth the $15 per as they come, or cop them on sale).
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Comment on What are your favorite “chore” games? in ~games
knocklessmonster (edited )Link ParentI liked Rimworld more than DF (steam version) because it scratches much of the same itch as a far simpler (but still extremely complex) game. I stopped playing DF because I kept breaking bases...I liked Rimworld more than DF (steam version) because it scratches much of the same itch as a far simpler (but still extremely complex) game. I stopped playing DF because I kept breaking bases with water (framerates tanking).
My issue aside, it's a great game and I don't regret contributing to the Adams brothers' fortunes buying it on steam . It's definitely top of its class in the genre.
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Comment on Jerron Paxton - What's Gonna Become Of Me (live performance from Later with Jools Holland) (2024) in ~music
knocklessmonster LinkJerron Paxton can absolutely rip on a banjo. I actually prefer him on banjo over guitar, but he's definitely deserving of all his accolades. I found him trying to find old-timey stuff to play and...Jerron Paxton can absolutely rip on a banjo. I actually prefer him on banjo over guitar, but he's definitely deserving of all his accolades. I found him trying to find old-timey stuff to play and be better informed about the instrument's pre-bluegrass history and he is a fountain of information, as well.
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Comment on Why US Democrats won't build their own Joe Rogan in ~society
knocklessmonster LinkHaving read this I may seem shallow to start but I think Hasan Piker nailed it, even if he is also pretty good at getting in his own way, at least in relation to the people the Democrats need to...Having read this I may seem shallow to start but I think Hasan Piker nailed it, even if he is also pretty good at getting in his own way, at least in relation to the people the Democrats need to court:
i got 7.5 million live views on my election night coverage but i dont have the backing of right wing donors that do pr for me so i assume it doesn't warrant a vanity fair article
And his quote at the bottom:
"This is not a cultural war that you can win just by doing fucking podcasts," Piker reiterated on his Twitch stream. "You have to still have a solid defense mechanism at the top, that aligns with the interests of people like myself. If the Democratic party is running around being like, ‘everything is fine actually, just vote for us, we've got to defend the institutions,’ while everyone is like, ‘I don't give a fuck about the institutions’… You can't reach them."
To be clear, Hasan is as far away as you can get from Joe on the left. Joe Rogan's big benifit is his image projects that he is he isn't quite a right-wing sycophant, he just hangs out with a bunch of them. He doesn't push back, but most of his endorsement is tacit rather than explicit. Hasan would be closer to an Alex Jones: Loud about an agenda, pushing it, cultivating a deep cult of personality and saying very extreme shit (this isn't about the merit of their claims, but the relative positioning of them on a left/right scale, and their passion/conviction).
Lefty Joe would have to be a center-left progressive who won't challenge their more extreme people (your Robert Reiches, your Bernie Sanders, Cornell Wests, etc), but give them enough room to say their piece and get it in front of the everyman. This "everyman" poses another issue, but I need to talk about myself briefly to try to inform my point.
I spent a bit of time around 2017-2019 in leftist spaces online that I could find, ranging from Democratic Socialists to various communist subreddits, and took in a lot of media in the interest of forcing a perspective change. I sort of did this to counter the accidental pull that happened when everything I followed online around 2010 seemed to pull sharply right. It worked, but not how I expected, I didn't come out a communist or even a Leftist, but had a better grasp of progressive/leftist theory and am generally better informed for it. Heck, I came out a better person for it, I feel. But it also highlighted some issues:
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Progressives (painting with a huge brush here) sort of... aren't. I actually became fascinated with James Baldwin during this time because he gave voice to some stuff I saw where it seemed like a largely white, generally privileged group was attempting to push narratives about minorities and progress that didn't seem to mesh with the groups they purported to help. There is also a historic pattern going back to the Civil Rights movement in the 50s-70s with paternalist progressives that Baldwin, and I'm sure other forgotten Black thought leaders write about, that gets washed away because it's very inconvenient. When people talk about how the Democrats forsook "minorities" and took them for granted, this is the mechanism by which they did it, by and large: Assuming they know what these groups want and surging forward expecting them to follow.
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Progressivism harbors a disdain for the "everyman." Part of my quest was to expose myself to new ideas, since I grew up stuck in conservatism (it never added up to me, but was there), became a fairly standard American liberal, and became more progressive as I matured. However, if I tried to empathize with the "everyman" anywhere to try to explain even my past actions, people would lose their shit. I confessed to voting for Jill Stein in 2016, not really knowing how bad Trump was (it's surprisingly easy to not be engaged if you've never really been), other sort of... centrist sins hoping to inform when somebody asked an earnest question, and people absolutely refused to hear me out. These are the amplified voices online, the voices that are helping create platforms and run campaigns, because they are engaged and active politically, but generally fail to see what is actually happening on the ground. It's quite a bit better outside of leftist spaces, at least, but still an issue.
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The "everyman" is not interested in (1) and feels rebuked by (2). The current Democratic platform and party has a lot of the problems of American progressivism and Leftism: Infighting, the voting constituency vocally alienating their politically adjacent allies, etc. The racial paternalism in (1) is an extension of America's issue of systemic racism and the whites' domination of American culture creating this default state.
The three points are not me venting about Tuesday's outcome, but issues I genuinely believe need to be resolved, and have felt this way about for the better part of a decade.
This is the part where I can't really offer a solution because, like many things, there simply isn't one solution, or even a solution.
Provided we found somebody in a Bill Burr or Jimmy Kimmel, somebody progressive or at least universally center-left, but more middling who seems to have never left their humble origins behind, we would need to sell them to the everyman. This is the hard part because you need to meet them where they are politically and lead them leftward gently without spooking them with the wrong jargon, and even cherrypick the topics you are loud about.
When I think about why I liked Joe Rogan, I think about the breadth of ideas he had on. I cherry-picked which podcasts I listened to, but he had connections to people he could also make relate to his audience and is great at making that happen.
We would also need similar personalities for guests. Who was/could be the Left's 2014 Milo Yiannopolous? Who would be the Left's Alex Jones? Can we get scientists or science communicators with the charisma of conspiracy thought leaders? We would need a wacky cast of politicized characters to put up on said podcast to bring these ideas out. To a very large point, Joe Rogan is a small piece of the puzzle, the environment he cultivated around himself of seeming bipartisanship to court the middle of the US's spectrum is the part that needs to be recreated. We need an oppositely charged centrist sphere to undermine the sort of default conservatism that centrism unfortunately seems to represent.
Essentially, I don't think it's that Democrats won't build a Joe Rogan, it's that they can't build a Joe Rogan.
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Comment on Linux Mint desktop environment recommendations? in ~comp
knocklessmonster Link ParentIt's one of those things that doesn't really matter these days. Any distro has the same basic stack from the desktop to the drivers, and if you're using Steam or Heroic for game management...It's one of those things that doesn't really matter these days. Any distro has the same basic stack from the desktop to the drivers, and if you're using Steam or Heroic for game management everything is containerized to a significant degree regardless. Some newer games may have issues, or occasionally an engine won't like Proton/WINE. The only real differences are Xorg vs Wayland, and Wayland generic protocol vs wlroots these days, and even that second difference is minor.
I can't get this to work, do I need to emable the gesture? I do find the number toggle annoying.