[-] pelotron@midwest.social 74 points 1 month ago

In the early 2010s, Cape Girardeau, MO was chosen as a location for some of the filming of Gone Girl. I lived there and it was the talk of the town. People were running into Ben Affleck at the local Andy's and shit.

Meanwhile they put out a casting call for extras. I didn't care about it but of course my girlfriend and her cousin went psycho about it and signed us up. We waited in line with at least a thousand other people only to finally get up there, and all they did was take a headshot and send us on our way. The girls were all disappointed that there wasn't anything else to it while I the introvert just laughed about it.

Until I was the one they called back. Not only that, but it turns out they picked me to be a stand-in for Boyd Holbrook. I spent a week hanging out on David Fincher's set, occasionally doing work while trying to avoid getting in trouble for doing things like accidentally sitting in Rosamund Pike's chair. Then one of the assistant directors' mother died and he had to leave, so they "promoted" me to production assistant. At one point I was sent to look for and found David Fincher's missing iPhone.

Fucking surreal man. But I've got the 20th Century Fox W-2s to prove it.

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Hey all. I'm heading to Quakecon 2024 tomorrow and will be repping the penguin. I've got all my games set up and ready, but was now wondering, are there any extra steps I should take as far as network security goes?

I'm sure I'm not as vulnerable to random badness as the flock of Windows machines that will be on the network, but you never know. The only thing on my list so far is to disable sshd. I thought about installing Portmaster but it has always messed up my DNS in the past...

I'll probably run Wireshark just to see if I can capture anything interesting there. Do you all have any other suggestions for prepping my PC?

[-] pelotron@midwest.social 59 points 3 months ago

As much as I appreciated Biden's "violence has no place in American politics" comment, I had to laugh about it. Bitch, of course it does. It's a regular part of our culture. We're training elementary students to dress gunshot wounds for christ's sake. Own it.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by pelotron@midwest.social to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

I just found this cool utility a couple days ago and have found that it's a great solution to sandboxed versions of Discord being unable to provide rich presence. It's a Python script that queries the Steam web API to get info to forward to Discord's API. The "installer" sets up a systemd service that will auto-run the script for you.

It requires you to get your own Steam API key which was a trivial, though slightly buggy, process for me. You can optionally use your own Discord app ID, or just use the one owned by the guy that created this script.

[-] pelotron@midwest.social 76 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Midwesterner here. This is correct. Though it's missing anti-abortion ads and the PORN DESTROYS ALL LIVES signs that always follow the Adult Superstore ones.

[-] pelotron@midwest.social 59 points 6 months ago

A vast amount of the Pacific Garbage Patch consists of discarded commercial fishing gear.

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RIP James Randi (midwest.social)

RIP James Randi who died before anyone could claim the his prize for playing RB1 over the board against Levy.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by pelotron@midwest.social to c/micromobility@lemmy.world

Sorry for the messy work bench but that's how it is with my DIY projects. 🙂 This is the Build Kit Boards Duo kit with a custom battery setup.

The battery enclosure is one from their site that is on fire sale due to being left over from their previous kit version. It doesn't exactly fit so I did a little work on it with a hacksaw. It is bound to the board via 8 thumb screws that attach to steel threaded inserts that I installed on the deck. I do have to remove all the screws to take the batteries out and charge them... I'd like to come up with a better solution but no good ideas so far.

For batteries I'm running three 5000mAh 4S LiPo batteries in series, so effectively a 12 cell. There is room in the enclosure for three more of these so I can have two 12 cell packs in parallel. I'm hoping for a 25 mile range from that setup.

I commuted to work on this this morning and had a blast! Electric skateboards kick ass.

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I can't use AMD (midwest.social)

It's necessary for my very important hobby of generating anime nudes.

[-] pelotron@midwest.social 102 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

McCain is one of the old guard Republicans that went down fighting. His final vote thumbs down for the repeal of the ACA was legendary. I didn't vote for him but I do have great respect for him.

Contrast that against all the limp dicks who are silently retiring instead of speaking out and trying to right the ship.

[-] pelotron@midwest.social 82 points 7 months ago

"Alright, now that I'm logged in to my cloud terminal account, let me enter my root password for sudo."

[-] pelotron@midwest.social 55 points 8 months ago

This meme brought to you by people who get all their news from memes

[-] pelotron@midwest.social 35 points 9 months ago

NASA already killed god in 2011

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I've been gaming on Kubuntu for over 2 years now but recently have been getting interested in Garuda. I've booted into the live Dragonized Gaming iso and was really impressed with the out of the box gaming-centric setup.

I've also been looking for more reasons to switch away from Ubuntu, and have been hit with the EOL countdown for plasma in 23.04, so the time is right for a distro hop. With the latest Garuda release they added an official Hyprland variant which looks really cool too.

Does anyone use Garuda? What are your impressions/thoughts/experiences? What should I expect from switching to an Arch base? Same questions for Hyprland too.

I have 16 gigs of ram, an Intel i7 something and an nVidia 2080.

Edit: I booted into the Hyprland live iso last night and I must say, Hyprland is cool af. Really a breath of fresh air and very intuitive. I'm going to run with the install this weekend.

[-] pelotron@midwest.social 38 points 1 year ago

He's gonna be pissed when he finds out how many current citizens also don't like "our" religion.

[-] pelotron@midwest.social 118 points 1 year ago

I found a good stick once. Damn, that was a nice stick.

[-] pelotron@midwest.social 43 points 1 year ago

And he makes himself right at home.

I have two nieces who get bullied at school about different things. One so bad that she is switching to online-only for the next school year.

Anti-bullying my fuckin ass. Schools aren't doing shit other than waving some flags around.

[-] pelotron@midwest.social 60 points 1 year ago

I still wonder why console players allowed their online services to require subscriptions in the first place.

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Installed this valve the very first time I changed my oil. It makes it so easy. And when I buy new oil filters the guys at the auto shop give me wild looks when I tell them I don't need the crush washer. :D

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