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Favorite underrated / unrecognized TV show? I'll go first. by Schmoo in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago

Really thoughtful and smart sci-fi animation. Don't want to spoil it so I'll be vague, it has the most realistic depiction of modern tech and how people interact with it than any other show I've seen. Really great commentary on big tech corporations and even a bit of geopolitics. Super ambitious yet it somehow pulls it off.

There is also a scene that still gives me nightmares (not even joking, I still dream about that shit) which is more than any horror movies or shows have done for me. Anyone who has watched it knows exactly what scene I'm talking about.

Progressives gear up for their first big fight if Harris wins: Protecting Lina Khan by Schmoo in c/news@lemmy.world

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

I believe a large portion of the electorate that vote Democrat are liberals who weren't fans of Biden but hated Trump, and intended to vote for Biden only to prevent Trump from winning. Kamala would not lose this contingency of voters even if they think Kamala is too progressive, but she would gain new voters who previously felt unrepresented. Only anti-Trump conservatives (a tiny but admittedly growing voting bloc) might jump ship.

Kamala chose to appeal to conservatives to steal votes from Trump and because it gets her more wealthy donors. It's possibly a winning strategy, but it is not the only one, and this one abandons the progressive voting bloc in favor of conservatives in a time where younger people are trending leftwards. This is a move that will have long-term consequences.

Progressives gear up for their first big fight if Harris wins: Protecting Lina Khan by Schmoo in c/news@lemmy.world

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago

I disagree, I think if she had campaigned as the most progressive Democrat in history that would have sparked a massive wave of new support, but it would have put her campaign up against a lot of wealthy and powerful people. She chose the easy path by cozying up to capital interests, and this strategy gets us nowhere. At best it staves off the worst of the growing fascist movement for a time, but at the same time moves the needle further to the right. I think it's shortsighted.

Progressives gear up for their first big fight if Harris wins: Protecting Lina Khan by Schmoo in c/news@lemmy.world

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago

Having seen her progressive voting record I wouldn't have expected her to campaign as a "moderate" and go back on every progressive stance she ever held either. In short, I don't trust her to be consistent.

A Texas Woman Died After Waiting 40 Hours for Miscarriage Care by Schmoo in c/news@lemmy.world

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago

Or, hear me out, discard the left-right metaphor for the nonsense that it is and refer to ideologies by their names. There is no left, there are communists/socialists and anarchists. There is no center, there are liberals and conservatives. There is no right, there are fascists and "libertarians."

The left-right metaphor is a set of training wheels, and by continuing to use them you sabotage your own political understanding.

'We are essentially in a new Gilded Age’: As workers get laid off, CEOs and shareholders gobble up hundreds of billions in profits by Schmoo in c/news@lemmy.world

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 12 points 3 days ago

A rising tide lifts all boats has always struck me as a strange metaphor for them to use. To me that conjures up thoughts of welfare, UBI, irreducible minimums, safety nets, etc. It seems like a great metaphor for the opposite of what they're using it for.

As recent CEOs of large, publicly traded companies, we have discretion to speak out by Schmoo in c/politics@lemmy.world

Kamala Harris Dropped a New Custom 'Fortnite' Map by Schmoo in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 days ago

Narrative-driven games give players the illusion of choice. To me this seems like it would lend itself to being even more effective than traditional propaganda because it's capable of tricking the player into thinking they came to a conclusion on their own.

Don't get me wrong, I love Disco Elysium, but it is very effective communist propaganda. Propaganda has a negative connotation but is not inherently bad or dishonest, though it certainly can be.

Voices: At 86, I have never witnessed an internal threat to democracy as grave as today’s by Schmoo in c/politics@lemmy.world

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 22 points 4 days ago

Even worse, the liberal candidate who previously ran against him for the presidency and won is the one who appointed him chancellor in an attempt at appeasement. It was shortly after that the enabling act was passed that gave the chancellor supreme power.

Hitler was handed power by a liberal "reaching across the aisle," with the thinking that he would just prove himself incompetent and lose support.

Quoþ ð Tankies, "BUT DEMS SAME ÐO!" by Schmoo in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 days ago

I don't even necessarily disagree that it's counterproductive, I just don't think it's fair to attack someone for using esoteric or unconventional language. Yes, it inconveniences the listener - or in this case the reader - but in this context no one is being forced to engage with OP. By using some Old English letters OP is just having some innocent fun at no one's expense, which doesn't warrant the harsh response they're receiving.

If you were talking to someone and they casually used xe/xey pronouns (or any neopronouns for that matter) to refer to a friend who isn't there, would you go out of your way to lecture them about what an inconvenience it is to you to have to learn something new?

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Question: Can anyone recommend open source map-making / site design software? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Schmoo@slrpnk.net to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

10 comments fedilink

I'm looking for software for making small-scale maps / designs. Say for example I wanted to map out a small-ish plot of land with various markers indicating features of the site. Another requirement is that is must have the capability to depict elevation. Others have recommended map-making software for dungeons and dragons, but of the ones I can find they are either paid / subscription models or they strictly adhere to a grid system that makes it impossible to use for my purposes.

Does anyone have some good recommendations?

Edit: It doesn't have to be a single piece of software necessarily. If anyone has recommendations for a particular workflow (like for example if you know some good open source drawing software I could use to draw over the top of a topographic map) I'm interested in that as well.

Wikipedia is under assault: rogue users keep posting AI generated nonsense by Schmoo in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 98 points 3 weeks ago

historically humans aren't usually burning down libraries on purpose.

How on earth have you come to this conclusion.

The Internet Archive is under attack, with a popup claiming a ‘catastrophic’ breach by Schmoo in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 90 points 3 weeks ago

The corporations that took control of the Internet don't want us to remember.

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(Solved) Need Help With My Self-Hosted Media Server (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Schmoo@slrpnk.net to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

6 comments fedilink

Edit: For those who stumble across this with the same issue, I eventually got it working by adding “default-runtime”: “nvidia”, to /etc/docker/daemon.json then restarting the docker service and Jellyfin container.

I am in the process of setting up a new media server on an old PC using Ubuntu Server and CasaOS and have run into my first major roadblock.

To give some background, I formerly had my media server running on my main gaming PC on Windows using Plex and the *arr suite. I’m now trying to do things the right way and set everything back up from scratch on some spare hardware with Jellyfin and all the rest in dockerized containers. I chose CasaOS because I’m not overly familiar with Linux and thought that would be a good way to ease into things.

Everything was going well until I tried to get hardware acceleration enabled in Jellyfin. For the life of me I cannot seem to get the Nvidia drivers properly installed, much less give Jellyfin access to the device. I’m using a GTX 960.

I’m not sure exactly what additional info I need to give here, but here’s something I hope helps:

*****@home-server:/$ nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
*****@home-server:/$ nvcc --version
nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2021 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Thu_Nov_18_09:45:30_PST_2021
Cuda compilation tools, release 11.5, V11.5.119
Build cuda_11.5.r11.5/compiler.30672275_0
*****@home-server:/$ ls /usr/src | grep nvidia
nvidia-srv-535.104.12
*****@home-server:/$ sudo dkms install -m nvidia -v srv-535.104.12
Error! Could not locate dkms.conf file.
File: /usr/src/nvidia-srv-535.104.12/dkms.conf does not exist.

If there’s anything important I’m leaving out - and I probably am - let me know. Also if there’s anywhere else you recommend I post this let me know that as well.

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(Solved) Trouble With CasaOS (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Schmoo@slrpnk.net to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

3 comments fedilink

Edit: For those who stumble across this with the same issue, I eventually got it working by adding “default-runtime”: “nvidia”, to /etc/docker/daemon.json then restarting the docker service and Jellyfin container.

I am in the process of setting up a new media server on an old PC using Ubuntu Server and CasaOS and have run into my first major roadblock.

To give some background, I formerly had my media server running on my main gaming PC on Windows using Plex and the *arr suite. I’m now trying to do things the right way and set everything back up from scratch on some spare hardware with Jellyfin and all the rest in dockerized containers. I chose CasaOS because I’m not overly familiar with Linux and thought that would be a good way to ease into things.

Everything was going well until I tried to get hardware acceleration enabled in Jellyfin. For the life of me I cannot seem to get the Nvidia drivers properly installed, much less give Jellyfin access to the device. I’m using a GTX 960.

I’m not sure exactly what additional info I need to give here, but here’s something I hope helps:

*****@home-server:/$ nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
*****@home-server:/$ nvcc --version
nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2021 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Thu_Nov_18_09:45:30_PST_2021
Cuda compilation tools, release 11.5, V11.5.119
Build cuda_11.5.r11.5/compiler.30672275_0
*****@home-server:/$ ls /usr/src | grep nvidia
nvidia-srv-535.104.12
*****@home-server:/$ sudo dkms install -m nvidia -v srv-535.104.12
Error! Could not locate dkms.conf file.
File: /usr/src/nvidia-srv-535.104.12/dkms.conf does not exist.

If there’s anything important I’m leaving out - and I probably am - let me know. Also if there’s anywhere else you recommend I post this let me know that as well.