[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

People posting blobfish always makes me sad. Poor things don't actually look like that...

It's like it aliens took humans into space and our corpses got all bloated from the lack of pressure and then the aliens laugh at our corpses and assume that's what humans always look like...

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just because you can work with one monitor doesn't mean multiple monitors isn't more comfortable though. You can have multiple windows open at once, at full size, and glance between them freely. No need for them to share the limited real estate of a single monitor.

I run Sway on my laptop because it lets me take full advantage of my single monitor, but on my multi monitor desktop setup I use a regular floating DE.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

A tiefling divine soul sorcerer with the Criminal background. He was born to two pious tiefling clerics of Lathander who saw their fiendish blood as a curse, and prayed to cleanse their unborn child of devilish influence. When he was born a Divine Soul, his parents tried to raise him as their perfect priestess. He had to be a model tiefling, a representative of his entire race as well as Lathander himself. He chafed under the obligation and ran away from home, living on the streets and stealing to get by, all while trying to hide his divine soul powers out of a combination of rejecting them and just trying not to draw attention.

Slinking around in the shadows eventually led to him wandering into the Mists of Ravenloft, and he found himself in Barovia. He found his way into a party and essentially just acted like the party rogue for a bit until combat came and he got backed into a corner and he suddenly started throwing around guiding bolts.

I was really looking forward to doing a whole arc with him reclaiming his powers and figuring out what it meant to be himself, but OOC stuff led to me leaving that group before he had a chance to leave his edgy rogue phase :c

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago

These are the voyages of the starship PrtScrnprise.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

Like other people have said, this is very similar to how the Internet already works. All you need to do to connect to the Internet is connect to a single router that's a part of it, at least in theory. The Internet is already decentralized on the backend, it's just that only big players get to be a part of it for the most part.

A fundamental problem with your decentralization idea is that on a mesh network, you become reliant on your upstream(s) for your connection. You think Comcast is annoying, or your connection is slow? Imagine trying to troubleshoot your Internet connection and having to go deal with your neighbor instead, but he's at work so you have to wait for him, but oh he's too tired so he'll help you tomorrow...

Not to mention that this severely limits speeds. No longer can your connection go from your house, to the street, to the backbone, and then straight to Google's servers, now it has to go bounce around between a number of potentially unreliable consumer connections, run by non-professionals.

In a system like this, inevitably local organizations or companies will pop up to take the burden off individuals, which would provide massive QoL improvements, and we'd end up with ISPs again.

That said, there's a lot of people doing hobby network stuff out there. I know some hackerspaces have their own local hobbynets, that then connect to each other over the open Internet using VPN tunnels. This solves some of the reliability problem, plus it's just a hobby thing so it isn't a problem that it's slow and kinda bad. Then there are even individuals who get their own routers (or VPSes) and plop them in datacenters to participate in the internet alongside big companies and ISPs. Neither of these require new protocols, everything can be done with TCP/IP and BGP. (Plus a splash of VPN protocols here and there.)

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The $193 million figure is misleading because the majority of it is stock, so that number isn't cash and is just an estimate of value since there isn't even an open market for the stock. The IPO will show how much it's really worth I guess.

He was paid a little over a mil in actual salary + bonus, which is still too much but not nearly as ridiculous.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago

I'm reading between the lines here and I think it's actually talking about adaptation rights, and not selling the entire IP? Otherwise this doesn't really make any sense.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In any% runs, yeah. But they skip through all the dialogue and cutscenes anyway, so it's barely spoilers. Most of the speedrun is just crazy hops and killing Shadowheart to stuff her corpse in a crate.

AGDQ did an actual all acts speedrun, which does show the actual ending of the game though. And admittedly, more spoilery than a usual run because there's a lot of commentary.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They linked directly to the post on the Lemmy side, so I'm guessing it's an issue with how Mastodon handles Lemmy posts. I'm on a different Lemmy instance and I can see the direct link just fine.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 years ago

I don't know about you, but I tend to make lots of little changes to my setup all the time. Versioning makes it easy to roll back those individual changes, and to tell which change broke what. Sure, you could accomplish the same thing with backups, but versioning offers additional information with negligible cost.

Why not stick them in a git repo?

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 years ago

Is Alpine not Linux then?

Linux is still Linux without GNU software on it.

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