Interests: programming, video games, anime, music composition
I used to be on kbin as e0qdk@kbin.social before it broke down.
Deliberately copy snippets of a work you're interested in as a study -- e.g. transcribe it -- and experiment with elements you find interesting (rhythm, chords, synths, effects, whatever) in small test pieces to make sure you understand what's going on. Let the ideas stew for a while and then much later try to use the techniques you learned in a real piece.
That's what I do anyway.
If you want to improve significantly, go read someone else's code and modify it. Try to fix a bug in a program you use, add a feature you want that doesn't exist already, or even just do something simple for the sake of proving to yourself that you can do it -- like compiling it from source and figuring out how to change some small snippet of text in a message box. Even if you don't succeed, if you put in a serious effort attempting it, you will almost certainly learn a lot from trying.
Edit: changed wording to try to be clearer
GoG homepage > (your name [drop down menu] when logged in) > "Games" > Click on any game in your collection > Download offline backup game installers
You can download installers for whatever systems the game supports -- usually that's just a Windows .EXE installer (+ several .bin files if the game is large). For games intended to run on Linux w/o WINE, you can select "Linux" from a drop down where it says system and it will give you an .sh file.
Glad I could help you make progress -- I hope you can get it all the way working now. Good luck!
I rebooted to the installation media to try another install. It was black too.
I assume you've probably already checked, but in case not, is the boot order correct? What happens if you remove the SSD entirely and try to reboot to the USB without it?
Also, does the SSD boot in another computer?
If you can't get anything to boot on the tablet, I'd RMA it.
How 'bout that! :D
If the SSD itself is OK, then it was probably trying to boot the SSD still. The blank screen issue might have to do with the graphics drivers then? I remember having a similar blank screen problem with Ubuntu a long time ago where I had to put in "nomodeset" as a parameter in GRUB when booting until I got the right drivers set up.
the tablet supports pxe boot. Do you think I could get mileage off of that if I set up a server on my other laptop and connected them via ethernet?
Maybe. If it's not too much trouble to set up and you can't get the USB to work again, might as well try it before throwing in the towel.
I'm rather confused by the fact that the USB drive worked for you before but doesn't any more and yet seems to be OK on other systems. Is there anything like "fast boot" enabled in the BIOS maybe? (Try turning that off if so.)
Also, when you're trying to boot from the SSD, can you get anything out of GRUB by tapping shift or escape (or maybe other keys) while it's trying to boot?
Do you think that removing the ssd will help?
It's a sanity check to help you rule out things like unintentionally booting from the wrong device. Can't boot from hardware that's not there! If the USB does work with it removed, then something you believe about how the device boots is false and you can then try to figure out what. A lot of BIOSes will "helpfully" try the next device in the sequence if it can't successfully boot from the first one -- which can be really confusing when debugging.
Some other thoughts for things to check: does the device confirm that it can actually see the USB drive in some way? Does a USB keyboard work in the port you're using? If there's more than one USB port, have you tried a different port? Do your USB drives work in another computer?
I think this is just using SpeechDispatcher from the system -- so it's not a Firefox specific thing. I get a similar (but very slightly different) voice on my own system by default -- which matches what I get when I run a command like spd-say --wait "Hello world" from the command line.
I'm pretty sure SpeechDispatcher can be configured to use a different synthesis engine -- Arch's wiki has some suggestions: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Speech_dispatcher -- but I haven't dug into it yet.
I think the term would be "necrobump"
That's from old school forums where posting to a thread bumped it back to the top of the feed and thus thrust old info prominently into everyone's view again. You won't get that same bump effect with most sorts on Lemmy. ("New comments" sort might work like that though? I'm not sure exactly how that's handled.)
otherwise everyone has moved on
It's pretty rare to get much of a response even after just 24 hours or so -- not just in terms of comments, but even for upvotes. I think after that point, posts are usually so far down people's feeds that almost no one sees it any more. That probably also discourages most people from replying since basically no one will see it. (Maybe the poster of the thread or comment you're replying to will see it, but probably almost no one else will if it's more than a day or so old.)
Some people do dig through community archives and/or user profiles -- particularly after a new thread is posted -- and they'll occasionally upvote old posts, but they very rarely comment.
kbin.social has been totally down for a while. I don't think your posts are actually federating when you post into a kbin.social magazine right now; the votes you are getting are probably from other lemmy.world users only.
I'm not sure if I've ever fallen in love with a completely imaginary dream person, but I did dream about my ex once years and years after we broke up. I don't remember what I dreamed about exactly, but I do remember waking from it. The happiness fading as the realization set in that it was all a dream -- I was by myself in bed and none of it had been real. I'm usually pretty good at dealing with solitude, but that moment... that was the most intense loneliness I think I've ever felt.
My old username from reddit and HN was already taken and I couldn't think of anything else I wanted to be called so I just picked some random characters like this:
>>> import random >>> ''.join([random.choice("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789") for x in range(5)]) 'e0qdk'
I have that literally in my kbin profile, but it's not on my reddthat one. (I think I tried to copy it there originally when I set up the account but ran into some issue with Lemmy's UI -- been long enough that I forget what exactly.)
Mrs Bighead?!
...
*hangs up the phone*
Additional relevant discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39865810
I quit YouTube along with reddit last summer. I don't use alternate interfaces. I haven't found a replacement for most of the niche content I liked to watch there -- and yes, that sucks.
I've mostly been watching offline content (like DVDs and things I downloaded years ago) when I want video entertainment, and doing other stuff with my free time.
You might think that'd mean more time playing games given my interests, but I've found I'm a lot less enthusiastic about playing through games if I can't watch an LP or two of it afterwards. So, I'm actually playing (and also buying) less of those than I used to too.
I wonder if this will actually cause an increase in the number of security vulnerabilities and breaches as there's now a fairly obvious way for employees to penalize their bosses financially for being assholes...
I noticed while making this list that Lickitung was incorrectly spelled "LIKITUNG" on the third day.
Edit: Also, for Nidoran♂ vs Nidoran♀ you have to look at the picture to distinguish since they just say "Nidoran" but they do say it twice!
Oh, so that's how Genis was casting Fire Ball!
There's some notable differences with numbering -- e.g. lakh, crore, and where to put commas when writing large numbers.
A fairly vocal portion of lemmy is AI-hostile, and even for the people who aren't outright hostile to it, it can be annoying at times -- AI content does tend to drown everything else out when it's permitted, so making a community explicitly for it would probably work better.
lemmy.dbzer0.com might be a good place to host a community specifically for exploring AI generated music if you're interested in running one. That instance is explicitly open to AI gen and already has several image gen communities, but I don't think they have a music gen community yet. (Double check though before making one in case I just missed it.)
That's pretty good! But... that's only 147. :-)
Nidoran♀, and Nidoran♂ are separate and you're missing Nidorina, Nidoqueen, and also Rhydon.
Some other corrections:
(Yes, I looked it up. No, I have no life. :p)
Cheers!
Personally, I prefer it when people do one of the following:
PeerTube is also a reasonable choice -- although I don't like its UI very much.
Aww, I'm not trying to stomp anyone. :(
I was just curious if it was actually the full list and before I knew it I'd spent 45 minutes checking Pokemon names to figure out what was missing, so I figured I'd share the corrections.
If Kolanaki got that close just from memory, that's pretty impressive! I had to look it up!
That requires turning every read into a write -- which is slow/expensive generally. (That might not matter much for Google -- who try to record everything you ever do already, basically -- but it matters for everyone else.)
Also, it tends to promote spam and offensive niche content. kbin's got a sidebar that tries to promote random low activity communities and posts, for example, and it's almost uncanny how much crap it pushes up...
I spent a while looking thanks to your post and only found stuff from 2022 as well. My Chinese is basically non-existent though. (I can pick out a word here and there from knowing some Japanese, but that's about it.) Someone who knows Chinese might have better luck digging.
I did find this file from 2022 (14999x6982 -- ⚠️ 100+ MB PNG): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/The_geologic_map_of_the_Moon_at_1-2.5M_scale.png
Associated information (and preview): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_geologic_map_of_the_Moon_at_1-2.5M_scale.png
I assume that's the one you're referring to from 2022?
All the news stories just have low-res previews.
Is there a preview that looks different from this? I don't see a preview at all (just a picture of people at some sort of presentation) in your link -- but my browser might just not be loading it if there is one. (I generally block scripts.)
Edit: tweaked wording slightly
She's a character from Persona 3.
Oh, I remember playing Iji! I think that was the first game I played that noticed and reacted if you tried to play as a pacifist. There was at least one unavoidable boss fight when I played it though, as I recall.
Digging back through my old disks, it looks like I actually still have my copy from 2008 (version 1.2, according to the manual.txt file) as well as a saved game from much later when I replayed it in February 2013. That was a while ago!
I have a few of those, and while the ones I bought have worked out fine so far, I think it's worth cautioning people that they are annoyingly loud doing basic operations.
Have you explored text adventures / interactive fiction? They're even more niche than VNs but there's some good ones out there. I remember liking Worlds Apart back when I played it. (15+ years ago... o___o)
One of these days I should go dig back into them again.
Everything I've set in Settings is forgotten: Default Listing reverts to All, Default Post Sort reverts to Hot, and so on.
mlmym (the "old" interface) stores its front-end specific settings in your browser via cookies and local storage. The way it's implemented works for the most part and probably makes the front-end simpler, but has some downsides like not retaining your choices between logins. There's an issue open for this in the bug tracker: https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym/issues/104
I'm not sure why it forces a logout periodically even when you're using it regularly though. (I mean, the cookies are probably not being updated and just expire eventually -- but I don't know if that was a deliberate choice or not.) It might be a good idea to open an issue for this?
I was following it casually last year, but haven't really kept up. These are some of the communities I made a note of:
Maybe you'd be interested in "kinetic novels"? They're basically VNs without choices.
Just the other day, I got a reply to a thread from ~6 months ago on kbin!
It was spam. :/
You might find writing guides relevant to your interests. For example, "How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy" by Orson Scott Card contains some details about how the author came to write Hart's Hope and other novels. "Scene & Structure" by Jack Bickham might also be interesting -- I don't remember discussion of specific books in it, but it might scratch a similar itch for how-it's-made style content.
Some books also contain introductions/forewords/afterwords with details about how the book was written. A bunch of OSC's novels (like some editions of Ender's Game) come to mind specifically -- I read those back when I was curious about maybe trying to become a writer, so that's the most prominent example in my mind, but I'm sure there are others. I've also seen translations of a number of works where the translators include really long introductions explaining some of their choices -- and sometimes criticize earlier translations.
I wonder what cuil things it will say if you start asking questions about hamburgers instead...
I don't know about KDE in particular, but I've had problems with USB mice waking various Ubuntu systems when they're not directly connected (i.e. there's a hub or KVM in between it and the computer). The workaround I used for that was to remove the mouse input (e.g. by carefully pressing a physical button on the KVM) -- which was good enough for me -- but I think there is a programmatic way to block particular classes of input from waking the system if some device is waking your system inappropriately.
Doing a quick search turned up this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/252743/how-do-i-prevent-mouse-movement-from-waking-up-a-suspended-computer -- I can't vouch for any of the specific techniques there though.
Worth noting that while I had a problem with the mouse specifically, other hardware could be causing your system to wake up.
Now imagine if to buy a car you had to tolerate cameras and other forms of tracking your telemetry just to get to work and feed yourself.
Sorry to be the bearer of depressing news, but that's basically already happening in new cars.
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/car-spying-insurance-surveillance-data/
Definitely! I usually name my files starting with
YYYY_MM_DD(which makes it easy to sort by the date I started making the file), a number for which entry it was on that day (1,2,3,4... plus sometimes a letter too if I want to keep multiple drafts), and a few words if I have other details I want to remember. e.g. "transcribe_song_by_artist" or things like "cont_YYYY_MM_DD-entry" when I continue working on a piece from a long time I ago. Sometimes I add a title after that too if I wanted to give the piece one.