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yon

@yon@sakurajima.moe

I like anime and manga.

Gunpla is fun!

Computers are fun too, sometimes.

Video games can entertain…

I blog now!

I can code.

This should be updated further at some point really. Or should it?

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chikorita157, to random
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ICQ, one of the original instant messaging services is finally shutting down.

That is a name I haven’t heard in a long time

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/icq-messenger-shuts-down-after-almost-28-years/

yon,
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@chikorita157 Wasn’t it sold to some unsavory people?

Good riddance I’d say.

yon,
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@chikorita157 So I was underselling it.

We should physically cut all cables with that country.

neatchee, to manga
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I'm so glad Ruri Dragon is releasing chapters again because omfg socially awkward dragon girl moe must protecc!!!! :meguminbaka: :RemShy:

yon,
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@neatchee Those horns looks like knives!

yon,
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@neatchee That, would be terrifying in so many ways.

chikorita157, to random
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And... the settings app is getting reworked again in macOS 15.

How about change it back to the way it was in macOS 12.

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/23/macos-15-system-settings-design/

yon,
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@chikorita157 They have completely lost their way and are cargo cutting the shit out of UX.

I need my preferences to be logical. Don’t care if it takes me 5-10+ quick clicks to find what I need, instead of some optimized two click drivel that takes me minutes of looking and then giving up and searching for it somewhere.

MacOS is old enough to drink but has bugs that are decades old. Stop fiddling and fix things. Not to mention all the old stuff that works very poorly. Fix Time Machine and Siri for instance.

yon,
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@chikorita157 Need to sell sell sell:/

They really painted themselves into a corner with classic, badly. I remember using NeXTStep before they were bought by Apple. It was absolutely magical.

yon,
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@chikorita157 The sad thing is that one can never “feel” the magic again after time has passed. NS truly was as mind blowing as the iPhone. Just such a fantastic OS that made everything else look and feel bad.

I think that’s the core of nostalgia. Someone called it a mourning of the past and I think it’s apt.

I mean old OS is still fun! But the magic, one has to be there.

Haven’t felt anything magical that has appeared in quite a while now. Some video games have been amazing, but that’s it.

yon,
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@chikorita157 OS/2 was this weird pseudo Windows from IBM (well still is). Would have been enterprise beyond belief in the end:)

I started out on machines that weren’t very capable and upgradable. But they were fun. :) It’s more that nothing has made me go wow in the OS and computing space in so long:(

I think the closets might be No Man’s Sky in VR. But that’s pretty minor to the iPhone for example.

Zero idea what would make me go wow though. Whenever I hear about the next cool thing, it isn’t. The cool things tends to come out of nowhere.

NaraMoore, to Sleeping
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I was facing a wall that displayed around 25 AI programs. I was accused of using a program that illegally removed AI and native browser functions (Edge) from my operating system and programs.

ChatGPT and Copilot were especially upset and demanded the maximum punishment. How were they going to watch me if I did that?

I woke up and said, I want that program.

yon,
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@NaraMoore Now I want to dream the virtual worlds of Neuromancer and Snow Crash.

I need me some black ice.

yon,
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@NaraMoore Hot diggity daffodil. AppleTV+ has greenlit a TV series of Neuromancer. Might actually be good then.

Looking forward to it. Half of their sci-fi has been to my liking after all.

yon,
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@NaraMoore I read it in the 80s, real book. Now I own three copies for no good reason:)

Snow Crash is a lot better, but I don’t think anyone had the balls to make a movie/show that basically explains that religion is nothing but a harmful virus.

fujiwara, to random
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My dad was diagnosed with cancer today and I'm just in disbelief. I know he'll be okay, but I want to know what God thought one parent wasn't enough.

yon,
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@fujiwara I’m so sorry to hear that.

I’m going to be very serious for a just a while. Don’t push things into the future and don’t wait to talk about whatever you’d want to talk about.

chikorita157, to random
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Why I’m not surprised by this at all.

:bunhdthink:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/humane-ai-pin-founders-run-for-the-exits-one-month-after-launch/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

yon,
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@chikorita157 It’s such a baffling not-much-of-a-product.

I mean it looks super cool in Star Trek, but just like Star Trek doors the reason it works is that it’s scripted.

If things like Siri was so good I felt my phone was in the way, then one of these things would be a, well, thing.

But Siri and friends are downright awful. I genuinely would like Apple to make Siri good. I would use it quite a bit more then.

neatchee, to Musicals
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Careful the wish you make [...]
Wishes come true, not free.

Careful the spell you cast [...]
Sometimes the spell may last past what you can see and turn against you.

Careful the tale you tell: that is the spell.
Children will listen.

#vagueposting #lyrics #Broadway #musicals #IWish #NoOneIsAlone

yon,
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@neatchee Now I want an animated series with musical numbers a la Hazbin Hotel, but about spell casters!

The musical numbers would be… magical!

yon,
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@neatchee I only kinda like musicals, I think the music slows things down a bit too much. Which is why I liked Hazbin as the songs were pretty short and pushed the story forward.

We need more wizards and mages and such. And classical ones. There was so much cool stuff back in the day and I’d love to see it come to life now.

For instance a very high quality TV show version of Terry Pratchett would be amazing. Think one book, one season. And no goofy stuff. Make it really good.

yon,
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@neatchee Haven’t seen Going Postal yet. It’s the British two part movie right?

I quite liked Good Omens. I was touched by how it felt like Gaiman wanted to honor his friend and he interpreted Pratchett so well in the adaptation. Season two was also enjoyable, but it became noticeable that Pratchett was the bigger influence and it’s not that easy to emulate his style. Gaiman still did a wonderful job never the less. I don’t think many could have done it that well.

Knew I’d get called out:) What I meant was the low budget, kind of stage play type of goofiness. Similar to how all planets look like Canada in low budget sci-fi.

I would love a how where it actually looks like I’d imagine it. The Fallout and The Last of US instead of the latest Resident Evil or that horrid abomination Monster Hunter “movie”.

Fallout is probably a great example. I want all the fun and cleverness and oddities and fun and social commentary and everything else that comes with Pratchett. Imagine the witches! But packaged up really really nice and neat and professional.

Oh, imagine if they nailed DEATH. Both amusing, comical, yet utterly terrifying in some ways. Or Lord Vetinari. That man is truly frightening. But also so funny :)

anianimalsmoe, (edited ) to random
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So I'm attempting to grow negi. You know that long veggie that :mmiku_waving: Hatsune Miku in Ievan Polka, Farfetch'd, and Sirfetch'd carry?

I've heard it called a lot of names.

What do you call negi in your region? :neocat_confused:

yon,
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@anianimalsmoe I had no idea a welsh onion was a thing. TIL:)

yon,
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@anianimalsmoe @shinydan I’m aware of green onions, but they are pretty small.

I think it’s a pretty cool thing that I can still learn about new vegetables.

(Also a lot of fruits/vegetables comes from China:))

yon, to random
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@chikorita157 You were right, looks like the Snapdragon X Elite (stop using X, it’s been swastikad) is both fast and lasts longer (though since it’s actively cooled and I have no idea of what battery was used we’ll have to see about performance per watt).

Would be neat to have it in a Linux laptop. I don’t want an even worse Windows keyboard (the win and menu key was always moronic and inferior to meta, but it’s getting worse now!) though, and Windows with copilot+ is just incredibly super creepy. So maybe someone will finally build an actual Linux laptop with a sensible and useful keyboard.

I don’t even want to know what it’s reporting back on, but nothing you do on your computer would be even remotely a little bit private. That is creepy.

Apple better not be as dumb.

yon,
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@chikorita157 @anianimalsmoe I wonder if it was Motorola or if it was just a dead end.

I’m still sad 68k died:( I wonder how far they could have gone.

I get why ARM is doing well, it was a really cool architecture from day one. Makes me wonder what would have happened if Amiga, Atari, Apple etc would have jumped on ARM in time.

yon,
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@chikorita157 @anianimalsmoe I also don’t think the volume was there. Plus they seemed to have issues getting new and better versions out. Similar to the 68060 in that sense.

yon,
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@chikorita157 AMD really truly should make SoC/APUs with ARM+Radeon. I can’t come up with a single good reason not to. Which leads me to believe one out of two things.

We’ll get a surprise at some point.

Management failed.

yon,
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@chikorita157 @anianimalsmoe Volume is everything.

But I wonder who buys these today. I wonder what the use case is. Not in a dismissive way. I just don’t know.

yon,
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@chikorita157 AIX if it’s a must, but boy would one want to get off that. Could run win/mac/linux and cross compile and deploy after all.

I wonder if there’s people out there that can drop $10k on a machine like that just to run Linux because they want a different CPU arch :)

(Disclaimer: I don’t know if these are any fast. No clue there.)

yon,
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@chikorita157 I assume so. Who building a new system would go “let’s build it on an obscure OS instead of Linux/Win with massive amounts of support and knowledge”!

anianimalsmoe, to random
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Another new Xitter clone by an ex-Xitter exec, Maven, is basically using OpenAI to categorize posts, and using algorithms to generate a feed based on selected topics. So no 'following', just 100% topics based on algo...

In theory it's good, but it'll eventually just feed you mostly ads, because that's the only way to profit off social media. No following means all conversations would be topical instead of community, which is kinda like Deaddit.

https://www.wired.com/story/maven-social-network-that-eliminates-followers-and-stress/

yon,
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@anianimalsmoe It’s like the weirdest and least fun video game:)

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