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garpu

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Gamer, geek, former grad student. Composer. Sometimes streamer.

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massivelyop, to random
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Enter to win a copy of the newly launched V Rising on Steam courtesy of Stunlock https://massivelyop.com/2024/05/08/vrising-launch-sweepstakes

garpu,
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@bass How's it run? Seems like most games these days have shit for performance on day 1.

garpu, to random
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@alien are you on the lilypond mailing list? Sounds like Frescobaldi is abandoned. No word from the developer, and the people who were bugfixing don't have the time. (Plus qtwebengine needs to be updated badly, and nobody's able to do so.)

geerlingguy, to random
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There is a positive ideal that says 'bad things happen so greater good may result'.

Well, after Red Hat killed CentOS, that directly resulted in open sourcing Ansible for DevOps, which has to date led to at least 37,444 more people having the opportunity to learn Ansible than would've before.

That's $347,065 of value created in response to a single bad decision ;)

garpu,
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@geerlingguy I need to learn Ansible one of these days. Would like to work towards certs, too. Problem is, test is expensive, and I'd worry I'd blow it.

bass, to pathofexile
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Ritual threw me a bone and let me 6-link my chest in SSF! Hoping I get enough eldritch currency to slam some nice implicits on it soon.

Death Jack Elegant Ringmail: a 6-linked chest with a massive fractured life roll, two elemental resists, and extra armor+energy shield. It even has a free suffix!

garpu,
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@bass Oh wow. I swear I always get really shitty luck with 6-links.

garpu, to random
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@alien Speaking of CHinese-inspired sci-fi/fantasy, "Babel" by R. F. Kuang is great. (more alternate history.)

garpu, to random
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@alien Hey, how're you feeling? Any better?

garpu, to random
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@alien grrrf. "join our discord for support." I like discord for social things, but am cranky about everyone having a discord and locking help/support/bugs behind it.

cjerrington, to random
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Really looking for a new rubiks speed cube. What are the options?

garpu,
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@cjerrington Did you get any options? I"m looking for my first one. There are a lot out there.

universalhub, to boston
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Group sues Boston-area landlords, brokers it says refuse to rent to people with government housing vouchers


https://www.universalhub.com/2024/group-sues-boston-area-landlords-brokers-refusing

garpu,
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@universalhub Yeah, so many landlords aren't taking vouchers, or charging "broker's fees" that price people out.

garpu, to random
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@alien are they handing out paxlovid like candy over there? I didn't think I needed it, but my father-in-law has had it twice. Said the side effects were worse than covid.

bass, to guildwars2
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multiboxing hurts legitimate players. This needs to stop.

I ran Dragon's End today. Kicked these people when they joined, before we got a map to play on. They were not able to join our instance via squad.

Within about two minutes, a map queue formed. These people running 5-6 accounts EACH maxed out the map's player limit of 60, and made it so legitimate players could not join and have fun. They waited in queue for an HOUR.

Seven people could not join our fresh map and have fun.

A screenshot of Guild Wars 2. Five players are stacked together, doing nothing.
A screenshot of Guild Wars 2. A lot of jade mechs without visible players are stacked in the same location.

garpu,
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@bass I thought botting was illegal in GW2?

garpu,
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@bass I wish they'd do something about the 3-4 necromancers standing on top of each other AFK, too.

garpu,
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@bass OH gotcha. Didn't know if I should report or not. Reporting botters in WoW does nothing.

garpu,
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@bass So slide under the rules... Only way to get rid of them is peer pressure.

garpu, to random
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Question for the Massachusetts people (Hi @universalhub!) Why doesn't BJ's have onion rings? They've got waffle fries, crinkle cut fries, tater tots, straight-cut fries, and sweet potato fries. No onion rings.

markwyner, to scifi
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Liu Cixin’s sci-fi book “The Three-Body Problem” has been made into series called “3 Body Problem.” It will be on Netflix this spring and they just dropped a trailer.

https://youtu.be/mogSbMD6EcY

More on the book:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel)

#Scifi #ScienceFiction #Book #Series #LiuCixin

garpu,
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@alien @markwyner I've heard good about the Chinese version. That series of books is on my to-read list.

garpu, to random
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@alien So did you do any baking for Christmas? I just made my great-great aunt's fruitcake. :) (And pizza....still need to clean the oven from that.)

garpu,
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@alien Rye honey sourdough sounds fabulous...

alien, to Software
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KDE Plasma6 Beta2 (but the Live ISO won’t work)

Hi folks.

I have a nice set of packages ready for KDE Plasma6 Beta2 which was just announced two days ago.
As you see from below screenshot, it runs nicely as a Wayland session, both logged in via the SDDM login manager and by running "startkwayland" from a console in runlevel 3.

A few i

https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/kde-plasma6-beta2-but-the-live-iso-wont-work/

garpu,
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@alien I forgot. You're nvidia? How's wayland on it these days? (Thinking of going AMD for my next video card.)

garpu,
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@alien intetrst8ng. I thought plasma 6 was Wayland only?

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    garpu,
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    @alien Yeah...I'm not voting for Biden in the primary, but come November 2024, I'm all in, if he's the nominee. I'm in a "safe" state that I could do a protest vote, but after 2016, I'm taking nothing for granted. There's too much on the line.

    garpu, to random
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    @alien Wow, I'm an idiot. I had pipewire's version as "0.1.0" for pipewire-jack, not "1.0.0." I haven't had any caffeine yet.

    ThePlant, to random
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    God damn watching The Expanse for the second time and it’s so much better as a binge than weekly.

    garpu,
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    @ThePlant Should one read the books or the show first?

    garpu,
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    @cmdln @ThePlant Good to know. Trying to wade through the Wheel of Time books, and it's a slog. I'm not sure I really feel like picking up another big series.

    massivelyop, to random
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    The Daily Grind: What are some of your MMO core memories?
    🔗 https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/08/the-daily-grind-what-are-some-of-your-mmo-core-memories

    garpu,
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    @massivelyop When I was in grad school, my partner and I were on opposite coasts. On Sundays, I'd grab a burger on the way back from Mass, and we'd play WoW the rest of the day. :)

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