ShaunaTheDead

ShaunaTheDead, 1 month ago

It seems like this vehicle comes with (as far as I know) the first solid state battery in a commercial vehicle which is HUGE news if true! I'm slightly skeptical because of this claim coming from the Chinese government, but who knows, it would be a huge boon for all of humanity if they've figured out solid state batteries.

The huge benefits we'll all see are increased capacity so batteries last longer, and INSANELY fast charge times. You could recharge your car to 100% in the same time as it takes to fill it up with gas currently.

ShaunaTheDead, 2 months ago

The thing about time is that any likely division of an hour that you'd like, there's an easy and even division. /2 = 30, /3 = 20, /4 = 15, /5 = 12, /6 =10, /10 = 6 and vice versa.

It's pretty easy to get in the mind state of thinking a half hour is 30 minutes, or more specifically you can think 1.5 hours * 60 minutes / hour. The hours cancel out and you get 90 minutes.

ShaunaTheDead, 2 months ago

I feel attacked. I saw some birds cross the street while driving to visit my Dad and I spent like 8 hours looking up birds to try to figure out what they were and I've been into it ever since.

ShaunaTheDead, 3 months ago

I dunno how it is in the rest of Canada, but here in Ontario, the Conservatives are constantly undermining the public healthcare system because they very clearly want to privatize it. It's really annoying how they're trying to slyly erode faith in the public system and letting people fall through the cracks for no reason other than greed. It's blatant to anyone paying attention, but sadly, most people aren't.

ShaunaTheDead, 3 months ago

Are you using the dedicated GPU as your primary GPU or the integrated GPU? I've found using the dGPU as the primary can sometimes lead to suspend/resume issues.

ShaunaTheDead, 3 months ago

My partner and I are both of those. She's the anxious one and I'm the "fuck it" one. It works out alright, she can get more done, and I can calm her down when it's not actually as important as she thinks it is.

ShaunaTheDead, 3 months ago

Choosing to love Jesus makes that man happy, and that's great as long as he doesn't try to ruin other people's fun. Why is that so hard for some people to understand? Just live your own life and leave other people alone.

ShaunaTheDead, 3 months ago

If you have an unusual setup, it can be annoying trying to give programs permissions and sometimes it just outright doesn't work. For example, I mainly game on a laptop which has a pretty small hard drive, so I tend to put most of my games on an external hard drive. Flatpak really doesn't play well with that.

ShaunaTheDead, 3 months ago

It's like the old saying, "If you think everyone around you is an asshole, just remember that you're the common denominator in every situation". So if your teammates are trash, it's time to look inward at whether you're actually the problem, or if you're not, what you can do to help your teammates succeed.

ShaunaTheDead, 3 months ago

Anyone coming from a development background will entirely get the idea of stable releases. 23.10 or 24.04 are just rolling releases of a stable distro. It's the production ready version. You can choose to opt-in to the development updates at the risk that your system might be slightly more unstable, but that's not a decision that a casual user should consider.

The version numbers on Ubuntu specifically, are just dates. 23.10 is the stable release from October, 2023. That's all it is and there's really no point in thinking about it deeper than that. It's a date, not really a version number.

ShaunaTheDead, 3 months ago

Yeah, I'm saying that I agree that version numbers are harmful to mass adoption and I go on to explain that it's not really a version number at least in Ubuntu, but a "YY.MM" formatted date. I think making that more clear would help people that are unfamiliar with versioning and development.

ShaunaTheDead, 3 months ago

I always assumed it had more to do with him smuggling goods into federation colonies or some such. He's a very good pilot because he knows how to slip between the cracks of sensor fields and how to use unconventional maneuvers to throw off anyone chasing him. Sounds like the behaviour of a smuggler to me.

Also, I'm pretty sure the pitch for Tom Paris was basically "Han Solo but Star Trek".

ShaunaTheDead, 3 months ago

lol yeah I never really understood why they tried to sell Neelix as this tough, no-nonsense scrapper when they hired this guy to play the role. Star Trek has some very questionable casting sometimes. Not that Neelix isn't great, but he definitely isn't a "tough guy".

ShaunaTheDead, 3 months ago

I would use Heroic Games Launcher personally. You can add any game you want, and before it creates the prefix for you, you have the option of running installers on the prefix first. Then you can add the game executable. If the game requires proton fixes which it very likely would, you can search the game on SteamDB to find the AppID then make sure there's a file called steam_appid.txt next to the game executable with the game's app ID from SteamDB. That will tell Proton to apply any fixes that it has on file automatically.

If you're a fairly advanced user, you can also just look at what files are included on the game's SteamDB "Depots" page. For example, GTA San Andreas looks like it requires "DirectX Jun 2010 Redist". You can either download that from Microsoft or you can run winetricks (through Heroic, or through terminal) on the prefix to add d3dx9.

Heroic Games Launcher: https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher
Steam DB: https://steamdb.info/

ShaunaTheDead, 3 months ago

lol I'm glad I'm not the only one that got big homo-erotic vibes from that ad. Even the women seem to only have eyes for one another.

ShaunaTheDead, 3 months ago

In that old-timey radio voice

"Now fellas, we all know that one handsome devil neighbour of ours that we wish we could hold tight on a cold night instead of our nagging wives. Well, that's where Schlitz beer comes in! Schlitz beer - lower your hunky neighbours' inhibitions against your homoerotic advances!"

ShaunaTheDead, 3 months ago

Although, the dog could tell the difference between the swords. Dogs are blind to red which means pure red things are like an absence of any colour, so red would appear black. Dogs can see blue and yellow which combine to form green which to them would be all of the colours, and so it would appear white. I'm sure an anthropomorphic dog would understand that when humans say "green" they mean "white" and when humans say "red" they mean "black".

ShaunaTheDead, 3 months ago

Sure, it wouldn't be black. If it was a pure red (absolutely no other colours, just pure 100% red) then it wouldn't have a colour to a dog. It would have a shade, and it certainly wouldn't be absolutely pitch black but close enough. If, however, it's not a pure red then it would appear yellow or blue as in the picture you posted.

ShaunaTheDead, 3 months ago

No, because the dog would know that if someone says "red" they probably mean "black" or some shade of black, and "green" would mean "white" or some shade of white.

ShaunaTheDead, 3 months ago

My steps in engaging in polite conversation on the internet are:

Explain my point as clearly and concisely as possible.

Try to be respectful of differing opinions and keep an open mind.

Realize that mistakes happen, apologize for my mistakes and admit when I'm wrong. Also, be forgiving of the mistakes of others, point out any mistakes but do so as gently as possible.

Ignore people that are either intentionally misunderstanding you or aren't making an effort to understand you.

I think the first two points are obvious and most people follow them, it's the last two that a lot of people struggle with, even myself at times, but I'm working on it. I think the worst thing you can do on the internet is trash someone's entire idea just because they made one tiny mistake. And putting in effort with trolls will quickly exhaust you, so you need to learn to identify and ignore them.

ShaunaTheDead, 3 months ago

Let people enjoy things. You don't have to engage with it if you don't want to.

ShaunaTheDead, 3 months ago

The act of disliking something vocally is an act in trying to ruin that thing for the people that enjoy it. Disliking things is not a hobby, they are not the same thing. Not to mention the attitude of disliking is extremely negative. If that's your take on life, then you suck.

ShaunaTheDead, 3 months ago

Star Trek Enterprise

lol jk

ShaunaTheDead, 3 months ago

First of all, make sure that Steamworks Common Redistributables is installed because according to the steamdb page for GTA 5 it requires vcrun2022 and d3dx9 installed from winetricks (or protontricks) which it normally gets from the Steamworks Common Redistributables automatically.

From my admittedly very brief research, it doesn't look like you can play GTA 5 online if you skip the launcher but if you want to just play offline you can set your Steam Launch Options by right clicking the game and going to properties. If you set it to %command% -scOfflineOnly that will skip the launcher but disable multiplayer.

You can also try setting the Steam Launch Options to PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command% which forces Proton to use the OpenGL driver rather than the Vulkan driver for D3D.

ShaunaTheDead, 3 months ago

I also wonder if there's a sexual element to some of these ragebait food videos. They always have an attractive young woman doing the cooking. At least, I suspect that the mukbang videos from awhile ago were made to be sexual for some.