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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

That allows the people to get their hate out, and resets the playing field for the next election cycle when people realize the Conservatives haven’t done shit all to make life more affordable.

Traditionally this hasn't been how Canadian politics has played out. We tend to have long running federal governments over single term governments except in cases of extremely disastrous political results (ie. forcing an early election by a vote of non-confidence, etc...)

Canadian voters seem to be very very patient. It won't matter how shitty PP and the Cons are as a government, voters will keep on electing them in for a decade or more before finally having enough. Same as we did with the Liberals, and same as we did with Harper before that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It's been changed to "Urectum" because scientists got tired of the infantile jokes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Honestly, our moon.

I firmly believe that our moon gives us the solar system in short order.

Fuel in the form of Helium-3 (if we can figure that out). Plenty of building material. Much lower gravity well that will allow larger payloads into it's orbit and larger ships to be constructed. As well as that lower gravity well meaning better fuel efficiency in launching just about any trajectory to anywhere else in the solar system.

Once we have the Moon, we're 90% of the way to a solar system spanning species. Mars is cool, but not useful in any real sense other than bragging rights.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

The new Russian ones are supposed to dodge interceptors at their final stage and fly crazy fast.

The war in Ukraine has proven that what they say they can do and what they can actually do, militarily speaking, is vastly different. I'd be surprised at this point if a russian ICBM isn't just a homing pidgeon with a grenade strapped to it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

Wherever they go, Tim Horton's Beiber-bites eventually follow. So yeah...in this case I'd agree with that assessment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I hadn't noticed. but I have no real comparison since I was on Linux long before starting either title, so I've never played either on Windows.

They seem to run well enough, so even if its faster on windows and that's the tradeoff for having no Windows in my house, I'm cool with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I'd say yes; with the mods available 2 is still WELL worth it. i n fact I'm doing yet another play through at this moment.

1 is also excellent, especially with the Long War overhaul installed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Most of mine have already been mentioned; KSP, Rimworld, Stellaris.

So I'll add one of my all time favourite games and say XCom and XCOM 2. I've sunk hundreds of hours into xcom 2 with various mods.

Close second is Crusader Kings 2, and close third after that is Empire Total War.

And of course CIV. It's not a proper list without CIV.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Nothing is unknowable. It's just unknowable for now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Actually. As someone who worked in a small radio station news department for a pretty long time, I'm actually not accusing them of malfeasance as much as I'm accusing them of "over-eagerness" if that makes sense.

There's just too much information floating around thanks to every Tom, Dick and Harry having a blog, or a tik tok, or a twitter account, all claiming to be "insiders" in one way or another. Far too much for the media to be able to properly vet every single piece of information that they get thoroughly. And it leads to mistakes.

But as an ex-media person, I aver that it's not the media "making shit up" as the narrative nowadays seems to be. It's more that they are reporting everything faster than ever in the hopes of beating the competition and as a result getting a lot of things wrong.

Does it make them complicit...absolutely. They need to do better. But it make them the "evil" ones. No. Not at all. The boots on the ground, so-to-speak, the everyday journalist's job, passion, raison d'etre has always been to report the news and bring it to the people. To speak truth to power and all that rigamarole. The problem is that there's too much information floating around to do that properly anymore.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago

"Lying Shit Heads Say Lies" More Breaking News at 11

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago

They've learned from the previous doctor that when a prominent Palestinian "dies during interrogation", there are literally zero consequences. So fuck it, let's get this guy back into custody and let the problem take care of itself...

I guarantee you that was the thought process.

 

I finally pulled the trigger on replacing my ChromeOS completely with Manjaro using the Mrchromebox script. Other than some glitching getting the audio to work correctly, everything runs great.

For the first two years I had this chromebook (Asus 433 flip) I thought that it wasn't worth the risk and that running the debian container via Crostini was plenty good enough.

Well it turns out that:

  • A. No...it wasn't much of a risk at all. It was actually really smooth, including disconnecting the battery to disable the hardware write protect. I honestly don't know what I was worried about. and

  • B. I may have thought Crostini was good enough. But man oh man...it's a night and day difference having Linux running natively on this old girl rather than through a container that had to boot up every time I use the first linux app of the day.

Anyway. Just wanted to share. Been using Manjaro on pretty much all of my computers for years, and now I can take the "pretty much" away and just say "all of them."

 

So....I updated my Manjaro to Plasma 6. Any chance that Minimal Menu (or something similar) exists?

I was not happy to find it gone. It's been a part of my system for so long that I honestly just forgot it wasn't default.

Now it doesn't even show up in the widget search and I'm honestly not sure I can live without it, largely because I can choose to centre it in the display on launch rather than having to choose either a) full-screen or b) right above the icon.

I can't even describe how upsetting it was to reboot after the update....

 

...but its robot designs were well ahead of the curve for the time.

 

Just popping in to post about a community to discuss FOSS creative software like GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Kdenlive, Blender, etc...

https://lemmy.ca/c/open_creative

I've used them all at one time or another. Since moving to FOSS as much as possible ten years ago, I've learned a LOT about most of the programs, and consider myself a near expert in some (Kdenlive, GIMP) and fairly competent in others (Blender, Scribus).

I feel like having a place where anyone who uses FOSS creative software can both ask questions, share advice, and celebrate each others works, would be a nice addition to the Fediverse.

So feel free to join and post your work, your questions, your news or your tips and tricks.

I'm a one man band as far as modding and maintaining for now, so thanks in advance for your patience while I learn how it all works on the back end.

 

Anyone having a recent segmentation fault with GIMP 2.10.36 when closing a file without saving changes, the issue has been fixed and will be merged into the next point release. 2.10.38.

More info here: (scroll to bottom) https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/10785

 

Putting this out into the community for anyone who needs it.

When I was first learning video editing, I had trouble finding good narrative content to practice with. There was plenty of stock footage, etc... but nothing scripted where you could craft a scene between two characters.

Cinestudy is the best for that. In fact I'm using footage from there for a book that I've been working on about narrative editing in Kdenlive.

https://cinestudy.org/

 

One of the main things that I have been missing in Lemmy since moving over from the other site has been the myriad communities for the various bits of FOSS software I use on a regular basis.

Any any given day, I'll use Kdenlive, LibreOffice, Blender, Gimp and Scribus in the course of getting work done both personally and professionally, and I kept waiting for the day when I wouldn't have to go back to the other site to keep up to date with them.

While some (Blender) eventually got communities in the fediverse of their own, few are very active. So I felt that I should at least try to create my own in the hopes that it draws some activity.

So if you're joining because of a shared love of FOSS creative software, welcome. I'm hoping to post news and other articles from around the web, as well as being a place for questions and advice from user to user.

Maybe it'll be just as dead as all the others. But I hope not.

 

The tl;dr bot that pops up on every link to an article on Lemmy is depriving those websites of clicks, which deprives them of ad revenue.

The only thing that will accomplish is forcing those websites to do the very thing that we rail about; replacing their writers with crappy A.I because they can't afford to pay for actual content.

We rail against the enshitification of the internet, but when there's a legitimate way to fight back by giving these websites a page view/read/click etc... so that they can attract advertisers, we would rather have a bot summarize it for us, giving them nothing.

 

Like the title says. Just upgraded my Android phone, got it set up and working like a charm. Went to connect it to my chromebook in the chromebook settings and it won't let me get past the "sign in with your google account" screen.

Keeps saying "wrong password". But not only have I been already using that account/password not only on the new Android Phone, but on my Chromebook for the last year...but I also LITERALLY copied and pasted it from my bitwarden account after it failed to take the typed password three times.

I'm stumped. Help please. Thanks in advance.

 

I feel like I've come a long way, but still feel like I have a long way to go before I feel truly good.

 

Stumbling a bit on how to get some animations to work correctly, (gauges and gear doors where the local axis doesn't line up with the global axis). But making some good progress on getting the details modelled in.

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Does Jerboa's search function only work for communities or am I don't something wrong?

On the web, as well as other apps, a search brings up the choice between communities, users, comments and posts.

Haven't been able to make that work on Jerboa.

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