HatFullOfSky

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[–] HatFullOfSky 6 points 22 hours ago

My mother's been on the "natural health" train for a while now and claims that pasteurizing milk removes most of the nutrients (verifiably false). No amount of my protesting or pointing her towards sources for the contrary have convinced her to stop consuming that garbage.

[–] HatFullOfSky 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, kernel rollback fixed things no problem

[–] HatFullOfSky 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I've had two instances in the past year on Purple Arch (Endeavor) where a kernel update "broke" my system. In both cases, the system still booted fine though, so not all definitions of "broken"may apply.

The first time there was a bug with the kernel drivers for my wireless card which caused a component of Network Manager to lag out the entire UI to the point it was basically unresponsive trying to find a connection, but never did.

The second time, it was a bug with the Vulkan drivers that caused all my games to crash within 60 seconds of starting up. Games are the main thing I use my PC for, so my system was effectively "broken", even though everything else was fine.

I am of course not discrediting your fortune - I merely wanted to share

[–] HatFullOfSky 4 points 2 months ago

My oldest never hit this, but the younger one who is currently 3 basically matches this comic exactly

[–] HatFullOfSky 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ah, I forgot Atomic (radio) clocks existed. My parents used to have one of those over a decade ago, but I always saw them as more of a novelty. Not saying they're not valid, just uncommon IMO.

[–] HatFullOfSky 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

Every appliance in my house (with a clock anyway) and all of our clocks (2 analog, 2 digital) require manual changing. None of them are connected to the internet, which I would think is the only way they would be able to. Do they really make "smart" analog clocks now?

Edit: my car is somewhere in between. It'll "automatically" change, but I have to turn it on/off. It's basically just automated the action of moving the hour forward or back.

[–] HatFullOfSky 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's online radio, where you can make stations built from a seed song/genre and then it tailors itself based on the thumbed up/down songs. Both interactions will give the selection algorithm more info to work with, but the thumb down will also immediately skip a song and prevent it from showing up again.

It used to be a really good service and was my primary music option, but it got bought by LiveNation and went into the shitter fast. Ads are completely out of control, but uBlock helps significantly ofc.

The algorithm also had a tendency to form your various stations into very samey sounding, but that may just be me using seed songs that are too similar and not being aggressive enough with the thumbs down.

[–] HatFullOfSky 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It wasn't world, Lemmy.ml is his home instance which does the censoring

[–] HatFullOfSky 26 points 8 months ago

SteamOS is arch based and uses KDE Plasma as the default DE, so you could probably run Endeavour OS and be pretty darn close

[–] HatFullOfSky 15 points 8 months ago

My dad's go to is "Joe's Bar and Grill, this is Grill speaking". Sometimes he'll shake it up and answer as Bar instead

[–] HatFullOfSky 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Typically, this is what the cards are themed as, at least the older sets. White and Black are "enemy" colors in Magic: the Gathering after all, same as Red and Blue, Black and Green, etc (based on their position in the MTG color pentagon).

That said, there were some definitely racist cards that got banned and pulled from databases in 2020, Invoke Prejudice being a notable example.

It shows a hooded executioner with a black axe. “If opponent casts a Summon spell that does not match the color of one of the creatures under your control, that spell is countered,” says the card. It effectively kills off creatures that don’t look like the creatures already on the table.

https://www.polygon.com/2020/6/10/21287154/racist-magic-the-gathering-cards-banned-removed-from-database-wizards-apology

[–] HatFullOfSky 41 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Potatoes you have to keep mounding up with dirt to force the plant to grow more roots (tubers) instead of the leafy tops.

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