just_another_person

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[–] just_another_person 2 points 12 minutes ago
[–] just_another_person 1 points 16 minutes ago

Infested Planet

Plays like an RTS, but not as involved. You control a squad of soldiers moving through an area where different types of alien spawn are taking root to take over. Each level has a timer (under 10m each IIRC), and your job is to sweep through and clear the infestation in that time. You can outfit each soldier in your squad with different weapons and specialties, and split them up to handle different jobs tactically.

Think Syndicate meets Advance Wars.

[–] just_another_person 11 points 3 hours ago

You can get a Ryzen minipc for under $200 now.

[–] just_another_person 1 points 3 hours ago

Try disabling the metadata downloaders.

[–] just_another_person 1 points 3 hours ago

This is a face off against Donald Trump, friend. WTF are you even talking about?

[–] just_another_person 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The chrome instance is commented out...

[–] just_another_person 2 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

Michelle Obama.

Kinda joking. Kinda not. Seems to be universally beloved, and has direct knowledge of the office and job.

[–] just_another_person 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I don't think he'd be a popular pick because he doesn't have the name recognition. I'm sure they're looking for a heavy hitter with big name recognition.

[–] just_another_person 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Well, you're right about the fighting part, but wrong on the attempts.

Dozens of states tried to pass election integrity bills after the Trump fiasco. Few got it passed due to Republican intervention.

Same in Congress in both the 117th and 118th. Attempts to make a bipartisan bill always fails because of GOP additions that are absolutely insane.

The opposite has happened in GOP controlled state sessions in places like Texas, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, where bills have been passed that are very obviously skewed towards the GOP controlling the seats, and getting the benefit of either limiting Democrat control directly, or limiting future abilities of such.

It's absolutely foul, and though the Democrats are working hard to fight these things, it looks like abject failure before any real attempts can even be made, which voters seem to see as weakness. Maybe that's just a defeatist point of view though.

[–] just_another_person 12 points 8 hours ago

Yeah. More people involved need to be seeing jail.

[–] just_another_person 9 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

These trained bamboo plants are tricky, because they require that you continually train them to a post when growth is going to keep that shape. When allowed to grow normally, of course they grow straight, and fast. You can trim that top growth off without harming the overall plant (use the 1/3 rule, of course), but you'll likely get multiple offshoots where you do the cutting because the trunk of bamboo is fibrous, and will regenerate new leaves from cuts, that will eventually turn into shoots over time. You might even get some new shoots from the soil line after spurring new growth after cutting, which is a positive or negative depending on how you see it.

If you wish to keep it small, just set a reminder to trim it every so often and keep the new growth to where you'd like it. Treat it like a Bonsai.

[–] just_another_person 2 points 8 hours ago

Yep. That was a property from the Master System and Game Gear that got a 3D revamp for DC, but don't think it was really very popular to begin with, so naturally wasn't a huge selling point.

 

A lot of people here seemed excited for these chips. It'll be very interesting to see the gaming performance as this could bring in an entire new segment of portable devices running Linux if powerful enough to deliver solid battery life and CPU performance.

 

Overall, probably a positive thing as the improvements made here will flow downstream. I'm actually looking forward to seeing the performance of these new Qualcomm chips in laptops.

 

Let me just give the simplest explanation of my intended outcome here: I want to use Assist to speak "Play {Album} by {Artist} in {Room name}", and have it "just work".

The Speech to text triggers aren't an issue, but the Intents are. Checking the built-in Intents has been of no use. The custom sentence docs only really handle the first part of the equation.

So say I want to work this out with a local NAS mount where everything is categorized as Artist/Album in the directory structure, does anyone have any pointers or links that may be helpful?

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