BurntWits

@ BurntWits @sh.itjust.works

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3w ago

Japanese Precision & Accuracy
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BurntWits @sh.itjust.works 3w ago
I’m from Canada.
It’s not America.
As a Canadian this is the realist thing ever. Half our identity is being not-American.

3w ago

I saw your face in a crowded place

This reads like something Chris Simpsons Artist would say. Back when I used to use Instagram I followed his account and all of his captions were like this. It was great. Glad to see someone on Lemmy writes like him.

3w ago

Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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BurntWits @sh.itjust.works 3w ago

Thanks for the links. I’ll be sure to check them out soon.

3w ago

Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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BurntWits @sh.itjust.works 3w ago

I’ll check out that list, thank you.

3w ago

Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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BurntWits @sh.itjust.works 3w ago

I’d definitely say to either go Emerald or HG/SS next. I’d say those are the two peaks of the series.

For Gens 1 and 2, honestly they’re pretty rough these days. I like them but I don’t think someone just entering the series now will enjoy them much. They’re super janky and are missing a lot of features. Gen 2 is my favourite (hence HGSS being my favourite games as they’re just the Gen 2 remakes) but they’re not easy to get into these days. After Gen 4 the series goes a little downhill imo but it’s still good. I have no experience past Gen 7 though as I don’t have a switch and haven’t learned how to emulate one yet.

3w ago

Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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BurntWits @sh.itjust.works 3w ago

I really enjoyed reading your comment, I like your writing style. Even though I can’t relate to any of the games you mentioned I still had fun reading it anyway. And your paragraph dividers are neat. Haven’t seen that used before.

What movies have you been watching? I’ve been wanting to get more into old sci-fi movies.

3w ago

Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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BurntWits @sh.itjust.works 3w ago

How are you liking Pokemon Platinum? I find Gen 4 tends to be either loved or not cared for depending on the person. I personally loved those games, though HeartGold/SoulSilver is my all time favourite.

3w ago

Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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BurntWits @sh.itjust.works 3w ago

Huh, this actually looks really neat. Seems there’s a demo, I might have to check it out.

3w ago

10+ year manager named Joe was apparently fired for bringing cookies to be thrown away before their sell by date to a food pantry in my town

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BurntWits @sh.itjust.works 3w ago

I just recently became a department manager at a grocery store.

For us, any product close to expiry has three options. Reduce price by half, put product on FlashFood (an app for connecting grocers and shoppers to sell product at steep discounts), or freeze product at or before expiration date and donate to the food bank. Depending on the product, some can also be reused as an ingredient for the meals section. The goal is zero food waste for the whole corporation by 2030. The only exception to that I guess would be damaged product (punctured packaging, bad seal, etc).

4w ago

Members of Congress are fleeing the job at a historically high rate

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BurntWits @sh.itjust.works 4w ago

I was thinking the same thing. I’ve actually got a $50 gift card for there right now. Been making to take my wife there, we should get on that soon

4w ago

Admittedly and unfortunately, so am I. 🫤

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BurntWits @sh.itjust.works 4w ago

What happened to southern Ontario 😔

Otherwise 100% accurate map

4w ago

It's the perfect shape

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BurntWits @sh.itjust.works 4w ago

That’s a really neat carpet. Any chance you’ve got a pic of the whole thing? I like the design.

4w ago

Asking for help with updating system after not using it for a few months

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BurntWits @sh.itjust.works 4w ago

Which will then probably tell you that it conflicts with vulkan-mesa-device-select and asks if you want to replace it. Which might either work or just get you another conflict because vulkan-mesa-device-select is required by some other package.

Yeah, basically. This was my result:

    
sudo pacman -S vulkan-mesa-implicit-layers
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: vulkan-mesa-implicit-layers-1:25.3.5-2 and vulkan-mesa-device-select-1:25.2.6-2 are in conflict. Remove vulkan-mesa-device-select? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing vulkan-mesa-device-select breaks dependency 'vulkan-mesa-device-select' required by lib32-vulkan-mesa-device-select
:: removing vulkan-mesa-device-select breaks dependency 'vulkan-mesa-device-select' required by vulkan-intel

Btw… pacman -Qi
<package name>
usually tells you anything you need to know about a package. In this context mainly why it was installed (as a requirement for which package) and which other packages are required as a dependency.
So maybe you should take one step back first. Check why 'vulkan-mesa-device-select` was installed in the first place.

Okay so I tried that and got:

    
pacman -Qi vulkan-mesa-device-select
Installed From  : cachyos
Name            : vulkan-mesa-device-select
Version         : 1:25.2.6-2
Description     : Mesa's Vulkan Device Select layer
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://www.mesa3d.org/
Licenses        : MIT AND BSD-3-Clause AND SGI-B-2.0
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : glibc  libdrm  libxcb  wayland
Optional Deps   : None
Required By     : lib32-vulkan-mesa-device-select  vulkan-intel
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 104.43 KiB
Packager        : CachyOS <admin@cachyos.org>
Build Date      : Wed 29 Oct 2025 02:12:36 PM
Install Date    : Fri 07 Nov 2025 07:55:30 PM
Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

Seems it's necessary, so I tried sudo pacman -S vulkan-mesa-device-select and it gave me no trouble, so then I ran sudo pacman -Syu and after just under 10 minutes everything updated! Seems to work again. Thank you very much for the help, I really do appreciate it.

4w ago

Asking for help with updating system after not using it for a few months

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BurntWits @sh.itjust.works 4w ago

Answering “n” gives me the same error still. Same with if I say no for both questions. In fact, any combination will always result in the same error.

Probably a dumb question but how would I go about installing vulcan-mesa-implicit-layers?

4w ago

Asking for help with updating system after not using it for a few months

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BurntWits @sh.itjust.works 4w ago

I tried that one too and it gave me the same error.

4w ago

Asking for help with updating system after not using it for a few months

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BurntWits @sh.itjust.works 4w ago

Thanks for all the info. I tried manually replacing the mirrorlist but I’m still getting the same warnings and errors. I also tried -Syyu but still no dice.

What was this you were saying about keyfile? That doesn’t seem to be something I’m familiar with.

4w ago

What’s a food you love that everyone else seems to judge you for?

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BurntWits @sh.itjust.works 4w ago

Oh I also get judged for my Thanksgiving plate. I mix up my mashed potatoes, gravy, a little stuffing, and turkey, and then shove this mix into the middle of a roll and eat it that way.

With the exception of the mashed potatoes that’s just standard Boxing Day supper in Newfoundland. Similarly, and even more popular, start with bread, then turkey and gravy on top, to make a hot turkey sandwich, then on the side start with fries and top with stuffing (we call it dressing here) and gravy, and you’ve got a side of FDG (fries dressing and gravy) which is the greatest thing on earth. I love me some poutine but fries dressing and gravy beats it out every time.

1mo ago

Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’

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BurntWits @sh.itjust.works 1mo ago

For most people they don’t think of liberalism as a specific thing, they literally just consider liberal and left to be the same thing, and conservative and right to be the same thing. It’s not that they’re trying to say nothing left of liberalism is legitimate or something, it’s just that literally everything left is under the branch of liberalism. It’s not thought of as a specific subset of the left, it is the left, and various degrees of leftism are all considered part of liberalism. Again, not saying that’s correct obviously, it’s just how most people here see it.

Yeah, the NDP (New Democratic Party) is what you’re thinking of. They’ve only really had one good shot at having their party leader elected for Prime Minister, but then he got cancer and died from it. The NDP still wins local areas though. A lot of the right wing voters here aren’t even necessarily conservative, just anti-liberal. I’ve known lots of conservatives who would happily vote for the NDP too, just not the liberals. We also have the Green Party which is more of an environmental party who are useful for approving conservation efforts but don’t have a serious shot at PM. They have some great local leaders though. Then there’s the Bloc Québécois who are only in Quebec obviously, and they stand for French rights. They do quite well in Quebec typically but again, no shot at PM.

1mo ago

Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’

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BurntWits @sh.itjust.works 1mo ago

For most of Canadians and I think Americans, liberal = anything left of centre, while conservative = anything right of centre. I know that’s not what those strictly mean but that’s the generally accepted definitions here at least, and I’m pretty sure in the states too.

1mo ago

Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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BurntWits @sh.itjust.works 1mo ago

Yeah, that’s the one. If you can find it for cheap I’d say go for it. It’s a bit shorter and the map is a bit smaller which I personally liked, and it had some gameplay aspects I preferred, but they’re close for me.