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@ DFX4509B @lemmy.wtf

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So, this is the place where I'm going to be generally hanging out and trolling around, while my Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Blacksky accounts are going to be primarily art posting accounts, and I also have a Nooki account.

I'm also going to start to be active more on here than on lemmy.org, so I'm making this my primary Lemmy account now.

I'll link the other socials I'm varying levels of active on below, plus my lemmy.org account which I'm demoting to my secondary account if that instance is going to be more unstable from now on.

  • Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”

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  • How soon before Windows is renamed to the 'Microsoft 365 Copilot OS' and the ability to install and run it at all is discontinued?

  • Are there any ai organizations you trust?

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  • No.

  • Xitter warns of a series of sexually explicit content manipulations on "Grok" and threatens legal action, including permanent account suspension

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  • Why do I feel like Grok's transgressions were by design? This coverup attempt sounds like what happens when a kid gets caught doing bad things, Adolf Musk wanted this shit to happen and he's upset that he got caught.

  • I started to mess around with Sonic fanart recently.

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  • 'Cheese and Chocola's Mud Playday'

    'Cream, Cheese, and Chocola's Stepping Stones'

    'Cream, Tails, and the Chao Twins' Silly String Fight'

  • Radeon RADV Driver Lands Another Ray-Tracing Improvement: 30% Faster On RDNA2

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  • And this is while AMD is trying to abandon support for it and RDNA1 in Windows.

  • Actual church sign in Mississippi

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  • I didn't know Jesus got off on nerds.

  • If you could add one book to the required reading curriculum for people under 18, what would it be?

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  • If you could add one book to the required reading curriculum for people under 18, what would it be?

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  • Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (the book which Blade Runner is an adaptation of) would be a good one.

    The Lord of the Rings book trilogy would be optional due to just how long those books are, but they're super detailed if you're into high fantasy, while The Hobbit would be easier for younger readers to ingest (The Hobbit was aimed at kids, after all).

  • I started to mess around with Sonic fanart recently.

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  • Thanks! And yeah, I got a Mastodon, Pixelfed, and most recently Friendica.

    And yeah, I've been going for a kid-like art style for a while now, which wax crayons, chalk, and oil pastels best facilitate, but paints and watercolor crayons are good for as well, as shown in the following for watercolors+watercolor crayons, acrylics, and wax crayons respectively

    Also, chalk has always been one of my fave art media ever since I actually got into art way back in high school, because it's just fun, chalk is basically like dry fingerpaints, or at least it is with how I use it by using my fingers instead of a blending stump to blend with (both because I get better results with fingers instead of a blending stump, and also because of the aforementioned fun factor), but oil pastels are kind of a hybrid between chalk and wax crayons; they're easily blended by smudging, and thus are as fun to play with as chalk is, but aren't as messy as chalk is.

    Wax crayons are also a medium I recently got into after learning how to use them without linework by applying the layer blending/shading technique picked up with chalk and oil pastels, except obviously without smudging because wax crayons are a non-smudging medium, and porting them over to that medium.

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    What 2025 action of Trumps do you find most unsettling?

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  • It's not the most disturbing part, as of most recently his subjugation of Venezuela, which suddenly made his annexation threats against Canada, Mexico, and Greenland more serious, is by far the most disturbing part as it proves he's fully willing to do good on those threats.

    The active attacks on free expression and the defunding of public media are also some of his worst actions.

    Turning the Rose Garden into a replica of Hitler's rallying grounds still speaks volumes as to his intentions though, like I can actually imagine him standing at a podium with Nazi flags flying behind him spouting the most vile rhetoric imaginable as his most fervent supporters watch him and cheer him on.

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  • Tearing down the Rose Garden and turning it into a replica of Hitler's rallying grounds has gotta be a nomination at least.

    No, but he's done far worse than that.

  • Resurrecting an old desktop—is it worth upgrading?

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  • 990FX actually had more lanes available than most modern platforms, specifically 990FX had 32 lanes to play with, although they were all PCIe 2 as AM3+ on the whole was a PCIe 2 platform.

  • Resurrecting an old desktop—is it worth upgrading?

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  • Wasn't the 5500 XT competitive in performance with the RX 580/590 last time I thought, though? And it has better API support.

    Keeping that in mind, the 5500 XT is the highest I would go in terms of a GPU for an FX build. Let's just ignore the 6500 XT because it would get slaughtered by its four lanes of PCIe bandwidth on a PCIe 2 platform like AM3+.

  • Resurrecting an old desktop—is it worth upgrading?

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  • That FX is still bare-minimum usable as a CPU, however I should warn that you'll be using a lot of power at full send, as Bulldozer was never known for its power efficiency.

    Just pair something like an RX 580/590 or RX 5500 XT, or your aforementioned GTX 970 to it if you want decent graphics on it, though.

    And in terms of long-term support, the Polaris and RDNA1 card I mentioned is still actively supported with a modern driver stack via Mesa in Linux where your GTX 970 is officially cut off for driver support now as support ended with version 580, and open drivers were sabotaged for Nvidia on 900-series and newer due to locked-down VBIOS, so reclocking is a nogo, where 700-series and older fully supports open drivers as Kepler and Maxwell 1 were the last Nvidia GPUs to have an unlocked VBIOS.

    Also, I would upgrade the PSU to something a little beefier that's at least Gold-rated, but that's just my opinion on that.

  • PC Gamer: "I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop"

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  • Given I'm actively avoiding modern multiplayer games for more reasons than just the fact that they pretty much all have rootkit DRM (I know kernel-level anticheats have a different target than traditional DRM, but they're functionally DRM so they count as DRM to me), and one of the few games I have left which were unplayably broken on Proton work now (Civ3, still has audio issues that to my knowledge can't be corrected for non-destructively, but the black-map issue is now fixed, at least on my end using proton-cachyos), I have no plans on running Windows again any time soon, not even in a VM.

  • Unlocking Samsung bootloader worth it?

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  • You'll brick some functionality if you try, along the same lines as ScoffingLizard recommended, get a Linux phone of some kind or barring that, at least seek out an unlockable phone that's supported by LineageOS.

  • The Death of the Internet as a Haven for People with Autism

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  • This is why the entire Fediverse exists, not just Lemmy.

  • Simple Good crafts to try? What do you enjoy?

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  • Drawing or painting would be a good place to start, as well as being really fun on its own.

    Sculpture too, although some of the messier sculptural media like plaster or paper mache, or even pottery/ceramics, might set off sensory issues for some people, so that's something to be aware of.

    Collage/scrapbooking would be really simple to get into as well as you're just playing with cut or ripped paper at that point.

  • Which PeerTube instance would y'all recommend signing up to?

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  • I'm on peertube.wtf, but some other good instances include MakerTube if you're art or craft-focused, for example.