Captain Aggravated

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Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

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Woodworking lemmy.ca

8小时前

for a better future for ur children
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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 8小时前
If I am elected president, anyone who has ever claimed to be "building a better future for our children" will have their mouths smashed off with a rifle butt.

9小时前

PhotoGIMP - The Photoshop Like Experience on GIMP

Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 9小时前

Yeah, that's kind of a thing; the Adobe suite kind of doesn't have a raster drawing program, Photoshop gets used for that but Photoshop is meant to be a photo editor.

A "digital artist" or "digital painter" will want to use Krita, a "graphic artist" designing logos or signage is gonna want Inkscape, and people wanting to lie via photograph want GIMP.

9小时前

I'd be so freaked out

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 9小时前

How this plays out

9小时前

PhotoGIMP - The Photoshop Like Experience on GIMP

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 9小时前

It is my understanding that Kriita is a raster art program, while Illustrator is a vector art program. Inkscape is a vector art program.

14小时前

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 14小时前

I think they still do that with Thunderbolt.

15小时前

LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 15小时前

Hilarious idea: Wi-fi antenna dummy loads.

22小时前

What's the most repairable "thing" you own?

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 22小时前

It might be my pickup truck.

It might be my toilet. Every moving part in the thing can be bought at every hardware store in town.

My washing machine is pretty good, it's a Kenmore 80 series, it'll probably outlast me.

22小时前

Whatever happened to the days when shit just...worked?

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 22小时前

As far as I know those days have never arrived.

In the 1980's you'd buy a computer and the diskette drive would eat disks, the tape drive would fail to load because the volume was turned up too loud, or the software was just badly written by an amateur and it would kill multiple people with high doses of radiation..

In the 1990's the gaming computer as we know it today took shape, but you just go ahead and put one together. Install a graphics accelerator card or a sound card in Windows 3.1 or DOS. Go ahead. Windows 98, featuring USB Plug And Play! It just works!

It's the year 2000! nothing bad will happen! Windows XP is so much better with so many new features, granted about half of your old Win9x software isn't going to work because this is basically NT Home Edition. It's the 21st century, computers are always online and have basically no built-in security. What could go wrong?

It's 2010, and it seems these smart phones are here to stay. No problem, we'll just rebuild the entire internet for tiny, vertical displays and release an entire generation of Windows as a touch-first UI. Nothing's gonna go wrong.

It's 2020, so put your mask on! Between a containership jackknifing across the Suez canal, traffic jams at ports because covid, impending political bullshit, and the rising trend of using AI to "write" software and said AI's insatiable thirst for hardware meaning entire brands of computer parts are shutting down, maybe you should just go to the store, buy a stick of sidewalk chalk for $17 and just play a goddamn game of hopscotch instead.

22小时前

What are some funny WiFi network names you've run into?

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 22小时前

One of my neighbors is The_Booty_Warrior. My hypothesis is that's the pear-shaped Army chick that lives across the street, but it might be the balding middle aged family man two doors down.

23小时前

In-N-Out Officially Removes Number '67' from Its Ordering System After Viral '6-7' Trend

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 23小时前

They were shoving cameras in employees faces demanding they say stupid shit for Tiktok and responding by going absolutely apeshit, so how about no.

23小时前

Actual theft

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 23小时前

Sally Ride married a man. What's your point?

1天前

We are closer to Halley's Comets next visit than its last

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 1天前

Why it was made: "Commemorative." They apparently stamped that decal on three different models of otherwise ordinary mainline matchbox cars. They paint matchbox cars at all to make them special; "I got a red one." "I'll trade you my blue corvette and my yellow and purple flames chevelle for your Halley's comet firebird."

Who would buy it: Collectors, because "commemorative." And apparently parents/loved ones of children, because it's a toy car. I take it you had fun playing with it as a kid? If so, I'd say it did its job. Those little comet decals seem to have helped form strong memories of it.

1天前

HDMI Forum is unwilling to disclose the 2.1 specification for open-source (Linux): according to AMD, they had submitted a functional, HDMI 2.1-compatible driver [for linux?], which the Forum rejected.

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 1天前

That, and they've done the best job at sabotaging the public's ability to understand the spec in the first place.

1天前

How to remove a stuck nut from old hand saw

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 1天前

Stick to Western saws. Got it.

2天前

How to remove a stuck nut from old hand saw

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 2天前

I have the opposite experience with pull saws.

It might just be that I was trained on western style saws in shop class, I've used them my whole life, and I bought my first Ryoba from Lowe's on impulse this summer. But I just can't get the damn thing to behave.

I also can't find any good videos on how to use them, particularly for ripping. More than once I've ruined a workpiece because the blade was tracking straight on one side and went sidewards on the far side.

Like, do you have any tips? Because if not I think I'm just gonna cut the handle and teeth off and reuse the plate as a card scraper.

Also: Jury's out on backsaws, I haven't tried a dozuki, but I'm not convinced ryobas aren't a scam.

2天前

Any good games I missed in the last 21 months?

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 2天前

Satisfactory 1.0 released.

2天前

what's the coolest thing you have ever programmed?

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 2天前

Okay, so you know the trope in spy movies where the launch codes or the diamonds or whatever are at the end of a hallway full of lasers, and the protagonist has to do some cool flip moves (if male) or some slinky contortions (if female) to get around the lasers?

I made that as an arcade game with an Arduino. Some red laser pointer diodes, some photosensors, a few lights, bells and whistles, a fog machine, a few big ol buttons, and you've got spy laser hallway. It had a separate "break as many lasers as you can" mode as well, played like a combination of DDR and whack-a-mole.

The second coolest thing I ever programmed was probably the GPS MP3 player. A farmer wanted to add an automatic soundtrack to his Halloween hayride, like when the drove through the spooky graveyard it played ghost noises, it would play music for longer stretches on the road. I used a Raspberry Pi with a GPS HAT and wrote up a script in Python that would compare the actual position with a set of coordinates stored in a text file, and if one matched, it would play an associated mp3 file. The effect was kind of lost because the audio was coming from the vehicle itself, but it's a hay ride, it's supposed to be kind of lame. The bedsheet ghosts said woo as you drove past, I'm in the special effects industry, dad.

2天前

Spider vision

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 2天前

The thing that gets me about invertebrate vision is how much less brain they're using for signal processing.

Humans (mostly) have three colors of cones in our eyes, red, green and blue. Comparing the relative values of signals from these three colors allows us to experience color vision. The (mostly) is allowing for colorblindness or the ten or twenty tetrachromats out there. That takes a lot of signal processing, and us humans use more weight in brain matter to do that processing than a lot of seeing organisms entire bodies.

We can talk about the human eye in terms of the optical power of the lens, the dot pitch, "resolution" and frequency response of the retina etc. but my meat GPU takes that raw data and presents to my consciousness an apparently continuous 3D color representation of my surroundings. I've got real-time reverse ray tracing; I can look at a reflection in a shiny object and compute the reflected object's shape and position in the world, and recognition of my own reflection is done in hardware.

No arthropod on earth contains as many neurons as I've got in my occipital lobe. What do they "see?"

2天前

Does Lemmy have more freedom of speech than Reddit?

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 2天前

I have already heard things like "unalive" defended as youth slang rather than Orwellian doublespeak.

2天前

What's the biggest case of planned obsolescence you've dealt with?

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 2天前

Windows 11's TPM requirements.

I recently built a brand new computer for my uncle. He was running a 3rd gen Core i7 machine running Windows 7. I get a call that it won't boot. I do manage to get it booted, the SMART data shows the hard drive is on its last eyebrows, and anyway he's running an OS that's three generations out of date.

I'm a big Linux user, I've got my aunt running Linux Mint. My uncle is such a dunce at computers I don't think I can do that, because he lacks the vocabulary to tell me what he wants his computer to do. "I might use it for business." In his line of work that could mean anything from going to quickbooks.com to needing some piece of Windows-only shitware. So "Get a .exe from somewhere" had to remain intact.

For everything he actually does with that computer, that old 3rd gen i7 was fine. Replace the hard disk with a SATA SSD, maybe replace the weird 2-4-2-4 some but not all of it is dual channel 12GB of RAM with two 8 GB sticks of DDR3 and let it roll...except no currently supported version of WIndows runs on this computer.

For a large number of people, computers became objectively fast enough in 2015. That's about when SSDs became standard equipment, fixing any hardware reason for "damn this thing is slow" even out of midrange consumer hardware. Gamers, home labbers and AI startups need more power, the rest of the world doesn't. And that was a problem for Microsoft.