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e0qdk

@ e0qdk @reddthat.com

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Interests: programming, video games, anime, music composition

I used to be on kbin as e0qdk@kbin.social before it broke down.

  • what lemmy web app do you use and why?

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  • Right now I'm mostly using mlmym (the "old" interface on most instances that support it) because it doesn't require JS for basic viewing.

    It's kind of buggy though, unfortunately -- things like user history show up as a complete jumble, for example. :(

    One of these days, I'll probably get fed up enough to go write my own interface and set things up exactly how I want them to work... but I've got too many projects already so I'm just living with it for now.

  • How to write a professional email in indian english?

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  • There's some notable differences with numbering -- e.g. lakh, crore, and where to put commas when writing large numbers.

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    Microsoft ties executive pay to security following multiple failures and breaches

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  • I wonder if this will actually cause an increase in the number of security vulnerabilities and breaches as there's now a fairly obvious way for employees to penalize their bosses financially for being assholes...

  • what's your price?

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  • TTS voices on Linux for Firefox are shit - video with examples

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  • I think this is just using SpeechDispatcher from the system -- so it's not a Firefox specific thing. I get a similar (but very slightly different) voice on my own system by default -- which matches what I get when I run a command like spd-say --wait "Hello world" from the command line.

    I'm pretty sure SpeechDispatcher can be configured to use a different synthesis engine -- Arch's wiki has some suggestions: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Speech_dispatcher -- but I haven't dug into it yet.

  • What kinds of games might you recommend with deep worldbuilding and interaction that aren't RPGs?

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  • you might check out Trackless if you like interactive fiction

    Thanks. I'll check it out.

    BTW, I thought of another game that might be of interest to you. Have you seen Not for Broadcast? It's an unusual game where you play as the controller in the studio switching between multiple video feeds of actual actors presenting the news on TV. You get to make choices about what to show, what to cut, and what ads to play in your broadcast -- which affects the world in an exaggerated fashion. The game timeskips to show you how things play out over the years. There's some distractions that make it a bit more gamey than a VN but you can turn most of them off if they're too annoying, I think.

  • What kinds of games might you recommend with deep worldbuilding and interaction that aren't RPGs?

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  • Have you explored text adventures / interactive fiction? They're even more niche than VNs but there's some good ones out there. I remember liking Worlds Apart back when I played it. (15+ years ago... o___o)

    One of these days I should go dig back into them again.

  • CAT TRAM

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  • When was the last time you answered a Lemmy or Reddit post/thread that was more than five months old?

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  • I think the term would be "necrobump"

    That's from old school forums where posting to a thread bumped it back to the top of the feed and thus thrust old info prominently into everyone's view again. You won't get that same bump effect with most sorts on Lemmy. ("New comments" sort might work like that though? I'm not sure exactly how that's handled.)

    otherwise everyone has moved on

    It's pretty rare to get much of a response even after just 24 hours or so -- not just in terms of comments, but even for upvotes. I think after that point, posts are usually so far down people's feeds that almost no one sees it any more. That probably also discourages most people from replying since basically no one will see it. (Maybe the poster of the thread or comment you're replying to will see it, but probably almost no one else will if it's more than a day or so old.)

    Some people do dig through community archives and/or user profiles -- particularly after a new thread is posted -- and they'll occasionally upvote old posts, but they very rarely comment.

  • When was the last time you answered a Lemmy or Reddit post/thread that was more than five months old?

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  • Just the other day, I got a reply to a thread from ~6 months ago on kbin!

    It was spam. :/

  • Can you live without YouTube ?

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  • I quit YouTube along with reddit last summer. I don't use alternate interfaces. I haven't found a replacement for most of the niche content I liked to watch there -- and yes, that sucks.

    I've mostly been watching offline content (like DVDs and things I downloaded years ago) when I want video entertainment, and doing other stuff with my free time.

    You might think that'd mean more time playing games given my interests, but I've found I'm a lot less enthusiastic about playing through games if I can't watch an LP or two of it afterwards. So, I'm actually playing (and also buying) less of those than I used to too.

  • Please drink verification can

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  • Please drink verification can

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  • The Japanese text on the bottom of the left image says: Sapporo (Draft) Black Label beer. I can't tell what the four characters under 生 are though. (Too blurry for me to figure out.)

    Edit: those characters might be 非熱処理 -- meaning unpasteurized.

  • Inside the Creation of the World’s Most Powerful Open Source AI Model

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  • Help getting Ubuntu with KDE to sleep

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  • I don't know about KDE in particular, but I've had problems with USB mice waking various Ubuntu systems when they're not directly connected (i.e. there's a hub or KVM in between it and the computer). The workaround I used for that was to remove the mouse input (e.g. by carefully pressing a physical button on the KVM) -- which was good enough for me -- but I think there is a programmatic way to block particular classes of input from waking the system if some device is waking your system inappropriately.

    Doing a quick search turned up this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/252743/how-do-i-prevent-mouse-movement-from-waking-up-a-suspended-computer -- I can't vouch for any of the specific techniques there though.

    Worth noting that while I had a problem with the mouse specifically, other hardware could be causing your system to wake up.