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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.

  • Pornhub is urging tech giants to enact device-based age verification

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  • How is device-based age verification different?

    You put your device in child safety mode, and it tells sites "I'm a kid, treat me like a kid" -- otherwise the site can assume you're an adult with full rights. Done. No intrusive ID requirements. No face scanning. No third-party payment shakedowns. Parents, in theory, can still stop their five year olds from accidentally accessing PornHub or other content that would disturb them by just clicking a button when they set up an account on the device.

    It's, frankly, the sane way to do this if we're going to have age restrictions.

  • Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key.

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  • The ‘Great Meme Reset’ Is Coming: From Jack Dorsey to Gen Alpha, everyone seemingly wants to go back to the internet of a decade ago. But is it possible to reverse AI slop and brain rot?

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  • The Next Version of WINDOWS - CatTrigger

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  • Try DOSBox for that kind of thing

  • The osu! Open Source Client, Lazer, Has Been Made the Default Download Option for New Users

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  • I did do the tutorial (after fucking up the first time through the initial setup and only getting the recommended songs and going "?!?!?!" for a moment) so I know about Z/X but what I mean is it's not entirely clear if I'm supposed to keep holding them while dragging. The UI's clear enough if I missed entirely, but if I kind of got it, I'm not really sure if I'm doing it right. With the reversals and the circle closing-in timing and a lot going on on the screen visually, it's a bit much all at once. TBF, it'd probably make sense if I spend more time poking at it; those were my initial impressions.

    Thanks for trying to help me, btw, with your comment; always appreciated.

  • The osu! Open Source Client, Lazer, Has Been Made the Default Download Option for New Users

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  • I've seen recordings of people playing this before in stream VODs a couple times before the player fired up another game, and, well, this post finally got me to try it.

    The on-ramp for new players trying to make sense of it is, uh, not great. Trying to make an account on the website tells you to download the game. Okay... Trying to make an account in the game then sent me back to the website!? (Why not just let me register on the website in the first place?)

    The basic idea of the circle mode is easy enough to understand -- although I doubt I will ever get very good at this, at least with a mouse, and I'm still not quite sure on whether or not I'm supposed to hold a key down/click-and-drag or just click and then follow the motion? -- but there are other modes that it threw me in (mania?) when I tried loading another song from the catalog and it was rather difficult to even figure out what keys I was supposed to push. (The diagram on the wiki was not helpful -- I spent a while confused thinking I was supposed to use ASDF for a "4K" when it seems like it's actually DFJK for some reason?) Probably all makes sense to someone who's been playing it for years, but, yeah... Pretty UI, but the on-boarding could use some work.

    Might be fun to poke around at for music discovery though.

    Anyway, that's my 2 cents worth from giving it a try.

  • Recommendations for an all-SSD home server?

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  • It looks like the connector is U.2 so I'd look for motherboards that indicate support for that explicitly. From a quick search, it looks like SuperMicro makes some. This is getting out of my area of expertise though; I just know the crazy drives exist...

  • Recommendations for an all-SSD home server?

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  • Assume an unlimited budget for now, I just want to know what's out there.

    I mean, if you're willing to pay the price of a car per SSD they go up to at least 122TB density per drive... (e.g. Solidigm SBFPF2BV0P12001 D5-P5336 -- $16K~$20K depending on supplier from a quick search)

    I don't actually recommend that for personal use, but since you were curious about what's out there, there's some absolutely crazy shit in enterprise server gear if you have deep enough pockets.

  • [Rec] Anime with great emotional payoff

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  • School Days😬🤮

    It's rare that a show makes me that mad, and the ending is unforgettable, but I'm pretty sure it's not quite the same kind of emotional payoff that OP's looking for... so, "Troll Answer". ;-)

  • [Rec] Anime with great emotional payoff

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  • Most of the stuff that comes to mind is already on your list.

    Maybe you'd like the movie, Colorful, or the series Your Lie in April?

    This is a stretch, but maybe also consider Shin Sekai Yori? The particular things that'll hit you there are, uh, a bit different though, if it works on you.

    Troll Answer: School Days. 👹️

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  • Running lsusb in the terminal returns Bus 001 Device 003: ID 057e:2009 Nintendo Co., Ltd Switch Pro Controller for the controller. I have no idea why this is, as I don't think this is a Nintendo controller at all XD

    Assuming this is your controller it looks like it supports Switch motion controls specifically, and from your lsusb output it looks like they're spoofing Nintendo's USB vendor/product ID -- presumably that's how they make that work?

    If it works in the browser but not Steam, then it seems like it's probably something specific to Steam, but I don't know what. Doing a quick search, there are a number of threads about people having issues with Steam and Switch Pro controllers -- maybe relevant? Steam might be getting confused by how it's presenting itself? (Wild guess)

    If you test with jstest-gtk, does it show up sanely?

  • If you speak a language that has a formal 'you', when do you use it?

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  • a lot of what might've been archaically formal and polite ways to say 'you' have become ironically rude and/or condescending.

    You can do something similar in English through sarcastic statements with inappropriately polite forms of address. e.g. saying "Well, excuse me, sire!" to someone with a sassy tone of voice should be interpreted as "I'm offended" or "I can't believe you just did that, you asshole" or similar depending on context.

  • Linux PC Occasionally completely freezes

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  • Are you doing anything like network mounts? I've had freezes happen when home was mounted remotely. I've also had freezes before -- though not recently -- when doing extremely intensive I/O operations. I've also seen it with failing hardware, but I don't remember what hardware was failing specifically (if we ever found out -- that was an always-on display system at work, and we might have just replaced it since it was ancient at that point...).

    See if you can switch from GUI to console (either on the system or SSH-ing in). Usually the Ctrl-Alt-Fn keys switch between GUI and full screen console modes if you're physically there to try it. If you can get in, you might be able to get some insight into what's going on from logs, top, etc. while it's happening.

  • Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]

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  • Nice!

    Edit: do you have to disassemble the controller (with a screwdriver or something) or is it accessible with just my hands? I swap (rechargeable) AAs on my XBox360 controller quite a bit, and part of why I like it is that I can do it quickly if the battery dies while playing.

  • Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]

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  • Now if it just had a replaceable battery...

  • "Howard, you really think they're gonna let you put out a whole movie just about tits?"

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  • Pokémon Pokopia Set to Release on March 5, 2026 on Switch 2 - FullCleared

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  • $69.99 price tag

    It also appears that physical versions of Pokémon Pokopia will come on a game-key card, which means no game data will be on the physical card. Instead, users will have to connect to the internet to download the game.

    In other words, you will no longer be able to use it at a random unpredictable date in the future. Don't give Nintendo money for this trash.

  • 2762536

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  • Cosmic (Cobalt [27], Sama­rium [62], Iodine [53], Carbon [6])

  • A language like a set of building blocks.

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  • The board is still there, but "cupbox" might be more accurate. 🤔️

  • How do I join lemmy communities from my brainbin account ?

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  • If that doesn't work when you try again later, then try searching in the community@example.com format specifically, and also try searching for the URL of a specific post -- that might get it to federate the post and then you should be to access the magazine from that if it succeeds.

    If that still doesn't work, message the admin of your instance and ask them for help.

    Good luck.