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wizardbeard

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  • Noooooo

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  • Texts, teams messages, etc seem to cause people to try and speak in single sentences

    Oh my god this. I've gotten some well natured teasing from co-workers about taking a while to type multiple sentence teams messages (they'll see the typing icon in the full team group chat), but when the alternative is a back and forth that doesn't need to happen, or them having to wait a few minutes from first message until the idea is complete, I think it's the best approach.

  • In 2021 Designer Kenya Hara earned $300,000 by turning Xiaomis Square into a Squircle.

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  • Everything in the world of these people needs an overdrawn explanation and story of creation and meaning and it makes me want to projectile vomit on or near them.

    If you haven't seen the Pepsi logo redesign doc from 2008 or 2009... well I hope you haven't eaten anything recently.

    It starts off doing some weird stuff with circles, the golden ratio, and old pepsi logos, slowly building to a frankly cultish crescendo of absurd marketing wankery.

  • Valve Facing £656 Million Class Action Lawsuit

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  • Maybe spend a few minutes searching before throwing shade. Cynicism's easy. Here's what I found in about 3 minutes:

    He founded the marine research non-profit Inkfish, and a custom yacht building company OceanCo that builds ships for it.

    Depending on the source I'm finding that they have 3 ships/yachts in their fleet with a new one under construction, and the Leviathan has most or all of the normal luxury features swapped out for additional lab space, hospital, 3d printing and fabrication workshops. One of the ships carries a crew of 75 scientists.

    Their mission statement includes the intent to share all their discoveries freely.

    You can look up images of the ships. They look like what I'd expect of research vessels, not billionaire pleasure ships.

    Additionally, I'm seeing that he also co-founded the "Heart of Racing" race team that raises money for childrens charities, he's donated significant money to pediatric ICU in New Zealand (where he lives), and also co-founded foundry10 which is "a education research organization that funds and develops programs to improve youth learning."

    Again, I'm not saying the man's a saint or our friend. Steam has a very positive track record, he is putting more resources into philanthropic endeavours than many others in his position, and he's not crowing about it so much that everyone knows he's doing the philanthropic shit.

  • So, I'm kinda new at Kirby. What's this dark blue thing?

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  • As others have said, is Gooey, is friend.

    Lorewise he's made up of the same stuff as Dark Matter one of the big villians, but the power of friendship means he's friend.

    Mechanics wise, he's player 2. If you don't have a real player 2, he'll be controlled by a basic CPU that mostly copies what you do.

    I've heard there's also some cheese you can do by spawning him when you only have one health (negating the one health cost to spawn him) and then eating him to restore up to two health, but imo Dreamland 3 is better without cheesing it.

    Unasked for advice: In Dreamland 3, the game that screenshot is from, every level (except boss fights) have some sort of puzzle in the level you can complete to get a "heartstar" from whatever character is standing on the last screen of the level. You unlock the true final boss by collecting all the heartstars and beating each worlds boss while you have all of them for that world.

    As is Kirby tradition, the true final boss is horrifying.

  • I love it

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  • Depends on the program. I've got a handful of that old on CDs that still install fine. Checked when I was backing them up to ISO. There's little bits of weirdness and unintended behavior while running them now, but they still install and run to a fairly acceptable degree.

    That experience varies wildly though. Wine tends to handle things better and more consistently.

  • Rule

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  • Become ungovernable incomprehensible

  • We have Mental Healthcare at home

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  • It's even better when you can't do most of the socially acceptable de-stressing vices due to health conditions.

    My lungs are fucky with asthma, so no smonking or vaping. Genetically recessive liver issue that I hit the jackpot on means I can't drink, or have too much sugar, or long term it might just fucking fibros-ify my lungs. Short-term it gives me migraines, nausea, and exhaustion if I try to cheat it or forget. Leads to some really sucky times after holidays when I just eat too much dessert.

    I'm not going to self harm. Body is enough of a mess without adding extra pain and scarring.

    Jacking off and gaming it is then.

  • Valve Facing £656 Million Class Action Lawsuit

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  • Isn't at least one of them actually a marine research vessel, run by a group he founded/funds?

    I get that he's not our friend like a lot of people think just because his company is less shit, but he seems to have at least a crumb of his soul left.

  • Spong Berb Adventures #12

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  • These are but short windows into a rich tapestry of lives. Of course we may find them confusing, lacking the proper context and life experiences that led to this specific moment. Truly, how can any person hope to bridge that chasm and truly understand another?

    One thing I can say for certain though, is that a Dennys ought to have ham.

  • What is your greatest motivator?

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  • That statement, stated a little less bluntly, can and has absolutely worked for me.

  • What is your greatest motivator?

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  • reworded to actual reasons. sound good for an interview.

    Potato potato, but if someone is already having trouble playing the interview game, I think that last sentence could come across wrong.

    Like you said, you take your actual reasons: I have bills to pay, you're a reasonable distance away, you're hiring. And you find the truthful but carefully worded way to make it sound acceptable. I've always considered this interview question more of a test of communication skills than culty company loyalty test.

    Like, if something's wrong because your co-worker fucked it up are you just going to vomit that point blank at a customer, or do you have the ability to word it better?

  • True story that might have happened today

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  • If you're not active on the comms on awful.systems, I think you'd like it. Most users are aware of Yarvin etc.

    !techtakes@awful.systems

  • How to say "Donald Trump" or "Elon Musk" without mentioning their names?

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  • I wonder how many people are browsing this thread to help improve their personal word filters, although the names in the title would probably hide it from anyone that has those set up already.

    RES supports filters, a number of lemmy apps do, and I think piefed has it built in.

  • w h o

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  • I dunked my mobilek in the toilet. Now what? Does this count as intercourse?

    Edit: I've learned an important lesson. Don't make a special lady wet or she'll break your mobilek and cover it in pee.

  • The Windows PC is dying, thanks to cloud-based services and AI

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  • EDIT: Misunderstood your comment.

    As far as cloud infra goes, rumor has it that a lot of Azure's underlying shit is on Linux already. Would explain the cross compatibility work with WSL, PowerShell, .Net, etc over the past decade or so.

    It's a wonderful dream, but you underestimate how many systems' server components are still built to run on Windows Servers, and I've yet to find a vendor that doesn't support it.

    Plus the extremely long tail of places running legacy software for as long as fucking possible because they refuse to spend money on newer shit.

    "Soon" is relative. I think it's more likely that containerization will make the underlying OS matter less and less. It'll end up being a matter of licensing, support, ease of management with existing tools, that sort of shit. Ultimately the suits want someone to be able to yell at, even if raising a ticket with Microsoft is like pissing into the wind.

  • Let 2026 be the year investors start asking this too. Rug pissing encouraged!

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  • Holy shit, you've got a line on artisinal cheese duck fleshlights? I've been in the market for ages!

  • Why can people see who upvotes and who downvoted post on Lemmy?

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  • I don't make it a habit to check, but it has been fun to check and call out in precisely two scenarios.

    • One user and I deep into a sub thread on a multiple day old post arguing about ettiquette here. Was weird to get multiple downvotes on those sorts of comments. They were using their "abandoned" alts.
    • Another thread where I had repeatedly asked someone to share the source for their claim despite them insisting that I just wasn't googling right. I offered them to edit literally every comment (multiple thousand) on this account to sing their praises. Downvoted with no response.

  • Does anyone have any advice for young adults that are struggling in life?

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  • In moderation. Everyone needs a way to lazily recharge. But make no mistake that even though it's engaging, it's only better for you than mindless content consumption by very thin margins.

  • Instant diagnosis

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  • I'm summoning salt, and this is the history of autism screening speedruns

  • first contact

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  • Just who is this 3JOH NUF? A code name? Some super wizard class hacker? A government operative? Both?