themoken

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[–] themoken@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Huh, I kind of think the opposite. I haven't read everything he's written, but it seems to me that he kinda sucks at endings.

I loved Anathem, and when you realize what's going on it's so cool, but then it doesn't explore that idea as much as I want, it just ends without looking around the next corner. Cryptonomicon is a fun, interesting read and gets you worked up about what a monumental shift is going to happen... And then ends right as it's coming to fruition. Even Seveneves had a 5000 year jump and spends hundreds of pages on the consequences of humanity's brush with death... And then tosses in another population with five pages left. I want to keep going!

Maybe I just don't like being tantalized in the last few pages of a book, but I feel like I'm left hanging and unsatisfied, like there's a missing sequel. His pulpier, early novels were much better in terms of wrapping up the story.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago

This looks like fun, just grabbed it, thanks for posting it here.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 9 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, they all are, even though they probably would have been fun. I'd watch Bakula as Archer again too, I just think there's zero percent chance it would be greenlit.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 33 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

I can't wait to put this on my shelf next to Enterprise S5-S7, Captain Worf, and Star Trek: Legacy.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't have experience with MSI recently, but I'd be really surprised if you couldn't flash a new BIOS off the system partition or FAT32 USB. You may not be able to update from Linux directly, but almost all motherboards I've seen support doing it from the BIOS interface.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 8 points 2 weeks ago

I interpret it as they are fools because they can be convinced of anything and become proselytizers in the course of a day. They didn't really engage with the idea, they are just zealously parroting what someone else told them.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

On the one hand, this is sort of what betas are for.

On the other hand, doesn't this game require secure boot for anti-cheat? I thought making your multiplayer game enforce security policy meant it was impossible to cheat!?!? Get fucked EA.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 7 points 2 weeks ago

I used the communicator chime for a long time, but these days I'm basically permanently in do-not-disturb. My phone only makes sound when a close contact calls, or for a timer/alarm. Anything else can wait.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Glad you're still with us, hope you're doing well, that crash sounds awful.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 40 points 1 month ago

Intel has been struggling overall, and lately has been letting some of its Linux engineers go. Nothing absolutely fundamental has been affected yet (AFAICT) but I guess Clear Linux didn't make the cut.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 13 points 1 month ago

I never had an issue with Lutris + a pirated copy. It's trivial to find the anadius rip around in a torrent. Fuck the EA launcher.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Because I think it has a stronger theoretical basis. We have been able to do simple operations with qubits and have been increasing those capabilities over the decades. It's basically a matter of scale at this point.

 

Hey all. I use the Jellyfin Android app to control an MPV shim running on Linux (Arch, Plasma 6) and for the most part it works great. However, sometimes the app just completely loses track of what's playing or where in the video it is. I can still pause/play blind, but I'd like to be able to tell where I am in a season/episode. Any trick to dealing with this?

For reference I have the app set to "unoptimized" battery usage so it shouldn't just be going to sleep. I do have to open Jellyfin to actually send pause/play button presses from the notification though so I don't know if I just need a better workaround (I'm on the latest Android version if that matters). I also had the same problems using a Chromecast but never bothered to mess with that since the dongle is proprietary, but with the mpv shim the whole stack is open source so I thought I'd ask...

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