[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago

The impact brain chemistry has on all sorts of things is very poorly understood.

It's not just an impact. Everything we are IS brain chemistry. Emotions, thoughts, wants, desires, likes, dislikes, skills, talents... they're all just a combination of chemicals and firing synapses in the brain. We are biological meat bags. There's no such thing as a soul.

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago

Yeah. Sadly it's a trap that no one is immune to. Correlation doesn't necessarily imply Causation.

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Do you think Jackson Delacroix Vance grew the beard so he would look less like the result of Adam Lambert fucking a Cabbage Patch doll?

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 10 points 23 hours ago

I'm honesty sitting here trying to remember the last Ubisoft game I actually enjoyed. And I mean truly "couldn't put down" enjoyed. Some of the older Assassin's Creed games were fun, but the same endless gameplay loop was meh, even then.

I'd almost have to go back all the way to those original Rainbow Six games for something that felt (to me) fresh and innovative.

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 20 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

You mean making the exact same cookie-cutter game loop for more than a decade isn't a good idea!?

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

Dazed and Confused

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Great. That means it's only a matter of time before Hank Hill and his Hillbilly Sask Party decides to do the same thing in Saskatchewan...

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Battletoads

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago

Easily Converter Now. So darn handy.

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 days ago

Not a full on extinction event, but the late bronze age collapse has always fascinated me. So much do that it led me to pursue archaeology in college.

So many theories, everyone has their favourite, but yeah, what ultimately caused every near eastern civilisation as well as the Mycenaean Greeks to just all collapse and disappear over a relatively short 200 years or so (archaeologically speaking a blink-of-an-eye)

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 days ago

He also calls her a Fascist and a Communist; completely oblivious to the fact that those are three very separate things...

He's an idiot who shouts out whatever strings of words he thinks will make his smooth brained followers hoot and howl.

I'm not excusing it by any means. I'm just saying he doesn't actually know what the fuck he's saying, so its not worth the oxygen to even try to respond to it.

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 days ago

Since this is giving me Don Beveridge vibes (R.I.P), I remember when RedLetterMedia's Best of the Worst Black Spine edition had his customization seminar on their first episode.

They were laughing and thinking he was some kind of lunatic conman for all of the supposedly nonsense things he was spouting about pushing whopper buttons and deficiencies of PK and a bunch of other stuff, and I'm just sitting back thinking "nope...I understand every word he's saying." Because not only do I have to live currently in an environment where my upper managers emails are filled with such nonsense, but my first job was AT Burger King when I was 16 in 1992 and guess what...

THEY HAD A LITERAL WHOPPER BUTTON!

It was used by management to tell the staff when to keep more burgers in the warming tray and when to lower the supply based on customer traffic. They implemented it because..."75% of the time the Whopper was being served cold"

"Push the Whopper Button" is shorthand for being efficient with when and where you're spending your resources so that your not wasting them where you don't have to and not having them available when you do.

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submitted 1 week ago by Adderbox76@lemmy.ca to c/kde@lemmy.ml

This is a relatively new issue, although I don't recall any recent updates that would have caused it.

When I plug in a USB stick or other device, the disk and device manager pops up twice; one is the normal one away from the edge of the screen, it goes away after about five seconds (like it should)

The second, behind it, is tucked up right against the edge of the screen and does not go away until I trigger and then minimize my application launcher.

Any ideas? I'm running Wayland because of the Maalit keyboard. Haven't tried to see if it duplicates it with X11.

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Just a super quick question about helping to update the map locations.

Between StreetComplete and Organic Maps, which is faster for submitting recommended changes to the OSM team in regards to things like business hours, etc...

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Adderbox76@lemmy.ca to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

I can't even imagine writing long form on a touch keyboard. But with a lot of people eschewing laptops/desktops for their mobile devices, it's really just a matter of time.

edited: Missed a "T" in the title.

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submitted 1 month ago by Adderbox76@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

Just immediately reminded me of this gem from a while ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3BtmeUhOHU

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submitted 3 months ago by Adderbox76@lemmy.ca to c/manjarolinux@lemmy.ml
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submitted 3 months ago by Adderbox76@lemmy.ca to c/manjarolinux@lemmy.ml

I finally pulled the trigger on replacing my ChromeOS completely with Manjaro using the Mrchromebox script. Other than some glitching getting the audio to work correctly, everything runs great.

For the first two years I had this chromebook (Asus 433 flip) I thought that it wasn't worth the risk and that running the debian container via Crostini was plenty good enough.

Well it turns out that:

  • A. No...it wasn't much of a risk at all. It was actually really smooth, including disconnecting the battery to disable the hardware write protect. I honestly don't know what I was worried about. and

  • B. I may have thought Crostini was good enough. But man oh man...it's a night and day difference having Linux running natively on this old girl rather than through a container that had to boot up every time I use the first linux app of the day.

Anyway. Just wanted to share. Been using Manjaro on pretty much all of my computers for years, and now I can take the "pretty much" away and just say "all of them."

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Minimal Menu? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 4 months ago by Adderbox76@lemmy.ca to c/kde@lemmy.ml

So....I updated my Manjaro to Plasma 6. Any chance that Minimal Menu (or something similar) exists?

I was not happy to find it gone. It's been a part of my system for so long that I honestly just forgot it wasn't default.

Now it doesn't even show up in the widget search and I'm honestly not sure I can live without it, largely because I can choose to centre it in the display on launch rather than having to choose either a) full-screen or b) right above the icon.

I can't even describe how upsetting it was to reboot after the update....

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...but its robot designs were well ahead of the curve for the time.

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Open Creative (lemmy.ca)

Just popping in to post about a community to discuss FOSS creative software like GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Kdenlive, Blender, etc...

https://lemmy.ca/c/open_creative

I've used them all at one time or another. Since moving to FOSS as much as possible ten years ago, I've learned a LOT about most of the programs, and consider myself a near expert in some (Kdenlive, GIMP) and fairly competent in others (Blender, Scribus).

I feel like having a place where anyone who uses FOSS creative software can both ask questions, share advice, and celebrate each others works, would be a nice addition to the Fediverse.

So feel free to join and post your work, your questions, your news or your tips and tricks.

I'm a one man band as far as modding and maintaining for now, so thanks in advance for your patience while I learn how it all works on the back end.

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submitted 5 months ago by Adderbox76@lemmy.ca to c/open_creative@lemmy.ca

Anyone having a recent segmentation fault with GIMP 2.10.36 when closing a file without saving changes, the issue has been fixed and will be merged into the next point release. 2.10.38.

More info here: (scroll to bottom) https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/10785

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submitted 5 months ago by Adderbox76@lemmy.ca to c/open_creative@lemmy.ca

Putting this out into the community for anyone who needs it.

When I was first learning video editing, I had trouble finding good narrative content to practice with. There was plenty of stock footage, etc... but nothing scripted where you could craft a scene between two characters.

Cinestudy is the best for that. In fact I'm using footage from there for a book that I've been working on about narrative editing in Kdenlive.

https://cinestudy.org/

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