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MystValkyrie

@ MystValkyrie @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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  • Steam Machine

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  • Curious about this too. I love my Steam Deck, but Desktop Mode is horrible. You can't install apps from the command line because they just get deleted on every update, including CUPS which made printing a huge hassle. You have to jump through hoops to get it to mount an external hard drive automatically. I could never get Discord voice or video chats to actually work. But if you install a separate distro, you lose out on the performance settings that are locked to Game Mode.

    Now that Valve is actually doing a desktop, I'd love to use this as my daily driver so my old ThinkPad can finally rest. I'm hoping Valve will finally fine-tune Desktop Mode so people can actually use it. Or at least not throttle performance if people want to install a different OS. Maybe they could even let us boot directly into Desktop Mode this time?

  • Steam Machine

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  • Companion Cube 😍

    The only thing the old Steam Machines were missing a decade ago was good Linux compatibility via Proton, but now we've got that! I have literally never been more excited for a new "console." Goodbye, Steam Deck.

  • What's your opinion on communism?

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  • Maybe this could work, but only if you divide the military across the committees. If it's just an advisory role, it's meaningless. That's the problem we're seeing with the Supreme Court and Congress in America.

    Even with those safeguards in place, what's to stop the committees from working together to turn on the people? Maybe this doesn't happen immediately, but what about in 300 years across many changes of power?

  • What's your opinion on communism?

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  • We need to abolish all forms of coercive control, oppression, hierarchies, ensure that no one has power over anyone else. We need to learn to co-operate, work together, instead of competing and fighting.

    Any system that has any hope of being sustainable, after the destabilization of heirarchies, needs to distribute resources across and not from the top down. It's exhausting watching capitalists and democratic socialists fight against each other in western countries, with little to no anarchist presence whatsoever, when they both miss the point in a pretty glaring way.

  • What's your opinion on communism?

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  • I'm not an expert or an economist, mind you. I'm also jaded after America's change in power. It's a noble idea and a step up from capitalism. But while capitalism ends in mass surveillance and police states so the wealthy can profit, communism is similarly likely to lead to centralized identification, albeit with benevolent intentions. Allocating resources from the top down requires a system of administration, which is a hierarchy and an unchecked power. But Classification is the first step to genocide, and we've seen multiple times now that any country can fall to fascism in the span of 15 years. Just because you have a wonderful benevolent communist government now doesn't mean it'll always be that way.

    Maybe there are ways around this. Part of me wants to say that only names and dates of birth (not race, gender marker, country of origin, income level) should be recorded, but even names in many cases can reveal a person's gender and sex at birth, which is itself a form of classification. Maybe you could have a single-blind ID system, only including a name and DOB, where only citizens have access to their IDs, and governments do not store that data centrally. The hope being that if people's needs are taken care of that the incentive to steal another person's identity goes away. There are flaws, I know.

    Again, maybe there are ways around this. I'm more partial to anarcho-syndicalism because it can more easily exist without a centralized ID system. Having traditional government functions decided democratically among and between the worker-run syndicates also helps stop fascists because if any one syndicate goes fascist, they get cut out from everyone else's resources and get starved out.

    However, if a communist government can exist without collecting data, then I'm potentially in favor of it.

  • Tips on training my singing voice to sound as close to this as possible?

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  • Saving this post. I don't have an answer for you as I'm not sure where to start either. It's hard when we can't sing how we'd like to. I wish I could be a contralto and sing like Helen Vogt (Flowing Tears) or Brittney Slayes (Unleash the Archers) or Emilie Autumn, but male puberty made me a baritone and I still have a lot of work to do. I'm not sure if it's possible for me with my vocal range, but I'm going to try.

    I've been doing voice lessons for the past year, and once I'm finally done, I'm moving onto singing work. Don't give up, and I won't either!

  • Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?

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  • I beat X-COM: Enemy Unknown by sniping the final boss in the first turn with an 8% headshot through a door. In the process, I skipped what I discovered later was a room full of aliens you were supposed to fight before taking out that enemy.

  • Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?

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  • In the item-farming regard, it really did feel like Sword and Shield copied Crystal's homework without understanding the assignment.

  • What will you do after Android starts restricting FOSS apps?

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  • Use a dumbphone and hold onto a smartphone to use only when necessary. I have a Sunbeam F1 Pro for daily use. And I have a Moto G Power, purchased used, that I use maybe once every other week for bike maps, public transit, and restaurant QR codes. I'm hoping with how amazing the battery is that will last until 5G inevitably gets phased out. I was using FOSS apps with that, but I'll just go back to the App Store. Post-DOGE, my threat model doesn't require degoogling anymore.

    Maybe eventually I'll move to GrapheneOS, provided it finds a way to exist without using Google products and services. I have high hopes for Ubuntu Touch in the 2030s.

    For me it's less about finding a new daily driver and more about limiting the time spent on an Android phone.

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    What would your ideal career look like?

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  • How do you kick the Reddit habit?

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  • No, that isn't harsh, you're definitely right. When I get dysphoric or see awful news, I get those "I don't really deserve to be a woman" thoughts, and then I become receptive to everything the TERFs say. And I need to work on that.

  • How do you kick the Reddit habit?

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  • Redirecting tools are cool. After doing some research, I installed LeechBlock NG to both block sites and manually redirect them.

  • How do you kick the Reddit habit?

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  • I had a really great offline routine going for years. I'd work out, I'd take walks, I'd practice piano, and then 2025 happened and now I'm addicted to social media again.

    I think forcing myself back onto that routine would really help.

  • How do you kick the Reddit habit?

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  • I never really thought about doomscolling as self-harm, but that makes perfect sense. The plus side is I can sort of repurpose all my old coping strategies in that case. I used to be way better with digital minimalism, but then 2025 hapened. Definitely worth finding a therapist about once I'm on my wife's health insurance in a few months.

    Thank you for the advice :)

  • How do you kick the Reddit habit?

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  • What's your favourite menu music in a game?

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  • Final Fantasy XII, not just for the amazing menu music but also due to how the opening cinematic blends seamlessly with the menu UI in the PS2 version. It all comes together perfectly.

  • What body changes would y'all want in a trans humanist sci-fi future?

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  • Shoe and underwear recommendations?

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  • I don't know what your size is, but a lot of us (including me) wear shoe sizes that most stores don't have in stock.

    Thursday Boot Company has womens' sneakers that go to size 13, and those are high quality. Someone did a three-year review, actually. Red Wings moc toe shoes are super durable and can be repaired. (Solovair and Jim Green are non-American alternatives for those boycotting.) Vans and Converse also has extended sizes, but those tend to be two-year shoes. I'd skip anything from Torrid and most other Chinese imports.

    Underwear: The lady who runs Leolines is doing important work, but I'm not impressed with the quality. She splits the fabric in two places right where the tuck is, which is a design flaw that has led to multiple pairs failing on both me and my fiancee within a year. I've had way better experiences with TomboyX; the stitching is way tighter and it's one big piece of fabric sewed to a waistband. I have yet to encounter a pair of tucking underwear that uses natural fibers, though. If you don't need to tuck, I've had good experiences with PAKA and Branwyn.

  • Kamala Harris Says She Has “Concerns” About Trans Student Athletes

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  • Kamala Harris Says She Has “Concerns” About Trans Student Athletes

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  • It's a dumb wedge issue that doesn't matter. For student athletes, sports are about building cooperation and leadership skills and having fun, and for professional athletes, the issue is so relegated to a tiny amount of wealthy celebrity athletes that it's completely divorced from the lives of everyday Americans. In both cases, there are non-government sports agencies who already make decisions, and I'm going to channel some old-school Republican energy to say the government shouldn't be the ones making that choice. Unless it's some ulterior motive to normalize thinking about trans women as men to push the overton window on other issues, I genuinely don't understand why everyone cares so much.

    I wish Democrats would just not talk about sports and instead redirect to equal employment and housing, while fighting attempts to ban HRT. I wish they would stop taking the bait.