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takeheart

@ takeheart @lemmy.world

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  • At what point do you stop calling the years "two thousand and X" and start calling them "twenty X"?

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  • You're on to something but I doubt it's the syllables. Rather it seems about phonetic ambiguity.

    "twentynine" could mean both 29 and 2009, so it's better to use "twothousandandnine" for the latter. "twentyten" cannot be interpreted as 30, only as 2010.

  • What song did you love until you found out what it was about?

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  • "Vamos a playa" by Righeira carries a lightweight, upbeat tune that vacationers might hum on the way to the beach. But the Spanish lyrics reveal that it's about the devastation left behind by nuclear armaments. And the schism between trying to live an ordinary life whilst having a nuclear Damocles sword waver over your head. That it became such a world wide hit makes it all the more ironic. I love it all the more for it.

  • Steam Game Recording - Available Now

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  • Lovely, I tried the decky plugin for this before but it was somewhat unstable and also caused games to slow down while recording. I wonder what the storage requirements will be for recording, let's say, a buffer of three minutes at all times? 🤔

  • Steam Game Recording - Available Now

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  • the official dock is never quite plug & play when it comes to an external display (DVI)

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  • OK, thanks for the hint. I just found out that you will only be prompted to update if you:

    1. power everything off (shut down deck completely, don't just sleep it)
    2. remove all peripherals connected to the dock (except network cable if you use that for your connection)
    3. start the deck
    4. if there are any updates for the the dock, they should show in the options of gaming mode

    here's to hoping the updates will allay the display issues

  • the official dock is never quite plug & play when it comes to an external display (DVI)

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  • the official dock is never quite plug & play when it comes to an external display (DVI)

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  • I vaguely remembered it offering me updates when I first set the dock up (purchased the dock much later then the deck). I'll make sure I have the latest version.

  • What's a good gift for a 2-year old?

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  • Just ask the parents what (s)he likes.

  • What's the difference between a proxy and a VPN

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  • Never knew about transparent web proxies. Neat. Do they play a part in commercial DDOS protection? I'm thinking of those please wait while we're evaluating your request messages that you get on some sites. But also about any methods used to prove that you are human.

  • Decky "Pause Games" plugin got rid of audio static I got resuming games from sleep

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  • Good to know. It was a common problem with XCOM 2 for me.

    Whenever possible I tried to get around this distorted audio noise after resuming from sleep by first opening a pause menu and then sending the deck to sleep. It seems to occur less the less audio channels are used by the game engine at the moment that you sent the deck to sleep.

  • How come it seems that there are little to no serial killers who are women in the modern age? Are they not caught or is it just the men that make the news?

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  • This is true for serial killers in general though. Murders tend to be premeditated. If you are planning a murder you'll look for ways to maximize your success and minimize the chance of getting caught. In modern times you don't have to rely on pure strength; there's a plethora of workarounds from drugs to guns. The actual desire to end a human life (usual enabled by some form of psychopathy) is the limiting factor. A serial killer personality type doesn't throw the towel just because they are physically weak.

    Guess what I'm saying is: there isn't a large contingent of women out there that would suddenly turn serial killers if they were to physically become stronger.

  • [Help] Steam Deck settings for dummies

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  • Ideally you'll adjust both in game settings and deck settings for each game with in-game settings taking precedence as they give you access to fine tuning custom tailored to that game. The deck settings are great to tinker with when you want longer battery life especially. If it's inside the dock and charging while you play you needn't worry much about optimization (frame rate limit, heat limit, half rate shading, etc.) and can leave it at the sensible defaults.

    The Steam Deck per-game control layout is very helpful for games that don't come with native controller support or those that don't let you rebind controls inside the game itself.

    I don't own the games you mention, so I can't suggest specifics but my general way of setting up a game is:

    1. install the game and get it running at all
    2. use in-game options to find a resolution and layout comfortable from your preferred playing posture/position
    3. enable frame rate overlay in the steam settings
    4. start with default or auto detect settings for graphics or look up what others recommend online in sites like protondb. if you hit a comfortable frame rate (40-60+ for me personally) keep increasing the graphics quality settings in game as long it remains fluid to play. Don't need to do it all in one session. I usually minimally increment the graphics settings at the start of each gaming session and simply revert once it's no longer fluid.

  • The unpleasantness of mosquito bites is not something useful for mosquitoes, but it is useful for the ones who suffer it

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  • While mosquito bites are unpleasant in themselves due to the itching and swelling I don't think it's common for cultures to have worked out the causal relationship between mosquitos and diseases like malaria. But I'd be happily educated otherwise.

  • Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive?

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  • For gluten free products: the whole production chain needs to use different tools or be sealed off from the rest. You can generally use the same mill, kneader, oven, tray for barley, wheat, rye, etc without meticulous cleaning in between. But if you want it to be gluten free you now need to either do that expensive cleaning or more realistically have an entirely separate set of machinery and ensure it never gets in contact with your main line.

  • How come it seems for the past decades the Catholic Church has been plagued with sex crimes especially among young boys? How long has this been going on? Or did I just miss something up.

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  • Here in Germany it has been revealed that the church set up a whole network shuffling around offenders (or sending them away to south america) and muddling traces. It's even been shown that the former pope knew about such cases. It's systemic.

    Basically it's a combination of supposed moral authority, intransparency, and mutual cover ups. People are willing to look the other way a lot when they perceive of someone as having a higher mission or great social standing. That includes law enforcement. Think of Donald Trump who's a fraudster-racist-rapist-insurrectionist and yet the MAGA crowd loves him. Maybe celibacy plays into it as well, sexual urges don't stop just because you don a robe.

    Younger people are less and less religious with each generation. So at least from that angle the problem might eventually go away.

  • Flameshot, an Open Source screenshot software

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  • I often use this over KDE's inbuilt screenshot tool because this one has a quick way to crop a screenshot

  • Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not

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  • Law terminology specifically can seem pretty archaic because there's a high need for terms to be stable over time. In other fields and everyday speech terms can change over time. There's contracts signed decades or even centuries ago that are still binding today. So it's practical in a sense if the words within and those used to discuss legal dealings don't change over time.

  • I'm still worthy

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  • I'm the opposite of this picture. It's like I have to relearn the game each time and fluid play takes a long time to return.

    Funnily enough my muscle memory persists to some degree though. So for instance if a particularly tough enemy is charging me I might push a specific key without actually knowing what it does. Afterwards I have to reason and rediscover what I was trying to accomplish and bind that action to the key I pressed.

  • Just not his thing.

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  • You can see that it's symmetrical and that they used 6 diametrical cuts to make 12 pieces. So 2 are missing.

    Not that it matters much, but this little dishonesty just adds to the zaniness of the whole ad.