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Rose

@ umbraroze @slrpnk.net

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I'm just one random nerdy trans girl. ...Oh come on, you've been around fediverse, surely you've seen us around?

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  • In the installer even!

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  • The only "real" computer (that is, a non-SBC one) I've installed Linux lately on was a work laptop. Touchpad, GPU and Wi-Fi worked straight off in Debian. Though I think it only installed Nouveau, never bothered with the real Nvidia driver. And it had some weird thermal regulation issues. Once it somehow left the filesystem in "plz boot in single user and fsck with a toothpick" state. The day before my internship ended, the thing crashed hard for some reason and took the filesystem with it. (Never use btrfs I guess?)

  • What's the worst change made in a movie adaptation of a book?

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  • I should reread the book. It was hyped as a good book. It was a good book.

    Then I went to see the movie. Came out of the cinema and muttered "well that was a bunch of unrelated nonsense". Went home.

  • Modern Windows in a nutshell

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  • Last time Clock was interesting was in the Windows 3.0 days. Windows 11 clock is just beyond meh.

    Since Windows these days can't be arsed to have an analog clock with second hand (which is what I need for properly setting clocks on all of the devices that don't have internet access), I just made one myself one day.

  • Which “small” indie game/film/book hit you harder than most blockbusters?

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  • A couple of games from recent years: Chants of Sennaar (linguistic puzzles and incredible vibes) and 1000xResist (this game had something many big game devs seemingly have completely forgotten about, specifically, writing).

  • Uh...

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  • Original definition: using AI to create a small bespoke kinda-crap-but-it-works apps or games for personal use. It's a shitty proto but it's interesting.

    (My reaction: ooo not my jam but that sounds neat I guess)

    Modern definition: it's a multi-quadrispillion dollar industry and it's the future according to some very important board members.

    (My reaction: ...capitalism ruins fucking everything)

  • Pocket Knives

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  • I'm usually like, ooh, I have a Swiss army knife in my pocket. And another on the keychain.

    ...Except when I'm home, the keys go to the tray and I switch to indoors pants, so when I actually need the damn things I usually need to take extra effort to go grab them anyway.

  • Vintage

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  • Somewhere in my giant box of cables I have an adapter for attaching MIDI cables to the joystick port. When I actually used a MIDI keyboard with it, I had... variable success.

    The first time I had a MIDI keyboard that just worked, it used USB as transport. (And it has worked great since. I think it's the only USB Mini plug device device I still regularly use.)

    Crazy thing is, MIDI is absolutely ancient. You'd imagine it'd work fine on the gameports, but nope. Legacy PC ports are cursed. Except audio jacks and serial ports, and VGA if you're really into screwing things in place.

  • Have you ever cried because of a video game?

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  • Many times in many games.

    Probably the most in Mass Effect series, so many emotional moments. ME2: Overlord's end hits the hardest.

  • National Security

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  • Linus was a bit of a trendsetter what comes to standing desks. In an interview he also commented on the walls, saying the paint colour is also used in mental institutions because it has a very calming effect on the human mind. (Goodness knows Linus needs all the chill he can muster.)

  • What meals do you cook when very low on money?

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  • I keep a bunch of macaroni in the cupboard as the last resort. I tend to get potatoes, maybe some mayonnaise to go with it, and whatever special I can get on the cheap (e.g. sausages). Lots of squinting at the current deals!

  • What meals do you cook when very low on money?

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  • So I added a bunch of stuff I had in my kitchen already:

    In a lot of discussions about cheap food, that phrase is often replied with "man, I wish I had anything lying around in the kitchen already" 😅

    But seriously, investing even a little bit in spices whenever you happen to have the money does go a long way! Having decent access to salt and pepper does wonders, and I guarantee it's all up from there. I'm always wondering, like, "am I brave enough to check if this stuff tastes good with hot sauce? Guess today is the day we'll finally find out!"

  • Emojis and Lemmy

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  • It's kind of funny how I was recently thinking that Lemmy and other Fediverse services seem to be at least tolerant of occasional emoji use. Just don't overdo it and you'll probably be fine. 😁

    Compared to, say, Reddit. If you used emoji there, you either got murdered by the spam filter and you will never succeed in your life and you don't know why (there are other ways to trigger it, of course), or it goes through, and the fedoras shall descend upon you.

  • what's your ringtone?

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  • Back when I had the last monophonic Nokia and you could order ringtone by SMS, I got the Morrowind theme.

    On the flip phone I had that let me set random MP3s as ringtone, I used the Oblivion theme

    My first shitty Samsung Android phone, "One They Fear" (dragon battle) from Skyrim.

    Now: Nokia Tune (device default, HMD Global Nokia 5.4)

  • Skwerl (aka "How English sounds to non-English speakers")

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  • What is the best Power Outlet, and why?

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  • Schuko (Type F) of course. The British plug (Type G) is a truly worthy adversary.

  • What's the Holy Grail item in your hobby?

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  • I'm a photography nerd.

    There's a bunch of rare and expensive cameras, of course, so I could probably just say "oh, probably anything from Leica".

    But the real snobs go for turbo rare lenses. As a Nikon fan, I hope that I shall one day be allowed to the same airspace as the hallowed Nikkor 13mm f/5.6. The first ultrawide non-fisheye lens. 350 of these were made, each individually blessed by priests as they left the factory, or so the story goes. They cost an arm and leg - wait, in this economy, an arm and leg would probably be cheaper.

  • Your Favorite YouTube Channel is (Probably) Owned By Private Equity [12:02]

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  • On one hand, I could say it's not necessarily a bad thing if channels can secure funding for years to come to keep producing great stuff. But on the other hand, people strangely just straight up keep forgetting what happened to Rooster Teeth and a few other big names of the past. Money can make channels die with a whimper.

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    What kind of communities would you like to see either created or become more active on Lemmy?

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  • A while ago I tried to look for something similar to Reddit's Tip of My Tongue/Joystick (looking for media/games you have vague memories of and don't know the title), but didn't seem to find one. And I suspect it's a bit niche thing.

  • there's no escape! brew another cup!

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  • I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as wheel, is in fact, GNU/Wheel, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus wheel.

  • how many people came to this platform due to leaving / being banned from Reddit?

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  • Came to Mastodon when Elon nabbed Twitter, came to Lemmy when the Reddit apps got stuffed. (Well, I originally got on Kbin, not Lemmy.)