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by amatecha 2y ago
The degree of wisdom and truly "evolved" thinking demonstrated in this letter is deeply inspiring. Simultaneously, it conversely seems to support the idea that you can't really reason with fascists because their hunger for p
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by amatecha 2y ago
Maybe this lends weight to the idea that the strongest social network is decentralized and not reliant on a single point of ownership/control/failure? :)
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by amatecha 2y ago
Huh, almost as if hosting everyone on a centralized service isn't sustainable, and self-hosted, federated social media is more sustainable as more people come online? The couple times I've visited people's Bluesky profiles I&
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by amatecha 2y ago
I noticed when I was younger that I can "hear" when I'm near a wall, or just generally get a sense of the size of space I'm in solely via sound, but it never occurred to me to make a "ping" to sense the resulti
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by amatecha 2y ago
I was a nerd well before I was bullied. I remember some of the earliest bullying I experienced - this older kid called me "Macintosh" because we had a Mac computer at home (no DOS/Win) and this kid thought that was worthy of
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by amatecha 2y ago
There was a guy who bullied people at my high school (including me) who ended up later being murdered amongst a handful of other people in a drug/gang-related shooting. I felt some sympathy for their family but it 's like, "
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by amatecha 2y ago
Yeah, I got suspended once or twice for fighting back. Somehow it's my fault I can fight better than the trashbags that pushed me around. Eff around and find out, idiots. My school experience involved at least one experience of unwa
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by amatecha 2y ago
The most-bullied kid I ever witnessed in my life was also the most annoying, he would act out and make annoying noises and say the dumbest, most irritating "jokes". I've never seen a kid get bullied so bad, people stole his
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by amatecha 2y ago
^ this. Every time the school staff have to deal with THOSE parents, yet again, is a huge stressor and they will try to avoid it if they can, but the parents of the "generally-good-except-this-once" kids will generally be totally
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by amatecha 2y ago
Are you really trying to suggest that printing out 500-1000 copies of a photo and handing it out physically to all the kids in the school is the same as effortlessly spamming the same image out through online groups/chats? Come on, ma
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by amatecha 2y ago
Wow, this is beyond badass. Not only is the LAN and home network setup top-notch, that location is excellent too - what a view! Congrats on the amazing LAN setup and such a fun place to enjoy some gaming with your friends & family. T
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by amatecha 2y ago
I sadly am inclined to agree a bit about the Linux desktop stuff, I've been trying to get a nice simple XFCE linux desktop on a used thinkpad I recently picked up, so far tried Debian and Mint and they both have some issues with the ke
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by amatecha 2y ago
Oh most (if not all) of the stuff I linked was made with TrenchBroom[0], but yeah, regardless haha [0] https://trenchbroom.github.io/
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by amatecha 2y ago
Yeah, I always wished so badly I knew an adult who was a skilled programmer. I borrowed books from the library but I would always hit a wall so early on, not being able to make sense of the concepts (and being on a Mac, which none of the b
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by amatecha 2y ago
Pretty sure Quake mappers are getting by just fine without Blender: https://www.quaddicted.com/files/quaddicted-images/by-sha256... https://www.quaddicted.com/files/quaddicted-images/by-s
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by amatecha 2y ago
true, that reminds me of my friend hex-editing his savegame files for WarCraft 1 in DOS - he would have been 10 or 11 at the time.
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by amatecha 2y ago
Years ago I learned about the tools that one of my favorite bands used. At the time where Intel Macs were taking the world by storm, these guys were still using G4 towers in their studio and had no interest in using anything new. I'm
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by amatecha 2y ago
hmmm, I don't feel too skeptical about it - I think it just sounds more impressive in hindsight where it can be described in full clarity (and probably underestimating how much was picked up in the months/years afterward). I was
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by amatecha 2y ago
some time ago when I canceled spotify, they show this special playlist like "we'll miss you" or whatever, and each of the song names, in order, spell out this little goodbye message. Ironically one of the songs in that playl
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by amatecha 2y ago
plex alternative: jellyfin + finamp or fintunes. This is my new setup (alongside bandcamp if I haven't yet imported the bandcamp purchase into my jellyfin library). No cloud shit, no subscriptions, but I still support [most of] my f
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by amatecha 2y ago
I recently set up a new Debian install. Just went into the Printer Settings, and my printer is there. I did nothing, it just worked on its own. Printer issues are almost always the fault of the manufacturer -- if you're using Linux&
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by amatecha 2y ago
Curious where you went? Indeed, there are some pretty noteworthy issues here. Though, the one chargeback I've ever done was accepted, but you can always sense just how fragile every interaction is with nearly all systems we deal with
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by amatecha 2y ago
In my case you can find a room full of 20+ Apple machines in my home. The newest is from 2013, and I haven't bought another machine from them since (and never will again). People do in fact put their money where their mouth is. Some
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by amatecha 2y ago
I've started recording videos when I open packages (when the package contains something of greater-than-trivial value), because I've heard stories like yours. Maybe not bulletproof, but at least it's something…
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by amatecha 2y ago
This is crazy, what a mess. Definitely convincing me to not buy expensive items via delivery, if I can avoid it. I hope the person who had their shipment stolen (OP) gets "made right" in the end!
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by amatecha 2y ago
Yeah, it's so frustrating. There's the "opposite" problem too where old software I had is no longer on App Store, and simply cannot run on newer versions of iOS. I finally had to say goodbye to my friend's awesome
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by amatecha 2y ago
hahah for sure, I definitely went on the conservative side with a lighter battery so it could nicely be part of the pouch. The upside is because it's kinda "modular" (thanks to Anderson Powerpole) I could attach a much large
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by amatecha 2y ago
Yup, I have two perfectly good iPads sitting in a drawer nearly-unusable for modern online things because Apple and the web have left them behind (and all apps that have online services are no longer functional of course). The hardware is
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by amatecha 2y ago
sweet, congrats! checked in on any local 2m nets yet? hehe :)
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by amatecha 2y ago
RE: portable HF station, you might be intrigued by the portable rig I've put together over the past couple years[0]. It seems almost "obvious" after getting it all together, but it took a lot of reading and planning (and tryi

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