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Happy Valentine's Day! Here are some gay robots :3

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I'm going on a 20 hour train ride to new york how much e will you give me?

I will go to the transsexual store and grab some estrogen to start giving out as a free goodie for anyone who rides the train

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Finally got around to updating my tumblr for uh...new developments in my identity.

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if i had absolute power i would be really chill with it actually. i would never corrupt absolutely. i would keep it real niceys. heart

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Internet of Things grenade that harvests your data before blowing you up.

Bluetooth enabled grenade

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hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate

BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard to get rid of it!

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0) youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, []) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3

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Just software like Browsers or Steam or Discord or whatever just love making their interface worse.

websites love getting worse its their favourite activity

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rb this with ur opinion on this shade of pink:

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To an extent I agree with the download/install size, at least around the 10gig and lower-ish zone, but I was stuck with a slow internet speed (not quite 56k mind but it was still shit for the time) in my area for way longer than any modern human should have been subjected to, and I know people still have to deal with absolutely abysmal internet infrastructure to this day, so I honestly think that download/install sizes shouldn’t be as ignored as much as it is, at least in regards to the fucking triple A games these days that insist that a game taking up 90+ gigs is an okay thing to do.

what do you think of alternatives to Unity? Like Godot and stuff

To be honest, for as much as I like to kvetch about unity, it’s perfectly fine. We’re well into the era where download/install size isn’t the biggest deal, and a finished game that’s 6gb is infinitely better than a 4mb game that never gets done. 

I’ve not used a lot of alternatives, to be honest. when I make games I tend to use things like PyGame/Pyglet, and if I have to make a fully 3D game and just doing low-level OpenGL isn’t enough, Unity is what I’ll use. 

At the end of the day I’d rather people use whatever tools let them make the game, even if I can complain about the filesize or inefficiency or whatever. That’s mainly just because I’m from The Past when I regularly got new games on 720kb floppy disks   

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I’m still stuck on the part where everyone got into Sea Shanties

remember when people on here were really into steely dan for some reason

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You know what I hate about modern mice? how pointlessly anti-repair they are. I have had plenty of mice break over time, and often it's just that some fluff or skin-flakes got wedged in the mouse wheel or under the buttons. You just need to open them up and clean them. Except.. where are the screws?

OH THERE THEY ARE. under the little skid-pads, which cannot be put back on once you take them off, because the adhesive has been ruined! You have to buy replacement pads, if they're available, and maybe cut them down to size, as well as clean off the residue of the previous pads.

You know how this problem could be fixed? JUST DON'T PUT THE PADS ON TOP OF THE SCREWS!

Then you'd have no problem. Easy to disassemble and clean.

But then it'd look 5% uglier because apparently people are scared of seeing screws, and also people might not just throw it out and buy a new one!

It's the terrible sort of weird planned obsolescence that happens as an almost accidental side effect of improving the product. Like, ball mice? They were designed to be disassembled. You didn't even need a screwdriver! Because you had to clean them regularly, or they'd gunk up too fast. Modern optical mice? They still get gunked up, the buttons and wheel still die eventually. They can be cleaned and repaired. But now that it's not required for all of them to be cleaned regularly, that function has been removed. they're designed to be disposable.

The same thing happened with TVs way back when. If you open up a TV from the 50s (or just look at the back, honestly, many of them were designed to be always-open), you'll find a schematic showing where all the tubes are and what models they are. Was this because the 1950s was a golden era of reparability? NO! it's because they burnt out all the time and you had to replace them! As soon as TVs got reliable enough that replacing tubes was no longer needed, the schematics became hidden behind paywalls and for authorized-service-personnel-only.

It would be only a minor change in aesthetics to make your mouse repairable/cleanable. Hell, most of the time when it's not simply fixed by cleaning it, it's because one of these broke:

This is an Omron D2FC-F-7N microswitch, used in a bunch of mice. It's designed to last about a million clicks. With a soldering iron and some solder (like 25$ on amazon) you can trivially replace it. New switches cost between like 10 cents and 2 dollars, depending where you buy it and how many you want. A couple bucks of parts and half an hour's worth of work, you can repair a 40$ mouse that's "died".

But they make it unnecessarily hard with the slide-pads being unreplacable. You have to find ones that match, you have to carefully clean off the old residue with IPA, or the new ones you just bought will fall off. All to make it look SLIGHTLY better (how often are you looking at the aesthetics of the bottom of your mouse, exactly? (no furries are allowed to answer this question!)) and maybe, just maybe, to push it over into "not worth it". You could do all that, but you have to buy new switches, new slide-pads/mouse-feet (SHUT UP FURRIES), and can you remember where your solder even is? you last used it when you were trying to fix that keyboard...

Basically one thing that is maddening to anyone with the very basics of electronic knowledge (seriously: the amount of skill you need for this is the kind you can get in less than an hour from watching a youtube tutorial) that we're surrounded by all this electrical nonsense that will break and have to be thrown out, but is mostly breaking in ways that could be fixed in a very short amount of time with relatively little work.

It's infuriating to go on amazon to buy another damn mouse and it pop up "hey you last bought this in 2021, you fool" and you're like I KNOW, IT SHOULD STILL BE WORKING TODAY!

I have computer parts from the 80s in my room right now that are still working when stuff made in the last 5 years is already dying! There's no reason it should be this way. It's an endless waste of time and money and resources and it's just to make some logitech or whoever executives slightly richer.

It's deeply bullshit. The modern day is going to be identifiable as the geological layer where most of the trash was generated. We're living in the middle of the quisquiliarumferous period: the layer of garbage.

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Fresh snow for the corgo to traipse through

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normalize celebrating robbery szn

Occasionally have the semi-intrusive, or at least unprompted but recurring thought:

IT’S ROBBERY SEASON

Also for some reason ‘season’ is always abbreviated so instead:

IT’S ROBBERY SZN

I have no idea why. I feel no particular desire to commit any robberies, or read about robberies. Most worryingly, I can find no evidence of either phrase anywhere else on the internet, which means it’s pure, unalloyed brain thoughts. Anyway I think we have to make this the new meme now

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something i've noticed. people seem to think the most nature-y nature is forests. so forests are always prioritized for conservation, and planting trees is synonymous with ecological activism. my state was largely prairies and wetlands before colonization. those ecosystems are important too. trees aren't the end-all be-all of environmentalism. plant native grasses. protect your wetlands.