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Dave

@ davetansley @lemmy.world

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Dice maker, gamer nerd, developer, Dolphins fan. Reddit refugee (maybe).

Still fighting the 80s 8-bit wars, one port comparison at a time.

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  • If there is no heaven or after life, what is the point of living?

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  • Just because gods and heaven and hell aren't real, it doesn't mean that nothing is real. Kindness is real. Compassion is real. Understanding is real. That tingly feeling you get when you do something good for someone else is real. It may have been the product of countless years of evolution rather than divine whim, but it's still real.

    If you're lucky, you'll have another 60 or 70 years of awareness ahead of you. Find meaning by seeking out that tingly feeling as much as you can :)

  • Alexandrite 0.8.15 - sidebar redesign and more

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  • Great to see Alexandrite getting some updates again! :)

  • Sunrise on the Moors [OC]

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  • Pixel 6 phone, and I pretty much just picked it up and pointed it :)

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  • I did try running Plasma on Mint, but it was never quite as good as on Fedora or as smooth on Mint as Cinnamon.

    Honestly, I think I just like the simple uniformity of Cinnamon. It's dull and predicable, but really, really solid.

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  • Switched to Linux Mint about three years ago after being unable to take my perfectly good laptop from W10 to W11. Dual boot firstly, quickly becoming entirely Mint. It just worked. It was the first Linux distro I'd tried in about 20 years that I didn't mess up in a week or so.

    Recently bought a new laptop and decided to distro hop. Tried various flavours of Fedora, and a few others, but ultimately came back to Mint. None of the others worked quite as well as Mint does for me (though I really liked KDE Plasma, and Gnome surprised me once I finally discovered extensions!)

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  • For some reason, Mint doesn't provide access to the power profiles out of the box... no idea why. I just install a Cinnamon applet called "Power Profiles" and it gives me the same systray switcher as Fedora.

    Fresh install of Mint was giving me about 2 hours battery life. By switching to Power Saver profile, I can get up to about 6-8 hours. I mostly only need to go to Balanced or Performance when gaming.

  • Firefox stops loading pages seemingly at random, shows NS_BINDING_ABORTED, have to restart

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  • No idea if it's related, but I see similar behaviour (the not loading, rather than the error message) whenever Firefox requires a restart for an update. It doesn't make it clear this is what is happening, it just stops loading web pages in existing tabs. Only if I open a new tab does it show the "Restart to keep using" message.

    I've spent far too much time diagnosing network issues without realising I just needed a restart :)

  • Generative A.I - We Aren’t Ready.

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  • I'm starting to think that we need to see AI research in the same way we see biological weapon research - a visit from a SEAL team or a cruise missile for any identified laboratory. Smash the disks, burn all the print outs!

    Okay, this is hyperbolic and unrealistic, but I agree with this lion-maned YouTuber - we are really not ready.

    AI as a tech is game changing, but it practically demands at least UBI (and probably some form of socialism) as a prerequisite. We, meanwhile, are still electing conservative governments! The same arseholes that will label the legions of unemployed artists, actors, musicians, coders, admin assistants etc etc as lazy and cut their benefits.

    Does anyone truly believe that a tech that can replace half of human jobs is going to create happy outcomes in today's society? Or will it just make tech-bros and scammers richer, and virtually everyone else poorer?

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    Sunrise on the North York Moors

  • Why return-to-office mandates fail

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  • Working from home has its pros and cons. Fortunately, in my experience, the pros are all mine and the cons are all someone else's. That kind of colours my judgement.

  • Why in the year 2024 and with all the knowledge humans have now do people still believe in religion?

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  • Religion has certain self-reinforcing properties. Kind of like genes that make it more likely to propagate against other forms of information.

    • Believing without question is better than questioning
    • Not believing will be punished
    • Virtue will be rewarded
    • Spreading the belief is a virtue
    • You should obey your parents

    Combine that with young human brains being malleable, and religion tends to continue against all odds.

  • Rishi Sunak says Britain would go ‘back to square one’ with Labour ahead of first major campaign event of year.

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  • Cool, is that "square one" where we can book a GP appointment for a time before the heat death of the universe? Sign me up!

  • Sunrise on the moor [OC]

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  • In the North East of England, the North York Moors.

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    Sunrise on the moor

  • Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah tells employees to 'work longer hours' in year-end email

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  • Clowns who think like this need to fuck all the way off... and, honestly, it's up to older folk like me to make that clear. Younger folks are going to be fooled or scared into thinking like this and be unable or unwilling to speak up. We who have less pressing concerns need to have their backs.

  • Early Morning [OC]

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  • North Yorkshire, in the UK.

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    Why did Twitter (X)'s valuation tank 56% in one year?

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  • That and the woke mind virus.

  • Ghouls 'n Ghosts: A Home Port Comparison 🎃

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  • I believe Super Ghouls n Ghosts is seen as a sequel to Ghouls n Ghosts.

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    Why did Twitter (X)'s valuation tank 56% in one year?

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  • Why did its valuation tank after Elon Musk took over and started enacting his policies? Perhaps we'll never know...

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  • Hah! I'd never seen that before! I don't think it looks too bad :)

    I've certainly seen worse Amiga ports!

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    Ghouls 'n Ghosts: A Home Port Comparison 🎃

  • hey - trying to switch from Chrome to Firefox, what are your recommended extensions and/or quality of life addins, etc?

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  • If, like me, you do a lot of Chromecasting from your browser, you'll want to install fx_cast. You need to do a bit of manual installation to get it running, but it works great when you do.

  • Halloween Retro Picks?

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  • They 100% count!

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    Halloween Retro Picks?

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    If you could play one game for the first time all over again, what would it be?

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    Retroid Pocket 2S

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    Retroid Pocket 2S

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    Commando: A Home Port Comparison

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    Bomb Jack: A Home Port Comparison

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    The Ultimate Starter Handheld -- Retroid Pocket 2S

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    Final Fight: A Home Port Comparison

  • Gaming Handhelds @lemmy.ml
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    What's on your handheld at the moment?

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    Vigilante: A Home Port Comparison

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    Rastan Saga: A home port comparison

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    California Games: A port comparison

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    ZX Spectrum 1987

    Retrospective: Micronaut One

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    Golden Axe: A home port comparison

  • Album Art - Share your favourite music album cover @lemmy.world
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    Script For A Jester's Tear - Marillion (1983)