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I am really enjoying Matt Dillahunty's Debate Review vs Muslim Apologist Daniel Haqiqatjou.

Currently it comes in three parts, linked is the first. Two others are on the ready (the second one is two hours long). The fourth and final will come around at some point... which means you have time to catch up!

#atheism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmaMz_dr1t

[–] ja2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'll probably hop on when I'm feeling froggy

[–] ja2@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

PolyMC has a toxic lead dev. Google it to learn more. PrismLauncher forked from it about a year ago taking nearly all the active devs, and it remains my favorite launcher of all those I've used.

Fuck PolyMC.

[–] ja2@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hi5! I'm 45 and I have played MC from the beginning, still play it more than any other game. Now my little kids play it with me and it's their favorite too.

[–] ja2@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

for me, reddit nearly always has way more quality content and news for me though for the time being

It's not just you.

As constructively as I can put this, reddit has been building community and goodwill for many years. Lemmy has only recently become an option and it's done wonderfully in the short time it's had.

The challenge is the catch 22. People go where there is more content, they produce content there, and then there is more content there. There no vacuum, reddit didn't disappear. It became toxic and people apparently care less about avoiding toxicity than filling up on dank memes.

All I can say to that is we all need to be the change we want to see in the world. Adopt a Lemmy First mentality, and go to reddit only to pick up legacy slack. Continue the conversation from there over here. Link it up.

[–] ja2@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Look forward to talking to you!

[–] ja2@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The same could be said of literally every single product that magically became way more expensive post pandemic for no justifiable reason.

[–] ja2@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I'm 100% retro and linux gaming, but I don't need to force my kids down the road I'm on. I just share what I love and hope they choose it for themselves so we have common interests. So far, surprisingly, they both love NES / SNES and that's thanks to Nintendo developing the same franchises for decades, for better or worse.

I don't really game on the go other than mindless android games. If I did, steam deck makes way more sense. For the kids I keep thinking Switch mainly because they already love the Wii, and all their friends have Switches, so it's a social vocabulary thing.

Surely you're right about the satisfaction part. I need to make sure the kids are part of it, maybe choosing models and building, painting, etc with me. They are pretty young but once they get a little better spatial awareness and reading skills, python and freecad are not out of the question! They play minecraft already, so we're off to a good start I think.

 

Well, I made a commitment today. After a couple of years on an Ender 3 Pro which is totally a ship of Theseus now, I’m building a #Voron 2.4 r2. Wish me luck! It was either that or a Switch and some games.

This is the next (big) step into getting a little more serious about project work with my kids. I hope it pays off for us 😅

[–] ja2@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

If you drop your phone that much, I think this is the case you need: https://a.co/d/1fyszgF

:D

[–] ja2@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

First, let's consider that up until fairly recently in human society, writing has been the domain of the wealthy and not entirely accessible to everyone. The rich could write whatever they want or patronize those who could write what they wanted for them. The rarity - relative to the greatest developments of proliferation being chiefly the printing press and recently the internet - of written works, demanded that anything someone bothered to put into physical written form must have considerable innate value to someone. If they didn't, nobody would have bothered with the effort or expense.

I no longer have access to the reference for a citation and am having trouble digging it up, but I saw (probably on a blog about AI) some figures recently describing the amount of written "material" produced by humanity on a daily basis (or some other comically short time) in 2023 being comparable to the amount produced in the ~five thousand preceding years since the written word is thought to have been invented.

With as much "writing" being produced, most of it being spam or low-effort shitposting, the signal to noise ratio is unbelievably high. Regardless of the profundity of the thought being born and described, the chance of having anything written today - randomly on the internet - recognized for its quality is infinitesimally small.

I believe that there IS a fantastic amount of truly remarkable writing being done every day all over the internet. Nearly all of it will be retained on some form of media basically forever, even until the media is woefully obsolete / destroyed / the heat death of the universe. Most of it will never be set upon by human eyes again after this weekend.

Today, like hundreds of years ago, what rises to the surface does so due to commercial pressures. If you are awesome and impress a publisher with deep pockets, your words could be preserved in a form that will be read in 2434. Of course, it will have to continue to be impressive long after most of the books selected by Oprah's Book Club.

[–] ja2@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey, @AvaddonLFC

[–] ja2@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I'm sure that the buyer can be expected to pay for shipping, but at the end of the day for any buyer the "price" is inclusive of all fees, and for the seller the "profit" is minus expenses. So if it's cheaper to ship using eBay's discount, that means the buyer pays more or the seller makes less.

In the end it's probably worth it for the peace of mind, though. I've personally never been screwed on a big ticket item and I don't mind selling stuff for under $100 on ebay. If I lose, it's lost, right? My feelings about eBay so far are that I'm selling there as much for altruistic reasons... I don't want the material to be landfill, someone can get a deal (I do it all the time), and I'd like to recoup some cash as well to spend on hobbies. The couple times I've been hassled and lost money on ebay, it totaled less that $50.

I'd be super upset if I got screwed for several hundred.

 

A year and a half ago, selling a video card on eBay was basically the same as paying someone to punch you in the face. It was as likely you'd get an INAD and eat the loss as anything else. So when I had one to sell, I sold it on FB Marketplace, and meeting in person for that much money didn't feel a lot less sketchy but at least it was in public and I could count the money.

Now, I want to replace a Nvidia card with an AMD one and that leaves me selling the Nvidia. It would be extremely convenient to sell it on eBay, but I'm looking for some perspective on whether the buyer protection scams have died down for video cards over there now that the shortage has passed, or if it's still basically a waste of time.

 

Earlier this week, I bought myself a new 2TB NVMe drive on sale, and had planned today to install it. Knowing that the computer, built in Dec 2021 had an issue with PCIe at the time that prevented 4x drives from running at 4x, but now had a BIOS update that fixed that (and introduced support for two additional CPU generations), I thought I should go ahead and flash the BIOS too.

Sparing unnecessary details, everything went fine. I unseated the 3060Ti to get at the M.2 ports, swapped out the old drive for the new one. Plugged in a spinner I had laying around while I was in there. Machine wouldn't boot - so I reinstalled GRUB (yes, I'm a Linux user) and that was fixed. The disk had everything copied over from the old one, so that was fine too, other than some power management spam in the journal that was fixed with a kernel param. Seems fine, right?

So I spin up Minecraft to have a quick session. Frame rates are like, 3-20 fps for about 2 full minutes, then they get up to 60fps (Vsync'd). But every few minutes, they keep dropping and creep back up. Sometimes they bounce up.

There are a dozen potential problems at least that could cause something like this. So I went back into the newly flashed BIOS knowing that all my settings were reset, and started poking around and fixing settings. This was good either way, but it didn't fix my sporadic fps dips. The game ALWAYS started at sub-10 fps, but it would get to 60 eventually. Sometimes in a handful of seconds, sometimes in minutes. One time, all the textures refused to load. Another time, the GPU fell off the bus.

This was not a problem at all prior to the work, so I started reviewing what I'd done so far. I'd added a disk with all copied data.. but there's a nvidia cache in there... cleared that. No dice. I looked at heat. No problem. Same drivers as before, but maybe I have to roll back drivers, or kernel, or BIOS. I dunno. Frustrated as fuck.

Could also be a power issue. Or a reseating the card issue. I hadn't added any devices with more power consumption and I have ~100W of buffer on a good PSU, so it really should be a problem, but I reseat the card and replug the power cables anyway.

The problem is worse.

So I spend another hour and a half poking around forums looking at every possible thing I could do on the software side to fix this, before I decide to reseat the card one more time. I mean, the first time changed SOMETHING, even if it was for the worse.

Popping out the card, I blew into the slot as I thought I saw a tiny speck of dust. I used canned air the first time but this was really an afterthought by this point...

The body of a tiny moth popped out of the slot.

I reseated the card, spun up Minecraft, and everything is fine. Perfect frame rates, just like before.

I'll never get the hours back that I spent troubleshooting this today. At least several other items were improved along the way, such as RAM timings. But in the event this story helps anyone in the future, it's worth the time it took to type it.

 

As always, I have a problem of a somewhat esoteric and technical nature. :P

I downloaded a theme park map for my kids to have fun on. The whole thing had been generated ultraflat, with a build height set at y=100. I wanted the world gen OUTSIDE the main theme park build area to be 1.20.1 normal overworld generation.

So, I managed to get all the chunks around the main area deleted in MCA Selector and outright removed all superfluous regions, then deleted level.dat to force the game to make new chunks based on default parameters. This worked really, really well - everything outside the theme park is totally great and the biome blending I have to say is pretty exceptional, given two major caveats.

First, most of the theme park would have been mostly in an ocean, and given that the base build height was set to y=100, biome blending is producing a very clear terraced stair-step effect all the way around. That's not a HUGE deal, but I would very much like to drag the base height down to y=64 if that's possible and bring all the content down with it, and retry the biome blending.

Second, because the chunks were generated with zero underground features, all chunks below the builds are dirt down to y=0, and then nothing (no deepslate / bedrock / etc) until you hit the edges where new chunks are made. This is problematic for obvious reasons. Bedrock would be OK, caves would be better, but I'm not sure why it's completely empty. My old worlds that I updated all the way through versions generated deepslate to bedrock from y=-64 to y=0.

Worst case scenario i can just get over the terrace problem, and use worldedit to fill in a bedrock layer and a bunch of deepslate, but I'd rather something more natural for my kids to destroy. :)

Looking for thoughts on this.

 

I know a lot of development is happening in the space and this answer will likely change.

One of the crucial parts of my snoosite "workflow" if you can call it that, was a widget front and center on my phone using redditisfun:

I wonder if there are any apps, current or in some stage of development, that feature a basic "Frontpage" widget like this?

 

It's a sad but seemingly inevitable consequence of greed when community platforms turn to the dark side and abandon the contributors and lurkers who made them relevant and great.

It's also sad and weak for an incumbent to kick them when they don't even recognize they are down yet!

I'm glad this community exists on Lemmy, I hope it continues to be used for constructive conversation.

 

I'm kicking around a few feature requests.

One of them I've already created in github as it seems appropriate to mainline Lemmy, but a couple of others I think are more appropriate to third party development. Since I'm more a product management / sysadmin type and not much of a coder, I'm putting these in the aether in case they drum up some interest in those considering features for bots or other tooling.

First is YouTube aggregation - it doesn't have to be limited to YT. I'm interested in the ability to automatically collect notifications from a list of channels (click that bell icon, baby) and generate a community post to link new videos.

Second is RSS aggregation. If a blog or magazine or news site has a feed, and if that feed should feature an entry matching keywords defined by a moderation team, generate a post to the community linking to that content.

If these capabilities exist already for Lemmy, even in a hackish way, please do let me know. Otherwise, these are things I am wishing for :)

 

A community for people who don't believe in gods.

!atheism@lemmy.world

 

I built this and one other (black and red) with a different thumb cluster in 2021. Not sure if Dactyl Manuform is still "hip" but this has been my daily driver for two years now and I don't really want to type on anything else!

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