takeheart

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[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

Listened to the entire interview. At no point does she pledge that. She simply doesn't rule it out and is willing to consider.

That header is clickbait bullshit .

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Seen a military analyst comment on this one. He said it was likely shot down by something else while this guy also fired at it.

Still a nice clip though.

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 156 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

It's well known that the judiciary at the time was very lenient towards right wing extremists. His time in jail was rather cozy and gave him time to develop and write down more of his ideological underpinnings. And come up with a more comprehensive plan for taking over.

That's why I find it very worrisome when people like Donald Trump get what amounts to a slap on the wrist for staging an insurrection. Not just that but they actually put him on the ballot again 😱. And this time the people propping him up in the background came up with an elaborate plan for claiming the election and then completely restructuring the executive authoritarian style (aka Project 2025).

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Went to a local rock concert once. Had to go into the middle of the crowd to fetch a friend and alert him of something that had happened. The music was unbearably loud for me. Noticed that virtually everyone was wearing ear plugs.

Found it absurd. Why not lower the volume instead and have people forego the plugs? Less noise pollution in the local area too. After the concert was over I asked some participants about it. Everyone claimed they liked the loudness or that it was necessary somehow. My impression: they liked to keep up with the appearances of being hardcore, it being for tough folks. But they didn't want the actual hearing damage.

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 38 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The gentleman seated in aisle 3, left sends a stewardess to inform you that you could actually live thru the whole ordeal if you just promise him this one tiny little thing. But he wants it in writing to be sure.

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Can we appreciate #7?

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This is true for serial killers in general though. Murders tend to be premeditated. If you are planning a murder you'll look for ways to maximize your success and minimize the chance of getting caught. In modern times you don't have to rely on pure strength; there's a plethora of workarounds from drugs to guns. The actual desire to end a human life (usual enabled by some form of psychopathy) is the limiting factor. A serial killer personality type doesn't throw the towel just because they are physically weak.

Guess what I'm saying is: there isn't a large contingent of women out there that would suddenly turn serial killers if they were to physically become stronger.

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

It's true but the title doesn't seem onion-y to me.

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ideally you'll adjust both in game settings and deck settings for each game with in-game settings taking precedence as they give you access to fine tuning custom tailored to that game. The deck settings are great to tinker with when you want longer battery life especially. If it's inside the dock and charging while you play you needn't worry much about optimization (frame rate limit, heat limit, half rate shading, etc.) and can leave it at the sensible defaults.

The Steam Deck per-game control layout is very helpful for games that don't come with native controller support or those that don't let you rebind controls inside the game itself.

I don't own the games you mention, so I can't suggest specifics but my general way of setting up a game is:

  1. install the game and get it running at all
  2. use in-game options to find a resolution and layout comfortable from your preferred playing posture/position
  3. enable frame rate overlay in the steam settings
  4. start with default or auto detect settings for graphics or look up what others recommend online in sites like protondb. if you hit a comfortable frame rate (40-60+ for me personally) keep increasing the graphics quality settings in game as long it remains fluid to play. Don't need to do it all in one session. I usually minimally increment the graphics settings at the start of each gaming session and simply revert once it's no longer fluid.
[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

While mosquito bites are unpleasant in themselves due to the itching and swelling I don't think it's common for cultures to have worked out the causal relationship between mosquitos and diseases like malaria. But I'd be happily educated otherwise.

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 59 points 3 weeks ago

For gluten free products: the whole production chain needs to use different tools or be sealed off from the rest. You can generally use the same mill, kneader, oven, tray for barley, wheat, rye, etc without meticulous cleaning in between. But if you want it to be gluten free you now need to either do that expensive cleaning or more realistically have an entirely separate set of machinery and ensure it never gets in contact with your main line.

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Here in Germany it has been revealed that the church set up a whole network shuffling around offenders (or sending them away to south america) and muddling traces. It's even been shown that the former pope knew about such cases. It's systemic.

Basically it's a combination of supposed moral authority, intransparency, and mutual cover ups. People are willing to look the other way a lot when they perceive of someone as having a higher mission or great social standing. That includes law enforcement. Think of Donald Trump who's a fraudster-racist-rapist-insurrectionist and yet the MAGA crowd loves him. Maybe celibacy plays into it as well, sexual urges don't stop just because you don a robe.

Younger people are less and less religious with each generation. So at least from that angle the problem might eventually go away.

 
 

I own an older monitor that has only has VGA and DVI port and I want to connect it to my deck for daily use.

In theory this should be as simple as getting a DVI to HDMI converter cable and then connect to a dock that has a HDMI port, right? Or perhaps a DVI to display port adapter instead? I've read about people having trouble with DVI monitors so I checked multiple dock vendors and their statements boil down to "we don't support it", ie they don't deny or rule out that it works but don't want to give guarantee either.

Is anyone in a similar situation and can recommend a dock? I want to resolve the monitor situation first and then worry about additional stuff like USB ports, etc.

My monitor is a Samsung SMT 2333T (https://www.samsung.com/us/business/support/owners/product/2333t-series-2333t/)

Edit: I got it working and it was quite simple, here's my steps:

  1. I checked the port at the back of my monitor (reference chart) which turned out to be DVI-I dual link.
  2. then I purchased a HDMI <–> DVI adapter cable which supports my monitor’s resolution (1080 p). This costs around 10 €.
  3. connected that cable to the official Steam Deck dock and my monitor and it works without any further setup
  4. while in the Deck’s Desktop mode you can go into the system settings --> display and make your external monitor the primary display. Primary means that your start bar is located there, new apps will launch on this screen by default, etc. In the same settings menu you can also turn off the Decks own display while the external one is connected. I do this because I can’t comfortably look at it anyway while it’s in the dock and also to save energy.
 
 

Frohe Ostern euch allen!

 
 
 
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