wizardbeard

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Or you could accept that there are benefits to making attempts to conform to the norms of the overwhelming majority of adults.

Sorry you had overbearing parental figures or whatever, but I enjoy being able to hold down jobs with regular schedules, and not having to adjust my sleep schedule just to get to stores while they're open.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

What? Search nointro on archive.org for collections of cartridge games. Search redump there for disc based.

Anything not on archive (usually newer releases, or disc based games from PS2 or later), try some of the resources from the wiki/megathread on db0.lemmy.com's piracy community.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

Go get professional help. This is incredibly disordered thinking.

Not a healthy outlook.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 11 hours ago (19 children)

I'm in my mid 30s, and I have been dealing with ADHD my whole life. I have some important, but hard advice. If you aren't up for that, just don't read the rest of my comment.


I get the frustration of having people not struggling telling you to just struggle harder, and people you would expect sympathy from (friends, family) not supporting or sympathizing with you.

That said, and this is a bitter pill to swallow, the world at large does not care about your personal conditions. Whether you are a reliable friend, teammate, worker, spouse, etc matters far more than your ever present inner turmoil.

Work with medical professionals to get your symptoms under control so you don't beat yourself up at every turn for fucking up in ways that you are predisposed to. Learn to work with and around your own shortcomings and limitations instead of beating your head against the same damn wall every time. Build proper internal responses and coping skills to these events.

You clearly are aware of some of your own behavioral and thinking patterns that are not good or helpful, like overanalyzation after a fuck up. You already have your targets for things about yourself to work on.

This is not a nice thing to hear or to have to do, but it is essential if you want to survive as a grown ass adult in this world. You don't need to be perfect, but you will need to keep trying to do better, forever.

You can blame the condition that you are just going to have to live the rest of your life with, or you can take ownership that you fucked up again and work to not do it going forward. The fact that you are already beating yourself up about your mistake does not invalidate the right of other people to be frustrated at what happened.

No one has the right to make their internal turmoil everyone else's problem, even if it may be particularly burdensome. The world should be far more sympathetic and empathetic, but at some point you have to take responsibility for you. That means more than "I feel so bad", it also means "What can I do to prevent repeats, that I can actually follow through on rather than just have as magical thinking?"

Don't make plans dependent on getting your shit together. Make plans that will still work even if you keep fucking up in the same ways you did before.

It all gets easier with time, as long as you keep trying.

Ehhhh.... He goes from being shellshocked about his fellow soldier dying to whooping and cheering about murdering his former friends so fast it made my head spin.

Boyega was robbed, but they didn't use him very well even in TFA, in my opinion.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If it makes you feel any better, you're not alone. Would be a few more hoops to jump through to connect it to me, but as far as I know my company is the only customer left using this particular piece of software. The vebdor let go all their support staff and devs for it over a year ago. It's also highly likely that my company has a significantly customized version of this software.

Files shipped with the client install include functions to not only encrypt passwords (expected) but to decrypt them as well. If anyone got into the users table of the db it's all over.

Edit: Also to be fair, I don't truly know if this would be considered a problem. If someone has the users table you're probably fucked in a lot of other ways too.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's what the blocklists are for.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That entire article is based off coincidental reasoning, and does nothing to connect the review bombing (which did occur) to anything incel or right wing.

Yes, it's absurd that the Acolyte's audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes dropped to below the Holiday special or any other piece of Star Wars media faster than any other piece dropped, but that article itself calls out the most likely reason: people believing that the third episode was retconning the canon of Anakin's "virgin birth" making him the chosen one by implying the twins were also "virgin birth" force babies.

That's kind of a massive, setting breaking retcon, if that was in fact what the show was saying (which still seemed to be the implication as of the end of the series). I can understand why that would draw more ire from fans than any other new piece of Star Wars media under Disney. No outside agitators needed.

I'm afraid what happened is that he saw the fan reaction as a hate of the major plot points themselves, rather than of the abysmal pacing and handling of it all. We've been told that the broad strokes were from his drafts and plans for the series.

While my gut feeling would be to agree with you, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it. It could be a matter of other publishers are just putting up with it so they don't close themselves off from a large segment of the market.

There's plenty of devs that have had issues with Microsoft and other console storefronts over the years that have spoken out about it.

Way back in time, when TF2 was relatively new, Valve was pretty open about how they were incredibly kneecapped in their ability to release patches for the console version by the way the console online store and update systems worked.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Yeah, this seems to be a common pitfall for popular tools/projects. I get that the creators pour an astounding amount of effort into these things, so it's not unusual to desire compensation for your work.

That said, it pretty much guarantees that your little project has no chance of continuing to stay off Nintendo's radar anymore.

As an aside, I also really dislike this slow shift in the hacking/modding culture away from the "everything should be free" ideology. Every hobby does not need to be turned into a job or supplemental income stream folks!

This also ties directly into the plot of Metroid Fusion, were her encounter with the X parasite caused the biological components of her suit to fuse with her body. In order to stabilize her, the alien-bird-dna already fused with her human dna was further fused with metroid dna. Fusion! Fusion! Fusion! Do you get the title yet? Fusion!

 

NIST is a US government org that releases industry guidlines on best practices for cybersecurity.

I know that infosec and sysadmin work aren't the same, but in my experience it often falls to sysadmins and systems engineers to fill the gaps. Hope this is useful.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/askandroid@lemdro.id
 

I'm looking for a free, reputable ad blocker on the Play Store. Something that does local host/filter list filtering using the VPN feature, like Blokada 4 or 5 (before they started cloud hosting the filtering features as a money/data grab).

Personally, I'm no stranger to F-Droid or Obtanium and even have dipped my toes into ADB.

I need this for family members when they start asking, so I can point them at something decent that won't try to fleece them and get on with my life unburdened by family tech support hell. Something they can install through the Play Store they already have and easily switch on and off if something they "need" isn't working.

So that eliminates just setting their DNS to an ad blocking one in their Wi-Fi settings. Wouldn't follow them off that specific connection, and wouldn't be an easy toggle if something broke.

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