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The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.

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Accordingly to my cat (and apparently Sarah Andersen’s), this is a reliable way to give a stray a new home:
https://us-a.tapas.io/c/46/a04126c7-b6b3-4724-8782-9deba54a6ce6.jpg
I’m not too eager to trust her biased sampling though.

[Serious now, we should be more active on that. Also to discourage people from letting cats to “take a walk” unsupervised.]

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Mine was hiding herself in my garage. At least the younger one, Siegfrieda; our old lady Kika was adopted almost like you would adopt a dog, but from a home owner instead of a pet shop. (Her mum’s owner took a bit too long to spay her cat.)

Lemmy, is there a treasured piece of content that you stop yourself from going back to "too often" so as to not dilute it?

I do this for a few things, movies in particular. For me most recently, I’m planning on watching Bo Burnham’s Inside this weekend, for the first time since I watched it shortly post-release. I wasn’t really intending to wait checks watch nearly 3 years on that one, but I definitely felt it needed some space before a...

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  • [game] Donkey Kong Country 1/2/3
  • [anime] Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
  • [anime] Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

The games are part of my childhood, and they aged really well, so if I don’t stop myself from playing them all the time the muscle memory kills all the joy from playing.

Same thing with the two anime series - I love both but it has been a few years since I watched either.

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Yup, it aged really well, too. FMA:B too.

One TTGL episode that I occasionally watch (even if avoiding the rest of the series) is ep11, when Simon snaps off his grief and guilt. It’s amazing how the right context makes even something as silly as “ore wa ore da!” (I’m me!) sound awesome.

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I’m not sure if it is, but I don’t see it as a hot take. And it sounds reasonable, specially when some distros offer different “flavours” out-of-the-box, and offer you the option of different DEs before you even installed it.

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“c/palworld” will only work for people who are in lemmy.world. It’s better to link the community as !palworld, now everyone accesses it.

I’m apparently the second subscriber. I’ve been curious about this game; people describe it as “Pokémon with guns”, but what interests me is “Pokémon minus The Pokémon Company and GameFreak”. If they release a Linux version and are able to deliver a good singleplayer experience (I bloody hate multiplayer) I’m sold.

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That solves one of the matters (Linux). What about the other? Is its singleplayer fun?

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The game doesn’t really want to run in my potato (it has 16GB RAM, and I tried to run it through WINE so…)

That’s a shame because “Minecraft Pixelmon for adults” does sound nice for me. I also liked Ark quite a bit.

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I’m checking it now, seems interesting. And Monster Sanctuary, mentioned by @simple
Thank you both!

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Okay… I don’t even like Ubuntu, I’m still pissed at snaps, but I’m going to call it bullshit. OP is being at the very least disingenuous, if not worse (witch hunting).

Ubuntu Pro is a subscription system with the following features:

  • Extended security maintenance - 10 years of backported features, because enterprise hates dist-upgrade. By then human users upgraded their systems at least once, probably way more.
  • Live-patching kernel updates - because enterprise hates restart downtime. If it’s your personal machine you simply reboot after installing a new kernel, no biggie.
  • “Compliance and hardening” - basically a way to ensure that a machine follows a bunch of security protocols irrelevant for human users, and exchanging usability for less surface area in a way that human users wouldn’t want.

Are you noticing the pattern here? It’s junk that enterprise cares about, but you don’t. Canonical is milking corporations.

To make the comparison with airbag vests even worse, Pro is free for personal use, up to 5 machines. So it’s more like Canonical is saying “since we know that stupid bizniz bureaucracy prevents them from regularly replacing airbag vests, we’re willing to repair them for a price. For free if you’re a random nobody, by the way.”

And no, it does not contradict the Ubuntu principle, as your title implies.

And since I can’t be arsed to rebuke this shite being cross-posted to !latestagecapitalism, I’ll do it here. (I apologise to the others for posting politics here.)

The airbag vest part alone would be a good example of late capitalism; the business is clearly seeking to add surplus value to the goods. And since that surplus value cannot come from paying less for the labour of the workers, it comes from the buyers/“subscribers” - transforming the goods into a service, and commodifying personal security.

Ubuntu Pro is not this, as I’ve shown above. But even if it worked somehow like you’re implying that it does, through both threads (i.e. you don’t have ubuntu pro = you don’t get security updates), it would still not be an example of late stage capitalism: security updates are a service by nature, requiring additional labour to be produced, specially when you’re backporting a patch to ancient software.

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Hadrian was a big fan of this sort of large, public project. Besides the aqueduct there’s also Hadrian’s Wall (right at the border of Rome with the Picts, in Britannia) and the temple for Venus and Roma in the city.

Although… what interested me the most in the article wasn’t this sort of modern stuff, it was

the remains [in Greece] of a prehistoric settlement thought to be from the Bronze Age, roughly 2600 to 2300 B.C.

That’s an interesting period of the peninsula, as it was likely already Indo-Europeanised, but not Hellenised. Proto-Greek would be a bit after that, starting around 2200 BCE; but you already had Illyrian, Messapic, Thracian, Dacian, and perhaps Phrygian. (It’s kind of hard to know if they’re part of the same IE branch, or if similarities between them are areal. Greek in special borrowed quite a bit from native languages.)

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Kakao in the near future, trying to handle Tachiyomi forks:

https://64.media.tumblr.com/2a6ead3fde702ccede2df784b5cb595d/tumblr_n4jy9yq6GF1spy7ono1_400.gif

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Thank you!

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Shhh, just be careful, Linguistics is addictive. And a gateway to even heavier drugs, like constructed languages!

Jokes aside I get the passion. It’s that sort of field of knowledge that, no matter where you look at, you’ll find something beautiful about it.

Sometimes it’s a small etymology that “clicks” on you, or a speaker using some idiosyncratic variation; sometimes it’s pondering how we humans seized the world because we speak, perhaps as instinctively as the spiders weave webs or the cats destroy furniture. There’s room in Linguistics to be creative, or to be rigorous; to look at the past, or to investigate the present.

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How to get all kremkoins in Donkey Kong Country 2, through a cheat:

  • Enter the cabin with the map and the life balloon. Leave without touching anything.
  • Collect the banana bunch over the pirate crocodile. Go back to the cabin, now pick the life.
  • Repeat the above. You’ll see a kremkoin over the map. Pick it and you got 75 kremkoins.

In no moment you can touch the two lone bananas close to the entrance of the cabin.

…it has been decades since I played this game, and I almost never used the cheat above (it’s less fun than finding all bonus stages). Why do I still remember this?

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I remember this one too! There was also B A↓B↑↓↓Y (bad buddy) to switch when you wanted in 2P, instead of waiting until the arsehole playing with you to switch it.

Plus LRR LRR LR LR for DKC3. Then you’d insert a cheat and… I don’t remember them. Damn.

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