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umbraroze, to lemmyshitpost in I'm a sucker for big tree
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In middle of a couple of worldbuilding projects. Haven't really had much good ideas for the fantasy project lately.

Ah HA! Maybe I'll do some mild subversion of expectations.
Maybe one of the most famous sites in this world, where people come to visit from far and wide, has a tiny old withered tree.
...I mean, there could be a lot of legitimate logical reasons why this site could me important. Maybe the tree has a really fascinating story behind it.
Heck, there's probably many such places on our world too! Can think of at least one from the top of my mind.
I should write this down.

Last year I felt really crappy as far as my writing projects go, but in the last few months, if there's one thing I've learned it's that even smallest ideas can sometimes break the writer's block. Keep writing them down!

umbraroze, to linux in Linux Boomers
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Oh content from this blog has been popping up in random places. Methinks it's le epic trole.

umbraroze, to linux in Linux Boomers
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So yeah, Xfce looks the same as it did 10 years ago.

And?

Desktop environment is meant to launch apps and give me windows and maybe have a file manager. Xfce does that. It's a desktop environment.

Hey, "modern" desktop environment enthusiasts, if you bring Compiz back from the dead, give us luddites a call, will you? Ohhhh you kids should have seen it back in the day. Windows and Mac users saw Compiz in action and were, like, "wat." You don't get them to react that way to modern Linux desktops, no. And all that is lost now. Thanks Wayland.

umbraroze, to asklemmy in Which of your favorite creators content quality went downhill very quickly?
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Yeah, basically unsubbed from AvE over this too.

I can't remember who this was, but there was another engineering YouTuber who, during the pandemic, basically twittered about being frustrated with the lockdowns from business perspective and whingled about being scared talking about his political beliefs because apparently being anything anything right of a model leftist is a crucifiable offence in the bird site, according to him. And how the horse paste actually works. I was like "...oh shit, maybe this dude is a magahatter?"

umbraroze, to asklemmy in Which of your favorite creators content quality went downhill very quickly?
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I used to watch iilluminaughtii several years ago, probably because I've been grabbing popcorn and enjoying watching someone dunking on multi-level marketing since, uh, 90s at least. Then I watched some video that was about some topic that I was kind of in middle of a deep dive, too (I can't remember which exactly. Elan School, probably?). And the video was bland as hell. And then I was like "yeah, most of these other videos are kind of forgettable shallow pap too".

...and this year we found out about the whole landlordy corporate town fancier backstabby financial abuser helicopter-CEO situation. And the content mill situation. And the plagiarism thing. Can't forget the plagiarism thing. ...I was like, "oh this all just makes sense now."

umbraroze, to risa in What would be Gorn's callsign? wrong answers only
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Sssss, tail number SSS-55555

umbraroze, to lemmyshitpost in Duo out here teaching me the essentials
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There are a lot of people who go "I tried to learn X through Duolingo and failed". Sure, that's probably true, because staring at the app is not how language learning works. Much like 100 years ago, people would have said you can't learn a language by reading a single book.

Duolingo is great for basics of the language, vocabulary and constant daily lessons. But you always need more. There's a whole language sphere out there. People actually using the language and whatnot.

I started studying French through Duolingo and about 6 months later I was like "I really need a grammar book and a dictionary, dammit". Year in, I was like "I should try reading news in French and maybe try a book."

umbraroze, to memes in It's just like calling someone's printer from your landline.
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Reminds me of another old joke: "My doctor said I have the lungs of a little old lady. The upside is that I know that little old ladies never die."

umbraroze, to memes in grandma's house
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The difference between wolves and dogs: wolves eat the grandma, dogs eat everything else in the house except the grandma

umbraroze, to science_memes in Chad Pacific
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In Finnish language we already have the kinda rare expression "rapakon takana" ("behind the mud puddle") about stuff that's happening in America.

umbraroze, to lemmyshitpost in Same.
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Well of course it has a picture of his parents fighting (???) in it. Dude's a severely messed up right-winger.

umbraroze, to lemmyshitpost in Let's all be thankful.
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Newspaper Nerds appreciation day! ...Maybe. The dude's political signalling was fucking all over the place.

umbraroze, to memes in Japan is on its own wavelength.
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Funny thing, in ISO 8601 date isn't separated by colon. The format is "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+hh:mm". Date is separated by "-", time is separated by ":", date and time are separated by "T" (which is the bit that a lot of people miss). Time zone indicator can also be just "Z" for UTC. Many of these can be omitted if dealing with lesser precision (e.g. HH:MM is a valid timestamp, YYYY-MM is a valid datestamp if referring to just a month). (OK so apparently if you really want to split hairs, timestamps are supposed to be THH:MM etc. Now that's a thing I've never seen anyone use.) Separators can also be omitted though that's apparently not recommended if quick human legibility is of concern. There's also YYYY-Wxx for week numbers.

umbraroze, to linuxmemes in Can you install thid 25 year old program?
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32-bit software is still absolutely supported on amd64. Just go to C:Program Files (x86) and be amazed.

umbraroze, to linuxmemes in Can you install thid 25 year old program?
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It's funny, the only Linux software I've ever used that was only shipped as binaries was Loki games. Also, the only software that broke after binary compatibility went south. There used to be a giant tarball of old libraries and jiggerypokery that enabled the Loki games to sorta kinda work.

I was kind of sad to see that Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri didn't run too well, but then I tried to play the GOG version on x64 Windows 11 and there are occasional weird issues. So, eh.

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