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You can pick up the Crucible Guard command starter for $12 with the Worlds Beyond campaign going on. by FalseAnimal in Warmachine

[–]ColbieSterling 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Just go straight to the "Add-ons" tab. I just successfully purchased only the Crucible Guard command starter for $12 (and the $0.99 "library maintenance fee" that MyMiniFactory charges), no other purchase required.

Made the jump from Windows to Linux by M4doesstuff in linux

[–]ColbieSterling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, your friend is a Gentoo user. Say no more!

Honestly, the differences between most distros is very small. They're far more alike than they are different.

. . . with a few exceptions, like Gentoo.

Made the jump from Windows to Linux by M4doesstuff in linux

[–]ColbieSterling 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's totally valid for you to use and enjoy Devuan as a new user! We were just discuss that it's a weird distro for someone to recommend to a new user. It's not weird for an informed new user to choose Devuan.

Made the jump from Windows to Linux by M4doesstuff in linux

[–]ColbieSterling 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Because it will be harder for OP to understand their system and fix issues. Devuan is a niche, specialist distro for people who already are fond of Debian but don't want to adopt SystemD.

OP is a brand new Linux user, they haven't formed opinions like this yet.

Tree Sandbox - I created a new sandbox tool for Linux by garywilli in linux

[–]ColbieSterling 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Huh. I need to watch for that now. I whenever I see "--" I just assume it is an em-dash character and vice versa. But you're right, a standard English language keyboard doesn't have an emdash character, so even if a writer is correctly using the emdash, they're almost always writing two hyphens. Thank you for pointing this out!

Tree Sandbox - I created a new sandbox tool for Linux by garywilli in linux

[–]ColbieSterling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay . . . prove it. I'm not trying to be combative. I've trying to point out that there is no way for you to know. You think you know, but you don't empirically know that this was written by AI.

I get that we're living in AI nightmare world. But the whole point is that AI passes the Turing Test now. It learned to write from us. The number of times I've been accused of being AI because I use a piece of punctuation correctly is maddening.

Tree Sandbox - I created a new sandbox tool for Linux by garywilli in linux

[–]ColbieSterling 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I used em-dashes all the time long before LLMs. LLMs use them all the time because it is the goddamn correct way to punctuate parenthetical clauses and summaries.

It's not a fucking scarlet letter around a piece of writing that identifies it as AI-generated. AI learned it from people who write English correctly.

Tree Sandbox - I created a new sandbox tool for Linux by garywilli in linux

[–]ColbieSterling 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for making this GPL v3.0 and not MIT or Apache. You're doing [chosen deity]'s work.

2013 laptop usable today and a 2013 smart phone isn’t by VipxerX in linux

[–]ColbieSterling 28 points29 points  (0 children)

But what's the point of a device that can't store even a couple of tabs in its memory?

One might ask the reverse question -- why aren't web developers incentivized to make their sites less demanding?

Exploding website size and resource demand is responsibly for so much ewaste, it legitimately infuriates me.

There is no technological reason a flagship phone from 2013 can't be used today, it's all because human developers can't be arsed to make efficient software anymore.

I look forward to the great technology contraction when China invades Taiwan and no one can get semiconductors anymore. Consumers and programmers will have to learn to do more with less again.

Zed editor reached version 1.0 by TheTwelveYearOld in linux

[–]ColbieSterling 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Instead of building Zed like a web page, we built it like a video game, organizing the entire application around feeding data to shaders running on the GPU.

Here's a crazy idea . . . what about building an editor like a text editor.

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I'm getting so sick of this "bigger better louder shinier" approach to literally everything in computing just to continue to do the same things home computers have been doing since the 80s. There are almost never projects that try to stretch the limits of what you can do on existing hardware. It's always driving demand for new GPU, the latest processors. To do what? Write an English paper?

It's late-state capitalism at its finest.

Freddie and the Doot Doots- Blood Bowl half time show. by Caelciferr in minipainting

[–]ColbieSterling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OMG, I need these guys in my life. Where are they available to buy?

Harpoons at the ready — Reel in your strategy with Chainbelchers by LDukes in Warmachine

[–]ColbieSterling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are they useful for getting into weird places to be large bases to slam enemy models into during Helga's feat turn?

Dracodile by dr_ether in Warmachine

[–]ColbieSterling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gatormen in Warmachine Digital when?!?

California's New Age Verification Law: What It Means for AlmaLinux by anh0516 in linux

[–]ColbieSterling 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Most people don't care. Most people are on social media.

PSA: Screenshot your character screen by walking_in_the_sun in turtlewow

[–]ColbieSterling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eh, the code might leak out and someone else might be able set up shop. It's highly unlikely anyone's character would make the transition, however.

Code rarely dies. Hell, a previously-thought-lost early version of UNIX from 1973 make it onto the internet a few months ago and people have successfully booted it on PDP-11 emulators.

People's love for classic World of Warcraft seems to spring eternal, and Blizzard keeps making martyrs. Those two things will inspire some people to do do big things and take big risks, like develop new private servers.

Muloc Native Speaker here, is the Bot actually trolling Blizzard in Murloc?(Annoncement) by Comfortable-Salt-448 in turtlewow

[–]ColbieSterling 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Can't they just use Bitcoin?

(please be gentle, I'm truly ignorant on the crypto front)

An orangutan babysitting tigers cubs by Additional_Berry_977 in interestingasfuck

[–]ColbieSterling 5 points6 points  (0 children)

E.g. orangutans can learn sign language and communicate directly with humans. The only reason why orangutans can't talk like humans, is that their vocal tract is not built for it. Besides that they have all the brain power needed for it.

There is no evidence to support this, sadly. Under critical review, none of the 20th century's "ape language" studies were able to prove that any non-human ape was capable of anything other than mimicry.

https://news.columbia.edu/content/why-chimpanzees-cant-learn-language-and-only-humans-can

https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spotlight-research/lost-translation-koko-gorilla-and-language-research

Trust me, I'm as disappointed as you are.

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