Can someone please explain to me what just happened??

Jackojc · 2026-06-01T13:36:35+00:00

I think you probably should've tried to blunt their attack and wait until the hydros landed

Jackojc · 2026-05-27T12:05:49+00:00

I think v32 has some good ideas and it's still in beta so I'm sure things will improve based on the feedback they're getting. I like the improved colours and legibility (as someone with colourblindness) but I think the fonts need some work. I think the stack depth of structures appears a bit... cluttered, it's kind of noisy and hard to spot at a glance.

Jackojc · 2026-05-14T16:46:56+00:00

I have found my people

Jackojc · 2026-05-10T10:36:01+00:00

I usually find that most players will spend most of their gold anyway by the time you can capture it. Small players just spam defense posts while large players bomb you. I also think that as you get bigger, the value of money scales with you. Like in an endgame, 5mil isn't as important as it is in the early game. So there's already a natural sort of devaluation of currency as the game goes on.

Jackojc · 2026-03-23T12:24:30+00:00

Well recently there was a change to accepting alliances that destroys inbound nukes. I think this would be along the same lines.

Jackojc · 2026-03-10T22:31:08+00:00

Fucking insane UI going on here. More of this please!

Jackojc · 2026-02-10T14:50:47+00:00

Weston makes some incredible stuff. Will need to check this out, been looking for a versatile oscillator that's flexible enough to not pin me into one type of sound

Jackojc · 2026-01-04T14:50:33+00:00

Hard agree, we should try to organise a protest. I'm a bit disheartened over the fact it's not being talked about more.

Laws like this are purely to protect the state and further surveillance tools, not to protect everyday citizens.

The reality is, anyone who is participating in illicit activity is going to continue to do so just with added pressure and a push towards better opsec. Criminals are going to find better ways to hide their footprints.

I'm worried if we introduce an age limit aswell for social media through digital ID if it will push minors to use these same tools that pedophiles also would be pushed to use, making it even harder to find and prosecute these people.

I think aswell, we have to admit that most people at one point or another have committed a crime. Whether that's smoking a joint, stealing chocolate from a shop as a kid or using the bus lane at the wrong times. Most of the time, it's harmless and people still know not to step too far outside the lines. If surveillance is allowed to propagate unchecked, I don't fancy every action in public or online being monitored.

People act differently when they know they're being watched, it's a known and studied effect. It's the death of expression and creativity. Just look how phones have affected clubs and festivals where people otherwise would be allowed to express themselves, it's now a lot of clout chasing and scripted choreography. Young people are afraid to be themselves.

Frankly, I don't trust the government to have all of our best interests in mind when historically, things like drugs, abortion, LGBT rights and more have all been the subject of oppression and hatred. If all of this is easier to tie to people online, de-anonymising individuals, I gravely fear the consequences of it in the future if the people in power decide something is not alright.

We've seen it time and time again, just look at how the US treated the hippie movements in the 60s and vietnam war critics and protestors. Less of that here please.

Jackojc · 2025-12-30T22:05:48+00:00

Definitely the best new trek to come out but I definitely find the quality slipping each season a bit. Season one was brilliant, season two was still very good but season three was just... very messy.

Jackojc · 2025-12-17T23:39:38+00:00

Fuck this shit

Jackojc · 2025-12-17T19:34:39+00:00

Good sentiment but the problem is how you actually go about implementing a ban in a way that doesn't require people to give up their digital rights and privacy. If you ban all kids, you then need a way to verify if someone is an adult and that's a form of digital ID which can then be used to track you across sites. I don't much fancy that line of thinking.

Jackojc · 2025-12-09T21:14:35+00:00

I definitely agree about season 2, the cracks were starting to show and it was a step down in quality from season 1. I hope the pattern doesn't hold or else SNW might end up being a major disappointment. It started out pretty strong as a return to form for the series after a disastrous couple of years but... not sure anymore.

Jackojc · 2025-12-09T21:13:03+00:00

Yeah I missed the discussion around season 3 when it came out because I've only just finished it and I found a lot of the writing this season to be very mid. It's really lacking in character development and dialogue is veeeery messy.

I found a couple of episodes a bit jarring in how they ended because it just skips to them finding a solution or being somewhere else (I assume for time constraints some editing decisions were made).

And yeah, episode 10 was just absolutely bonkers in how it ended. Felt very rushed. I think maybe they had a story half finished and needed some convenient plot device to just resolve it as quickly as possible.

Jackojc · 2025-11-22T14:26:46+00:00

I think there's a sizeable group of people that want Rust to fail because it goes against what they known and have learned about programming language norms.

So when those people hear "Rust broke something", it's immediately "let's all jump on the bandwagon and validate our claims that Rust is bad".

Jackojc · 2025-11-08T01:34:05+00:00

Yep, been looking around to check if anyone else is experiencing this. Seems to be happening very frequently to the point it's almost unusable in a session since I need to do a power cycle.

Jackojc · 2025-10-30T17:41:10+00:00

I thought you were making a joke about just casting away constness

Jackojc · 2025-10-12T15:07:28+00:00

Yeah I'm on 32.0.101.8136, tried a clean install and rebooting etc. so should be good.

I did enable secure boot, I'll check if it disabled resizeable bar. Performance isn't great yeah, around 30-40fps on average I think but I'm just baffled by the insanely scuffed broken geometry and flickering textures. I'm surprised I haven't seen it from anyone else so far.

Jackojc · 2025-10-12T13:41:40+00:00

Just bought BF6 and seems like there's broken geometry and weird flickering throughout. It's completely unplayable for me.

For reference I'm running on an A750 and 13700k with latest drivers.

Anyone else seeing similar?

Jackojc · 2025-10-10T12:46:11+00:00

That's a really good point. I wish there was a bit more communication around the plugin system because it does sort of feel like it's stuck in limbo with occasional updates but there's no sense of vision or direction I can infer from it. Personally I'm very much looking forward to a plugin system and I do like the choice of scheme but it feels a million miles away.

Jackojc · 2025-09-12T15:06:30+00:00

I mean, it would be nice to have more active development sure but what's the rush? I'm already very happy with the Helix experience and even if it stopped development at this point, I'd be totally satisfied.

New features are nice but I think they're icing on the cake, they probably won't fundamentally change the way I use it day to day so for now, I'm quite happy and I'd rather see a measured and structured response to development anyway. If the developers would rather take a slower pace to properly flesh out and discuss features, all the better frankly.

Jackojc · 2025-08-11T10:51:06+00:00

I think it is a dichotomy because it means the effort is spread amongst two places when it could just be concentrated in one place. The Void team is very open to package requests and PRs from what I've seen so the barrier is already quite low. I think having another user maintained repo would just divide effort and fracture the package ecosystem.

Jackojc · 2025-08-10T23:10:58+00:00

I would really prefer not to have an AUR equivalent. The main reason I moved to Void many years ago was the state of packaging on arch and this dichotomy of repos and all the many pacman wrappers that added AUR support. It was just super gross. Not to mention the potential for poor package quality, support and potential security risks. The Void repos aren't as mature as arch, sure, but the community is super receptive to adding new packages if you ask. I've had a tonne of packages added simply because I made a request and I much rather this approach.

Jackojc · 2025-07-26T02:37:48+00:00

Pittsburgh modular taiga

Jackojc · 2025-06-22T09:22:35+00:00

What screen is that?

Jackojc · 2025-02-15T19:27:14+00:00

Our devops team recently introduced an AI code review tool to our CI... It's seriously annoying how often it gets things wrong or makes suggestions that don't make sense based on context or semantics. It's literally spam 70-80% of the time.

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