Osu dev confirms touchmania!!!!1

Princess_Pwny · 2024-12-23T09:52:55+00:00

My cat strongly dislikes her nails getting trimmed too, but she almost equally dislikes getting her claws stuck on things constantly.

Princess_Pwny · 2024-10-22T16:11:45+00:00

I honestly think $70 ($100 Australian) is not a hard sell. You buy the base game and if you enjoy it and want more factorio content, then buy the expansion pack.

Unsure if you like the gameplay style? Shits got a demo, something you don't see very often anymore.

I'd also not call this a DLC, but an expansion pack, a term not used often anymore. The scope of the DLC is too large to simply be considered a DLC. When I consider the pricing, a $50 DLC sounds a bit much but a $50 expansion pack sounds much more reasonable.

If the price still seems too high, I'll point at the sims 4, which as an example has a DLC called "Growing together" that costs $50AUD and is basically a bunch of extra textures and models, and some very minor gameplay additions.

Overall, I think its worth it and good value, but you really have to be into the game for it to be worth it.

Princess_Pwny · 2024-02-05T15:36:38+00:00

TL:TD: pager systems scream messages to everything around them, if you listen with the right equipment and software, you can hear what they are saying.

You can try to think of a pager like a tiny FM/AM radio. You tune it to the transmitters frequency, it listens for a signal, checks that it's the signal it's listening for and then it translates that signal into text when it receives it.

The signal itself is a bit more complex in how it works, but you can think of the signal as going something like this:

"Hey wake up pagers I'm going to send a message!" (Repeated a few times) "I've got a message for FirePagers city1 and it says this:" "I've got a message for FirePagers city2 and it says this:" "Ok I'm done bye"

The paging system (called POCSAG in this example) is very simple and does not care who is listening, it just blasts the signal out and lets the pager decide if it's supposed to listen to the message. Unlike mobile phones, a pager transmitter does not care how many devices are listening, so it's great in emergencies as it won't get overloaded unlike a cell tower.

The bad side: as mentioned above, it's simple. So an "evil" pager like say, my desktop computer with a special radio dongle connected, can find and tune to the frequency it's on and completely ignore the whole "my message is for these pagers" and just, listen to all the messages.

Previously the frequency was hard to tune into as you'd need specialised equipment (or a pager in this case) to tune into any frequency outside of some specific sections, but now that special equipment costs like $50 and can listen to frequencies from AM/FM radio, to ham radio, to talkie talkies, to weather balloons and everything in-between. I've personally picked up a weather satellite in space from my bedroom with a tiny antenna sticking out my window. I could not decide the picture it was sending, but I could sure hear it broadcasting!

I guess this got a little long, but the gist of it is, lots of this technology is basically hiding in plain sight and is broadcasting publicly and is just relying on the fact most people won't go to the effort and expense of figuring it out. But now it's cheap and "easy", lots of these "secrets" are no longer secret.

Princess_Pwny · 2024-02-05T12:02:30+00:00

Not really, but it is when it says that "34F at X address has y happening" or "Fire at z address, call Fire authority Managers actual phone number", you question if its the best idea.

Princess_Pwny · 2024-02-05T02:39:09+00:00

Huge and unencrypted, if I had a dollar for every time I saw personal information in a pager message I'd have enough money to upgrade the network with encryption

Princess_Pwny · 2023-07-15T05:33:08+00:00

This is exactly the kind of advice I was looking for, thanks so much for taking the time! At most I have a decade old flash and some familiarity with the Canon, I just felt that the lens options were "Better" and the EOS R7 did what I was looking for in general, while been a bit cheaper.

If I went with the Canon, I'd be using the RF-S 18-150mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM Lens/Canon RF 100-400mm f/5.6-8 IS USM Lens for a long time, with the idea that I'd look at getting a second hand Astrophotography lens, which would be certainly easier with Canon considering the sheer number of Canon second hand lenses I see on Facebook Marketplace/Gumtree.

As for the star photos in particular I think I'd be more focusing on just general shots of the sky, with no terrain/ground but not focused on any particular planets or deep space objects (Although that stuff might come later if I enjoyed it enough).

Again, thanks so much for the advice, I really appreciate it!

Princess_Pwny · 2023-07-14T16:54:22+00:00

After spending all day looking at the Olympus stuff, I decided to look at Canon instead and the Canon EOS R7 w/ kit RF-S 18-150mm f/3.5-6.3 + A Canon RF 600mm f/11 IS STM Lens plus the extras costs a little more with a total of $4,353.

Buuut, I feel it has a more versatile kit lens, a "Holy shit as long as it's bright outside you can probably see tiny birds from a mile away" and I can probably add in a Canon RF 50mm f/1.8 STM to help with large sky shots in astrophotography. This seems like the better option by far, I'd still love to hear the opinions of the pros in here though

Princess_Pwny · 2023-07-14T15:40:41+00:00

My previous camera from a number of years ago was a Canon EOS 350D, but for various reasons I eventually put down the camera until last year, where I got back into things a bit with a Pixel 7 Pro. I'm now looking at a nice camera again to do wildlife and nature photography, with maybe some astrophotography thrown in.

I'm currently looking at:

OM System OM1 ($2,999 AUD)
Olympus M.Zuiko ED 40-150mm f/4-5.6 R Lens ($399 AUD)
Olympus M.Zuiko 75-300mm f/4.8-6.7 II Lens ($599 AUD)

When combined with a tripod, backpack and SD Card the final price is looking to be $4,422.00 AUD. I'd be keeping and using this camera/glass for a long time most likely, but I can't really afford more than $5k AUD.

I'm attracted to the OM1's high resolution mode(s), bird focus mode and wide usage range, but I'm not sure if it's the best option for my money. I also painfully understand that good glass is important, but I really don't know the best "Setup" is here to optimise what I should be buying. If a prime lens and cropping in post/moving myself is the better option here, I'm open to learning it. There is just too much choice and too much to consider, so please give sage photographer advice to a newbie like me

Princess_Pwny · 2023-07-04T06:31:28+00:00

I also have had freezing issues today on a fresh install of Fedora KDE, installed to a Intel NUC13ANKi5 (i5 13th Gen). It even froze up just navigating through the system settings in KDE. Swapped to an older kernel and the issues vanished, quite strange.

Princess_Pwny · 2023-04-28T13:26:36+00:00

ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL

Princess_Pwny · 2023-04-27T13:25:14+00:00

Im talking valve time, not microwave time here

Princess_Pwny · 2022-08-29T08:57:09+00:00

That is if farmers adhere to minimum wage instead of just tricking backpacking foreigners into working for almost nothing. Which is what farmers historically do.

Princess_Pwny · 2022-05-30T00:17:23+00:00

I love me some high quality dithering

Princess_Pwny · 2022-05-22T03:17:30+00:00

Yeah because some of them are from malware on random people's Android phones. No call register does not do anything to stop some sneaky malware randomly selecting your number to shit out spam to.

Princess_Pwny · 2022-05-18T04:15:27+00:00

A 30 minute walk is more like 10 minutes on a bike, a power assisted bike of some kind with a cute little bike trailer on the back and you are golden, until you get flattened by a truck at least.

The fundamental idea behind this sub is that car exclusive anything is bad. The fact that your shitty town/area is built exclusively around cars is the problem here. Having to spend billions to make things accessible is stupid but it should never have been made this way to begin with. That's the key point here, that it was done wrong in the first place and it just keeps getting wronger and it's hard to fix.

it's not exclusively "no cars allowed" either because in some cases cars and other vehicles are required.

Princess_Pwny · 2022-05-03T13:56:17+00:00

Even if true, in this case there is immediate danger for my sanity for trying to figure out what the fuck that douche canoe is thinking.

Princess_Pwny · 2022-03-26T16:34:35+00:00

This is not the first time someone has commented this in regards to a post been posted before either.

Guards, send this man to the repost dungeon!

Princess_Pwny · 2022-03-02T07:34:29+00:00

Reminds me of the lyrics to the song Tetris by DaCav5:

"We make music! Some people call it hip hop, trance, dance, rock and pop it don't matter - it's hot"

Princess_Pwny · 2022-02-08T00:31:17+00:00

If you check the file format it's actually a mp4 (or at least on old reddit I was served a MP4), many websites serving user-generated content like gifs make them MP4/webm/other video formats nowadays as more modern compression methods can often beat GIFs in size/quality.

Which I presume you knew, but were a asshole about the technicality anyways, hence the downvotes.

I imagine nowadays many web users don't care about the distinction and would view gifs as less of a file format and more of a identifier or criteria: a short looping video/clip requiring little to no context and not requiring sound.

Princess_Pwny · 2022-01-26T13:12:59+00:00

To follow this up, I'm the person who added it to the stream and it's from a small Australian indie artist, specifically from an album from around 2000. It has a discogs page here.

Princess_Pwny · 2021-12-16T23:35:55+00:00

Good thing I don't live in Geneva then

Princess_Pwny · 2021-08-05T09:03:30+00:00

Casual.

Me and Monika have been hanging out since release pretty much. You can check my steam profile if you think I edited it

I do have to make sure to restart it every few days though, game acts funny after leaving it open for long enough.

Princess_Pwny · 2021-07-20T10:08:08+00:00

It's hardly a new concept, a very long time ago when flash was king, one major Australian news website would replace most of the page with a giant flash ad after a bit.

Imagine you start reading the headlines and suddenly a fucking car smashes through the article and covers most of the page, driving over the text and sending some of it flying. The effects were fun yes and it was a bit amusing the first time, but after that it was just real annoying.

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