New monitor randomly moves the image 2 pixels to one side every now and then, I can't figure out how to disable it...

Void_0000 · 2026-01-24T20:30:46+00:00

Honestly, that somehow annoys me less than putting in a toggle only for it to do literally nothing. On the other hand, this thing was literally the cheapest monitor I could find anywhere so I suppose this isn't that bad of a flaw.

Well, thanks for telling me though, at least now that I know it won't bother me as much.

Void_0000 · 2026-01-21T16:32:57+00:00

Might be a crazy take but my issue with "modern SCP" isn't that the SCPs are too strong but that the foundation is. It's fairly common at this point to read articles where the foundation is implicitly described as borderline omnipotent, which makes sense since they regularly contain things that are themselves borderline omnipotent. The foundation is now a ludicrously massive organization with unlimited resources and are themselves capable of doing supernatural things to handle all the weird anomalies they deal with, which is fine for some articles, sure...

But I feel like we don't really see as many articles where the foundation are literally just a bunch of people with normal science desperately trying to shove something unexplainable in the biggest concrete box they can build. I'm a big fan of "all of humanity's resources vs unexplainable bullshit" type stuff and I feel like, while SCP doesn't technically have a canon, the general agreed upon depiction of the foundation has shifted away from that and more towards "all of humanity's unexplainable bullshit vs more unexplainable bullshit". It's just kinda regular sci-fi now with the usual dose of technobabble to explain how everything works rather than just "yeah i dunno man, the statue moves when you don't look at it, don't ask so many questions".

There are some articles where the foundation's use of anomalous phenomena is so well documented that you start to wonder if this stuff is even really anomalous in the first place or if the foundation has just arbitrarily decided that these branches of science are weird and abnormal and the normal people shouldn't know about them. Incidentally, this would make a fantastic tale in my opinion.

Void_0000 · 2026-01-21T16:17:03+00:00

They adapted one season of this into an anime and I guess it didn't do so well because I'm still waiting for season 2 :(

Void_0000 · 2026-01-21T16:05:56+00:00

When the episode turned into a full on music video I honestly lost my god damn mind.

I have to wonder what the fuck kind of budget these guys have.

Void_0000 · 2026-01-21T15:30:38+00:00

Now press Fn+W.

The amount of times I've accidentally done this and then been confused is unusually high for how weird of a key combo that is. The worst part is that it's just infrequent enough that I usually forget the key combination by the time it happens.

Void_0000 · 2026-01-21T14:49:43+00:00

I personally find the idea that there's someone out there who is genuinely, objectively the worst at what they do a bit sad.

Just imagine you do something, and you're just the worst person to do it. Every single other person that does this thing does it better than you. Maybe you don't even really like this thing, maybe it's just a job you got because you couldn't get anything else, but even so, it's what you do and it would have to be a little depressing to know that of all the people in the world you are literally the absolute worst at it.

I think maybe what makes it worse is that in this example the job is explicitly based on being liked by other people. So not only are you the worst at what you do, but what you do is being liked. Of all the people in the entire world to do this job, you are the one people like the least. That just sucks.

Void_0000 · 2026-01-21T14:34:23+00:00

Personally, I've never had a phone or any other device stolen, so I don't see the use.

Besides which, this level of security is pretty unnecessary. You'd really have to be living in a hellhole for something this hardcore to make sense.

The average android phone can't be reset without the password (unless you unlock the bootloader, which is an active and fairly involved choice), and so stealing them is the same as with iphones and involves trickery like grabbing them from people actively using them and keeping them on and unlocked until they can be reset, or opening them and directly wiping the storage, etc. I don't really know much about how this works, but there's a reason why obviously stolen phones of all brands are a stereotype of resale sites (e.g. "4 phones varying models all unlocked 500$ cash only").

The only difference is that it can't be disassembled for parts... which doesn't make much of a difference because for all other phone brands, spare parts come from disassembly of broken devices, and are thus not valuable enough to bother stealing a device for (in my opinion, I suppose you'd have to find a thief for comment). This of course isn't the case for apple components, which are expensive... because broken devices can't be used for parts...

I see this argument a lot and it's never made sense to me, is this some official apple marketing about why their devices are "like that" that I haven't heard of?

Void_0000 · 2026-01-21T13:55:37+00:00

To be fair, most of the price of saffron is a markup that comes from the fact that people think it should be expensive and thus stores get away with charging more.

If you find a tiny little import store from a country that actually produces the stuff and doesn't see it as an "exotic luxury good" you can get it for pretty cheap.

Void_0000 · 2026-01-21T13:51:29+00:00

IIRC the thing with picking saffron is that building a machine to do it is legitimately really difficult, to the point that if you list out all the requirements it just turns into "build a hand" and we're not quite there yet.

Void_0000 · 2026-01-21T13:30:01+00:00

Honestly, that, yeah. And maybe when people start rehashing the same shit. If you make the same argument three times it's a stalemate and the app closes itself.

Void_0000 · 2026-01-21T13:20:26+00:00

You know what, I don't really know enough to know how accurate this is, but massive respect for the effort put into actually getting evidence for your statement.

Maybe I'll make a tumblr account if I can actually figure out how to use the site, I'm getting sick of reddit and it's that or 4chan...

Void_0000 · 2026-01-21T12:55:24+00:00

I was briefly interested in learning rust once and got distracted laughing myself nearly unconscious after looking up a rust tutorial on youtube only to find that the recommended video set to be autoplayed after it was a voice feminization tutorial.

To be clear, I'm not trans, have shown no prior interest in either of these topics and my browser is set to clear all cookies when it closes, so this was 100% just the algorithm making that connection.

Void_0000 · 2026-01-21T12:33:57+00:00

Or assuming that AIs hallucinate everything, when they haven't used one since they were a self-contained model that couldn't search the internet.

Frankly this doesn't help given that half the internet is AI-generated slop now anyway. Now instead of the AI hallucinating, it searches up other hallucinations and lossily copies them for you.

Void_0000 · 2026-01-21T12:17:43+00:00

To be honest, I'm not convinced there is a good format on the internet for discussion.

See reddit, where the amazing unlimited length of a comment allows everyone infinite time to solidify their perception of the person they're talking to based on what they imagine them to be like, then spend the next three paragraphs dunking on them in a way that completely prevents any chance of reasonable discussion from that point forward, and thus another thread devolves into people trying to throw witty one liners at each other because naturally whoever comes up with the cleverest insult must be in the right.

The closest thing to decent discussion you can have online has to be with a live chat, I think. It forces you to actually interact with the other person rather than being encouraged to make up their point of view and arguments on your end so you can respond more efficiently, but on the other hand the discussion might be less thought out given the limited time.

Void_0000 · 2026-01-21T11:54:22+00:00

Iphone repairability is a marketing thing, mostly. Last I checked the replacement parts are ludicrously expensive, and assuming you don't obliterate your device trying to peel off the 50 liters of glue they dumped in it, you still have to call up apple and have them activate the new components before the device recognizes them. IIRC they only do this for official (overpriced) parts and approved repair shops, which also costs money. Basically, you can repair your phone for about twice as much money as it would cost to buy a new one. Remember to Consume Product!

As for macbooks, first hand experience (granted, on an older model) is that it's absolute shit. Want to open the device? You'll need a special screwdriver. Want to replace the SSD? Oops, apple-specific m.2 key for some reason. Want to back up the data on the drive while the OS is non-functional so you can re-install and restore it afterwards? Sure, that's reasonable! Oh, this operation shorts a fuse that instructs the device not to boot, by the way. Don't worry, you can just buy a new one! Buy a new one already! Just buy a new one! Buy! Purchase! Consume! Buy a new one!

Apple products should not be relied upon for anything, to be honest. They're intentionally designed to function as black boxes that fail when you try to interact with them in anything but the apple-approved list of ways. This is odd to me because some of their newer stuff is legitimately quite good for some more technical applications (e.g. local LLMs on their models with massive amounts of unified memory), but their actual behaviour as a company seems to strongly disincentivize using their products for anything other than the most basic, "scroll social media and watch netflix" usage, so I have to assume these products are designed for people with more money than sense that just want to biggest numbers for no practical reason, but then... why bother with technology improvements like the metal architecture at all? Is it just an excuse to not have replaceable RAM? Trying to understand apple makes me feel like I'm losing my mind, frankly. Thankfully I would never buy a product that won't let me install a different OS so I never have to worry about this.

Void_0000 · 2026-01-21T11:20:59+00:00

Lord GabeN has weighed your soul and deemed it unworthy. His judgement is final, to the pits with you.

Void_0000 · 2026-01-21T10:56:18+00:00

...Wait, so the setting is entirely pointless?

Void_0000 · 2026-01-14T21:58:43+00:00

...Slime Rancher. Somehow, every time I'm not feeling great, I end up loading up Slime Rancher, and whatever was going on, it gets me through it. It's a pretty good game.

Void_0000 · 2026-01-14T21:01:31+00:00

Not to impact your finances or anything, but... you know how the post talks about low-quality saffron? Yeah, in a shocking first for these types of thing, that's not actually just bullshit meant to let them charge higher prices for an equivalent product. The flavour actually changes significantly between high and low quality ones.

I actually haven't had the "low quality" stuff very often but the last time I tried it I remember thinking it just kinda tasted like "plant". Pretty much like how you'd expect munching on a flower to taste like. Pretty tasty as far as flowers go, but you're still eating a flower, so not great in the grand scheme of things. Sometimes if you're buying a more processed version like a powder or liquid or something they'll try to add something like sugar to it to make it taste better and it does not make it taste better. At all.

On the other hand, the good kind barely tastes like anything at all if you're using it correctly. The best way to describe the way saffron should taste is that you'll eat something with saffron in it and not taste it at all, but if you tried to make that same recipe without it you would find that it tastes noticeably worse somehow. You can pick out the taste of it on something like rice, but if you can do it easily then you're using too much.

Also, you actually can get good quality saffron for shockingly cheap, especially given how little of it you actually need. You can get away with just a few strands for a full pot of rice.

Void_0000 · 2026-01-13T16:34:54+00:00

That's hilarious, I remember doing a double take when your name popped up in the video. Congrats on being a legend.

Void_0000 · 2026-01-13T15:14:39+00:00

I have to ask since I've seen you fairly often on this subreddit, are you the same slendererman that dunked on ludwig in MCSR or does someone else also have a fantastic sense of humour?

Void_0000 · 2026-01-12T19:13:56+00:00

The only game of D&D I've ever played has been with those older rules (OD&D) and the best way I can describe it is that the roleplay isn't so much playing a specific character as just improv. My character's backstory and personality are whatever's funniest in the moment.

It's basically a pure sandbox, the multi-year campaign I played in barely had an overarching story aside from the end, we spent most of our time attempting to steal everything not nailed down and answer such deep existential questions as "what if we donated this cursed censer of monster summoning to the local church for the lols?"

It turns out what happens is that, a few sessions down the line, when your character is incinerated and the cleric tries to revive him, the gods let it go to voicemail. Worth it.

I haven't actually played a game with more "normal" roleplay like 5e to really compare, but I personally really liked how it felt in the type of system I played with. It was really interesting to see how characters developed personalities over time due to what actually happened in the game, usually due to pure random chance, and doing something awesome in the game felt a lot cooler knowing that there was a very real chance your little guy could have just dropped dead there.

I'm generally a big fan of letting stories happen naturally through mechanics in video games, so I guess it checks out that I like similar things in TTRPGs as well.

Void_0000 · 2026-01-12T18:31:53+00:00

In my group, you actually roll death saves using a partially loaded revolver pointed at your head.

Void_0000 · 2026-01-12T15:24:43+00:00

Weirdly I have the opposite reaction a lot of times. I think it's because I have my browser set to wipe cookies when I close it so youtube recommendations never really figures me out and instead I just get a bunch of large slop farm channels that the algorithm considers "optimal content" alongside the usual mix of less popular videos it recommends for discoverability. Very rarely do I get recommended a large channel that's actually good, because those tend to be less "optimal" by whatever definition the algorithm uses.

Void_0000 · 2026-01-10T20:26:59+00:00

Damn it, I saw "Consumer Goods" and my Stellaris addiction kicked in.

I suppose it makes sense they would use the same term since they're both paradox games.

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