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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • I’ve got a ps5.

    I bought a new guitar controller to play the rythm games I have on ps3 because I needed to know if I had gotten that bad since my peak or if the guitar controller I had was aging like shit because I could still understand what was coming at me on that note highway but my accuracy seemed way lower than it should have been.

    Turns out it was the controller. But also the system if I try to play RB2, it drops frames like crazy in heavy crowd moments.

    So then I bought RB4 for the PS4, figuring the PS5 should handle it easily. And it does… But for some reason it keeps losing the connection with the controller. All I have to do is unplug the USB dongle and plug it back in (nothing else works because the guitar lights indicate that it is connected with the dongle, it’s just the ps5 isn’t communicating with the dongle for some reason). This doesn’t happen on my PC or even the PS3, though I kinda wish it did happen on the PC because then I might actually be able to debug it. Though I suspect it might be just doing it because it’s 3rd party and didn’t make Sony any money so why would they care if I can use it?

    PS5 supports Bluetooth, but not my Bluetooth headset. Nope, gotta buy an official sony one because fuck you, give us money if you want to use a device with your console. Though I haven’t tried to use it again recently so maybe they’ve changed it, but I’m not holding my breath and I’m also not likely getting their next console.




  • Or maybe he realized that if he hadn’t had a special occasion by then, maybe he should just wear his shoes and get some enjoyment out of them instead of saving them for some vague moment that might never come or maybe he wouldn’t even think about the shoes until after if it did. Or maybe such an occasion did come up and he did forget the shoes until after and then just decided to wear them to work.

    Or he works a white collar job and had a presentation or something so it was a special occasion.


  • There’s always someone saying something like this in any “I hate ads” kind of thread but I gotta say that it sounds like the sort of shit marketers want everyone to believe because they want to drive demand for them.

    I’m calling bullshit and don’t believe that marketers have unlocked any kind of mind control powers that work on everyone including those hostile to what they are trying to say and that our subconscious are so easy to manipulate once we’ve become aware of those manipulations.





  • I gotta say that this collection of stories plus all the others is starting to feel less like power mods with vendettas and more like a large scale astroturfing campaign intended to weed out people capable of using logic and/or bridging the gap in the various manufactured (or falsely amplified) conflicts dividing people for no good reason.

    It’s especially weird how many feature “argued about it for 3 messages then admin banned for harassment”, especially since reddit’s mod problem isn’t exactly a secret and they’d be even more aware of it with the full visibility they have and you’d figure they’d want to address it if they were operating on good faith.


  • Yeah, it’s like the difference between sitting in a stopped car with all the doors open vs sitting in a moving car with the front driver and rear passenger windows open. The first one might feel cooler on a windy day, if the wind is blowing in the right direction, but the other will have consistent airflow from the outside through the car and back outside.



  • 10 was the last one with a technical improvement (its kernel had a scheduler that was better at scheduling on modern processors where some cores share caches while others don’t). Though the anti-features meant it was a tradeoff vs 7 (and just ignore 8 entirely).

    It was kinda funny because before I switched to linux and made the question moot, I kept searching for some technical reason, anything, to actually want to switch from 10 to 11. All I’d get were things that other desktops have been able to do for decades (virtual desktops, which I first saw in Litestep (I think?) back around 2003), or anti-features like recall and copilot integration.





  • Yeah, I like the version where he has a crush on Death and wants to impress her by killing half the people in the universe.

    But I think they wanted to set up an infinity war where he deserved to win, which IMO he absolutely did. I was disliking it the first time I watched because I expected it to do the typical hero movie thing where the heroes pull off a win even after fumbling things as hard as they did in infinity war, but then he did the snap. Advantage of not paying attention to their plans, as I wasn’t aware that there was going to be a second part until I saw how that ended, so it was a surprise.

    But all he really did was turn back the doom clock by one doubling period. You can’t stop exponential growth with a single cull, unless that cull is pretty much 100% (or leaves the remnants so scattered they age out of reproduction age before uniting).



  • No, your sensation follows the old wheel as it’s shipped off to a recycling plant, where the rubber is stipped off, shredded, and turned into asphalt that gets used briefly in a road patch that is almost immediately replaced because the patch was bumpier than the road it was patching.

    The metal of the wheel is melted down, then ends up in a youtube video where someone turns cursed metal (from the wagon wheel and also parts from the Pontiac Aztech driven by Walter White) into a bunch of sweet looking damascus knives, which feels like tooth with the enamel stripped off any time it touches something hot or cold for our poor wagon (who doesn’t like to talk about what the video itself felt like, and swears he feels something every time someone watches it).