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submitted 4 months ago by ja2@lemmy.world to c/atheism@lemmy.world

I am really enjoying Matt Dillahunty's Debate Review vs Muslim Apologist Daniel Haqiqatjou.

Currently it comes in three parts, linked is the first. Two others are on the ready (the second one is two hours long). The fourth and final will come around at some point... which means you have time to catch up!

#atheism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmaMz_dr1t

[-] ja2@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

PolyMC has a toxic lead dev. Google it to learn more. PrismLauncher forked from it about a year ago taking nearly all the active devs, and it remains my favorite launcher of all those I've used.

Fuck PolyMC.

[-] ja2@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

Hi5! I'm 45 and I have played MC from the beginning, still play it more than any other game. Now my little kids play it with me and it's their favorite too.

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submitted 9 months ago by ja2@lemmy.world to c/atheism@lemmy.world
[-] ja2@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

for me, reddit nearly always has way more quality content and news for me though for the time being

It's not just you.

As constructively as I can put this, reddit has been building community and goodwill for many years. Lemmy has only recently become an option and it's done wonderfully in the short time it's had.

The challenge is the catch 22. People go where there is more content, they produce content there, and then there is more content there. There no vacuum, reddit didn't disappear. It became toxic and people apparently care less about avoiding toxicity than filling up on dank memes.

All I can say to that is we all need to be the change we want to see in the world. Adopt a Lemmy First mentality, and go to reddit only to pick up legacy slack. Continue the conversation from there over here. Link it up.

[-] ja2@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Look forward to talking to you!

[-] ja2@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

The same could be said of literally every single product that magically became way more expensive post pandemic for no justifiable reason.

[-] ja2@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I'd like to hear how you do minis on fdm. I'm planning pressing resin into service for that and a couple other things, but if you have a good workflow for minis on fdm, I have friends who want them and fdm can do it way way faster than resin at the trade off resolution.

[-] ja2@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Not so much a move as an addition. And there are a few reasons.

One, I like projects where the outcome is a useful tool, but the project aspect itself is a significant part of my motivation.

The reason for the Voron being that project is that it will be a WAY faster and more competent tool than my ender, which was a prohibitive limitation especially for larger prints. A failure at hour 23 of a 24 hour print sucks, but the same print failing at hour 3:45 of 4 hours is way easier to accept. At that point the loss of filament matters more than the lost time in my eyes.

Also Voron2 has a much better design than ender 3 pro for exotic filaments, making ABS / ASA / nylon more approachable. Better tuning options, compensation (lower / less moving mass), bigger plate, taller build volume.

The bigger plate is significant for things like ergo mechanical keyboard chassis. I'm a Dactyl Manuform user and builder, and the ender 3 pro can only print one half at a time and takes more than a full day each half. Voron should be able to knock out two halves at once inside of a work day, and do so with better quality to boot.

The ender still has a place, particularly with the mods I have on it. Specifically, TPU can't benefit from the speed of Voron, so there's no reason not to print it on ender. Also it never hurts to have a tuned, working machine if you have to take one offline for maintenance.

[-] ja2@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

I'm 100% retro and linux gaming, but I don't need to force my kids down the road I'm on. I just share what I love and hope they choose it for themselves so we have common interests. So far, surprisingly, they both love NES / SNES and that's thanks to Nintendo developing the same franchises for decades, for better or worse.

I don't really game on the go other than mindless android games. If I did, steam deck makes way more sense. For the kids I keep thinking Switch mainly because they already love the Wii, and all their friends have Switches, so it's a social vocabulary thing.

Surely you're right about the satisfaction part. I need to make sure the kids are part of it, maybe choosing models and building, painting, etc with me. They are pretty young but once they get a little better spatial awareness and reading skills, python and freecad are not out of the question! They play minecraft already, so we're off to a good start I think.

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Commitment (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by ja2@lemmy.world to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world

Well, I made a commitment today. After a couple of years on an Ender 3 Pro which is totally a ship of Theseus now, Iโ€™m building a #Voron 2.4 r2. Wish me luck! It was either that or a Switch and some games.

This is the next (big) step into getting a little more serious about project work with my kids. I hope it pays off for us ๐Ÿ˜…

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Commitment (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by ja2@lemmy.world to c/vorondesign@lemmy.world

Well, I made a commitment today. After a couple of years on an Ender 3 Pro which is totally a ship of Theseus now, I'm building a #Voron 2.4 r2. Wish me luck! It was either that or a Switch and some games.

This is the next (big) step into getting a little more serious about project work with my kids. I hope it pays off for us ๐Ÿ˜…

[-] ja2@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

If you drop your phone that much, I think this is the case you need: https://a.co/d/1fyszgF

:D

[-] ja2@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

First, let's consider that up until fairly recently in human society, writing has been the domain of the wealthy and not entirely accessible to everyone. The rich could write whatever they want or patronize those who could write what they wanted for them. The rarity - relative to the greatest developments of proliferation being chiefly the printing press and recently the internet - of written works, demanded that anything someone bothered to put into physical written form must have considerable innate value to someone. If they didn't, nobody would have bothered with the effort or expense.

I no longer have access to the reference for a citation and am having trouble digging it up, but I saw (probably on a blog about AI) some figures recently describing the amount of written "material" produced by humanity on a daily basis (or some other comically short time) in 2023 being comparable to the amount produced in the ~five thousand preceding years since the written word is thought to have been invented.

With as much "writing" being produced, most of it being spam or low-effort shitposting, the signal to noise ratio is unbelievably high. Regardless of the profundity of the thought being born and described, the chance of having anything written today - randomly on the internet - recognized for its quality is infinitesimally small.

I believe that there IS a fantastic amount of truly remarkable writing being done every day all over the internet. Nearly all of it will be retained on some form of media basically forever, even until the media is woefully obsolete / destroyed / the heat death of the universe. Most of it will never be set upon by human eyes again after this weekend.

Today, like hundreds of years ago, what rises to the surface does so due to commercial pressures. If you are awesome and impress a publisher with deep pockets, your words could be preserved in a form that will be read in 2434. Of course, it will have to continue to be impressive long after most of the books selected by Oprah's Book Club.

[-] ja2@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Everyone thought it could have been an honest mistake. After all, she was home schooled. But then, they found out her name is actually Margaret.

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submitted 10 months ago by ja2@lemmy.world to c/kde@lemmy.ml

I don't know a good way to explain this, but let's try.

Imagine that these icons...

...are all Google Chrome, but three different profiles. That is what I want.

What happens, whether creating .desktop files by hand or using kmenuedit is this:

  • the launcher will respect the unique icons I choose
  • I can force Chrome not to group the icons
  • The panel icons still all show the default Chrome icon...

...instead of using the icon I chose for each instance.

The reason, for the interested, is that I want to have a work profile, a non-profit profile and a personal profile which all open and can be pinned with a unique icon.

I've gotten far enough that having separate menu entries with unique icons and individual .desktop files and ungrouped panel icons seems like progress, but Plasma seems to treat any instance that points at the final binary as "the same."

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VPN Notifier (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by ja2@lemmy.world to c/kde@lemmy.ml

My workplace has a VPN that I need to connect occasionally, but normally do not. I want to set up a prominent, unignorable status notifier so when I am connected to it, I am highly aware and have to disconnect to make the status clear.

Originally I thought maybe I'd like to find a way to query the status of tun0 and turn my main panel #FF0000, but I am having a hard time finding information on how to change panel color programatically. My other idea was assigning a hotkey to open a terminal window with a profile that has a red background and executes a shell script to run the VPN connect script in the foreground, but that feel super hacky and I'd love something cleaner.

Any ideas?

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submitted 10 months ago by ja2@lemmy.world to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world

A year and a half ago, selling a video card on eBay was basically the same as paying someone to punch you in the face. It was as likely you'd get an INAD and eat the loss as anything else. So when I had one to sell, I sold it on FB Marketplace, and meeting in person for that much money didn't feel a lot less sketchy but at least it was in public and I could count the money.

Now, I want to replace a Nvidia card with an AMD one and that leaves me selling the Nvidia. It would be extremely convenient to sell it on eBay, but I'm looking for some perspective on whether the buyer protection scams have died down for video cards over there now that the shortage has passed, or if it's still basically a waste of time.

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submitted 10 months ago by ja2@lemmy.world to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world

Earlier this week, I bought myself a new 2TB NVMe drive on sale, and had planned today to install it. Knowing that the computer, built in Dec 2021 had an issue with PCIe at the time that prevented 4x drives from running at 4x, but now had a BIOS update that fixed that (and introduced support for two additional CPU generations), I thought I should go ahead and flash the BIOS too.

Sparing unnecessary details, everything went fine. I unseated the 3060Ti to get at the M.2 ports, swapped out the old drive for the new one. Plugged in a spinner I had laying around while I was in there. Machine wouldn't boot - so I reinstalled GRUB (yes, I'm a Linux user) and that was fixed. The disk had everything copied over from the old one, so that was fine too, other than some power management spam in the journal that was fixed with a kernel param. Seems fine, right?

So I spin up Minecraft to have a quick session. Frame rates are like, 3-20 fps for about 2 full minutes, then they get up to 60fps (Vsync'd). But every few minutes, they keep dropping and creep back up. Sometimes they bounce up.

There are a dozen potential problems at least that could cause something like this. So I went back into the newly flashed BIOS knowing that all my settings were reset, and started poking around and fixing settings. This was good either way, but it didn't fix my sporadic fps dips. The game ALWAYS started at sub-10 fps, but it would get to 60 eventually. Sometimes in a handful of seconds, sometimes in minutes. One time, all the textures refused to load. Another time, the GPU fell off the bus.

This was not a problem at all prior to the work, so I started reviewing what I'd done so far. I'd added a disk with all copied data.. but there's a nvidia cache in there... cleared that. No dice. I looked at heat. No problem. Same drivers as before, but maybe I have to roll back drivers, or kernel, or BIOS. I dunno. Frustrated as fuck.

Could also be a power issue. Or a reseating the card issue. I hadn't added any devices with more power consumption and I have ~100W of buffer on a good PSU, so it really should be a problem, but I reseat the card and replug the power cables anyway.

The problem is worse.

So I spend another hour and a half poking around forums looking at every possible thing I could do on the software side to fix this, before I decide to reseat the card one more time. I mean, the first time changed SOMETHING, even if it was for the worse.

Popping out the card, I blew into the slot as I thought I saw a tiny speck of dust. I used canned air the first time but this was really an afterthought by this point...

The body of a tiny moth popped out of the slot.

I reseated the card, spun up Minecraft, and everything is fine. Perfect frame rates, just like before.

I'll never get the hours back that I spent troubleshooting this today. At least several other items were improved along the way, such as RAM timings. But in the event this story helps anyone in the future, it's worth the time it took to type it.

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submitted 10 months ago by ja2@lemmy.world to c/atheism@lemmy.world

Buckle up for this one. Not my usual content, but I'm just getting on a plane that was delayed for three hours and listening to a talk with one of our most prominent "new atheists." I'm convinced this chat bears some relevance to the community, if tangentially.

I do love Sam Harris. One part of this I find objectionable is his assertion that capitalism is the best tool we have to solve wealth inequality, but that's maybe off-topic here and I don't expect most of this community to share my feelings on that anyway. I'm happy to discuss it in Matrix.

On the other hand, he makes some excellent points on how the left is hungrily eating its own tail and how.

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submitted 10 months ago by ja2@lemmy.world to c/minecraft@lemmy.world

As always, I have a problem of a somewhat esoteric and technical nature. :P

I downloaded a theme park map for my kids to have fun on. The whole thing had been generated ultraflat, with a build height set at y=100. I wanted the world gen OUTSIDE the main theme park build area to be 1.20.1 normal overworld generation.

So, I managed to get all the chunks around the main area deleted in MCA Selector and outright removed all superfluous regions, then deleted level.dat to force the game to make new chunks based on default parameters. This worked really, really well - everything outside the theme park is totally great and the biome blending I have to say is pretty exceptional, given two major caveats.

First, most of the theme park would have been mostly in an ocean, and given that the base build height was set to y=100, biome blending is producing a very clear terraced stair-step effect all the way around. That's not a HUGE deal, but I would very much like to drag the base height down to y=64 if that's possible and bring all the content down with it, and retry the biome blending.

Second, because the chunks were generated with zero underground features, all chunks below the builds are dirt down to y=0, and then nothing (no deepslate / bedrock / etc) until you hit the edges where new chunks are made. This is problematic for obvious reasons. Bedrock would be OK, caves would be better, but I'm not sure why it's completely empty. My old worlds that I updated all the way through versions generated deepslate to bedrock from y=-64 to y=0.

Worst case scenario i can just get over the terrace problem, and use worldedit to fill in a bedrock layer and a bunch of deepslate, but I'd rather something more natural for my kids to destroy. :)

Looking for thoughts on this.

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submitted 11 months ago by ja2@lemmy.world to c/android@lemmy.world

I know a lot of development is happening in the space and this answer will likely change.

One of the crucial parts of my snoosite "workflow" if you can call it that, was a widget front and center on my phone using redditisfun:

I wonder if there are any apps, current or in some stage of development, that feature a basic "Frontpage" widget like this?

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submitted 11 months ago by ja2@lemmy.world to c/stopdrinking@lemmy.world

Hi, my name is DancingPickle. I don't like the term alcoholic, and I don't want to discuss my reasons for that here because I'm not trying to start a debate.

Pretty much from college in 1996 through every major life period since, I have had a problematic relationship with alcohol. Like for many people, this interfered with opportunities and relationships in ways that I am still daily reminded or realize completely unprovoked. For example, thoughts like "oh yeah... that boss wasn't treating me unfairly... he passed me over because he didn't want his awareness of my issues to become part of his exposed vulnerability surface" kind of realizations. Reminders of girlfriends who abruptly cut things off that were going well. Friends who ghosted me after hanging out every day.

Realizations that really hurt, but which hardly mattered because I had a bottled friend who effectively numbed that before lunch.

I started to get old. Married. Kids. Fat. Regardless of how high functioning and successful I managed to project, I also managed to keep drinking far more than anyone should - probably in excess of 2000 calories a day in alcohol alone, living a sedentary work from home lifestyle in high technology.

My wife, also a ... considerable consumer of beverages, started complaining to me (rightfully) about my behavior. I thought this was somewhat hypocritical, and I still do, but we are all the masters of our own destinies and of nobody else's, so I determined to take control of mine.

I quit drinking in 2021, for the entire year. Not a whiff of alcohol from January first until the new year 2022. During that time, after the first couple of weeks of bleariness, sweating out, insomnia, etc, everything got pretty normal. I think that because I had a deadline in mind, that being a year, I was cushioned somewhat from the long reaching existential questions. My health improved, doctor liked my bloodwork, my attitude was better and I was perhaps somewhat less irritable.

I didn't lose any weight, sadly, in spite of counting calories and doing slightly more activities outside the house. I did, however, start working technical projects that I never would have had the time, motivation or coordination (or money) to afford when all my free time was spent doing shots and beers.

2022 came and I became a train wreck. My alcohol behaviors weren't worse than before, but they were the same, and now the problem was that my family had seen what I was like sober and this was a dramatic departure from that. I would go on a bender for a couple of months, sober for a couple of weeks, bender for a few more, sober for a month... it was a rollercoaster. Not sustainable. Gained more weight.

So in 2023 I decided to stop again, this time with no "end date." Alcohol had become incompatible with the lifestyle I knew I wanted and I know that my predilection for overdoing just about anything - alcohol being just one manifestation - prohibited me from having a beer now and then. It had, sadly, to be all or nothing.

I haven't had a drink in nearly six months, and I've lost 30 pounds and counting. My friends say I'm sharper and more articulate. But that improvement didn't come without a mental health struggle that needs to be mentioned as part of this history because it wouldn't be fair to leave it out.

Throughout my life, I've been dealing with undiagnosed general and social anxiety. This didn't become a medical issue until, say 2005ish, when I was prescribed benzodiazepines and learned what life could be like when not totally crippled by anxiety. Unfortunately, anyone who knows a thing or two about benzos knows that in the space of time between the mid 2000s and today, the tide of approval shifted and GPs no longer were keen to keep on prescribing them, so that fizzled and I just used alcohol instead. Well, quitting this year removed my last remaining chemical crutch (I quit smoking 5 years ago) so some problems began.

Almost immediately I started to get depressed. This turned into a long term spell that didn't really resolve itself until about a month ago. I tried several different SSRI / SNRI treatments and some alternatives, but across the board the cure was worse than the disease. It wasn't until I was off everything for over a month that I started to feel better.

I can't say with absolute conviction that I'll never have a drink again, but I can say that I have no such intention today. I have plenty of experience to help me predict how it might turn out in the future. Right now, I feel good apart from being increasingly aware of all the shit I fucked up and how much better off I'd be if I never got into the situation in the first place. But that is how it is.

To close this, I will add that I don't believe in gods. A person need not give up control to a third party to make a healthy decision in their lives. Prayer is of no objective consequence. What truly matters is having the courage of your convictions and the personal motivation, wherever you find it, to follow through each day and confront complications with whatever support you can muster.

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