Throwing my two-cents into the discussion, I tend to dislike walled/gardens on principle. Putting information behind account walls is detrimental to the principles of an open and democratic internet. So long as there are reasonable ways to limit bad actors, I would prefer we remain discoverable to the open internet.
I fell there's still 12 months of dev to go in this game before it's ready, when they add the missing stuff (now called DLCs) and address all the bugs and stupid design decisions they have to walk back.
Have you tried that shit they call "great northern"?
I've got a bridge to sell to anyone who believes these liars
Look up "gl inet" routers
Ahhh, more corporate stacking I see. Yeh, I've seen this one before, it doesn't end well
Got to distract from the real issues somehow. Gotta keep that wealth extraction and concentrating system of exploitation alive. Can't have the slave rising up to overthrow their masters again...
If the kernal edge is 6.13, why are many popular distros like mint still shipping with much older builds? (6.8 in the latest mint released yesterday)
Just finished a first attempt at a pilsner urquell clone, will see how it turned out in a few weeks. Looking to do a cheats kriek (cherry) if anyone has a solid recipe to recommend
Hey looks, it's Magic the Gathering
Thanks, that's useful, I think it's convinced me to finally switch
How do you find it as a daily driver in terms of QoL features such as banking apps and payments etc?
I think that's the final nail in the coffin for me. I don't wanna play pop culture soup, I wanna play magic. Im out.
They're just mean via proton, which tbh is fine. Everything works great through proton.
There is a growing tide of discontent as an entire generation foots the damage and bills of their predecessors. Until Labor finds a backbone and makes real, sweeping reforms in places where it actually matters to the majority of Australian families (complete tax overhaul, for one. Proper housing reform for another), they will continue to flounder. They had the opportunity to make large reforms, picked the wrong one to start with (voice), bungled it, and are now frozen with fright.
The tragedy is that even if they get another go at it, I have little faith that the current cabinet will change their mediocre, middle-of-the-road strategy of minimal impact. As Whitlam rightfully said, Labor is the party of reform and as soon as they stop being that, they are dead in the water.
My only gripe is pretty straight forward: the cost to play.
I LOVE draft, but have been unable to play it on Arena due to the high cost of entry. They allow standard play for free, but paywall draft. I know I can technically grind dailies to get enough gold, and then if im lucky enough and win enough I can earn enough back to chain another draft, but this is eventually a losing game, a bit like a slot machine.
I just have zero interest in grinding standard, and refuse to pay almost as much as physical draft for non-tangible, digital version. It feels very predatory.
Well that's a straight up lie. You can go to the waiting list data for elective surgeries in each state and territory and see that it's closer to 365 day waiting period on average.
Don't threaten me with a good time. A so-called 'minority' government is actually a good thing, keeps the bastards honest.
Anyone know what 'natural flavours' means on label packaging?
These words appear on almost all food labels these days, but they are kind of meaningless. Take something like those flavoured waters, "ingredients: water, flavour". They taste amazing, there's definitely a bunch of 'stuff' in there, but they don't tell us what it is on the label?
I thought we used to have number codes for additives and what-not that they had to disclose so we knew what was in it. Did the food labelling laws change somehow? Or are these new additives something different which can just hide behind the word 'flavour'? Genuinely curious if anyone has some idea, there doesn't seem to be any explanations on the food standards website...
Anyone not playing draft due to expensive cost?
Does anyone else not draft as much as you would on arena because of how expensive it is?
For a casual drafter that just wants to play around with the new set for maybe 1 or 2 drafts a week, the cost feels so ridiculous I just don't play. I would love to draft MKM but I cant justify the cost to simply play a digital card game. With so many other ways to monetise the game via cosmetics now, it would be nice of WotC to ease up a little and make drafting more free-to-play friendly.
/endrant
What's the end state of Universes Beyond?
The topic of UB is continuing to create controversy as the number of non-Magic IP products explodes. The Professor put out a recent video on the topic predicting a future Universes Within product to make up for all the unique UB cards being added to the mix, but looks like MaRo has quickly shut that idea down.
What are players who don't like UB supposed to do when there are no Magic versions of those cards? This is now just reality.
Blue cheese beer?
I saw an article about a blue cheese beer by some US brewer. Got me thinking, I wonder that this would go? Anyone have an idea how to achieve this? I can only presume throwing some blended cheese into the fermenter would just cause a yeast infection.
Help finding easter egg in Planet of the Apes
My friend and I have spent far too long searching on old DVD and Bluray forums for spoilers on how to access the easter egg “Chimp Commentary” supposedly available on the BluRay edition of Tim Burtons infamous Planet of the Apes reboot.
Hoping that maybe someone else out there may know how we can amuse our tiny ape brains by finding how to enable this easter egg. We’ve tried every combination of menu buttons and no online resources seem to work for the Bluray edition of this film. Has anyone else been able to find this thing?
Where to tryout/demo VR headsets?
Looking at picking up a quest 3, but want to try one out before I buy. Doesn’t seem like the usual places (JB, EB, department stores) offer any way to test them? Does anyone know of retailers who have demos?
Can anyone recommend a better note taking app than the default?
I’ve been using the notes app to write short thoughts, notes, poems, random ideas, etc and have found it really clunky for this. It has no simple way to edit formatting while typing or after, and a few other designs that seem to distract me. Wondering if anyone else had found this also, and maybe looked around for a better app?
Thoughts on keeping Daily Discussion Threads?
G'day all,
We got a pretty quiet community going here, but hey, that's our CBR style sometimes. I am keen on collecting thoughts on keeping the Daily Discussion Threads going? They don't seem to be very active and can make the community look quite bare, cluttering up the feed.
Keen for your thoughts
Trying to troubleshoot lower than expected FPS
Getting around 130fps avg frames, sometime dipping down into the 80's, when playing CS2. Did a recent system upgrade and presumed performance would be better than this for the build?
Gear:
- Ryzen 7 5700x 3.4ghz
- 6750XT 12gb ddr6
- 16gb 3600mhz ddr4
- m.2 SSD
- 144hz , 1440 screen with freesync
- Running Mint latest version
Have tried in-game settings at lowest, still not managing to get a stable FPS above 144. Mucking with settings doesn't seem to change performance much. Have set game to run with '-vulkan' which helped reduce some stuttering issues, but not much performance gain.
I also only get <100fps with other games like BG3. Figured this kit would be able to handle modern games a bit better. Any ideas what's going on?
EDIT: For future reference, the following changes were made and am now getting ~200fps
- Enabled asus EZ Tune in BIOS (rather than manually muck with each setting)
- Updated gpu drivers via 'amdgpu -install'
- Enable gamemode
Privacy friendly alternatives to Goodreads?
Are there any good quality, open-source or community-driven alternatives to goodreads? Something which offers the same discoverability service for similar or related books, including the ability to wishlist and review?
Friendly Reminder - Have Your Say on CBR decisions by joining the public panel.
For those who may not be aware, the ACT Government runs a virtual public panel called the Your Say panel. All Canberrans are welcome to sign-up and pick topics of interest to you.
Occasional digital surveys are sent out to help shape upcoming policy and government decisions across the ACT. There is even a chance to win monthly prizes. Information and sign-ups available here: https://www.yoursay.act.gov.au/
How to manually remove nvidia package that won't go?
(Linux Mint) Switched to an AMD graphics card recently and ran “sudo apt remove --purge” on all ^nvidia* and ^libnvidia* packages. Unfortunately, one package (libnvidia-compute-470) seems to not get the message and won’t remove itself. Quick search around the internet on solutions have not resolved the issue yet. Wondering if anyone had any ideas how to manually remove this package? Cheers!
Any reason we haven't federated with Lemmygrad?
Noticed they are quite a large server with similar rules to ours (Be respectful, no bigotry, no porn, etc). Looking at their front page, it seems pretty tame, just anti-capitalist memes and discussion. Is there a reason we have blocked them?
Of Golden Verse, by Sermon (Clean Vox. FFO Primordial, The Ocean)
Subscribe buttons missing
Apologies in advance, newbie here.
I've encountered an issue when trying to subscribe to new communities, wondering if I'm doing something wrong or something is broken. The workflow seems to be as follows:
- User goes to Aussie Zone (AZ) community browser and searches for desired communities to join (either by keyword search filtered by communities, or something like using Lemmy Explorer to search and find the exact community address to search).
- User browses to that community from AZ instance (because there's no direct "subscribe" button in the search page)
- User clicks the "Subscribe" button in the top right dialog box for that community.
My problem in this flow (which has worked for some communities, but not many) is that when browsing to the community and going to find the subscribe button, in most cases it's simply just text saying 'subscribe' with no link/button. Is this just a bug, is there a delay in syncing that you have to wait for, or does this indicate the communi