Joplin is FOSS & supports live LaTeX. The editor is markdown & you use $ for inline LaTeX & $$ for full line.
They've got both desktop & mobile versions. One of my favorite apps.
I recently learned to whistle as well! (in my late 30s). I'm bad at it, but finally can make a recognizable tune.
More recently though I've learned to cut my own hair :)
My favorite Halloween playlist. I return to it every year!
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I don't remember all of the details, but I thought it was essentially the water's surface tension that foots the energy bill when climbing a paper towel or a capillary in a tree.
The surface of fluids like water are unhappy. Molecules on the surface would much rather be deep in the fluid because on the surface they have "dangling" Van der Waals & polar bonds to one side. You can calculate the potential energy of the surface due to all of those dangling weak bonds, & that's the energy that is used to climb a capillary (the energy isn't free).
I could be misremembering though, I admit. School was many years ago...
Earthbound: Halloween Hack was really great! I played it this season. I wish it were longer though.
Thanks for posting the others! I'll check them out!
Nice clothes. She likes Free People, Anthropology, & Sundance. I try to choose a dress or jacket or something I think she might like (always get a gift receipt though!)
Small things. Sounds. The temperature of the air. The fact that my side isn't hurting right now. The kids costumes who were just trick or treating at my house.
I'd rather teenagers be trick or treating than doing other stuff. If they come to my house they'll get candy for sure.
Putting a wig on my best friend and spooning him while he's asleep.
Russia is sanctioned for invading Ukraine.
If it's a topic I'm super passionate about & there's no community on Lemmy then sure. But I'm not going to start a new Lemmy community every time I want to post a random dog photo or whatever.
In ye old'n times we would leave the console on as a stop-gap way to save the game between in-game save opportunities. Because ye old'n times game design philosophy believed that the added difficulty of crazily separated save points was "fun".
In modern times I sleep the hardware if I expect to be back within <24 hrs, and power off if I expect to be longer.
(Thank god for saving memory states in emulators!!! Elsewise I probably wouldn't play retro games at all.)
I'm Lemmy 99%. Can't do 100% because sometimes there isn't an equivalent community on Lemmy so I have no choice but to use Reddit.
Political signs in public spaces
They're legal, but such an eyesore. Every street corner is a cacophony of overlapping signs. What a mess.
I don't have a problem with political signs in people's yards (on their private property). But geez, all this garbage in all our public areas make our town look like a landfill.
Ugh, you're right! I didn't realize. I'm going to give SpamBlocker a try instead. I just downloaded and flipped through the options and it looks better than "Yet Another Call Blocker" anyway.
You're right, I hadn't noticed that.
Looks like the F-droid version is way behind, because you can see on their GitLab page that the project is still maintained. It'd be best to get the app directly through GitLab I suppose, or add an F-droid repo that has a more up-to-date version.
It can block hidden numbers, if that's what you mean by "private".
I hope you like the app!
Yes. Go to settings and toggle the Block hidden numbers option
I use Yet Another Call Blocker. It has a custom block list you can use to block a specific number.
The block list also supports wildcard characters, which is my favorite feature! I use it to block swaths of numbers (much of my spam comes from the state I used to live in, so I block those area codes).
"Minetest" was a clunky name. Wish they'd have changed the name sooner.
Interesting article about optimizing time
There are things we need to deliberately and consciously slow down for our own sanity and for our own productivity. If we don't ask the question about what those things are, we might get things terribly, terribly wrong.
Stuck in synchronization loop (Android)
Got a new phone (Pixel 4, DivestOS) & trying to sync my notes via Joplin Cloud. It grabbed older notes ok, but seems to be stuck in an infinite syncing loop & never gets notes from the last ~6 months...
Here's what I've done
My notes are all present on desktop. I don't know what to do next! Advice is greatly appreciated!
Joplin app version
Joplin Mobile 3.1.2 (prod, android)
Client ID: ######### Sync Version: 3 Profile Version: 47 Keychain Supported: No
Revision: 8d8cca06e
Android API level: 33 WebView version: 127.0.6533.103 WebView package: us.s
Populus (1998) & "god games"
Happened on this 1998 game by sheer chance and I'm really digging it! As far as I can tell it was never popular. It's a mixture of an RTS and a "god game" where one unit (your shaman) is very powerful & special (chess analogy: sort of like mixing the central role of the king & with the power of the queen).
Strong "tribal" vibes that were popular in the '90s (think Deep Forest music, the game Riven, etc). Very nostalgic for me as I was a kid at the time. I'm playing the PSX version, looks like the PC version was even better!
Has anyone ever heard of this "Populous" series? I'm curious to try other titles, and to try more in the "god game" genre (a genre I never even knew existed!). Any other "god games" worth checking out?
Recommended graphics settings?
What are your recommended Minetest graphics settings? I've tried the "just turning everything on" approach, and that's fine. But it's a bit superficial. What are the knobs to turn to get a more fun graphical experience? :D
How every tech āgatekeeperā is responding to the DMA - The Verge
The Digital Markets Actās deadline for compliance is imminent. Its six designated āgatekeepersā have fought the rules, but also bent to them.
Custom music during gameplay (ArkOS)
I've seen it asked (on Reddit) how to play custom background music while playing games on ArkOS. I wanted to share how I do it, in case others want to try it as well. I'm sure these instructions could be modified slightly for other Linux handhelds.
sudo apt install mpg123 to install the CLI-based music player /roms2/Music/ start_music.sh in your ports folder which contains the line nohup mpg123 -z /<path>/<to>/<my>/<music>/<folder>/*.mp3 >/dev/null 2>&1 &A more relaxing way to play text-based games?
I like text-based games (like from ifdb), but I don't like sitting at attention in front of my computer like I do all day at work. Any ideas for how to play these effectively without being on a computer?
Any other ideas? Or is this a fool's errand?
Super Metroid
Super Metroid's color palette and lanky sprite were always a turn off for me. But I'm finally giving it a chance on SNES (MSU-1 version) & I'm really enjoying it!
Vibes are: Quake + the movie Alien + Nine Inch Nails' album The Downward Spiral. Pretty cool aesthetic after all!
Vocab word for "filler" items?
In many games there are a lot of stupid filler items that you don't know what they do and they don't matter. (i.e. crafting ingredients). They are so ubiquitous across games that there ought to be a word for them. Sort of like a "MacGuffin" (except a MacGuffin moves the plot along, and these filler items don't).
Is there a name for these filler items? If not, got any ideas?
GoogleĀ loses antitrust case vs Epic Games. Jury rules Google Play store constitutes an illegal monopoly
What's everyone playing?
I just hit 10 hours in Earthbound on my Anbernic RG280V. I'm looking forward to trying some more SNES games once I'm finished (Super Mario World, Street Fighter Turbo II, Zelda: Link to the Past, etc.).
Interested to hear what you all are playing? Or, what retro games are on your "to do" list?
Art games?
Other than Mario Paint were there any other art games for the old consoles? I tried some internet searches but came up empty handed.
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
I've read a few books about simple living/minimalism but I just finished 'Walden' and wow... it's beautiful. Many patient observations of simple natural phenomenon are wonderful meditations and potent lessons. It seemed just as relevant to present times as to when it was written. I finished feeling like there's so much more to extract from that book, definitely going to read again!
Maybe you were aware, but if not I wanted to share with you fine folks in case you've missed this gem like I had. It is in the public domain in the US (published 1854) so you can get the ebook or audiobook for free from Project Gutenberg!
CCG-style retro games?
Were there any card games like Magic: The Gathering for retro systems? I expect not, because the digital card game genre didn't really "click" until later. But I thought I'd ask.
What are your favorite "ugly" games?
I enjoy Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup played in the terminal with ASCII graphics. I wonder whether there are other hidden gems out there which don't get attention because they are "ugly"?
The Hobbit Movie Fan Edits
I was thinking of watching The Hobbit withthae family, but my opinion is that The Hobbit trilogy is a big, bloated, unwatchable mess. I found a Reddit post highlighting some fan edits to remove the bloat and thought I'd post it here too (below). Have you all tried any of these? Any you'd recommend?
There are a lot of Hobbit fan edits floating around online. Too many, actually. But after seeing a post on r/movies the other day about yet another edit being released, I thought it might be helpful to provide a list of some of the best and/or most popular ones. That way itās not as confusing or overwhelming for those of you looking for an alternate take on Peter Jacksonās Hobbit trilogy.
This is not an exhaustive list, nor is it intended to be. Some edits will not be listed, such as Topher Graceās fan edit, since no one besides Topher (that I know of) has actually seen it and does
