businessfish @lemmy.blahaj.zone vegan, linux evangelist, mario 64 speedrunner, hiker, food enjoyer
loch ness monster
my first amigurumi with color switching! there are a lot of small mistakes on this one, but i think the overall quality is an improvement over my previous amigurumi.
maybe its because the shape is more complex than i've tried before, but it baffles me that i made this with my hands from nothing but yarn, stuffing, and safety eyes.
loch ness monster
my first amigurumi with color switching! there are a lot of small mistakes on this one, but i think the overall quality is an improvement over my previous amigurumi.
maybe its because the shape is more complex than i've tried before, but it baffles me that i made this with my hands from nothing but yarn, stuffing, and safety eyes.
my first amigurumi - hubble the squid
ok the title is a little bit of a lie, i made a tiny jellyfish before this but the that was like 10 tiny rows so it doesn't count.
i love this guy! i learned a lot about how to improve my technique while making him, and i'm just really stoked with how he ended up. his eyes are a little wonky and the tension in the tentacles is all over the place, but i can write that off as personality lol. i was also pleasantly surprised with how the variegated yarn looks in a finished piece.
this pattern is free on ravelry: hubble the squid
angelic 2 the core is one of the only albums i've ever listened to that is so bad i enjoyed listening through the whole thing. i feel like most people understand that feeling with movies, but this one album is the only time i've felt it with music.
i know exactly what you mean about romance evading definition lol. i don't understand how allos survive when navigating the world based on vibes and "you'll know it when you feel it / meet the right person", it seems way to uncertain for me. i just looked through a lot of the ace/aro resources i know and couldn't find a good definition on romance, just that aros experience a lack of it...
unfortunately, i don't have a better answer for you except that maybe defining romance doesn't matter all that much? i think getting to know where you fit in the queer label soup can be comforting, but if you're struggling with finding the words that much it might benefit you more to just say fuck it and try to find others who want to live like you do using the words you already know.
having said that i'm currently struggling with meeting other similarly minded folk and am just banking on my current friends maintaining the our current relationship for all time, so don't take my words as gospel. i wish you well in your endeavors.
yeah my thoughts are a little different than the op a year later - still love the game but oatchi is basically a "win game" button. i also think the enemy variety is pretty lacking and i wish there were more monsters instead of big blue colored bulborb. i was also disappointed with all the cool upgrades being right at the end of the game where you have nothing to use them on.
lots of gripes about this one, but i still really enjoyed some of the large overworld areas and i think some of the later dandori challenges are amazing. i did also appreciate how you can get an onion for each pikmin type which got rid of any dread i acquired from having to go farm purples for the doomsday apparatus in 2 because i played a few caves fast and loose. i'm still holding out hope that someone will make a mod that makes pikmin 4 more difficult (but still fun) in some way.
i had never heard of relationship anarchy before and i find it very interesting - i may one day bring up the idea to some of my current friends. it would be nice to not be cast to the wayside when they find romantic partners because like you said, i hate it when that happens lol. and it can be tough going solo in an amato and allo normative world.
as for QPRs, i think that might be a little bit beyond what i want out of friendship, but to relate it to what another commenter said: i would like to be close with friends slightly more than what many would consider "just friendship", but definitely not romantic. the more i write and think about it the more i realize i just value my close friends and hope that they stay by my side for the foreseeable future. and heck, maybe even meet some new people too.
i really appreciate the points you brought up, they did help :)
that's how i felt when i realized i was ace - like that feeling i've always had in the back of my head that i'm not like how people are "supposed" to be finally had a name. and that there are others like me and it is ok to be this way.
i think i fit pretty neatly into the aroace possibly agender circle (these days at least), but i understand what you mean about society not having words for me. i think a lot of the confusion etc i've felt around this over the years is just that - confusing a desire for friendship with one for a partner. i've considered looking for a QPR but realistically i just don't think i have the patience for it.
ramblings on oscillating between loneliness and being happy alone
howdy gang, i keep seeing this community in the trending communities thing and it being empty was annoying me, so here's my super cool and awesome post. first btw.
i remember reading (and identifying with) relatively often on reddit how lots of ace people tended to flip-flop between feeling extremely aroace and feeling like they desperately want a partner of some kind, and i want to talk about it.
generally, i am fine most of the time - feeling like i'm living the way i want to live (with no partner) and that i'm not lacking anything in that regard. most of the time i feel like being on my own suits me and perfectly aligns with everything about my general being. very infrequently i get an intense desire to find a partner and share my life with someone in some capacity, but those are momentary and maybe last a day at the longest. i know i don't actually want that for the long run and i'm perfectly happy on my own, but man sometimes those feelings are intense and confusing. kinda like i want the idea of a romantic lifelong relationship in that moment, but the details of how those things work and what they look like in reality are completely unappealing to me.
at some point, those intermittent feelings died down nearly completely and i want to attribute it to connecting more with friends and family, but i'm not a doctor so idk. i think if you feel this way and you know for sure you don't actually want a partner, it might be coming from a lack of meaningful connection with friends/family. at least, that is how i see my unique situation. maybe that's obvious (or wrong), idk i mostly just wanted to populate this community with something and maybe even get some discussion going.
anyway sorry about the blogpost, i guess i want to ask if anyone else here feels like some days they are mega aroace and other days the complete opposite? and do you find anything in particular helps you with it?
- Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't - field botany with a side of misanthropy, mostly in the texas / southern us but he does occasionally visit places all over the world
- Natural World Facts - incredibly high quality documentaries on the deep ocean, every time nwf uploads is worth celebrating
- History of the Universe - goated space science documentaries
i think you need to look up how supply and demand works. i've exhausted my "arguing with people on the internet who clearly don't want their minds changed" time for today, so have a good one.
yeah dude vegans make up a pretty small portion of the population, so of course the meat industry hasn't been just erased like magic. societal changes like this happen at a glacial pace and the idea is that more people become vegan over time and thus demand for those products gradually falls. even if 10% of the population went vegan, demand for those products would fall by 10% and there would be that many less animals killed for it because it would not be profitable.
to claim that it is ineffective is like claiming that eating healthy makes no difference from eating like shit after doing it for a single day and not seeing amazing results.
being vegan is literally about not supporting the meat industry, so i genuinely do not understand what you're trying to say. that one person alone being vegan won't make a difference? that not supporting the meat industry is the same as supporting the meat industry, which is demonstrably false? i don't know of a more easy and effective way for a single person to make a difference than to stop supporting it altogether, and broad change starts with individuals deciding to make that change.
so you're saying that they would just keep killing more and more animals to produce more and more meat even if nobody wanted to buy it?
they are paid because people buy the products. if nobody bought the products, there would be no money in it. are you trying to say that people would be paid to kill animals even if nobody bought animal products?
how do you think meat gets to the grocery store? someone has to kill an animal, and the person buying the meat typically pays money for it.
in case anyone is reading this looking for a solution the cable was not the culprit
saturday is factorio night! gotta improve oil processing and fix some train deadlocks (assuming all 4 of us log on, a herculean feat)
nothing in between the computer and monitor - it's just plugged straight in. my current guess is that some step of pacman's install/update process changes something that also gets changed by something else (DE, config file, idk) after the boot.
could you elaborate?
i've been just dealing with this problem for an embarrassing amount of time now, and have gone through several version updates of the nvidia drivers with this problem persisting. i've also tried reinstalling the nvidia drivers with no change.
what could cause one of my monitors to be stuck at 640x480 only on the first boot after a system update?
when i boot my computer after having run an update, my primary monitor (which should be at 1920x1080) is stuck at 640x480. interestingly, when i reboot and change nothing, it fixes itself until i run another update.
i'm on arch, using nvidia 555.58-2, on plasma 6.1.1-1. the monitor in question is DP-0 in the system info below.
what could be causing this and how can i fix it?
i've been having this issue for a while while kinda just dealing with it because it was something i could easily work around by booting my computer twice, but i'd really like to get it solved.
system info:
relevant (i think) inxi output
System: Host: ***** Kernel: 6.9.7-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.1.1 Distro: Arch Linux Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GP104 [GeForce GTX 1080] driver: nvidia v: 555.58 Device-2: EMEET HD Webcam C960 driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.0 driver: X: loaded: N/A failed: nvidia gpu: nvidia resolution: 1: 1920x1080 2: 1920x1080~60Hz 3: 1920x1080~60Hz API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: kms_swrast,nvidia,swrast platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 555.58 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080/PCIe/SSE2 API: Vulkan v: 1.3.279 drivers: nvidia surfaces: xcb,xlib
xrandr from first boot
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 4480 x 1080, maximum 32767 x 32767 DVI-D-0 connected 1920x1080+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 509mm x 286mm 1920x1080 60.00*+ 1680x1050 59.95 1440x900 59.89 1280x1024 60.02 1280x800 59.81 1280x720 60.00 1152x864 75.00 1024x768 70.07 60.00 800x600 60.32 56.25 640x480 59.94 HDMI-0 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 1600mm x 900mm 3840x2160 30.00 + 59.94 29.97 23.98 4096x2160 59.94 24.00 1920x1080 60.00* 59.94 29.97 23.98 60.00 1680x1050 59.95 1440x900 59.89 1280x1024 60.02 1280x960 60.00 1280x800 74.93 59.81 1280x768 59.87 1280x720 60.00 59.94 29.97 23.98 1024x768 60.00 800x600 60.32 56.25 720x480 59.94 640x480 59.94 59.93 DP-0 connected 640x480+3840+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 640x480 59.94*+ DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-4 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-5 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
xrandr from the second boot
``` Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 3840 x 1080, maximum 32767 x 32767 DVI-D-0 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 509mm x 286mm 1920x1080 60.00*+ 1680x1050 59.95 1440x900 59.89 1280x1024 60.02 1280x800 59.81 1280x720 60.00 1152x864 75.00 1024x768 70.07 60.00 800x600 60.32 56.25 640x480 59.94 HDMI-0 connected 1920x1080+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 1600mm x 900mm 3840x2160 30.00 + 59.94 29.97 23.98 4096x2160 59.94 24.00 1920x1080 60.00* 59.94 29.97 23.98 60.00 1680x1050 59.95 1440x900 59.89 1280x1024 60.02 1280x960 60.00 1280x800 74.93 59.81 1280x768 59.87 1280x720 60.00 59.94 29.97 23.98 1024x768 60.00 800x600 60.32 56.25 720x480 59.94 640x480 59.94 59.93 DP-0 connected primary 1920x1080+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 531mm x 299mm 1920x1080 60.00 + 144.00* 119.98 99.93 59.94 50.00 1680x1050 59.88 1440x900 59.90 1280x1024 75.02 60.02 1280x720 60.00 59.94 50.00 1024x768 119.99 99.97 75.03 70.07 60.00 800x600 119.97 99.66 75.00 72.19 60.32 56.25 720x576 50.00 720x480 59.94 640x480 119.52 99.77 75.00 72.81 59.94 59.93 DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-4 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-5 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
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my first project - desk chair arm covers
i just learned how to crochet and made these lil guys because the plastic/vinyl/whatever stuff on them was cracking and falling off. they're held taut by a drawstring which i just noticed is perfectly hidden by the angle of this picture, but i just used some extra yarn and tied it like shoelaces.
really simple and easy as a first project! i'm not sure if it is visible in the picture but i made the blue one second and i think it came out much better.
i got the idea from this video and used it as a general reference.
Mike & Rich - Expert Knob Twiddlers (1996)
i just listened to grush (slapper btw, thank you @die4ever for posting it) and it made me think of another mike paradinas album i hadn't listened to in a while
fun fact when i first listened to this i did not connect the dots that "mike & rich" are in fact two of the greatest to ever do it, thought it was just some guys lol
also i love this album cover so much
Kodomo - Still Life (2008)
i listened to this for the first time yesterday and was stunned that i hadn't heard it yet because it is straight bangin the whole way through
Lusine - A Certain Distance (2009)
holy guacamole an idm community
found lusine earlier this year, and man i love this guy's music. i haven't found a release of his that i don't like lol
my fav tracks off this one are two dots and tin hat
a couple audio questions - how to set audio levels automatically or via cli?
hi all,
i've been getting some comments that my mic is quiet so before i go looking for a new one, i thought i'd check to see if this could be solved with software. i don't have an amp or anything for my mic and to my knowledge it shouldn't need one, but it is pretty old now and i forgot what actual product it is.
i'm on arch using kde with pipewire. i am already using kde's (or maybe something else does this idk) feature to raise maximum volume to 150% in the audio volume window, but this will turn itself off at unpredictable intervals and is also seemingly not always enough.
so i ask - is it possible to set some setting or use some linux audio magic to raise my mic output volume? and in the same vein of changing/setting audio levels, is it possible to configure the volume level on my system to not go above a certain level - as in all audio above x level is clamped back down to x?
full transparency edit - not 10 minutes after hitting the post button i found the volume knob on my mic that i swear to god was hiding so well and was definitely not just right there the whole time and definitely not accidently turned way down. still would like an answer to the second question though lmao
linux-compatible speedrunning tools and/or livesplit tricks
hi, is there anyone else here who is disappointed with the speedrunning tools available for linux users?
i've tried livesplit through wine but i can't get global hotkeys or autosplitters working, and speedrunning in general doesn't allow for the leeway required to tab out, split, and tab back in. i did give this a shot but it seems like livesplit server is deprecated and the project never got any more work done. also tried livesplit one, but again i couldn't figure out global hotkeys or auto splitting.
i used to use a tool called flitter but i would really prefer something more configurable like livesplit.
ok actually midway through writing this and looking for links to the things i've used in the past, i found this tool that does support global hotkeys. autosplitter would be nice, but it's better than the rest.
i'll still post this though - i'm curious if there are any tools/tips/tricks/etc others have to share.
Anthony Naples - Chameleon (2021)
can't stop listening to this lately - this album has such a wonderful chilled out atmosphere to it that i keep coming back to.
Album(s) of the year?
to the ~7 or less people who are on this community, you listen to anything that blew you away this year? most of my listening this year has been discovering older music - got into idm in the middle of the year and been basically going through the greats.
here's a list of the little i did listen to (and remember) that came out this year in no particular order:
- Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
- DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ - Destiny
- Colin Stetson - When we were what wept for the sea
- Yves Tumor - Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
i always look forward to december because then i can pick through other people's best of the year lists for stuff that passed me by. i'd love to hear some notable releases that i missed!
Kai Whiston - No World As Good As Mine
just found this community - and i first listened to this album earlier this year because until then i thought it was a rap record lol.
Salamanda - In Parallel
spotify just shuffled me into this artist and when i saw that they released something today i had to listen. really nice atmosphere, and with a lot going on that you can listen closely for.
what are everyone's thoughts on pikmin 4?
decided someone needed to start sprouting some pikmin in here. i'm almost finished with it (i think) and as a long time fan of the series, this one has really got me hooked. i was so worried from the trailers that the new stuff like oatchi and the dandori battles wouldn't flow right or that the new aiming/lockon system would mess the game up, but it all works amazingly. there is so much less fiddling around with your pikmin and making sure everyone is in the right places and more just doing stuff. it rocks.
pikmin 4 area spoilers
i just got to the 6th area and i am blown away by just how much is in this game! my jaw dropped when i saw there was a 5th full area, and i actually said "no way" out loud when they revealed the 6th area. AND this area addressed my issue of not all the pikmin types being useful! it just feels like this game is ready to burst with content between the numerous areas, caves, replayable dandori things, night missions, and the olimar mission which i haven't played yet.
my main gripe i have so far is the tried and true classic pikmin critique: the game suffers from being too easy in most areas. hopefully someone puts out a difficulty mod that isn't on kaizo levels at some point.
i also wish the caves were a little more complex, but the huge overworld areas make up for it with some of what i would call the best level design in the series.
what do you guys think of the new game? what's your favorite pikmin in it? favorite area? cave?
uncontrollable bean rage
i HATE beans so much that i fly into a rage whenever the mere thought of beans enters my brain. i get so violent and out of control that i immediately kill and consume the nearest animal (not dogs you DUMB VEGANS) in a sort of fugue state. obviously i am very compassionate as i do this and use every part of the animal (this makes the animal happy)
this whole condition is agitated - obviously - by vegans existing and telling me to stop killing animals. aita?