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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I've never found an acceptable substitute for their nacho cheese sauce (sure it's probably basically plastic. But it's plastic I crave) or the chalupa shells. Nothing is close to either of those.

I'm a big quesarito fan, but I'm basically happy with my own of that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I just use the "white" as warm as possible most of the time. All the ones I've had allow you to choose by color temperature instead of hex.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

There's a lot of research demonstrating that external factors have a pretty major impact on criminal behavior (nutrition, socialization, etc during developmental years, as examples). So society plays a role.

If you're interest in reading, Robert Sapolsky's Behave is pretty long and a little heavy, but a great, reasonably broad view of the things that make us tick from a bunch of different lenses. It's tied-ish with Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow as my favorite non-fiction, and looks more at social factors like the example above. I haven't read Determined yet, and really doubt it's going to convince me not to believe in free will, but his underlying base of knowledge is legit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm guessing you'd hit interference at some point.

But also latency would be bad and you almost definitely couldn't synchronize them well.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I know what sub I'm in, and while I don't pirate anything, I'm not going to argue the ethics at all.

But according to the article, they were literally advertising to customers that they were sling and selling them devices preloaded to look like they were sling. Again, I'm not here to argue the merits of piracy generally. I follow the sub without being a pirate because many of the legal/technical issues around piracy affect anyone who wants to own their media and browse the internet with some level of privacy. But distributors of any of that content aren't credible if they're lying to the end users. Lying to tell people you're actually the real service isn't cool.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

lol I can't. I have favorite series I go back to a couple times a year on audiobook.

I'm pretty sure I read everything Karen Rose has written at least 3 times last year, I read CJ Archer's Glass and Steele twice, and there are a bunch of others. Most TV shows I space out a bit though. (Except the Good Place. It's just so forking delightful.)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Doesn't seem like "'pirate'" needs the quotes.

Bypassing the DRM might be legal, but if you're openly advertising piracy, you lose plausible deniability and make it very easy to get your device blocked from sale.

And they scammed people by telling them they were actually paying sling/whoever.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

ProtonDB is your friend. I haven't had to tweak many games, but you can find useful information there. ProtonUp-QT is also sometimes helpful. It streamlines adding proton GE, which is sometimes needed for codecs steam can't package. I personally install everything I can through steam, though some prefer heroic or lutris for other stores.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It works perfectly fine for me for almost anything that doesn't have a rootkit packaged with it on steam deck.

My desktop I've had a couple more issues because I use Nvidia and their drivers are less supported. But it's still not that bad.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You might be interested in the book Algorithms to Live By. It's not a masterpiece or crazy deep, but it's a pretty accessible look at a few applications of CS approaches to real world problems.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Give me a nice local root beer.

In terms of mass production, Sunkist was my favorite. I don't really drink any any more though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes. The exact same reason you admitted that you can't pass through a monitor is the reason it cannot possibly be used for any productivity requiring text. The density real monitors have is the density you have to have for productivity use.

Text is not mediocre. It's absolute, blow your brains out trash. You cannot do meaningful reading on it.

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