MajorHavoc

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MajorHavoc,

Agreed, about keeping more goofy songs out of the kitchen.

But I’ll make an exception for my egg cooker.

My egg cooker beeps the equivalent beep to “I will fucking kill you all. Also these eggs are done. Seriously though, if I weren’t just an egg cooker, I would stab you right in the eye.”

I would trade that beep for pretty much any other sound, even a goofy song.

MajorHavoc,

It’s pretty great when it’s done well though. But it’s so rarely done well.

I’ve heard appliances make beeps or sing songs that clearly meant “job completed successfully”, or “low battery”, or “I need rescued before I can work again” without any need to consult a manual.

MajorHavoc,

Yeah. It really changes that scene.

MajorHavoc,

I went back to Windows several times before I made the switch permanently to Linux. You just gotta do what works for you.

This is the way.

I went back and forth for years. Tuning and tweaking to find what works for me. Spoiler - the fully open source options are what worked best for me, eventually.

For awhile gaming was the only place I put up with non-Linux anymore. And now with my SteamDeck, I have an easy way to avoid buying games that aren’t Linux ready.

MajorHavoc,

I hope I’m rocking that hard at 84.

My next non-alcohol bubbly drink will be in your honor, Larry.

MajorHavoc,

“extra fingers, too many fingers, not toasted, bad anatomy,” got me. It’s perfect.

Also, your username is perfect for this moment.

MajorHavoc,

This is the best thing happening on the Internet today. Well done!

MajorHavoc,

These work really suspiciously well.

Now I’m going to be watching for a throw away acknowledgement where Dr T’Ana calls Boimler “Susan”.

I never celebrated "over there," but I like you guys (lemmy.world)

Apparently, it’s been a year since the “Great Migration” and my intrepid decision to give the Lemmy fediverse a go. Since dabbing my toes into what has since become a creative outlet and hobby for me, I’ve found a fair few friends and like-minded enthusiasts for our favored franchise. Thank you all for still putting up...

MajorHavoc,

I love Gundam, but not for the right reasons.

Terrible reasonLumberjack Gundam Canada’s fight against Desperado Gundam Mecixo. I know everything about it is wrong, but it’s both awesome and hilarious. I’m so sorry.

Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics Revealed for PS4, Switch, And PC | Retro Gaming News 24/7 (www.retronews.com)

Capcom has announced the Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics, a compilation of seven iconic fighting games that will release on PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC in 2024. The collection includes:...

MajorHavoc, (edited )

This is a day one purchase for me, if they somehow don’t encumber it with DRM bullshit…

“The Punisher” arcade game is a criminally under-discovered gem. And Children of the Atom doesn’t get re-released often enough for how stupidly fun it is.

MajorHavoc,

Rock and stone, brother!

MajorHavoc,

Vampire Survivors isn’t that old yet, right?

It’s such a good Robotron clone.

MajorHavoc,

Yay. The orphan crushing machine paused briefly.

MajorHavoc,

I agree in sentiment, but this headline is objectively depressing.

< New home - yay! >

…

< Decades after a racist mob burned her old home down >

Well fuck.

MajorHavoc,

constrained in order to not break the game.

While that’s true, I suspect that whoever gets there first will get a free pass in the court of public opinion, so long as it’s a single player game.

“Look how awful my Sims are” is already a recurring gag hobby, anyway.

Retro Arcade Handheld Super Pocket Announced With Classic Arcade Games Galore | Tech Raptor (techraptor.net)

HyperMegaTech has announced the Super Pocket, a new retro arcade handheld that comes complete with a bunch of classic arcade titles for you to enjoy. It’s available in two editions: the Capcom Edition and the Taito Edition, each with its own unique lineup of games....

MajorHavoc, (edited )

This is super old news, but I’m happy to see these get more attention. These released last October.

These devices are delight. It makes a great gift for a casual retro game enthusiast - particularly if gifted with an Evercade cartridge matched to their interests.

Both built-in game line-ups are fantastic, and the Evercade library is a delight.

The big caviat of the whole Evercade set is that the cartridges are really just SD cards inside. So they’re not probably going to last terribly well.

MajorHavoc,

The obvious solution is to commit more than the average number of crimes of your fellow citizens.

Or, more specifically, more crimes than the average of your cohort of facial recognition doppelgangers.

That way, when the AI brings you to justice, it’s likely to be justice for a lesser crimes than the ones you already got away with.

(Sarcasm)

MajorHavoc,

Yup. This is also why I stopped buying Nintendo products.

MajorHavoc, (edited )

So you only play indie games?

Pretty much.

More specifically, I only play new games that I can verify the author is receiving a fair wage. That tends to be pretty indie.

In the rare case that I’m somehow caught up on my indie game library, I also play open source games and AAA title abandonware.

Moving from “patient gamer” to “gamer with a strong stance against Nintendo’s and EA’s bullshit” honestly wasn’t a huge deal. And it continues to be easy on my wallet.

MajorHavoc,

Switch 2 is coming which I have no desire for.

I was hyped for the Switch 2 until the latest round of bullshit lawsuits. Now I’m going to pass.

I’ll be sure to buy an emulator from China pre-loaded with every Switch 2 title in about a decade, though.

MajorHavoc,

…Our chief weapons are greed… And profit.

MajorHavoc,

This is the comment I was hoping for. Delightful!

MajorHavoc,

be sure that google can’t access anything else

Last time I read the GrapheneOS docs, my understanding was that this has been taken care of for you, even when using a single profile.

MajorHavoc,

Civ6 was buggy as hell on Switch. Anyone know if it’s stable on PC?

I want the hours I played back before it corrupted my game save, so $3 is still be too much to ask, to me.

MajorHavoc,

This is the best privacy policy.

MajorHavoc,

Holy shit!

MajorHavoc,

Excellent solution. I’ll just add that it’s also possible that the StormTrooper’s shot will have no effect whatsoever, while the Red Shirt dies in an unrelated event.

MajorHavoc,

As was mentioned, you probably cannot switch to GrapheneOs until the phone is paid off (out of the first two years contract).

In the meantime you can:

  • Change all of your primary logins (site by site by site and app by app by app) to a non-Google email address. This should stop a lot of back channel tracking that Google does through their login framework.
  • Install F-Droid to get access to popular free and open apps. It startled me how much essential software isn’t in the Play Store. These apps used to exist in the Google Play store, but lately the best I find in the Play Store are clones with ads jammed into them.
  • Use free or open software, specifically, when accessing Google services - for example, use SkyTube for accessing YouTube. These apps typically have anonymous use options which I trust much more than the equivalent setting (if it exists) in Google’s own apps.
MajorHavoc,

Yes, it’s an American thing. It can sometimes be worked around with a VPN with an exit IP in Europe.

MajorHavoc,

As someone who sometimes buys these, the price, when on sale, is often cheaper than buying wood and hardware to build my own outer cabinet, control deck and screen.

There’s trade-offs - the materials used aren’t quite as nice as I would pick, but then the included, already applied, art is very nice. And there’s the convenience of not having to plan out all the details like control layout, monitor, side art, top bezel.

To me, it’s really a piece of furniture, rather an affordable way to play the included games.

The CPU cores also only last about 5 years, for me. Which isn’t good, considering that a cheap modern computer will easily last 8-15 years.

I, personally, don’t give a ton of consideration to the included games. I’m really just buying the outer shell and licensed artwork. That’s what I’ll be looking at when not playing.

I’ll replace the innards with a Raspberry Pi when it dies, if not sooner. So I’ll play whatever games I want that fit the control scheme.

I also replace all of the controls, about half the time. The included controls outlast the CPU core, but don’t feel as nice to play on as a set that’s reasonably easy to replace them with.

MajorHavoc, (edited )

So, they are just a fancy decoration?

Exactly. There’s so many better ways to play these games:

  • Pandora’s Box
  • Batocera / Emulation Station / RetroPi on a Raspberry Pi
  • Various mini systems with a jailbreak (Sega Genesis Mini and PlayStation Classic are particularly good)
  • SteamDeck or PC with Emulation Station and RetroArch

So the price is really only justifiable, to me, by thinking of the cabinet being a piece of the decorated furniture.

MajorHavoc,

Pandora’s Box is a game machine, with games pre-loaded. It tends to have thousands of arcade games pre-loaded.

It’s a popular choice for restoring actual full size arcade machines, with dead motherboards. It’s also an option to upgrade (or just revive from motherboard death) an Arcade1Up.

With some effort, a cheap PC will do the same job, but some folks like that they’re premade and ready to use.

MajorHavoc,

Yeah. You’re both right.

The board is a usually a cheap single board computer (usually running Android, and an emulator or two).

The board is custom to the extent that the operating system has been optimized to know that it’s running inside an arcade cabinet.

MajorHavoc,

What 15 year old wrote that bs?

I don’t know, but there’s a pattern of Rick Berman having something to do with sexist takes in Star Trek. It’s complicated, and there’s a lot of hear-say. And I think there ought to be some credit given all around for Trek generally being progressive for it’s time.

But it seems like more of the issues seemed to happen when Rick Berman was involved, at least in the TNG, DS9 era:

duckduckgo.com/?q=rick+berman+issues&ia=web

MajorHavoc,

lgbtq people are expendable for the sake of ratings

It certainly felt that way when they killed off (redacted for spoilers, but we all know who). It was cheap, and I’m glad they course corrected.

MajorHavoc,

”If you are reading this and are trans, there are cis people who accept you for who you are and would listen to everything you need to say."

Well said.

And you’ve highlighted the real reason Trek (and the Trek community) is sacred to many of us. It (and you) help us learn how to say things like this that we’re not finding the words for.

MajorHavoc,

You were never supposed to watch an episode and come away thinking “man, those Ferengi really have it all figured out.”

Yeah. Certainly.

It still stands out as a weird artistic choice, I think. We see this extreme take on sexism, but it’s a long time before we get a female Ferengi protagonist shown overcoming it.

MajorHavoc,

with debian you are asked to choose the environment: xfce, mate… how troublesome is to change those after installation?

I just install whichever ones look interesting, and pick the one I want to use, today, from the drop down, on the login screen.

MajorHavoc,

Yeah. I finally switched and learned that what I lived about Ubuntu exists in Debian, without the extra nonsense.

MajorHavoc,

This is fantastic. Well done!

MajorHavoc, (edited )

I would love to see Lower Decks give us a glimpse into how Neelix lives “15 years later”. Feels like he’s gotta be high rolling and connected to (and owed favors from) everyone in every quadrant, by now.

MajorHavoc,

“I can’t carry your fancy science gadget, Mr. Vulcan, but I can carry you!”

I wish we had gotten a version of this, if only for the “who did it better” debates vs Quark and Odo’s version.

MajorHavoc,

Agreed. I would be delighted to learn they’ve been in a polite terf war between their holo-program and synthol distribution empires, or something.

MajorHavoc,

Bonus panel: Captain Archer kneels on an alien world - caption reads: Wow. We’re on a new an new alien world. Should I bag up his poop? Nah.

MajorHavoc,

I should fix it… Just like Archer should pick up his dog’s poo… But we know neither of us is going to…

PayPal Is Planning an Ad Business Using Data on Its Millions of Shoppers (www.wsj.com)

Wall Street Journal (paywalled) The digital payments company plans to build an ad sales business around the reams of data it generates from tracking the purchases as well as the broader spending behaviors of millions of consumers who use its services, which include the more socially-enabled Venmo app....

MajorHavoc, (edited )

Just put the card in directly on random websites.

I’m not joking - if you follow your existing “should I even be using this site anyway?” signs, it’s going to typically be fine (in 2024!) to use your debit card there.

(Edit: To be clear, things have changed. Time travelers from the past should absolutely not follow this advice back in 2002!)

And when something does go wrong, you’ll get better support from your credit union than PayPal would. (You don’t still use a bank like a sucker, right…?!)

The worst case, usually, is they reverse the fraud and issue a new card to prevent further fraud.

So I guess it’s a few things:

  • Get a credit union, rather than a bank.
  • Choose one or two of debit (edit: or credit) cards for all online use. Life is simpler when fraud does occur, if I have another card that still works for gas and groceries.
  • Use the debit card directly, online, with any trusted site. There’s no need for PayPal to exist anymore.

Many years ago, PayPal’s innovation was treating people who shop online like actual people. The rest of the world has caught up, while PayPal lost sight of that.

Source: I worked in FinTech. It’s amazing how bad your current options are, but it tends to work out, anyway. There’s an extremely ethical and detail-oriented army of women named Karen, behind the scenes, looking out for you.

Edit: And as far as I can tell, not one of the extremely ethical and detail oriented women named Karen works for PayPal. Big tech companies rarely successfully keep that kind of no-nonsense-tolerated top talent.

MajorHavoc,

I’ve heard this advice as well. It certainly doesn’t hurt, if you have credit cards, to prefer them.

I imagine it is a lot nicer to have a fraudulent item on a future bill, than an actual fraudulent deduction from a current active account. And fraud correction is prompt enough, that the bill never comes due on a CC, whereas the money is, indeed, missing immediately on a debit card.

That said, not having any credit cards, I would never open one simply for the fraud protection.

Debit card fraud correction has always been prompt and accurate, for me.

The card companies do not discriminate, currently, between corrections on credit and debit cards. Currently, that’s largely thanks to contract language with their debit card customers that prevents them from such discrimination.

I added disclaimers like crazy above, because FinTech is a constantly evolving industry with constantly changing terms of service. And because most people working in FinTech are assholes who want to scam you.

Edit: I’ve corrected the above advice with yours, thanks! There’s certainly no reason to prefer debit over credit for online use, for anyone who has both card types. I just have a bad habit of using the words interchangeably because I only carry debit cards.

MajorHavoc,

Ah, the ESCwertyuiop layout.

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