computergeek125

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computergeek125,

I’ve been that guy at a computer store. Had already found what I needed on my own since I was quite familiar with the store and was browsing a different isle to look at the shinies. Overheard a customer ask a salesperson what the difference between product x and y was, which were marked very similarly on the box but one was something like 30-50% more.

I noticed the salesperson become quite unsure of what this specific technical difference was, so I added the quick TLDR paragraph of what the generalized difference was and what words the manufacturers use to differentiate them (since there were several product pairs that matched both classes elsewhere on the isle).

Customer says “oh ok that makes sense”. I forget which one he decided on (I think it might have been the more expensive one kek), but the salesperson put his commission tracking sticker on the selected box and the customer wandered away, hopefully happy. Salesperson turns to me sheepishly “Um… I guess you probably don’t need help?” I responded “No, I’m just browsing, but do you want to put your sticker on this gizmo I found in the bargain bin over there?” He seemed happy with this arrangement, adds the commission sticker, and we part ways.

…did I inadvertently make a pact with a different type of fae?

computergeek125,

How did you make the creative commons license punctuation look zalgo like?

computergeek125, (edited )

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalgo_text

The letters of CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 appear normal, but there’s extra stuff between the characters where the spacing and hyphens are

computergeek125, (edited )

Voyager PWA, but I think see what it did now.

It’s processing as markdown, and ignoring the first tilde strike marker since it’s sandwiched next to the URL brackets. So the only valid strike through is in different spots than you intended. Superscript/subscript I think is being processed correctly because it’s small.

Edit: I just noticed the other guy has the same app, so that would do it.

Edit2: I think I need to mentally review how markdown works there are wires crossed in my brain

computergeek125,

Heyo, just wanted to say I appreciate the edit.

Some people see three extra clicks (which is what it took on mobile to get the real description out of GitHub) as a limiter. I actually clicked because I had guessed that with a name like “navidrome” it was something GNSS related, was surprised to see it was about music.

I’ve been self hosting for going on 7-8y, following various communities on reddit and Lemmy and I learn about new softwares every day. I’ll have to toss this one on my investigation queue.

computergeek125, (edited )

Somewhat halfway between practical use and just messing around for fun.

Several years ago I built a GPS NTP clock out of an RPi3 and an Adafruit GPS hat. Once I had the PPS driver installed, it’s precision/drift got pretty good. According to its own self measurements, I got pretty dang close to NIST stratum 1 NTP servers, but those are hundreds of miles away so that measurement isn’t super precise. It’s still running today, clocking nearly 24/7 operation since (checks shopping history) 2017, though I replaced the breadboard and mini module with a full sized hat with the same chipset in 2021.

Recently I acquired a proper hardware GPS clock and I stacked the two against each other and found out my RPi did not half bad and can get between 0.5-10ms of the professionals (literally I’m pretty sure I’d need more precise measuring equipment to tell the difference between the two at this point than a regular computer). Now my homelab has fully redundant internet-disconneted stratum 1 time. Been half considering if I could write a GPSD driver for it as a joke, but I know upstream won’t accept it because it doesn’t offer SOOO many features they’d need.

As for what else - I just kind of keep an eye out for projects related to GPS and high precision time, like the open source atomic PCI card that was released a few years ago. Finding out what people are doing to get better and better time is just downright interesting.

Outside of the time world, it’s just fun to see what projects people come up with relating to maps and navigation. Stretch goal once I have enough server horsepower is to make a render-capable Open Street Map server with my home region loaded to start with, but eventually I’d like to get it to the point where I can load and process world.osm. That… Requires a LOT of CPU and SSD space.

computergeek125,

Regarding the hairstyles, the benchmark can read saves created by the main game. According to the source I saw, you just have to copy the file over from the main game to the benchmark to load a character with a specific hairstyle set.

Agreed though - it probably won’t deal with everything people have brought up. Maybe it’s something that will be addressed in the final game release.

computergeek125,

You will in good time :)

Though there are two very specifically from Tower at Paradigm’s Beach (lv 80 alliance raid 3), but they are somewhat infamous within said raid for taking out players mercilessly

computergeek125,

Square Enix Office Building is a very different tower mechanic :P

computergeek125,

As a complete outsider to the situation, that article makes the company appear to be exploiting child labor and then putting a positive spin on it for the news.

Hardly the best first impression.

computergeek125,

Several paragraphs of licensing drama

computergeek125,

As someone who has not played the original, what do you mean “removed crowns”?

computergeek125,

Instant gratification I guess?

One the other side I’ve seen a friend Xbox stream Starfied to PC Chrome, when I originally saw the title I was expecting something more like that from Sony

I guess we’re not allowed to have nice things :(

Edit: instant not insurance, thanks autocorrect

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