[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

The Middle East has been cooking for so long, it's impossible to point at a faction that is the "Good Guys". But right now, one faction is hell-bent on exterminating another nation's people, both military and civilian, so it should be pretty fucking obvious who the worst "Bad Guys" are. There are no good guys, only victims.

You should read Ramzi Yousef's statement at his 1998 trial. Terrorist factions like Hezbollah and Hamas exist only because Israel is consistently refusing to make peace through diplomacy.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 17 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Where Linux?

(I might be open to allowing all memes related to the F/LOSS world even if not directly related to Linux... but you'll have to convince me.)

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

It's called the Milwaukee protocol, and it's considered to be a failure.

The patient is put in a medically induced coma and treated with strong antiviral medication until the natural immune system can produce antibodies, but even a successful treatment doesn't guarantee survival. Also, the debilitating neural damage. Honestly, I might still prefer a morphine overdose.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

There were cases where symptomatic patients survived, but the number is in the lower single digits and they all suffered debilitating neural damage. I wouldn't call it recovery, no.

The immunoglobulin treatment aims to eliminate the pathogen before it can infect the nervous system. Once that happens, once the headaches start, it's game over.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

These keyboard warriors don't understand how fucked up rabies can get. ~~Near~~ 100% fatal once the infected becomes symptomatic, and it's probably one of the worst disease-related deaths I can imagine. I'd rather take a cyanide pill.

I live near a forest where the fox population had to be culled because of the potential contact between humans or their pets and infected animals. There were billboards and television announcements that warned against approaching a wild animal that is acting friendly because it's an indicator of infection.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It has an i9 10980, so about 4-5 years old. It was built before I was hired.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

It was also supposed to be an all-in-one recording/streaming computer for university events, and they had to use the budget for something. It ended up being used as a proxmox host for a while, then it was handed off to me. Now the most resource-intensive thing it runs is a Windows 11 VM that I ~~torture mercilessly~~ use for experiments. It rarely gets to 10% memory utilization.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Try realizing ten thousand mesh instances in Blender and watch that sucker eat the rest of your RAM like it's got a pebble in its shoe.

I did that on my work PC with 128 GB memory (originally built for esports shit) and it still wasn't enough.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It depends.

For my work computer, I screw them in tight, both on the monitor and the DP/VGA adapter.

For stationary devices (like overhead projectors) and extension cords, I screw them in, but not very tight.

For classroom computers, I only screw them in on the monitor and leave them unscrewed on the computer. Students can't keep their legs calm and often snag the cables. I prefer to let the connectors harmlessly disconnect instead of damaging the graphics card or motherboard.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 142 points 2 days ago

Self-hosters:

Pathetic.

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submitted 2 weeks ago by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/blender@lemmy.world

This is a simple shader node group that breaks up the visual repetition of tiled textures. It uses a Voronoi texture's cell colors to apply a random translation and/or rotation to an image texture's vector input to produce an irregular pattern.

I primarily made it for landscape materials. The cells' borders are still sharp, so certain materials, like bricks, wood, or fabric, will not look good.

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submitted 2 months ago by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/tenforward@lemmy.world
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submitted 2 months ago by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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  • see cool video on front page
  • click
  • "Haha, fuck you, you've just clicked on the invisible button that takes up half the thumbnail like a fucking moron!"
  • redirected to the sponsorship info page
  • go back
  • video gone

why are you completely incapable of making a functional website you wet dildo

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submitted 4 months ago by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/dadjokes@lemmy.world

For example, drilling or enlarging a hole can be boring, but fixing two pieces of metal together is often riveting.

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submitted 6 months ago by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

It's a poor imitation. A mockery of the name. A GUI addict's idea of a CLI tool.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/trolley_memes@lemmy.ml

Not entirely accurate, the person on the side track should be a pile of money, but I'm too lazy to change it now. Also, imagine, like, flames coming from the bottom-right corner.

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submitted 7 months ago by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I recently switched from wireless to wired headphones (Samson SR-850, probably the best for the very reasonable price) and my chair's wheels instantly started eating its cable. Right now I'm using a small plastic hook that came with a face mask to keep it off the floor, but I'd like to hear other solutions.

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submitted 11 months ago by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/linuxscripts@lemmy.zip

I use this in Hyprland to quickly switch between the headphone jack and a USB wireless dongle. Executing the script will show a dialog that lists all available audio sinks, with the active sink selected. It requires pulseaudio or pipewire-pulse for the pactl program, and kdialog for the dialog.

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submitted 11 months ago by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

In the alternate universe, Ford Renault is still a dick.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/unixporn@lemmy.ml

I think Starfield's main menu is neat. So I made it into a desktop widget. Files (including the stylized logo) here, wallpaper here.

I used the Chakra Petch font (AUR: ttf-chakra-petch) for the menu buttons, and Liberation Sans (with some editing in Inkscape) for the logo.

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