sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
25c/77f is cold
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25c/77f is cold
Freya Holmér (@freya.bsky.social) reposted
you ever just enjoy problem solving to the degree where you get bored of projects without problems to solve
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
They are not mapped, though; they only appear on the drop-down list of the address bar of the explorer as that’s where I access from 👍 I haven’t tested cmd but with wsl.exe everything works just as fast as I’d expect. In fact that’s how I’ve been going around whenever I need to do file stuff 😅
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
Also to be clear i plan to do the new install on a separate SSD so that i still have the old one as a quarantine zone and/or troubleshooting playground
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
…saw that it was just querying some registry keys on a loop during the hanging time. I don’t have those handy rn but I’d be happy to run the same query again if you’re interested 👀 My C: drive has about 150 gb available out of 2tb which is small but i’d hope not trouble zone
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I didnt find anything remarkable on the process list or cpu utilization. I have a few SMB shares BUT i only access them by typing the path manually so the explorer doesn’t save them (would it still ping them if they’re in my recently accessed? 🤔) I checked explorer.exe with procmon and…
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
it’s gotten to the point where my gaming pc takes ~30 seconds to open windows explorer and ~10 seconds to switch from one folder to the next. it’s grueling. should i just do a fresh windows install or should i pull the plug and go full linux
HK (@hkesvani.bsky.social) reposted
Honestly a better argument to get people off their phones than most of the scolding you see on substack
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link be upon ye en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_f...
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
and i think it’s interesting that the version with the coat of arms has stuck around as the “true” version. like, 🇩🇪🇵🇱🇷🇴🇫🇮🇻🇪 are all the civil flags with no coat of arms, while 🇩🇴🇭🇹🇸🇻🇪🇸 are all the state flag.
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
now according to wikipedia, the coat of arms is only required for state and war use. technically civilians can fly the same flag without the coat of arms and it is a perfectly cromulent dominican flag - just like poland, argentina, nigeria and many others. but the coat of arms is cool
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
shoutout to mexico for the epic eagle killing a snake. and also to wales and bhutan for the epic dragons
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
i used to think the coat of arms in the dominican republic flag was cringe because of how complex it is compared to all other countries, but I’ve grown to love it (especially in the current trend of corporate minimalism). i think it’s kinda swag just like the vatican city or mexico flags.
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
i should learn pyccknñ
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
is there a casual english equivalent for spanish “dizque”? “supposedly” and “presumably” seem correct but they sound so ☝️🤓
St1ka (@st1ka.bsky.social) reposted
If you're an indie developer, you should hang this screenshot on your wall and use it as inspiration to never give up
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
he does this when you bring out a bag of marshmallows
grayRazor (@grayranger.bsky.social) reposted
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i see the vision and the potential
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
i think this dream was prompted by watching clips of “the murder of sonic the hedgehog” which were slightly overcropped and i could see window decorations for an OS i couldn’t recognize. it had macos style traffic lights but to the right. and the window was called “desktop”. maybe KDE?
Big Mike (@michael-dagreat.bsky.social) reposted
This episode was such a hard hitting one. We take for granted our access to books, especially old books, but the fact that these books had to survive wars, fires, natural disasters, and book purges, it is nothing less than a miracle we still have some of these texts
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
if tea is a liquid how do they get it to stay in the teabag
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
i had a dream i googled the original pokemon gold and accidentally found pokemon heartgold but instead of a download the website offered me to play it online. in an emulator. DeSmuME specifically. running on a windows 7 vm. in a browser tab on my phone.
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
is dark academia just harry potter with the serial numbers filed off
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
clock towers are an early form of broadcast network time protocol
usa // commissions open (@usatokkiss.bsky.social) reposted
this is the stupidest thing i've ever made #sonicfanart
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
not only is smoking not cool but it is actively uncool. an otherwise cool character who lights up a wad of paper loses aura points. not in a “drugs are bad” way but in a “stop huffing burnt shit” way. there’s better and cooler options. come with me, shadow the hedgehog. i’ll show you the light.
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Experiencia latina universal
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
it’s not even capable of installing anything. it doesn’t have cloud-synced user profiles. no app store. no updates. it just does a thing and does it well i miss that
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
and the software really does take over. if you run homebrew more often than not things like “going to sleep when the lid is closed” don’t work because the game has to have code built-in to handle that. that is a job for the OS nowadays.
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
the nintendo DS occupies a very interesting niche in the smartness of Devices:tm: where it does have a built-in operating system but its only job is to set things up before the actual software you want to run fully takes over. in this it’s similar to a DOS machine or an aliexpress microcontroller
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
i never finished trauma center: under the knife for nintendo ds for two reasons: a) i was disappointed it turned out to be a fantasy battle game rather than a realistic surgery simulator b) the final boss was very very hard although i would say the fantasy battle aspects were SUPER fun
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GlitchymmHg
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
whatsapp on ios has this cool subtle parallax effect for the chat bg as you tilt your phone around i used to have an iphone 7 with a fucked gyro and the only noticeable effect of that was the whatsapp chat background jittering uncontrollably. very quirky
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
something happened to the word “portable” between the release of the game boy micro and the steam deck
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of course there’s an xkcd for that xkcd.com/3106/
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
i actually think it’s very funny that 1 volt and 1 watt are comically small amounts while 1 amp and 1 farad are comically large amounts
Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow (@tomtomorrow.bsky.social) reposted
big tech hasn't come up with anything paradigm-shifting and useful since the smartphone in 2008 and I'm tired of all the shit they keep shoving down our throats trying to recapture that high
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
sonic battle was so quirky for giving amy an eating disorder
Jay (@envinyon.bsky.social) reposted
very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
no me rendiré hasta alcanzar la cresta 😤 estoy tan cerca que ya la puedo saborear
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
the word “cresta” means “peak” to most spanish speakers, but it means “clit” to dominicans (with the same curse word connotations as “cunt” in english). this makes a lot of motivational texts sound very humorous
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
the one (1) singular advantage ICE engines have over electric is that you can’t really fill a plastic gallon jug with electricity and then chuck it on your trunk
usa // commissions open (@usatokkiss.bsky.social) reposted
thinking about that black and red rodent #sonicfanart #sonadow
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
TOROKO NOOOOOOOOOOO
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
why is edinburgh pronounced edinbruh
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
are mimigas considered furries
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
i post a lot about things for real life that seem like a fantasy mechanic, and i wanna add seasons to that list. like sure. in some parts of the world trees go bald at certain times of the year. then the lakes freeze solid and beasts hibernate. and to most people this is just a routine thing
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
same reason why the laser pointer is SO MUCH less energy than an LED despite appearing brighter
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
i haven’t finished hollow knight but i started playing cave story
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
the bic lighter wattage i’m not sure about because it doesn’t feel like it’s supposed to be *less* than a laptop simply idling in front of you. but maybe it’s the fact that the laptop spreads it over a wide area
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
also seeing the comparison between sunlight and microwaves makes me feel more compelled to wear sunscreen
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
i love esoteric energy comparisons because the idea that the wind and the sun and fire and dance and song all happen because of the same thing, a thing we can see and feel and transform between its various forms it sounds like a fantasy rpg but it’s real
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
5 mW: laser pointer light 25 mW: wifi antenna 70 mW: singular LED 600 mW: laptop fan 1 W: smartphone idle 3 W: bic lighter flame 10 W: laptop idle 500 W: gaming desktop at full load 1000 W: microwave oven 1.38 kW: heat of sunlight per square meter 78 kW: toyota yaris engine 600 kW: formula 1 engine
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
crazy that my nintendo switch consumes 2 watts at idle and 4 watts during heavy gameplay. that’s nothing. that’s baby numbers. you could probably take a breath and spend more than 10 watts
Mijiu 米酒🍚 (@miijiu.bsky.social) reposted
#silvaze ? #silverthehedgehog #blazethecat silver shinning apple with his chest fur
Kelly Turnbull (@coelasquid.bsky.social) reposted
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
this post is what made me finally understand the purpose of the harmonic mean!! it gets you the average of the wave amplitudes/frame times!! 🤯 i can’t believe this whole time i thought it was an arbitrary formula
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
i think what makes “chat is this real” so funny is how it emphasizes sensationalism and engagement and shows a complete disregard for the duty of care of a public figure like a streamer to verify information for themselves before showing it to their audience. does everyone read it that way
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
…including cardio and strength training to help with the third panel situation (and in general make your current life more enjoyable to live)
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
the true explanation for the first two panels is probably the fact that more money means more things to do with your time. so previously the task availability was limited by money but that limitation is gone and you can do anything and everything
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
i remember seeing some variation of this as a young child with no money and i don’t think i was ready for how accurate it would be as an adult
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real
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you get paid with swag and aura fortunately there are more heat-friendly ways to achieve the same goal!
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
yes sometimes. it's cool
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
well the fact that it was cool at some point just proves i’m correct
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
obviously a massive generalization etc etc etc. but i wonder what practical boring decisions of today will be fashionable tomorrow. maybe the zelda graphic tee with the cargo shorts and sock sandals?
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
it feels like all fashion except the present comes from practicality miners wear denim for durability - now we wear it bc it’s cool the english wore coats bc it’s cold and now we do bc it’s cool skaters wore vans/converse because it’s comfy and now we do because it’s cool
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
which is awesome btw. this only happens because i installed a different desktop environment without any default keybindings. i could add a keybinding for this but i was lazy. but if you’re on windows and you don’t like the default desktop environment you’re stuck.
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my brother tried hitting the brightness keys on my laptop and i had to tell him “that doesn’t work, you gotta open a terminal and type `sudo brightnessctl set 20%` then scan your fingerprint to allow the change”
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
i tell everyone that linux nowadays is extremely easy to use, probably easier than windows because it doesn’t break all the freaking time, and i stand by that but it also gives you so much more freedom to create extremely cursed setups
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
sometimes the side chick isn’t a chick sometimes it’s a nice!nano drop-in replacement microcontroller for Pro Micro compatible keyboards with added bluetooth and battery charging features built-in
Manu (@manusaurius.bsky.social) reposted
nicole✨ (@renaryuugu.bsky.social) reposted
I can't stop thinking about the guy hitting a clip in dig dug
usa // commissions open (@usatokkiss.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
things in common: - white - weird - main character syndrome - probably has brain cancer
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top 5 groceries
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this is one of the few contexts where a ui animation that seems to be for flavor only turns out to be gameplay relevant i imagine that if you were to TAS things out with one click per frame you could do some wicked combos
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
this feels like watching the tip of an iceberg drift past… asynchronous matching… swap pending… this feels loosely relevant: i was a bit annoyed at pokemon puzzle challenge for the gbc for locking the cursor out while a match is disappearing so that i *can’t* slide a piece into the void left
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
that explanation is enough because just couldn’t conceive how you told it what direction to move with (seemingly) just a click the ability to make matches with a gem before it snaps back feels at the same time like a bug and an intentional elite level gameplay feature. like t-spins I love this
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
no edit button but “undelivered” should be “underleveled”
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
i was prompted to post this because i’m playing red rescue team dx and they seem to have added dialog specifically for people like me
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
…the game for not giving me a breather to do normal missions on my own. but i didn’t have to get permission! i just had to do it! it’s a game, not homework! i think that’s a metaphor for something.
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
when i first played pokémon mystery dungeon i didnt realize that you could just postpone the story missions however long you wanted, so whenever there was one available i always did it right away because hey, that pokémon needs saving right? this led me to be undelivered and also frustrated at…
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
i sometimes even forget that most kirby games are linear because my main one has always been kirby and the amazing mirror for the gba which adds a LOT of mapping/exploration and hidden secrets
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
i consider kirby to be a metroidvania
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
Well maybe your water doesn’t. My water tastes delicious I’ve had a lot of shitty tasting waters BUT one time at a restaurant i accidentally ordered a $20 usd water in a bottle that was actually glass and let me tell you it was positively scrumptious. Not worth $20 tho
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
what if there was a reader x reader fic that paired you off with someone else who was reading the same fic
naveryw.bsky.social (@naveryw.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
The full YTP can be seen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja5B...
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
Presumably they thought she might a) resell/give it to someone else and b) just casually admit to it Essentially the prescription fraud version of this image
GremlinsBooty (@gremlinsbooty.bsky.social) reposted
Confessions of a Rotten Girl, except that girl is your local nun #kaimeiluka #vocaloid
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
if that thang was inside of me the whole time then i suppose I’m not as hollow as the title would imply
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social) reply parent
i feel like there’s probably gonna be lore implications about the fact that after i die and respawn i have to kill a shadow version of myself in order to regain my full strength
sam (@unicodepepper.bsky.social)
i’m playing hollow knight. potential spoilers