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Gemini Links 06/06/2023: Apple Might Kill VR, Tea Tea Deluxe 1.2.7 and Tea Land



  • Gemini* and Gopher

    • Personal

      • Christy's 5 Questions for June of '23 06/05/23

        I'd like to purchase a factory for building cars. Is that an object? I'm going to count it. One giant factory, and everything in it, plus enough capital to run the thing. I'm stretching the question, but it's what came to mind.

      • Cooking Experience: thrig.me's Pizza Crust
      • Anonymous chat

        Did you know that I host an anonymous chat that no one uses? You can get to it with:

        ssh guest@consensus.circumlunar.space

        There's no login, no names; you just read or write or leave. I suppose the server probably logs the IP address you connect from, but I honestly haven't looked to see where. Plus, you could simply come from some pubnix system and voila, your IP is hidden from me if I ever go looking.

        Some goofballs have typed interesting things in there, and some scripts have tried to get in. The interface is very basic... and the program is written in BASIC actually.

      • christyotwisty's 5 questions for June of 2023, answered by me...

        Viewing accumulation of goods as a form of success. That may not be true of all in the preceding generation... but is absolutely true of the members of said generation I interact with the most.

      • All Clinicians Are Bastards

        Ironically I've been thinking about this because I seem to have found an actually good clinician, someone with a phd in nursing and a fair bit of experience dealing with traumatized trans people.

      • Re: A worker-owned cooperative concept

        Someone called "emptyhallway" has posted about worker-owned cooperatives. The post goes into some detail about how such a thing might be structured as a company.

      • My Rat-eaten Car is Back!

        Almost exactly 11 months ago, on the 4th of July, rats had chewed through my car's wiring harness in the middle of a hot Manhattan night. After the towers lost it and several garages refused to repair it, it wound up at a Ford dealer in New Jersey for five (5!!!) months. At that point I gave up and booked a flight out of NYC, and sure enough they called for me to come and get my car. So it wound up sitting in my cousin's driveway for another 6 months. And now I have it back, having paid a year of insurance for no good reason.

      • Coin Microscope: Various Lawn Close-Ups 2023-06-05 (Fairbanks, AK, USA)

        These photos were from a few weeks ago, when the birch buds were just opening...

    • Technical

      • Meanwhile In The Real World

        A dead lightbulb that has somehow been broken off in the socket can be removed with a sledgehammer. Lacking that option, needlenose pliers can be jammed up the socket (first recall to stop the electricity) and then pulled apart with just enough force to push on the remaining bit of the bulb-end from the inside, but without too much force such that twisting is impossible. Figuring out the correct twisting direction from some other bulb might also be good. (The lightswitches and side-of-the-road-driven-on in Pakistan were backwards from here, and it's best to be sure of these things.) Of course the bulb was up high in a bathroom, so try not to put your face below the bulb-end, while still being able to see what is going on, and try not to step in a sink; one need not give the DM the pleasure of rolling on any more blunder tables.

      • Install OpenBSD in Qubes OS

        Here is a short guide explaining how to install OpenBSD in Qubes OS, as an HVM VM (fully virtualized, not integrated).

      • Apple Might Kill VR

        Apple announced a VR/AR headset yesterday. I believe it has a decent chance at flopping so spectacularly that nobody will want to touch VR for a decade because if Apple can't pull it off, why should anybody else even try?

      • Internet/Gemini

        • New newsgroup?

          German Usenet sees a RfD (Request for Discussion) of the creation of a new newsgroup...

        • Midnight Pub: Hello all!

          Currently learning code and trying to make a neocities account (did a bit of practice on my smol.pub page) but again I'm still very new. Hoping to get into more things like this instead of the social media which made me so miserable haha.

      • Announcements

        • Tea Tea Deluxe 1.2.7 and Tea Land

          A few days ago I made some updates to my OpenTTD mod. This category of mods is called a NewGRF in OpenTTD parlance. No big things, but enough to warrant a new release.


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