infinitevalence
8 hours ago
•
100%
Compare the civil rights movement vs BLM movement. That was not sustained protesting, it was not constant and real pressure. It was a flash in the pan, and worse, it showed that the citizens of the US dont have the stomach to do it for real again.
Until we are willing to disrupt the whole economy, and shut down suburban white America, approximately jack all will be done.
I think if anything BLM proves my point because the fascists actually had to show up and use violence and false flags to try to subvert the success that was happening. If BLM had gone on longer and wider I really think congress would have shit a collective brick because o shit were they terrified.
No Stupid Questions
Why do social workers get upset when you don't want their help?
infinitevalence
10 hours ago
•
100%
Or take their help on things not directly related to housing? A decent social worker can do so much for you that could be genuinely helpful.
I wish we treated unhoused with the same basic structure as hospice. Having a team with a social worker, Dr, nurse, and counseling for each person would go a long way to long term well-being even for people who choose to be unhoused.
infinitevalence
11 hours ago
•
100%
Most are terrified of their constituents. If there are mass protests and people pressuring constantly they will listen even if this vote was unconditional.
But this is why they work so hard to keep us just poor enough we can't afford to revolt but not so poor that we have nothing left to lose.
Like I said ineffective but not impossible.
infinitevalence
11 hours ago
•
100%
infinitevalence
13 hours ago
•
100%
I mean you can but it's just not effective.
Sync for Lemmy
How do I block all hexbear and lemmy.ml. I'm sick of being a part of the China/Russia psyops.
infinitevalence
19 hours ago
•
100%
Feel ya, every now and then I do find an interesting conversation on both, but most of the time its just annoying spam at best.
ADHD memes
Just AuDHD life paths
infinitevalence
2 days ago
•
100%
Well its 2 middle aged lifetimes of collecting and my partner and I are both avid readers. Sadly its a mess right now as the kids have been using every flat space in the house for some type of construction, but I still like to sit there and read or watch/listen to the 3d printer. I also could really use a librarian who can organize it because im the wrong person for that.
No Stupid Questions
If Donald Trump was black, would he have made it this far in politics?
infinitevalence
2 days ago
•
99%
if DT was anyone else he would have been held with no bail for having 90+ pending felonies and having been convicted of 32 already. The fact that his passport has not been restricted is clear evidence that being "rich & famous" gets you different treatment.
ADHD memes
Just AuDHD life paths
infinitevalence
2 days ago
•
100%
I would but its my grandfathers collection of reference books and I want to try to keep as much of that history for my children as possible.
ADHD memes
Just AuDHD life paths
infinitevalence
2 days ago
•
96%
Had to have an hour conversation with my therapist because the urge to help other people has me questioning the value of my work. Guess I will go sit in my library and think about it while it rains.
No Stupid Questions
Have you shared your own posts from platforms like this (or Mastodon) with others you know offline (besides your partner)?
infinitevalence
2 days ago
•
92%
I share pots, replies, and links just like I did with reddit to my friends, co-workers, and family. Generally I work to keep the stuff im linking to appropriate for the target audience.
News
infinitevalence
3 days ago
•
100%
Thanks
infinitevalence
3 days ago
•
100%
Thanks
infinitevalence
3 days ago
•
100%
Can you link your source?
infinitevalence
3 days ago
•
100%
Good to know, thanks. I have been holding off on getting this since I was worried it would not be playable.
No Stupid Questions
Do all these former Republican leaders endorsing Harris do her any good?
infinitevalence
3 days ago
•
42%
For me personally, no.
infinitevalence
3 days ago
•
100%
Any movement on steam deck / Linux support?
Technology
No One Is Buying AMD Zen 5 CPUs, So What's Going On?
infinitevalence
3 days ago
•
95%
100%, it's the lack of the X3D parts. Zen 5 on its own is compelling but not for gamers and DIY, would I buy it in a pre-built desktop or a business machine, Yes I would all day long. But if I'm gaming and there's no X3D part why would I get anything else other than a 7800 X3D. AMD really shot themselves in the foot and what's worse is we warned them it was coming yet they chose not to listen.
politics
A longtime GOP operative helped the Green Party’s Jill Stein get on the N.H. ballot. Democrats smell mischief.
infinitevalence
7 days ago
•
28%
Pointing out that Democrats played stupid games and got stupid prizes makes me a Russian shill and Trump apologist?
politics
A longtime GOP operative helped the Green Party’s Jill Stein get on the N.H. ballot. Democrats smell mischief.
infinitevalence
1 week ago
•
26%
Considering Democrats did the same thing when Trump was running in 16 because they thought it would be easier for Hilary to win... Maybe they would learn that this kind of crappy gaming is dumb and could be fixed with improved voting systems.
linuxmemes
Aw hell naw man
infinitevalence
1 week ago
•
100%
I use their server distro's all the time but i never liked the UI so I just dont bother.
linuxmemes
Aw hell naw man
infinitevalence
1 week ago
•
100%
i never use Ubuntu so...... Glad to hear it.
linuxmemes
Aw hell naw man
infinitevalence
1 week ago
•
100%
is that for real?
askchapo
My short Comrades do you feel dating is as hard for you as some incel types make it out to be?
infinitevalence
1 week ago
•
100%
I've never had any problems and I'm barely 5'6".
I was not out trying to date supermodels but not everyone is so shallow that they have to date someone taller than them.
infinitevalence
1 week ago
•
100%
Ooo snap
infinitevalence
1 week ago
•
100%
No one believes you. You don't look Haitian enough.
No Stupid Questions
Why are people on the internet (and Lemmy) so quick to say someone "deserves to die"
infinitevalence
1 week ago
•
100%
Its a product of global connectivity but lack of in person connection. If I interact with someone regularly and personally I am unlikely to wish harm on them because they are "part of my tribe." Via the internet and social media I dont really have a connection with this person, so its easy to think of them as an outsider or them. Once they are outside of my tribe I can remove their humanity and then their death has no moral or emotional cost to me.
3DPrinting
Ender-3 V3 Plus for cosplay props
infinitevalence
2 weeks ago
•
100%
I will second Mellow, the Ender 3 series is a great entry level printer for tinkerers and hobbits but it requires lots of upgrades and maintenance to turn into a quality fast printer if your goal is to work with the printed items and not the printer.
I like to tinker so that was fine with me, and when I got around to buying a big boy printer I got a Voron 350mm v2.4r2 because its a printer you build yourself. Going from an entry level printer to a $1200 printer is night and day. The features, functionality, quality, and for me most importantly the speed have been game changers.
Since you want to print Cosplay im going to assume you dont want to tinker constantly with the printer, and you dont want to be dealing with failed prints all the time.
If that is the case I would say spend what your time is really worth to you and for your hobby and get a higher end high quality printer. Enjoy the parts you print, not fighting with the printer.
196
infinitevalence
2 weeks ago
•
100%
Damn it I missed it again this year. I'll get to it next year.
infinitevalence
2 weeks ago
•
77%
My kids, who began using Linux at home and then Chrome OS since the ages of 5 ,would suggest that it's only older users who are completely stuck in their ways and can't adapt to different operating systems.
Technology
Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.
infinitevalence
2 weeks ago
•
96%
How dare you make such a direct and personal attack on me!
Hockey
infinitevalence
2 weeks ago
•
100%
hehe!
Two rules man, stay away from my percocets! And do you have any percocet?
Reddit
infinitevalence
2 weeks ago
•
100%
You do by voting with your wallet and not using or engaging with the platform.
Casual Conversation
Do friends "help each other whether they like it or not" or "respect boundaries without question"?
infinitevalence
2 weeks ago
•
100%
And sometimes both.
games
EVE Online's devs have always been bumbling, corrupt, greedy assholes. Some of this may not make sense to you, but hope enough does to see that here.
infinitevalence
2 weeks ago
•
100%
I'm not going to play "no real Scotsman". I loved that game, my best IRL friends are all from that game but we all moved on like most do.
I would just guess you had a different experience and that's why my comment felt hostile. We memed hard and frequented the forums and failheapchallenge.
games
EVE Online's devs have always been bumbling, corrupt, greedy assholes. Some of this may not make sense to you, but hope enough does to see that here.
infinitevalence
2 weeks ago
•
100%
The "you mad bro" was a reference to that era and the piracy, ganking, goon swarm wars that were part of the game.
No Stupid Questions
Has there been a depiction of fast food on a space station?
infinitevalence
2 weeks ago
•
100%
I would go farther and say read the books. The show is great, and the books are great too.
games
EVE Online's devs have always been bumbling, corrupt, greedy assholes. Some of this may not make sense to you, but hope enough does to see that here.
infinitevalence
2 weeks ago
•
100%
Asklemmy
infinitevalence
2 weeks ago
•
97%
I think my favorite overclock was back in the early Conroe days when Intel first released the core m processor. I bought an Asus white book and after assembling everything and doing on a power-on test I immediately powered it off and did a pin modification to force the socket from 100 megahertz front side bus to 133 megahertz front side bus.
It was such a simple modification that netted me significant performance improvements and voided my warranty in the first 5 minutes.
diy
infinitevalence
2 weeks ago
•
100%
Two speaker wires, one RG6 coaxial cable, and I think cat5 on the left.
Despite the massive breach where we found out that notes (where lots of people stored previous passwords) were not stored encrypted by Lastpass, I have stuck with them for years because its hard to switch services. Recently I realized that both my wife and I were paying for 2 separate password manager services and we need to consolidate down to one. Staying with LastPass and moving to a family account would only cost $4/m which is still 1/2 what we were paying combined. Is there another manager that offers Apple, Android, and Browser based applications/plugins? Ideally also with an authentication app, though I can swap to any authentication if I need to so its just a nice to have.
 I will never be done tweaking and adjusting things, but for now, this is how I want it. I do wish I had more control over things like Discord and Steam. Some of the colors and things just dont fit well with the rest of the style but o well, cant make everything perfect.
https://www.printables.com/model/759734-oreck-vacuum-tube-extension#preview Replacement tubes are only about $15 but why spend that when I can just print them!
Hey there fellow neck-beards and grey-beards! I have a motherboard with USB3.1 and I need to down clock it so its always 5 Gbit/s and never faster. Is there any way to do this, my DuckDuckGo Fu is not finding the right combination of words. I use Arch BTW... Just kidding im still running Manjaro. Thanks.
Starting small: 1. Finish RFP/Quote 2. Call Retirement company 3. Write yearly review follow up email What do you want to get done today? Set a goal, maybe start small. Lets try to find ways to support each other.
www.therecycler.com
For a while now I have been a Brother evangelist because they just worked, they did not lock you into first party only printing supplies, and they were overall a good value. THEN: my printer firmware auto updated and suddenly my toner cartridges were no longer recognized. Its not that they ran out and I put in new ones, simply the ones that had previously worked (3rd party already) just stopped and it reported an error. I managed to find a guide on downgrading the firmware, and now I am back up and running and auto update is turned off. I am also saving all the little chips from the Brother branded cartridges. So Dear Brother Printers, Please choke on a bag of dicks. I spent $500ish on a laser color printer so I would not have to deal with the shitification that has happened to inkjet. Seeing hostile and profiteering consumer behavior from other printer companies you decided to copy them for short term gains. Well I will no longer recommend your products, and I will go out of my way to fix and downgrade your older printers with the sole purposes of putting them back into use and costing you new sales. 1 down, 1 in the cue, feel free to stop being anti consumer and breaking hardware we already paid for. URL referencing the last time I know they got caught messing with Firmwares: https://www.therecycler.com/posts/new-firmware-updates-affect-aftermarket-cartridges/
Hey folks... Yes we all saw the drama, and yes Linus probably did not understand that the criticism was of their pace and methodology rather than on a single video. BUT please down vote bad content, not because your mad at Linus, and more importantly if you are down-voting to protest, do it on Youtube! This unofficial community (of like 3 people) is not affiliated, we are not beholden, we are fully independent and have no connection to LTT. Down voting here without adding to the discussion is as bad as posting YouTube video's without fixing the errors.
My 7 Year Old decided that their GMMK needed a key cap refresh, so we sat down pulled off all the old caps, and put on new ones out of my spare/surplus.  The old Keycaps: 
The only real complaint I have had for my Keychron K4 has been the plastic case, so yesterday I decided NO MORE! I took some aluminim stock plate I had left over from another unrelated project and trimmed it down, tapped and countersunk mounting holes, and give it a hand brushed look with some 80 grit sand paper. So far it feels solid, and I love the diffuse reflections from the key illumination. Combining the open sandwich plate with low profile caps gives it a really cool "exploded" or raw look. I also added some silicone rubber to some of the larger keys to tone the "ping" down and give them a heftier feel and sound. I dont love the stock stabilizers that come with this board so they may be the next update. Switches and Firmware are already all custom.   
Keychron K4v2, put some LSA Keychron Developer caps on it. Required a little modification to shave down the stabs but I like the look, now I just need to fix the sound since the reduced mass of the cap leaves some snap back ping on larger keys.
Thanks ADHD I really needed to go down the rabbit hole for a single actor and pull all the threads. I'm sure it won't have consequences.
 This is my daily, I have tried others yet I keep coming back to this one. Fact is I like having a num pad, and F-Keys as i use them frequently with work. My K4v2 runs custom SonixQMK which is Via compatible, I primarily do it my self because I have some particular custom keycodes that cant just be macro's as they need to pass through the HID port on my KVM. Switches are a blend of Kailh Royal Box and Kailh Silent Browns.  The switches are the Royal Box base, Royal Box Spring combined with the Silent Brown hammer (green bit), Silent brown Stem, and Silent Brown top housing. The result is a quiet heavy switch with a robust tactile bump.   When I built the switches I tested with both the Silent Brown Hammer (green) and the Royal Box hammer (brown) and was shocked to find that they felt very different. The Royal box hammer ended up being about 0.12mm longer and it overwhelmed the contact on the Silent browns. In the end I decided to use the Contact from the Royal Box with the slightly shorter Silent Brown hammer and found it the best combination of strong tactile bump. I also found that with the longer hammer the noise was far more noticeable.  
So, never thought i would suggest a form of crypto or token, but it struck me that one of the best ways to help people pay for hosting services would be to create a de-centralized crypto token that when awarded to a user it is send on the back end to their instance. If we put this token on some of the exchanges then people could pay with either real money by buying tokens and gifting/awarding them, or converting other crypto into Fediverse tokens. We could even use the same blockchain to allow minting of one off or limited run tokens where users can create their own. Would also be cool if awards attach to the profile and are federated, but with the ability to make tokens private by the user. Just a thought, because someone wanted to give me gold for a post, and I linked to our donation page, but man it would be easy if they could have just purchased a token and sent it right then and there without having to go through all the different instance donation methods. Sadly, I am not a programmer so hopefully this idea is worth a shit and one of you smart people takes it and runs.
cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/45198 > A while back after it was announced I purchased the Q0 to test its use as a macro pad. As part of that I figured why not do some pictures and write a little review. > > The Good: > - Quality packaging means it wont be damaged in shipping > - The included C to C cable is great, and a good length > - The included A to C adapter is useful to have! > - The Foam between the plate and PCB is good quality > - QMK/VIA support is essential and works well > - ALU is good quality and well machined > - lots of little quality details, like rubber pads between the base and top of the case to keep it from rattling or shifting around. > - USBC port is on a daughter board that is replaceable separate from the main PCB. > - Screw in stabs > > The Meh: > - The encoder is soldered not socketed so you cant swap it with something else or replace it. > - The encoder feels like garbage to me, it has "scratchy drag" and a the tactile feedback extreme and each step feels like its locking into position. > - The screws holding the case together require an Alan key, while on the inside the USBC port is screwed to the case using Phillips.... Why why are there two different types of screws! > - PCB and Plate are screwed using Phillips as well. > - Masonite (maybe) paper is glued to the bottom of the PCB to prevent shorts, but is a PITA to separate. > > > > The WTF: > - listing says it has case foam on the bottom, mine does not. > - gasket is way to soft for me, i would have preferred a much stiffer foam, so I will have to replace this. > > Overall, its nice, if you dont have a num-pad and are looking for a very high end, high quality one with extra macro tools this is a great fit. If you like stiff springs/switches you probably wont like the Gasket. > > Build: 8/10 > Feel: 4/10 > Features: 8/10 > Value: 6 /10 > >
A while back after it was announced I purchased the Q0 to test its use as a macro pad. As part of that I figured why not do some pictures and write a little review. The Good: - Quality packaging means it wont be damaged in shipping - The included C to C cable is great, and a good length - The included A to C adapter is useful to have! - The Foam between the plate and PCB is good quality - QMK/VIA support is essential and works well - ALU is good quality and well machined - lots of little quality details, like rubber pads between the base and top of the case to keep it from rattling or shifting around. - USBC port is on a daughter board that is replaceable separate from the main PCB. - Screw in stabs The Meh: - The encoder is soldered not socketed so you cant swap it with something else or replace it. - The encoder feels like garbage to me, it has "scratchy drag" and a the tactile feedback extreme and each step feels like its locking into position. - The screws holding the case together require an Alan key, while on the inside the USBC port is screwed to the case using Phillips.... Why why are there two different types of screws! - PCB and Plate are screwed using Phillips as well. - Masonite (maybe) paper is glued to the bottom of the PCB to prevent shorts, but is a PITA to separate. The WTF: - listing says it has case foam on the bottom, mine does not. - gasket is way to soft for me, i would have preferred a much stiffer foam, so I will have to replace this. Overall, its nice, if you dont have a num-pad and are looking for a very high end, high quality one with extra macro tools this is a great fit. If you like stiff springs/switches you probably wont like the Gasket. Build: 8/10 Feel: 4/10 Features: 8/10 Value: 6 /10
If you have an older K series Keychron keyboard that includes a Sonix MCU you can flash to a custom firmware that supports QMK/VIA so you dont have to use the garbage stock software.
I really want to setup an instance at home I know the MI25 can be hacked into doing this well but I would love to know what other people are running and see if I can find a good starter kit. THX ~inf