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  • Sure, but that doesn’t help me now.

    It doesn’t install a better auto-level sensor or tool-changing on my printer. It doesn’t give me a good print bed (one I bought was damaged by prints) or even just a newer control board. I’m not even going to buy a slicer key, I don’t want to spend more money on this nor do I want to think about it.

    I’ve already acknowledged that some of this was my hubris and I would likely still be printing had I just stuck with what I had. Maybe someone could even help me get back there in exchange for/using my spare parts, but I live in nowheresville w/no car and don’t know anybody so that is not happening.




  • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafetome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    21 days ago

    I mean that would lower the bar for the activity itself (+multitasking), though I am not gonna buy or use a service and I suspect audiobooks are likely a big chunk of data too (esp. if uncompressed).

    Unless speech synthesis is something that could work well here (assuming decent voice, I don’t mind older tech like DECtalk or macintalk that sounds better than some newer offline TtS options). Even that seems like it’d need some community effort, though (like manual phoneme editing).

    So I’m not sure on that one. Probably not going to look into it.

    For world-building, I liked Farscape for the Leviathans. One stretch of hell aside, it is a much better interpretation of biomechanical life than the standard dreary tubes-and-brain-only of most media (that is if they can even properly tell the difference between a cyborg and a robot). So that has really shaped my view on it, I’d want more microbiomes (and connection with other types of living cells) not less.


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    22 days ago

    I probably wouldn’t do copies though, original brain is my priority. I would really need to trust/respect the organization requesting it, it’d need a really good reason, and I’d need assurances.

    Long known but never read that series though, I have aphantasia (on top of other things) so am not much of a reader.




  • well yeah most people don’t have the hardware to play the pre-HD versions at their best

    Maybe you mean an actual PS2, but IME using emu w/higher internal res on a non-stellar computer was a pretty good experience.

    Meanwhile the HD version is data bloated (likely because everything is uncompressed for no reason, or multiple resolutions of FMVs including 4K) so the download would be painful for me. And really with Okami’s aesthetic especially, I don’t think HD is necessary (again, beyond just higher internal res and whatever other enhancements based on preference).

    I think it would’ve been better to change the FMVs into in-engine if viable, I assume the ones that were pre-rendered was just a hardware limitation if not just some production thing.








  • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHave you tried coping harder?
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    As someone untreated (and shut-in), the grass isn’t green here either. I don’t know what the here-and-now alternative is, especially as a well-understood and very-effective med that can be taken irregularly is probably an exception rather than the norm (esp. for something serious/underlying).

    If somebody finds a combo of meds that makes them more-than-somewhat functional I think that’s great, I don’t care how you try to frame it. I’m probably not surviving any sort of collapse either, not that I’d even want to. (someone on meds might do better if they can taper off)

    I take more issue with the cost and hoops of the US health-insurance system (+other stuff like transportation). It’s a failure even by “pick two” standards… if it’s “you try this first” or 4 appointments for testing/specialists before one step is made it would be much better if bureaucracy weren’t also an issue.

    Specifically with the gov’t imploding now (and the impending rug pull) I’m not sure what I could ever do unless there was a real chance someone will let me be a test subject for physical brain preservation (and they’d move my brain some other not-imploding country).