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  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.world•New Playstation firmware is going to make it harder to play games offline.English
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    9 hours ago

    (47m/8b) × 100 = 0.5875% of the world. Those numbers are likely total accounts as well and nowhere near the real active users. I bet many of these are also systems with multiple users or users with multiple accounts. Reported numbers are usually unverified and inflating them as much as possible is in the best interest of Sony on may fronts.

    It is neither here nor there. I used to love the first few generations of PS stuff, but I really see no reason for consoles like these any more. I owned everything I played back then. I find it rather pathetic that my right to own has been stolen.

    I’m presently taking a snack break from Cataclysm DDA after tracking down foods with better iron content in the game. Under that I have a bash script and Emacs running with my mods to the game. I’ve been playing all afternoon and making little odds and ends for the game. Sorry if my perspective from a non dystopian space rubs the wrong way. What I’m doing isn’t for everyone, but if everyone had some better self control and the character to stand up for themselves, you will find that you get your rights back from these asshats, or you will get them from the next generation of platforms that rise from the ashes. The only terms that actually matter are the ones you’re willing to put money into. I back up that statement. I’m on a 12th gen Intel with 16 GB GPU. I would be playing AAA titles but there are no game manufacturers. I don’t care if I’m the only person unwilling to adopt feudalism and serve some tyrant overlord on their yacht. So be it.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldOPtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What role does validation play in one's mental health, and what are the pros and cons of social media in this respect?
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    19 hours ago
    Sure, others will steer you wrong, but with abstraction everything is like a statistical observation and not a firm point of reference.

    I’m watching primarily the indirect indicators. These tell a certain truth that is beyond most people’s self awareness and ability to alter. The posturing, language, bias, word use, punctuation, spelling, grammar, verbosity, curiosity, open mindedness, cultural bias factors, etc. etc. In person, it can be body language, posture, appearance, habits, mistakes, quarks, etc. I don’t need to think about this stuff individually, it’s just part of my natural awareness. That awareness can focus more or less on an individual or interaction, but these aspects are often more of what I remember than the topic of conversation. I’m pretty terrible with people’s names in general. I actually remember people in a way, like they are this identity of traits I see in abstraction. It’s kind of like a flavor of a person but complex.

    Like in this instance, I could be wrong, but you’re likely an interesting person. You were willing to respond first on a deeper question than average for Lemmy, and make a solid argument and observation. When I asked you leading questions that prompted you to rethink, you doubled down. When I took the lead to attempt steer the overall complexity of responses and hopefully make people think about the subject more, you show thought, experience, and reasoning that reflect depth and a friendly comradery I appreciate.

    Just based on your writing composition I can tell you are a good bit different than me in how you think and process information. With abstraction, I think in a way that is kinda multi threaded. I write my thoughts largely based on whatever thread I’m thinking about more persistently in the moment. It can make my writing scattered at times and more like a rough draft. I need drafts and revisions to polish my writing in a more congruent flow, but that is largely outside of the scope of this place, at least for me.

    I know many people do not value or understand how intuition, and observation based statistical abstraction like thinking is valuable or even valid. It is challenging to communicate all the things I perceive and process. There are many things I do and say that are pseudo manipulative to probe for information. Like when I meet someone for the first time, I might use an odd greeting, or shake hands with my left. I may make direct eye contact until you break eye contact first, or I may avoid eye contact then ask a deeper question and change my eye contact posturing. I often put a hand in my pocket or cross my arms while you’re talking to see how you respond as it says a tremendous amount about what and how you are thinking. None of this is invasive or done with harmful intent. I’m never trying to manipulate someone for my benefit. These are all just part of communication. I’m ultimately introverted and looking for information that aids and expands my internal curiosities and explorations. These are all tools to measure your real response in a way that goes beyond words and a way to contextualize whatever information you’re sharing. From my perspective, words have very little value. Actions are what I value most. Action tell me much more than words ever can.

    One example, I was feeling mixed feelings about a previous post and deleted it after feeling like I did a poor job of explaining some complex ideas openly and net getting a response and getting some negativity without engagement. Mulling over why I felt that way lead to this post question. My expanding your initial response to this point is an exploration of the depth of the community and their understanding of functional thought and complexity. Internally, I’m addressing why I should not let the last post have an effect on me even though the last post was truly on the edge of my curiosity in need of grounding.

    It is also worth mentioning, I’m partially physically disabled from a bad driver while riding a bicycle to work 2/26/14. I’m disabled in a way that makes holding posture a problem without a good solution. Sitting upright and standing are equally problematic and I have around an hour before I turn into a pile of pumpkin on the floor. I’m in near social isolation as a result. That makes this place my primary form of outside human contact and connection. The situation sucks, but one makes the best of things and all of that jazz.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldOPtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What role does validation play in one's mental health, and what are the pros and cons of social media in this respect?
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    1 day ago

    I’m very abstracted in my thought process. It is kinda like I see statistical probabilities in everything and am open to inference about them. I don’t see absolutes or facts in much of anything.

    Another way to look at it is that I make assumptions about everything I perceive, but those assumptions are not concrete or absolutes. They are embedded in layers upon layers of logic and experience.

    All that said, I’m always aware of how that, many ideas and observations I make are kinda floating in mid air and not well grounded. I’m often unsure about extra perspectives or elements I may have missed or misread in my surroundings. I’m always interested in, and open to corrections. However, my assumptions are layered in such a way that I am looking for any corrections that mesh with all of my other observations and experience.

    I’m content with the insecurity at the edge of my understanding. That is where my veracious curiosity resides. However, I have a deep need to ground the edge of my curiosities in the thoughts and experiences of others. It has nothing to do with popularity or emotional reinforcement, although there are some emotional side effects. I am primarily looking for validation of my abstractions on many levels and mostly indirectly.

    I do not learn well conventionally. I can maintain above average scores, but retain less than an ideal amount of information from such structured schooling. Learning primarily by curiosity and abstraction makes my perspective angle very… unique. It also makes communicating the edge of my curiosities challenging.

    Anyways, that is just one type of functional thought and approach to validation.

    I think one of the biggest pros of social media is the connectedness outside of one’s community and social network IRL.

    People seem to self select for information bubbles in ways I find interesting and concerning on social media platforms.

    One of the biggest negatives is understanding the scope and depth of the demographic present at any given point in time or place.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•If you could only have 1GB of entertainment data, what would it be?
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    2 days ago
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    I know, I know, RAM, not actually storage, but still.

    Give me Emacs, gcc, binutils, Python, bash, FORTH, js, ncurses, and Cataclysm DDA, etc etc.

    It would be fun to really dive deep into CDDA both playing/modding but also to reinvent the entire game. Like what if a rogue-like were on a curved interior cylinder? What if it wasn’t dystopian but instead a more pseudo utopian world builder in an O’Neill cylinder.

    Yeah, I would have forever unlimited games. I might even explore all of CDDA once.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.world•Are captchas enough to stop bots?
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    2 days ago

    If you run a whitelist firewall, you never see CAPTCHA’s. The vast majority on the internet have nothing to do with the website you’re visiting. When the website cannot redirect you to the CAPTCHA host site, it just continues on to the intended destination. The only way I ever see a CAPTCHA is if it is hosted on the same server as the site I am trying to visit, and that is very nearly never. I bet the vast majority of them are actually some advertiser collecting more data to mine in addition to whatever fingerprinting they can collect. Ads only work by opening a hidden frame that is basically another browser tab where you then visit the ad server’s website. This is no different than visiting them in a browser tab. They can access everything available to fingerprint. If you’re using anything Google controls that means they know everything about you down to how dirty your underwear is right now. /s÷2

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoShitty Ask Lemmy@lemmy.ml•How far away are you from your high school weight?English
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    2 days ago

    2009-2014 I rode a bicycle everywhere. I put in over 100k miles back then. For 2 years of that, I worked 33 miles away from home based on the safest bike routes. I did that 5-6 days a week spending at least 3-4 hours on a bike per day. I went from 350 lbs to under 190 lbs and was quite lean. I’m not your stereotypical cyclist. I’m 6’ 1" with a larger than average build, like 34/44 in waist/jacket. So 190 was pretty low for me. I’m at 220 now but I don’t ride nearly as much or care to eat ultra lean or count calories.

    The exercise isn’t actually how I lost the weight. Exercise never has that effect. I felt great as a side effect. At that kind of exercise level, my calories requirements were somewhat affected. The human body adapts to almost anything and can normalize to around the same calories, but I became quite sensitive to what I ate. The stomach largely shuts down during intense sustained aerobic activity. Anything I ate needed to be absorbed and processed when I was off the bike. It resulted in bad eating habits making me sick a lot. I just got sick so much that eating the wrong stuff was repulsive to me. I still don’t eat much of anything processed or prepackaged. I don’t drink anything but water black coffee and a single beer. Everything in the isles of a typical grocery store is basically garbage except some granolas with fortified vitamins and iron. Milk and dairy in the USA is absolute garbage too. My main starch is brown rice. I also use cooking techniques for most of my flavors and avoid prepackaged sauces. It can be challenging. Almost everything in American grocery stores is garbage, as is the food in most restaurants. Fast food made me the sickest. Like even a coffee drink and salads at McDonald’s made me sick. That is the last thing I ever ate from a McDonald’s like 15+ years ago, and it made me so sick for a few days of riding that I still remember every detail.

    Ultimately, weight is just a matter of what you put in your mouth. Your digestive regularity is important. You need to control that with natural fiber and not supplements. Basically only eat foods that look like they grew as much as possible (almost all). The other major hurtle is simple but a challenge. Meals are one of the dumbest of human inventions. Only eat when you are actually hungry, and have the self discipline to stop yourself after a few bites of anything. Wait 15 minutes and then see how you feel. Eat a bite or two more if you are in debilitating pain that prevents you from slithering on the floor to scantily function. Seriously, eating too much is normalized in present culture to a stupid degree. When you eat, your body absorbs a ton of calories. That is converted to blood glucose. This does a few cycles around the track and anything that remains becomes fat. The more processed the food is and the more sugar it contains, the faster this cycle will happen and the more your body will absorb quickly. Natural high fiber foods take longer to absorb and slow this cycle down. Then they also do not turn into concrete at later stages stopping you up. Real athletes at elite levels do not eat meals like the rest of us. They nibble all day on the minimum calories they need and chose foods with nutrients density. I worked with a 4 time Olympic cyclist. Talking with them and observing taught me this.