I always try to build things that I might want!

I am fortunate to have a lot of other hobbies, so I build little things for myself for those hobbies.

One of my first scripts I ever wrote around 2004 was a Perl script to get what song was playing and automatically update my IM “status”.

I also made databases of comics and CDs for myself too.

The easiest way to get better is by doing, and doing is way easier when it’s something I care about.

Yep, whatever template I use looks really nice. Very professional.

It’s actually the most editable format my resume has ever been in, too! I started using LaTeX over a decade ago. I just update it when I need to and it prints out exactly the same way to PDF.

I will proselytize something like this for a resume any time. I am very curious about typst as well!

I used LaTeX! I found a resume template and edited it.

I’m surprised there isn’t a good typst template for resumes that is easy to edit!

I’m not reading all that. Sorry for your issue, or I’m happy for you. Whichever you prefer.

It has been remarkably useful! I keep trying to tell people about it but apparently I am just their main use case or something.

I would have loved it when I was using Samba to share files on my local network decades ago. It’s like a Swiss Army knife!

rsync can sometimes look similarly scary! I very clearly remember triple-checking what it’s doing.

rclone works amazingly well if you have hundreds of folders or thousands of files and you can’t be bothered to babysit a portal.

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Tangentially, I don’t see people talk about rclone a lot, which is like rsync for cloud storage.

It’s awesome for moving things from one provider to another, for example.

It was more of a rhetorical because of the second sentence, but it’s clear you didn’t read that far.

Is lemmy.ml chock full of dumbshits?

I turn everything off in Firefox’s new page except search! I always found the news stuff distracting too.

My question is: can it be turned off?

Mozilla has been trying to get me to look at news or use Pocket for years now, but it’s easy to turn off.

Edit to add: my above reference to turn off two different settings I’ve turned off for years now seemed obvious to me that I assumed it could be turned off.

Lot of people didn’t read past the first sentence.

Oooh this is lemmy.ml. Fuck gross bye

I have been really curious about Sonic Racing Crossworlds, thanks for the blurb about it!

I have played Mario Kart prior to this gen (I don’t have a Switch 2) and really like Sonic’s characters. I might wait to see if it goes on sale because full price seems a little steep.

Try playing an old PCM wave file from a 68k based Macintosh or Amiga on a PC.

I really appreciate how specific this is. It sounds like it’s from experience.

I have been playing Crusader Kings III a bit, though I don’t know if I’m driven to continue.

I appreciate how complex the game is, and I find the kinda-historical aspects interesting… but I’m not sure if it’s a game I want to actively play, or a game that I’m glad exists but isn’t really for me.

I played some Crusader Kings III.

I haven’t played much (under 10 hours) but I started one of the “easy” starts and it isn’t going poorly. I always hit the point in complex games where I’m not exactly sure what to do.

Wait until you find out how steam works

I’m just going by 100% of the instructions online, which all say “until it boils.”

Southern Living, The Kitchn, The Spruce, Good Housekeeping all say “boil”

Wirecutter doesn’t specifically say boil but it uses the same time that all the other sources do, which is 5 minutes. In my experience, two cups of water will easily boil in 4.5 minutes in most microwaves (cheap potatoes), so there you go. Vinegar or lemon juice isn’t far from water’s boiling temperature.

Specifically, microwave it until it boils. In case that wasn’t obvious.

I just finished The Long Walk and I really liked it. I read it a decade or more ago, but I appreciated it more this time.

I like books about death sports so it’s right up my alley. They finally released Battle Royale as a digital book so I would like to read it as well, but its length (800 pages!) is intimidating.

I also finished The Neverending Story, which I enjoyed but not as much as the much shorter first movie.

I started reading a few things.

The End of the World as We Know It is a short story collection that explores the world of Stephen King’s super-flu-ridden The Stand. I’m really liking it so far! The stories do a good job of further illustrating the world as it breaks down.

I also started a biography about one of my favorite people in vintage professional wrestling, Gorilla Monsoon. It just came out today and I’ve been looking forward to it. I’ve always been fascinated by him and no one else has written a book yet!

There’s also a small mental cost to switching contexts, from reader to browser.

This is actually one of the better uses of AI I’ve seen because it is literally asking a large language model about language.

I probably still won’t use it, but at least it makes sense!

Correct, in the book they have multiple groups of soldiers that run ahead (in vehicles) if there is a vanguard.

I’m reading it too because I read it over a decade ago and making it into a movie seemed stupid to me. So I wanted to know how stupid.