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  • I got hooked on shark cards for a while when I played GTA:O, I probably spend thousands of SEK on them for months, then one day I realized what a fucking shit game it is, and uninstalled it.

    This was eight or so years ago now, and I have not played it since.

    I don't consider the money wasted though, I consider them part of my education, I learned from this, and can now see the signs before I spend money.

  • What are the major world news that you got from weird sources (and maybe wish you had heard first from legit news sources)?
  • I was living with a family in a suburb to Bath in the UK, the son in the family and me was with his friends Bristol for a day, when they suddenly started talking about bombs, yep this was the London bombings in 2005...

    At first I didn't realize what happened, I am Swede and English is my second language, so I had a bit of trouble actually understanding it all.

    When we got back home, I called my parents who were in Canada on vacation at the time, they were at a restaurant and had not heard the news yet, so they were very confused but happy that I was fine.

    I can just imagine them at a restaurant, getting a call from their son calling to say that he is ok and not to worry with zero context and then hearing about the attacks that way, that must have been quite surreal, but also ment that they was never worried.

  • Work from home
  • Right now I am on vacation, my work phone stays at home with an empty battery.

    They still have my private number if it is an absolute disaster at work and they need my help, but untill sunday evening I won't even charge my work phone, let alone check it for messages/calls.

    Work apps stay on the work phone, the ONLY exception to that rule I will ever make is work MFA apps.

    But I'd sooner get a new separate phone for that if I don't get a company phone.

  • Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.
  • Oh absolutely!

    Another point is that there are places outside Chernobyl and Fukashima that have higher background radiation that either exclusion zone, and that is places where people live normally, I seem to recall that being mentioned in the documentary I linked.

  • Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.
  • Sigh, we know EXACTLY what to do with it.

    Dig a deep hole into the bedrock, put the waste in dry casks, put the casks in the hole, backfill with clay.

    This has been known for decades!

    I live in a suburb north of Stockholm in Sweden, here in Scandinavia we have a very stable bedrock, I would absolutely welcome a disposal site for nuclear waste in my suburb, and I am talking about a site that would accept waste from all over the world (for a fee obviously).

    It would be simple, create jobs, and allow us to keep using nuclear power to allow for quicker removal of fossil power plants.

    As for Chernobyl, TMI and Fukashima, Chernobyl was a bad design which was run by people who lacked access to information about past nuclear accidents, leading to bad management, TMI had a fail deadly indicator system, where a broken light bulb caused incorrect information to be acted on, and Fukashima was built in a bad location.

    I recommend you to watch this 2006 BBC Horizon documentary, it is called Nuclear Nightmares and talks about our fear of radiation, and weather or not it is warranted:

    https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7pqwo8

    A large coal power plant needs at least 10000 tons of coal every day according to Wikipedia.

    A nuclear plant needs about 25 tons per year.

    That is a huge, massive difference in logistics, pollution and use of resources, that is not even getting into the coal ash that is produced by cosl plants, according to the EPA, nearly 130 million tons of coal ash was generated in the US by coal power plants. None was generated by nuclear power plants.

    Please watch the documentary, it is a few years old, but the premise still holds.

  • a cool guide for police encounters
  • Yep, but putting your hand in your pocket, and pressing the lock button ten times is faster than taking your device out of your pocket, press vol+, press vol- and hold the lock button untill you get the prompt to turn off the device.

    Also, even after a restart like that I have had my iPhones still default to biometrics.

  • What's the coolest thing you found while metal detecting?
  • Untill someone makes a wood detector I don't think they are worried about it.

    The point is that a metal detector is specifically made to find stuff easier, and significantly cuts down on manpower needed to find stuff, increasing the risk of scavanging.

  • Netwalk - a sysadmin puzzle game

    https://www.logicgamesonline.com/netwalk/daily.php

    Networking is complex, you gotta keep track of subnets, vlans, firewalls, domain names, DHCP servers and more,

    Netwalk is simpler, rotate the pieces untill all computers have access to the server, but you can't create loops or have loose connections anywhere, every peice must be used.

    In the expert mode, connections wrap around to the other side.

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    Street Photography With "The Bigma"
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    The remake of Riven is being released on 2024-06-25

    That's it, I am getting into VR

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    This is a morning kids show from Sweden in the 90s

    This was broadcast on state television in Sweden in the 90s...

    I remember watching it back then, having zero idea of what what going on but liking the bright colors...

    The main part is just a guy doing a one man show for kids on a terrible CGI background.

    There are also weird CGI shorts, music videos, puppetry, badly drawn cartoons, a weird gameshow with teddy bears, bad music videos.

    I realize that they are all speaking Swedish, but trust me, this is from an era just breaking out of heavy moralizing and the segments of the show are constantly overbaering with trying to tech kids stuff.

    It is not without it's charm though, I kinda like the gameshow part, even if the concept is a bit contrived... But I like the attention to detail and how nicely made it is.

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    How could the US solve local public transport in their huge suburban neighbourhoods?

    I mean in those areas where it just identical houses along a road in huge blocks.

    How would you realisyicly solve it?

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    What actor is the modern day Schwartzenegger?

    In the 80s/90s Arnold was a huge movie star, playing huge men in both serious and comedy roles.

    I guess that what I am asking is; what actor today could occupy the same kind of decade defining place as Arnold did in the 80s/90s?

    They don't have to be a massive bodybuilder, but they should be the first name that anyone would think of when someone say "2010s/2020s".

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    Remember me from yesterday, I was the guy claiming to have a huge singleplayer creative map....

    Some told me "pics or it didn't happen", so I posted videos from the world, that got some attention, and here I am, posting the entire 3GB world to the public for anyone to download and try:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1woXAhxZ4RoJAWJf7XbUbxfG1ahAgaLZV/view?usp=sharing

    Some may recognize it from a map posted to /r/minecraft years ago, that was also me.

    The first few weeks/months I set the difficulty to peaceful survival, but after hgaving lost my bed and dying only to respawn far away from the base, I recovered a shadow copy backup and cheated into creative mode, a few years later after being annoyed, I removed bats and clouds from the world so I could focus on building stuff.

    I never used any mods to enable me building faster or easier, apart from the above mentioned cheats this is vanilla minecraft, every block built in the last decade has been placed manually, every hole dug has been dug either manually or with TNT, often rigged to be synced with redstone if blasting horizontal.

    To see what I probably think is the most impressing stuff, find Plattform 7 at the huge trainstation and follow the tracks.

    BTW, the brick church is ginormous, go downstairs, and have a notebook to draw a map handy, it is a bizzare librarynth down there, and even I can't remember the way through.

    The main runway is mined.

    Look outside the wall(s)

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    I have a singleplayer creative map that I have played on since 2014....

    During several years it was the main game I played, and I played it for hours every day.

    I have recovered the map from backups when it developed save errors, I have recovered the map from a hard drive that was about to crash, and I have done some normal migrations between computers.

    Most of the time spent in the map was spent in creative mode, all of the time spent has been spent playing without mods.

    The map has it all:

    1. Weird towers, many weird towers.
    2. Railroads, many railroads, soo many railroads, I am not kidding, there is a huge ammount of railroads, it is frankly ridiculous how many railroads I have built.
    3. Weird religious buildings, from classic chruches, to many, many strange halls dedicated to religious or cult iconography.
    4. A huge, confusing, underground maze of libraries.
    5. Huge geometrical structures that just keeps going.
    6. A lot of odd glass and light sculptures.
    7. Hugely long but super narrow buildings that just goes on and on and on.

    So my question is, if anyone would like to get a copy of this world and see what my mind has built over almost a decade.

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    [OC] Landing lights at Stockholm Arlanda airport this evening

    I am also on Mastodon.art:

    https://mastodon.art/@stoy

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    What do you think is the coolest designed sci-fi gun?

    I mean the physical design of the gun, not the projectile or effect.

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    What is the most unusual spirit you have in your home bar?

    I find unusual spirits interesting, and I want to hear about the ones you have.

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    Issues with blocking instances

    I have added filters for lemmynsfw.com but posts keep apearing.

    I keep checking and it is in the instance filter list, am I doing something wrong?

    How should I go about blocking entrie instances?

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    Candles at Täby Kyrka

    All hallows day at Täby Kyrka, in the northern suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden.

    Unedited jpg from my Lumix S5

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