Count Regal Inkwell

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Leftist with an incorrigible love for fancy aesthetics (mostly Renaissance Italy/Victorian England) that might be incorrectly read as a monarchist because of that.

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    The trick is to introduce your kid to your taste in gaming while they’re young

    And then when they are in their tweens and want to game online with their mates, you set them up for it (with proper supervision and such, of course)

    And they WILL develop their own taste in gaming – But they will have some common ground with you still.

    … It worked for me and my dad (avid PC gamer, mostly plays strategy games and management sims though) anyway. Years later I convinced him to get Civ V and he completely destroyed me in it.




  • Thanks, I was going to post a very similar rant.

    The “just works” argument IS a valid one and they would have a point – IF Gnome’s defaults were in any way sensible. They aren’t. The entire workflow is a nightmare. (I made the apple comparison – Well, uhh… MacOS is also a walled garden that doesn’t let you change shit, but at least it’s got very decent defaults)

    Gnome’s file manager didn’t let you type in FOLDER ADDRESSES until a few months ago, ffs. And sure you could, even then, use an alternative file manager.

    … But at that point you are fucking with the premise of “just works”, because you will need to use non-default stuff.



  • Gnome in general is undeniably made competently by competent and talented people. If it wasn’t, it would break a lot more.

    Those competent and talented people also managed to make extremely bad choices at every turn, and seem ideologically opposed to the idea of customization, resulting in an environment that is fundamentally painful to use unless you very specifically fit the box of what they expect users to be like.

    It sort of feels like an Apple product, in that sense. Very well-made, but god forbid you don’t want to do things exactly as they say you should







  • adjusts 🤓 glasses

    So a cassette tape works by using electromagnetism. Ferric Oxide (AKA, literally rust powder) has a property that if exposed to a magnetic field, it will create a weak version of that magnetic field within itself

    So the record head of a tape machine is an electromagnet that changes its field based on the actual audio signal, translating audio frequencies directly to magnetic directions and strengths, while the read head is a passive electromagnetic coil that picks up that weak magnetic field on the rust-coated plastic tape while a small motor runs the tape past it and emits it as a soundwave.

    The tape adapter skips 90% of these steps —

    — It just has an electromagnetic coil of its own, positioned so it lines up with the play head, and when you feed it an audio signal, that audio signal gets directly translated to a magnetic field just by running it through the coil. The tape deck picks it up and doesn’t even realise there is no tape running through



  • Also buying a whole-ass new car stereo (+ installation) is much more expensive than a bluetooth adaptor from China

    So if you’re driving an ancient car out of necessity rather than for the aesthetic, this can help you get music into it.

    F’course

    Most cars from the age of tapes nowadays are relics. “Old cars” in the range that poor people drive out of necessity are from the CD age instead.