I also just lost my father last Monday. He was in Quartzsite, AZ.

Have you tried checking CL or Hotpads for a short term Casita? That’ll save you a lot vs hotels.

Hi @ChrisIsUnavailable@tucson.social ! Welcome to our small community. As you may have noticed most action occurs in the local politics community. That being said, others post to our wonderful community about Comedy Nights at the Kitten Lounge and various other things.

Definitely take a look around! We are “unofficially” affiliated with the /r/Tucson discord server so if you want to pop into a more “living” space go check that out.

We also have a meetup space at https://meetup.tucson.social/ - feel free to sign up there if you want to coordinate or otherwise don’t want to pay $40 a month for a meetup subscription.

There’s also https://tucson.chat/ if you’re in need of secure chat.

Please reach out to me if you have any ideas for improvement or feedback!

Welcome Again,

Th3raid0r

Yeah as soon as I saw that I went from “must buy” to “eh, maybe if my current laptop breaks”. I mean, I know the iGPU is basically the same as the desktop, but with slower memory it won’t really compare.

Maybe next generation.

You too!? Ha! Today I learned.

I’ll always know exactly how old Linux is. It’s exactly as old as I am.

Eh, it’s more like the pregnancy announcement. Imo the v0.01 release on Sep 17th is a “Birthday”.

But then again I’m biased on this. 🙃

Perfection!

I think I speak for all of Tucson.social when I say fuck this AI bullshit.

I too appreciate the genetic dynasty story. In the original trilogy the various Emperors were featured so rarely and depicted as utterly incompetent. I think the TV adaptation does a much better job of creating a more compelling and nuanced story for the empire. Not to mention - Lee Pace and others do such an excellent job of playing these various “versions” of themselves.

As an aside, I wonder if

I also wonder how or if

Might want to provide some discussion guidance for book readers.

Otherwise, I thought the episode was pretty good. Definitely not as good as last episode.

Otherwise, as a book reader, I’m starting to grow a little suspicious that

Don’t know why the other poster is giving you such grief there. It’s important to note that when you encrypt your root partition that you can’t view it from refind. It doesn’t have a mechanism to decrypt the contents it finds.

The way to address this is to ensure that you’re using a Unified Kernel Image. Essentially, a full image of your Linux boot image that lives on your EFI partition. Keep in mind it can’t get to your personal data until it decrypts your root disk, but at least you can get things booting.

So, you should take the time to switch to a UKI boot process.

I recommend disabling secure Boot and encryption first and Getting the UKI Boot working through refind. Then add secure boot using sbctl. Then re-encrypt your discs. Since secure boot is all set up at this point, you should be able to back your decryption with your systems TPM chip.

Here’s the page on unified kernel images.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_kernel_image

I mean, FWIW, if it’s made for a 1-4 year-old it’s probably at least non-toxic to consume.

Agreed on aperture fever. I find 10" the largest manageable size unless you get an Obsession Ultra Compact for $$$$$.

Didn’t really consider binos for OP since viewing anything more than 45 degrees up is a pain without a proper mount. A dob is easier to use near the horizon than using a bino to view straight upwards.

For 200 you could probably land yourself an old criterion telescope or used Skywatcher. The important part is the aperture. For good nebula and Galaxy viewing, you’re going to want at least 6 in of aperture. But more is better.

Definitely check Craigslist, Facebook marketplace, and cloudy nights classifieds.

100%

So many self-identified progressives or leftists aren’t deemed moral enough to even be allies with.

I have far more moderate friends than I do leftist friends.

I have more conservative friends than I do leftist friends.

And to become moral enough for the left, you need to cut out everybody else in your life except the left.

The left expects you to cut out all of your support network, but then refuses to be a support network in and of itself. Leftists are the shittiest friends I’ve ever had. The constant judgment and moralization just drove me away.

I disagree. The modern left is too busy and moralizing consumption, people’s personal mistakes, and vilifying them before they even get to the table.

If you listen to the lefts big influencers, you would have to cut out your family, a good chunk of your friends, and are expected to maintain exclusively left-leaning relationships.

The left needs a heaping dose of pragmatism.

I say this as a person who identifies as a leftist. I say this as a person who’s tried to spread the word of multiple community actions here in Tucson, only to not get resources because the various progressive organizations don’t deem me progressive enough.

So yeah, I have an entire website, that could advertise crucial community action. But people aren’t willing to send me graphics to upload in the various languages and won’t forward me to the organizations that initially planned these things. All because I don’t measure up to their moral standards.

All in all. Fuck The Democratic socialists of America. Fuck modern progressivism.

They are all no show pieces of shit.

The moderates in my life all do far more for their community than anybody on the left.

It’s moderates I find running the soup kitchen. It’s moderates that decide to start businesses and grow their local power.

Pretty sure it’s against the TOS to do that. So if found, the account is simply terminated and it ceases being valuable. That means that even if it’s sold - it’s value isn’t in the games, but your friend network - as a sort of trojan spam/burner account. Which also means that it’s not worth more than a few dollars at MOST unless you’re some big-time twitch streamer with a vast network of steam friends.

So yeah, just be aware of what you’re getting into. It’s not likely some guy who wants an instant steam library - it’s someone who wants to exploit your friends, family, and acquaintances for money via scams. Don’t be that guy.

I liked it just fine!

I know there are a lot of Asimov diehards that found it disappointing. I don’t know why. The iRobot book wasn’t even really a book, it was a collection of short stories. Not exactly an easy thing to adapt to a movie.

I think this take is starting to be a bit outdated. There have been numerous films to use Blender. The “biggest” recent one is RRR - https://www.blender.org/user-stories/visual-effects-for-the-indian-blockbuster-rrr/

Man in the High Castle is also another notable “professional” example - https://www.blender.org/user-stories/visual-effects-for-the-man-in-the-high-castle/

It’s been slow, but Blender is starting to break into the larger industry. With bigger productions tending to come from non-U.S. producers.

There is something to be said about the tooling exclusivity in U.S. studios and backroom deals. But ultimately money talks and Autodesk only has so much money to secure those rights and studios only have so much money to spend on licensing.

I’ve been following blender since 2008 - what we have now is unimaginable in comparison to then. Real commercial viability has been reached (as a tool). What stands in the way now is a combination of entrenched interests and money. Intel shows how that’s a tenuous market position at best, and actively self destructive at worst.

Ultimately I think your claim that it’s not used by real studios is patently and proveably false. But I will concede that it’s still an uphill battle and moneyed interests are almost impossible to defeat. They typically need to defeat themselves first sorta like Intel did.

Ha…

I listed only a mini tripod under “always”, which - in the age of social media - is rather common daily carry. Everything else is software or under they “TRY” category.

But sure, be the internet contrarian you’ve always wanted to be. I’m sure your ancestors would be proud.

I mean, regional instances don’t have to stop folks from engaging primarily with interest based communities.

Some regions will dominate certain interests for example - here in Tucson we’re consider one of the Amateur Astronomy capitals of the world. If mander.xyz were to disappear tomorrow, Tucson would make a good home for all of the fediverse’s astronomy needs even though its a region based instance.

Further, there’s nothing that states an interest-based instance needs any registration. One could imagine a world where local instances have all the users and identities, and the interest based instances simply provide communities to the larger fediverse with no users of their own.

But yeah, it’s definitely a paradigm shift that makes interest based communities a bit more difficult to find.