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  • Ada@piefed.blahaj.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzSo many successes
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    1 day ago

    Broadly, what you said was “Power to her, but what’s proven is that our current mathematical models do not accurately represent the universe”. The “but” in that statement is that issue, as it sounds like you’re challenging her findings with a correction, but your correction was just to summarise her actual findings




  • In Australia, it’s not the same issue it is in the US. Trans rights are protected here, and so, trans folk are legally allowed to use the locker room that is right for them, and on top of that, locker rooms in Australia generally don’t involve people getting naked around each other either to change or to shower. Locker room showers are generally in individual stalls, each with its own small changing area as part of the stall (something like this). That is where the majority of people change. There is a public area with lockers, but people in that space after a shower are mostly either already dressed, or in their underwear.

    From my own personal experience, when I was a roller derby player before COVID, it was a non issue. Of course, roller derby is perhaps the most trans inclusive sport on the planet, so I’m not sure it’s a good example. Public swimming pools haven’t been an issue because of the shower design I mentioned above. And as a runner, I don’t really use public change rooms

    tl;dr - It’s only an issue because transphobes choose to make it an issue





  • Everything is working in my daily use. But there are still little things that pop up less regularly, mostly around hardware.

    I’ve got a USB SSD that I can’t use, because I need to “unlock” it in a windows device first. I can’t even re-partition it in linux.

    I can’t update the firmware on my monitor because it can’t simply be done with a USB stick and on screen menus, but actually requires a windows only application.

    And when I first started daily driving linux, my Nvidia GPU was a regular source of frustration, but it’s resolved now

    Every one of these problems are because of manufacturers artificially locking hardware down, but they’re still problems. One can only hope that a growing linux using consumer base will shift their priorities



  • Ada@piefed.blahaj.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzSo many successes
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    2 days ago

    Originally, banjos post read like the line about Vera Rubin was outright incorrect, rather than simply being a case of the OP in the image making a poor summary of her contributions.

    It sounded like Banjo was challenging Vera’s relevance in the list, rather than clarifying what she actually did



  • Yeah, I’m familiar. I’ve got more hours wracked up on Rallyman GT than I want to admit, and I own a lot of boardgames!

    But I was talking about single player computer games, and didn’t want to complicate the analogy. Most board games only avoid the problems I was talking about, by dint of being multi player, and introducing the unpredictability factor through other people. But when we’re comparing single player computer games to board games, the analogy gets messy if the board games assume multiplayer. And I even acknowledge that there are single player board games that can scratch the itch (Final Girl, I’m looking at you), but for someone who doesn’t already play board games, it’s a big reach.

    But yeah, the length of that paragraph is why I just skipped over boardgames in my previous reply :)


  • Nope, boardgames are too “fixed”. Think more like X-com, turn based roguelikes, iron man crusader kings, deck builders where you can’t choose the same cards every game etc… ie, games where the rules and combinations are always changing, so you can learn the system, but you need to apply that knowledge each game, rather than just learning to hyper-optimise a specific strategy by repetition.



  • The threadiverse/lemmy is a niche community in the scheme of things, and talking about issues that impact a small portion of that niche community can often lead to resounding silence. Sometimes, someone taking a best guess, even if not speaking from first hand experience is better than no response at all, as long as they make it clear that they’re not speaking from lived experience.

    Of course, the OP may not want to hear from people offering guesses, but even if they don’t make that explicit, unlike on reddit or other popular centralised spaces, at least they’re unlikely to be swamped with a wave of well intentioned guesses.