Canageek

Canadian Geek. Ph.D. in Chemistry. Plays tabletop RPGs, video games and board games. Aspie & ADHD.

Not a geek in a can.

Spouse: Alex is Canadian now (npub14vq…k7ly)
Main Tabletop RPG account:: [@Canageek@tabletop.social](https://tabletop.social/@Canageek )
Pronouns: Sie/hir best, any/all fine

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2026-11-03 16:31:21 UTC

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what

2026-10-22 14:44:47 UTC

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It made sense back when a lot of craftsman were expected to make their own tools, so the quality of the tool was a reflection on the craftsman.
Today, yeah, a lot less sense

2026-10-16 17:55:38 UTC

Got a G502 but *cannot* remap the buttons on Linux. I've got libratbagd and Piper setup, but they just STOP WORKING if I remap them.
#Linux Help wanted, boosts OK

2026-09-25 15:29:20 UTC

Question: Is it possible to game on NetBSD or is it server and programmer only? Can you run steam on it? Is there Wine and Proton? Will modern AMD graphics cards work?
#NetBSD

2026-09-17 15:12:54 UTC

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If anyone does that please let me know! I have an old gaming PC I want to set up as a Google docs, discord and Google drive/OneDrive replacement.
But even as a computer nerd I'm really scared it is going to get hacked and turned into a Bitcoin miner or spam machine shop I have barely started
Edit: And the guide can't use CloudFlare or any US services: That defeats the whole point

2026-06-08 04:41:41 UTC

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They are going all in on slopcoding, paying for their developers AI tokens

2026-06-08 04:16:21 UTC

When "This podcast player hasn't been updated in five years" becomes a selling point as there will be no AI in it
(This is a post about finding an AntennaPod alternative)
Edit: @npub17lf…3uhj is claiming they don't use AI (yet), but they have this in their repo https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/blob/develop/AGENTS.md and this policy was accepted: https://forum.antennapod.org/t/proposal-to-change-expenses-policy-ai-subscriptions/8417
So it very much appears this ByteHamster person is using AI

2026-06-07 17:01:53 UTC

I'm hearing that @npub17lf…3uhj is vibecoded shit now, what else are people using these days?

2026-06-06 16:12:17 UTC

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I am really worried about how these journals will be archived in a hundred years. They don't have an income stream to pay for hosting, and libraries don't have a shelf of copies bound into big volumes anymore

2026-06-04 14:08:50 UTC

This is driving me nuts: @npub14vq…k7ly changed his phone number, and now Android is claiming he doesn't have an emergency phone number and I can't figure out how to tell it the phone number on his contacts page is the correct one.
I've tried changing it from mobile to main, I've tried deleting the phone number and adding it again, help please?
#pleaseboost #Android

2026-05-07 04:01:04 UTC

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The standard size in Canada is about twice as long as those, and less tall.
Fancy cheese comes in many, many form factors

2026-05-03 23:25:23 UTC

Edit: This is apparently one person's idea and may not make it into Tumbleweed: I would still love suggestions on which way to jump off it does happen
"For openSUSE Linux they are looking at developing an AI-powered onboarding experience for users to deal with "new openSUSE users face a steep learning curve navigating distribution-specific tools like zypper, YaST, Btrfs/Snapper, and systemd." "
Guess it is time for me to find a new linux distro. Recommendations welcome.
#NoAI #OpenSUSE #Linux

2026-05-03 15:32:17 UTC

I just learned from @npub1vf6…3mwj and @npub14vq…k7ly that only Canada puts it's cheese into long flat blocks‽
What are the rest of you doing with your cheese‽

2026-04-28 21:21:55 UTC

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How do you clear off the scent Trails? I know someone who's trying to convince a group of ants to stop coming into their apartment, but they keep following the exact same scent trails despite cleaning

2026-04-21 23:10:48 UTC

"The most expensive way to punish someone is to pay them run SEM cross sections all day" - One of my co-workers
(SEM = scanning electron microscope)

2026-03-10 22:18:58 UTC

I have a friend who has a 2010 MacBook that won't connect to the internet without an update, and can't update without connecting to the internet
He's expressed interest in installing Linux on it just to make it usable, I have no idea how easy that is
I can get an exact model number, but if anyone is interesting with helping us either update it to a usable version of Mac OS or install Linux on it, please let me know

2026-03-05 21:43:55 UTC

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GOD DAMMIT

2026-03-05 21:39:30 UTC

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Waterfox is a version of Firefox with all of the AI ripped out, but otherwise up to date with all the security changes and stuff, I think it may also have some additional privacy controls added

2026-02-05 22:44:36 UTC

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Huh, for some reason I thought c64 joysticks could only have one fire button!

2026-01-22 22:32:10 UTC

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Eeep. Glad I normally use Memory Express these days

2026-01-05 19:58:11 UTC

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Honestly though, my mouse has a bunch of buttons I barely use, I wish they'd make the setting. which button do you want to bind it to or none, rather than just on off...

2026-01-05 19:56:46 UTC

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I also turn it off because I have other things I would rather bind middleclick to, and it's not reliable anyway since it is so easy to accidentally highlight something and blow away what you had in the clipboard.
Plus it's copy and paste is maddening on Linux anyway, because you've got like four different unrelated clipboards that don't interact with one another

2025-11-24 17:39:42 UTC

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I got so sick of new AI features being added every update so that I'd have to go back to about:config to find the new ones that I switched to waterfox which is just Firefox without the AI features as far as I can tell and it's amazing, You can even log into your Mozilla account and have all of your extensions and tabs come over automatically

2025-11-24 02:51:33 UTC

Ok, in Muppet Die Hard who is the human?

2025-11-16 00:48:30 UTC

This is very odd. mpv is having a lot of problems on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I think I've done everything right, moved to the Pakman codec version via Zypper, following these instructions: https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Installing_codecs_from_Packman_repositories
But I'm still getting a lot of videos with audio and a black screen, and a lot of desync issues if I rewind in videos that do work.
However, VLC works fine.
Any suggestions?
#OpenSUSE

2025-08-04 02:17:53 UTC

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My grandfather used to clean his coffee maker with dilute hydrochloric acid, my dad says it worked incredibly well, but you had to run a lot of water through it afterwards before you could have a cup of coffee

2025-06-23 05:48:03 UTC

Here is a question for you all: if you were trying to explain to someone what the demoscene is/was and wanted to show them an example video...what video would you show them?
Edit: To be clear, I'm talking about what examples you would show people, rather then history videos, though I love those two and will watch them if you send them to me.
#demoscene #video #boostsOK #demo

2025-04-23 00:16:38 UTC

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Thank you for the explanation. I hope someone builds something like Frontpage again soon. I miss being able to built a webpage in a GUI

2025-04-22 22:14:09 UTC

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Question from someone who hasn't built a non-wordpress website since 2006: By static site generator is this like Frontpage? Like, I build a site in a GUI and it does the HTML for me, and I FTP that HTML to a server?

2025-03-12 21:18:08 UTC

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Yeah, I read an article from a lawyer who basically confirmed if you're doing anything in exchange for something else while in the US that that counts as work.

2025-03-12 21:17:00 UTC

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No, she was doing it for her entire trip. Canadian customs rejected her for that, but she'd been doing it her entire trip in the US as well.
I forget which publication it was, but they consulted with a immigration lawyer who confirmed that doing labor for lodging is illegal on a tourist visa, and that's nothing new. the scary part about this is that she was not immediately returned to her country of origin.

2025-03-12 20:27:12 UTC

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That article seems to be missing some details, the big one being is that the specific complaint that both the Canadian and American authorities had was that she would be working for Americans in exchange for lodging. working for someone in your home country is allowed, just not working for Americans while you're in the states.
That said, I'm currently planning on canceling all of my conference trips to the US this summer, so that's a very reasonable thing to do

2025-01-18 17:17:15 UTC

It is SO weird to be using LYCOS as my default search engine in 2025 AND IT BEING BETTER THEN GOOGLE

2024-12-30 17:23:22 UTC

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this is in my opinion, easily the best modern total annihilation spiritual sequel.
I know there's a lot of other ones like Zero-K and Balanced Annihilation, but beyond all reason is way easier to get into and doesn't overwhelm you with different unit types right at the start, though I still think it has too many compared to the original

2024-09-25 01:25:24 UTC

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this reminds me so much of the computer game art I grew up with on the 386 I had playing X-Wing and tie fighter and dark forces and such.
thank you so much for sharing it, it's so beautiful.

2024-08-23 03:11:51 UTC

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I've been stunned, I threw Linux on my new gaming computer as a temporary solution while I figured out how to transfer my windows license from my old computer and I just haven't bothered to change, because the pain of getting games working on Linux is less than the pain of dealing with trying to get Windows to work how it did back in Windows 7