Levi

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[–] Levi@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

For those downvoting, Sortion isn't such a bad idea. Its basically a lottery to put a group of people in charge. I honestly think 100 random Canadians probably would do a better job than career politicians only out for themselves and the corporations funding them.

[–] Levi@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I find Indigenous a little hard to say, but I'm bad at talking. First Nations was at least easy for me to say.

[–] Levi@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Our province being on fire every year is the new normal. :(

[–] Levi@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm still mad about about electoral reform. I'm never going to forgive the liberal party for that one.

[–] Levi@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Oh, I just remembered this video I watched. There is this guy on youtube that does a lot of material-sciency kind of stuff using common household ingredients. One of his videos he makes a salt-based phase change material, which basically works as an icepack that freezes at around 18 degrees Celsius.

The idea is that it takes a long time for the material to melt from 18 degrees to 19 degrees so it can keep you comfortably cool if you put it in a plastic bag and wear it in a vest to keep yourself cool. If you have a cool basement, then it can pretty much re-freeze by putting it on the cold floor.

DIY Supermaterial Could Save You From Heatstroke: Salt based PCMs

Its an interesting watch.

Edit: Actually the more I think about it the more Solarpunk it seems. It requires zero electricity, and rather than cooling a whole area you only cool the people in it. Even better, you aren't trapped inside to avoid the heat, as it works outside just fine.

[–] Levi@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

I wish we could wipe out ticks. Get better soon Andy!

[–] Levi@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

I was just in customer support for like an hour. Most of that was on hold, and 15% was navigating through their tree and AI bot.

[–] Levi@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago
[–] Levi@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dang, that is a cool website.

[–] Levi@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

I try, but I can't find some things, like Canadian onions at the stores. :(

[–] Levi@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Fine! I like em.

[–] Levi@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I really don't want Green and NDP to merge. NDP seem to hate the environment. I'd have nobody left to vote for.

 

Hi, I've got a weird issue and figured I'd see if anybody knows how to fix it. I've noticed that most of my steam games that have linux native support just crash immediately when I try to run them. Running with Proton works just fine, but I was wondering if my system might be missing something obvious I need to run linux native games?

The latest one I was trying to play was Pyre. I tried looking through the logs, but couldn't find anything obvious to me.

Edit: Whatever it is, it looks like its not something simple, but that is okay because everything seems to work fine with proton anyway. Thanks for the help anyway! :)

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Levi@lemmy.ca to c/cooking@lemmy.world
 

Hi, I'm looking for some cookbook recommendations. AI and SEO slop have kinda killed my trust for most things on the internet, and I figure it might be handy to have some physical books in case it gets even worse. Also would be nice to have at least one book for low-carb recipes (my roommate is diabetic) and a book for vegetarian recipes. If any of you have cookbooks you love, I'd appreciate your recommendations!

Edit:

Thank you all, I ended up ordering:

  • Food Lab
  • Joy of Cooking
  • Complete Mediterranean Cookbook
  • Better Homes & Gardens New Cookbook

If I could have ordered one more, it probably would have been Night + Market. :)

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Levi@lemmy.ca to c/godot@programming.dev
 

Hi, I've been playing around with Godot to learn some game development skills, but I've run into a problem. I'm trying to display some 2d "cards" on the screen, and their texture is being generated by a shader. However, each card looks exactly the same, where I'd like some variation between the cards.

So I passed a seed value into my shader using:

instance uniform float seed;

And in my GDScript code:

func _ready() -> void:
    color_rect.material.set_shader_parameter("seed", randf() )

I've also tried:

func _ready() -> void:
    color_rect.set_instance_shader_parameter("seed", randf() )

Nothing breaks, but each of my cards are still identical, as if the seed value is the same for all three cards. From what I've read, the 'instance' keyword should let me pass a unique seed value for each object using the shader, right?

 

Hi. I've been using Linux for decades on my work machines, but most of my knowledge is pretty rusty. However for gaming I've always used a Windows machine. I'm thinking of getting rid of microsoft entirely, since I've been hearing such good things about steam & proton lately.

I was going to just install Mint on my gaming computer, but since there are a ton of experts here, I figured I should check in to see if there is any reason not to use Mint for this? And if there is any other considerations or setup I should be aware of to keep my games running well?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Levi@lemmy.ca to c/ndp@lemmy.ca
 

So I can find the platform's for green, liberal and conservative, but the NDP website doesn't seem to have one. Is it not out yet, or are we just not getting one?

Edit: Whoops, I was looking at the BC conservatives, I guess the conservatives don't have one either.

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