RedStamp

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[–] RedStamp@piefed.social 4 points 4 days ago

I don't think that's correct. It seems like it originated from a magical context: something that puts a sexual "spell" on you

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_fetishism#History

[–] RedStamp@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

This is possibly the only thing that Troy (2004) did kind of correctly. The architecture is full of nods to Hittite and New Kingdom Egyptian culture (look at the design of the temple of Apollo!), and the costuming also points to Hittite and Assyrian designs.

There's a ton of mystery surrounding the fall of Mycenaean civilization, but there's at least some general agreement that Troy was at least partially based on a real city (with a different name), and that they not only shared some gods/cults with Mycenae, but also might have been directly allied with Mycenaean kingdoms.

I don't think there's any reason to believe that there was no mixing of cultures between the Anatolian sphere and the Mycenaean sphere, considering that the entire Eastern Mediterranean was known to trade heavily (ESPECIALLY the sea focused Mycenaean's).

[–] RedStamp@piefed.social 18 points 2 weeks ago

Ah this happened to me this weekend! Not the train explosion, but the winedbg flood. For me, it was because I had my proton and steam Linux runtime installations on an NTFS disk instead of something more Linux native.

[–] RedStamp@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This inn is heavily featured in the film "An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn". Great movie, and incredibly difficult to recommend because of how incredibly weird it is.

[–] RedStamp@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago

It depends, since all states manage their taxes differently. Usually it's done via determining ties from the foreign resident to the state in question (e.g. is the resident receiving mail, operating a business, or residing x days of the year in the state?), and taxing on that accordingly. My state doesn't collect income taxes, so I'm not well suited to speak on this topic.

[–] RedStamp@piefed.social 53 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The taxation part of this is a bit of an unfair point. The US allows for an exclusion of ~$150k in foreign earned income if the US citizen qualifies as a bonafide resident of a foreign nation. On top of that, the IRS lets you deduct any taxes paid to a foreign government dollar for dollar against owed US taxes, and since most other developed nations have a higher tax rate, this essentially wipes out your US tax obligations (federal only, some states will still apply taxes separately). The only people actually double paying taxes are the ultra rich, but they obviously don't pay taxes at all since that's for the poors 🫩

Obviously, the system is still stupid and overly complicated (why should I even file a return with the IRS when I don't owe anything?), but it's not as egregious as this video makes it out to be

[–] RedStamp@piefed.social 5 points 6 months ago

I have a similar use case with my PC and TV. My PC is across the house from the TV and is connected via an HDMI over Ethernet KVM for when I want to use my PC as a gaming console.

What I ended up doing was creating an automation in Home Assistant to turn on my KVM via a smart plug, then wake-on-lan my PC, and intiate a Steam Big Picture mode gamescope session. This was pretty tedious to get working all together, and startup time is pretty abysmal (around 1 minute to get fully into Steam), but it does actually work consistently.

In case anyone is interested in replicating my setup: I'm running NixOS 25.11 with the Jovian flake installed, and launching my session via the systemd service run_gamescope. If you're not on NixOS, you should still be able to build your own solution by emulating the Steam Deck startup services (honestly, it's not that complicated), or looking into projects like ChimeraOS.

[–] RedStamp@piefed.social 3 points 8 months ago

If your kids are only going to be using big picture mode in steam, then one system account will work. The steam deck only has one system user with the ability to have multiple steam accounts and that works great for multiple users, from my experience.

For anyone interested in a great dual use system for regular desktop use and a console-like experience, I recommend checking out nixos and jovian-nix: https://jovian-experiments.github.io/Jovian-NixOS/

I'm using it on my main PC and it works incredibly well to mimic the steam deck experience using a full desktop on nixos 25.11

[–] RedStamp@piefed.social 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It looks like the QT 6 version isn't available in nixpkgs yet, but the QT 5 version is. You'd need to explicitly install plasma 5 though, since nixos uses plasma 6 by default.

[–] RedStamp@piefed.social 5 points 11 months ago

Completely unrelated to OP, but I just discovered this and I feel a need to broadcast it from the rooftops:

If you play any jam music or find yourself needing chord or lead charts constantly, then you should absolutely get iReal Pro. It's pricey for an app, and I have no idea if the creators are ethical people or not, but the product is incredible: https://www.irealpro.com/

This has been such a game changer for playing with new people or jamming on tunes

[–] RedStamp@piefed.social 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Nope, she's Power Girl. While still Superman's cousin, in this specific continuity (injustice), she's from an alternate timeline. So it's like half incest

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