MonkeMischief
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- Comment on Report: In Western Countries, 41% of the Jobs Done By Young People are at Risk Disappearing Due to Automation 17 hours ago:
The government will have to do something when 50%+ of its population is unemployed.
Yeah, because they’ve crashed through the front gates and the front doors can only hold them off for so long!
- Comment on Report: In Western Countries, 41% of the Jobs Done By Young People are at Risk Disappearing Due to Automation 17 hours ago:
Right. Exactly. It should be a great thing…
…except we’re worried the prevailing system will be “Well you gotta find work to justify your existence, lazy peasant!” And will still plug their ears screaming incoherently about “automation creating more jobs” when we tell them they eliminated all the work.
- Comment on Extinctions 18 hours ago:
And here I am missing the “ORLY / YARLY” owls, Lolcats “in ur stuffs, doin teh things”, and “advice animals” eras from approximately 2.8 billion years ago in Internet-scaled time lol.
- Comment on Old comic, more relevant than ever 4 days ago:
Yeah these look exactly like things I’d see on billboards in Vegas when certain conventions are in town…
- Comment on Old comic, more relevant than ever 4 days ago:
“That’s some high security clearance to have a computer rapidly tap auto-complete for entire paragraphs, hoss…wait it pays how much?(Ahem) I shall take this solemn responsibility of the highest order so very seriously!” Lol
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 1 week ago:
“Tank division here! We’ve fired everything we’ve got at the lava!..Now what?”
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 4 weeks ago:
With style!
- Comment on Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing. 4 weeks ago:
Ah! I can’t believe I didn’t reply to this!!!
I have been thinking about this comment for a very long time, and I really wanted to thank you for putting so much thought into it, as I feel a lot more educated about swamps and I think anyone lucky enough to find it will surely feel the same! This was an enlightening and fascinating read.
I read it to my wife too, who’s an Earth & Environmental Science major, and she thought it was cool. :D
It’s fascinating to me especially what you said about the parasite/tick situation spiraling out of control. I often wondered how the heck anybody “walked through the woods behind the house” or whatnot without being covered in the nasty things, and this explains so much.
I used to live in NorthEast Oklahoma for a minute. There were nasty little things called “chiggers” living in the grass that appeared as red dust on your skin but would start stinging and biting really badly. The Arizona Bark Scorpions out there were also insanely, ridiculously numerous.
The bit about Mexico City was mind blowing too. It explains why the whole place is slowly sinking. A PBS documentary called “Water Wars” covered this pretty well. It’s dire stuff…
Wishing you all the best and thank you again for such an awesome comment. I’ve never been happier to get a reply to an opinion I just spouted off on the internet for conversation’s sake! XD
- Comment on I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD** 4 weeks ago:
Sure thing!
What I’ve heard about the Pi 5 specifically is that they dropped support for video encoding. Which is kinda weird, but admittedly I’m a bit out of the Pi loop to really weigh in.
I believe I heard this on the “Self Hosted Podcast” a while back.
I imagine that might hurt for someone trying to use it for streaming Jellyfin or something like that 🤔.
I found a forum link here:
- Comment on Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing. 1 month ago:
Handle checks out. Lol swamps definitely cleaner than your average dumpster!
I think the unsettling thing is that the whole biome is crawling or buzzing. Feeling like inhaling will choke you on a gnat cloud, every surface has some grouchy venomous thing that’ll stick ya, and that “log” over there is just waiting for something to death-roll today, as it floats across murky water you can’t see under.
Fascinating places! But I can see why they’re not exactly attractive for humans.
- Comment on Bethesda Celebrates 30th Anniversary of The Elder Scrolls, Provides Small Development Update on The Elder Scrolls VI 1 month ago:
No kidding. Or how we just got used to Morrowind’s erm…“unique” hit system and weapons actually collided in Oblivion, with real physics!
And I still remember that trailer shot of walking down the hallway with the traps and casting a fireball while still holding a sword. It was such a crazy feature update!
“Close shut the jaws…OF OBLIVION”
And…yeah…today’s game industry is more “How can we make Ai enhanced 24k textures so the game is a 1.5 TB install, but streamline it so entire armor sets are a single item and we remove half the skills from previous titles.”
I really liked Skyrim, but definitely disagreed with how “opinionated” the games got about how you were supposed to play them…
- Comment on Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons 1 month ago:
Someone mentioned EndeavourOS. Really enjoy it for sure but it’s still Arch at heart for better and worse. You can follow a simple guide to install it with BTRFS and get system snapshots though! :)
On my main 3D art rig I’m using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for years and loving it. Great sane security defaults, up to date packages, but they go through a bit of testing so for a rolling release it’s shockingly stable. I actually quite enjoy Zypper.
If something borks? A rollback option is right there in GRUB.
Steam works just fine and I’d also recommend (on any distro) Heroic Launcher for your non-Steam stuff. Especially since GoG seems to not care much about us penguin people much at all. -_-
If you use KDE, both distros are going through some minor growing pains with Wayland at the moment, but it’s getting much better very quickly. X11 is still an option, of course.
I run Endeavour on my laptop and OpenSUSE on my desktop…and…you might wanna be sitting down for this:
…Both have Nvidia.
It could be better but it’s a million times better than it used to be! Installs straight from repo. Only little issues I really have are Wayland-related.
- Comment on Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons 1 month ago:
It’s like an annoying kiosk salesman at the mall but he’ll show up in your livingroom when you least expect it.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 1 month ago:
Also catalog filtering. I wish GoG had a search filter half as good as Steam’s!
- Comment on Temperature 1 month ago:
Ah! Modern journalism?
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
The independent currency was still worth standard currency… So the ones already hoarding all of that existing make-believe-number money just bought up and schemed us out of new make-believe-number money.
How did we not see this coming? :(
- Comment on Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her 3 months ago:
Basically in a nutshell, if they can claim it’s “performance reasons”, they likely wouldn’t have to pay her a severance if that was part of the contract, and there’s a chance she wouldn’t get unemployment insurance either.
I’m in the US and I’m not even 100% sure how much unemployment the company is liable for paying, but I know it’s a common strategy for any employer to abuse you into quitting on your own so they don’t have to pay it.
If she’s laid off, she gets some support until she finds a job elsewhere. If they admit that, then she wins justice rather than letting them get away with theft.
This is probably why these goons were sent in with zero data. They’re probably telling the truth that they don’t have these mystical “metrics and data points.”
It’s as she said: company hires a bunch of people, probably makes a bunch of promises to them, and then decides they don’t want to pay for them.
These are the kind of sociopaths that can justify just abandoning animals they’re tired of, and society rewards them for it through profits.
- Comment on Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her 3 months ago:
“I hear what you’re saying, feebl, and those feelings are valid today. But unfortunately American corpos will not be able to change the outcome of how fking stupidly soulless they are today mmk?”
You’re absolutely right. It is a cancer, and stupid trends like this spread until there’s no hope of escape and even a freaking gas station manager tries to talk to you like this.
- Comment on Weather app asking for permission to manage calls 4 months ago:
Friendly reminder to my Android peeps that f-droid.org rocks!
I think I open up the google play store like twice a year.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 4 months ago:
Wonder how well Esperanto would work. 🤔 But if we came up with another “lingua franca of relevant searches” I feel like they’d just tune AI garbage to that “untapped spam market.”
It would be an arms(tongues?) race but then hey, everybody would know like 16 languages so that’d be cool. Lol
- Comment on I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD** 4 months ago:
Right on, that makes sense!
If you’re not planning on storing absolutely tons of data at first, you can also squeeze a lot into so-called “1 liter PCs”. Traditional platform, a little more power and room than a Pi, and you can neatly tuck them away!
I hear they float around eBay quite readily these days.
Sadly haven’t been hearing the very best things about the Pi 5, but earlier ones can do well as little servers.
I’ve been learning a lot from the self hosted podcast lately haha. Also one of the hosts runs this site (which I happened to find first) that can be pretty helpful!
https://perfectmediaserver.com/
I remember some folks on reddit saying USB isn’t the most reliable connection for long-term drives, but I’m not 100% sure what that was about. Maybe the connectors wear out?
Perhaps someone who knows more can enlighten me.
Best of luck! I hope you have a lot of fun. 😁
- Comment on I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD** 4 months ago:
I just use an old crappy hand-me-down mid-tower gaming case I stuffed some drives into. As long as you can keep them cool, dusted, and away from vibrations (with HDDs), plenty of (used?)cases will have enough HDD slots to get you started.
Also old rackmount servers on ebay have plenty of slots I hear, but rackmount fans are waaaaay louder.
- Comment on I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD** 4 months ago:
“Building audiences for activation” sounds like they’re planning to just activate a sleeper army to execute dastardly plans with a highly specific Activia commercial.
It’s crazy how marketer-speak sounds like PR-friendly Saturday Morning bad guys.
- Comment on Panera founder says employees today aren't motivated by the idea of making money for shareholders: 'Nobody cares' 4 months ago:
It’s kinda crazy that this is such a business-world revelation. Wow. Deep thoughts, my guy.
C-suiters really need therapists to explain working class life to them so they can learn the capacity to empathize.
Sorry, neo-feudalist-gilded-age-run-by-socipaths-says-what?
- Comment on Explaining US labor law: "Right to work" & "At-will" employment 4 months ago:
“At-will” is such a double edged sword. It used to be the cudgel to make you fear that you could simply be fired because a manager didn’t like your shoes that day.
But it’s also what allows you to get up, leave, and never come back at any time you choose, and nobody can stop you. They’ve been learning about that side of it for a while now! XD
- Comment on I got a dig bick. 5 months ago:
I’m so happy seeing this Tom meme format again lmao