rekabis
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- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 4 days ago:
There is nothing you’ve said worthy of rebuttal.
Ah - a sour grapes response!
Don’t worry, I know you had absolutely nothing to counter with once I saw the ad hominem. That’s the problem with intellectual bankruptcy, after all - nothing to work with except rage and other emotions. No facts, only feelings. So out come the personal attacks like the ad hominems, because rage and shame are the only usable tools left.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 6 days ago:
You’ve just been all over this thread with your misogynistic hot takes and telling people how “all women” act. You should get off the internet for a while.
Mmm-hm. Attempts to socially shame me into silence and an ad hominem on top of that, but not a whisper of a viable rebuttal.
That’s the problem with these censure attempts – always feelings over facts, instead of facts over feelings.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 6 days ago:
I’m not saying it’s right, just, or how it should be,
What makes it infinitely more worse is that almost all women fully and absolutely deny this happens, even when behaving exactly like this.
It’s why such near-ubiquitous behaviour - and women’s hypocritical denial of its existence - is widely documented within both redpill and blackpill writings, and is one of the core reasonings behind MGTOW.
Such overwhelmingly predictable behaviours are what make those philosophies so devastatingly effective and compelling even before a person gets to anything even mildly misogynistic… facts and evidence that survive tests of disproof speak volumes, after all. These philosophies simply wouldn’t exist if behaviours and double standards like this didn’t exist.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 6 days ago:
It sounds depressive.
It’s how “toxic masculinity” is forced upon men against their will.
Do we want to be sensitive and vulnerable? Sure!
Do we want partners that can accept that sensitivity and vulnerability? Of course!!But when the vast majority of women do not do as they say, or say as they do, the calculus becomes massively brutal and clear-cut: either cram that shit down to where it will never see the light of day, or see it emotionally/sexually alienate our partner or even drive them away.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 6 days ago:
I wasn’t commenting on this particular double standard anywhere as much as double standards, in general; especially those which are almost exclusively one-way and “acceptable” for only women to hold.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 1 week ago:
Wow, that’s some intense double standards there.
That’s an odd way of saying “ubiquitous female standards”.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 1 week ago:
I’ve had two relationships with women immediately go downhill after I cried in front of them. It was like someone flipped a switch and turned off any physical attraction they had to me.
Can absolutely confirm this, myself. Never let them see you vulnerable, unless you want to drive them away.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 1 week ago:
how many people agonize about female pedophiles vs male pedophiles?
What makes this statement even more horrifying is that more and more evidence is emerging that - like with cross-gender rape between adults - rates of pedophilia in the general population seems to be about 50/50 between the genders.
As in, it is equally as likely for a child to be preyed upon by a woman as a man.
And society doesn’t give two shits about female pedophiles or their victims. Hell, if the pedophile gets pregnant, the government will even gleefully re-victimize the victim on a monthly basis the moment they hit adulthood by forcing them to pay child support to their rapist.
Now, for the purest example of anti-male gender bigotry, examine the fury and outrage if the genders were reversed.
- Comment on Leaving religious people speechless 1 week ago:
There are a lot of reasonable people who can get behind that statement…
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 1 week ago:
“Desert Racists”
“Swamp Racists”ROTFLMAO 🤣🤣🤣
Bloody accurate, you are.
- Comment on Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer 2 weeks ago:
One is light hosting using VMs. It boots normally.
The other is for experimenting on various OS’ in VMs. It does not boot normally. Even before the 2nd CPU caddy, it always POSTed 10 times - no more, no less - with a memory error code before booting into the hypervisor. And yet, no issues with memory, no issues with RAM slots themselves. Or, at least, it’s affecting all 4 of the on-mobo slots equally.
- Comment on Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer 2 weeks ago:
Oh hey, another T7500 owner! You have the second-CPU caddy installed in that thing?
- Comment on Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer 2 weeks ago:
For safety, backups are much better than encryption.
The only thing encryption does is prevent others from reading your data if the machine gets physically lost or stolen. And ironically, that might prevent a stolen machine from ever making it back into your hands.
For desktops, encryption of a machine that doesn’t have critically private/sensitive content is even dumber. I mean, if you have terabytes of CP or are a terrorist, then sure, lock that down to make the police earn their wages. Or do it even if you don’t, but you just want to give authorities the middle finger. But not much on the average computer needs encryption so long as you keep good physical and network security.
What you want is a good backup system - something that just works, is dummy proof, can be administered remotely, and which can restore content easily and reliably.
On a Mac, nothing beats iCloud. It’s encrypted before it even gets uploaded, and Apple has repeatedly shown it cannot retrieve the content… it needs to be forcibly cracked.
On the PC (both Windows and Linux) I prefer Duplicati backing up to BackBlaze B2.
- Comment on Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer 2 weeks ago:
I actually like the Microsoft Authenticator, as it dramatically improves security for Microsoft Accounts. Not only does it plump up 2FA TOTP from 6 digits to 8, but it can also implement challenge-response codes as a second layer of protection.
What I do not agree with is putting your computing eggs all in one basket. I have never used a Microsoft Account to secure Windows, and I never will. Complete data loss via loss of control of the Microsoft Account is just too high of a persistent threat. And that risk rises by an order of magnitude the less technically inclined a user is. For someone who has almost no computing experience, it is an unconscionably risky system to use.
- Comment on Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer 2 weeks ago:
- The average user has no need to use Bitlocker
- The average user should be using a local account instead of a Microsoft Account.
- Using a Microsoft Account causes Bitlocker to auto-enable.
- Loss of access to your Microsoft Account when Bitlocker is enabled can cause loss of all your data.
- Microsoft can and will roundly ignore you if you lose access to your Microsoft Account.
Microsoft has painted users into a very dangerous corner. Security is vitally important, but not when it’s almost maliciously implemented.
Even as a security professional I understand that most people will be ill served by having their computer locked down like Fort Knox. There are ways of ensuring security without having all personal content go permanently poof with the slightest wrong move.
- Comment on US education 3 weeks ago:
Conservatism needs its masses of ignorant and near-illiterate electorate who cannot think for themselves and cannot use critical thinking to realize how badly they are being hoodwinked. This hollowing out of the educational system has been done on purpose to bulk up the Republican electorate.
- Comment on US education 3 weeks ago:
And with the dismantling of the US Department of education, things are going to get a lot, lot worse.
- Comment on Australian's criminal history went viral after annoying the wrong repair guy 5 weeks ago:
Being a good programmer is harder than it seems. Lots of people can code, but many are just script kiddies. Even I consider myself at the lower bounds of what it means to be a software developer - and I don’t consider myself to be knowledgeable in low-level hardware in the least.
Some people, despite their odious natures, manage to unlock talents and skills that others can only dream of. It’s no different than trying to separate a troublesome artist from their art.
- Comment on Australian's criminal history went viral after annoying the wrong repair guy 5 weeks ago:
Maybe someone still in possession of a copy can decompile it, neuter the shutdown code, and open-source the rest?
- Comment on Australian's criminal history went viral after annoying the wrong repair guy 5 weeks ago:
On a personal level, I have never liked Louis Rossmann. There is something about him that I have never been able to define - his cockiness, or brashness or the way he carries himself, IDK - that has always rubbed me the wrong way. If we meet IRL, I am not sure if we could ever be friends.
And yet…
I will always be a staunch supporter of him. I will always watch and promote his videos. I will always be behind him 100%.
Because he fights the good fight. Because he fights the right fight.
And because he is careful in his research, points out where he is unsure, qualifies where there is nuance, and doesn’t pull any punches when faces need punching. His content is invariably not just correct and detailed, but also accurate and precise.
And most of all: despite his career success, he still fights for the little guy. That one of my favourite videos was a detailed rant about how the very career path he had taken was no longer available to other young people because of how restricted individual parts have become, and how in many cases you can now only obtain assemblies that are much more expensive.
- Comment on Dik Piks 5 weeks ago:
I would gladly send a dik pic of my own, provided she appreciates diminutive mammalian ruminants.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Just like the opposite of addiction is not sobriety but connection, so the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.
Because that is what most depression saps out of people - the vitality to do things, to live life, and to give your own life meaning and the strength to forge ahead.
Sometimes people can handle depression on their own. Most of the time, however, help of some sort is needed. Never be afraid or let yourself be shamed for reaching out or accepting help, because we all need help once in a while. As the Good Captain once said, “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.”
And while uncultivated ignorance can still be educated away, beware cultivated ignorance – these people are maliciously ignorant, and are intentionally trying to hurt you.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 1 month ago:
Read the comment more carefully… while IT was most certainly not at their posts, this implementation team was actively monitoring the rollout and witnessing the carnage.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 1 month ago:
Never said it had to be you.
But a threat to do exactly that would have likely called IT’s bluff long before the four-month mark.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 1 month ago:
And in those four months, did no-one think of firing up WireShark to see what was floating across that network during that time period?
Seems like someone dropped the debug/analysis ball…
- Comment on This is the smallest print size i've ever seen 1 month ago:
This broken english is printed with impeccable quality.
That’s probably the funniest bit about this whole thing. Absolutely impeccable workmanship, but horrendous English. If only they spent a touch more money for decent translator.
- Comment on This is the smallest print size i've ever seen 1 month ago:
Legit impressed with the sharpness of that text at that size. That’s definitely not from any fly-by-night back-alley Indian factory using sweatshop labour.
- Comment on User says access to ’30 years of photos and work’ in OneDrive denied by Microsoft, can't get a response after filing form 18 times — 'Microsoft suspended my account without warning, reason, or any leg 2 months ago:
You’re conflating syncing with backing up
Every syncing service I know of offers versioning. Some offer a high degree of versioning customization (retention, etc.) with their paid tiers, making said sync indistinguishable from a hot backup.
- Comment on Anon considers LASIK 2 months ago:
I never had it done for two main reasons:
- Actual cutting of the cornea.
- A cripplingly negative response to anything that surgically impacts my body. Even giving blood triggers an overwhelming need to inject it right back into me.
Knowing what I do about CC and the astronomically high likelihood of global civilizational collapse before mid-century, I should really have something like that done so I can do without glasses if absolutely necessary. Assuming I live that long, that is. Which, judging from the current advanced age of my own parents, is a decent “likely”.
- Comment on Anon considers LASIK 2 months ago:
Right? This is an absolutely awesome autocorrect fail.