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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Techno feudalism, here we come⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, unfortunately I think that both corporations and consumers have shown that they prefer the cheap option rather than whatever not-as-cheap options might offer in terms of quality, sustainability, environmental protection, lack of child slavery… you know, luxuries like that.

  And that is speaking in general, mass-market terms of course. There are often options for those who care about the things I jokingly referred to as luxuries. But when something like that is niche instead of a widespread basic expectation, it gets priced as a luxury. Ugh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On trees...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What a nicely packaged little subthread to come across while decompressing after a super busy day, lol!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft renames "Remote Desktop" to "Windows App". Good luck googling for any help or troubleshooting it.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. Maybe that supports my guess.

  It’s not without precedent though. I remember seeing NT references for a long time from win2k on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft renames "Remote Desktop" to "Windows App". Good luck googling for any help or troubleshooting it.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought they were supposed to do the whole “last version of Windows that will be updated forever” with Windows 10, and of course abandoned that some time ago.

  My gut feeling is that their product management marketing folks came to the conclusion that Windows as a subscription was not going to work for the consumer market where the OS is something that’s just part of the device you buy. And in discussions with system OEMs they made the decision that consumers like it when the version number goes up, so increasing that windows number every several years will move systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft renames "Remote Desktop" to "Windows App". Good luck googling for any help or troubleshooting it.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that Steve Jobs with a Butthead mouth? Beautiful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  and oftentimes they don’t admit why they really have a problem with the game directly

  I think in many cases they aren’t even admitting it to themselves. Self-delusion is kind of a recurring theme with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comfy cozy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that so many of us INSIDE the US still sleep like that, especially the ones who match homer’s kind of “dopey white middle aged boomer dad who raised a family on a single factory job” demographic.

  I match some of those demographics, like the dopey white middle aged USAmerican dad raising a family with his one income. I don’t match him in other areas because I am an over-educated tech worker living in an old cheap blue collar neighborhood to make it happen in current day.

  I am extremely unhappy and embarrassed about just about every single thing that has my country is in the news, to say the least. It makes me sad and worried for the entire world. Giving a shit about other people while evil morons are grabbing power will do that to you.

  But for people who look like me and don’t follow what’s going on in the world or care about other people? My day to day real life in my local physical environment is comfortable and privileged as hell, and so is a lot of theirs.

  Combine that with our culture where a “successful” life is constant stress over the rat race and keeping up with the Joneses, so that you are worried about making the payments on your luxury SUV rather than whether your government is destroying people you don’t know while funneling your resources to people who already have 1000x more than you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fax machine⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “you’re responsible for your own happiness” can be a true thing even if you are loving and supportive.

  I’m in a similar situation now. I am in a pretty good place after having a very shitty handful of years 2019-2024. My wife is having some of the same issues now, and when I recognize the similarities it only makes me show her more grace and understanding. But then I am obligated to be honest about what I learned over the years, even if my solutions and techniques might not end up being hers.

  And the fact that happiness, fulfillment, contentment, peace with the universe, and all that stuff originates from somewhere deep within. It’s along the same lines as the saying that money can’t buy happiness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people have it worse⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I say “doing alright, how about you”l and that usually covers it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMERICAN POPE LETS GO⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember my dad telling me decades ago how it was such quality because it was old enough to have forged parts rather than machined.

  I am nearly certain I don’t have easy access to a photo of it, but it was a classic look. Bolt action rifle with a dark barrel, all wood body and stock, modest scope, and a leather carrying strap.

  I don’t really admire the look of guns any more than I might with something like a power drill. But in this case it’s associated with nice memories of when Dad let me shoot the big rifle from grandpa, or just hiking through the woods with my dad while he was the one carrying it.

  For some background, I’m obviously American, but I also had an early childhood out in the country. I mean “I played in the corn field that bordered my giant back yard” country. I knew the farmer too, because he’d let my dad hunt on his land. Sometimes we’d hang out in his house and BS on the way in or out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMERICAN POPE LETS GO⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  .270 is a neat caliber. I rarely hear about it (not that I frequent gun discussions) but am familiar with it because that’s the caliber of my dad’s deer hunting rifle which also belonged to my WW2 veteran grandfather.

  And yeah it’s not very comparable to a 22 except for starting with a two. It’s a high powered rifle. You can think of it like a .30-06 but with a slightly smaller and faster bullet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resistance is futile⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad to see the meme creator was smart enough to keep their Printer Gun handy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well you can do that today. Find a tree out in the middle of nowhere and sit under it without any electronic devices. Then you are oblivious to all that stuff.

  There is much wisdom buried in what seems like a simple comment here.

  Even if you aren’t in the middle of nowhere, you can find or create your oasis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The performance of Jellyfin is so much better in my experience. That and the FOSS benefits won me over quickly, and I have had a lifetime Plex pass for years.

  The downside is that you have to do a little IT work if you want to share with family in an easy (for them) way and use https. For sure, it’s a thing, but for me as a non web dev it was worth it.

  Now I can give family and friends a URL, login, password, and one or more app suggestions depending on their device and type of media. And all of them seem to have snappy performance while not showing my people ads or hitting them up for paid services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Already done. I dual boot at work (translated: I have a dormant win10 partition just in case, but I’m more likely to use my win10 VM in Linux) and at home I’m Linux only, having wiped my windows partition to reclaim the space within weeks of installing Linux.

  I use Mint Cinnamon in both places. It’s a very polished, all in one, install and go OS. But it’s still Linux so I have the terminal available and I can find out how to fiddle with and change whatever I want.

  For all manner of 2D desktop use, I find it superior to windows. Even being a very full-featured distro, when the software is made to serve the user and not 50 competing corporate priorities, you can tell. It’s so much more responsive and nice to use. (It is not flawless of course)

  For gaming, I don’t play the newest stuff or multiplayer games with crazy anti-cheat, but I have not had any regrets so far. Many games have native Linux versions, probably thanks to valve and the Steam deck, but windows games running in proton have been smooth sailing for me.

  I think I’ve just dealt with enough computer crap in my life that I prefer using not just Linux apps but FOSS software for as much as I can. If some game or some photo editing suite will absolutely not work in Linux or work acceptably in a VM, I am fine with it not existing in my world. I used to not find that acceptable, but now I’m over it. In a chill way though, not an angry anti-Microsoft way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m the dude in that meme looking at the other girl, and she is my icon collections in Steam, GOG, even Epic, etc. Icons with native Linux versions get slight preference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What TV shows have aged the best, and what TV shows have aged the worst?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Babylon 5 had big multi-season story arcs in the era of self-contained monster of the week episodes meant for syndication and watching in random order.

  It also has some very good character development. The Londo/G’Kar dynamic is pretty epic.

  But it does have the random weak early episodes others mentioned, and of course it is a product of its time. It has a high episode count and 90s SD vfx.

  It’s still one of my favorite shows and I will do a watch through every several years, but it would have SO much potential as a modern remake with 6-10 episodes per season. Kind of like the expanse but with more fantasy and imaginary physics. The space physics were very good though, especially for the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's calendar is incomplete⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plurday is when me and the boys go to the clurb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's just eccentric⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My joke in my household is that no clean flat surfaces can exist.

  My medicated ADHD ass is still plenty messy, but my non-medicated wife will put any item down in any place when she’s done with it or it’s in her way. Then it disappears from existence for an hour or a month or so. Unless it’s outside or in a room we don’t use daily… then the possible range expands a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Depart, men of education.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How dare you point out something so relevant and foreboding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this bad boy can fit.....⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternate second frame:

  Car salesman in ambulance headed to the hospital because a giant piece of steel that’s GLUED to the car came loose and sliced him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gives a former president some feedback⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are this clean cut folksy little musical group that had to start getting all political one day just to ruin Paul Ryan’s workout.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the Baldur’s Gate saga for me right now, and I’m still in the BG1 campaign.

  It is such a great game to play on the couch with a trackball while chilling with the family.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hexadecimal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why yes I have! Did you see my own example of Chinese censorship I added to the discussion in this very thread you are commenting on?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hexadecimal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, unfortunately for anything run by a US-based corporation, I think it’s not a question of whether there will be censorship but how bad it will get and how closely the tech industry we’ll continue to go along with the fascist flow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hexadecimal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s pretty blatant. A bit after it hit the scene I got curious and started asking it about how many people various governments have killed. The answer for my own US of A was as long as it was horrifying.

  Then I get to China and it starts laying out a detailed description for a few seconds, then the answer disappears and is replaced by the “out of scope” or “can’t do that right now” or whatever it was at the time.

  It makes me think their model might be fine, but then they have some kind of watchdog layered on top of it to detect the verboten subjects and interfere. I guess that feels better from a technical standpoint, even if it is equally bad from a personal/political one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk shares post that Hitler didn’t kill millions, public workers did. Union rages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I have been reading, you can’t so much as upvote somebody else’s post that says fuck Musk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This feels sad on the surface, as an American who went to college 25 years ago and is used to seeing people from around the world move here to learn, teach, start businesses, etc.

  But giving it any real thought, damn it, it is much better for humanity this way. Climate change isn’t going to pause while the world watches us collapse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starbucks continues to be terrible⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How is a CEO supposed to survive on only $15,000/hr? He’ll never get to join the three comma club making LOW 8 figures!

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨life changed due to shrimp⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  [Dillon!] You son of a bitch!

  Now I kinda wish I slipped that in there. But I won’t edit and steal your thunder, lol.