LH0ezVT
@LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Anon has a paranormal experience 2 days ago:
Well, assuming this a guy and he heard a man’s voice, i don’t think it is going to be heterosexual…
On the other hand, I’m straight, but if I had the chance to bang a ghost, I wouldn’t miss my chance because of those details. You might be talking to Jesus, but I’m fucking your great-great-grandpa!
- Comment on Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know? 6 days ago:
I guess it depends on how much you can abuse or ignore it. Debian works just fine if you put it in a locker for 3 years and then try to update. With gentoo, if you didn’t update for a week, you might as well reinstall :)
Arch is somehow in the middle, I had an arch VM that never had any problems except that certificate issue despite not getting many updates.
- Comment on Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know? 1 week ago:
Perfectly fine if it does what it should. That is imo the essence of this post: Better is the enemy of good. I wouldn’t buy a new one (again), this one was a bit of an exception (customer return, with a little scratch), since used touch laptops with good performance were quite rare.
- Comment on Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know? 1 week ago:
Nah, L390 Yoga. I wanted touch because i thought I’d use it, but it ended up in a docking station most of the time anyway. Upgraded RAM and SSD, battery still hold “a few hours” despite being 7+ years old.
- Comment on Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know? 1 week ago:
“I’m in this picture and it’s quite OK here.”
My car is a 20 year old shitbox, my bike gets new brake pads and a bit of random lubricant on the chain once a year and other “maintenance” only when parts fall off, and my stereo is a mix of hand me downs from my dad’s college days and some eBay home theatre stuff that got sold because it didn’t support the newest HDMI bullshit.
Oh, and of course it is a Thinkpad, thanks for asking.
Just the other day, a friend of mine running Arch tried to install something, which resulted in him having to do a full system update, including fixing several “that should not happen” s. Meanwhile, every few years I spend an evening update to the newest stable, and never had bigger issues than the color of some icon being unfamiliar.
- Comment on Anon is Japanese 1 week ago:
Is it? It’s your boss’ duty to provide you with work and they cannot dock your pay (outside of special circumstances) if they don’t have work for you, but they can absolutely pay you to sit around and drink coffee in case work comes around.
- Comment on What caused this? 1 week ago:
I fear we are doing the opposite. Worst of both worlds.
How did that old joke go?
“Quebec could have gotten French food, American tech and British culture, but instead they chose French tech, American culture and British food”
- Comment on anon discovers the magic of pizza (and yaoi) 1 week ago:
Might be potentially gay?! Idk, a man having romantic sex with another man is pretty much the definition of gay, if you ask me. Doesn’t get much gayer.
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 2 weeks ago:
Fine, I’ll bite the bait.
because it works perfectly fine if you’re not a helpless moron, that’s why.
Counter-point: lots of people are helpless morons at some point in their life. I certainly was. I was lucky enough to have family and friends and skills that were in demand at the time. Others are less fortunate. Fuck’em, I got mine, I guess?
lots of people start their careers through temp job training programs and become permanent hires.
Temp agencies are not there to help you, not even there to make the economy better or society fairer. They are there to fill temporary positions for as little money as possible, period. Sometimes, their and your interests overlap partly. Plus, they help avoid hiring people long-term. Fear of joblessness every few months is a great motivation to work more for less. I’ve seen it plenty of times, and while there are degrees of hell, all of them suck.
i have what they call ‘real life experience’ in these matters
Me too. I was on welfare for half a year and not having to worry about my immediate survival gave me the time I needed to hunt for a half-decent job and convince myself to go to college. Now, a decade later, I have an engineering master degree and get to work on some cool stuff. Without government support, I’d probably have jumped at the first shitty job I got and would be stuck there. What’s your life experience? Pulled yourself up by your bootstraps while walking uphill both ways?
clearly the ‘answer’ to problems like this is to daydream about a socialist/communist utopia and be angry it doesn’t exist and also wish violence upon those who point out to you that it’s never going to exist.
As someone from a not-yet-a-total-shithole country, those things exist over here, and while they are as bad at their job as one expects, at least they are there. A cynic public officer half-heartedly trying to get you to become a tax-paying citizen is leagues better than nothing. It’s not a day dream when it clearly exists outside of dystopian ex-first-world countries like the US. Everyone benefits if people get off the street and/or their couch and do something “useful”. I’m happily paying taxes that support welfare, education and coaching, and I’d much prefer it, both from an ethical and an economical point of view, if the government started properly collecting taxes from billionaires and big companies than go after that mystical welfare freeloader.
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 3 weeks ago:
Precisely. Among massive corruption, a decadent ruling elite, and some less than ideal foreign politics, if I remember correctly.
Just because one thing is bad, it doesn’t mean that the other extreme is good. Maoism had massive flaws, but it transformed a practically medieval country ruled by warlords into a single, somewhat industrialised nation. The reforms by Deng and others, including Xi, turned it into a country with a half-decent standard of living and competitive economy. But they introduced other problems, such as massive wealth inequality and environmental issues.
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 3 weeks ago:
I think the position of those people is “Maoism was bad, the reforms were good, but they overcorrected”. Imho a perfectly coherent position as well. Quality of life in modern China is surely better than during the Mao era, and not only because if material wealth, but surely this current state is not perfect. Far from it, if you ask me.
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 5 weeks ago:
Sweet home Alabama, where the sky is so blue…
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 5 weeks ago:
Full-time is rare. But as far as I know, the stereotypical backpacking locations are still full of unwashed backpackers
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 5 weeks ago:
Clearly the AI thinks you need therapy, financial advice and lectures on how to sell yourself better. Interestingly, I feel like it might be up to something…
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 5 weeks ago:
Hah! You obviously have never heard of SSTV!
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 5 weeks ago:
No need to get all racist, mate
- Comment on Anon can't escape 5 weeks ago:
We’ve gone soft as a society, I tell you! If science cannot progress without kidnapping a guy from Sentinel Island and giving him psychosis, then that is a sacrifice I am willing to make!
- Comment on Anon can't escape 5 weeks ago:
I found I am way more likely to experience weird, nightmare-ish bs if I sleep on my back, or when I drank some alcohol. Maybe there are factors that control it for you as well.
- Comment on Anon can't escape 5 weeks ago:
There is a really interesting experiment there, right? I guess we have all watched or heard of Matrix, wondered what if everything is a simulation, and seen code somewhere. What if you take a guy from some backwater place who has never seen any code, give the poor guy DMT and shine a laser at a wall? Is it a thing we imagine because the brain is wired that way? Or because we are culturally primed to imagine this? A guy who has never driven a car probably won’t have that classic “car with no/broken brakes” dream.
- Comment on Anon can't escape 5 weeks ago:
Almost got eaten by a bear in my dream tonight, I didn’t even get a near-death experience out of it, just trying to fend off an angry bear with a pole I found. Man :(
- Comment on Anon is a tired bissexual 5 weeks ago:
Stupid people are out there. Plenty of them. Like it has always been. At this point, I am more than happy if the stupid people identify themselves before I spend thoughts and emotional attachments on them.
- Comment on Anon is a tourist 5 weeks ago:
All I am saying is, my racist ass would be more concerned with the strange looking man stealing my wallet and phone than somehow magically contaminate me with his dark skin
- Comment on Anon is a tourist 5 weeks ago:
But then, wouldn’t a balkan person be more concerned with their wallet being stolen? Idk, a strange-looking person being the only one around the valuables while everyone else swims sounds weird.
I mean, luckily, this is all fake anyways, but the fan fiction used to be more believable
- Comment on No ChatGPT for sexy time 1 month ago:
Likewise, LLMs have legit uses, but people can get trapped by the sycophantic hallucination machine
- Comment on How to summon a group of gym bros (100% working tutorial 2026) 1 month ago:
Got complimented out of the blue about a somewhat beard-shaped stubble that I was growing out by a female friend, and my brother’s girlfriend has practically forbidden him from clean shaving. My dad had a beard when he met my mom. Maybe it’s our genes, but I think there are faces where a beard works and faces where it doesn’t. Same as with hair styles, some guys can have a mullet and still look decent.
- Comment on No ChatGPT for sexy time 1 month ago:
But on the other hand, crack is also not good for you. I think a society where crack is banned is probably better than one where it is abundant
- Comment on Anon works in an office 1 month ago:
They used to call this “fire fighter jobs” here. Nothing to do really, unless something is on fire.
- Comment on Anon tries something new 1 month ago:
Ja warum liegt denn hier Stroh rum?
- Comment on Anon's jobs 1 month ago:
Same. I get to work on shit I like, my boss is chill, I get 30 vacation days plus overtime compensation, mostly reasonable deadlines, nobody really looks at when I come and go as long as things get done, and this side of a complete collapse I should have decent job security. Oh, and most people around me have sane opinions on politics, AI and priorities in life. I do get paid less with a MSc degree than some of my peers got with a fresh bachelor, but I wouldn’t want to swap.
- Comment on Anon gets lost 1 month ago:
France is at around 1.3, Germany at around 0.9, UK somewhere in between, if a quick search is to be trusted.
And I think change in incidence is a weird way to express this. Yes, the average person is not likely to die of homicide, even in “unsafe” countries. But at the same time, the chance of a man to get testicular cancer is around 0.01%; if I would be 5 times as likely to get testicular cancer than the people from other places, I would very much want to look into that.