hperrin
@hperrin@lemmy.ca
- Comment on What is with America and the #9? For example stuff cost something like 9.99 or 3 payments of 39.99 or 9 out of 10 doctors or dentists or whomever agree? 10 hours ago:
You’re not gonna believe this, but it’s the highest number before going to the next place in base ten.
- Comment on How did you guys deal with the death of a parent? 1 day ago:
Not that it’s the same, but I lost my best friend to a fentanyl overdose two and a half years ago. The first year was incredibly hard. There were so many times every day that something would happen and I’d want to talk to him about it. I got pretty depressed for a while. The next year it was a little easier. Those times that I wanted to tell him something were more like once a week instead of once a day. This year it’s been easier. I still miss him like crazy.
I printed out a wedding photo wall for me and my wife, and since he was my best man, we had a lot of photos of him. I printed some really big ones of him, and they’re displayed prominently on the wall.
I don’t think I’ll ever stop missing him and wanting to talk to him, but I don’t cry anymore when I think about him. It still hurts, but a lot less.
I guess that is to say, grief gets easier, but you never stop experiencing it. It gets easier to think about the fun times and laugh instead of cry.
- Comment on The Ol' Switcheroo 2 days ago:
McConnell and Graham in one week!?
- Comment on no one is getting back to me on filling my hole 5 days ago:
How many butthole pics do you think they received?
- Comment on How can a company like Terabox give away 1TB of space for free and still stay a stable company? 6 days ago:
The first hit is always free.
- Comment on Is this a scam or am I being paranoid? And if so, what kind of scam is this? 1 week ago:
Without a doubt, this is a scam. The check is fake and they will want you to send them money before it gets found out by the bank.
- Comment on No room for romance when there's rising and grinding to be had! 1 week ago:
It’s called cuckmaxxing. If you’re not cuckmaxxing, are you even trying?
- Comment on This has gotten out of hand and I demand satisfaction. 2 weeks ago:
Don’t you tell them exactly what to put in your burrito?
- Comment on This has gotten out of hand and I demand satisfaction. 2 weeks ago:
Or this one?
- Comment on Pls be patient with me 2 weeks ago:
I was born at a very young age.
- Comment on She skipped groceries for a week to pay for that Little Caesars. 2 weeks ago:
“It’s” is not even the right its.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO says it’s ‘really irresponsible’ of Steam to make studios disclose AI use | VGC 2 weeks ago:
So irresponsible to give their users information. Then they can make… informed decisions!!! 😱
- Comment on So wise. 2 weeks ago:
6% of 50
6/100 * 50/1
(6 * 50) / (100 * 1)
(50 * 6) / (100 * 1)
50/100 * 6/1
50% of 6
Works for multiplying any fraction, not just percents.
2/3 of 5 is the same as 5/3 of 2.
2/5 of 7/8 is the same as 7/5 of 2/8.
- Comment on What is your favourite gaming console you have played? 2 weeks ago:
It’s not a console in the traditional sense, where it has its own way of making games and has exclusive games, but it’s definitely meant to be a console like experience. In that regard, I would say it’s a non-traditional console.
- Comment on Operation enduring algae 2 weeks ago:
It’s got the blue check mark, so it must be him. /s
- Comment on What is your favourite gaming console you have played? 2 weeks ago:
Steam Deck. 100%. That thing rocks.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I heard they’re going to start harvesting and selling off all the engineers’ organs. Zuckerberg calls it an “unfortunately necessary next step”.
- Comment on "Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?" 3 weeks ago:
As long as he keeps to himself, I don’t care. It’s when he a. annoys me or other devs by asking questions that are already answered in the documentation or readily available online, or b. tells people how hard/terrible Linux is because he had a bad experience using a thing he purposefully misunderstood, that he becomes a problem for the Linux community. Then, I care.
We should not be encouraging people to try Linux if they are the kind of people who do those things.
The next argument is, “well, we should make Linux friendly to Windows users,” and I think that mentality is disgusting. Windows has dog shit UX, and we 100% should not be borrowing from it.
- Comment on "Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?" 3 weeks ago:
I am a software engineer who believes software engineers should be paid for their work. I use Linux. Do I mean nothing to you??
I think most Linux users don’t have a problem with things like RHEL. I personally think it’s great. I don’t personally use it, but I have absolutely no problem with it.
The actual problem Linux users care about is when people use and modify the Linux kernel (or any other GPL project), distribute the binaries, but don’t distribute the source code. (I’m looking at you, Sony.)
- Comment on "Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?" 3 weeks ago:
That’s what I mean though. Like, if Linus had asked me if he should switch to Linux, I would have said no. He’s not good with computers. He’s kind of an idiot. And he’s also not a big fan of reading.
Whereas I would say Switch and Click is a great candidate for switching to Linux because she clearly knew that she knew very little about it (at the time), and she wanted to learn. She didn’t go into it thinking all of her knowledge of Windows would translate to knowledge of Linux like Linus did.
So I guess what I mean is we shouldn’t be encouraging everyone to switch to Linux, like you said. Some people just want the easiest, least thought required solution, and that’s Windows. Everything “just works” (except when it doesn’t), because when it doesn’t work, Windows users just think “oh, computers can’t do that”. (Or they pay someone else to do it, eg Geek Squad.)
- Comment on "Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?" 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on "Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?" 3 weeks ago:
I’m basing off of the fact that Microsoft doesn’t even use Windows for their server fleets. Windows makes a terrible server.
- Comment on "Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?" 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I know that. It would probably be BSD though. Doesn’t change what I said though. They’d be ignorant of whatever else it was. It definitely wouldn’t be Windows though. Proprietary systems would never work for things like server farms that have 500,000 servers.
- Comment on "Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?" 3 weeks ago:
TempleOS users in this post:
- Comment on "Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?" 3 weeks ago:
Do we want the kind of people who are afraid of Linux to switch to Linux though? I feel like those people should stay on Windows until Linux adoption is just too overwhelming. Let the people who actually want to explore and try new things switch first, cause they’ll be more useful at providing feedback, and less likely to hurt the community.
Like, was it a good thing that Linus did his first Linux challenge? It was a lot of press, but a lot of it was bad. Maybe that is a good thing and I’m just wrong here. I feel like in his second challenge he was much more open to actually trying something new, and kind of realized that he doesn’t actually know anything about computers, but just Windows.
- Comment on "Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?" 3 weeks ago:
Ok, but, like, who cares? If someone wants to eat a pile of shit to stick it to the burger enjoyers, let them.
- Comment on "Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?" 3 weeks ago:
It’s funny because without Linux, they wouldn’t have any of their modern luxuries, but they’re usually completely ignorant to that fact, like a bird eating fries off the ground thinking they’re really good at scavenging food.
- Comment on Bro, we in an IHOP pancake mix 3 weeks ago:
I made pancakes and eggs. I mean pancake eggs. Egg pancake. I fertilized the pancakes, babe.
- Comment on Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms? 3 weeks ago:
My guess is so that their system can present red flags like long periods of unemployment or short job retention.
- Comment on First post here. I hope you are welcoming to dyslexic people in this shirtposting community! 4 weeks ago:
Of course we are. Here’s my shift.
