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- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 4 days ago:
I had one up until about 2003 probably. We were out in the country and couldn’t get cable or dsl. I remember trying out linux and fighting with the wintel modem and gpu drivers, writing down the errors, rebooting the machine back into windows, going online and researching the errors online, writing down the commands I needed to use to fix it, or downloading the rpm packages (fedora) I might have needed, rebooting, trying again in linux, failing, etc.
When i finally trees ubuntu on my laptop around 2007, it was amazing that the WiFi and graphics “just worked”.
- Comment on The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System 1 week ago:
No doubt, I can separate the historical significance of something, from my feelings. The NES was amazing for the gaming industry, and changed history forever. But I still hate Nintendo, lol
- Comment on The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System 1 week ago:
Such a shame, I grew up with Nintendo’s products starting with the SNES, and loved them. Unfortunately they’re such a terrible company to their own fans, I now absolutely hate them. I will probably never buy another product from them again.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 4 weeks ago:
So zoidberg made out like a bandit!
- Comment on I support this 5 weeks ago:
I just had someone not hold the door for me, after I held the door for them, they acknowledged, and said thank you 🤷.
I was walking towards the entrance of a building, texting on my phone and didn’t realize someone was walking behind me as I got to the main doors. I realized a woman had been walking behind me, while I was walking slowly and texting in front of her, so I apologized (for being in her way), and I held the door open and let her go in first. She said “thanks!”
Then we went through the 2nd set of inner doors she opened the door and didn’t bother holding it open for me or look back or anything. Just let go of it and it started to close in front of my face. People are fun.
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 1 month ago:
I bought from ebay for $150 in 2016 that someone I think tried to pass off the yellow ring of death to me, as the system failed shortly after I bought it, BUT, it was still under original manufacturer warranty. I sent it in to dell with no proof of purchase requested from me, they sent my system back fixed, and accidentally gave me another steam controller in the box back, haha.
After getting it back, I wiped windows and have been running Ubuntu on it since then. Still using it as a HTPC right now, though it is getting long in the tooth for web video like YouTube, etc. Probably gonna be replacing it soon with something else.
- Comment on The ‘996’ work trend comes with dire health warnings 2 months ago:
Depending on that hourly rat, a lot of that extra money gets taken away from you anyway, trying to keep up with that lifestyle. If you’re working 9-9 you don’t have time to cook dinners or exercise or really do anything to keep yourself healthy, so you’ll either be buying take out meals, or home delivery, etc. Probably gain weight, then need a gym membership.
Then you start questioning why you’re living in a larger apartment/house when you barely use the space or nice location you’re paying a premium for…
It all gets fun real fast once you start burning out and can’t keep up the charade anymore.
- Comment on Time to Strike Out on your Own 3 months ago:
Micro loans with Klarna? Duh, its like you haven’t been paying attention yo how the new economy works… /S
- Comment on How The US Gave Up On Growing Food 3 months ago:
Its been interesting watching people who literally own millions of dollars in land scream about how poor they are, and continuously blame liberal ‘elites’ when they could sell or rent their millions of dollars of land for profit. Like I get it, that value isn’t liquid cash so they might be cash poor and finding it hard to make ends meet, but when you’re sitting on extremely valuable land that you can sell whenever, its crazy to be screaming about being poor when most people in the US own nothing and are renting their apartments or homes, and have no value of anything to sell when they’re cash poor.
- Comment on Fewer People Are Reading for Fun, Study Finds | From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend. 4 months ago:
Literally everyone is overworked and fried. My partner had a job that she got to leave at work, when she was home, she was home, all work resources were stuck at work so even if you wanted to do anything extra, you couldn’t. She would read all the time multiple books a month.
Now she works for a tech company and literally never reads. Even if she knocks off at 3, or 4pm out of sheer frustration with her project management, she’s so emotionally exhausted she doesn’t want to do half the stuff she used to at the previous job.
