circuitfarmer
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- Comment on Improve your Wi-Fi with this one trick 17 hours ago:
No but if you fill the room with water then it should be way faster
- Comment on running windows... sorry :\ 2 days ago:
I mean… I guess I don’t get it then. GIMP is incredibly stable, so
- Comment on running windows... sorry :\ 2 days ago:
Well tbh, I don’t know the state of GIMP on Windows, but it definitely isn’t designed for it. It should not be buggy or crashy – at least it isnt on Linux. So I mean… Why Windows?
CS6 definitely runs on Linux via Wine. I’ve done through CS8. But again… There is little reason to do so assuming you’re running GIMP on the intended platform.
- Comment on running windows... sorry :\ 2 days ago:
Not sure what you mean. Most functions are available, except for AI enhanced functions of Photoshop.
It’s pretty straightforward. But support for Adobe seems hard to break.
- Comment on running windows... sorry :\ 2 days ago:
Some versions do, or just use GIMP which does most of it anyway
- Comment on Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell 2 days ago:
They sell fine. Look at BG3.
What they don’t do is make money hand over fist without the need to design more product, as happens with subscription-based, game-as-a-service multiplayer titles. Some companies don’t want to make good games. They just want to make good money.
- Comment on DNA 2 days ago:
Just like in TNA, I reckon. Stay in school.
- Comment on How many more flatearthers? 3 days ago:
A better question might be: “how many popular ski resorts are in Antarctica?”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Same reason everything in the US is expensive: we have largely unregulated, runaway capitalism which pervades every facet of life. Everything from housing to academia to health care is for profit – not only profit, but for obscene year-over-year increases in profit. Those at the top regularly make money hand over fist even selling basic necessities, and if they don’t continue taking more and more, they’re seen as failures and replaced by one who will.
The cherry on top is that, for the most parts, the citizens no longer have any real power to change any of it.
Around the same time that health care becomes affordable in the US (major hypothetical, of course), it probably means a wind change has occurred such that university costs would also be coming down. But it would be a systematic change.
- Comment on Like Elon Musk, 1 in 3 bosses admit they are pushing RTO because they're so upset about wasting money on all those empty desks 3 days ago:
I guess they should enjoy the consequences of their actions like… regular people do?
Or maybe these bosses just aren’t good at what they do. After all, they wasted millions on real estate and empty desks. Shouldn’t the shareholders be demanding new leadership?
- Comment on We tested the Nvidia App performance problems — games can run up to 15 percent slower with the app 5 days ago:
Same. Never looked back.
- Comment on We tested the Nvidia App performance problems — games can run up to 15 percent slower with the app 5 days ago:
Damn I’m happy I went AMD.
- Comment on Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far 5 days ago:
Same is true of many other AI assistants. They’re really neat as a technical exercise, or for a bit of fun for 10-20 minutes. But when it comes to folding them into workflows, the utility is harder to grasp.
Couple that with the extreme energy requirements of these systems, the worries about where the training data comes from, plus the fact that it feels like every single corporation is just flailing around “AI” because they see dollar signs… I’m pretty over it.
- Comment on Official poster for "Superman" (2025) 5 days ago:
So that the suits stop regurgitating the same stuff all the time.
- Comment on Official poster for "Superman" (2025) 5 days ago:
Good god how many times will they milk the same IPs over and over and over
Hope it flops hard
- Comment on Outer Worlds 2 no longer exclusive to Xbox, is now coming to PS5 – WGB 1 week ago:
*with PSN requirements. Don’t confuse money grabs with altruism.
- Comment on Unethical relationship advice 1 week ago:
This is a “masturbating is cheating” person, yeah?
- Comment on Amazon starts selling Hyundai cars, more brands next year 1 week ago:
If you go to the Hyundai Shop on amazon, it basically just gives you a list of local dealers and their listed financing price. If you click “begin purchase”, it just figures out if you want to finance it or pay in cash.
So I guess – yes? You at least don’t have to play games, though I suspect the pricing is higher versus at the dealership directly.
- Comment on Amazon starts selling Hyundai cars, more brands next year 1 week ago:
Just scan the code and drop the car into the locker
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
None of that work is a service.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Again, all those things you mention directly impact your profit as a landlord. They have nothing to do with your tenants. It is not a service.
If I want to be able to drive a car, I have to get a license. But that doesn’t mean that getting a license is a service to anyone who might ride in my car. It’s overhead that I have to perform in order to drive a car.
Hearing landlords complain about paperwork while sucking up their psssive income calls for the tiniest violins ever.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Well that’s really good to hear. I’m not trying to spread hate, and I know people have different experiences than me, so I love to hear these other viewpoints. I totally agree that shit is fucked and I think that has affected us in different ways.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Yeah, this resonates with me too.
Again, I’m not talking about intents, just what I see are clear-cut observations about the system and where it draws people / forces? people into.
All I can say is: it’s also designed such that you won’t have another choice. Protecting your own interests means taking advantage of those of others. And in that sense, it will seem deeply unfair if you are simply trying to do right for yourself and your family by a problematic method.
To me, it sounds like another example to speak out against the system.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
All fair points.
I don’t think there is a good answer to this question. But if we agree that the system overall is broken (which maybe we do?), then we should expect things like this. There isn’t a good answer because the system itself is broken.
Why is it broken? Because things like passive income have been accepted for so long. Because regulation has gone out the window and corporations can do whatever they want. Because we have a real estate mogul as President-Elect. Lots of reasons to point to.
RE “fuck you treatment”, I’ll also mention: I do not believe that every landlord taking advantage of passive income is ill-intentioned. As you have alluded, there are reasons which don’t involve wanting to take part in, ultimately, limiting access to housing. The grand trick of the system is convincing good people that those reasons are not endemic, and that they don’t ultimately support the interests of the overlords.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Note that being a waiter or a flight attendant requires activity which directly affects the client – just like other services. Not true of landlords.
Owning a property and renting it out does not intrinsically equate to providing a service. In fact, the only activity one has to do (in many cases) is collect rent, which is a service to the landlord only. Landlords can offer services – improving the property, for example (though it’s a service which does also benefit the landlord) – but this is not intrinsic to property renting in the way of any service you mentioned.
And it certainly isn’t a job, in the traditional sense of having a boss and a schedule etc. I guess in some sense it is closer somewhat to independent contracting, except that you ultimately get to kick out your “clients” if you want to, and you don’t have to do anything they ask. Even by that interpretation, it’s money for nothing. “Job” suggests effort.
I assume you’re about to try and claim that paperwork and government hoops that landlords may have to work through means that they must, by definition, be a service. And to that, I would say: things that give you income are meant to require effort. But I’d gladly take over the paperwork for my landlord if it meant I didn’t need to keep giving him half of my active income every month for doing literally nothing, and I don’t think I’m alone in that at all.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
I just want a place to put my money that isn’t going to go tits up before I can put my kids through college.
Tbh I generally empathize there, but it’s a bad argument for passive incomes. It sounds like the claim is about an unstable monetary system, not that landlording isn’t a passive income. If you don’t like that your money isn’t safe, that’s one thing – but different from this thing.
“Leech” is selected because they suck blood, which (figuratively speaking) is exactly what passive incomes do to other people, in particular for things like housing. It is a strange claim to say that “everyone deserves housing”, but then to hedge it by claiming some people have a good excuse to take advantage of a broken system. You’ll find far more landlords taking “something for nothing” than you will tenants.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Renting is not a service. It is a passive income.
People playing a song or driving a car for someone else are performing a service.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
All landlords, regardless of how many properties they rent out, are ultimately producing nothing. They sit on property and leech money off of the economy. The scale at which it is done does not change the core “product” (which isn’t a product at all, in the traditional sense, because it is not produced). It’s a classic grift.
So, yes: all landlords.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Yes all landlords.
- Comment on UnitedHealthcare CEO's murder sparks online outrage at health insurance industry 2 weeks ago:
I love how the media is acting like this is surprising. People aren’t just pissed at healthcare CEOs, either – they’re pissed at a system by and for the rich which apparently has decided to level up despite being against the interests of a vast majority of the population. They’re pissed at shareholders mattering more than citizens. This has been a long time coming.
And the media is just surprised Pikachu all over.