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- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 1 day ago:
I almost never use my phone, mostly just when I need it for authentication stuff. Hoping to be able to get rid of it at some point.
- Comment on Discord requiring you to add a phone number **after** the creation of your account 1 day ago:
I don’t actually know how good it is but another software that does screen sharing you might try is Jitsi
- Comment on Epic sues Fortnite cheater, donates his winnings to charity, forces him to publicly apologise, bans him for life, and all but sends him to his room without dinner 2 days ago:
That seems kind of shitty, if he only cheated to qualify but otherwise won the prize without cheating
- Comment on I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this? 4 days ago:
I have and I think it makes a lot of sense that psychedelics could potentially help with OP’s specific problem
LSD is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be. -Albert Hofmann
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 week ago:
At least some local alternatives sort of like that do exist, eg. www.noshdelivery.co/about_us. But yeah, there is the issue of managing it and overhead since I guess probably part of what they do is vetting and dispute resolution, so it might be hard for it to be more decentralized. Maybe eventual convergence on shared tools and protocols though?
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 week ago:
What is standing in the way of an open alternative to these services? Both customers and workers getting a terrible deal, you’d think anyone would switch to something else at the first opportunity
- Comment on Anon cheats through college 2 weeks ago:
Idk I knew people who got filtered by the Java class. It was because they both had no prior experience and also always cheated to avoid writing code themselves for assignments.
- Comment on Anon is going to get a call from HR 3 weeks ago:
Some big ones were the greater anti authority sentiment, contrarianism, acceptability of expressing negative emotions. Reddit was often (though not always) better for polite formal-ish discussions, 4chan was better for processing your feelings about stuff via trash talking, dark humor and generally dropping your filters.
- Comment on Anon is going to get a call from HR 3 weeks ago:
I used to post on 4chan and greentexts are kind of nostalgic to me. Some relevant context here is that the site becoming dominated by cultish far right politics was something that progressed over time, and there are probably a lot of people with an interest in imageboard culture who do not especially identify with the people currently posting on /pol/, for whatever that’s worth; those guys overrunning the site was a big factor in quitting for me.
- Comment on Would this be a red or green flag? 4 weeks ago:
No, why would I want someone I only have a business relationship with in my house touching my stuff?
- Comment on Based Red Dead 4 weeks ago:
depicted as
- Comment on Victim Anon 4 weeks ago:
That shit is what made me start considering Linux more seriously
- Comment on Anon picks up some food for his family 4 weeks ago:
The other night I put some leftover drumsticks in the air fryer and they were better. Also fried rice, better when it’s sat overnight in the fridge first. Frying leftover potatoes with eggs. Leftovers are just ingredients.
- Comment on What's the endgame when the rich have all the money? 1 month ago:
That, at present, is where the wealth is coming from.
I would argue that increasingly it is not. The relative value of labor is and has been declining due to automation.
Money is their only real leverage.
It isn’t - there is also legal ownership, of natural resources and other types of property, and there is the force backing that ownership, which is also subject to automation.
If you are skeptical about the idea that wealth can exist at all independently from labor, consider the distinction between a dictatorship with an economy based on oil or mining and a more democratic country with an economy based on a diverse array of skilled professionals. Yes, in both cases laborers are involved in what the country produces, but in the latter, circumstances give them more leverage, because their active engagement and relative consent is more of a prerequisite to achieving that product. That leverage equates to a higher market value of their labor. I can imagine a future where everyone is effectively reduced first to slaves in a mine and then to skeletons next to mining robots.
- Comment on On Friday SCOTUS Will Decide Whether TikTok Can Be Banned; We Told It The First Amendment Says No 1 month ago:
The allegation in regard to TikTok isn’t ‘dangerous speech’
…On the very surface level, sort of.
Romney replied, “Some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down potentially TikTok or other entities of that nature. If you look at the postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians, relative to other social media sites — it’s overwhelmingly so among TikTok broadcasts.”
The allegation in regard to TikTok isn’t ‘dangerous speech’, it’s the platform’s collection of user data and the manipulation of available content via an algorithm that they claim is a tool of a hostile foreign entity.
If the US government really cared about collection of user data and manipulation of content, they could demand things like increased transparency and open protocols for social media. Instead, they are here requiring that the issue be redressed with TikTok being shut down or handed over to a company subject to direct US influence and control.
This is indistinguishable from an act of censorship. If the government is intimately connected with the people and companies running the oligopoly of services which control moderation of virtually all public discourse in the US, when it uses force to defend that oligopoly and eliminate competition that is not in the club it is abridging the freedom of speech, even if it is doing so through one layer of proxy.
- Comment on What's the endgame when the rich have all the money? 1 month ago:
wealth that can be extracted from the working class
This is my point though; they aren’t going to need to do that.
- Comment on What's the endgame when the rich have all the money? 1 month ago:
most of the lower class won’t be able to purchase anything other than essentials like food. No new cars, no tech gadgets, no fancy dinners, no vacations, no disposable income.
Bold of you to assume the rock bottom of wealth inequality includes the ability to purchase food and is survivable.
When we get there the economy collapses because there’s no money going into it. The profits stop rolling in, unnecessary goods stop being produced, and the luxury goods producer’s shut down. At this point the money they worked so hard to hoard becomes worthless because they can’t buy anything with it.
Money doesn’t come from people, it comes from the fed issuing debt. The economic “value” backing that money also doesn’t necessarily come from people, it comes from control over things that are valued, which may include human labor, but that labor can be automated. The actual value of human life is not represented by money.
Economic constraints aren’t preventing the world from being converted into an enormous desolate golf course.
- Comment on Anon comes up with filenames 1 month ago:
This is why “random” numbers or passwords you come up with yourself aren’t really that random
- Comment on Anon's PC works 1 month ago:
You were claiming that some libraries had limited support for CPUs from 2012, which is simple said absolute and utter nonsense.
You are also trying to pin Vulcan problems on CPUs. Which is nonsense as well
Well ok, I apologize as that was bullshit, that stuff in particular I’m less confident about and is mostly just a guess based on vague memories. I also have an older laptop from the same era with linux that also won’t run games, and now that I think about it I might have been getting things mixed up with that re the Vulkan errors, where that laptop also has an older graphics card.
What isn’t a guess is that I tried many things over the years with the idea that it could be a software issue, most games did not work with errors, until the CPU upgrade after which games work with steam/proton. The specific cause is unknown to me. But since I spent so much time on it, and because I had similar issues with that other laptop I mentioned, I feel confident this is a general problem of older hardware and Linux gaming.
But it would be of course very helpful if you would actually tell us what CPU you had.
I still have it somewhere, I will check. It says AMD Athlon X4, and that it’s from 2011.
Wine ran just fine with it and still does . And i very clearly gave you the reason in my first post. Which is Wine requiring SSE2.
First of all, I’m saying there’s problems running most games, especially modern games, not that Wine doesn’t run at all, it did. I was mostly trying with proton/lutris since Wine by itself needs more tinkering. Second, it’s flawed logic to point to a compatibility issue that exists with very old hardware and say that because that particular compatibility issue would not apply, that no issue can exist.
some older games with … some tinkering
This being possible has of course been the case for a very long time. What hasn’t is, a large portion of modern games being playable on linux with minimal tinkering, which is a recent development. But I did not have that experience, until I got new hardware.
- Comment on Anon's PC works 1 month ago:
maybe the problem got solved when you reinstalled the system after you got your new CPU.
I didn’t reinstall the OS after getting the new CPU, but had done so multiple times before that.
It can’t be the CPU. unless you were using something very old.
You’re welcome to elaborate on your reasoning for this but I get the impression you haven’t tested it yourself, and I am saying, based on my experience, that you are wrong about it. Why exactly you’re wrong, I don’t know, but it’s wrong.
My point is this: someone with 10+ year old hardware should not be expecting to be able to run most games on linux because it likely won’t work. If you’re not yourself playing games on such a system you shouldn’t be advising people otherwise, because you don’t know.
- Comment on Anon's PC works 1 month ago:
It is a 3060 but I confirmed this is not a GPU issue because replacing the CPU/mobo fixed it.
- Comment on Anon's PC works 1 month ago:
Everything after that should work without any problems.
Well it doesn’t, again, 2012, gives errors and doesn’t run not performance, idk what else to say except maybe to ask if you have tested this yourself
- Comment on Anon's PC works 1 month ago:
Wine/proton is specifically what doesn’t work.
- Comment on Anon's PC works 1 month ago:
Linux is actually a problem area here, because various crucial libraries for running games have limited support for hardware that old. I tried for a long time to get it working with stuff from 2012, my problems disappeared after upgrading my cpu recently. Something with Vulkan compatibility I think.
- Comment on Anon's strict mom 1 month ago:
Some religions get really weird about that stuff don’t they
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 1 month ago:
Even if they aren’t bad at their job, someone who doesn’t have enough similarity of life experience to have a basic understanding of what you’re going through could be a bad fit anyway.
- Comment on Behold currently! 1 month ago:
Yeah I tried that but the separate quote blocks looked weird so I undid it
- Comment on Behold currently! 1 month ago:
Ok let’s do it for real then:
Someone once said to me, "I have to go to the capital of the house, and please do not be wise for the vessel of the Beita. She said, “Wise, with a finger and a ram.” B’Tselem ‘L’ on her forehead.
Well, the years draw and don’t always stop Full of rules and I’m on the road There is no point in living without joy Your intelligence is wise, but your head is weakened There’s a lot to do, a lot to see What’s wrong with taking the hidden alleys? You won’t know if you won’t go You will not shine if you do not shine
Oh now, you are a star god Take the game, prepare a player Oh now, you’re a rock star Make a show, take a salary
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I interpret it as being a depressing situation where he’s cheating in part because he isn’t attracted to her and she can tell and so is desperate to try anything even though it never works because being unwanted makes her feel bad.
- Comment on Where is the line between meeting somebody halfway and being a doormat with no personality? 1 month ago:
couldn’t agree what restaurant to call. My solution would be to order what I want, telling my partner to order what she wants. Why must we order from the same restaurant?
Otherwise you’d have to pay double the delivery fee or drive to two different places to pick up the orders, which might not be ready at the same time. There are advantages to cooperating on things.
She wanted to have lunch with another couple (double date), he said no, because he wanted a quiet weekend and suggested she goes alone with the couple. She started yelling about not doing things together.
But why must couples do everything together? Why is doing things separately not a good idea? He gets his peace and she gets to socialize.
If you aren’t doing things together, that’s a different sort of relationship than if you are. It’s valid to want one or the other, but should probably be on the same page about it with your partner.
To me most of the draw of a relationship, romantic or otherwise, is the opportunity to work together to make both of your lives better, to have someone you trust to care how you feel and who has your back, and who you can do the same for them. Playing a role in someones life can be a satisfying responsibility to fulfill and worthwhile, but it should ideally be something you actively choose to be responsible for. It sounds like what you’re struggling with is that because of your upbringing you have a hard time seeing that sort of responsibility as anything other than something that you get roped into due to circumstances, tradition, guilt and manipulation, but it doesn’t have to be like that. Sometimes someone asking you for help is because they trust you and know you want to help, rather than trying to take advantage and control you.
That said, you don’t have to want to work towards that either, it’s also fine if you want a sort of relationship where you keep a lot of distance from each other, just find someone who also wants that instead of someone hoping for something else.