Steve
@Steve@communick.news
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 days ago:
You’re right this will (or should anyway) invite a major international response. But it won’t be attacking our elections.
It’ll be in international politics and economics.
Were I in charge of another nation, I’d immediately end all diplomatic ties with us. Deporting all US embassy/consolate staff and diplomats. Possibly even visa holders. I’d also end whatever exports my nation made to the US. Buying the goods from my nation’s companies myself. If my nations banks had any money of US nationals, it would be frozen.But that’s just me. We’ll see what they decide to do.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Lots of people say oil. Even Trump himself says it’s about the oil. Since Trump says oil it’s a good bet, it’s got nothing to do with oil. Remember Trump just says what he wants people to think, he doesn’t care about the truth. And Maduro already promised Trump all the oil he wants at whatever price he wants. So it’s not oil.
I’ve heard a hypothesis suggesting that it’s being pushed by Marko Rubio and a contingent of Cuban Americans (mostly in Florida), who’ve wanted to take down the Cuban government for decades. They view Venezuela as a stepping stone, proof of concept in that direction. It’s a test. A test of both what we can do, and how the world will react. If it goes well, Cuba will be next soon.
That idea sounds actually plausible to me.
- Comment on What would happen to a werewolf in space? 5 days ago:
Among other things
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 1 week ago:
November 6th 1988
Nothing special about they day really. It’s just happened to be the day when the Legrand Poumpaugh themselves decreed as such. Praise their nostrals. - Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 1 week ago:
it’s a giftcard
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
You’re still judgeing the quality of the story by your morality.
It’s common for terrible acts to go unpunished. There are lots of movies and shows where the bad guy wins. Many where you can’t even tell who the bad guy is. But they’re still good stories. - Comment on 2 weeks ago:
You can see how that seems sexist, right?
Especially when 7 and The Doctor are debatably tied, for most interesting character on the show. - Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what the problem is.
Does it make Archer a bad character, or Enterprise a bad show, when he breaks bad for understandable reasons? - Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 2 weeks ago:
It’s got nothing to with age. As you pointed out there are financial reasons where you might not be able to. But that’s realy the only hurdle. And there are plenty of ways to clear it.
- Comment on Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 4 weeks ago:
As a finical instrument for investing it’s fine. Makes total sense to have some of your money in gold.
As you describe, being a part of a prepping plan for the end of the world. It’s really dumb, and a total scam. - Comment on Why isint lemmy more popular? 4 weeks ago:
Install has gone fine.
Having trouble getting OpenRGB working. Might just have to turn off lights in BIOS for now.And I’m also a hobby photog. Lightroom and Photoshop. I’ve tried Darktable and GIMP on Windows before. As much as I complain about Adobe, they’re still miles ahead of the OSS alternatives.
- Comment on Why isint lemmy more popular? 4 weeks ago:
Thank you. My only real concern point now is running Adobe stuff in a VM. Other than that I think I’m good to go.
- Comment on Why isint lemmy more popular? 4 weeks ago:
I’m into Star Trek, and all set to switch to Linux this weekend!
- Comment on How much money's out there? 4 weeks ago:
And it’s always 42. No matter what, or when, or how.
Perhaps some day, if someone understands the galactic economy well enough to explain why it’s always 42 money, we’ll be able to stop fighting and arguing with each other long enough to come together united for once. And share the beating of that smart ass who thinks they know everything.
- Comment on Why are so many after-shave lotion perfumed ? 5 weeks ago:
I imagine it’s about trying to minimize the alcohol smell.
But I don’t realy know. - Comment on Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality? 5 weeks ago:
Do you have sources you can cite?
In English if possible. Though I’ll understand if not, and make due with what you have. - Comment on I was diagnosed with early onset dementia and alzhimers. Is there safe guards I can put it up so I don't screw or kill anyone? Like who do I contact about being denied to own a gun? 5 weeks ago:
I think you have missed what they were really asking.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 5 weeks ago:
When I asked someone, they basically used them like bookmarks.
- Comment on Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots) 5 weeks ago:
Your conflating a fork, with using an engine in your own browser. Nobody is forking Gecko, Blink, or WebKit. LibreWolf is a modified Firefox, not a fork. The LibreWolf team takes every update to Firefox, removes a few features, ads a few more, and releases their version. Same with Brave. Neither is maintaining their own separate fork. They just take the latest from Mozilla or Google and incorporate their code into it.
Maybe someone could fork one of them. Though they wouldn’t be getting any assistance with feature or security updates from the original branch anymore. They’d be totally on their own with what could quickly be an old code base. Which is why nobody does that.
But back to the important part. What do I need to be saved from?
- Comment on Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots) 5 weeks ago:
You’re thinking short term.
- Comment on Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots) 5 weeks ago:
I can’t wait for Servo
- Comment on Is there a practical reason data centers have to sprawl outward instead of upward? 1 month ago:
Taller is more expensive. That’s all.
If you have the space to go wider, that’s what everyone does. - Comment on How do you objectively tell if a parents "I love you" is actually sincere, if they actually care about you? Or if the words are lies and they don't actually care? 1 month ago:
Yah. But you realize that someone could simply lie to you right?
- Comment on Why does American media (and to an extent the American public) seem to only focus on one issue at a time? 1 month ago:
Thata what focus means.
If you’re spliting your focus onto several things, you’re not actually focusing anymore. - Comment on why are fitness weights filled with sand? 1 month ago:
Cheaper. More flexable.
- Comment on Why civilians don't crowdfund bribe money for politicians? 1 month ago:
We’re not just looking at individual “donations” to single politicians. But hundreds of them, to all the politicians. And even more to create a massive “People’s PAC” that gets continuous reliable funding for donations, adds, fake studies and all the other crap we have to fight.
- Comment on Why civilians don't crowdfund bribe money for politicians? 1 month ago:
They go to the highest bidder.
And the wealthy have enough now to outbid whatever we come up with. - Comment on Why civilians don't crowdfund bribe money for politicians? 1 month ago:
Even large groups of people can’t put together enough money.
It also costs a lot of money to organise that kind of thing. - Comment on Noob RAM speed question 1 month ago:
It’s all a question of do you run out of memory often?
If you were going from 16 to 32GB, I’d say no. Because you probably don’t max out the 16GB every day. Maybe you do. There are ways that could happen.
But with only 8GB, you’re likely hitting that limit often. So yes I’d go to a slower 16GB in a heartbeat.