Oh yeah agreed. Their role in the rat race makes up a significant part of their personal identity. That’s part of the design, to keep you focused on your consumption instead of your life.
I guess I should have referred to the noise as attention-grabbing things instead of serious things, lol.
offering up his apartment to fellow protesters to use the bathroom or wash off pepper spray
Wow what a terrorist! When other citizens walk in with pepper spray on them he lets them wash it off?
I bet he and his co-conspirators were involved with the undcheduled shut down of the Orphan Crushing Machine too!
My son was the prime age for Baby Shark when it blew up a few years ago.
I remember we were on a ride at a little local amusement park and some girls started singing Baby Shark.
I was the dad that stepped in right on the beat and bellowed out “DAAAAAADDY SHARK DOOT DOOT…” with as much bass in my voice as I could manage.
I grew up in a conservative household. Fuck that whole universe of attitudes.
If you’re putting it off you might be frustrated afterwards once you see how easy and fast it was, lol. If you make a bootable USB drive, which you should, you can boot to a live desktop and see linux running on your hardware before you install anything to a hard drive.
I have recently converted from Mint, including a brief stint with LMDE, to good old Debian + KDE Plasma and I absolutely love it. But I am also enough of an enthusiast that the few extra setup steps were fine.
Did anybody else here make the grave mistake of doing this in Oblivion, the game notorious for enemy auto-leveling?
I went off doing random shit the moment that Captain Picard let me out of that sewer, and by the time I showed up to be the Hero of Kvatch I was this crazy invisible assassin of doom, and probably at the top of the thieves guild or the dark brotherhood or both.
So then if memory serves, the town is under attack from monsters and is on fire. The game drops me into a small walled-in arena and instead of whatever lv 1 imps and cockroaches are normally there, I’m holding my bow and arrow and looking up the fiery eyes of half a dozen 12-foot-tall giga-chad linebacker demons from hell. Oh and look they are already sprinting in my direc-- DEAD!
I probably took some creative liberties there but you get the idea.
I think I had to lower the difficulty slider to get through that room. Then I put it back to normal assuming the worst was over, only to have the game put me through a CORRIDOR of hyper-strong enemies next! So twice I had to lower the difficulty.
On one hand, this happened because my character was a min-maxed glass cannon, and a stereotypical one at that (stealth archer, how original! /s). But that same character had no problem with the entire game before or after that town because the whole point of the game is to have the freedom to approach encounters as you wish.
So in many ways that situation was less about auto-leveling, and more about the meme-worthy situations where a boss late in the game requires completely new mechanics the player has never seen. Or even better, it was the anti-forced-stealth-mission!
I wonder, is hatred of advertising a common thing for folks with ADHD? They take away something you are giving your attention to because it interests you, and shove some other crap in your face just to serve their own interests.
I remember being enraged at the scheduled commercial breaks in the '80s and '90s. The only benefit they had was that I always knew which segment of the show I was in and therefore roughly what time it was.
But now? It is so much damn worse and the normies just seem more OK with it than ever. I just remind myself they are living in a society that conditions them to accept it and gives them a thousand more serious things to worry about.
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Watching TV of any kind at other people’s homes, and especially my parents’ place, can feel like some real black mirror shit.
It sounds like their market research told them they would make more money this way, and my own anecdotal evidence makes me think they are correct, unfortunately.
The area where I live has some diversity and some decent people, but it is majority white christian conservative. The amount of luxury SUVs I see rage-driving around town can be astounding at times. It’s right up there with the amount of frighteningly expensive emotional support trucks with the drivers still wearing their ball caps and wrap-around shades on overcast days.
It’s difficult to argue against Mint when your use case is a current windows user who just wants to drop Linux in its place.
Over-designing something using trendy technologies while also spending far more money than it would cost to go with the existing solution that is also more reliable – this can be a valid plan. But it is called a hobby, not a business!
Has anybody told the techbros?
Work and family are quite different for me in this regard!
With the relatives, I’m the IT guy of course. But I haven’t had to do much for others lately since everybody just stares at their phone. In MY house there’s a ton of shit that needs tech support, lol.
At work, sure I’m a software engineer and I might tell a random person I work in tech, but I am not IT. I am an embedded systems developer using my company-owned computer to try to develop a product that will be useful to some people. IT is the sworn enemy!
(to be fair, my employer’s IT is actually cool, and we can install our own OS and use M365 stuff in a browser – they just don’t have the resources to actually help us with anything)
I like and appreciate the extras that physical albums bring, as well as the freedom and reliability of physical media.
But even as an old guy that’s all about connecting with the physical world and stimulating all the senses and all that, when it comes to the mechanisms of listening to music it’s hard to beat FLAC albums on the Jellyfin server. It takes up so little space.
Decades of indoctrination and conditioning is a hell of a drug.
The importance of open & interchangeable hardware and software goes way beyond the upgrades you may or may not make, or even saving money & reducing e-waste.
You get better products that way. Having complete control over your system benefits you even if you never exercise that control. It is literally a constraint on enshittification.
I open nano more often than any other editor, and by a lot. I spend more TIME in vscode and maybe Kate, but lately I’ve been tweaking setups on a couple of machines.
sudo nano /that/cfg/file/u/thinking/.about
It sounds like they’ve gotten fat, rich, and complacent. Just like some societies I know!
Well hey, at least our rights-obliterating global surveillance apparatus is already named like the bad guys in a stupid action movie!
People are saying the facility is by the river. You know the one.
No, because I can’t shake the feeling that I’ll be watching a documentary in a decade or two and learn that these Nazis took multiple ideas from works of fiction meant to be a warning.