LifeInMultipleChoice
@LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 3 days ago:
A gang is just a group of people who organize around a set of rules or beliefs and is considered to be illegal because they are operating outside the limits set by the current regime. Let’s use the Taliban as an example. Some people called them a terrorist organization that was by intents and proposes a gang. So when they are now called the Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan, and are recognized as the government leaders of Afghanistan, they no longer are performing illegal acts, because they make the laws. If an organization turns to seize control we change the name from gangs to rebel groups. Then rebel groups to government.
- Comment on Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates 4 days ago:
I mean they can get it from the ground, but it can also come from things kind of fermenting in cows/our stomachs.
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 4 days ago:
That’s not all of it. But a government is just a gang as well. If you don’t pay taxes, you’ll be met by goons. Sure it’s more “civilized” but that’s only a mask to ensure people aren’t trying to overthrow them all the time. A Mon boss a monarchy are functionally the same are they not?
- Comment on Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates 4 days ago:
I wonder where they source the methane from. Because I pictured a comicbook flip book of a balloon blowing up behind a cow
- Comment on Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates 4 days ago:
“Fat molecules chemically identical to those in butter”. I’ll wait until I hear more third party people try it or I do myself.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 4 days ago:
Or if they just really don’t like Firefox for some reason they could look into trying Cromite. It has worked pretty well for me and actually does better at blocked ads on sites like adblock-test.pages.dev Than Firefox with uBlock origin does.
I added a user script to clear some of the URL trackers just in case I copy links anywhere as it like opera doesn’t use extensions up front.
But on sites like that Firefox w/uBlock with score a 90 for me unless my Pihole is running, and Cromite will score 100 without it. Opera a 75, but I do like Operas interface on Android a lot.
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 6 days ago:
No idea, I assume a mouse keyboard will work fine, but I don’t know if the PlayStation version will have the buttons/GUI mapped the same.
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 6 days ago:
Haha, understandable. Frustrating I’m sure for her. At least we tried I guess.
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 6 days ago:
Glad to hear it, anytime.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 1 week ago:
I’ll meet you half way, we’ll not suggest you pay tips on taxes, but you will pay a $2.99 dining room fee to use our facilities. You can avoid this by doing pick up with a $1.99 convenience fee.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 1 week ago:
Yeah, what’s likely happening here is that the Tip numbers were told to calculated off the subtotal intentionally. So say you buy a “happy hour” drink and it is $3 instead of $6, they tip is calculated before the “discount”.
Their machine could have actually been wrong, but using a total before discounts seems more likely.
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 1 week ago:
Inside your install path it will create a c/users/username/documents like a Windows directory, that is the documents folder that it saves you local saves too. So you can navigate there on her old Windows machine if she has one and copy her save files from there and dump them in the same location and it should make them available. (The save file location is what I was worried didn’t have read/write permissions). But it’s just a guess from the fact that it was saying it can’t save, which if it didn’t have read permissions, if maybe couldn’t create/read the default directories during first time setup or w.e
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 1 week ago:
Was that steam version downloaded through steam? Aka is it a different installer, or did you install in steam using the non-steam game option. (Just trying to verify it’s a different installer, don’t do the install again if it’s 2 seperate install packs you installed from)
Steam installs in a different location than Lutris as well, so it shouldn’t be the specific folder not having permissions. I assume Steam user Proton by default as well while Lutris likely defaulted to Wine.
Grr… this is going to be something stupid and frustrating for you.
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 1 week ago:
Damn, I haven’t seen that before, but I wonder if it’s a permissions error? The save files for The Sims are located in a user documents folder within the install location we made. I assume you installed with the same user that’s running the game so I’m not sure why it wouldn’t have permissions to that folder. Could check the permissions on that save folder just in case. Was the installer a new one you downloaded when we started talking? If so that would have ruled out a corrupt installer too. I’ll let you know if I think of anything else
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 1 week ago:
I ran the install and created an Inpress(PowerPoint for LibreOffice) document with all the screenshots this morning., then realized I can’t upload it here. But hopefully the only error you had was trying to run it from the installer. If so, add the locally installed game in Lutris using the + and choosing the last option (locally installed game).
Then point it to your .exe file
Should be something like Games/Sims/drive_c/program files/the Sims 4/game/bin_le/ts4.exe
DM me an email address or somewhere I can drop the Screenshots if you would like them.
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 1 week ago:
Awesome, glad to hear it!
If it fails near the end, just run it again and it will go through usually, not sure why but I’ve had that happen with a couple installs on Lutris, but they usually work the second time
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 1 week ago:
Drop down, change Z to X and I usually pick program files
- Comment on YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy 1 week ago:
Whatever I’ll say it. Is she a dangerous sociopath, very likely. Does what she did to the goat fit the definition of the South Dakota law written above, doubt. A judge/ jury would find she thought a gunshot would kill the goat, and shot it. And since it is her story no one can prove she pranced around or did anything other than what she said she did, which was go get another “shell” to end its life. Her compete disregard for other peoples lives/feelings/wants/freedoms make her a shit person who should fear the possibility of her claimed religion being real. But being a shit person isn’t part of that law.
What I don’t understand is why I’ve seen people say she used a pistol and she keeps using the term shell. Her wording seems specific to her using a shotgun to shoot the goat, which should make it harder to miss… But it isn’t a guarantee. But my point being is that if she shot the dog with a pistol she had on her, she would have had to put the pistol away, see the goat, go grab a shotgun from the truck and shoot it at least once, and realize she was out of shells and go back.
She may need to see a specialist to figure out if she should be committed, but I don’t think anyone could prove she broke a law.
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 1 week ago:
Oh, Sims 4 fit girl pack Ive gotten to run consistently on Cinnamon. Feel free to ping me sometime if you try it and run into an issue, I may be able to get lucky with a pointer
- Comment on Tucson City Council votes 7-0, unanimously to kill AI Data Center 1 week ago:
Have you tried collecting the condensation off the glass? If you use that to wash your armpits you can go an extra day before you shower so Jeff Bezos can make number go up
- Comment on Steam Banned A Horror Game Before It Could Launch, So Now It’s Free 1 week ago:
Oh cool, I wasnt sure about how much space and stuff it’ll take, I’ll book mark this and check this weekend maybe. Thanks for the info
- Comment on Steam Banned A Horror Game Before It Could Launch, So Now It’s Free 1 week ago:
How do you like the game so far?
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 1 week ago:
Had a hard time hearing what he said… What was it? A gold base for a piece of glass?
- Comment on Why is land/sky so cleanly split between mammals/birds? 1 week ago:
Ducks seem to go and nest to lay anyways. Stick around one spot for up to 15 days of shitting out eggs, then sit for another 30 days waiting for them all to hatch. Sit rotate eggs sit barely leave. Then teach to swim etc before they do the whole flying away part
- Comment on No blowjobs please 1 week ago:
Do you sneeze when looking at a bright light? If not you can smell some ground pepper. I’m afraid that’s all it’ll take for me these days.
- Comment on True Motivation 1 week ago:
The numbers vary but most all agree about 50% of the homeless population were orphans. Studies also find that between 1/3-1/2 of orphans become homeless when they turn 18 and leave the shitty social network that clearly doesnt adequately help them be ready for life outside those places.
Those numbers will only get worse as well keep shifting more money to the upper class and cutting social safety programs.
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 2 weeks ago:
Kinda miss waiting fucking forever for games with multiple CDs. I know I had a game that came retail with 5 discs, I just can’t remember which one. I remember KOTOR had 4.
- Comment on Warren Buffett Said Buying 'Distressed' Homes With 30-Year Mortgages And Renting Them Out Might Be The 'Most Attractive' Investment Available 2 weeks ago:
He did well off real estate during his life.
He also believes in long term investments. Never chasing stocks that are on the rise. He’s been saying for about a decade the market is to expensive right now. The average total market value to GDP of the U.S. averages out to 85%. Then he plays the market like counting cards. When the market value is below that 85% he buys long term investments. When it’s above, he sits on his current investments and rides them unless he is forced to make a move.
So what you will see is in 2012, we were below market average, so he advised people to be making purchases/investments. Especially since the housing market collapsed in 2008 and people were running out of ways to pay their mortgage so they were foreclosing left and right.
- Comment on Warren Buffett Said Buying 'Distressed' Homes With 30-Year Mortgages And Renting Them Out Might Be The 'Most Attractive' Investment Available 2 weeks ago:
This was in 2012. So we saw it already. If you bought forclosed house in 2012 for $150,000… on average that house would sell for $257,000+ plus now. Assuming you rented it for $1,000/month during that time, assume you spent $50,000 dollars in upkeep/taxes they made $213,000 dollars off it so far. Obviously they still own the houses, so they can keep renting them out or sell them when the market is high right now.
- Comment on Yeasty 2 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t the water running just break it up and dissolve? Also the temperature outside in a metal dumpster is likely a lot better for proofing than down a drain in the ground with added water. At least I hope, because I know water/flour cakes up and is a pain to clean sometimes
