BassTurd
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- Comment on Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them 4 days ago:
As cool as it would be to see a big shift to Linux, I think you underestimate how deeply entrenched companies are with Microsoft, so unwilling to change, the lack of support for proprietary software, and probably most importantly, the lack of IT support to manage a Linux environment.
I’ve been full Arch since December in my personal stuff and have been a Sys Admin+ for 9+ years. I would not say I currently have the skills to effectively administer a Linux environment. I could get there, and there is a lot of overlapping knowledge, like the network stack didn’t change, but I don’t think I’m an outlier.
I recently switched from being the sole IT guy at a small/medium company so a place with about 2k employees. I have maybe met a couple of people within the company IT that I think could make the switch relatively well, and 70% of others that just don’t got it.
Long term it would probably be fine, but that’s not how companies work in most cases. I just don’t think most places are willing to bite the bullet now to benefit later.
- Comment on Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? 1 week ago:
I was a child of the 90s when I feel this humor was more prevalent. Until now, I always thought of it as a common stereotype, like white guys in khakis, old white women and wine, or country folk and cheap beer. Something that does poke fun of a group, but generally in a light way. Now I know there’s a more significant back story. I figured it was just culturally something that developed in black communities.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 5 weeks ago:
What could possibly be more important than this?
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 5 weeks ago:
You established right away in your first post that Amy is a chicken. That means she came from a chicken egg, but it wasn’t a chicken’s egg until Amy was a chicken. Until the hatch it was her parent’s egg, whatever species they may have been.
I think we’re saying the same thing, but in my version, Amy was the first chicken hatched from non chicken parents, and laid the first chicken’s egg, birthing Brenda.
In the end, chicken came first, which in turn made the egg, a chicken egg, and coincidentally that chicken’s egg.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 5 weeks ago:
You’re right. I just realized that I typed the opposite of what I meant. And then in another comment said what you did thinking I was defending my og opinion. I’m all over the place this morning.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 5 weeks ago:
Right and wrong. It was a chicken’s egg when Amy laid it, but it was a chicken egg when Brenda was hatched. So yes, the chicken has to exist for the first chicken’s egg, but the first chicken hatched from a chicken egg, that was not a chicken’s egg.
To clarify, I’m assuming that in this case Amy was the first evolution of the chicken, therefore she laid the first chicken’s egg that was the second chicken egg, bevause her parents weren’t chickens, so what was laid wasn’t a chicken’s egg until Amy hatched. Schrodinger’s egg if you will.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 5 weeks ago:
It was Amy’s egg that Brenda inherited, so now it’s Brenda’s egg. So the OG egg was Amy’s.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 5 weeks ago:
The former, otherwise it would be “chicken’s egg”.
- Comment on New Laptop Memory Is Here! LPCAMM2 Changes Everything! - iFixit Video 1 month ago:
And the socket can be changed too, if I read the article correctly.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 month ago:
Just because I have the service doesn’t mean I don’t also have backups some items.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 month ago:
I only have it because I have prime for shopping. If they were separate fees, I would not have streaming.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 1 month ago:
I can make hey dude’s last 9 months. If OP can’t make the cheapest leather boots last more than a year, they are using them wrong, or they should buy high end boots for whatever they’re doing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Not only that, but all of their interfaces are trash. These services should model there UI off of Plex.
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 1 month ago:
The problem is that it’s impossible to support all products forever. There has to be a time that something turns EoL, and IMO 16 years is a reasonable amount of time for almost anything, but especially a small electronic device. As others have mentioned, it would be awesome if they opened the API for personal use, but there’s a million reasons why that may not have been possible. Ideally everything would work and be supported forever, but it’s impossible.
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 1 month ago:
If my TV was 16 years old, and the manufacturer cut off the internet function to it, id be ok with that.
These thermostats still work as thermostats, just without the smart features. Comparing that to turning a TV to a radio is disingenuous. 16 years is a long time, and there are security protocols amongst other things that go obsolete over time and can’t be updated at a certain point on legacy devices.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 month ago:
I can’t run Wayland, which I think I’ve determined is an Nvidia thing, but that’s it. I do wish there were more and better options for some softwares, but that’s just the nature of the game. Specifically audio recording and CAD leave something to be desired, but there are at least some options.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 month ago:
I think I’ve had just one issue with Linux gaming, and it was made worse by me trying to troubleshoot the error, when restarting the game for the first launch solved it out right. It was a, “have you turned it off and on again?” situations. Otherwise, everything has ran well, installed well, and was pretty seamless. All of that while running Nvidia, which is the biggest surprise.
- Comment on Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return 2 months ago:
They shouldn’t have that amount of disposable income in the first place, and a good portion should have been tax money. If that money were invested in public housing the return would be massive.
- Comment on Anthropology 2 months ago:
My dog pisses on other dog’s piss as a show of dominance. We’re all weird.
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 2 months ago:
I e already begun. At least 5 people around me will never buy Roku again. Fortunately, they’re tech smart, so it was easy to explain and didn’t actually require convincing.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 2 months ago:
I would get rid of my old Roku that I’m sure is too old for this tech and urge everyone I know to never buy anything Roku, and if they did, I would lambast them every opportunity I could.
- Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. 3 months ago:
That’s not a supply and demand thing though. There just wouldn’t be product to buy because there’s no way to get it to the stores. It’s less about the bankruptcy and more about availability.
- Comment on Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power | AI and the boom in clean-tech manufacturing are pushing America’s power grid to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up. 3 months ago:
Your examples operate under the assumption that power is limitless. If people don’t have power because crypto cunts are bogarting it, they won’t care at all that there is tax money coming in. Further, since it is a limited resource, there isn’t an increase in tax revenue, it’s just being paid by someone else at the expense of people not having access to power. Likewise, the power companies are still serving the same amount of juice, so they aren’t getting more money, it’s just coming in from a single entity instead of from thousands of individuals.
I haven’t read any of the agreements these crypto companies have, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they got tax and other financial breaks, further hurting people that are losing out on power.
There is little to no benefit at all for the general population by allowing unlimited access to power for crypto. Maybe it brings in a couple more jobs, but it’s not like a power plant has a linear scale of employees required to power output. So it could enrich a handful of people by taking resources from many more people.
- Comment on Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account 3 months ago:
When I was in college, I was pulling in just enough money from work to pay for rent, food, essentials, and over drafts from the previous week, that $100 was more than I had available for a good 3-5 years of my life. A college student looking to develop and publish apps is the very type of person most hurt by this.
- Comment on Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account 3 months ago:
Really, it’s just an asshole tax. Most restaurants these days have extra fees that exceed 2% just because. Hell, once upon a time, a 15% tip was given for great service. Now it seems like 20-22% is often the lowest in the recommended tip section. 2% of extra money is nothing, especially when the fine is less than what was earned from the infraction. It’s a lot easier to stomach a 2 billion dollar fine, when you earned 4 billion because of it.
- Comment on Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see 4 months ago:
That this information is already readily available to the masses, and it hasn’t changed anyone’s behavior. It certainly appears that most people don’t care.
- Comment on Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs 4 months ago:
You are the one claiming to have the issues. I’m saying I have never had them, and over the entire lifecycle of windows 10 and working on hundreds of computers, I have never seen or heard of anyone else having this issue. The proof that it’s a you-thing is that you admitted to having those issues.
I’m not even sure what you mean by, “… and try to demonstrate some level of knowledge.” I didn’t present any information that requires more knowledge than being able to read my comment. My experiences, and based on other comments, other’s experiences, and a cursory Google search show that yea, this is a you-thing and not a widespread Windows 10 thing.
Maybe if you yourself weren’t so unknowledgeable, you’d have been able to fix your unique issues. It’s a bad carpenter that blames his tools.
- Comment on Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs 4 months ago:
Definitely really. Your’s is not a widespread case. I have personally never seen the issue and I oversee a network almost exclusively made up of windows 10 machines. I have no love for W10, but this is a you thing.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video drops Dolby Vision and Atmos unless you pay extra 4 months ago:
I might drop prime and I don’t even watch anything on there, I find them at sea. You don’t get to do ads and charge.
- Comment on If it's not bad for the lungs, we should fluoridate vape juice. 4 months ago:
Vaping was integral to me quitting smoking. Vaping isn’t the problem, advertising and accessibility of nicotine to youths is the real issue.