Smoogs
@Smoogs@lemmy.world
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 2 days ago:
just look how he treated Twitter once he bought it. He cares…. just about the wrong shit.
Because he’s unstable and undiagnosed and in denial.
And yet somehow he seems to legitimately think that’s how you do business.
Perhaps it’s because America coddles everything under the capitalist label so he doesn’t have to do business like he has to care about it succeeding. And he has too many millions to have to count anything else as a success.
Enablism and denial all the way down.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 3 days ago:
He didn’t care so much he bawled on trump’s shoulder and got him to buy one.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 3 days ago:
in US the patriotism is injected into a brand. Way more money than brains.
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 6 days ago:
And no ads 😁
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 1 week ago:
Oh hell no. Fuck off with this won’t stand up to the bully but will stand on everyone else you think you can bully bullshit.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 1 week ago:
Ok then You Go yell at musk about it.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 1 week ago:
There are areas of the planet where there is no signal or fibre. Clearly you and I are not in one of these dead spots but they do exist.
Just something to think about before you run around talking down with privilege of where you’re speaking about it.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 1 week ago:
I’m so glad other countries are coming up with their own satellites just for the expressed interest to boycott musk.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 2 weeks ago:
Same and I’m sure we will get there. Seems with the help tutorials online someone somewhere has found a trick for almost every consideration on Linux. Im 95% of the way there. Dunno where I’d be without those tutorials.
I’m still happy I took a plunge. It was a real plunge though. Lucky for me I’ve worked with Linux (only on the job) so it was likely easier for me to convert than someone who probably never has touched Linux. I cannot imagine the sheer terror of having to step back and learn on a whole brand new OS after being embedded in a different OS the entire time up until now.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 2 weeks ago:
You have to install nvidia still whether you chose to do it manually or rpm. If you did none of this you’re staring at nou and if you never had more than one screen you probably didn’t even notice. And if you never ever had to do anything more complex than documents or watch movies( which you couldn’t do without installing some codecs) you’re probably untouched by it.
Additionally some (complex) software won’t run unless you also install something other than Wayland. This isn’t stuff you’d have to consider on windows. in fact sessions are not even a thing on windows you have to think about when it comes to software or graphics.
So just pointing out not all drivers have been installed. You do have to customize the build to needs which isn’t so much the case on windows.
That said : it’s not a big pain in the ass once you figure out installing is just like the same command over and over again and there’s no going and downloading from a website or clicking install or clicking through a wizard. ( other than the initial ‘y’)
Overall I found the Linux install process a giant relief over windows.
it’s just a bit to realize first time doing it and would prefer we be transparent about this and not over sell Linux as if it’s some sort of magic coconut oil. Be realistic : yes there’s some learning moments. No, it’s not that bad. Personally I thought it was worth it and less painful than what up I had to do with windows.
EG: I no longer have to keep a folder of ‘favourite software’ in case I had to reinstall windows/get a new computer
I just had to keep a backup list of ‘sudo dnf insfall’ commands and it just conveniently sits on the non boot drive that is accessible for copy pasting after a fresh install which is really quite nice.
- 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 3 weeks ago:
Oh sure. Destiny 2. Not that it’s a big loss really as i only casually play. It looks like it was intentionally meant to only play on windows though and bungie are doing what they can to keep it that way www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/263741503?page=0
Currently finding r6 as a bit high maintenance to get working too.
They both use battleeye so that’s probably the reason
So far that’s about it tho. All my main favourites seem to be installing without a hitch.(so far that is)
I’m running with GE latest.
- 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 3 weeks ago:
Yup so far so good. Though there are one or two games I realized I have to say goodbye to but overall they weren’t going to be a big miss from my life.
Just a good excuse to start digging into some of the new games from steam sales that I never got around to.
- 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 3 weeks ago:
Speaking of missing the point : you’re doing a perfect example of apathy.
- 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 3 weeks ago:
Fedora for the beast. Family media station is on Ubuntu
- 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 3 weeks ago:
There are families with 4 children with a full time job that need to also maintain cars, a house, do taxes, estates, bikes, computers laptops iPads tvs, routers, electrical wiring, heating, water, aircon and cel phones among all the other equipment in the house for every day living like coffee machines, fridges, dishwashers, washer dryer, ovens and stove tops sinks and toilets … I can understand and respect that they don’t have the time to know how to build or troubleshoot all these things from the ground up and commit all their time to doing all of it just cuz they bought a slice of convenience. Cuz any one of these things they use daily could be used against them for not knowing how to do the basics of.
And any parent with stretched time I would not call that helpless. Parenting seems pretty hard. The feeding alone. If they picked only one thing out of that to commit their time and it’s to their family I’d say their priorities are correct.
It’s a computer. It’s a tool for some and for others: it’s a hobby. Your decision. you do you and whatever blows your hair back.
If you’re that eager to be crunchy and ‘purist’ about doing all the legwork of everyday existence go back to pissing in an outhouse, maintaining that just for ‘simplicity’ and take your own garbage to the dump, i think there are even communes you could join to experience that raw life but i still don’t understand this fear of progression.
Anyways point is: Gatekeeping is so cringe. And I’m saying this to you as a fellow Linux user.
We can be better than this. Be better than this.
- 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 3 weeks ago:
Much of the businesses in media already do. EG: Maya was released for Linux. Its predecessor ‘ALIAS power animator’ was a Unix based program and ran on SGI.
You’d be hard pressed to find a studio involved in fx or 3D or any function of post production not running on Linux.
- 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 3 weeks ago:
Yup same. Was all worried I can’t play my games but then discovered the fedora everything install and the online tutorials were well written to get wine and proton going and the drivers and was like holy shit this has come a long way.
I can live with this.
- 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 3 weeks ago:
You joke but As of this last weekend I just did and it was pretty damned free…
- Comment on It's time to boycott U.S. digital services! Here's a chart to help you do so: 4 weeks ago:
Or nord… it has a cloud service
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Looks a bit like Bitsy from Central Park if it wasn’t a cartoon.
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 5 weeks ago:
So if I pay for a product and never receive it PayPal always takes the business’s side.
waves widely to above said post
That’s what I said happened to me. It was a scam. They still just ate the cost and paid me the money I lost.
Now I don’t know if maybe it was the amount, I don’t keep money on pp or I just did something different than anyone else did; I keep every piece of paper, email, name all contact information and detail(it’s kinda in line with my job)it was pretty undeniable I got scammed. Even showed I contacted a consumer bureau over it.
But either way I said I’d be open to a different way.
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 5 weeks ago:
they’ve actually paid me after I was scammed by fake stock broker. without fussing about it too. Really easy to get payments reversed.
Either way I’d be happy to also switch to another method of payment if it were an option.
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 5 weeks ago:
Well it’s definitely flushed out people who are being biased against victims and didnt even flinch to hold the accused as capable of lying.
So OP isn’t more stupid than the people replying to them with such garbage.
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 5 weeks ago:
So long as you are also capable of not using that and that one story alone to deny any and all numerous victims a voice. As that would be using one anecdote to decide it’s ok to be unsupportive if even derogatory against victims of rape.
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 5 weeks ago:
If victims are capable of lying, rapists are capable of lying when accused of raping too.
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 5 weeks ago:
Rapists lie too. Can’t just assume it’s the victim all the time lying.
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 5 weeks ago:
Also terrible when rapists lie about raping. Yup. That happens too.
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 5 weeks ago:
regular people who have been incorrectly deemed assaulters/rapists due to lack of evidence.
And rapists have raped and lied about raping.
Inconclusive is not the same as false accusation. That is an important distinction here.
Just cuz an alleged says no he didn’t: That does not automatically mean he’s innocent. It’s just inconclusive without evidence.
rapists lie about raping. And guilty rapists will most definitely lie about raping. This case if any shows us this.
Taking people at their word is flawed on both either side of the account. You can’t have one without acknowledging the other is capable of lying too. You can’t flock to one without also holding the same question to the other. The fact you were ready to call a woman a liar without evidence and believe a man without evidence shows there’s a bias.
and idgaf about what gender you are ‘as a’ you can be sexist against women while being a woman. That’s called being internally misogynistic. It isn’t new. But also men pretend to post as women just to take a strip out of women. That also isn’t new. And that’s just plain misogyny.
Misogyny is still misogyny. you are so quick to call a woman a liar here without considering the person she’s accusing might also be a liar.
I don’t care who or what or where you are : That’s misogyny.
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 5 weeks ago:
Being raped also ruins a person’s life.
The victims names on that list matter too.
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think anyone here believes to take a woman(or any victim) on word alone. But on that same vein we can’t just decide we believe a rapist on their word alone that they didn’t do it either.
Inconclusive isn’t the same as false accusation.
Especially if there’s evidence being withheld.
The files should have been handled a decade ago with protecting victims.
remember who was in power at the time of Epstein arrest and death.