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- Comment on Rainbow Six Siege ravaged by massive server breach that gave its players billions of paid currency for free 5 days ago:
Probably not now. The server has been down for the past few hours so this must be why
- Comment on Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried 2 weeks ago:
What is going on with this vpn banning bullshit. This would render so many banking apps completely useless.
- Comment on You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. 2 weeks ago:
Well yeah… it’s about that time that games were only a decade of advancement since it was created.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’ll bet the kids have zero clue how an estate is processed and will be deeply disappointed when the bills from all the current court cases from doing illegal shit prior to presidency (and during) eats it all up.
Dude applied for bankruptcy 4 times already. That there impacts an estate.
If they had half a brain they would have distanced themselves far away from his black hole and make sure to change their last name on everything if they were expecting to have any future.
You dont see the name hitler swinging around all that frequently anymore for a reason.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 2 weeks ago:
Yes not disagreeing with you on that. Just trying to bring attention to the fact that if something is illegal doesnt mean it necessarily deters a pure asshole with intent to double down.
I’d have loved to see the dude at least do some time for his part in that kid’s death. For what he did to that kid AND that kid’s family. And what guts me is this guy has a kid himself whom he is super protective of. Still doesnt sink in. So even doing time might not have sunk in for him but at least the dead kid’s family could feel better.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 2 weeks ago:
Never said it was in Canada
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 2 weeks ago:
I dunno, it takes a type.
Knew a guy online who was part of a game guild and regularly told a teenager to go kill himself for not healing him on time during raids.
One day the Kid shot himself.
The guy was a full on asshole in rl, much older than the kid, had a family and a job and told himself and everyone that he wasn’t at fault cuz the kid was not mentally stable.
Like dude, regardless of someone’s mental health he is a bully with an anger problem and leaned into unleashing it on a young kid.
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 2 weeks ago:
They get angry if someone else is having buttsex witin the privacy of their own house and are of the same gender.
They get angry if someone else has any autonomy over their own body.
They get angry if someone with slightly different color skin or speaks slightly differently is pulling a paycheck and looking after their own family. Basically existing.
You say that as if republicans have suddenly developed a critical thinking ability and wouldn’t simply give into ego to be angry at the principle.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 2 weeks ago:
Huh… so it’s getting its advice scrape from Reddit. Now it makes sense where it’s telling teens to die by suicide. That place is a shithole where intelligence goes to die.
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 4 weeks ago:
Thank fuck I left my mount on password. Locked up permissions on Linux might be a pain but it is a lesser pain.
- Comment on Is there a word for when someone is not capable of, or doesn't try to understand verbal communication in a language, they are fluent in similar to functionally illiterate but for speech? 5 weeks ago:
or didn’t want to try to understand something that was said
refusing to comprehend speech when that person is fluent in the language being spoken
You are either dealing with a troll(who would then use it to insult you)
Or
You are predicting or mindreading a person’s intention(which can bring your own frustration)
In each scenario you may have to make a judgment call on your own to spot the difference.
If you’ve tried several times to explain it; the person could be having an issue understanding it. Might it be a learning difficulty. They might be just as frustrated as you might become trying to explain it. They might even be visibility upset particularly if it’s a learning ability problem. At this point I’d say it’s ok to walk away or find something else to talk about and maybe revisit another time. Or don’t. Just stick to other topics. no harm in letting them alone about topics if they are too complicated and making them uncomfortable. Or find another way to even explain it that might even get through.
If however the person decides to insult you and misinterpret your words, find ways to harm you: you have a troll on your hands and it comes to them easily and they even smile while doing it(similar to siblings when they fight) but they take it too far. block or walk away, do not revisit. Avoid them at every chance they try to get under your skin. They abuse communication for fun and suck up your time.
If you’re around someone in a chronic case that gets worse as time goes on: They have a different disorder and not one as innocent as a learning disability. Cut off all contact. It’s an abusive relationship.
If it’s a sibling and it’s simply a jibe(doesnt get worse/short lived); feel free to develop some jibes yourself to get them back. Here’s one that has stood the test of time: “your face” It can be even healthy. Kind of like how pups or kittens play fight to try to train each other to deal with the real world. And sometimes it’s just good to laugh. Reminds that life doesnt have to be so serious and there is space to play in.
I think this is why language is tricky as there are many nuances to pick up on.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
So we’ve now come full circle.
- Comment on This is Jared Birchall. He is the right-hand man of Elon Musk. He also manages his wealth. Jared hates when people see his face. 5 weeks ago:
I dunno, I have a respect for Americans who tend to just say what they think. Pretty open book. If they don’t like something they will say it. You know where you stand with them. And Australians are even more blunt. I came to love that about Australians. Cuz there’s no guessing. If they want to tell you something they don’t waste any time and dont coat it unecessarily in emotional bullshit. They don’t ‘handle’ adults like they are fragile children. Say what they mean. Mean what they say.
Although Industry can influence that behaviour.
Cuz Canadians don’t play like that. They play a totally different game. Say nice things. Hide ulterior motives. Insult you in actions. But say something completely different. Take Joy in your failure. And never say it to your face. Deep grudges. Will put oil rags in your tank without telling you and hope you die. No range of 1-100 in anger. Just happy until they aren’t and they go a full 1000 with it. Never confront you to your face at a reasonable point before getting there. No discussion leading up to it Heavy manipulating. Sabotaging. If you don’t ’pick up on their hints’ they automatically add you to their shit list. Watch your back. Constantly. With a friggin smile on your face.
Lawyers flourish there.
- Comment on This is Jared Birchall. He is the right-hand man of Elon Musk. He also manages his wealth. Jared hates when people see his face. 5 weeks ago:
There are evil Canadians. There are evil canadians that know how to be nice to your face. Making them extra evil than your traditional evil stereotype adding that extra layer of manipulation. Adding to the fact they know what they are doing is wrong when they know what it means ro play good.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 5 weeks ago:
Kde plasma is imparative to run for some 3D simulation programs if you’re going to go Linux. Like you cannot run them in any other distro. Full stop. The kits for these licenses just aren’t widely built in Linux land. Lots of restrictions even by the software developers themselves. I learned this while troubleshooting with them directly.
As such you can end up with a black screen of nothing if you haven’t forced the dynamic display (on new ROG system only) forced onto dGPU in order to force nvidia. and yet I don’t have to do this with MSI. That said , unlike the asus, MSI is too dumb to understand in dual boot to keep the safe boot unlocked if switching between windows and Linux.
it’s not just Linux vs windows. It’s the motherboards. I was not expecting that going in but here we are.
And I don’t know why any of this requires nouveau to be blacklisted but it does
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 month ago:
If you haven’t had to deal with kde plasma for your needs, then yes: consider yourself lucky cuz more than two settings on the bios needs to change as well. And that’s not even going into the dual boot scenario. Which is fresh hell. Especially with the most recent upgrades with locks and dynamic cards. And learning that every motherboard handles it differently even if you have matched all other types of hardware.
Just a reminder everyone’s needs are different. And some of this is way easier on windows if you’re arguing at just out of the box working
Not that I’m regretting going Linux. I’m just regretting the fanbois who are insufferable and obnoxious since coming to Linux. Really rides on my patience after several installs and learning all this by hand.
So many reveal that after I put the foot down all they did was just install to do some real basic shit and call it easy. They know nothing and need to sit down. Either help or Shut up, let people work through their required build.
We can be better than this.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 month ago:
kde plasma, changing the explicit driver is not such an easy task. And have to manually mess around with nouveau
Or have a card that needs the bios set before defaulting nvidia for plasma.
stuff you never ever have to think about on windows.
Linux is not something that works out of the box for every need.
Not a stab on Linux but this is more of a stab at the fanbois really gotta back down from gatekeeping as this is what I find the cringiest about Linux user base. Which I’m part of now so I see it as my duty to call this shit out and tell them to knock it off. It is full on obnoxious.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 1 month ago:
And that’s how the elites learned that standardizing what ‘good’ means to a machine that has no biase nor benefit to gain one way or another what the word ‘inclusivity’ means (in the way of filter setting)
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 month ago:
Everyone uses their computer differently and you’re binded by the distro that provides.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 month ago:
Being fanboy elitist is not helping. In fact it’s cringe. Don’t be cringe. Be part of the solution. Not the problem. And especially don’t be another problem.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 month ago:
Just be forewarned:
Nvidia requires a bit of work.
SeLinux….it is a giant bag of gotcha.
That all said I’m not regretting my conversion.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 1 month ago:
I guess it depends on how long your thumb is
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 1 month ago:
So it’s not the anti cheat? Everyone always says anticheat whenever it’s brought up.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 1 month ago:
I ws hoping r6 could be accessible but no. Still that friggin battleeye bullshit
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 2 months ago:
So getting to the point: I’m not sure of the point you’re making here as the reference you’re using is all domestic funded in the US. You didnt provide the comparison to the international. And the point of the post was that the going up is the bubble OP is worried about. You’ve done nothing more than establish what was already the fact OP was posting on. We are well past this.
If youre laying down information I’m checking it because there’s a lot of misguidance and misinformation online. If you think it’s not appropriate to call it out then you have a big problem here. I’m not going to apologize for being a critical thinker and you’re just going to have to figure out a way to live with that cuz compromising myself isnt going to come at the cost of approval from random strangers online.
As far as politeness: so far you’ve not posted in good faith. And so I owe you nothing. Now you may proceed to clutch your pearls.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 2 months ago:
…Tariffs affect other countries stock so you’ll get the same swing on the international. Im not sure you’re understanding how stocks work and maybe you’re just saying buzz words? Well… Either way, op is worried and they have a good reason to worry. They are educated enough about stocks to be worried. You…. You not so much.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 2 months ago:
Shorting counts as income and you’ll be taxed on it as income. You also have a chance that no one will buy you out of the hole once it hits its mark.
Lots of risks in shorting.
While I agree with diversifying, the tariffs are fucking over the stock market hard in so many ways you cannot avoid it. Right now everyone sold their gold cuz they need money, And two days ago the tariff on China created a ripple on the precious metals. Tomorrow trump will fart some blithering assanine remark and suddenly for whatever reason lithium will take a dive for it.
Investing has become a stupid stress game.
- Comment on Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT 2 months ago:
Yes but got forbid those jobs be stolen by another country. Can’t have that.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 months ago:
Because the moment they go public the stock market demands they constantly have an improvement basis to keep their stock holders in a state of security to keep invested. Like it’s not even an improvement of a product. It’s a bullshit announcement for Wall Street.
That is…until crypto collapses it all.
Tax the rich and fix this shit.
- Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one) 2 months ago:
There’s two problems. I’m new at setting up the network so no doubt that is mostly my problem. I’m just switching over to nfs now.
But the exfat drive that only works on plex (can’t upload from ext4) is the weird bit I don’t get. Are you storing everything on ext4 for plex? If so how did you trick plex library into seeing it?