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- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 1 week 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? 2 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] 2 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. 2 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. 2 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 3 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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’ 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Everyone uses their computer differently and you’re binded by the distro that provides.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
I guess it depends on how long your thumb is
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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?
- Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one) 2 months ago:
Is there a way around the problem that plex only feeds from ex fat/nt drives but Linux has permission issues networking such a drive? I wanted to have one computer where I’m doing all the formatting and the other being the standalone plex server with them both connected. Samba is being a pain.
- Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one) 2 months ago:
Yeah it barely makes a dip. It is one of the first things I tested when putting in a switch where I just go do the ookla speed test.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 2 months ago:
they are interchangeable. you can export from google to use in proton. I’ve set all my google logins to proton too. I’ve not experienced this ‘locked in’ situation if you’re using your own phone to run the app.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 2 months ago:
Why do you need the google Authenticator? Proton has it too.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 2 months ago:
…second phone number…
Anyways… we are digressing here,
at this point it’s a lot like protecting anything in life: prevention and making yourself less tasty to a psycho.
If you’ve set it even two step You’re already doing way more than any user they are probably intending this warning to do more to protect themselves who set their password to “password” or phrases haven’t changed it in decades and would even prefer to publicly post their passwords on social willing to give up their entire savings rather than having to do anything further as if technology is too beyond and suddenly so super complex that they have to use different keys on their keyboard other than letters.
You don’t have apply every threat like it’s calculus in a situation where there are people who are scared of even doing basic sums.
This situation was hashtags. Literally. And all they are asking is to rehash it. And here you are already disposing of the 2nd feature after that.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 2 months ago:
Yes and no. hacking isn’t new. Everyone could get sued technically for security breaches for not taking enough interest in their own security.
But then it’s ridiculous if you could sue your own grandma cuz you once used her computer to print your resume and because she uses default passwords now someone has all your info you had from anything you left behind.
Ransom and hacking is pretty common unfortunately in the industry. And it is in part on the user to also take practices to protect themselves if they haven’t enabled 2F yet. And there’s way more you can do where you make email masks now and simply do not fill in with your accurate information like don’t use your real name.and use a VPN. Store stuff on ext drives and less on clouds that don’t use e2e encryption
I don’t know if it’s perfect but as a user just always have it back in your mind that your information can be obtained(if you ever used a web service to check your info on the dark web, this is pretty much going to be a given) . And it probably has. So maybe at least you can try to control what gets obtained.
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 3 months ago:
Not a spoiler: Complaining the way of blaming one evil for you doing another evil is not effective either.
Go back to soiling your diapers.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 3 months ago:
Either buy pine or try out userland for current but I haven’t completed the research yet
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 3 months ago:
And how many from the republicans?