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- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 3 weeks ago:
You really don’t need to use the terminal if you don’t want to. The only reason so many people use it is because it’s usually the most efficient way to get stuff done, and it’s easier to show a terminal command than it is to show how to do something on each and every desktop since they all vary slightly.
When it comes to installing apps, Linux is actually not that different from how you install them on your phone. Most distros will have some kind of software center that you can use to install apps. Check here first before searching online. Most apps are NOT downloaded using your web browser.
Stick with a distro that’s been around forever. Newer distros have a lot of buzz, but they lack support and you’ll eventually come across a problem that you won’t know how to solve.
- Comment on Make this thread look like it's your first day on the internet 2 months ago:
Real call of duty hacks free
- Comment on SponsorBlock (and DeArrow) - SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced extension to skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos; DeArrow is a crowdsourced extension to replace titles and thumbnails on YouTube video 2 months ago:
DeArrow has a bad habit of renaming videos that don’t need to be renamed. For example, ‘History of the Entire World I Guess’ was renamed to ‘History of the World.’ Ain’t nobody clicking on that.
- Comment on Resident Evil 2 Arrives On GOG Later This Month | Time Extension 2 months ago:
RE2 is one of my favorite games. Every time I play it, I get completely immersed. The graphics may be dated, but the sound and music is what really draws you in.
- Comment on Disaster strikes 3 months ago:
Find the tag and place it in the bottom right corner, and make sure that it’s at the bottom of the sheet. Once the tag is in the correct location, the other corners will be easy peasy.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 6 months ago:
Following in porn’s footsteps I see. Can’t pause a video without getting an ad shoved in front of your face.
- Comment on Experimental Video Game Made Purely With AI Failed Because Tech Was 'Unable to Replace Talent' 8 months ago:
Think of AI like computers and spreadsheet software in the early 80s. I bet a lot of accountants were pretty freaked out about what this new technology was going to mean for their jobs.
Did technology replace those accountants? No, but companies probably didn’t need as many accountants as they did before. AI will likely reduce the number of programmers that a company needs, but it won’t eliminate them
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 8 months ago:
At my job, it used to be the department managers who did interviews and made hiring decisions, but then they changed it so that HR would handle all of that. Ever since then, they’ve gone and hired the absolute shittiest people you can imagine. HR has no idea how to hire people or what to look for.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 9 months ago:
One thing I’ve noticed is that it pretty much always takes two days to deliver your items. The only difference is that Amazon will let your order sit in their warehouse for a few extra days if you don’t have Prime.
- Comment on Especially with a real one! 10 months ago:
I remember bike pegs. The things that everyone wanted, but no one ever actually used as intended.
- Comment on Thousands of private camera footages from bedrooms hacked, sold online - VnExpress International 11 months ago:
Why the fuck do people put security cameras in their bedrooms? It’s so weird to me that people do this. Even if you think (or at least thought) that you were the only one with access to the footage, won’t the presence of a camera make you feel like you’re being watched? Are we not on camera enough as it is that we have to be on camera in the supposed privacy of our bedrooms?
- Comment on What the hell! Let's all just go crazy! 11 months ago:
I always pronounce the H in Meghan and the TH in Thailand in my head.
- Comment on Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them 11 months ago:
I stopped taking my phone out at WalMart after I learned that their security cameras are so good that they can zoom in on your phone and read your text messages.
- Comment on Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them 11 months ago:
Walmarts’s self checkout is the only one in my area that doesn’t frustrate the hell out of me. I’ve stopped going to certain other stores simply because I don’t like their self checkout system.
- Comment on What Are Your Favorite Hidden Gem Android Apps with Less Than 1 Million Downloads and 4+ Star Ratings? 11 months ago:
Financial calculators has a bunch of useful calculators for figuring out loans, mortgage payments, compound interest, bonds, and tons more.
- Comment on What Are Your Favorite Hidden Gem Android Apps with Less Than 1 Million Downloads and 4+ Star Ratings? 11 months ago:
I feel like poweramp has a mind of its own on whether or not it wants to actually shuffle your music. Whenever I put my music on shuffle, it’ll shuffle the songs, but then it’ll just play an entire album in order.
- Comment on Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago 1 year ago:
Elon still holds the Twitter trademark, and can sue if anyone tries to use it.
- Comment on X now wants your biometric data, as well as your job and education history for ‘safety, security, and identification purposes’ 1 year ago:
But don’t you dare inquire about the location of Elon’s jet.
- Comment on All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU 1 year ago:
Apple will figure out a way to DRM batteries so that no one but them can sell them and they’ll cost as much as a new phone.
- Comment on Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser 1 year ago:
What are you upset about an opt-in feature?