stinerman
@stinerman@midwest.social
I am Stine. Comfort the afflicted. Afflict the comfortable. High School Wrestler™. Can usually correctly use the past tense in French. Suffers from clinical depression.
- Comment on Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name? 2 days ago:
I have a coworker whose maiden name is Dykes. She was very happy to change.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 3 days ago:
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 4 days ago:
In terms of what he got done, he’s easily the most left wing President since LBJ. Perhaps FDR. Whether or not that is defined as left-wing/leftist/liberal is a matter of opinion.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 4 days ago:
Linux copyrights are owned by many different people, so it would be prohibitively difficult to ask every person to agree to a GPLv3 change. Even if you could, Linus Torvalds is not a fan of the v3 license.
- Comment on USA President term limits 6 days ago:
Legally he’s only got 2 terms. However as my government teacher explained, the constitution says what the Supreme Court says it says. So who knows what they’ll say about it.
- Comment on What kind of person am I if I decide to stay in a job, even if my supervisors work against me? 4 weeks ago:
You are a person who likes to eat.
- Comment on Infinite Suffering 5 weeks ago:
I made it through. My degree is actually in math. 15 years ago, I used to know what an abelian group is!
- Comment on Infinite Suffering 5 weeks ago:
We were on quarters, so we had calc 1-4. Makes sense that Calc 2 was rough if you were on semesters.
- Comment on Infinite Suffering 5 weeks ago:
Where I’m from Calc 2 is integrals. That wasn’t so terrible. It was Calc 3 (vectors and series) that was the hard one.
- Comment on Steam will let you sue Valve now 1 month ago:
I’m not a lawyer so I have no clue about the legal issues, but I’m more than happy to put my name to anything that costs a corporation money. I don’t even need the money. They can take it out of Valve’s pocket and burn it for all I care.
- Comment on Steam will let you sue Valve now 1 month ago:
It’s because there’s effectively a class-action suit going on right now, but because the user agreement says you have to use arbitration, there were tens of thousands of people who are like “sure let’s go to arbitration”. Valve is losing tons of money having to fight all the suits.
www.classaction.org/steam-antitrust-refund-2023
Note: I am one of the people involved in this suit.
- Comment on It's coming! :( 1 month ago:
Until people are donating enough money to make maintaining an open source browser doable, this will continue to happen.
- Comment on Does leaving a single board computer caseless can be a problem or not? 1 month ago:
In college (2003ish), I ran a desktop PC without a case. Hell I ran the processor (450MHz P3) without a fan, just a passive heatsink. It ran fine.
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
Same with Trump!
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
Also white supremacy is a hell of a drug.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
There’s a guy who works as a product owner at my employer. He has a PharmD. He got fed up with the metrics for how many prescriptions he had to fill. Now he does software.
It’s crazy to think that someone has a terminal degree in a really technical field and he nope’d out because of how bad it got.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 2 months ago:
- Comment on Why do people complain about multiple streaming platforms existing? 3 months ago:
I could only imagine if each record label had their own streaming service. People would go nuts.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I looked it up and still have no clue what it is.
- Comment on Electoral College and The Numbers | USA question 3 months ago:
This will help you a bit to answer your own question: www.270towin.com You can play with scenarios there.
how much does she have to win by to flip the electoral college to her side?
This misunderstands how our elections work. If you win a state by one vote (offer not valid in Nebraska and Maine), you get all that state’s electoral votes. If you flip several thousand votes in a few states, Trump wins the 2020 election even though Biden had around 7,000,000 more in the popular vote total. Also, if you’re from the UK, Americans are a little idiosyncratic in their voting. A good deal of people do the equivalent of voting for a Tory even if they wanted Labour in power. It’s called vote splitting, and it’s generally a terrible idea.
- Comment on Does voting for Biden change anything if I live in a deep red area of my state? (Ohio) 3 months ago:
Vote for who you think is the best option. Ohio is a pretty safe Republican state for Trump. I will probably be voting for the Democrat, but you should read up on everyone who is on the ballot and make an informed decision.
- Comment on Does voting for Biden change anything if I live in a deep red area of my state? (Ohio) 3 months ago:
I bet you’re fun at parties.
- Comment on Virginia is shrinking! 3 months ago:
I wonder what the source is because in 1784, Connecticut made claims on the northwest part of Ohio (the Western Reserve). Virginia did have a claim on some part of central/southwest Ohio called the Virginia Military District, but that’s all I’m aware of.
- Comment on What happens if Biden dies before the next inauguration (see inside)? 4 months ago:
Again, this depends on the state. In some states it’s a fine. In others it’s a misdemeanor and can carry jail time. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector.
- Comment on What happens if Biden dies before the next inauguration (see inside)? 4 months ago:
If Biden wins the election, but dies before the electoral college votes, it’s a free-for-all. The electoral college can vote for whoever they want.
This is unclear. Some states have laws that say that electors must vote for who they’re pledged to vote for.
- Comment on 4ish years ago when I bought a house I was convinced not to get a house inspection, would it be crazy to get one now just to make sure it's all good? 5 months ago:
It’s not crazy. You should get one every so often just in case. Better to find a small problem now than a big problem later.
I’m more shocked that you could buy the house without an inspection. My bank required one to give me a loan.
- Comment on If presidential immunity is absolute.. 6 months ago:
If you want to be hyper-technical about it, he could order a hit on Trump, but if Trump was already on the ballot and received 270+ EVs, he would be ineligible to be President. His Vice President would take over as President.
If both were assassinated, the Speaker of the House of the newly-seated Congress would become President.
I don’t think you meant that specifically, but yes if ordering a hit is an “official act”, he could conceivably order the murder of anyone who cares to stand against him.
- Comment on If presidential immunity is absolute.. 6 months ago:
How many divisions has the Supreme Court?
They can order him released but unless they’re going to send a bailiff to try to break him out of federal prison, they’re just words on a sheet of paper.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 6 months ago:
the only viable alternative, for 99% of the population, is Apple
This is largely because Windows and MacOS come preinstalled and that’s how the vast majority of people interact with operating systems. If you had to choose your OS, I’m sure there’d be more choice in the market. Not necessarily Linux, but just more choice in general.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 6 months ago:
I’ve been using some Linux flavor for about 15 years. The biggest thing about switching (at least back then) was I knew how to configure Windows just to my liking. With Linux it was a lot more difficult because I had to google everything. Like “how do I change the wallpaper?” How do I get the login screen to appear on the correct monitor, etc. It was just frustrating because I knew how to do this in Windows, but I felt like a major noob again with Linux.
