kboy101222
@kboy101222@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 2 weeks ago:
I’ve posted the script!
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 2 weeks ago:
Basically it goes like this -
Imagine a stranger is standing over your shoulder with a notepad and a camera. Every couple seconds, he takes a photo of what you’re doing and writes down everything you’ve typed. Then, the man hands that information off to another person. When you ask what that person is going to do with the info, the stranger assures you that he’s a friend and your information is perfectly safe.
You don’t know what it’s being used for, and you can’t be certain that the second stranger will actually keep your information safe. What if he just tosses it into an unlocked file cabinet? Anyone can now just come along and grab your information. That could be something as simple as something you looked at on Facebook. Or, it could contain your banking login. You can’t be certain what they’re taking notes and photos of, and what they or the strangers they supposedly trust are going to do with your information…
So basically just explaining what Recall and data selling are using metaphor combined with a not insignificant amount of fear mongering. The best way I’ve found to explain 99% of computer concepts to lay people is to avoid mentioning a computer as much as possible. This varies depending on the age of the person, but most of the time I’m cleaning or setting up computers and laptops, I’m doing it for someone 50+
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 3 weeks ago:
I do a lot of work setting up computers and laptops for people, mostly getting software they need installed and setting up ad blocking so I don’t need to come back later on and clean up a million viruses.
Lately, I’ve been offering a discount to people that allow me to get rid of windows entirely and install Linux, with the option to reinstall Windows for free later. I’ve had several people take me up on the offer, especially once I explain what Recall is to them. Only 1 has had me switch it back, and they needed to use some super niche piece of software that I just absolutely could not get running with wine no matter what I installed, and I suspect that it has something built in to make it not run on non-windows systems.
Basically, just explaining Microsoft’s security nightmare in a way that your average person can understand (and I mean a real average person, not the average person as people on Linux forums see them) has gotten over 2 dozen clients to switch over to Linux with minimal issues.
Also windows borking like 5 peoples SSDs certainly helped!
- Comment on Spotify vs. Anna's Archive 3 weeks ago:
I’m always surprised that Deezer is still around. Who on earth is still using it?
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 3 weeks ago:
cough read the full comment cough
- Comment on actual version! 3 weeks ago:
My app reports 0.00 MB, so seems legit
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 3 weeks ago:
Pretty hard to pirate RAM. Sadly all the wam you can download is DDR3
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
Antichamber hurts my brain trying to figure out how to do anything. The game’s so complex that I’ve watched multiple speedruns that do every puzzle in the game and I still don’t understand what to do every time I try it again every 2-3 years
- Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud 3 weeks ago:
So uh… How much you want for it?
- Comment on ChatGPT Is The Most Blocked Bot And .Christmas Is The Most Dangerous Domain 4 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if we’ve already passed that for new content. I can’t search for anything nowadays without it being clearly AI written garbage
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 2 months ago:
Meanwhile we have busses that don’t always go anywhere close to everyone’s houses (or if they do, they may take multiple hours to get there after dropping off a hundred other kids), almost non-existent sidewalks in most suburbs, dumbasses who don’t watch for people on bikes, and a court system that’s regularly faulted the person on the bike for getting hit.
Greatest country!
- Comment on Dawg... 3 months ago:
Oh my God I didn’t even notice that… Wtf
- Comment on The Mothman 4 months ago:
Fucking Buggy Stardust
- Comment on Only way that you're happy here... 4 months ago:
A ton of employers also have a tree branch up their ass about drug testing. Even for legal drugs and for positions that it doesn’t matter.
My last job was mostly staffed by middle class suburban women, and down here every other one of them is on something illegal, from weed to their child’s Ativan to heroin. Well, they randomly drug tested our office one day, saying anyone who was positive was fired. Out of the 8 people in my office, 6 of us were positive for something, including me, and I know one of them was a false negative considering that I’d recently purchased a brownie from them.
Anyways, they just conveniently forgot about their new drug policy after that. No one got fired for it. From the rumors I heard, the district manager was going to go through with firing everyone, but someone from corporate reminded him that we were already understaffed by 5 people, and that firing 6 out of 8 people would mean closing the office entirely.
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 5 months ago:
I mean, it doesn’t seem like an improvement jumping from Microsoft to Amazon. Still a massive POS company
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 5 months ago:
Man, I just got my personal website running on GitHub pages last week, and I’m too broke to host it elsewhere and too lazy to host it myself
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 5 months ago:
It may not consume more resources, but the older models were already consuming way too many resources to pump out their bullshit machines
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 5 months ago:
Please don’t get my hopes up 😭
- Comment on Water Snek 5 months ago:
All of them
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 5 months ago:
Unfortunately Taler still needs a lot of maturing, but having a distributed payment system not running on that horrendous waste of energy that is the block chain is promising!
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 5 months ago:
I’d love Valve to spend their extra billions on opening a payment processor. Fuck the big 3.
- Comment on fusion 5 months ago:
Seems to be a soupli problem. I’ve seen several reported on different apps and sites
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 5 months ago:
I guess that qualifies as sentence between 2 slices of bread? Idk, good enough for me!
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 5 months ago:
That’s just slices of bread. It’s not a sandwich unless there’s something between the slices of bread!
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 5 months ago:
Fuck yeah
- Comment on He's camera shy 5 months ago:
Out of curiosity, any particular reason you checked in April every year?
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 5 months ago:
Just recently converted myself! It’s soooo much better than it used to be. I used Ubuntu as a daily driver several years ago, but I absolutely had to dual boot windows because getting any games running was a massive pain in the ass. Now I just slap a proton build on it and go on my merry way!
I’ve only had issues with some software that needs to attach itself to steam games, such as Archipelago, but I’ve been able to figure them all out so far!
- Comment on Let's play this game again 7 months ago:
You get to live in the current world.
- Comment on open world chess 8 months ago:
Yeah, I didn’t say it made sense, but I know at least a half dozen builders that abide by that. They don’t do it even remotely this bad, usually just one tile out of place somewhere
You’ll actually see it a lot in places that were built to be Mexican restaurants
- Comment on open world chess 8 months ago:
What the absolute fuck were the tile layers thinking there? Jfc.
I wonder if it’s somewhere that’s heavily Christian. I know some builders that always leave a small “mistake” in patterns cause “only Jesus is perfect”