GalacticGrapefruit
@GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world
- Comment on Meta is now a defense contractor 3 weeks ago:
I might just be a massive god damn nerd, but I would rather build my own with an old Pixel, a printer, and a Pi. If I can’t be up to my elbows in its guts, from board to code, then it isn’t mine.
- Comment on Meta is now a defense contractor 3 weeks ago:
Right? AI-generated pictures of Scarlett Johansen as a flight attendant praising Jesus, or an African kid making sculptures of Jesus out of trash. And all the comments just being ‘Amen’ spam. It’s just fucking dystopian.
- Comment on Meta is now a defense contractor 3 weeks ago:
Not maintaining artificial connections with people who would reach out to me if they actually gave a damn about me has genuinely been liberating.
I like how Discord- and Slack-like socials are set up. It’s just more natural. Instead of a feed, it’s a forum. It feels more like a physical place, with couches for discussion, corners of the room where people take conversation, and a hall outside for privacy. And if you understood that metaphor, then you know how I feel.
And if I don’t like a server, I can just… leave. Never have to run into them again, but still have access to friends. No holes in the conversation where an obvious block or ignore leaves gaps.
- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 3 weeks ago:
Oh, take my damn upvote you punny bastard. 😂
- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 3 weeks ago:
Ditto what the others said. You might have just rolled bad RNG (DNA) at character creation (birth) and just gotten stuck with immunity to NSAIDs. It happens.
- Comment on Amazing. 3 weeks ago:
Jesus, fuck, at that point I would pack my quilts and sleep outside. Because fuck that.
- Comment on Amazing. 3 weeks ago:
I think he found it.
- Comment on Amazing. 3 weeks ago:
Same. Fiction or fact, this is funny enough and harmless enough to just shrug and say, “He must be a wizard, whoever he is.”
- Comment on Peak masculinity 3 weeks ago:
Let’s start with the part that makes people think this inbred Neanderthal is the ideal.
- Comment on Peak masculinity 3 weeks ago:
I SAID EARTHBENDING STYLE!!
- Comment on Peak masculinity 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, this dude looks like he’d space a dude who just killed the entire court room to get his death sentence commuted.
- Comment on Bill Gates to give away 99% of his wealth in the next 20 years 3 weeks ago:
hehehehe You know, it’s hilarious that you say that. Nobody ever realizes that they’re talking to a starving homeless person on the internet when they meet one, do they?
- Comment on Bill Gates to give away 99% of his wealth in the next 20 years 1 month ago:
Me, bottom 10%, making coffee and finding my new pair of pants in a dumpster: Yeah, man, you said it.
- Comment on Bill Gates to give away 99% of his wealth in the next 20 years 1 month ago:
Oh, hey, we’re up to the Enlightened Monarchs phase of the Enlightenment of the 18th century.
- Comment on Happy Easter from the POTUS 2 months ago:
Don’t worry, it’s a fake. Luckily.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 3 months ago:
Right. Sure. Keep shilling for daddy Putin, you’ll get your promotion for sure if you keep it up.
Fuck you, Russia STARTED this fight. Imperialism and capitalism are the god damn problem, and here you are enabling them both.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 3 months ago:
Ooh, a Russian troll! Quick, whack him with the hammer, they’re worth extra bonus points!
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 3 months ago:
Damn you, McCarthy! Your imaginary list of communists doomed us all!!
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 3 months ago:
Dennis! There’s some lovely filth down 'ere!
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 3 months ago:
Do you like cancer research? How about fighting forest fires? Averting mid-air plane collisions?
DOGE sure hates all of those.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 3 months ago:
I think we’re headed for balkanization. We’re seeing the breakup of the USSR all over again.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
God, the ALSA-PulseAudio Wars never fucking ended, and we’ve been stranded ever since. It’s the Wayland/X11 windowing struggle all over again!
- Comment on 3 months ago:
On non-Ubuntu distros, for ProtonVPN, I’ve had better luck using their CLI interface. It works just fine, it just means learning a bit of the terminal. I like the automatic killswitch, especially since I’m a habitual pirate.
Proton advises against using third-party repos, which I feel is sensible. But for all other options, I tend to appreciate the plug-and-play nature of .deb and .rpm packages and Flatpaks. Flatseal puts my paranoia at ease. Set and forget. :)
Proton’s a bit behind the curve, feature-wise, but I trust them more than I trust NordVPN or ExpressVPN. For one, their advertisement blocker ACTUALLY works as advertised.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
AMD has open-source drivers that play better with Linux distros. If you’re running post-2020 Intel hardware, good luck.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
GoG install scripts are actually community-submitted and not actively maintained. You might have some luck with Lutris or WINE. Sometimes, Bottles or even PlayOnLinux are compatible.
lutris.net/games/jazz-jackrabbit/
It’s a headache, and a loooot of googling, trying to get games to run. But with Proton’s introduction, it’s gotten a lot easier to get things to run without pulling out wads of hair.
But you’re right, if the app is non-native? Have fun breaking out the thumbscrews, because ya better like pain. 😂
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Less user-hostile? Maybe. Hostile to the tech-illiterate? Oh, absolutely. There is no handholding. There are no guardrails. You wanna “sudo rm -fr / --no-preserve-root”? o7, gamer.
- Comment on Little know fact 3 months ago:
This scene was actually drawn hastily as the shot itself was done during the crunch period of production, at the very end of the deadline. Be Our Guest was so immensely, terribly complex that it took the bulk of the animation department to pull off. It took a small army of extremely talented artists to pull off!
The pencil roughs of Beast’s human face were much more aesthetically pleasing, but it just didn’t translate to the finished cel.
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 4 months ago:
Yo dawg, I heard you like documentaries.
- Comment on Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X? 4 months ago:
People have been shitting on that lizard-faced freak since Facebook’s first flame wars between McCain and Obama supporters.
Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written.
- Comment on Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X? 4 months ago:
Of course he does, it reminds him of home.