oppy1984
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- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 1 day ago:
Yep. Well unless you want to try some new thing that’s not in the repo, then it’s sudo apt-get for the win.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 2 days ago:
I tried a variety of distros when I made the switch 9 or 10 years ago, Mint is by far my favorite. I’ve been running it continuously for at least the last 8 years.
- Comment on How do you answer the question "What's new with you?" when nothing happens in your life? 2 days ago:
And that’s all I’ll do, I won’t bug anyone about it or anything. I know my own kind. And since having to deal with people would be necessary to claim a portion of the prize money, I won’t even bother anyone with that!
- Comment on You'll know Lemmy has really caught on when searching for "Lemmy" returns more results for the forum than for the Motorhead guy. 3 days ago:
That “Motorhead guy” was Lemmy Kilmister and he played rock and roll.
- Comment on You'll know Lemmy has really caught on when searching for "Lemmy" returns more results for the forum than for the Motorhead guy. 3 days ago:
I’m a Lemmy fan and I’m posting on lemmy, so I’m all for posting more about Lemmy on lemmy.
- Comment on How do you answer the question "What's new with you?" when nothing happens in your life? 3 days ago:
Thank you, thank you. I’d like to dedicate this award to all the antisocial people out there who just want to be left alone.
- Comment on am i insane? 4 days ago:
I have two friends and an ex girlfriend who are bipolar and this was my first thought too. I can’t really add much to what you said other than to stress seeing a phycologist ASAP and take your meds especially when you don’t want to.
- Comment on If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be? 4 days ago:
Wolverine/Deadpool healing factor.
- Comment on How do you answer the question "What's new with you?" when nothing happens in your life? 4 days ago:
The court order was very clear that I am not allowed to discuss that. How about you? Anything new?
- Comment on The Signal and the noise: Why the messaging app is great for privacy but not for war plans. 4 days ago:
Battle plans you use Signal, war plans your going to want Threema, Session, or SimpleX.
- Comment on Get that Musky Grindset going 6 days ago:
For 250k, he could do a nude go-go dance on a table and require that I maintain eye contact with his junk for 5 minutes. 250k would be life changing enough to put up with that.
- Comment on You better be chill bro 1 week ago:
Not all heroes wear capes, thank you.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 1 week ago:
Eh, I couldn’t think of a better word so I just went with it.
- Comment on Forever exists ♥️ 1 week ago:
My mom put herself through nursing school by working at a nursing home. Once I was an adult she opened up about some of the stuff she saw, she said there was so much sex that they joked about installing a hose in the hall so they could separate patients when they caught them. When I asked her why they didn’t just look the other way and let them have their fun she said they actually did but the administrator was a hardcore Catholic and told them they were to separate them as soon as they were caught.
- Comment on happens every single time 1 week ago:
One way is to be me and have a nursing instructor for a mother. She had multiple stethoscopes and just gave me one to play with.
Also I’ve never been in a doctor’s office where they left a stethoscope laying around, they always bring theirs in with them.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 1 week ago:
I get what you’re saying but as a counterpoint I charge exclusively via wireless and my last phone lasted 4 1/2 years. The only reason I replaced it was my friends kid was playing a game on my phone and dropped and it got damaged. It was running just fine right up to the end.
Maybe it’s because I only use low power wireless chargers, or maybe it’s something with Samsung’s wireless charging controller. Who knows.
- Comment on Split Keyboards Are Superior And The Reason I’m The Writer I Am Today. 1 week ago:
I use a knock off ergonomic keyboard from adesso. 60% of the time, it works every time.
You can still get them on Amazon for like $40 if you ever decide you want to relive the split key glory days.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 1 week ago:
I’m sure the doge boys are expert grock vibe coders, it will be fine, they’ve got big ballz on the team, what could possibly go wrong? /s
- Comment on Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Sadly it’s just not working. I’ve spent time evangelizing Signal, I’ve responded to SMS with invite links to Signal and a message that I’d prefer to use Signal. Just a bunch of no’s and one “just grow up and text me back”.
It reached the point where I could tell I was pissing people off so I gave up. Now if messaging apps come up during a family gathering I just say “you know I recommend Signal” and leave it at that.
I’ve had people refuse to do or adopt something just out of spite because I pushed too hard, I don’t think they would go that far here, but better safe than sorry.
- Comment on Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
I’ve tried to get everyone I know on Signal, so far my mom is the only one who uses it and that’s only when she accidentally taps the wrong icon when she intended to send me an SMS.
And then there’s my stepsister who complains about not being able to have a unified chat because she and family are apple while most of the rest of us are android. Signal Diane, it’s a cross app platform that solves your problem…but no it’s not apple so it won’t work…🤬
- Comment on Google will develop the Android OS fully in private; Will continue open source releases. 1 week ago:
Meh, reasonable. Thanks for posting the clarification.
- Comment on Dating in your 30's 1 week ago:
The first part, true.
The second part, debatable.
- Comment on Real 1 week ago:
I found Ubuntu to be a bit to foreign when transitioning from Windows, it was actually the first distro I tried. It has more of an old school Mac feel to me, and I just couldn’t get used to it. I get what you’re saying about the guides though, I do still get Ubuntu forums a lot when I forget to add + Linux Mint on the end of my searches.
For me it was Ubuntu, then back to windows for a while, then ZoronOS for a while, then finally settling on Mint. I’ve tried a few other distros over the years but I keep coming back to Mint.
- Comment on Samsung CEO Jong-hee Han has died 2 weeks ago:
I bought my Samsung phone directly from Samsung and my carrier is a BYOB Mobile Virtual Network Operator. Before I ever connected my new phone to the carrier network it was riddled with bloatware that I can’t uninstall. Yes carriers are guilty of installing crap, but Samsung is just as guilty.
I’ve bought several Samsung phones over the years and this is the second factory direct phone I’ve received that was like this, they didn’t used to do this crap. Since this seems to be the norm now this will probably be the last Samsung I buy and when it’s time to replace I’ll just get a pixel and flash grapheneos on it, been curious about trying that anyway.
- Comment on Real 2 weeks ago:
Linux Mint, as someone who switched about 10 years ago it’s what I always recommend. I tried several distros, but mint has been my daily driver for the last 9 years.
Also it’s set up similarly to Win 7, so it’s far more intuitive for a Windows user. And Mint seems to have the best documentation and community when you can’t figure something out.
*And before anyone says anything, I’m speaking of the Debian based distros, I know REHL has some distros that also have great documentation and communities, I’m just a Debian guy so that’s what I’m comfortable speaking to.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 2 weeks ago:
I went from a small business that was entirely G Suite to a mega corp that was entirely Microsoft. Company culture wise the mega corp is soooo much better, technology wise…I felt totally limited and like I had gone back in time.
I went from being able to pull up a Google sheet on my phone to live update decision makers both back in the office and people who were remote, to having to jump through hoops to open an Excel sheet, then request editing rights, then having to submit the edited sheet to my supervisor only for her to have a manager review and approve the edit, and then he’d have to attach the edited version to an all hands email and tell everyone to download and use the new one.
It’s gotten better since I started, we now upload everything to OneDrive, but they can’t seem to get the permissions right and every once in a while someone edits a file and someone has to comb though the edit history to restore it.
- Comment on Fast boi 2 weeks ago:
I went I for a pee and then I started run-ing.
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 2 weeks ago:
Spiderman pointing at Spiderman meme.
- Comment on No title 3 weeks ago:
*He