Alaknar
@Alaknar@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on We live in the future! 1 day ago:
Every teenager shouts “fuck regulations” until they get fucked over by an unregulated market. Case in point: 90% of crypto.
- Comment on A succulent meal 3 days ago:
Plain bread is a travesty
This isn’t plain bread, good sir, this is a baguette! Well, rather small one, but still.
- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 days ago:
Morrowind is practically exactly in the middle between Daggerfall and Oblivion, in terms of mechanics complexity. May elements are “dumbed down”, but many remain as complex (if changed). Oblivion “dumbs down” a couple of extra elements, but nothing as drastic as Skyrim.
- Comment on Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet 4 days ago:
And KDE devs will stop assuming they know better than their users…
What kills me is that even the “official” clients (Element, and Element X) are not full-featured. What kills me even more is that Element X (the official “new” app and the “replacement” for Element) supports some additional features over Element, but not all - as in, some things are not possible in it, but are possible in Element.
It’s like it’s run by an insane asylum…
- Comment on Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet 5 days ago:
When it comes to Matrix, I have trouble making the parallel. Maybe because of the terminology?
It’s almost identical on Matrix, although many clients make it hard to distinguish things. For example, Fluffy Chat (and the “official” Element too, I think?) show both Servers AND their Rooms on your “all chats list”, making finding things confusing.
Check out Commet, it structures things exactly like Discord, so you’ll clearly see what’s a server, what’s a room on that server, etc.
- Comment on Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet 5 days ago:
It’s cool that it “supports threads”, but - as so many other clients - it forgets to actually expose threads! As in: once the initial comment starting a thread slides up in the chat, the only way to access the thread is to scroll all the way up there again.
Fake edit: OK, Commet shows all threads if you type “thread” in search. Still, having a button to do just that would be infinitely better.
Also: no support for polls? :(
- Comment on What launcher should I replace Nova with? 6 days ago:
I still cry myself to sleep after the premature death of Windows Mobile, so I use Launcher10, which brings the Tiles back to life.
I started experimenting with a super minimalist Folder Launcher, but it doesn’t seem ready for release yet, a couple of crucial (IMO) features (like default settings, bulk edits, proper apps list) are still missing.
There’s also Fossify Launcher Beta, which is an open source launcher. It’s fairly basic, but gets the job done. A super cool feature of the Fossify apps (since two releases ago) is the option to set your own fonts from a file, so I’m running their Calendar, Phone, Contacts, Calculator, etc., all with the Nothing Phone’s dot font.
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 6 days ago:
No, I don’t think so. Because - up until Trump - people in governments know that if they pull shit like this off, they risk the same shit being pulled against them, after they’re gone and the opposition takes over.
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 6 days ago:
Yeah? You mean it’d be independent of Trump’s interference? Like US TikTok?
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 6 days ago:
At least the private company would act in their own interest to preserve profits
Such as sharing ALL of its customer data with the government in exchange for subsidies? Which effectively means having a government entity in control of the data but with zero oversight or control from the public?
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 1 week ago:
Tell me you haven’t tried it without telling me…
It works as a Ctrl key. It just works when remapped via PowerToys. I use it at work practically non-stop for Ctrl+Enter and Ctrl+Backspace.
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 1 week ago:
In Windows:
PowerToys -> Keyboard Manager -> New Shortcut -> press the Copilot key -> select “Ctrl (right)” from the drop-down. Job done.
Not sure why is it so hard on Linux that it generates such headlines.
- Comment on Still alive? 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if this was an attempt at the “out-conspiracy the conspiracy theory” approach.
You know: when someone says “wow, you believe humans have landed on the Moon??”, you go “lol, you believe in the Moon???”
Here we have: “Epstein was found dead in his cell, he was probably murdered”, being “out-conspiracied” into “lol, no, he faked his death so he can play Fortnite, his account was active a couple of days ago”.
- Comment on Still alive? 1 week ago:
They are that arrogant to not think they don’t have to try to make anything believable, the fix is in for them and they don’t think they need us in the reality based community.
Then they wouldn’t try doing anything as convoluted as a faked suicide, they’d do what they did in 2008 - do a fake court case, drop all the most egregious part, give him a great lawyer, send him against shit-tier prosecutors, and sentence him to three years of house arrest to make all the bad things go away.
- Comment on Still alive? 1 week ago:
Someone renamed their account to this after the latest release of the files.
But, yeah, people will latch on to the stupidest stuff. Like, the dude ran an underground ring of paedophile brothels for decades generating kompromat for the top-of-the-top most important people on the planet, but it’s his Fortnite account that will unravel the whole thing… Come on, guys…
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 1 week ago:
Fusion(…) pose security risks
Wait, what kind? Doesn’t the reaction just fizzle out and become safely dormant if anything wrong happens?
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
It might surprise you, but:
- They already have a home in Ukraine. Will probably need renovation, though.
- They’re not spending the entirety of their earnings on rent. What - other than “landlords are literally Hitler” - gave you that idea?
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
I still wouldn’t say you’re a good guy in this instance.
I have two options: either sell (to an investor/hoarder) or rent. In the latter case, I can’t afford being both the breadwinner for my family and the mortgage for the prior apartment.
What would you suggest I should do in this situation to “be the good guy”?
But, the real massive issue I see here is that big companies and rich douchebags use owning land and housing solely for profit. THAT should be illegal (…)
100% agree with this and the rest.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
(that the owner would have to pay regardless of who is living in the property)
Property doesn’t get damaged through use if nobody lives there, what are you talking about?
yet they are not receiving the value of a mortgage.
You’re looking at this from the perspective of someone just looking at a spreadsheet.
Sure, you’re technically correct - money-wise, they are not getting anything in exchange for them renting the apartment.
What you’re seemingly blind to is the utility. They don’t have the money for a purchase, they don’t have the ability take mortgage themselves, most importantly - they don’t want to own property in a foreign country, but due to the geopolitical situation and due to the employment status of the husband, the family wants to temporarily live in my home country.
Sure, there should be cheap rental opportunities, but both the rental market and the mortgages are fucked where I come from. I’ll be 80 by the time I’m done paying off the apartment, and thank god I was able to purchase it before getting married, because that has lowered my credit score to the point where I wouldn’t be able to purchase at all.
So, I have two options here - sell (to an investment company or a hoarder, because practically nobody else can afford apartments in that area of that city at this moment), or rent way below the average for the area, but still above my mortgage - because I can’t afford to pay that on top of being the breadwinner for my family.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
I have to ask: in which country do things work like that? Because definitely not in mine.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
What do you call the thing where you can’t afford to support your family abroad because you need to pay the mortgage?
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
You are actively exploiting refugees
Good on you for not knowing shit but still making assumptions.
Right, because if not for the horrible me, they’d be able to rent for significantly more in the area.
Like, they’re not “we have nothing but the clothes on our backs” refugees, they’re a family that got a kid coming and needed something relatively good-standard, and pay for it thanks to the husband’s IT job.
You are on the supply side of the problem. Rent is, indeed, the problem.
“I’m 12 and this is deep”.
You could offer to sell your property to those tenants
Why would they buy a property in my country? They want to go back to their own country. WTF are you talking about?
You could offer them a “land contract”, which is a rent-to-own arrangement
Again, they don’t want to own an apartment in a foreign country.
[all the mortgage stuff]
Sure. I could bear the costs for the high and mighty idea.
Sadly, I can’t afford that.
The only options for me would be to:
- Sell the apartment to someone who would start charging twice than what I am.
- Completely upend my life and go back to my home country to live in that apartment, I guess.
What would you have done in my shoes?
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
In 30 years time, you’ll own a house and those refugees will own what exactly?
Hopefully a home in Ukraine, where they want to go back to?
Like, what do you expect them to do? Run away from their home and BUY a house in a foreign country? What exactly was your point?
You know what I did? I HOUSED a Ukrainian refugee in MY OWN DAMN HOME for NO COST, because I’m not a piece of shit
Good for you! I did the same. 9 people in total lived in my apartment made for 3-4. I slept on 90cm cot with my wife, so that they could use the bedroom bed to sleep with their little children.
What was your point again?
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
You know you can choose who to sell it to, you can reject offers from investors
Not how it works in my home country. There were even cases of people selling to families, and then those families immediately selling to investment firms, because they were just plants.
That’s one issue. The second issue is that most actual families can’t afford apartments at all. Sure, I could sell way below market value, but I’m not well off enough to do it for the cause, I wouldn’t be able to afford the leftover mortgage.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
My initial reaction was the same, to call OP a baby, etc. The problem isn’t rent. It’s landlord leeches.
I have an apartment in one country but moved to a different country, where I’m renting myself. I had two choices - either rent my first apartment to someone, or sell it. If I sold it, it would go not to a family in need, but to a BnB company or an “investor” (that’s the reality in my home country).
Instead I’m renting it to a family of Ukrainian refugees. They basically pay off my mortgage so that I’m not actively losing money on the whole thing.
They also pay rent to the housing association. This money goes to things like trash removal, hot/cold water, taking care of the green areas in the neighbourhood, cleaning the staircases, etc., etc.
Is this so bad and horrible?
- Comment on pride flag rule 2 weeks ago:
idk why
Because:
cis hetro white guy here
That’s literally it, as you can see from this comment.
“You’re in pain? Fuck off, we’re in pain more, so shut up” kind of vibes. Sad.
- Comment on Heave-ho! 4 weeks ago:
Yup! Some 90-95% of women wear the wrong bras. Especially those who have been extremely gifted by nature, this can lead to pain in their later years.
Going to an actual bra fitter and getting a fitted bra or two is something every woman should get. So, people, if you love your gals, get them a gift of an actually will-fitted bra. Doesn’t need to be fancy, but if it fits, she will love you for it!
Source: SO got a fitted bra, couldn’t shut up about it for three months, just being in complete shock about how comfortable it was.
- Comment on Hostile architecture 5 weeks ago:
Haha, classic newbie blunder! You think it’s better to spend money on fixing the problem, instead of making money on redesigning public architecture? Haha, oh my!
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 5 weeks ago:
US and UK weren’t one country. US was a UK colony
Yeah, so exactly as with USSR and Ukraine.
that’s why they celebrate independence day
Yeah, so exactly as with USSR and Ukraine.
The only reason Ukraine and Taiwan want to separate from Russia and China respectively is because of American interference
Nobody gave a shit about Americans in Ukraine when the Orange Revolution happened, or during the Maidan Protests. They just wanted democracy and re-integration with the West.
One more time: Ukraine was an independent country around 400 years before Muscovy (proto-russia) became a thing. It got gobbled up by the various superpowers of the area, but always retained its national identity. Culturally, there’s a very clear continuation from the Kyivan Rus all the way to modern day Ukraine.
You might as well suggest that the Scottish independence movements exist because of “American interference”, even though they existed for hundreds of years before the American Independence.
You’re just repeating russian propaganda points verbatim, so I don’t know if you’re this ignorant, or a russian bot. If it’s ignorance, feel free to ask questions, I know lots of people are super confused with what’s going on in Ukraine and that area due to russian disinformation campaigns.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 5 weeks ago:
US and UK used to be one country. Should US now become subservient to the UK based on that?