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- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 2 minutes ago:
I know. And it blows
- Comment on What a nice blue and black dress. 3 hours ago:
Here’s one to ponder: we assume the data related to our brain from our sense gives us an accurate idea of what’s around us. But from an evolutionary standpoint, that is irrelevant - our senses keep us alive, that’s all.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 3 hours ago:
If the “melting pot” actually does it’s thing and reduces how many differences we see between ourselves and others, then… maybe kinda good?
- Comment on 12 hours ago:
Somebody, or more likely more than one, suffered in a way like Luigi did, not because of any targeted malice, but a lack of compassion. So his karma is fucked…
- Comment on 18 hours ago:
Eh, no two ways about it. Wealth hoarding is exactly the same choice as “push the button, get a million, but someone dies”. Same fucking thing. Literally
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I feel it’s reasonable to recognize the wealth he has collected, and to conclude he is not my ally.
I don’t fucking care who it is, wealth hoarding causes immeasurable harm, not to mention requires a sociopathic mindset. So…yeah, I’m not even giving him a chance. I got better shit to waste my time on…
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 6 days ago:
Oh, I assume a solution like Sunshine/Moonlight on Linux don’t provide what you need?
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 6 days ago:
I am trying to give their programmers credit where I can; first, the massive influx of time and money into gaming on Linux has had obvious, amazing benefits. And my recent gripes would be about a persistent bug that has crept into Steam OS desktop mode; but it’s a one line shell script to fix, and they just moved to a much more recent kernel, not to mention officially tackling support for third party handheld PCs, so…yeah, that all sounds like a headache on crack.
But, honestly, I hear ya all the same. I think we feel confident holding these guys to a high standard for good reasons, so hopefully it all comes out in the wash.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 6 days ago:
Oh, definitely. One of the best things about Linux and the free software movement, innit? But, the ‘applications’ order in bottles is great for that one tool that is just hard to live without, or some specific tool created by the community that may or may not ever get a native port (SAK.exe for managing Switch ROM files comes to mind for me).
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 week ago:
There’s actually a number of options. Lutris and Bottles are both built on top of Wine. And there are other apps that use Wine to make it all work, but I’m not very familiar with anything else…yet!
Bottles can be a little tricky to get used to - one of the biggest issues is that it sandboxes the Wine runtime, so you’ll often need to move your .exe into the right file path. But, other than that I found it pretty easy to use! So if you need something that you can “drop in” to replace Lutris, it’s worth a try! It has some helpful preconfigured runtime environments, depending on if you are running a general propose application or a video game. For the power users, you can even start with a blank slate.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 week ago:
Up until recently, Lutris worked perfectly for me. Ever since around the release of Wine 11, though, cant get anything to even install, let alone play. This might explain my increasing frustration with the app.
Guess I’m going back to using Bottles for the odd game or app I don’t feel like trying to shoehorn into steam.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Not just suitors, I’m afraid. The vast majority of the women you will meet in your life have been the victim of some form of sexual harassment, if not outright assault or rape.
So, yeah, it’s disheartening but I totally agree with your perspective on this.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It scares me to think how many other guys around me are predators. And it absolutely infuriates me to think about how long society has normalized this type of behavior.
I don’t care how horny I am - that’s my own damn problem to solve. Period.
- Comment on I detect no errors of logic here 5 weeks ago:
Afraid he’s gonna smoke the product?
- Comment on State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office 5 weeks ago:
So, all these posts are guns get mirrored by tonight, right?
Freedom of information request my ass…
- Comment on Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers 5 weeks ago:
I hear ya.
It pisses me off the way they market this shit as AI; just a god surveillance tool, hiding behind a fucking chat bot.
And, anybody reading who’s tempted to defend the technology, fuck off - it’s a prediction algorithm. A fancy one, but that’s it. There no steps or logic or reasoning. There’s nothing hiding in the “black box”. No steps taken to construct the response - just statistical analysis on steroids spewing out most likely matches.
- Comment on Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers 5 weeks ago:
The point is to make the bubble butter, then they’ll pretend that’s why they have to edit consumer market.
The goal is the so called “thin client” - i.e. absolutely everything in cloud
- Comment on What does it mean? 5 weeks ago:
Well, actually, lots of working and dying anyway. Cause any emergency you’re fucked
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 1 month ago:
Watch this not ever really even touch the mobile phone market. The only computer they want you to have access to is the one they fully control…
- Comment on Tips 1 month ago:
No. The entire premise is a stinking pile of dung, and always has been.
People do not choose to live in poverty. Like, seriously, this a classist myth that has never fucking been true. If people did, they could just choose to stop being poo!! But anybody with a functioning brain knows that billionaires choose for the workers to be destitute. So this entire “if you’re poor you shouldn’t [x]” needs to just fucking die already.
- Comment on Some hacker should take one for the team and release the declassified Epstein Files 1 month ago:
Not the op, but the entire issue would suddenly just kinda…go away. The propaganda machine would label it “false news”, and every single conservative would immediately fall in line.
But almost nobody would even read any of it, and the release would almost certainly guarantee that the ones responsible would walk free.
- Comment on Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source 2 months ago:
Why would you keep track? Can’t form your own opinions?!
And what the fuck hasn’t Oracle done? Like, seriously, they’ve been a known bad actor for literally decades now…
- Comment on Let's end Anti-Circumvention. We should own the things we buy! 2 months ago:
I can’t think of any situation where disallowing people from repairing their own property makes any sense.
I can think of one, but the issue is largely a thing of the past: old CRT TV’s or monitors. If you attempt to repair one without knowing what you’re doing, you literally could get yourself killed.
That said, I still agree with you wholeheartedly. I’d much rather mandate dangerous to repair products be labeled as such, but the design and construction of consumer products should never prohibit the end user from being able to repair their own property.
- Comment on Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life 2 months ago:
But the source code isn’t available. The source isn’t open. It’s not open-source, by definition.
The “spectrum” you refer to us about how free you are to publicly make use of the code, not whether or not you even have the code.
This situation does not fall inside that spectrum.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 months ago:
Complaining about athletes just makes it sound petty.
And your opening statement makes your entire post sound completely out of touch.
- Comment on Elon Musk, doing Elon Musk things. 3 months ago:
No. He’s a self absorbed con-man.
His “little” salute?! You’re fucking joking, right?? Nothing little about three full salutes at the President’s inauguration no less.
Finally, just some immature thing? You know what, why don’t you just grow a pair and admit where you’re allegiance truly lies. Cause if you tolerate Nazism, you’re part of the problem. Only you don’t seem to mind that at all. Do you?
- Comment on Gravity! 3 months ago:
This is one of my favorite summaries of just how ridiculous religion can become. Only thing I want to fund a way to add would a condemnation of monotheism. Seems that had a whole lot to do with how the concept of religion has become so corruptible. Instead of the point being the betterment of your own tribe it becomes about how every other tribe is less than you.
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 3 months ago:
How about if you can’t follow a conversation, maybe stay out of it? Like, for real, I didn’t know that else to tell you.
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 3 months ago:
And I was talking about the so-called legality of the situation. So, pretty clearly not referring to the headline…
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 3 months ago:
You seem to be under some misconception regarding why actually wires our laws. Hint: they’re called lobbyists to get people to ignore the rampant bribery.
