tiredofsametab

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Get all my games working and, more importantly, my video editing software. I had the video editing software working, updated the OS, and it broke. This is not something that has happened to me under Windows, as much as I dislike it. I work two jobs and have home maintenance; I don't have time to sit and troubleshoot and manually tweak things. Solve that and I will be on linux full time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have two citizenships and permanent residency in a third country, so that seems unlikely. In the spirit of the question, though, immediately start drilling language and learning customs. If they have IT jobs, particularly in English, I'm already ready to work. I also have my own small farm so experience there as well. I've worked in many industries in my life, so I can jump into many things.

  The kicker is probably the legal side and then finding housing which just requires doing whatever is needed. I assume I have whatever assets I had, my phone, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do rich people in landlocked countries have yachts?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely. They just take planes (and/or sometimes helicopters) to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We already do in colloquial Japanese.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple, Google tell workers on visas to avoid leaving the U.S. amid Trump immigration crackdown⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm a US citizen and my wife is not. My grandparents are not long for this world. If one of them pass, I will be going to the US alone because I am terrified my wife, who speaks little English, will end up in some ICE camp. It's horrifying and heartbreaking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the advice; I'll check into that. It's probably 6 meters at most if I run the cable behind things. My keyboard and mouse might work but it might be tight depending upon which version of bluetooth their dongles run (I don't have bluetooth on the motherboard).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven't gotten this yet. Not sure if my TV is too old (2017 IIRC) or because I'm in Japan. I plan to just move my current PC into the living room when I can afford to upgrade but RAM prices just went nuts and video cards are still very expensive here (relative to wages but also because PC gaming is a niche hobby). I hate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tokyo Gas to steer more than half of overseas investments to US in next 3 years, CEO says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gross. Glad they're not my provider anymore (they do both gas and electricity)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are first person shooters and third person shooters, but what about second person shooters?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I follow some game dev and programming YouTube channels. I remember seeing someone make one and it being weird (and basically unplayable IMO), but I can't recall which channel it was

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but rockets were a thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • an absence of quick-time events (I hate those things in cut-scenes, parry systems, etc.)
  • a mode that allows the player to destroy the environment, NPCs, etc. including, when on, making the game unable to be completed potentially. I think having that be a toggle will still allow people to relive older RPGs where you could easily ruin your life without knowing for hours.
  • Off-the-wall weapons. I think Blood 2 had a few and even halflife 2
  • Counting beyond 2, speaking of the above.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you get right down to it, cereal is just cold breakfast soup⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently found out gluten was a source of trouble (probably coeliac but not confirmed just yet), so none anymore. However, for the first 30ish years of my life: cereal in a bowl with a spoon. Cinnamon Toast Crunch as an adult treat, other boring health cereals (some kinda bran thing, I think a Special K one at some point, etc.), and Alphabits a lot as a kid. Also sometimes Cheerios, Frosted Flakes, and others depending upon what we could afford. I would just have some normal beverage alongside it but I don't remember feeling particularly compelled to drink more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you get right down to it, cereal is just cold breakfast soup⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No it isn't; I do make soup out of my cereal like other weirdos.

  I tried milk on cereal twice, puked both times. I just always ate dry cereal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm only somewhat worse since early 2000s Windows phones were kinda trash and I broke my first iPhone. But after that, I run them until they start having trouble doing common things. I went from an iPhone 6 to a Pixel 6 which I still am using fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burger King now selling "Mystery" menus⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can't remember BK doing anything too crazy over here. Currently, the special thing is just a garlic sauce/topping, it appears.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Assume that this is an apocalyptic Jew before rabbinic judaeism. That should frame thinks a bit better. The problem, at least as I understand it, is people doing commerce, particularly for a profit, in a sacred space. I do t think the money was the problem in and of itself, but rather the execution and motive. In another story, biblical Jesus tells someone of wealth and power that what he needs to do is give all of that up and he was quite miffed (in a very tldr telling)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do languages sometimes have letters which don't have consistent pronunciations?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For cases where it sounds like another letter, why not just use that one?

  Which the other one? Within English itself, the same letter can be pronounced a number of ways. It's like when people want to "fix" English spelling, they always assume it's going to be their dialect that wins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨green salad fingers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe hematite? I seem to remember saying that about hematite when I was young and the whole neopagan and new age stuff had a moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I always thought people talking about seeing things that weren't there was metaphore. It blew my mind to find out it was literal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First, I start moving people to hotel rooms...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if we all lived within close proximity of sock processing facilities we'd have fewer problems with socks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How do y'all have so many sock problems?! O.o

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't use a smartphone enough to worry about it. If I am using my phone, most of the time it's either Anki, Google Maps, or, like you mention, banking/government stuff.

  Texting via SMS (or whatever it is these days) isn't really a thing in Japan, either, which makes things more difficult especially as I despise talking on the phone. If, for example, I'm at the supermarket and wife remembers something she needs, getting that message is good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which stage are you at?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was redhat/mandrake of which neither worked well on my PC, Gentoo, Ubuntu, and mint (playing with distros like LoaF at various points).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which stage are you at?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got started on Linux at home from the valley of despair on early-2000s Gentoo. It wasn't that bad, but I did have a lot more time on my hands being too poor to go out most of the time.

  I just put mint on a laptop yesterday; got no time for it anymore

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You are stardust.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My brain added an 'n' to the first word of "waking universe" and I think it still works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup! It's dumb. Bonus one: one could get sued by posting on social media a pic/vid that shows someone cheating and they get caught. It's profoundly stupid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In Japan, a person can get sued for leaving an honest, negative review. One has to be careful with wording to avoid that completely (i.e. making sure that it's clearly stated that the content is a personal opinion (as opposed to an accusation, I guess?)). Some people still do write them and some get scary take-down notices (which may or may not be real or enforceable). As far as I know, someone could leave a low rating on like a star-based system or whatever and be fine, but I am not a lawyer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan | An AI simulation of a Mount Fuji eruption is being used to prepare Tokyo for the worst⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there are some other areas that have a lot more to worry about than Tokyo. I don't remember for sure, but I think the expected path this time would be north in Yamanashi (I looked into what predictions were when I was house-hunting a few years ago).

  “Are there actually any signs of eruption?” said Shinichiro Kariya, a 57-year-old hospital employee. “Why are we now hearing things like ‘10 centimeters of ash could fall,’ even in Tokyo? I’m wondering why this is happening all of a sudden.”

  I'm shocked that this is news to anyone. Most schools send kids to a disaster prep field trip at least once where they would cover all this stuff. I guess maybe some part of Japan doesn't talk about it, but there have definitely been TV shows about it, even in the decade I've been living here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife and I are almost 10 years apart. We met right before her 30th birthday, I was also once the younger partner when I was 20 and my then-gf was 34. That failed for a number of reasons, but I don't think age was one of them. With legal, consenting adults, whatever works for you is fine, I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Killed My Job: Translators⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My company thankfully still employs simultaneous interpreters for meetings and has one translator on staff. I think, at least in part, because of how bad translation tools can be from EN <> JA.