ExtremeDullard

@ExtremeDullard@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“TO THE PERPETRATORS WHO STOLE MY ASS: I HAVE BOTH HANDS ENGAGED IN FINDING IT AND YOU WILL SOON FACE THE FULL FORCE IF THE LAW!!!”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow... I had never seen a Viking warrior upclose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft to force install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in October⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Another perfect advertisement for Linux.

  Thanks Microsoft!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft reminds of Windows 10 support ending in 30 days⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  A perfect advertisement for Linux.

  Thanks Microsoft!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Enjoy your Dad while he's around. When you're old and he's not there anymore, you'll miss this shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I went with Ubuntu cause name recognition, and I've tried it in the past lol. Basically half assed the entire thing.

  No you didn't. If you're new to this, you did your best and went with the most well-know thing you don't know much about yet.

  Ubuntu is fine. And I'm sure you've already put a few hours into configuring it at this point, so don't waste the partition. I'm just pointing out - and possibly for others reading this thread - that if you're used to Windows and you like the Windows UI paradigm, Cinnamon (the desktop environment in Mint) might be for you.

  You can probably install Cinnamon as a secondary desktop environment in Ubuntu too, in fact, if you want to give it a go. If you install another desktop environment / window manager in Linux, don't worry, you don't lose anything: you're simply presented with an option to choose the one you want in the greeter (login screen).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Good on you my friend.

  I know it's not easy, but make the effort and you'll be rewarded in the end.

  Incidentally, if you miss the Windows UI, Linux Mint probably was a better choice for you: it's basically Ubuntu with a Windows-like desktop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is fantastic news for Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just pointing out that whatever this administration says or does should be taken with a massive salt crystal. If the FBI releases any statement now, you have to question what their angle is for saying that.

  The pigs too, but that's nothing new. And yet, in the Trump regime, I distrust the pigs less than I distrust the FBI. That's saying something. But I still distrust them - particularly Utah pigs.

  This regardless of whether it's about the evidence found in this case or any other case. My point was that it's critically important to think critically about any information released by the authorities, today more than ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Patel and his deputy, Dan Bongino, relayed that they were under immense pressure to succeed and prove that they were capable of conducting a manhunt. As it turns out, they were not.

  Turns out, having a podcast doesn't make you a competent cop. Who knew...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  While those engravings are plausible, I will point out that I don't fully trust the cops or that republican Governor - and certainly not the FBI - to not fabricating evidence to enable Trump to pin the murder on his political enemies.

  I just seems too convenient that those casings with those engravings should be found mere hours after Trump said the left owns the murder because they compared Charlie Kirk to the Nazis. It smells made up from a mile away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain is ‘a terrible place’ to sell medicines, says Pharma corporate executive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They do. But that's not a reason so take advantage of people in need - which is the pharma industry's business model where healthcare costs aren't regulated like in the US.

  The pharma industry is in this very unhealthy position of making a profit from people who desperately need their wares. Exactly like plumbers on a weekend: the pharma industry can - and will, left to their own device - charge you any insane amount they want for your treatment that keeps you alive, like a plumber will charge you any insane amount to fix that leak before the whole living room is flooded.

  That's why it desperately needs to be regulated. If a Big Pharma exec thinks it's tough to turn a profit in a country, that country is doing its job correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain is ‘a terrible place’ to sell medicines, says Pharma corporate executive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Good!

  Fuck the pharma industry. They're everything that's wrong with capitalism and then some.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jair Bolsonaro found guilty by Brazilian Supreme Court⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh oh... Brazil is about to be hit by 10.000% tariffs from Jair's fascist buddy up north.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some days it just feel like that.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this a depiction of what happens when you have an ectopic pregnancy in an anti-abortion state after a romantic night with an Iraqi?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm Unable to get any PETG HF Filament to Stick on the Bed after having Switched from a 0.4mm to a 0.2mm Nozzle [Bambu P1S]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  PETG never sticks well on any bed plate on our Prusa Mk4 for some reason, while it seems to stick very well on the plates coated with the same materials on our Prusa XL.

  I tried to change a million parameters, and then I gave up trying to understand, because at some point all I want is to stop wasting filament and time, and get the parts I need.

  So I used glue and I spent 2 minutes wiping off the glue in the sink when it's done. It's just pragmatic and it lets me get on with the rest of my life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm Unable to get any PETG HF Filament to Stick on the Bed after having Switched from a 0.4mm to a 0.2mm Nozzle [Bambu P1S]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Use glue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If the sickos who go into schools with guns switch to gunning down MAGAts instead, I'm all for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Event — September 9⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So you mean Apple doesn't just made impressive bribes for fascist dictators?

  Apple can gargles my balls. Fucking collaborators...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McDank⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A strangely pointy metaphor of America today...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think I found our community icon? Shaggy mane (Coprinus comatus)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean this community tastes okay for 2 minutes and then it spoils and it's disgusting? 🙂

  I used to hunt for those mushrooms as a kid. I'd go out late in the morning in the fields closest to our house, pick the whitest of them, come back home quickly and my Mom would cook then for lunch. Enjoying those mushrooms was literally all about timing. That's how quickly those spoil.

  So... maybe not the best icon 🙂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISO 26300⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey no sweat 🙂 I just happen to be old enough to have known / read about / heard about RMS for decades. Given enough time, if you're at all interested in the free software movement, his less-than-savory traits naturally end up coming to your attention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISO 26300⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. Sorry I should have linked to it. I kind of assumed it was common knowledge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISO 26300⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Could we perhaps not drag RMS out of whatever dark place we're blessed not to hear about him from?

  We have enough pedo shit going on with the POTUS at the moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make America Great!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is drivel. Previous generations did have it easier than some recent ones.

  Did I claim otherwise?

  Of course we gen-Xers had it easier. And our boomer parents before us even more so. This is totally unrelated to what I said, which is older folks tend to think the world was better in the past than it truly was.

  Also, America sucks and always will.

  That is what I said. There is no better America in the past.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make America Great!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and Bernie Sanders is old as dirt yet a decent politician in touch with young people.

  But they're exceptions. We need AOCs and Mamdanis and Sanders as the norm in politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make America Great!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That's not a bad idea. But then you have to outlaw money in politics, because as soon as money is in the picture, it invariably favors rich old dudes, or people with connections that can only be formed over time.

  In other words, nothing like this will happen in America in my grandchildren's lifetime, let alone my children's or mine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make America Great!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That's an illusion.

  America 7 millenia ago might have been empty enough of people to be peaceful (though I highly doubt that) but people died young of easily treatable diseases because they didn't have vacc....

  Nevermind...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make America Great!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That's the tragedy of government: rulers and lawmakers need to be old enough to be wise, but age also disconnects them from the needs of the world of today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make America Great!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As I got older and I reflected on all the grumpy old men waving at the cloud and complaining constantly about this-or-that being better in their days when I was a kid, I realized why.

  Now I'm the old man and I avoid becoming bitter my reminding myself of the following truth:

  • When you're a kid, the world belongs to the grown ups - your parents, adults of authority around you.

  • When you reach teenager years, the world starts being yours: you've developed tastes for things people your age do and create. As you go through puberty, your identity is reinforced with things of your time, and other young people your age with which you do the same things. You all have a bright future in front of you.

  • When you get out of puberty, hopefully you get our of school and start working: the world is fully yours. The trendy things in the world are things you find trendy too. Other people speak like you. You're not a powerless kid and you're not weaker old guy/gall yet. You're fully part of it and it suits you. You may not like the world, but it's yours. It shares your values and your values are what makes the world go round at that point in time . Your personality, your cultural identity and the cultural norms you respect, and your value system are fully developed.

  • And then they stay that way. But the world keeps evolving. Slowly but surely, the things you learned become deprecated. The things you like become old. The way you speak becomes strange to younger ears. The values you believe in no longer apply. The world slowly shift below your feet, but it's happening very slowly, year after year, until...

  • You reach an age at which you're very visibly and obviously out of sync with the world. Even you notice it at this point.

  And here lies the trap: you can either reflect on how the world has changed and acknowledged that it's not your world anymore, but it's younger people's now. People who are now the age you once were: it's their turn to have a go at owning the world. You're just in it for the ride.

  Or you can take refuge in your old values, wallow in the old things you've liked for decades, and bitch and moan about the world going to shit. It's not going to shit, but it feels that way to you. It's easier to reject the world around you than admit it's just not how you like it anymore, but it's poisonous: it turns you into a bitter person everybody hates.

  I choose to ignore the things I dislike - which, at this point, constitute a lot more of the world than the things I like from the past - from my youth. But I also choose to not pass judgment on them because they're not from my world: they're from today's youth's world, and I have no say in it.

  If you're old and angry, think about this. You might find some comfort in letting go.