AlternatePersonMan

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AlternatePersonMan,

I feel this in my soul.

Still better than the open office concept though. It’s like it was designed to be cruel and stupid.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e7a88ead-2775-4999-b6ab-bb55646ca940.jpeg

AlternatePersonMan,

That’s an oddly long song. Thank you for the weird, dark translation that you warned about but I probably didn’t need to know.

AlternatePersonMan,

My Linux knowledge isn’t what it used to be, but I believe you can easily make a thumb drive with a bootable distro. I would recommend taking whatever you choose for a test drive before you wipe a working system. That way you can see if there’s any weird stuff that doesn’t want to work.

AlternatePersonMan,

My favorite genre. I feel like we’ve seen a resurgence of every other genre. Bring on the RTS games. I would do terrible things for Warcraft 4. I will definitely check this out.

AlternatePersonMan,

Actual fascists are just as bad as people who want social change? Fascism is a very real thing. The leading Republican candidate has frequently made very literal threats, and has already supported one attempted coup.

In absolutely no way are the two parties “just as dangerous”.

AlternatePersonMan,

While I wish we had a candidate that wasn’t 80. I’ve actually been pleasantly surprised by Biden’s administration.

And yes, the risk on this one is too great for third party. I genuinely do not believe that democracy will survive another term with the orange turd. He’s already tried to overthrow our government once. He has made it clear that he plans to succeed through force if reelected.

AlternatePersonMan,

When I was fresh in my career:

  • I worked in restaurants for decent money, girls, and free food.
  • Roommates save lots of bling.
  • Someone always has a connection or a discount.
AlternatePersonMan,

Waiting tables at a casual+ restaurant? Yes. The ratio is mostly girls- in their 20s. The turnover is high, so there’s always new people coming in. You’re around each other constantly so it’s not awkward to strike up a conversation. Plus the parties were pretty fun.

I don’t think you’d have the same luck at McDonald’s, or in management, but serving at decent places I always had good luck.

AlternatePersonMan,

Whoosh. Right over my slow head

AlternatePersonMan,

My only complaint (other than I’ve always hated when they recycle maps from previous games) is that you need Internet connectivity to play these. That completely defeats the whole point of the Switch.

AlternatePersonMan,

I definitely could not access them without Internet. This was after they had been downloaded and played. The error even said as much. Maybe they’ve changed that since? Hopefully…

AlternatePersonMan,

If I put it in airplane mode, voila: (sorry for the crummy phone capture). You can still play the default courses, but this is complete bullshit.

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AlternatePersonMan,

You can play the original courses, but not the booster courses. Once you quit the game and lose your internet, no more dlc.

I suppose if you don’t change games you might be fine. But it feels like a low blow on a system marketed for it’s portability.

AlternatePersonMan,

Bettman is a laundry list of massive failures.

Besides giving into homophobia and other ethical issues, he’s not even good from a business perspective.

Look at the growth of other sports compared to hockey during his tenure. Multiple failed teams and moves. Phoenix is a joke. There are 3 teams in CA and 2 in FLA… Despite wanting to spread the NHL to new regions.

He’s made TV viewing a nightmare. You can’t just buy an NHL package. There are home game blackouts, games and multiple networks that aren’t packaged together for away games. And most recently this dipshit decided to make the boards a green screen with moving fucking ads DURING PLAY. As if hockey wasn’t challenging enough to track the play.

Fuck Bettman.

AlternatePersonMan,

I completely forgot about that embarrassing fiasco.

What a joke.

AlternatePersonMan,

The issue is that Bettman has repeatedly not given teams to cities because he wants to spread the sport geographically. For example Milwaukee will never get a team because Bettman figures those people can either be fans of Minnesota or Chicago. Yet the LA and Anaheim arenas are just 35 minutes apart. I’m pretty sure if Anaheim didn’t have a team their fan base would just watch the Kings play.

AlternatePersonMan,

Milwaukee and Chicago are an hour and a half apart. Milwaukee county is about 1 million people. So it’s not small.

I’m not even saying their isn’t logic in tapping the big markets, but two that are on top of each other? And using that as the reason not to put teams elsewhere? That just doesn’t make sense. At least go to San Diego.

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AlternatePersonMan,

These are cool. I love the concept.

AlternatePersonMan,

More like streets behind.

AlternatePersonMan,

Is there a website? I’m just finding Instagram and I pretty much hate that.

AlternatePersonMan,

Cute. Another fine for a company with deep pockets. So… Cost of business.

AlternatePersonMan,

Ugh, “defund the police” is a terrible phrase if you actually want the movement to succeed. I wish they would have gone with something along the lines of “police reform”. Immediately every conservative glommed onto “now they want to abolish all police!”

We do need a massive overhaul to police. Unfortunately that means better marketing of the idea of it’s going to happen.

AlternatePersonMan,

That makes more sense.

I know the real idea behind it. I just never liked it being summarized as defund. It’s more like restructure. Personally, I would be much more aggressive with an overall. It’s rotten top to bottom.

AlternatePersonMan,

I did not know about this… And I happen to have a Synology nas.

AlternatePersonMan,

Good suggestion, but I installed Open Camera and at exactly 5x zoom the same thing happens.

I like the camera app though …

AlternatePersonMan,

Checked a few different light sources halogen, incandso, led. All the same.

Love that your gut knows enough about sensors to make a judgement call.

AlternatePersonMan,

Ouch. That’s not acceptable for a flagship phone.

AlternatePersonMan,

I would argue he’s our worst president ever. Andrew Jackson, etc. etc. Absolutely shitty, but those guys were flying blind without history to learn from, and their atrocities were sadly socially acceptable at the time. Reagan destroyed everything right this country had done, and enabled the future monsters to come. He brought religion to the front of American politics, destroyed the regulations that protected us, brought unfathomable debt, the war on drugs, the list goes on.

The Orange Shit Stain is probably a worse person, but he arrived on Reagan’s back.

AlternatePersonMan,

You sir, have made me laugh.

AlternatePersonMan,

Yeah, changing up cars seems like scratching at a symptom rather than the problem. If there are thousands of cars all headed in the same direction every day… It seems like offering a train would be pretty obvious win.

I want to switch to Linux but there are a few major hurdles.

So I have a situation. I really want to switch to Linux as my main gaming/production OS but need the Adobe suite as I am a graphic designer. Adobe is the golden standard for this industry (and likely to always be) so while Gimp and Inkscape might work, they are not feasible for my career. I also know that there will be...

AlternatePersonMan,

I’ve tried switching to Linux many times over the years. There are many things about it that rock… But, unfortunately plenty that do not. Financially it doesn’t make sense for Adobe and others to support Linux (sadly).

Dual boot is an option, as you mentioned. However, Linux will run on a toaster. Fire it up on a thumb drive, or an old laptop, or whatever you’ve got and putz around. It’s fun just to explore.

AlternatePersonMan,

It’s almost like flammable water is a bad thing…

AlternatePersonMan,

But how would they sell more smoke detectors that way?

AlternatePersonMan,

Eesh. That video is damning. I don’t even watch soccer/futbol and that’s pretty egregious in the replay. She pushed off her back, then stepped on it… Not an accident

AlternatePersonMan,

Wait, what?

AlternatePersonMan,

Well that’s depressing

AlternatePersonMan,

I can’t fathom having the power to save our at least change millions of lives…but instead choose to leech more wealth from the people that need it most. And systematically make the world worse. It’s a sickness.

There are no good billionaires.

AlternatePersonMan,

…and there goes my eagerness to buy the Q3. I loathe drm.

AlternatePersonMan,

I can’t fathom that anybody could be this stupid. Does he have a reason to purposely destroy Twitter?

The decisions he’s making aren’t just bad, they’re the worst possible ones that he could make. As in, he gathered a group of experts and these are the best ways to destroy Twitter that they could think up.

AlternatePersonMan,

Often enough I hear people say that it’s good to spend that much on our military. “That way no one will mess with us.” That logic hurts my brain. We spend more than the next TEN countries combined. We could halve our budget and still have a ridiculously large military.

We argue about the cost of a stadium (rightfully), then pay them off for 25+ years, and those cost ONE billion (versus $880 billion). An annual per Capita hit of $2,200 is crazy.

Also, we don’t even use a significant portion of the equipment that we build. There are thousands of tanks just collecting dust. “But they create jobs.” Build something else. Schools, parks, trains, housing, etc.

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