OldQWERTYbastard

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OldQWERTYbastard,

I’m experimenting with Pop_OS on a laptop as my daily driver after playing with different distros in VM environments over the years. There’s definitely a learning curve, but so far so good.

OldQWERTYbastard,

Any recommendations on a piracy-friendly e-reader? I don’t want to go around the world to get root access either if I can help it.

OldQWERTYbastard,

Israel starts to steal homes, land and killing men, children and women.

Can I get a source for this? I’ve been living under a rock.

OldQWERTYbastard,

Thanks for the input. I haven’t been following this story closely.

OldQWERTYbastard,

We don’t use the word “Spyware” like we did twenty years ago. It’s baked into Windows now.

OldQWERTYbastard,

Best not to poke bomb the sleeping giant.

OldQWERTYbastard,

Am I brain damaged or is part of the joke the fact that the screenshot isn’t legible?

Ninja EditNevermind. The Boost app seems to default to low res images.

OldQWERTYbastard,

Cave hermit here and I was delighted the first time I launched Quake 3 Arena on a linux distro. I’m wading deeper into the linux pool since Microsoft has lost their mind. Ads have no place in an operating system.

Gaming has tied me to Windows for decades, but thanks to companies like Valve and System 76 the long awaited shift may continue accelerating.

I’m glad to be here to see it.

OldQWERTYbastard,

I knew Tyson was a trash company, but this is blatantly predatory; up there with Nestle. They won’t get any more of my money, but I wish there was an easy way to know which house (store) brands are using Tyson.

OldQWERTYbastard,

Don’t forget the lemons for your party.

OldQWERTYbastard,

Nevermind the fact that the standard definition playback looks like a smeared turd when you play it on a modern high resolution display. I’ll stick to ripping Blu-ray.

OldQWERTYbastard,

Ah, the elusive “C o u r a g e” port.

OldQWERTYbastard,

I’ll second KSP. I learned a ton from that game.

OldQWERTYbastard,

I only learned that I was raised by a major league narcissist with anger management problems after I met my wife. She has training in clinical counseling and helped me realize that soooo much of my personality and habits can be traced back to my upbringing. Turns out my grandfather treated him the same way.

Generational trauma is a cruel monster that many of us never learn about. That’s a damn shame too.

OldQWERTYbastard,

That melty golden-orange loaf of processed cheese product. 🧀 We call it Velveeta now.

OldQWERTYbastard,

We’ve had an identical experience. It’s sad to see the enshitification of GMail.

OldQWERTYbastard,

It’s a good selling point for the 512GB model. I don’t have to see how fugly I am during my loading screens.

OldQWERTYbastard,

At one point the Steam Deck design and engineering team strongly opposed installing a third party SSD for various reasons ranging from power draw to EMI. Is this still the case?

I’ve been a tinkerer since I was a child and have no problem tearing into electronics for the hell of it, but I also have the wisdom to listen to people who know more than I do. I’d rather not damage my expensive toy.

OldQWERTYbastard,

Oh the damage has already been done. Trust is a hell of thing. Gained in inches and lost in miles. Let this be another cautionary tale for the rest of them.

OldQWERTYbastard,

Any recommendations on those chinesium devices? My Pixel 4a is getting a little long in the tooth and I’m in the market for a new Android phone with a vanilla Android experience.

OldQWERTYbastard,

There are fanatics on every side, but once a brand becomes a core part of your personality, I’m not going to want to talk to you.

‘Ranting, rambling, and paranoid’: Federal appeals court suspends 96-year-old judge until she passes mental exam (lawandcrime.com)

Judge Newman has threatened to have staff arrested, forcibly removed from the building, and fired. She accused staff of trickery, deceit, acting as her adversary, stealing her computer, stealing her files, and depriving her of secretarial support. Staff have described Judge Newman in their interactions with her as “aggressive,...

OldQWERTYbastard,

Technology is allowing us to live “longer,” but not necessarily “better.”

We shouldn’t be ruled by geriatrics. Age limits need to be a thing.

OldQWERTYbastard,

I’m baffled by the unrealistic demand for constant infinite growth from corporate shareholders and management. Those days are numbered.

OldQWERTYbastard,

There has been an explosion of growth in the past 30 years or so just south of Memphis, TN; mostly due to the lower Mississippi taxes. It’s a decent area. Jackson, MS is about three hours south and it’s a straight up shit hole. To be fair, Memphis isn’t far behind with their gangs wielding shoulder fired rocket propelled grenades.

OldQWERTYbastard,

My old job at a large corporation didn’t want to pay Nortel to fly out from Dallas to host a proper two week telecommunications class to train their new support personnel. Instead they made this 65 year old “Ma Bell” tech to cobble together and teach a one and a half day crash course. I left with a notebook full of unfinished CLI commands, shorthand notes and just enough information to probably not bring down the entire enterprise PBX system. Good times.

OldQWERTYbastard,

Well, I guess not any more!

Ninja edit to add source

OldQWERTYbastard,

Good.

Let that arrogant asshole reap what he sows.

OldQWERTYbastard,

I left a job of eight years for a WFH job. I lasted 15 months and they worked my ass off. 11 and 12 hour days for weeks on end and still unable to keep up. I left and took a 49% pay cut. I’m selling shit on ebay to pay the bills and no longer WFH, but I’m back to 40 hours a week.

OldQWERTYbastard,

I sure as hell tried. Management ultimately failed several of us.

OldQWERTYbastard,

20+ years in IT and I’ve never been closer to leaving the industry. It’s either a good old boys club or a cesspool of dysfunction. Sometimes both.

OldQWERTYbastard,

Thanks for the sound advice. I’d like to try WFH again if I’m able.

OldQWERTYbastard,

Pirates keep many things alive. 🏴‍☠️🦜

OldQWERTYbastard,

People who don’t use ad blockers get a MUCH different experience. Especially on mobile. I made the decision to pony up the cash for an app called AdGuard years ago. It hosts its own VPN locally on your phone and filters traffic through it. The first time I learned how it worked I thought “Damn, that’s a really good idea!”

OldQWERTYbastard,

Christian here and I think this is awesome! Some of us are ignorant, closed-minded dipshits and I am truly sorry. Truth be told, this Jesus guy was pretty great, but most of his fan club is fucking nuts.

OldQWERTYbastard,

And probably a lot less delusional.

OldQWERTYbastard,

The academic model of capitalism has safeguards in place to prevent the shitshow we’re living in now. Leave it to us Americans to knock off those safeguards because we’re greedy as hell.

OldQWERTYbastard,

I installed Pop OS on my laptop since it’s pretty gaming friendly. Between that and the Steam Deck, Windows 10 might be my last version of Windows for personal use.

OldQWERTYbastard,

Peachy. Thanks for the heads up. I haven’t noticed anything intrusive yet.

OldQWERTYbastard,

I just hate that he took three innocent lives with him. Fuck that guy. This kind of hate is a blight on our country.

OldQWERTYbastard,

Reddit leadership forgot where their value comes from. Let it burn.They reap what they sow.

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