ChatGPT: “Ah - I see the problem now! you’re being invaded by Russia…”

or

Claude: “You’re absolutely right, summoning an elder god isn’t possible and I apologize for suggesting it. I again was assuming it would be possible.”

or

Google Gemini: “You’re asking how to stop Russia from invading your country is that right? Here’s how you milk a goat:”

the guy lost his mother due to their hoarding, hygiene, and health issues. the guy recently also lost his father to health issues/cancer. You’d think it would be a wake up call for him to start getting his shit together but it won’t.

I guarantee you he’s going to get health issues because of his teeth. His gums have rotted away and routinely bleed (he wipes the blood from his gums on his bedroom wall btw). His home is infested with rats, cockroaches and god knows what else that I’m honestly surprised he hasn’t been bitten by a rat yet while he’s sleeping. The guy is so repulsed by water that I’m surprised he doesn’t have rabies. He can’t even drink it because he finds it gross. He won’t eat any fruit and vegetables for the same reason, they’re gross.

All he eats is junk food and fast food and he’s as thin as a rake. his gums are rotted. I’d be curious to know what his index and middle fingers look like at this point…

I honestly don’t know why people are still harping on this. what’s even the point? I know he’s on the files, you know he’s on the files, everyone knows. so why? do people honestly, firmly, believe that releasing said files will be an a-ha moment that will lead to his impeachment? no of course not. It’s such a stupid thing to be concerned about. Democrats file motions of impeachment against this asshole on a nearly weekly basis and it goes no where. like what’s the point? oh THIS time it will? no it won’t. Guy ignores the courts on a routine basis.

might as well just slap cancer warnings on everything these days. Launch a massive banner to orbit so everywhere can see the cancer warning for the sun. Doctors need to hold a cancer warning sign when a baby is being birthed so it’ll be the first thing they see because you can literally just get cancer for simply living.

Keep in mind that sometimes a Battle.net update will be released that will essentially break playing WoW and other games via the launcher on Linux. usually it’s resolved within a couple days. your best bet is to install it via a Lutris script and if something goes wrong DO post about it either on the Lutris Forums and/or Discord because one of the main Lutris devs is a WoW player so if there are issues with installing WoW on your system he will be right on top of it. It’s your best bet in resolving an issue, he knows all the work arounds and fixes to get battle.net and WoW running on any distro.

no clue. I just noticed it getting slower and worse not only on my instance but a few others thus the reason I switched.

nix-shell is great too. sort of like a “demo” of something before actually committing to it or if you just want to use something one off without adding it to your config and rebuilding.

As a dev it’s fantastic for testing also. can just try something on a bunch of browsers without actually installing the browser. love it.

they don’t understand it. How are you going to stop people from having a dedicated server outside the country and then setting up their own VPNs? Wireguard is free and easy to access, how do you stop that?

If I want to open up my personal VPN to a bunch of Americans to use for free then what? I’m not American, my server isn’t in America, so why can’t I just give access to a few Americans? Hell my server would be great cause it’s located in a University so…student discounts!

I believe if a new generation of consoles are released they’re just going to be glorified streaming boxes. Sony has pretty much hit a plateau as far as graphics go, there’s not much you can improve upon now. And sure people are cancelling and complaining about gamepass but Microsoft might just go the route of “we’ll tell you what you want, and if you want this exclusive you’ll have no choice but to subscribe”.

So you’ll pay for this streaming box, you’ll get maybe a couple months of the subscription for free, then you’ll pay $30 to $50 a month to get access to their catalog. Sony and Nintendo will follow suite. If you want to actually “own” anything you’ll play on PC and even then that’s truly up for debate. Like do you actually own the content you buy on Steam?

Japan has always been conservative. Always. People think because of the things they produce which are fun, entertaining, or technologically advance they would be very liberal and/or progressive but no at the end of the day Japan, culturally, is still very conservative.

So combine that with their declining population, racism that never truly went away, xenophobia, etc it makes sense. I’ve known people that moved there thinking it’d be a great time because they had such a massive interest in the Japanese “culture” but that “culture” was just window dressing. It’s not all fun anime, videogames, jpop, and fashion. They ended up moving back and completely losing interest in all things Japanese. It wasn’t a fun a experience for them.

the only issues I had with KDE when I was recently using it all revolved around the panel. Random crashes with “too much” interaction. Adding widgets for the panel or desktop is still to this day hit or miss. clicking the “get new widget” option is a roll of the dice if it will actually work or not or even find the thing you want. It’s still horrible at loading stuff in there. and installing whatever, again, is a roll of the dice if it will actually do it or not.

I like KDE, it’s a good and solid DE but man do they really need to focus on fixing the panels and the installation/discovery of widgets. The alternative is using the pling store and that’s just a headache on it’s own.

Bioshock, Dark Souls 3, and Cyberpunk 2077

Years ago when I still worked for companies as an employee my team had this PM that was so desperate to get things done and get them done early. I mean he was a nice guy but always pushing. The thing is though my team was pretty damn solid and we got stuff done early, all working, tests passed, all that cause we liked to play battlefield 3 and eve online together when we had the free time. Course we never told the PM this. Also the PM liked to motivate us with food if we worked late to get stuff finished. So we used this to our advantage and once or twice a week we allowed the PM to buy us dinner and beer/snacks because we told him we’d be working late to ensure deadlines were met. When in reality we’d just be in the office playing eve online together and wanted food and beer while we did so.

I don’t feel bad for the project manager, he came from money, he constantly told everyone he came from money, so we took his money.

someone likely borked IAM.

Go with Fedora KDE. it’ll be the most polished DE and a good starting off point for transitioning from Windows. Mint is fine but there can be issues. Ubuntu is a headache especially when it comes to updates and upgrades (experienced it on my server this past weekend) and their sneaky “we’ll install a snap instead” approach to some things I just don’t like.

Fedora is easy and a good middle ground to get them into Linux. Also since you already use Fedora it will be an easy transition for both of you since you can provide first hand support.

as others have stated, Friendica. The issue is finding a stable working instance. I was on Friendica.world but doesn’t work anymore as far as I can tell.

it’s funny because once you start using other distros you quickly realize how easy Arch actually is. I find Arch more straight forward and easier to use that Ubuntu. Ubuntu makes me want to rip what remaining hair I have out.

you’re such an obvious shill.

I support artists more than the pennies spotify pays them. Artists I like I’ll buy their merch, go to their shows, etc. They make more off that anyways.

on my CachyOS/Arch and NixOS machines I just use borg to backup to my dedicated server. Very easy to do. I have a couple alias’ set up so I can view my backups easily through my file manager on whatever local machine. Essentially all you have to do is make a script to tell it what files/folders to backup, what to potentially ignore, how often you want to backup, the time of day you want it to happen, can also tell it to delete old backups. In NixOS it’s painfully easy to set up and can be done within the configuration.nix. On other distros the only difference is you have to set up a service and timer for it.

but I like it, it’s straight forward, never had issues with it.