NutWrench

What are your thoughts on mass surviellence?

I’m . . . against it? Is this a trick question? But just in case it isn’t: don’t buy products with cameras and microphones and network connectivity built into them.

Also keep your online life completely separate from your real life. That means NO personal info on line. At all.

“The purpose of discipline is to live more fully, not less”

Especially in light of Microsoft CoPilot. You do not want obvious spyware on any computer.

Voodoo Banshee, so I could play Quake, Unreal and Deus Ex.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs shows what it takes for humans to be happy. A lot of people can’t even reach level 1.

https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html

This. You can usually spot bots from their low- value click bait. (“should cannibalism be legal?”,“why does God allow evil to exist?”,“Trump is a genius”, etc).

The U.S. also has a huge defense industry that has made people ridiculously rich at the expense of U.S. taxpayers. Those billionaires are heavily invested in the defense industry, so it’s not in their interests that wars end at all.

This is that “military-industrial complex” that former President Eisenhower warned us about so many years ago. His concern was that the U.S. would become bogged down in an endless series of “forever wars” that do nothing but transfer wealth to the already-wealthy.

Keeping that military industrial complex well-fed is the reason why so many politicians have such a boner for war. Not only to keep their wealthy sponsors happy, but to keep tax money and jobs flowing to their states, which just happen to manufacture war materiel.

I hate commercials that have NO connection to the product they’re selling. At all. Like, somebody literally wasted your company’s money to make a video about nothing.

Showing the benefits of your product is step 1 of advertising. Creativity is dead.

If the game is Elder Scrolls, then I beat the OS by waving my Wabbajack and the Windows OS turns into Linux.

Paisley. It was really popular pattern in the late 1960s / early 1970s in curtains and furniture.

I’m currently into 3D factory building games, so I would recommend Techtonica or Satisfactory.

When you take file sizes into account, EBooks are the most high-density entertainment you can bring. Followed by old-school games, then music, then video.

I save my profanity for times and things that are truly worth getting upset about. If you use it all the time, then it becomes meaningless. It just becomes background noise and you sound like a 10 year old all the time.

I’d love it if VirtualBox emulated some really basic 3D cards (Voodoo 3, Radeon 9800) so I could do some old school gaming. I have a few old Windows games that won’t run under Wine.

Usenet was awesome. A distributed, decentralized network, with thousands of forums. Until it got taken over by spam and porn and a lack of moderation.

Now we have Lemmy. Let’s not mess it up.

Imagine if Wine became the new Windows. (Or became all that was left of Windows).

Supernatural?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Supernatural_(British_TV_series)&wprov=rarw1

Henry Kissinger. Whenever you needed the most depraved, amoral, anti-democratic take on anything, whether it was the Vietnam war or the Khmer Rouge or the civil rights movement, you could always count on Henry farking Kissinger.

I’ve got two separate drives. Linux Mint on an SSD and Windows 10 on an older, mechanical drive. Leave the Windows drive alone. Make the Linux drive the first drive in your BIOS boot order, with the option to boot to Windows as your second drive.

If your GRUB menu doesn’t show the Windows drive yet, run “sudo update-grub” to detect it. When your reboot, the bootloader should show both options.

I also think the smartest thing Valve ever did was add Proton to their Linux platform. They are going to capture about 90% of gamers migrating from Windows to Linux. It’s a lot easier for gamers to use a pre-configured platform than fiddle with Wine settings for each game.