NutWrench @ NutWrench @lemmy.ml

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Old games stood on their own merits: artwork, sound design, game mechanics. I have no idea what "retro authenticity" is supposed to be, but it doesn't sound like it involves inspiration or imagination.

What is "lol?" Is it a drug? IS IT A DRUG?

"Not realizing. "

No. They absolutely realized it. Farking the country up is the entire point

This. You don't "negotiate" with the Patent Office. The courts decide whether patent infringement has occurred. You "negotiate" with THEM.

I recommend Keepass. It's freeware, is available on all platforms and supports biometrics (fingerprints, etc) on Android devices. It also encrypts the password file on your device, so you can keep a copy of that file on a cloud service without worrying if that service really respects your privacy or not.

"Died unblocking my sacral Chakra."

Finally uninstalled Google Maps. Installed Organic Maps, instead. (f-droid).

You just couldn't resist sucking up to Trump, could you Google? Remember when your company motto was, "don't be evil?" That was 20 years ago.

I also recommend StreetComplete (fdroid), an app that lets you contribute to the OpenStreetMaps database. It shows you a local map and asks questions like, how wide is this road? What kind of road is it? Is there a pedestrian crossing here? What kind of parking is here? How do power lines attach to this pole? etc.

Finally uninstalled Google Maps. Installed Organic Maps, instead. (f-droid).

You just couldn't resist sucking up to Trump, could you Google? Remember when your company motto was, "don't be evil?" That was 20 years ago.

This. And there is no way Trump will keep any "deal" that costs him money. He has literally built his business around stiffing contractors. No one should trust him or expect him to keep his word.

Just wait until bots learn how to write agit-prop. We won't be able to keep up with it.

Huffing Donald Trump's farts isn't a "job."

Company-wide email: "We've had our best year ever and it's all thanks to YOU!"

Me: "Great. Can I have a raise?"

Company: "Oh, we can't afford THAT."

You'll probably be installing programs and changing a lot of settings over the next few weeks. Make sure you use TimeShift (pre-installed on Mint) to make system snapshots. (It works like System Restore on Windows. You can even run it from your Linux Live flash drive if you mess up something so badly that you can't boot from the hard drive).

LibreOffice comes pre-installed and you can use Thunderbird for email. And if you used Steam to play games on Windows, you're in for a nice surprise. Steam has a native Linux client and it uses Proton / Wine to let you play your Windows games on Linux. It's handled everything I've thrown at except for a couple of older games.

A media player that isn't just a modified android tablet in a box with an HDMI output. (And loaded with spyware). And doesn't require an always-on internet connection.

Yup. If your company is too cheap to do pizza parties anymore then either the pizza is too expensive for them to provide (bad sign) or management can't spare you being off the clock for an hour (another bad sign).

What was it last week? China had invented Internet hardware that was 5,000 times faster than any current hardware? And a few weeks earlier, they had built a new particle accelerator more powerful than the one at CERN? If you're going to make shit up, at least make it believable.

I suppose next week, China is going to invent Cold Fusion. And the week after that, they'll put the first man on Mars!

So Elmo and his team of Cub Scouts can rob the US Treasury blind. DOGE, despite its association with Trump, is NOT a government agency and they have no business even being in a government building, much less attaching shit to their computers.

I still have an old, Viewsonic media player. I wish I could find a modern one that didn't need an always-on Internet connection.

A . . . "final solution" you might say.