Miles O'Brien @ SARGE @startrek.website Posts 0Comments 985Joined 6 mo. ago
Ahhh, curse your sudden, but inevitable betrayal!
Yeah, I had been holding on to one last one after selling the rest (I made a whopping $13 yaaaaaaaaay)
Selling that shit the moment I can get to my laptop.
Oh man...
1: RIP to Trevor.
B, I remember every time this would make the rounds, so many people would get super pissed about it and go on huge multi-paragraph rants about how unfunny it was and that it should be deleted before the FBI arrests everyone who shares it.
The jokes write themselves.
"could be ousted"
Uhhhhhh no.
Nobody in their right mind would listen to this.
The Russian Puppet never intended to allow support to continue and is making shit up to try and justify halting aid without serious backlash.
Musketrump and the MAGAts can get fucked. Unless they're willing to go to war to enforce it, there's 0 chance of it happening. And if they go to war for that, they're going to have a hell of a lot of internal conflict that will absolutely result in blood. Militarily and civilian.
I don't know if I would call "life" a toy, but I guess everyone is different.
That would be great, but unfortunately for me I have too many programs that depend on windows, don't have Linux options, and if I'm being honest with myself I really just don't want to learn an entirely new ecosystem. I will if forced, but the moment this laptop shits itself or they discontinue support for the OS, I'm getting a crash course.
I'd love to turn an old tablet or somethinf into a Linux device in the meantime so I can at least start something. Too bad my parent's old kindles won't work, there's enough of them laying around their house...
Oh fuck yeah gimme that customization and personalization options
I used to use a program on one of my computers called rainmeter I think, and it allowed me to customize my desktop to look like the Animus menus from Assassin's creed 2. Then decided to go with hexagons everywhere, with the replacement start menu dead center screen and other buttons areayed out from there.
Haven't used it in many years, but I'd love that level of customization* on a pc nowadays. It seems like no matter where I go, every UI looks the same. Good for familiarity, not so much for "oh this is neat, they made it their own" factor.
*without learning entire programming languages, I hyperfixate on things but programming has never been something I've been able to get into
Every extreme sport is insane if you dissect it with rational thought about human frailty.
It's great!
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go strip to thin breathable cloth so I can tear along the countryside at speeds humans weren't designed to travel at, while dodging trees, bushes, occasional wildlife, roots and rocks, hoping my air filled donut bladders don't rupture and none of the welds on my metal stick give out. Once I'm done I'll cool off with a nice downhill roll, rivaling the cheetah on speed.
That said... Caves are one of those places I'd love to go to one someday but it won't be relaxing for me. They can be scary as FUCK. Don't even get me started on cave diving. Those people are insane and in need of therapy.
Hey look, a company the literally bears the name of the sitting us president is openly meddling in politics of other nations.
At least his predecessors had the decency to hide it.
I don't see how anyone can take anything they do or say seriously. And I don't mean "we shouldn't think they're serious" I mean "the whole world should be laughing at them instead of listening to them and nobody should do a single thing they say"
It's like someone fave toddlers the keys to the kingdom, and nobody is treating them like the toddlers they are.
The fact that anyone can see this and think "yes, this is a clear sign we must invest MORE in oil consumption" is wild to me.
If ONE country is shelling out as much for renewable as the rest of the world spends on fossil fuels, then MAYBE, just MAYBE there might be something to renewables, especially given all the things we see daily about how much more efficient renewables are, how much money is in the entire industry, how quickly people are switching to renewables...
It's mind boggling that anyone thinks fossil fuels are the future, or at least can convince other people that it's the future all while caring about just the money.
I'd love to have a power wall and a wind/solar setup for all my energy needs.
He really tells it like it is. Says what he means.
Violent protest? Prison.
No violent protest? Straight to Prison.
Talking online about possibly organizing a non violent protest? Believe it or not... Also prison.
Gee, when it's prison no matter what, I wonder what people will do? Hmm.
HMMMMMMMMMMM
I just bought a laptop last year (portability and space constraints, I'd love to build a pc when I have the space for it) and it was supposed to come with windows 10.
I got a windows 11 model shipped to me. I didn't ask for this. And I have to say.... I fucking hate it. Why does the start menu need to change locations...
My next computer will absolutely be Linux, and it's Microsoft's own stupid fault. Windows 10 WAS supposed to be my last windows OS...
My dad was convinced the fridge magnet he "wiped the hard drive with" was sufficient to destroy the data inside.
I plugged it in to the new computer and whattaya kno', booted up just fine.
At the time, I assume he just didn't know fridge magnets weren't powerful enough to do anything past the sheet metal exterior.
Now I'm convinced he physically wiped the fridge magnet all over the outside, thinking that literally you had to wipe the physical drive with any old magnet, and has absolutely no idea how hard drives stored data or why/how magnets work to disrupt it.
A subtle, but important difference.
I never part with my hard drives, once all the important data has been transferred and the entire hard rive has been backed up vie external storage, I disassemble it and cannibalize anything I need, and keep the actual disc assembly intact. I like spinning them by hand.
My first though in reading the title was "well when your alternatives are shit like fox or CNN, you might as well just get it from social media."
There's about the same amount of integrity from it, and it's way easier to think "man, this one guy I'm watching might not know what he's talking about" than it is to think "this whole team of people are wrong" but then you have to take into account the parasocial relationship many viewers have with their content providers. It's easier to trust "Paul" because he's wearing the same clothes I am, speaking to me the way I talk, giving me things I like to hear.
Content creators (I stubbornly refuse to call them 'influencers') will push brands and sponsors all day every day, but news outlets will fabricate your entire reality at the behest of whatever rich fuck is in charge. News outlets happily run state propaganda, knowing they are lies.
Conclusion: all media sucks. Sensory deprivation chambers are the future of mankind if we are to survive. And I'm only partially joking, I think.
Man, imagine if your neighbor was getting shot at by his neighbor on the other side, and while you're telling your neighbor "you got this Bro, I believe in you and here are some bullets" you go ahead to the other side and continue buying things from the shitbox taking potshots.
Buying stuff from Russia makes you a piece of shit. Pure and simple. You're funding genocide.
And please do bring up the US and Israel, as if I won't agree the US is a piece of shit for funding Israel's genocide of Palestine and you're engaging in whataboutisms I see people harping on every time China gets brought up.
Hey look, an administration that doesn't understand science continues to prove they don't understand science by threatening unscientific tests that are inadmissible as evidence in a trial.
Surprise, thy name is [ERROR, SURPRISE NOT FOUND]
Lmao this guy thinks hard work is what makes people rich instead of massive amounts of exploitation in an inherently exploitative economic system....
100%
I regretted setting my hand of fire with hand sanitizer.
I did it on purpose, fully knowing fire burns.
I just didn't think it would hurt so much before I could plunge my hand into the sink.
I did it intentionally, it wasn't an accident. I just wasn't prepared for the consequences at 11.
This administration has 0 excuse.