Crozekiel

joined 2 years ago
[–] Crozekiel@kbin.social 55 points 2 years ago (12 children)

I feel like your strawman missed the point. No one claimed all men or women are the same, and literally no one said "Women have differing tastes. Men on the other hand all like the same." (or even tried to make that point)...

[–] Crozekiel@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's a basket the imp too?! I only know about shovel...

[–] Crozekiel@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't think that is accurate, as my companions OFTEN say they are "just so tired" when I still have BOTH short rests available... I swear sometimes they say it when everyone is full health, plenty of spells and barely have started the day. I also don't remember them basically ever saying it during act 1 and most of act 2, but that was around the time Patch 1 came out... I'm wondering if they added triggers for those lines to subtly convince people to spend more time in camp to progress some of the story - something to combat the fact that a lot of people seem to be missing lots of story by resting infrequently.

[–] Crozekiel@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lot of people hating on Garuda here, but I have loved it. Hopefully it goes as smoothly for you as it has for me - it's been an absolute breath of fresh air. :)

[–] Crozekiel@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What falls into "unknown"??

[–] Crozekiel@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

My biggest recommendation would be to stay away from Manjaro - they are trying to split the difference between a "long term stable" and a "rolling release" and it just doesn't seem to work out well long term. Your mileage may vary on that, but I found it to work well and liked it for a few months and then it would just become fubar after an update and I'd end up trying a re-install - rinse and repeat. It steered me away from Linux for a while.

Really, you can be happy on any distribution. Best advice I can give is try several of them. Look into "Ventoy", which lets you setup a single USB stick (probably want a big one) that you can drag and drop the iso files onto at will and then boot to live environments to try out several different distributions without constantly re-doing the USB stick. Then from there, pick the one you like the look and feel of the most.

I personally have had great luck on Garuda Linux, lots of gaming oriented stuff installed out of the box, and you have access to AUR (which is one of the best parts of Arch based linux), and there are GUI interfaces to manage most of the settings that work well. It has a comfortable level of "hand holding" without trying to restrict you a lot, imo.

[–] Crozekiel@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't know how common it is anymore, but it definitely was a few years back. You knew a computer was infected with everything when you saw a stupid cartoon dinosaur or something as the mouse cursor as soon as the pc booted to windows... I think it was more about what was bundled in the download from scummy websites doing the damage though, not the actual cursor files. I still cringe though if I see a non-standard cursor in windows, like PTSD-esque flashbacks...

[–] Crozekiel@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

I'd bet it is a typo stating ddr5, not on the CPU model. 8GB sticks of ddr5 are rare enough to find as singles, and 4gb sticks basically don't exist - makes more sense if it is a DDR3 system. Plus, the GT 730 is basically only barely a graphics card, a lot of them are Fermi based chips (like gt 400 series from 2010)... They are dirt cheap video output for a machine that otherwise wouldn't have any video out, but they get packaged by less than honest companies/people with other old hardware and marketed as "gaming computers" all the time unfortunately.

Ubuntu is not the limiting factor to this machine gaming, unfortunately. It is going to be choking itself on basically any games from the last 10 years :(

[–] Crozekiel@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is it possible to do something like this that can be left on 100% of the time, with some sort of USB pass-through for further connectivity and charging? Or is that too asking too much of the board?

[–] Crozekiel@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Clunker really doesn't come close to the cars it referenced though. Not trying to defend it's use, I understand what everyone is talking about here. There really is no good replacement word though, which is frustrating. Like, that entire era of car culture came and went before many of us involved knew the word was racist (or at least before we were mature enough to care).

[–] Crozekiel@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago

paypal's business model is basically theft. They regularly "freeze" accounts of people that have money to be taken, refuse to unfreeze them, and then when it eventually turns into a class-action lawsuit they settle for pennies on the dollar (that mostly goes to attorneys anyway). When it happened to me over 10 years ago, I was doing remote tech support and getting paid via paypal. Had a business account that was like 10 years of use. Then one day they froze the account and told me there was "suspicious activity".

When I appealed and asked what suspicious activity they found, they simply said that there was money in the account and there wasn't before... Then they asked for, specifically, ebay transaction IDs and UPS or Fedex tracking numbers for the products sold on ebay. I explained to them again that I was not selling on ebay and was doing remote tech support. The person on the other end of the phone just said "ok, well, then your appeal is denied. Your account is staying frozen" and hung up.

I ended up just refunding all the transactions that were recent enough I could (because that was the only thing I could do with the account) and sent those customers a note explaining briefly what happened and that I would rather have done the work for free than have done it so paypal can steal the money...

Eventually got tacked onto a class action and got a low double digit payout almost a decade after losing a few thousand...

[–] Crozekiel@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does it scare anyone else that our society seems to completely rely on there always being more people tomorrow than yesterday? It just isn't sustainable. There are too many people on this planet already, and we are seeing the effects of it worse every day...

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