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  • "You can't fight here, this is the war room!"

  • Que? Hay un post en español fuera de los instantes Chilenos? Que rareza!

  • Does that mean you're no longer entitled to social security if your income is too high? I figure the rich can still get it anyway.

  • And now those same bumpkins are saying originating countries "are gonna pay for the tariffs".

  • Don't leave us hanging OP. Open it.

  • We might get another USS Liberty incident to try to fool the US it was attacked by Israel's enemies.

  • Wow just when I thought Borderlands 4 couldn't get any worse, they just keep piling on the disappointment. Thanks for giving me even more reasons to consider this franchise dead to me!

  • Nice. Can't wait to have dental fillings made of pee.

  • And yet its P/E ratio is at an astoundingly stupid 181.

  • For all the puritanical shame Americans have of their sexual organs, we sure are lax when it comes to giving a little privacy when taking a shit and sometimes even just pissing in a trough.

  • Most of these drugs are pretty much undetectable after abstaining for a few days. Big deal. Negative cannabis use surprised me a little but he probably left it behind when he picked up his ketamine binge. That said who the hell advertises their test results like this wtf?

  • Please stop rehashing old TV shows. TNG was great because Picard wasn't Kirk. DS9 was great because Sisko wasn't Picard. Give us new characters that continue the timeline instead of stagnating at the same old era with a shiny new coat of paint.

  • Books

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  • No but that sounds fucked up. A book collection should be a carefully curated catalog full of things that you personally love or find great use for, not some sad eclectic mix that looks like a hoarder's pile.

  • Melancholy?

  • Windows 7 was a beautifully simple yet versatile OS capable of running on some really weak hardware with little overhead. Windows 11 by comparison is a bloated monster that demands too many resources for mandatory background processes and wants to get its tentacles into every facet of your privacy.

    Gaming, simple office tasks, and web browsing work really well in Linux for the common layman. The next big hurdle is to offer some more niche programs that are easy to work with.

    I spent my whole weekend trying and failing to set up ZoneMinder, Motion, Shinobi, then finally ContaCam through WINE in an effort to make a simple air gapped security camera system in Linux Mint installed on a 13 year old laptop. I struggled through countless command lines trying very hard to understand what each one does, Time shifted a dozen times through installation failures, and I still couldn't get it done. The best I could do was unintentionally turn on my webcam after somehow managing to install Motion without then being able to access its functionality through a solely console based interface.

    I wanted to gift this laptop to my tech illiterate mom and give her peace of mind that no one was sneaking around in front of her house. Linux failed me on this if I couldn't even set up the software on my own, let alone my mom if she'd have to learn how to use a terminal to make it work. I wanted it to work so bad but the learning curve and difficulty to figure out why a PPA command failed after following an old and likely out of date guide had no workaround since support is so scarce. Old YouTube video guides with a couple hundred views offered no hints when a line I followed verbatim didn't work in my setup. As midnight was fast approaching I finally threw in the towel and set up Windows 7 with ContaCam running in less than 2 hours.

    Devs for Linux need to do better. If they want their OS of choice to get more mainstream then they need to develop for more mainstream users. A lot of these nittty gritty setup configurations need to be moved to the background with greater reliability and cross distro functionality. I get that there are things like Software Center that offer flatpaks have at least some ease of use when it comes to installing software, but the point is lost when some of that software doesn't actually run or even appear anywhere after installing, like ZoneMinder.

  • Meanwhile Melania sits as still and lifeless as their marriage.

  • That's me alright. Not from lack of trying mind you but I've had to reinstall my OS a couple of times this weekend to make an install boot properly on an old laptop. I'mma have to reinstall again because I messed up a console install.

  • Location: Raj Ampat archipelago in Indonesia. Rare metal: Nickel.