I was military before my first civilian job.

We had that lesson beat into our heads repeatedly, and yet there were still people who never quite picked up on it.

We had the consent to monitoring pop-up every single time we logged onto a government computer, and then had that consent to monitoring explicitly spelled out every three months as we had to complete a computer based training program.

For some people, it still didn’t take.

All that said, this particular thought crime detection effort is creepy as fuck.

Republican AGs have already said they’ll use KOSA to block anything trans related, so maybe don’t bring that up when talking to Republican senators.

Brother printers are great. If only because they don’t add all the pointless bullshit add-on “features” that everyone else does.

Brother printers, they’re just printers. Nothing more, nothing less.

They also take third party ink.

That’s the coin flip.

The problem is, you can’t trust ChatGPT to not lie to you.

And since generative AI is now being used all over the place, you just can’t trust anything unless you know damn well that a human entered the info, and then that’s a coin flip.

Punches the computer and starts blaming the Jews, because the unfortunate truth is that Bobby Fisher, in addition to be a massive prima donna, was kind of a Nazi.

It’s actually pretty wild, Bobby Fisher’s chess mentor openly walked around with a swastika lapel pin, in the 1950s.

Yup, kbin for the win.

Just wish it had a mobile app…

I loved that series as a manga. Not watched the adaptation yet.

But it does make sense in a way. Dragon steak has been a trope for decades.

It’s just that some monsters are sentient… That raises questions when you put them on the menu.

You should also take the post with a grain of salt, In addition to his shitty politics, Lunduke doesn’t have the best reputation for truthfulness in his tech reporting.

He’s fudged numbers before, and often makes clickbait titles that just are not supported by his blog posts or videos.

The shitty politics were not the only reason I started ignoring his dumb ass.

Seems to be a Qanon guy. Or he was for a time. I’ve not paid attention to him in years.

He also always came off as a grifter in search of a con, so the Qanon shit might have been part of that, but who can ever tell with those people.

Hyperloop didn’t fail, it did exactly what Musk wanted. It killed the California high speed rail plan. At least for a few years.

It’s the only thing that works. Shouting Nazis into silence is the best early way to deal with them. Show up to protest in huge numbers, deplatform them, force them to scurry back into the shadows.

Most importantly of all, keep them from recruiting more.

Once these efforts fail, all you’re left with is violence, and violence will come, because the Nazis love it.

Brother is the go to because their stuff is basic and functional.

All the other companies have “innovated” to the point where their shit is unusable for daily use.

I just had a flashback of trying to get cups working…

I’m sort of glad I haven’t had to use a printer in years.

Windows 11 also drove me to Linux again…

Although to be fair, it came pre-installed on my new laptop and I was just too lazy to wipe it and switch over. My (now) backup laptop has been running ubuntu for years now, same with my desktop before it died.

But I got about 6 months of windows 11 after de-cluttering it. Still wasn’t enough to convince me to keep it.

Shelly and 2020 Subarus.

If I were a data miner, that sort of info could identify, well, more people than I expected, honestly.

It doesn’t matter how many people use the service, what matters is how many advertisers are left vs how much debt twitter has to service.

Those two numbers seem to be heavily on the side of the debt now.

Daily Driver

Here’s someone using the term in 2011.

https://xdaforums.com/t/what-os-are-you-using-as-your-daily-driver.919218/

And I’m sure there are plenty of older examples.

But some others are here from 2015

https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34990

2017

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=222919

2014 (ish?)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2njaz3/what_are_you_using_as_your_daily_driver/

All that from a simple google search.

Ah yeah, Lamp. I’ve not gotten it to work at all.

As for Lutris, I tried both Vortex and the BG3ModManager. Couldn’t get either working.

I even tried a straight wine install.

So I’ve been forced to do mod entries by hand. And even that isn’t working, but at least I’ve stopped crashing the game.

Fun fact about Lutris and BG3ModManager, apparently a recent update to Lutris broke compatibility. I’ve yet to track down which version, I’ve just seen posts on various forums from the last few weeks talking about it.

Last week I ditched windows for linux on my last computer.

And yesterday and today have been spent working fruitlessly to mod Baldur’s Gate 3.

I cannot for the life of me figure out what’s going wrong. So far, I’ve gotten a grand total of zero mods to work. If I were still on Windows, I could use one of two or three separate mod managers.

Sadly, this new laptop didn’t come with Windows 10, only 11. Which was what fueled the drive to ditch it for linux.