MasterBlaster

Honestly I thought the suffering in the world radicalized me, or the sheer inefficiency of the distribution of resources, or the enforcement of in-groups inherent to capitalist imperialism. But nah, brother, it's just the landlords. Just thinking about them too hard pissed me off one day.

You present the worst ideas possible but attach them to Approved Brand and a leading blurb and people will immediately regard your racism science with sincerity. Really demonstrates how these monstrously bad ideas got wind in the first place.

Absolutely, I just know lots of people are acclimated to cloud services and don't see building their own library as worthwhile vs just getting it online. You can totally have best of both worlds.

Google was perfect in 2006, nothing had to change.

US moves to primarily exporting slop, as is tradition.

It honestly takes very minimal effort to maintain a digital library for yourself. Swipe up an old office computer from a business auction for less than $50, install linux and start running that as a server from home. Store your media and books on it, set up remote access so you can stream it to yourself from any device. You can functionally replace streaming services for your media needs this way. It has the added benefit of being slightly more material than any cloud services you could access.

If you're new to this stuff, you can also should pick up a <$100 laptop and slap a user-friendly linux distro on it, and try daily driving linux as well as maintaining your server. Even the oldest, crustiest laptop runs Linux fine. You'll pick up so many great tech skills doing this and you can still keep a windows daily driver for work or whatever.

One of my first well received pieces was on Zomboid. Incredible piece of art

This made me weepy this morning :(

The puppy won't get any easier, it'll only get harder. It will get a lot harder before it gets any better. Honestly puppy training sucks. Are you a big dog person? Do you need to raise this dog? Why not home another older/well trained dog? Senior dogs are in dire need of homes everywhere.

That being said you will rise to a challenge if you set it for yourself. I know you probably don't resonate with that reasoning right now, but if you try to internalize it you'll find yourself fighting regardless of how bleak it all seems.

Reminds me of this junk article about scary North Koreans infiltrating the remote work pipeline.

Basically, North Koreans are so poor they are stealing remote jobs from Americans. This is actually very scary, because they're spies for the North Korean government. But, also, the North Korean government is lacking behind in their cyber-capabilities. Though, they're also using cutting-edge AI tactics regular people can't detect.

The article is functionally a remote working hit piece but implies many different, conflicting things about NK.

I'm currently playing Fallout 4 on my Steam Deck. The impressive caveat here is that I'm also running 800+ mods on it. I also used my Steam Deck to play Grounded 2's early access when it came out. I'm not here to boast about the performance or anything, neither broke 40 FPS, but both maintained a stable framerate. I feel like you're underestimating the use cases for the Deck.

You can't beat reading, but the Hammer and Sickle podcast is great entry level content and provides sources for further reading.