PolarisFx

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[–] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I hate the one he has his wife do, trying to get the immigrant vote.

You'd think Harper would have his puppet say something that would appeal to the public. Honestly if they hadn't scrapped the carbon tax he'd just be repeating "Axe the Tax" ad nauseum.

[–] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's a good idea actually. I hate writing regex, so I asked Gemini to do it just now. Once I explained it in the format it wanted: what the source would be, what I wanted filtered and the language I planned to use it with it spat out a perfect expression without me needing to even use my brain. Technology is wonderful.

[–] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

Depends, my browser has mostly taken over as my pdf viewer and I think it lacks the functionality but if I were to install a cracked copy of Acrobat Pro or PhantomPDF then that's like a 2 click operation.

[–] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago

All the tech executives from silicon valley that are our age all restrict cellphone use by their kids. If the people creating the tech that ruined a generation don't let them use their own devices that say a lot.

[–] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Definitely, and modded Minecraft has taken a great game and made it so much better. The "Create" mod alone has made MC so much more than what Mojang intended.

And the launchers available for Linux let you use modpacks from every source including FTB, letting you forgo a launcher full of ads.

[–] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yea and the whole Trump "He's not my kind of guy" thing screams like a lie to get Canadians to think Skippy isn't affiliated with Trump. But Skippy meeting with the family that owns the largest chain of for-profit hospitals is what scares me the most. If he wins, he'll push either an American system, or more likely a 2 tier system. Either way we get fucked.

[–] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

That brought me back, I was on IRC in 1994 and someone shared the link to a website of the anarchists cookbook. And that is the first site I remember visiting... My brain says it was probably a Geocities site, but so much of the internet was that I can't recall

[–] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago

Picked up the audiobook, narrated by the author herself. I'm about 9 hours into the book, and nothing has really shocked me, more reaffirmed my thoughts on tech companies as a whole.

Every time I see Zuck talk in public, I can easily picture myself in his shoes: a software engineer way out of his depth. The fact that the engineers rule Facebook is exactly how I would run a tech company, obviously there has to be business people but I'd want my friends and the people like me to be the ones I'd deal with most and the ones making decisions.

I'm at the point where zuck is finding out from his senior execs the role Facebook played in Trump's win. And then him getting a taste of real power, not just billionaire CEO power, as the world leaders start sucking up to him knowing how big a role FB will play in their own countries elections.

I like the book so far, and the author really paints a picture of who she is as a person. So you easily understand how she's feeling during every part of this. She went into the business wanting to save the world, and while Facebook had the ability to be that, the senior execs clearly had a different goal in mind, alot of them came from Google and probably left because they didn't click with the "Don't be Evil" thing. I think Google had to drop that too because all these executives are just naturally evil.

[–] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

It's pretty common for me at least, I went from manjaro which broke during an update, to endeavour which broke many times but by that point I clued in to btrfs and it's snapshots. Now I have my home directory split into different hard drives and I just keep my fstab file backed up online in the event that a snapshot can't save me. Which happened last week, rather than continue on with endeavour I tried CachyOS this time. One day I'll install Arch the way it was meant to be, but until then...

[–] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

No, I've been running Endeavour forever and know his pain quite well. It's almost always core packages that break it. None of the stuff from the AUR has ever caused issues. That being said he should be using btrfs and taking regular snapshots. Sometimes I feel like installing grub just to make recovering snapshots easier.

Twice this year I've had updates break the system, both were core packages. I just restore a snapshot then delay my next update for a couple days and it's usually fixed.

[–] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

Amitriptyline as well, started taking it for peripheral neuropathy. Ended up on a higher dose because it's a heavy sedative. Take it before bed, and I'm out. I was taking Zopiclone before, to help me sleep but don't need it now. Also it failed as an antidepressant but works wonders for antianxiety.

[–] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

*High fructose corn syrup water

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