Someonelol

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[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I was fresh out of college before finding my first job. A friend worked at a company that sets up large fancy decorations for all sorts of events and helped me get some overflow work. I was brought on as a freelancer for a 30 hour shift on a new year's block party where we started that morning by making multiple trips to and from the site to bring our gear.

The first 12 hours went fine as we went to three different sites around the block but one of my new coworkers was a bit unstable to say the least. I must've rubbed him the wrong way because as we were sitting around eating dinner among some tables set up during the celebrations I mentioned I was so tired I couldn't taste the food. Somehow that triggered the guy and he got up directly from me, shoved me off my chair, and just said "I don't like you" then casually walked off. Mind you, this all happened in a large crowd so it caused a hell of a scene. My buddy and I were just left dumbstruck while a security guard came by and demanded to know who we were working with to report on the guy. We didn't want to get into trouble so we just made up some info and got the hell out of there ASAP.

The last few hours were tense as my assailant and I avoided each other while we started tearing down the decorations an hour after the countdown. My boss saw some blood on my hand where I fell and I had to make up a story that I just scratched it against a post somewhere. I never went back to work at that company again. I later heard from my friend that the same guy ended up knocking down someone else at another job. I often wonder if he eventually got his ass kicked or end up in jail for assaulting the wrong guy.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

No way so many Republicans can remain this delusional. There are so many "I didn't vote for this!" videos floating around.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

TIL kissing a burning piece of coal cleans you of sin.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

Fedora: requires some rework of Nvidia drivers to wake the screen back up from sleep. Updating GPU drivers does nothing to improve game rendering so frame rates for games of yesteryear on a RTX3080 were single digit. Required some changes to h264 drivers just so I could see videos on YouTube or Dailymotion while simultaneously messing with my VLC install. My VPN blocks off my subnet whenever it's on so I can't access my NAS.

CachyOS (Arch fork): drivers for my printer aren't available without compiling them myself which did not go well. My preferred 3d printer slicer is difficult to install but that's because I'm a total noob when it comes to installing anything from GitHub. My VPN blocks off my subnet whenever it's on I can't access my NAS.

So far ChachyOS has given me the best experience out of a few other distros like Mint or Bazzite.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 20 hours ago (12 children)

The only way to truly avoid that outcome is with enforceable rules around consent, transparency, and control, letting drivers see exactly what’s being collected, who it’s going to, and giving them a real way to say no. That, or skip the connected car entirely and drive something that isn’t quietly reporting back every time you hit the brakes.

Yeah none of that's gonna happen anytime soon. When my 16 year old car bites the dust my next car will be another one from that same era. I'm not letting big brother know everything about me and jack up my insurance rates for the privilege of being spied on.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 day ago

Fascists eventually end up turning on their own. Let the serpent eat its own tail.

Say that to LA. A lot of commercially active places were hit pretty hard.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 day ago (16 children)

Those who want to hurt others who are just trying to live their lives peacefully deserve to be hurt themselves. May she get roughed up and deported by ICE.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Fuck 'em. Deport every last Trump-voting immigrant out. It's what they wanted, right? I only wish ICE would stop there.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago

It's New Jersey for anyone wondering. Really didn't expect them of all places to do it.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

A lot of places around here aren't observing this holiday. It's kinda sad.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago

This is why security through obscurity doesn't work.

 

I'm trying to install either a .deb or .rpm driver for a Canon MF212w printer. Unfortunately since CachyOS is an Arch-based OS it lacks a straightforward way to go with the installation. I checked out a few different tutorials on Youtube but they all basically say to not do it their way since it could work but at the cost of messing up some dependencies. Is there a safe way to install either version of this program without damaging any other files or directories?

~/Downloads/linux-UFRII-drv-v620-us/x64/RPM

❯ ls -l

.rw-r--r-- 7.5M admin 4 Jun 22:56  cnrdrvcups-ufr2-us-6.20-1.01.x86_64.rpm

~/Downloads/linux-UFRII-drv-v620-us/x64/Debian

❯ ls -l

.rw-r--r-- 7.6M admin 4 Jun 22:56  cnrdrvcups-ufr2-us_6.20-1.01_amd64.deb

 

Hi all. I'm trying out Cachy for the first time and was testing an old game on Steam (Anomaly Warzone Earth). The game went full screen but was stuck in a loading loop where I couldn't Alt+tab or Alt+F4 my way out of. The OS was still responsive and I could open up a terminal but as soon as I did, the game's loading screen would block my view. Is there a way to force minimize or kill a program when it's stuck in full screen? I heard xkill could work but I don't see how to use it when I can't even see the terminal.

 

I just finished a preliminary interview for a medium sized engineering company. The interviewer was impressed with my background and asked to proceed with my candidacy but wanted four additional rounds of interviews and a 30 minute technical presentation about how I solved a problem. I turned them down and said I don't work for free, the amount of time it would take to gather my notes and thoughts on a slide deck would be too much. She quickly soured and we ended the call soon after. I feel like I dodged a bullet going through a gauntlet of work for the high chance of ending up with nothing.

What are Lemmy's thoughts on preparing presentations for lengthy job interview processes? Would you have considered going through with it?

 

Just finished installing the under frame. I'm so reluctant to add on the armor and have been taking weeks having the figure sit in the back of the kitchen table while admiring the details when eating.

 

Hello, I recently bought an old Lenovo Thinkpad X130e (ca. 2012) and tried installing Linux Mint ver. 22.1 Xfce edition into the laptop's HDD and received a "Linux Mint unable to install GRUB in dev/sda" error that only let me boot into a GRUB terminal after rebooting. Is there an easily available installation guide/manual for this laptop I could take a look at? I've tried adjusting the BIOS' UEFI/boot settings but haven't had any luck. I figure there's a way to manually configure the HDD to have a bootable partition during installation but I'm not sure what I'm doing exactly.

UPDATE: Finally fixed the issue. I rebooted on the USB stick iso after the latest GRUB install error and ran the Boot Repair utility from the start menu. It automatically fixed the issue and was able to successfully boot without the USB. Hopefully this helps someone if they run into a similar issue later.

 

Back in the 80's, Atari had a monopoly of games and charged absurd amounts of money for titles that pretty much had no quality control. The cost of each cartridge would easily go over $100 in today's money and gamers began to pull back on purchasing anything. This eventually culminated in the infamous E.T. movie tie in that led to pallets of its unsold cartridges ending up in a landfill and crashing the industry.

Now that Nintendo's signaled to the rest of the industry it's okay to sell digital titles at $80 each, how soon do you see gamers collectively hold back on their purchases that will eventually collapse the AAA market? Will the current trade war play a role in the hardware side of things with the collapse? Will all major companies save Nintendo suffer the downturn?

 

I'm planning to go to a rural spot that has a Bortle class 3 night sky around Southern California. Can anyone recommend a beginner friendly telescope with decent magnification for around $200? I'm not interested in using an accompanying smart phone app to go with it either. I'd like to see nebulae and galaxies the most. Thank you.

 

There should be a kind of "sorting hat" personality test to attract the interest of prospective Lemmy joiners. People who love solarpunk stuff, for example, would easily find their home in slrpnk.net. Set a link to it on sites like join-lemmy.org to make the fediverse more approachable to casuals.

 

 

I followed the maintenance guide and applied belt lube as instructed. Friction eventually caused the motor to overheat. Support said they meant to include using all 4 ounces of lube that came with it at a time. I'll be getting a new drive board to replace the burnt out one soon. Yep.

 
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