Someonelol

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[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 20 hours ago

The Streisand Effect in action. It doesn't care whether those who want privacy are good or bad. The only way to stay relatively anonymous is to never use tech, go outside, or do anything noteworthy.

Screaming into pillows is the best way to do it from the comfort of your bed.

One needs an income three times over the California value to even have a chance at owning a home. How is barely being able to afford a shitty one bedroom apartment in the state considered middle class?

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago

They propagate far faster than the diseases can take them. While they refuse preventative measures, most wouldn't hesitate to get treated once an infection gets serious so their stupidity lives on.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is a culmination of years in which gamers kept getting ignored when they ask for some consideration to their needs like more memory, better Linux drivers, and smaller form factors. Instead we get hit with their server farm AI slop runoff and told this is what we want. To me it's an insult for wanting something that's more specialized to gaming and graphical work rather than some LLM platform.

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

Why does this make it feel like we're living in Roman times?

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

The potato is searing hot and will burst, scalding all who are there. The AI bubble causing massive power, water, and electronics inflation and removing so much liquidity in the market that it's starting to look like Death Valley. Traditional US car companies abandoning EVs in favor of protectionism for their gas guzzlers that are steadily losing out to Chinese brands overseas. A ton of zombie companies propped up by cheap debt. The monopolization of food wholesale like Sysco that can dictate market prices and makes almost every mom and pop restaurant taste identical throughout the country. The housing bubble getting so bad that the number of vacant homes to homeless people is like 20:1.

How I see crowds of ordinary people going out to eat at expensive locations day after day is beyond me.

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

It's used by companies for its rock-solid stability in long up times.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago

Always cover your ass. Take notes of everything, send emails out with important details of who was supposed to do what. It'll help you avoid trouble when something goes wrong and fingers start being pointed.

If you're aloof in the office and your campus has several buildings to work at, you can work remote without anyone ever noticing.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago

I enjoyed the film since it tried to blend science fiction and fantasy elements. The team at Square Pictures should have kept a tighter control on the story to keep it from getting overly convoluted though. It shouldn't have been called Final Fantasy at all, that only served to confuse and disappoint fans.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What book is this? Sounds like something Steinbeck would write.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

The video showed several people saying they supported the higher gas prices. That lady was the exception who finally learned that the golden asshole isn't someone who should be in power. I don't have high hopes she wouldn't vote for him again though.

 

A lot of older PC games can run just fine on modern phone hardware. I'd buy a SteamOS version of a phone that has some modular or built-in set of buttons and analog sticks. I don't know how the app ecosystem would work for sensitive things like banking but it's mostly a minor issue for me.

 

You're constantly reminded to check the hour in case you have an appointment to keep

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/freecad@lemmy.ml
 

I just downloaded FreeCAD to build a simple part and was following this tutorial to learn my way through the basics. Unfortunately I got stuck pretty quickly around the 2:38 part where I need to select a plane to start a drawing in. For some reason, the coordinate system planes don't show up even if the eye icon is lit up. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong here?

Upon posting a screenshot here, I think my CachyOS KDE theme might have something to do with the display as I view a mostly blank white screen while the screenshot is showing black for some reason. I've already tried changing the theme under Preferences but it seemed to make things worse, with some parts of the Start tab being unreadable.

EDIT: I should also point out that the FreeCAD client was downloaded via the CachyOS Package Manager. I heard sometimes using software from Flatpaks and other similar sources clashes with system themes. Should I use a different installation method?

How it's supposed to look like:

How my setup looks like:

 

How can I make a desktop shortcut of the two highlighted shell files (forge.sh and forge-adventure.sh)? Copying and pasting doesn't work since the filepath isn't brought over with them. I've tried using Menu Editor but can't find a decent guide on setting it up.

 

Prices have inflated so much over the past 10 years that a $20 bill buys as much as $5 did back then.

 

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

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/cachyos@sopuli.xyz
 

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?

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