Wolf314159

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[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 8 minutes ago

When I buy a gal flowers, she usually just sets them out in a pretty vase, but she's welcome to just graze on them if she chooses. I don't judge. Orchids are pretty bland in my opinion, but nasturtiums have a nice peppery bite that goes well with salad.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 33 minutes ago

What does any of this have to do with KDE, Gnome, or nautilus? If symlinks aren't working, I'd dedicate an entire drive to Steam by mounting that drive (with matching permissions) right where Steam expects to find them. You can mount a filesystem/disc/ISO/drive/network share practically anywhere you want. If your network is fast enough, I bet you could even access your games over NFS, though I wouldn't recommend it.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website -3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

No need to be a troll

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Even Starbucks doesn't really call that just a macchiato. It's a latte macchiato. If it had Carmel on top and vanilla in the milk it would be a caramel macchiato. It both cases, to any fool that cared to pay attention, macchiato simply means marked. If you point that out to someone and you that rather than being right about what it's called, it quickly becomes clear if they are just rightly confused and ignorant or looking to start some drama. Some people get VERY aggressive when they sense any slight on their pride. Some people have some very outsized feelings about how Starbucks makes and names their products.

Same deal with the short, tall, grande, venti, trente vs. small, medium, large, 20oz, 30oz. confusion. That one was tricky because Karen's would misinterpret the calling of the drinks to the bar as a correction. Those people were generally miserable and hopeless.

Diplomatically negotiating these kinds of conversations is a special kind of hell, but the lessons can be valuable. Unfortunately, it's a skill that most people don't get paid enough for.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 15 points 1 day ago (4 children)

They remember at time when we weren't all within reach of our own personal phone line 24/7. During that forgotten time, they were mostly children and expected to answer the landline and play the respectful secretary for the family. Sure, you MIGHT call someone's house if you cared or dared to run the gauntlet of dealing with whomever answered the home phone and it wasn't so private that you'd risk someone listening in from another room of your house or theirs. Party lines were even still a thing in some places. You could listen in to wireless handset phone with a baby monitor. Phone conversations carried a lot of emotion baggage.

The dotcom bubble burst just after we all got cell phones. As a result of this quirk of timing, most millennials grew up socializing a lot with people remotely via text based conversations over the Internet using things like Bulletin Board Services/Forums, IRC, ICQ, newsgroups, etc. These were free and far from the prying eyes of parents or easily hidden. But, that would have all been done at the home or school computer just like the landline (usually sharing the same literal line), not a thing you carried with you.

Millennials spent vast oceans of time being completely and utterly unreachable unless physically present and together, learning to converse face to face or in paragraphs of text from a box at home. Even emojis were text. Images were slow, small, and low quality, so the memes were rare and crafted with care.

When millennials got their first phone, it would have been likely for most that they'd most often be used by parents checking in. Cell phones were still mostly an in case of emergency type communication device, not your daily driver. That battery was limited and charging was slow. Even though text messages of the time carried a stiff financial cost, millennials stuck in class could converse by tapping out messages on the phones physical number pad buttons while pretending to pay attention.

TLDR: Millennials grew up during a communication technology revolution and as a result they've got some hang ups about always with you communication devices. Voice and video calls are an intrusion. For many, a ringing phone signals only parents, authority, or debt collectors.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

On top of all the other atrocities involved, warehouses aren't usually designed with the water and sewer capacity to handle that many people.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 3 days ago

What's that? Is it like IRC with a GUI? /s

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Are you the same person (Kream) being snarky and rude to the developers in the bug report?

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No, that's not actually true. None of what you claim here is true without qualifications that make your statements meaningless.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 4 days ago

I've lived through attempts to switch to metric and Y2K. Tech problems are easy compared to changing direction against societal interia.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's literally impossible to make it through the green card process without overstaying your visa. The Excutive branches choices to violate court orders, ignore due process, and erase everyone's constitutional rights is a fair bit more than "not honoring exemptions anymore". The right (and you apparently) keep trying to justify the daily atrocities by claiming that if people only followed the law they wouldn't be targeted; that is patently and obviously false.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 12 points 5 days ago (4 children)

This should be always. We could easily have 13 months with an even 28 days, or four weeks, every year. But, you're going to say, "What about that last day?" That's new year's day, it's once a year, not ever a regular day of the week, and every leap year we get 2 of them and make a weekend of it. Those remainder calendar days don't need to be a particular day of the week, we can just make them holidays and stop worrying about it. Or we do keep them as regular days of the week and the calendar shifts by a day or two every year. I don't really care. I just want the months and weeks to be at least a little less chaotic. And if there is going to be a chaotic little remainder weekend every year, it might as well be a party.

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