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yup, buy old rigs/laptops “for parts”. This is what I’ve been doing.

Also go to thrift stores and look for old DVRs. you can take the HDs out of those and they’re usually in the 1tb range.

Mainly i’ve been buying old laptops purely for the ram and ssds.

my guy out of ALL the illegal shit he’s done you honestly thought THIS was the thing that would stop him? no. He has literally killed children. He could do it on live TV right now and nothing would happen to him. He could round up all the people he doesn’t like, go on fox news, and put a gun to the back of each of their heads and pull the trigger on live TV and nothing would happen.

You’re in a fascist dictatorship. Laws don’t apply to fascist dictators. he’s murdered and raped people, children even, he rigged the last election, he has a gestapo that kills american citizens with zero consequences, he has concentration camps.

There’s only 3 ways he’s going to be stopped, only 3.

1. the Military coups
2. the US people rise up and storm the capital
3. he dies. and this option is the worst because they’ll just replace him with someone younger and worse.

that’s it.

I use bat and It’s a game changer. it’s just like doing cat whatever.whatever but with much more interaction.

I didn’t say it was constant. I only said every now and again on the free trial I’d get an ad. Maybe it’s because I only used it with Qutebrowser. I don’t know. but I know that sometimes I would get an ad on a video.

there’s no point. I tried the free trial of youtube premium cause i’m on Qutebrowser and the adblocking isn’t the greatest. even with Premium i’d still randomly get ads every now and then. IF i were paying for it I’d be pissed.

Now I circumvent this by just opening all the videos in MPV.

KDE is good but please, for the love of god KDE devs, you need to realize that some people…a lot of people actually…use more than one monitor.

Whenever I use Plasma I feel like I spend more time getting my windows arranged correctly across both my monitors with different workspaces. if each monitor had it’s own set of virtual desktops then it would be the perfect DE.

wait you have to verify your grades…from high school!?

shit I’d turn it around on them and say “I could verify my grades from high school for you but first I’d like you to verify how you believe every update you release won’t some how break a majority of users Ubuntu installs”

sure they’re leaving but…where? what’s a viable alternative?

I mean if I had it my way everyone would just go back to IRC, I still use IRC. it’s great, nothings changed, it’s perfect. combine that with like mumble or teamspeak and you’re good to go.

I checked out Stoat lastnight and it’s very slow. took well over an hour to get a verification email (I assume because many others were signing up) and the current server offerings are minimal. Also a good majority of the themes listed simply don’t work. it’s growing and I’d say it’s the best alternative right now but it’s not there yet and I worry it or the various instances of it could hold up if there was a massive Discord exodus.

Matrix is a no and xmpp ain’t much better.

potentially. it’s going to become more of the norm as more nations enforce stuff like this to “protect the kids” coughget your id and know what you’re doing onlinecough

Also keep in mind Discord is just about to launch their IPO in March so the timing lines up.

the thing with NixOS is there’s really no right or wrong way to configure your system. I know a guy that just straight up has a single configuration file and then just uses comma for everything. like practically nothing is installed. when he uses firefox its “, firefox” in a terminal. he likes it.

going the Dendtritic Approach.

I recently changed my nixos configs to this approach. Takes a bit to remember where I put everything and what modules things are in but in the long term it makes things easier to manage. Also makes things easier if I need to turn modules on or off for whatever reason.

That being said does take a bit of work to get everything set up but in the long run it’s worth it.

early internet “culture” to a younger person. They didn’t get it.

In today’s online world you openly post your photo online, where you’re from, what you do, etc and anyone can see it. I had to explain to them that back then (late 90s/early 00s) posting your photo or real name online was a no-no. it was actively discouraged. But then in turn because of the way you primarily communicated with people online either via IRC, forums, ICQ, AOL IM, etc you kinda had a closer relationship with these people even if you didn’t know what they looked like or what their names were.

Also the fact that in most cases a lot of people simply couldn’t put their photos online either because they didn’t have access to a scanner or a digital camera. I told them that one of my best friends online that I would talk to daily I still to this day have no idea what they looked like.