Free uni was abolished over a decade ago

I tried to use Bitwig but I just couldn’t in the end. No single click note delete that I could find out how to do in a reasonable amount of time and the workflow is just different enough to FL to me to irritate, it seemed like really nice software for Ableton-minded folks though.

I caved in and dual booted Windows 10 with all the shite modded out/crippled, for music and for VR gaming.

I don’t have any issues with Xorg honestly, it just works and always has for me. I tried Wayland as a default in plasma and I couldn’t get gaming to work at all, and I had weird issues watching video in the browser. Really odd that it’s a default in kde imho when even the steamdeck is all Xorg (or gamescope. in gamemode.)

Yay! Maybe I’ll give Wayland a chance again when all these issues are ironed out.

Cut their benefits Make healthcare inaccessible And if they complain? Link em to extremism.

I don’t think so, the game critics video and the cyberpunk video and most videos other than the Starfield one I mentioned are older than that, but even if I am mistaken - I would be mentioning them because they’re fresh in memory, but my overall impression is that pre-“I’m done making good videos” he was doing a lot more in terms of quality of the essays, the humor and structure.

I guess he’s focused on running his publishing studio, doing music and streaming these days? Godspeed honestly.

Yeah I’m not gonna change what bathroom I go to because a bunch of fascist nonpeople called a sham trial about it.

I went to the women’s loos, changing rooms etc. since I DIY’d the very hormones and puberty blockers the papers fearmonger about as a minor and will continue to use women’s loos etc. now that I’ve had the ‘permanent irreversible surgery’ the public hates so much as an adult.

I had it on the NHS of course, and as a work immigrant from outside of Europe and yes - I paid the double taxes that subsidize the welfare of this sinking hateful little island for years, so I absolutely deserve it and it’s just me getting some of my money’s worth by accessing the appropriate healthcare for my condition, and now my condition is well treated, almost cured, and I’m doing better than ever.

If you’re upset by this - cope and seethe. I’m not going anywhere. I’m a citizen now.

I advise all other trans women to do the same.

If my condition makes me a criminal then I’m a criminal. If this is radical to you, then I’m a radical.

Self-ID was/is supported by ex-Tory MP Theresa May btw. It’s fairly common sense. So is NHS funding for healthcare. So is hormones and PBs for minors.

Edit: whoever replied to me, I must’ve blocked you in a previous thread, unsurprisingly. Doubt I’m missing much.

One of my fav funniest ones would be his Game Structure or the Game Critics and Remasters mini-videoessays. Japan World Cup is pretty funny too. I also like that joke from the Cyberpunk 2077 vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPW6fkcM-14

Out of more recent ones, Starfield was pretty funny, every now and then I’m washing dishes and the repeated animation of that “GENDER AMBIGUITY” guy with the boiling kettle pot sound effect keeps popping into my head and I chuckle.

Timestamp link for mobile users with fat fingers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4JWMxV8pz0&t=69

Really it’s hard to decide since his jokes are pretty well spread between his points, but I gotta say he really did stop making good videos for the most part these days.

Russian

Started learning it from video games at about 5-6 years old, had tutor classes paid for by my dad (for the whole class) from 7 years old. Then from 10 years old I had summer camp overseas every year until 13, then sent off to the UK.

Tried to pick up other languages along the way from Japanese to French to Italian to Spanish to Ukrainian to Polish, but none of them really stuck, shit just takes forever and it’s hard to keep coming back to it after the novelty has worn off from a few hours of translation exercises and flash cards and such.

History.

I had a great teacher and it was my favourite subject. I wish I could’ve demonstrated more gratitude instead of feeling the need to act like I didn’t like it for fear of being bullied about it by my classmates, and wish I applied myself more and wasn’t held back by ADHD, but it was a well-earned B on the exam.

I didn’t know it then, couldn’t have, but it taught me critical thinking then and there through the simplistic exercises of looking at old political cartoons and recognising the biases and influences there and to see symbolism and metaphor and allegory not just as purely confined to the “entertainment art” realm, but as a core part of communication in general and a tool wielded in politics and propaganda.

Good timing too, that was during gamergate, two years later it’d be 2016 and the first time I would be exposed to targeted propaganda that had any chance in earnest. Growing up in Russia I had already known not to trust, but it was easy not to trust the weird revanchism of a country I never liked that much anyway, compared to loud young and relatable people on the internet, which was my one and only space to socialise back then due to being bullied and ostracized a lot in school.

Not sure if it counts as “High School” though, idk the American school system, I did History for what used to be called “GCSE” in the UK, it was year 11 for me, out of 13 years total in school.

I only have upvotes and downvotes on Jerboa, no scores.

So it’s basically to stop various glowware from calling home by detecting socks and bypassing it to use another network interface. Neat.

Oh yeah totally, I just meant more as a best case scenario where you have very well documented very specific functions with a very limited scope that are reused throughout.

Honestly I find this drive towards efficiency and automation many professional programmers have quite admirable.

While I studied programming, I think I just lacked this drive altogether, and I also really loved computers and to some degree I liked un-abstracting processes a lot more than I loved abstracting them, also due to my at-the-time untreated ADHD. When reasonable, I always pick a more manual way of doing something to maintain this control and understanding of system state.

I think cybersec was a great fit for me because I just found it much more stimulating to focus on the <1% of cases rather than the >99% of cases.

There is also just something very alienating when you work in large teams where each dev only contributes a small component, a lack of knowledge about the system is not only a good thing there but an expected paradigm to create reusable code, and it’s a good one I think, just not actually all that fun to write for me personally.

If I have the brains for it, I’d love to try professional embedded at some point. Maybe it’s something I could be good at.

After a 20 minute walk to a food place, motivated by hunger and excitement and a personal self-satisfaction in choosing exercise over ordering food, you think about the nice grub you’re going to get.

You think about how nice it is that there’s a place open, even though every other place closes inexplicably at 5pm on a workday making it impossible for working people to go to due to socioeconomic factors beyond your understanding.

You’re not without doubts, but on approach across the empty partially unlit parking lot, you see it. The lights are on, the sign is on, and you think you can make out some activity inside.

You feel a sigh of relief as you approach. “The time on Google maps must’ve been correct”, your think. The lights inside are on, and there’s employees walking about, making food, you gently push, the door, feeling the worn metal on the door push plate replacing the handle, and the door swings open.

You barely hear the electronic bell meant to alert the crew inside to your presence, your lungs fill with the smell of freshly made Burrito Tortillas toasted just right and refried beans and Beef and Guacamole.

Then, but in a flash:

— “uuuuh, we’re closed!”

You jerk a bit and withhold any mean words, you’re better than that, you’re trying to be better than that. But you can’t leave, so you channel your energy towards inquisition. The art of the mind. Science. You seek resolution.

— “how comes you’re listed as open on Google maps?”

You mumble out coming off somewhat frustrated, not at all the inquisitive philosopher you pictured yourself to be. You collect yourself.

—“You’re still making stuff, and you’re closed?”

Puzzled, the person responds:

— “oh it’s UberEats only”.

The words seared into your brain forever. The fall of Rome. The end of an era. Destruction of institutions. End of communism. The rapture. The west has fallen, millions must eat. Bread and circus no more, the only clown left is you.

I state my opinions on the internet without adherence to any particular side or filter for pacifying and self-censoring what I genuinely believe or facts that I know with certainty and back it up with reason, logic and evidence.

IRL this seldom annoys anyone unless I’m overly impolite but I try to be polite generally.

I think the author identifies the correct issues but this isn’t an argument against passkeys as a security measure rather their inevitable use by corpos for data harvesting. I hate it too tbqh I’d rather get hacked on some disposable email account with a random username than have to hand over my PII, money and mortal soul to Google for extra sec. At work it’s a different level of shit entirely. We have SSO behind SSO behind SSO, the inept overseas coworkers don’t understand arch of the company they got merged with nor the concept of legal compliance or ISO, they’re running the entire sec programme into the ground to bring it under AD in a way that directly compromises their AD when nothing in any of our orgs even uses windows in any way except theirs where they drink M$ coolaid. If this job wasn’t so comfortable I’d be depressed just thinking about it.

Oh god the lemmings are optimizing posts for engagement. We are approaching peak content

Clearly non-functioning in this case as the wrong has been started already