RooPappy

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[–] RooPappy@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago

I can't seem to find any more information about what alleged crimes were in the illegally-leaked Dominion documents. Was there anything interesting at all? Or was this just noise?

[–] RooPappy@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

If you see a lot of ads promoting any political point of view, you can usually assume that someone with entirely too much money is in favor of it, and you probably shouldn't be.

[–] RooPappy@kbin.social 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

My wife bought a new Pixel 8 recently from Google Fi. They sent a Pixel 6a for some reason. She attempted to work with their incompetent, powerless, disconnected and foreign support for a week to get something to happen, desperately reaching out every day for someone to just tell her what was happening. Then, she just purchased a new one because you can't go longer than that without a phone.

Then it was 2 more weeks of them failing to issue a refund for the original wrong phone, trying to ship another phone that she no longer needed, and simultaneously trying to bill her a penalty for not yet activating the phone that was originally shipped.

All it would take is one person who had information, authority, and a modicum of understanding. Nope. That is not a thing that can be achieved through any level of escalation at Google anymore.

Nokia had the same problem recently during a recent issue. They have intentionally made it impossible to solve issues. This is what some companies want. Don't buy from them.

[–] RooPappy@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"if"... "could"

Oh no! That means it's... probably going to happen, right? Everyone get ready for exactly that to go down!

[–] RooPappy@kbin.social 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I dunno man, I started gaming with the Atari, C64 and NES, and I never paid full price back then either. Rentals, used games, piracy... that was a good 95%+ of my gaming experience.

The only time I got full price games was maybe a birthday or Christmas, but even that was rare for a major AAA release like Mario 3 or E.T.

Maybe your memory is just one person's experience and not an absolute truth.

[–] RooPappy@kbin.social 9 points 9 months ago

I'm not sure if lawyers think their words are magic sometimes, or if they'd just really like them to be magic.

I live in a state that prohibits most non-competes from employers, and any effort to try to get employees to sign overly restrictive agreements can actually result in a fine and penalty. My company sent me a legal agreement saying that by signing the doc and continuing to be employed, I agree to waive my state's protections against non-competes. As if... that would hold up in any court, ever.

It's a blatantly illegal clause and I could have fought it at the time... but in the end I knew it was totally unenforceable at worst. I'll go after them for the penalty if they ever try to enforce it, or if I leave under bad circumstances. It was more valuable to me to have this document than it is for them to have it.

[–] RooPappy@kbin.social 36 points 10 months ago

This is actually a really good hospital. I imagine someone carlessly cut it for convenience, a stupid thing to do.

I think the protest is because then the hospital, instead of saying "Holy shit, I'm so sorry... this is terrible, what can we do to make up for it?"... they responded with "What hair?", "I think he probably cut it himself" and "No comment". That was compounding stupid mistakes.

[–] RooPappy@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you're choosing to do audio production in Linux, the odds are that "easy" wasn't your top decision criteria. lol

Personally, I recently hooked up my Berhinger USB audio interface to Mint, and Ardour and Audacity saw it immediately. I was impressed. I was ready to google around for how to use lusb and dmseg and shit because I never remember what I'm doing.

[–] RooPappy@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I remember purchasing Opera mobile. I can't remember if it was for Windows Mobile 5/6 or if it was the super early Android. It was the only browser that really worked on that phone, whatever it was. Well worth the $5 or whatever.

[–] RooPappy@kbin.social 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I have been looking for high-quality video of Junkyard Wars for years. I found one torrent once of like 320x240 rips of a singe season. It's miserable.

[–] RooPappy@kbin.social 55 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Open the article.

Look at the picture of the criminal they are talking about, dressed in military gear, firing a canister of pepper spray, from a gun, at people.

Then see if you can continue to suggest that "attack" is the wrong word, using what you've learned.

[–] RooPappy@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

I love the idea, and would be willing to be an early adopter of a linux phone... but its tough to give up application support.

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