mctoasterson

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[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 11 points 2 days ago

Been daily-driving Linux for several months now. There are literally zero critical workflows that I can't do just because I'm not on Windows.

40% of things I use my PC for are browser-based. 40% have an equivalent FOSS app. 10% are Windows apps that run fine using Wine. The other 10% I can live without.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 4 points 3 days ago

If you are going to carry, please for the love, get training. And at this point I'd say avoid the Sig P320 entirely. There's a non-zero chance that dude got clapped partially because his CCW piece discharged while the cop was carrying it away, and the other guys overreacted to hearing a shot.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 10 points 4 days ago

Yeah, let's not do any of that shit either.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 3 points 4 days ago

I had completely memory holed The Specialists until just now.

Love how they incorporated the peak Matrix fanboy culture into that mod.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 90 points 4 days ago (9 children)

Here's an idea. How about we abandon ragebait shortform slop/garbage aggregators entirely, and stop rewarding them with excessive device permissions and personal data.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 9 points 6 days ago

GrapheneOS is about as close as you will get.

Have burners if you want, but realize that with vanilla Android or Apple iOS on those devices, they will suck up a lot of data about surrounding devices, Bluetooth devices, and wifi networks. This can be probabalistically matched to your real identity even if you use VPNs and you aren't using any known accounts on the burners. As for GPS data, that's even worse.

Its probably best to have at least one "normie" phone you do boring stuff on, a Graphene enabled phone for sensitive-but-not-illegal daily driving, and anything spicier than that should be a burner in a Faraday bag, which you cycle and destroy/discard regularly.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

Can confirm, I recently maxed out the RAM on my decade-old rig at 32GB. At least the used DDR3 RAM was cheap. With motherboards that old you are limited to processors like Intel Haswell with 4 cores, pretty anemic by today's standards.

It works just fine for me running Linux and doing minimal gaming. 90% of my gaming these days is on the SteamDeck anyway.

I thought as I got older I would have more money to buy current gen PC parts and build basically whatever I wanted. Turns out priorities just shifted and things got even more expensive.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

More importantly, do you like doing the work of a fullstack developer but getting paid and treated like a barely-tier 2 support desk person?

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don't think one of the chokey-est QBs in history is the right person to take over as coach of a QB-centric team.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah Walmart are supposedly putting in their own charging hardware and presumably some kind of network they control and profit from directly.

The ChargePoint chargers at a Sam's Club near me have been inoperable for about 4 months and when I reported it, ChargePoint said the "owners of the stations declined to repair them".

So I assume that means they are pending rollout of their own charging. Really inconvenient for now though.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, OP, based on my experience with the Deck, for a vast majority of games you can just go to the ingame pause screen, press power button to "sleep" the Deck, and then resuming later has no impact.

There are a few games that maybe had audio issues or something after resume but nothing major if your main concern was simply avoiding losing progress.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

That's wild. I'm a Chiefs fan but I feel for Nix and the Donks. Injuries suck and that is a garbage way to end his outstanding season.

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