wizardbeard

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago

Keeping Up with the Alien Ghosts of Skinwalker Ranch

I'd totally watch this, if it were a comedy series about these crazy creatures navigating normal day to day shit.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

This can also be mitigated by using a username and/or hostname that doesn't leak private data.

No need to make your username your real name, or make your hostname contain anything more revealong than say "living room thinkpad"

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago

Yep, these scenes are either meant to be titilating, and are hamstrung by the rating to be "softer" so what is the point, or meant to convey things about character relationships, where usually a fade to black gives you enough for plot.

Like I can understand the desire to see a character or actor/actress nude, but still. Therecs better ways to do "eyecandy", better ways to titilate, and better ways to convey plot and character development even working with the topic of intimacy.

There are incredibly few sex scenes in non-porn media that are actually done well enough to be worth it. Just go watch some porn and have a wank, or find a better writer to convey your plot and characters so you don't need the sex scene crutch.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Nope, found my line. This is too absurd and well typed for me to believe this one isn't just taking the piss.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago

What? Huh? The fuck are you even trying to say with that first paragraph and what connection does it have with my comment?

My point was that for someone calling people still willing to use Windows stupid, your lack of knowledge about the actual cost (and how almost no user is paying the full cost) makes you look incompetent at best.

There was precisely zero there lamenting Microsoft missing out on money. Check my host lemmy instance, it's the piracy one. There's a reason I name dropped the best open source tool for tricking Windows into thinking you have a valid license. Steal your OS, I don't give a fuck. The only "validly" licensed personal machine I have is my main desktop, and only because it was my first time doing a manual customized Win 10 install so I didn't want to fuck around with faking the license to save myself $20 for an OEM license.

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Which brings me to my next point. For someone being so bull headedly elitist about how bad Windows is, and how smart they are, you're completely unaware of how easy it is to make Windows work for you and disable all the user hostile shit like ads.

It's called install the Pro version of the OS and use Group Policy manager. 90% of the settings are clearly labeled in there too, like "Disable Cortana Internet Search", "Disable OneDrive integration".

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My guy, I do systems/infra at a place with roughly 5,000 machines. The only things in our environment running Linux are network appliances (firewalls, load balancers, etc).

Low level access, UAC, etc is all more than possible in a Microsoft environment. Pleass stop larping just because you're personally more comfortable with Linux.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Good job being so smart, mama's little smart man! You still have to eat your veggies before you can have any dessert though!

More seriously, the overwhelming majority of businesses use Windows as their end user facing desktop OSes. You're legitimately just being a myopic asshat if you think that Windows can't be trusted for anything important. (Inb4 you bring up Crowdstrike, which wasn't a Windows specific issue, but a "we have code running at kernel level" issue, and hit Linux roughly three months prior to the big clusterfuck)

Also, your bit about $150 cost for the OS is dumb too. The average user is buying a prebuilt with the OS preinstalled. Technically they are paying for it, but it's a wacky discounted OEM license fee baked into the full cost. Anyone not buying a rig with Windows preinstalled can use it unlicensed, can transfer license from pretty much any older Windows OS install from the last 20 years, can just use massgrave to activate it for free, or could go buy a discounted OEM license that they can only install to one machine. The full price license allows for install on multiple machines, which you don't really need.

My point is, very few people are paying full price for a Windows license.

Full disclosure, I agree that Microsoft is a shit company. But this elitist shit is just stupid. Especially when it's almost pure posturing.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 3 months ago (11 children)

Yeah, this makes sense for corporate environments with keys backed up to a centralized location like Active Directory. Not for consumers with no reasonable way to keep some key like this in a safe place as a "break glass in case of emergency" option.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

As far as the broader tech industry, you need to do a balancing act between specialization and general skills. Never know when the whims of a megacorp will suddenly kill the specific niche you've built a nice home in, so make sure your skills are general enough to be transferable.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Man, I remember ancient gmod addons released using (iirc) turtle svn so they could auto update. Was a wild time.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago

accept mass immigration from parts of the world that continue to have a high birth rate

Would that not likely result in similar, but different, friction between cultural expectations about working conditions etc?

To my thinking you'd still have the problem TMSC is having right now, just more widespread as they have to adapt to whatever the culture being imported everywhere to shore up worker counts is everywhere it is happening.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Definitely not the same thing. Just because you can make use of the end result of major efforts does not somehow magically give you access to all the knowledge from those major efforts.

You can use a smart phone easily, but that doesn't mean you magically know how to make one.

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