LordWiggle

LordWiggle , 6 days ago

Every movement with a gun sounds like there's a loose screw in it (it always clicks). Also it usually has a clip of 300+ bullets.

Every mouse or keyboard input into a computer, every loading bar, every screen popping up makes screaching sounds. Except when having a failing DVD drive or broken hard disk I've never heard any computer making these sounds.

A secret tracking or listening device has a blinking red light and beeps.

Every car, always with airconditioning, drives with open windows because of the window reflections. Even during rain, extreme heat or highly contagious zombies trying to bite you through the open window.

LordWiggle , 11 days ago

I want one to get beer from the fridge to the couch. I could move the fridge next to the couch, but if a pneumatic system is an option, I assume I don't have to explain which would be the better choice by a land slide. Cool beers on the couch, in the garden, in the bath tub, etc. I could fire my wife.

Of course I'm joking, I would never exchange my wife for a pneumatic tube system. I don't have a wife.

LordWiggle , 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago)

"grisly results". Are you sure? I think the pressure failure of the Titan submarine was closer to "grisly". Transit tube failure scores lower on the pressure failure scale. /jk

LordWiggle , 15 days ago

There are other ad block options. And there is Firefox. I use Vivaldi browser, it has a built-in ad blocker, just like many other browsers. I just wish Vivaldi would be Firefox based.

LordWiggle , 15 days ago

I've had it for about 8 years. Those years were a treat. "oh hi! We just created another product which would make your life easier and more safe. We just added it to your prescription for free. Have a nice day!" I started with free email, I started paying when they introduced vpn. They just keep on delivering, year after year, they never disappointed me with any decision they made. I just wish there were more companies like proton: creating the best product they can, for the good of the customer and for society.

LordWiggle , 15 days ago

I don't know in what country you live. I live in The Netherlands, one of the richest countries, with police which is very mild compared to other countries. They are 'trained' to de-escalate, to use the least amount of violence, to try to talk first. A force they 'try' to be inclusive, with a reasonably high percentage of women and different ethnicities, promoting to be open to LGBTQ+.

I can tell you with certainty, they are biased and racist as fuck, corrupt, abusive, above the law.

I assume you view the world through (male) white glasses from a rich country within the EU? The cops are there to protect your rich white privilege, you don't have a clue what it is like for poor people and people of color. Police is not what it is supposed to be in an ideal world. They should be abiding the law, enforcing the law, protect ALL citizens, be unbiased, treat everyone the same whether they are rich, poor, whatever their religion or ethnicity, whatever gender, political view, etc. They fail on all these points. Even in progressive countries like The Netherlands or Germany.

Next to that, the far right is on the rise. They love to enable and use the police to enforce their will.

Look at all the protests. The protests by the left are struck down with brute force and loads of arrests. Protests of the right are mostly left alone, with maybe one or two arrests if any. Here in the Netherlands farmers were left alone to lock down the entire infrastructure of the country, for many days, with loads of destruction (including driving a tractor into a municipality building) with barely any arrests or consequences. The cop who opened fire on a tractor which drove at him fast and refused to stop got into trouble, not the guy driving the tractor.

A hand full of climate activists blocking a single road were beaten and arrested with brute force, after which they got hefty fines.

So fuck the police.

LordWiggle , 13 days ago

Police violence is something different then peaceful protesting. It turns into non-peaceful as soon as the police starts to use force without a proper cause. It's called "abuse of power". Cops love to get violent, especially when the protesters do not (so they won't hit back).

LordWiggle , 13 days ago

It's irresponsible for the police to abuse their power and use pepper spray on children at a peaceful protest.

Going outside has a risk of getting hit by a car. So now it's irresponsible to take your kids outside? It's not normal to get hit by a car, but it's also not normal for police to use violence on non-violent protes.... Oh wait, yes that indeed IS normal now, depending on the religion, ethnicity, political statement of the protesters.

Imo it's irresponsible to have kids in the first place by the way, it's not irresponsible though to bring your kids to a peaceful protest as no one expect police to pepper spray your kids without cause. Or at least, that is how it should be. When you claim it's irresponsible to bring your kids because you can expect police to use violence without cause, to abuse their power even though you are there because of your constitutional right, you acknowledge the police violence without condemning it.

You are victim blaming.

LordWiggle , 13 days ago

You think, so it must be. Who cares about facts and statistics. You know best, oh very wise one. By the way, what makes you come to this conclusion? Do you go to protests a lot, are you with the police, do you read a lot on Facebook on shady right wing pages, did Qanon tell you this,... I'd love to hear your support to your claim.

By the way, intervening a peaceful protest which includes children has a very very low probability of risk for police. They would think twice when the protesters are violent, but when they are peaceful they won't hit back that hard so it's rather safe to escalate. The cops in the task forces for breaking up protests are generally people who love to fight, filled with adrenaline and testosterone. Cops who are less eager to fight usually have desk jobs or are regular street officers.

I don't know in what country you live, but in countries with freedom of speech you're free to demand whatever you like, as long as you do not turn violent (except when you're police of course).

Please stop spreading unsupported bullshit arguments based on "I think" and "looks like" when you clearly have zero knowledge of how police operate (which I do) and clearly have no clue about this protest (as you make very wrong assumptions)

LordWiggle , 18 days ago

Assange fled to a consulate in London. After years of annoying everyone in that small building he thought it would be smart to unveil sensitive information on the government of that consulate. So, they kicked him out by letting the British police in, now he's getting prison time because fuck freedom of press apparently. Snowden fled to Russia. He would have never seen the light of day if they would have cought him. Probably Guantanamo Bay torture for the rest of his life. So their situations are different, I don't know why that would make a difference to the trust in them.

Both have a strong moral compass, otherwise they wouldn't have done what they did.

I'd rather trust and believe whistleblowers with a very strong moral compass, acting in the interest of the general public, then big tech companies hoarding in our data, breaking copyright and privacy, all for those tasty billions. Those companies only have a moral code towards their own bank account.

LordWiggle , 17 days ago

He said that, and other cases, confirmed suspicions that Assange was still linked to Wikileaks. The president also accused Assange of having installed forbidden "electronic and distortion equipment" and of accessing the embassy's security files.

There was also the suspicion that Wikileaks was linked to an anonymous website that said the president's brother had created an offshore company, and leaked material included private pictures of President Moreno and his family. Mr Moreno denies any wrongdoing.

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His dramatic expulsion from the embassy follows a year of ratcheting tension between Assange and his Ecuadorian hosts, culminating in WikiLeaks publicizing a leak of hundreds of thousands of hacked emails mysteriously stolen from the inboxes of Ecuador’s president and first lady.

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LordWiggle , 18 days ago

Europe says Meta is ruining people their privacy and rights. Meta is like complaining there are guards and a locked safe ruining their bank heist. It's what those measures are for, keeping you in line.

LordWiggle , 23 days ago

The one I use for years and years now, something I cannot live without anymore: Directory Opus. You can costumize everything. It works with ftp. Moving files has its own transfer system which is faster then windows. It has one folder tree and 2 folder screens next to eachother, each with tabs. I've tried several file browsers, but this one is by far the very best. It took the best from all file browsers and combines them. As options, so you may have a totally different one as to I have, fit to preference.

Edit: a free alternative is Total Commander. 2 windows, tabs, just no folder tree.

LordWiggle , 23 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c1a4a9f7-84db-41a4-8353-1c27403a9f0d.jpeg
This is how mine looks. You can even change all colors (this is easy for the eyes). If you like I can give you my settings, as you can back them up into a file.

LordWiggle , 23 days ago

I didn't know it could, I have a 32TB NAS as a central storage. But apparently it does.

See This and This link.

LordWiggle , 23 days ago

I completely agree. I want to switch to Linux as I'm done with the atrocities of Microsoft. No Dopus makes it hard for me to actually make the switch, and I keep on postponing.

LordWiggle , 21 days ago

Nice! Sadly though, I do not see a Linux version, same as Directory Opus :'(

LordWiggle , 24 days ago

Friend of mine bought an EV. Didn't even last a month. He landed in a tree.
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9cc06b60-ef40-4c2d-b436-f30b89abd72f.jpeg

LordWiggle , 24 days ago

Yeah, got launched when drifting off the road

LordWiggle , 24 days ago

Lost consciousness for a bit. Unknown why.

LordWiggle , 24 days ago

He luckily only has 4 broken ribs.

LordWiggle , 24 days ago

Nope, he drove 80km/h with traction control, but lost consciousness somehow. No lines on the road (out in the German countryside) so no line assist. Car went straight when there was a very mild turn, so he drove off the road, into some uphill ridge whi h launched him, woke up when flying through the air after which he landed in a bunch of trees.
This is where he landed. He luckily only had 4 broken ribs.

LordWiggle , 24 days ago

This is often the issue. Not in this case though. He had his license for 24 years, while driving from the south of Germany to the Netherlands back and forth twice a month. He never had an accident before.

LordWiggle , 24 days ago

No, but it's still a factor why they may not last forever XD never underestimate human error.

LordWiggle , 24 days ago

Ah yes, classic

LordWiggle , 23 days ago

There were no stripes on the road so the line assist didn't work. He was unconscious for just a sec, he remembered seeing the slight turn, then to wake up while flying into the trees.

LordWiggle , 28 days ago

Time for Linux. I don't like to change, I've used windows from 3.1. But I see no other option. They will pull the plug on 10 while at the same time are trying their best to make their shitty 11 even worse.

LordWiggle , 1 month ago

How though. Over here cash isn't accepted anymore at most places. I only use cash for buying drugs. Most stores and groceries only accept card. Same with bars and clubs. I honestly have no idea besides drugs what to use cash for.

LordWiggle , 1 month ago

Yeah, sure, where to? I live in the Netherlands, one of the wealthiest countries. I've seen many parts of the world in my time in the navy. There aren't many places better then here, honestly. Only Norway scores higher, they have a lot of things worked out much better then the rest of us. But paying with plastic is very common there too. Also, digitalization doesn't have to be bad. Look at Estonia, I think many countries can benefit from their system. See here a video on it by Kraut. There's a difference between digitalization and a system like China has. But my expenses should be private at least, so cash would be best. They just make it harder every day. We used to be able to say "I'm not interesting, no one cares what I do, no one is going to check me". But now we have AI, now every one of us indeed IS interesting. And everyone is being checked to teach the algorithm. Countries with few laws to protect privacy and welfare of it's inhabitants, like the US for example, can turn to a totalitarian control state in no time with just one crazy idiot as a leader. At least the US never had idiots as president 👀. At least the US doesn't have a history of wanting to collect everyone's data 👀. At least they are not actively doing anything with the data, like China or Russia does 👀.

But on your point of living in a dystopian world: Yeah, we fucking do. But it doesn't matter where we live. It's dystopian everywhere. We live in World War III while we have to fight to get the bare minimum of privacy, we must work our ass off for the bare minimum of living standards and we buy products we do not own. Difference between the rich and poor has never been as high as now and the military strongest countries are run by idiots and dictators. Mass amount of people see Elon Musk as our savior for a better future, the biggest narcissistic hypocritical scam artist our there. At least Trump isn't president anymore. Oh wait.... Seriously, the movie Idiocracy isn't a comedy, it's a documentary. I seriously think the US would benefit if it had Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho as president over Trump.

While the rest of the world turns more extremist every day (especially right wing) with rising world tensions.

So if I plan on moving it will be out of the world of the living at best.

LordWiggle , 1 month ago

In Berlin people will hate you if you'd draw your card. But to get cash is hard, not many ATM's. Also in many countries the limit of what you can withdraw and deposit is being lowered more and more. But at least it helps against criminality. But it's not like they care about that in the US seeing the corrupt judiciary system, privatized incarceration system (including slavery), corrupt and racist police, organized crime with tight connections to government officials, the insane amount of guns widely available (including military guns), the massive drug use, etc etc.

But at least they have their freedom. Or well, except for the insane amount of incarcerated people. Oh and if you've got a really weird and twisted idea of freedom. Like, free to grab a gun if you want to shoot around at your school, but not free to feel safe anywhere anytime. No safety you won't become homeless if you have a medical issue. But you're free to do forced free labor when you get wrongfully incarcerated for being black, or because the incompetent jury fell for the charmes of the prosecuter or didn't like the face of your lawyer.

Talking about dystopian, the US really ticks all the boxes. They could do a great dystopian TV show. Every season a different dystopian world. US, China, North Korea, Russia, Turkmenistan, South Africa, Venezuela, etc. I'd watch that.

LordWiggle , 1 month ago

I'm leeching premium from a friend so no ads on pc, but because I'm getting sick and tired of all the shorts shit being pushed onto me (even play automatically when I would open the YouTube app) I'm using Grayjay on my phone instead of the official YouTube app. Never ads and it even has sponsor block. Plus you can follow creators instead of channels, across platforms. And downloading a video means you can actually watch it without a connection too. It has more perks then someone paying for premium has. Piracy pais off.

LordWiggle , 1 month ago

Yeah I hear ya, same here. Fuck shorts.

Grayjay is from Louis Rossmann, one of the biggest advocates for right to repair. It costs 10 dollars, one time payment, but if you don't pay it also works. It's open source. If you have an issue and mail then, they actually respond (fast) to try to solve the issue, or make changes to the app to make it better. It's really great what they do. And YouTube hates him.

https://grayjay.app/

LordWiggle , 1 month ago

There aren't many products being sponsored through YouTube creators which are actually worth it imo. I mean, the best VPN providers don't pay loads of money for ads. Same with many other products. Companies focused on mass ad campaigns often have expensive products which are not that great. I did see some which are actually pretty good, but most of it is just average at best.

But I also have a personal hate towards ads in general. We are being overloaded with ads wherever you look. I try to live as ad free as possible. I think sponsorblock is awesome, because the creator still gets payed as no one can see you skipped the promotion part. I also don't like self promotion parts either. I don't like begging for likes and subscriptions. If the video is good, it gets a like. If the creator is good, I'll follow. If it's really good, I'll consider patreon. Many of the best creators do not beg for likes and only slightly mention patreon at the outro.

I understand creators need to do it, don't get me wrong. I just don't like it so sponsorblock is perfect as creators can continue doing it while I can auto skip. Before I had sponsorblock I never clicked any of the links because of what I mentioned before, so me skipping the parts doesn't change anything for the creator.

LordWiggle , 1 month ago

Louis said in the announcing video it's open source, anyone is free to do with it what they want, even if they want to exclude the 10 dollar payment in it. He really doesn't give a shit.

He did give a warning though:

"if you dare to put malware in it or any other malicious shit, I will hunt you down and destroy you."

LordWiggle , 2 months ago

To call someone you need to have friends. Who needs friends when you have snake?

LordWiggle , 2 months ago

I'll get one for sure. Always handy to have a long battery lasting cheap phone for on festivals, so I don't have to carry my 1000 euro smartphone which probably won't survive. I'm always super careful with my stuff, never break my screen or lose my phone. Except when I'm on festivals. All I need is WhatsApp so I can find my friends anyeay. This becomes an issue after day 2, so I need to carry battery packs or be offline. And battery packs for 7 days festival is heavy and annoying.

LordWiggle , 2 months ago

My win10 upgraded without asking. Win11 is horrible, I'm going to wipe and reinstall win10 again. As soon as update support stops, it's Linux for me. Screw Microsoft. They even added ads as notifications and they are going to put ads in the start menu. Wtf! This is the end of windows, I'm sure.

LordWiggle , 2 months ago

I had the same experience when switching from the reddit app to Boost. When Boost stopped working for reddit, I couldn't stand it so it was bye bye reddit my entire pc connection is ad free. There's a filter in my router, strong filter in my vpn and I have blockers. I do not watch streaming services, I download everything through usenet with an automated system on my NAS. I have no TV. I order groceries online, I never enter a store. My phone has filters too. I live completely ad free. But then Microsoft comes, and says "fuck you, here's an ad!" on MY machine. Without consent. I was boiling.

LordWiggle , 2 months ago

Yeah but that's only UI issues. It also runs much slower then win10. There are massive performance issues. Next to that I have less rights to do stuff. Few days ago I wasn't allowed to forget Bluetooth devices for example. Even in control panel bt settings. After XP it all went downhill with accessibility of settings. Fancy setting pages with restricted options. Why, what's wrong with control panel? I know it's still there, and we still have WIN+X but it's getting placed behind more sub menus and restrictions and more and more is being removed to make it idiot proof. But it's also locking me out. I want full control over my machine. No one tells me what I can and cannot access on my device. Fuck Microsoft.

LordWiggle , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I used something similar for win10. A stripped down version without all the booking dot com and Xbox bs pre-installed. Only local account. But it auto upgraded to 11. Time for format C.

LordWiggle , 2 months ago

Sounds good, I'll go check it out :)

LordWiggle , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I would highly advice against using Wine. It requires constant root access, just like virus scanners, making your system vulnerable. EDIT: I was wrong :)

I want to make the switch as win10 moved to 11 without asking and 11 sucks donkey balls. It even has ads as notifications, soon it will have ads in the start menu (not that I use it, but wtf Microsoft!). The games are no issue anymore now a days, so that's fine with me. I just don't want to switch DAW. I just got a work flow using ableton for recording, editing and mastering my dawless setup. Kind of same story with photoshop, used to the work flow and don't want to switch. Other than that, I don't see a reason why not. So maybe it's going to be a multiboot. I'm definitely going back to win10 but support will stop next year or so, so I have to use Linux by than anyway.

LordWiggle , 2 months ago

Anyone who does should be trialed for crimes against humanity.

LordWiggle , 2 months ago

Maybe it changed recently, but this is what I know about wine. Many Linux friends of mine all advice against it.

LordWiggle , 2 months ago

I guess I'm wrong than :)

I'm just saying what my experience was with Wine a while ago and what all my Linux friends tell me. But I guess things changed! Awesome!

LordWiggle , 2 months ago

Check, will do! Good point :)

LordWiggle , 2 months ago

Pigeons know how to always fly home. Always a great feeling of direction. I think you overestimated his brain.

LordWiggle , 2 months ago

Compatibility is greatly being improved, making gaming on Linux very compatible. Steam runs great on both Windows and Linux. Chromebooks aren't made for gaming. And Apple is being Apple, so... Maybe complain about Apple instead. But if you are an Apple user you probably prefer to blame anything but Apple.