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MrVilliam ,

No, this is how quickly you are supposed to age. You just didn't realize how much time has passed. The movie that this is from is 26 years old.

MrVilliam ,

Time to drop a ton of photoshops of Musk with a diseased micropenis until he changes his mind about this. Maybe shops of Zuckerberg and Musk heads onto gay porn stars so it looks like Mark is dominating Elon's asshole in the literal sense rather than just the figurative sense.

MrVilliam ,

Oh, I don't, lol. That was more of a prediction than me saying that I'd be doing it. I never made a Twitter account. It already seemed shitty to me even before musk utterly destroyed it.

MrVilliam ,

I haven't tried it myself yet, but Fan Control looks incredibly promising. I keep going back and forth about whether it makes sense to build a desktop, so I'm just gathering lots of info for whenever I finally pull the trigger lol.

MrVilliam ,

That's not true at all. Watch the video I linked. You can control CPU fan, GPU fan, and any case fan from this one elegant piece of software. And you can establish fan curves based on thermostats. So for example, with high CPU load and low GPU load, normally your CPU would hotbox your whole system; with this you can tell your GPU fan to ramp up based on CPU temps to get ahead of heat soak and start ventilating more before the GPU ever sees that heat.

MrVilliam ,

Wait, you think that racism is new? Where were you during pretty much every history class ever?

MrVilliam ,

Now that fast food is no longer cheaper than a sit-down restaurant, it just means that fast food has no use case anymore. You're better off picking up a grab&go type thing from the grocery store. Fast food used to be cheaper, more consistent, and faster, but with the concession that the quality wasn't great. Now it's expensive, it completely sucks in unpredictable ways, and it isn't actually that fast. It's like the industry only exists for people who are on a road trip and also want to punish themselves for some reason.

MrVilliam ,

Sounds like you should be looking for suggestions for places to get fucked in the ears then.

MrVilliam ,

"The good stuff" is still poison, just milder and tastes better.

MrVilliam ,

Being right isn't cheap.

MrVilliam ,

Same. I started with a couple of friends around when it became F2P. They live in another city, so that plus voice chat is just how we catch up and chill, usually with a few drinks and with some dumb jokes here and there. We're familiar with the controls and systems and everything, so doing anything else has the barrier to entry of learning a whole new thing. R6 Siege looks cool but complicated. I don't get Destiny 2. FC24 is pretty good but I'm not sure it has the same staying power for us as RL.

MrVilliam ,

I get it. Heathcliff is just The Far Side if Gary Larson suffered a stroke that caused both an obsession with an orange cat and the removal of any sense of humor whatsoever.

I can't believe this is real. Who is unironically enjoying Heathcliff?

MrVilliam ,

No, they've moved on to "DEI" as their racist dogwhistle now. Keep up.

MrVilliam ,

I must be an idiot because I don't see what the joke here is. Accepting that I live in a world in which that cat does human things, I still can't fathom that I'd see said cat walking a pet snail like how I would walk my dog, and my reaction would be to find that annoying and/or comment out loud to my dog that he's annoying. He's quiet and not bothering anybody. Is there context from the previous comic or something? I just don't understand how somebody could make a living from doodling irrelevant non sequiturs. What's annoying about a cat walking his pet snail? He's not even in your way because you're just sitting there on a park bench. Is it because he seems kinda smug about it? Like, this is how silly you look for having another animal as a pet. I don't get it.

MrVilliam ,

Absolutely. But it felt like I was having a stroke or something. I know a thing or two about comedy, but even a bad joke or a joke that I subjectively don't find funny still registers as a joke. This strip has the cadence of a joke but without any actual joke happening. It's like an AI-written comic strip. Any punchline would've made as much sense if not more. Better ones would've addressed the snail or the cat or the dog or some behavioral difference. Maybe the best one I can come up with off the top of my head is "People think that this is less strange than when he was walking a dog?" That at least has some commentary on the expectations of a relationship between cats and dogs, and that a cat taking a dog for a walk would be really strange, but at least some people walk dogs; nobody walks a snail. There's an implication that people were upset before and now they're not.

Here though? Nothing. He just felt like drawing a cat taking a snail for a walk, I guess?

MrVilliam ,

What?

MrVilliam ,

I just skip the lazy "find my friend" guys

I would skip them pretty much every time, but you get two seeds instead of just one for their little task. Some of them are fun but others are tedious af.

MrVilliam ,

he has a highschool masturbation related injury that causes one of his arms to constantly ache

Source? I've never heard of this (never cared much about him or Twitter) and tried to look it up, but I'm not seeing it anywhere.

I don't understand how anybody can do something for a while, make millions or even billions off of doing that thing, and then they try to do other things to make more money and stay in the public eye. Just buy an island and fuck off for your remaining decades of retired decadence. What more could you want?

MrVilliam ,

No, they're just doing what they're being paid to do by special interest groups aka big business. It's not a bug and it's not a feature; it's the point. Optimal profits this quarter. Every quarter is a new quasi generation of executives who want a good quarter before moving on after x quarters.

MrVilliam ,

Has anybody jail broken these things yet? It can't be that hard to do, but I'm not tech savvy enough to know where to begin. There has to be a way to circumvent that lock and still be able to manually grab software updates that the user deems necessary (e.g. recalls). Would it be legal? Idk, if I buy a battery, I think I have the right to use the battery. If I buy a seat warmer, I think I have the right to use the seat warmer. If it's part of the car I bought, I don't see why I wouldn't be allowed to use it. Otherwise, what the fuck does ownership even mean?

MrVilliam ,

The answer is actually pretty simple. Musk is a man child who doesn't like criticism. He lives in a bubble. He fires people who disagree with him and listens to anybody who fawns over him. He appeals to the loudest ones he allows himself to hear. That's why he made that dumbass truck. There's not actually many people who want that hideous, broken monstrosity, but his worshippers shouted that they wanted a truck.

He's also scrambling to get money coming in. Twitter is falling apart. People are starting to wake up and realize that he's nothing more than a lucky nepo dipshit. To soften his losses, he's doing a shitload of layoffs and cutting corners wherever he can. Quality is dropping on his products that already had quality issues. Brand recognition and reputation will start to be a net negative factor as a result.

If he wants to turn Tesla around, musk needs to pivot to producing tech for other car companies and stop making cars themselves.

MrVilliam ,

If up voting this gets you on the list, then so does commenting on it.

MrVilliam ,

Source, if anybody questions that fact.

MrVilliam ,

I don't answer questions. Am I being detained or am I free to go?

All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week (arstechnica.com)

Below is a look at the most exasperating news from streaming services from this week. The scale of this article demonstrates how fast and frequently disappointing streaming news arises. Coincidentally, as we wrote this article, another price hike was announced....

MrVilliam ,

Because we're shoulders deep in late stage capitalism. It won't be long before we start seeing consumer scarcity. People are living paycheck to paycheck and can't afford much beyond basic needs. There are only so many hours in a day that people can work, so that's not stretching much further. We're rapidly approaching the breaking point. In a world with finite resources, a system seeking infinite growth will eventually collapse.

MrVilliam ,

You're definitely right. Facebook got super shitty and most people didn't leave. Netflix got super shitty and most people didn't leave. YouTube got super shitty and most people didn't leave. Amazon's shitty video service got even more shitty, but Fallout was about to come out, so most people didn't leave and I bet they actually got more subscribers (but idc enough to look it up). It seems like most people have accepted that things just get shitty over time. Or maybe they're just not noticing the shitty changes? Idk. It's hard to look at our projected trajectory as a species and be left with much hope. There's good in this world, but it seems like none of it is coming from companies.

MrVilliam ,

This was my general takeaway. My laptop is showing it's 9ish year old age considerably. I picked up a used Steam Deck and I actually love everything about it except that it's really not powerful enough to replace my laptop. I'm interested in building a desktop, and SteamOS taught me that modern Linux is not super complicated, and now I know that it's not a huge pain in the ass to troubleshoot because the community isn't nearly as toxic as I was expecting. So unless I learn of an even better distro for general use, gaming, streaming, audio recording, and video editing, all for somebody who is experienced with Windows and not much else, I'm leaning towards Nobara.

The only real hurdle I have is that it's hard to justify dumping like $1200-1500 on a computer when I already have a PS5, Steam Deck, and gaming laptop. I really don't need it.

MrVilliam ,

I don't disagree with your point, but I think that the most important variable is how receptive the average person is to change. It takes a lot of discomfort for most people to want to make a significant change. Most people probably won't even recognize that Windows sucks because it's what they're familiar with and they probably attribute general tech improvements and new software with the OS because they don't know any better. So they see it as better in a lot of ways and only worse in a couple of ways. They probably also generally think that the only alternative is an overpriced Apple product. It wasn't until YouTube started cracking down on ad blockers that most people were even aware of the existence of ad blockers lmao. So I'm sure your average Windows user thinks that Linux means programming gobbledygook in cmd.exe and they would rather scroll Facebook. People are dumb and uninterested in the discomfort of learning things. Even if what they're learning is that there's not much discomfort because there's not much new to learn. You have to trick them by sneaking vegetables into their food. "You have a Samsung phone. That runs Android. Android is Linux. See, you're already using it." It's a fucking shock to me that Windows phones never took off.

But maybe the most important factor to Microsoft is the business world. It's obviously not unanimous, but a shitload of companies rely on the Office suite. Switching to something different overnight might be easy for some workers, but I'd assume a massive disruption in productivity until everybody got acclimated. There would probably need to be some kind of canned training thing to help workers with the transition, which would cost more money. In general, companies would run a cost-benefit analysis and ultimately decide that it really doesn't make much business sense to make that change when things are fine as is. Because in reality, Windows is fine. It's not bad enough for a business to burden a rocky quarter just because of some ads and a little jank.

The bad news for Microsoft however is that privacy and security could be getting called into question. Some businesses here and there might get worried about that, but it's the big Department of Defense fish that will drop them overnight because it's a matter of national security. In the same way that government devices banned tiktok years before considering a nationwide ban, government devices would not hesitate to dump Microsoft. Their greed could be their downfall. They're okay so long as the government and their big contractors keep running Windows.

MrVilliam ,

I mostly agree, except that I'm here because I left reddit. I can't speak for anybody else, but you can see my history here and compare it to my history there. It's been almost a year now and I'm not going back.

I'd like to think that enough people will get pissed off enough to make real change happen, but people think they have too much to lose and don't see how much they have to gain. In general, I mean. Windows doesn't really fucking matter lol. Netflix doesn't really fucking matter. The realistic course of action is to just vote with our wallets and hope that discourages overly shitty practices from these companies.

MrVilliam ,

Cricket

MrVilliam ,

Cochise by Audioslave or Bulls On Parade by RATM. That's just the right kind of John Wick fuel.

MrVilliam ,

Whoa. Great recommendation! I'd never seen/heard that!

MrVilliam ,

I generally agree with the idea that some amount of piracy is, will always, and should exist as motivation to improve the market, but I don't like that everybody is taking this quote out of context for outrage bait. The context is incredibly important. When asked about whether subscription based gaming could be successful, he said that it couldn't be successful until people became comfortable with not owning their games. He's effectively on your side with that statement. He is saying that you guys want to own your games, therefore that model cannot succeed unless your ideals change.

I am not trying to persuade anybody one way or the other, but I personally don't need to own my games. Most of the time, I buy a game, play it through once (if I even finish it), and then it collects dust. Digital games skip the manufacturing process and the dust collection step, but there's no resale possibility. Ever since upgrading PS+ like 2 years ago, I'm pretty sure I haven't bought a game. I'm actually happier to see a catalog of games that has good enough quality titles, gets updated frequently enough, and is cheap enough vs shelling out $70 on a game I might not even like. I don't feel obligated to get my money's worth out of something on the catalog, just my time's worth. So I delete games before finishing them more often than I finish, mostly because most games today overstay their welcome. I don't want to mindlessly grind for xp or gear or consumables just to get to the next road block. I don't want 100+ hour adventures on a 40+ square mile plot of land full of padding. I want Celeste. I want The Forgotten City. I want Portal and Portal 2. I want Uncharted Lost Legacy. These games are shorter and finite and satisfying. I got to the last parts of Elden Ring and Ghost of Tsushima and realized that I just wasn't really having fun anymore. They became a slog. Ghost of Tsushima was pretty easy to just delete and not really look back on because it was part of that subscription, but I felt some guilt deleting Elden Ring because I paid full price for it. That made me realize that the subscription gaming isn't just paying for the games available, but it's paying for the ability to play games with no real stakes. It's cheap enough that as long as I enjoy 2 or 3 games per year, it's worth it, and I probably enjoy 10+. I'm not gaming because I want to own a game; I want to experience the feelings that these games were artistically designed to elicit. I'm more interested in memories and experiences than material goods. I have enough (or too much) stuff as it is. As I get older, my time is becoming more valuable to me because I'm terribly, morbidly aware that it is a nonrenewable, real resource that is trickling away through my fingers and becoming more scarce with every second that passes. I enjoy a game more if I feel free to quit before wasting time not enjoying it. That freedom is what I'm really paying for. And it probably isn't the popular opinion here, but that's my perspective for anybody wondering why in the fuck anybody would ever pay for something and not even own it.

Also, fuck ubisoft, fuck sony, fuck every AAA company, this is not a bullshit astroturf ad. I just wanted to disrupt the circlejerk long enough for reality to permeate through. There's obviously a market for this or it wouldn't be offered, and it wouldn't be offered unless it were popular enough and profitable enough. One day, it might be more popular than buying games, but as I look at the hundred shitty movie/TV streaming services, maybe now is the best this could ever be. Soon it could be subscriptions for publishers or even just individual franchises. That is the logical future step that will either vastly increase piracy or kill the popularity of gaming altogether. That and/or intrusive ads. I fucking hate capitalism.

MrVilliam ,

That's what I was typically doing too. Only once every couple years was I buying a game near release for near full price. I almost certainly wouldn't have tried The Forgotten City if it weren't free, but it was one of the most impactful experiences I've had in gaming.

Idk about game pass, but stuff seems to stay on PS for a pretty long time. Once I caught up with a lot of what I cared about that was older to the catalog, I stopped thinking about when things might leave the service. The biggest shit seems to stay for a year or longer. If I'm still on one game for over a year, I should just buy that game and cancel the service lol.

MrVilliam ,

I also play Rocket League lol. It's the only online game I play, and I've been into it ever since it became free to play. I'm not great at it, but it's good fun that has become familiar, yet I can still see pretty continuous improvement in my performance, even if the ranks aren't really reflecting it.

There's are dozens of us!

MrVilliam ,

Talk less. Smile more.

Don't let them know what you're against or what you're for.

MrVilliam ,

"For our next segment: Is Tetris woke? Let's discuss."

"Has Nintendo been grooming youths to attack traditional family values?"

"Should us real patriots start boycotting video games?"

MrVilliam ,

Right, because they never blame the wrong people while they're blaming the wrong things. Paragons of virtue and real sticklers for accuracy to maintain their journalistic integrity, those ones.

MrVilliam ,

Lol I know, I was just bouncing back for an extra dig at those shitty networks.

MrVilliam ,

I've seen it more as a thing people one-up each other over and use as a way of looking down on people. Like "you sat at a desk for 40 hours and you're tired? So lazy. I just ran a construction project that was 4 weeks of 12 hour days, no days off." Like yeah, that's impressive, but your job's physicality and long hours don't invalidate other forms of labor and the exhaustion that can come with it.

MrVilliam ,

They're so media illiterate that they missed that. They just like the entrepreneurial enterprise.

MrVilliam ,

Kernel level anticheat for a few games is the only real speedbump I'm aware of, and it's only on a couple of game franchises like CoD I think. I would love it a ton of people made the switch and it hurt those games' companies revenue noticeably enough that they look for a way to moderate cheating without just lazily requiring Windows in order to play online.

Linux is finally convenient enough to realistically steal swaths of customers from Microsoft, and it's at the same time that Windows 11 is pissing a ton of people off. We're in for some strange times.

MrVilliam ,

This is the way.

MrVilliam ,

Hey look, another bigot who can't tell the difference between gender, sex, and the congressional industrial military complex. It must be confusing thinking that non-binary people might be tanks or cruise missiles or whatever. But it gets easier to figure out once you get that high school diploma.

MrVilliam ,

This is what I'm seeing

MrVilliam ,

You just shit on Wikipedia in this same thread. Why are you pretending to have changed?

Go ahead and talk about pronouns. Let's see how banned you can get with your next shit take.

MrVilliam ,

Idk if it still is a thing, but like 8 years ago I used an app that I think was called Sleep For Android. This was before smart watches were a thing, so this was a tool to help monitor my sleep, especially for my weird and irregular work/sleep schedules. There were two awesome features that it had which I highly recommend you find a way to make use of:

  • Bedtime alert. Based on your waking alarm time and trending sleep quality stats, it would tell me when to start winding down for bed and give me a target time to be tucked in with eyes closed, ready to sleep.
  • Variable waking alarm. Based on its estimation of where you are in your sleep schedule, your alarm may shift up to like 20 minutes before your target alarm time to pull you from a lighter sleep state so you feel less groggy.

I'm hoping this app or something like it is available to you so you can get back on track!

MrVilliam ,

I'm pretty sure that's it! I still have it installed on my phone. Give it a shot and see if it's helped after like two weeks. I depended on it while I traveled for power plant outages and worked 7 12s per week.

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