ExtremeDullard

ExtremeDullard, 7 days ago

Install Linux in a VirtualBox virtual machine to try it out. No change to your existing Windows system is needed.

Better: install it in a virtual machine on a second hard drive: if you like it and you’re ready to switch, switch to booting the real Linux hard-drive and turn the Windows hard drive into the virtual machine, to use within Linux when you need it.

If you switch to Linux, this will happen:

• It’s gonna be tough: it’s a different system, you’re not used to it. Like everything else, it’s hard to change and get used to new things. So realistically expect some learning curve and some pain. It’s normal.
• If you give it an honest shot but you decide Linux is not for you, you’ll switch back to Windows. You’ll be back to your old normal, but you’ll start to notice how infuriating and spirit-crushing it is a lot more, having been exposed to a non-insane, user-centric OS for a while. And then you’ll be that much sadder in Windows and you’ll wish you had the best of both OSes - which you can’t.

Just be aware than exposure to a non-Windows OS will probably make you hate Windows more and make your life in Windows ever slightly more miserable, even if you don’t stick to the non-Windows OS.

ExtremeDullard, 12 days ago

Kind of. I’ve been here a few years and it’s a bit of a national pastime.

• “What a great country” - “Yeah it’s okay now, but it used to be really poor.”
• “Look it’s summer! What a glorious sunny day!” - “Enjoy it while it lasts. Summers last about 2 hours here.”

ExtremeDullard, 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

They found microplastics in the testicles of EVERY human and yet I didn’t feel a thing when they tested me?

ExtremeDullard, 16 days ago

CoPilot, ChatGPT and more are unable to use the Bing services so in turn are also not working or not working fully.

That’s sad, since one would logically expect any AI to get better if it loses access to Bing search results.

ExtremeDullard, 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

My Nokia 3210 definitely was louder. But then I didn’t have a hearing aid yet back then.

ExtremeDullard, 18 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

Maybe the restaurant is infested with investment bankers for whom life is indeed to short. Maybe the sign is a secret handshake to tell other investors they’re welcome in this joint.

ExtremeDullard, 18 days ago (edited 18 days ago)

I’ll tell you something else that will bankrupt the healthcare system: obesity.

Here’s an easy solution: send the bill to those who caused the obesity epidemic and the need for expensive weight loss drugs in the first place: the agro industry. Slap a moderate tax on any heavily processed food (that is, the vast majority of the food sold in the US) and you’ll fund the weight loss drug free for everyone ten times over.

ExtremeDullard, 20 days ago

Privacy isn’t a cutesy. It’s absolutely necessary. Unfortunately, just like not doing stupid shit when you’re a teenager, you get to find out how important privacy is years later when the stupid shit you did years before comes back to haunt you and it’s too late.

The problem of course is that Big Data has made it exceedingly difficult and painful to maintain your privacy. Because of course the last thing they want is for you to have any. It hurts their bottom line.

Because of the corporate surveillance collective, in 2024, if you truly want to maintain your privacy, your life becomes significantly crappier than if you didn’t bother. But that doesn’t mean privacy isn’t as important today as it’s ever been.

ExtremeDullard, 21 days ago

Ain’t you glad you gave Reddit content for free and they’re reselling if for millions?

ExtremeDullard, 23 days ago

Something tells me the victim had mental issues - which doesn’t make him any less of a victim.

ExtremeDullard, 24 days ago

Is your beef that the review is fake or that it’s poorly written?

Because everybody knows ALL reviews on Amazon are fake. If that’s what you find depressing, I guess you’ve been living under a rock for the past 10 years. It’s nothing new…

As for the low quality of the fake review, fear not: AI will soon make all fake reviews literary works of art. You’ll soon be able to spend countless hours on Amazon enjoying high-quality machine-written reviews 🙂

ExtremeDullard, 25 days ago

During his first campaign, most people with common sense simply dismissed Trump. “Who in his right mind would vote for him?” they thought. Boy! were they in for a surprise.

Now this is his second campaign. Trump is still the same Trump as the first time but on steroid this time. He tried to stage a coup, and he’s now sitting in a courtroom trying to defend his ass in a really shameful scandal.

And most people with common sense, again, dismiss Trump. Because really, this time around, who in his right mind - including the most staunch ultra-conservative bible thumping republican - would vote this guy in again?

Well, brace yourself because many, many people will inexplicably say “Watch me. Hold my beer…” on election day. It will truly boggle your mind that not only anyone voted for him at all, but in fact a sizeable portion of America has.

ExtremeDullard, 27 days ago

I think privacy and social media are inherently at odds

It doesn’t have to be.

I’ve spent decades online on Usenet, IRC, Slashdot and elsewhere before modern social media, and today on (some) social media sites, and nobody knows who am I because I’ve always been super-careful to keep my online personae and my real identity totally separate. It takes a bit of paranoia, but it’s possible to have an online footprint that’s watertight and completely divorced from real-life.

I have many, many online identities and none of them tie back to the real me. But Big Tech sure is aggressively trying to deanonymize me, and it takes a lot more care and effort than it used to to make sure that they never do.

ExtremeDullard, 27 days ago

I’ve been very busy on Reddit lately: I actively deleted my entire posting history by hand recently - which took a long time - and I’ve taken to removing all my posts and comments the next day, or after whoever the comment was destined for most likely read it. And yet despite all my activity of late, I’ve not unlocked any achievement. How odd 🙂

ExtremeDullard, 27 days ago

It’s not just soda bottles here, it’s milk bottles, cream, fruit concentrates… Anything in any kind of plastic container with a screw-on cap.

Actually the soda bottles are the least egregious examples. The milk bottles are terrible: you’re 100% guaranteed to spill milk if you don’t detach the cap.

ExtremeDullard, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

From TFA:

their advanced decay made it impossible to determine the cause of death

Even if the exact cause is not known, I’m pretty sure they died of a bad case of WW2.

ExtremeDullard, 1 month ago

The only problem with that theory is, they didn’t even open my box. I know that because the box still had the tape I closed it shut with. So they couldn’t know I had replaced the cord.

Besides, it wasn’t a shitty splice: I actually opened it and replaced the whole cord. You could never tell it wasn’t the original thing.

ExtremeDullard, 1 month ago

Plus, they very likely can’t sell electrical equipment that has had its cord chopped up and repaired

I did it proper. You couldn’t tell the cord had been replaced. For the rest, yeah I know what you mean. That doesn’t mean it’s not crazy that the Red Cross should refuse free shit. My Dad lived through the war and the food restrictions, and let me tell you, he would have been outraged.

Next time, find a friend with small feet who would like to take it off your hands.

The funny thing is, I’m a clear foot taller than my wife, but my own feet have been shortened surgically a few years ago and are now shorter than hers, and I fit inside the machine just fine. But I didn’t want the machine because I hate foot massages 🙂

ExtremeDullard, 1 month ago

With a scalpel and a bone saw - at least that’s what the surgeon said - and because sometimes people are born with issues that need fixing later in life.

ExtremeDullard, 1 month ago

Thanks!

ExtremeDullard, 1 month ago

Three of the countries forced to be in a union for 69 years take measures to avoid being attacked by the country that forced them into that union after seeing it attack a 4th country that was also forced into that union. Gee, I wonder why they’re hostile…