Someone woke up this morning and chose violence.

Gaming, reading, and (rarely, when folks visit) drinking!

"You’re not just a regular moron, you were DESIGNED to be a moron. " - Portal 2

Probably the darkest truth - modern moronity is generally by design, not by misfortune.

So do I, but not everyone is so lucky!

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All clear, management have gone on another away day!

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“ennui and a trapped feeling … no control over your own life”

That describes adulthood for a lot more people than we’re willing to admit. Adulthood often has the illusion of more choices, but for many those choices have one realistic option.

As a kid, there is at least the feeling of “I’ll grow up and it will be great”, as a working adult it used to be “I’ll retire and it’ll be great”; these days it’s “well, I hope there isn’t teams meetings in the afterlife”.

Using the power of friendship to kill a god.

Ah yes copyright law - the most transparent attempt to defraud people ever seen.

The real irony is the folks who actually create things likely sign over more than they’d ever lose to piracy to “protect” themselves from it.

It will also be in 50 years time.

Enshittification is apparently a journey, not a destination.

Local government’s have had such opportunities for decades, the evidence suggests that this doesn’t work overly well.

A lot of people talk about taxing folks like this and then using the money to supply the housing.

The thing is, given the money, few people could pull this off well. The site isn’t just being plopped down; from the sound of the article in the comments it’s being actively developed as a community with other safeguards and support, by someone who sunk a lot of time into finding out what would work to help people rather than just appear to help.

A scheme like this is hard to replicate because, in addition to money, it needs a core team with a clear vision and the time to really make it a focus of their lives. It also needs a community that will embrace it - for example it would likely work in the town I grew up in, but the town I work in (and am sadly forced to live in) now would likely drive such a project to failure.

It’s a good idea that worked against the odds, and should be celebrated for that alone.

Adds to the ever growing list of copy-blight examples

Yep, that was a very much my fantasy. 9 hours of sleep, with an alarm of “stop right there criminal scum”.

This is what happiness looks like.

At first it all seems normal, every now and then a random sound effect is replaced by ominous hooting. Every hour, on the hour, a green owl flashes on the screen for a frame or two, it’s eyes boring into you before vanishing. Once every 50 or so times it pumps your volume up, selects speakers as output and let’s loose a screeching hoot. Random popups slowly ramping up “Restart your streak today”, “Where did you go?”, “Duo misses you”. At first just once or twice a day, but steadily increasing in intensity till it’s one every 23 seconds.

512gb of ram you say? That’s legendary 3rd chrome tab territory.

At the root it’s a very difficult topic to address, let me change my language a little to avoid the politics implied by the room.

When you generalise a negative trait to a particular gender, you are making a sexist and hateful comment. The “emotional woman” and the “deceitful gold digger”, the “violent man” and the “potential rapist” - the former would lead to a talk with HR, the latter leads to open agreement and often accolade.

The argument made for this discrepancy is that it is redressing the systemic sexism built into our society, but I think that it has ceased to do so and us now fuelling the misogyny more than it is addressing it.

There is a need to redress societal imbalance that disadvantages women - however hatred only breeds more hatred. The path currently taken is wrong, and history will show that to be true.

Misogyny and misandry, two unhappy twins; one celebrated, the other shunned. Both found their way into this thread.

That’s enough internet for today I think.

I’ve got this move coming up - my plan is to dual boot and slowly wean over.

Game crashes in Linux, try for a fix and if I get frustrated, boot into windows and enjoy the game.

Might be a rocky year, but the dual boot will likely take the stress off!

I’ve seen a lot of fedora-based distros pushed for gaming (mint is Debian based), apparently these can work better. Still looking into it, but no definitive answers there yet!