The Glass Cliff is in effect, lads!
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After literally 5 or 6 hours of trying to get it to install, I was only on it for about an hour before I somehow borked it. Rather than spending even more time trying to unbork it, I just went back to my Windows disk image and carried on where I left off.
I want to switch, it sings to my autism like a fat-titted siren, but it’s still too arcane and way too sensitive to different hardware combinations. Windows, for all its faults, rarely gives me trouble simply running. I don’t need to research specific driver versions or avoid buying certain brands of GPU. I don’t need to edit the bootloader using a third-party pre-boot program just to get the OS to load beyond the logo (I had to do this on my last attempt to switch to Linux, and it was something I read on a random blog on page 3 of the search results, it wasn’t mentioned in the official documentation).
I don’t mind learning new things, it’s one of the things that excites me about switching to Linux, but the learning needs to be pleasant and easily-accessible. If I have to spend hours searching for a dude with a personal blog who guides me through editing systems files just so I can get to the desktop, something has gone awry. If the OS can work out-of-the-box with no h4x0r fiddling needed from me, then we can talk. Until then, I just don’t have enough will to live to spend on it.
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politics @lemmy.world•Early Results Suggest 473 Million Dollars’ Worth of Buyer’s Remorse for Elon MuskEnglish
8·10 days agoI wonder if all the republican scumbags he bought looked at the money and thought “wait, why the fuck do I even need to bother being a politician? I can just take this imbecile’s money, lose, and go on a paid vacation for a few years. I’ll just call it a series of fact-finding missions in aid of the 2028 presidential election”.
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Games@lemmy.world•On the steam forums, there are over TWO THOUSAND PAGES of community questions about "disk write error".English
55·13 days agoBetween the anti-woke conspiracism and the outright racism, transphobia and general bigotry, I don’t know how anyone can use those forums for anything. Genuinely the most toxic and hate-filled forums I’ve ever used in my 30-odd years of internetting.
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movies@piefed.social•Taika Waititi Calls ‘Klara And The Sun’ Critics “Irrelevant, Out Of Touch, Obsolete”English
71·13 days agoAny ratings system for art is stupid, from simple star ratings to book-length reviews from professional critics. I use CSS tweaks in Stylus and uBlock Origin to hide ratings and reviews for everything on IMDb and Steam (and many other places), and after watching a film or playing a game and then going to the ratings, I’m almost always shocked at how low they are compared to my own experiences with them. It’s a very rare occasion when I’m like “well, I wasted 90 minutes watching that piece of shit”. Going into a film with poor ratings ringing in your ears is only going to ensure you dislike it, because you’re gonna completely switch off your own benefit-of-the-doubt and want to have your views line up with the consensus and to edit your experience in real-time. This is robbing you of everything a film offers.
I’ve been doing the CSS thing for years and have never looked back. It’s improved my movie and game experiences tenfold and made me a marginally happier person in general. Try it, you lose literally nothing but gain so, so much.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•No Public Toilet Has Business Looking This GoodEnglish
36·14 days agoWhen the walls are so densely-patterned, they resort to graffitying the occupant.
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News@lemmy.world•Mom who forced 11-year-old to give birth at home with 'no medical care' gets max sentenceEnglish
201·15 days agoYeah, the story isn’t about a mother giving shitty medical care to her daughter. It’s about how she got pregnant in the first place…
Timotei exists…
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News@lemmy.world•Robert F Kennedy Jr. says Arabs don’t produce science or literatureEnglish
8·17 days agoHe thinks autism is caused by vaccines and/or over-the-counter painkillers. Frankly, I’d be shocked if he had anything halfway sane to say about Arabs.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some foods that if in different shapes, seems less appetizing to you?English
13·18 days agoPasta. I like the small pieces, like penne or fusilli, but I just cannot be fucking bothered if it’s spaghetti. I simply refuse.
Maybe a birb with diarrhoea?
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Liz Truss claims Brits would be on Mars by 2040 if she hadn’t been oustedEnglish
3·19 days agoI feel somewhat bad for her getting the glass cliff treatment, but then my pity evaporates when she continues putting herself out there, saying the most imbecilic things imaginable. She can’t admit that her premiership was completely contrived and desperate on the part of her colleagues, and that she would never have gotten a look in under any other circumstances, and so she has to dream up conspiracies and dark forces to explain how she failed almost instantly. And the delusion simply grows the more her imagined self slams face-first into reality. She would have been the best if we’d just given her a proper chance, ya know?
Paperback edition of a human.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What movie terrified you as a child? Or what character?English
11·23 days agoThere was an ad on TV for Knorr’s soup when I was a toddler, and the big vegetable scarecrow character with the black hat scared the absolute fuck outta me. Just look at this cunt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMzia7sJtVM
Like what was I supposed to take away from this? That a scarecrow is alive and knows when it’s being looked at, and only then will it stop coming after me? And it eats its own flesh in soup-form? The fuck? 😭
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AskHistorians@lemmy.world•What was the fallout from Metallica and Napster? Did it actually change anything? Or just spawn different sides of the same coin?English
19·27 days agoI was around at the time, and there were half a dozen other platforms that took centre stage once Napster closed its doors. Morpheus, KaZaA and eMule were my main ones. Free music was as available as it ever was, so in that sense all Metallica did was lose fans and annoy everyone.
The basic concept is still around today in the form of Soulseek, which is where I get 99% of my pirated music from (such as Metallica’s). BitTorrent mostly supplanted these kinds of programs, though.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•the chance to do it all over againEnglish
31·1 month agoMy instant and extremely violent suicide would go down in history. They’d write songs about the cloud of bone talc I’d disappear into like a jihadist ninja. Studies would be performed to discover just how finely my corporal form was disassembled, firing my few remaining atoms around the Large Hadron Collider with such force that I break free of time and space and enter the 4th dimension, but even the 4D scientists living there will have no clue how I managed to die so fucking thoroughly.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward ClaudeEnglish
11·1 month agoIt’s because it’s not actually AI, and some poor besocked cat girl is coding all that shit and listening to all the abuse.
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Shitty Movie Details@lemmy.world•Samuel L Jackson (1948) plays a black person in every movie he's cast in.English
51·1 month agoHis role in Django Unchained was questionable in that regard.
That’s some Vishakanya shit 👀












Unshelled peanut lookin’ ass.