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Cake day: August 4th, 2023

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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.




  • Any 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.








  • I 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.





  • My 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.