AlexanderESmith

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Don't.

Okay, that could easily be misinterpreted. What I mean is don't look for one. Live your life. Get to know yourself. Find some hobbies, start some projects, do some cool shit. Not as a resume for a relationship, just to do it and be fulfilled. You don't need to find someone right this moment.

The worst relationship I ever had was because I was young and lonely and bored and I ended up dating someone who nearly destroyed my life and dominated everything about it. Took 5 years to get away from it. Subsequent relationships suffered, though not because my partners were awful, I just wasn't worth dating.

At some point, I just got tired of it and "retired" from dating. I took care of myself, did things that interested me, and relaxed for a few years. Just me. I got really happy just being with myself. Then, my best friend of nearly 20 years and I ended up starting a thing nearly on accident, and now (a few years later) we're very happily married. Absolutely would not have been possible unless I'd spent the time to figure myself out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

People need to stop calling everything "fake news". First, the shit you see online may be fake, but it's not news. And second, perpetuating that stupid-ass phrase just gives the morons who coined it more excuses to keep using it.

If you think something is a lie, say so in plain English.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I only work in dumbass terrestrial systems administration, and even we do that (mostly because I pitch a fit when they try to test more than one thing at a time)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I feel like someone in this thread should be calling someone else a tankie, even if only for the meme of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I may be spoiled in that I don't play AAA multiplayer games, but I do play AAA single player and indie single/multiplayer (usually the type where one of the players is also the server, e.g. Terraria).

Been running Linux on my systems for more than a decade, and - especially since Proton/SteamDeck enchantments made their way upstream - I haven't had any major ssues (except having to wait a while to play RDR2-PC in Ubuntu because of a weird game-specific graphics card driver issue, but even that was fixed in due course).

Fuck Windows, and fuck the assertion that it's the only way to run games.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Usually they just over-pay for their computer because you can't really buy a system without Windows pre-installed (unless you build it).

I have so many computers that came with Windows installations that I never even booted into.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

criminals could use that kinda data for blackmail.

Maybe... don't say shit on the internet that would embarrass you if associated with your real name?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Who uh... cares? The information is publicly available, that's how it was scraped... Who would /buy/ this?

And what would they do with the knowledge that Fartknocker72 posted sonic slash fanfics?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Didn't say it was the only way, just the best way. Most effective attacks are still against humans, not computers.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

In no particular order;

  • Detecting "installed" software is iffy. Linux can have all kinds of things running on it that aren't "installed" as-such (same as Windows with portable EXEs, Linux has AppImage/etc). Excepting things like that, you can detect installed apps through the package managers (apt/pkg/yum/snap/etc).
  • OS updates in Debian-likes and Redhat-likes are controllable out of the box, but I'm not familiar with a way to prevent a user from doing them (other than denying them root access, which might make it hard for them to use the system, depending on what they need to do).
  • I've had a lot of good results with OpenVPN.
  • lol antivirus. Not saying Linux doesn't get viruses, or that there arent antiviruses for Linux, but the best way to avoid getting them is still to just avoiding stupid shit. Best thing I can offer is that if you have some kind of centralized storage, check that for compromised files frequently, and keep excellent backups. And make sure your firewalls and ACLs don't suck.
[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

@luthis

I mean...;

Benjamin Schreiber was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison in 1996, after clubbing a man to death with the handle of a pickaxe and leaving his body outside a trailer. Schreiber had conspired with the man’s girlfriend to murder him.

He took away someone else's body and life first.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

@Serinus

You make it sound like China was meant to pay those tariffs. It's Americans who pay. China doesn't give a fuck.

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