uralsolo [he/him]

Broke: Giving someone a pet as a gift.

Woke: Making someone your pet as a gift.

I don’t remember which Surface I have, but power issues are the biggest bugbear that have followed me with it the entire time I’ve had it. Firstly chargers for the thing are really fucking sketchy - if it’s not in basically perfect, out-of-the-box condition it simply refuses to connect. And even if the little indicator light turns on that doesn’t mean that the bios “sees” it, which is pretty annoying.

Lately it’s been doing this thing where when I try to wake it up from sleep it takes about a full minute to turn the screen on. This wasn’t an issue until like a week ago, I’ve tried updating everything, reverting back to windows/stock settings - nothing.

Nowadays my surface is just a second screen on my desk that I use to run Stremio, because it just can’t handle anything else - and this is after me being pretty positive on it for most of the time I’ve had it. I guess I’ve had it for a few years, but damn if it wasn’t such a compact design I could probably swap out the power supply or something.

Sponsorblock is unfortunately just as mandatory as uBlock these days. That said I won’t critique video creators for doing what they need to do to get paid, my critique is leveled squarely at the system itself for making their only recourse for payment “produce propaganda for capitalists”.

I last updated my uBlock yesterday and I haven’t seen a popup since, I might be lucky or maybe Google has backed off for now.

edit: nevermind just got another one

I say we go the other way and allow left on red. If there’s nobody in your path you shouldn’t have to wait for a stupid light to tell you what to do.

I don’t think a guide is really needed to install Linux

I had a guide and it was still a big learning curve. Linus had a guide and he still bricked his machine trying to install Steam. Imagine your parents or grandparents being told without context to mount an ISO to a USB and set up their BIOS - for 90% of people there is no way in hell they’re installing Linux without a guide unless they can double click an exe and have an install wizard do it for them.

scamming settlers

I don’t feel too bad about it tbh

Neither North Korea nor Qatar are fascist. The former is communist and the latter is an absolute monarchy.

Unless you’re saying FIFA is fascist which might be true idk.

Me but with Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Space Ghost Coast to Coast.

I carried a lighter for a while. It worked fine when I put it in my pocket, but the first time I whipped it out for someone it didn’t work at all. They say that that happens to lots of guys but I haven’t carried a lighter since that day.

Me at home: I’ll have some hot wings as a meal.

Me at restaurants: I’ll have some hot wings as an appetizer, and a burger for the meal.

The alternative is my car which sometimes triggers its alarm even though I’m holding the key.

idk why you wouldn’t unless you live in a really cold or cloudy place.

doing something you love

I love cooking for family, but I’ve also cooked for Denny’s and a getting through a meal service is something else entirely. There’s a reason cooks in general are one of the most alcoholic professions, and it’s not because they spend most of their day doing something they love.

thinking you’ll get to retire

lmao

AFAIK it’s just something that hasn’t been tested, but that goes for basically all digital “shrinkwrap contracts” from your iTunes EULA to the license on your github repo. Good luck being the first person to test it if you’re not a major corporation, though.

If the designation of “open source” is such that any open source project can be used by massive corporations or militaries or anything else like that, then the designation “open source” isn’t worth protecting and we need a new one that allows for free use by enthusiasts and other free projects but that is blocked or paywalled from profit-seeking ones.

At some point I just accepted that I’ve become one of those “I don’t really watch TV” people, although I also accept that watching youtube videos and listening to podcasts isn’t much better.

The shtart button.

The shtart button.

Don’t push.

The shtart button.

Be right back!

“Democratic Socialism” is a term for a specific school of thought within socialism that I am criticizing for its tendency to align with imperial, ie US/NATO foreign policy that has created a system of unequal exchange that keeps most of the world in poverty in order to fund the excesses of the first world. It does not mean “socialism but we have a democracy”, that’s every form of socialism. Also it generally has a different meaning when applied to socialist movements in third world countries, which is why I wouldn’t criticize a party like MAS for the same reason.

I consider China’s Whole-Process People’s Democracy to be the current gold standard democratic process on this planet. Democracy should not end when people vote for their representatives, it should be a constant process of polling and implementing the will of the people, and its success is why Chinese citizens have among the highest satisfaction with their government of anyone.