Crozekiel

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[–] Crozekiel 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Windows 10 on day 1 was still 'calling home' and recommending candy crush in the start menu as I recall. I had to dig into the registry to gut the windows store from it entirely to get windows 10 to act how i want an OS to act. Windows 7 was the last good windows IMO.

[–] Crozekiel 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fucking boomer, lol

[–] Crozekiel 4 points 1 month ago

He is only allowed to move diagonally, but someone else helped him into the "capsule" and screwed up putting him on white. It's his first time on white, which is why he is upset that Knight keeps rubbing in how comfortable the black squares are.

[–] Crozekiel 1 points 1 month ago

That about sums up how I used to feel which caused me to stop consuming caffeine. When I could hear my own pulse while in a public place, I knew my blood pressure was a problem.

[–] Crozekiel 4 points 1 month ago

You are 100% right, and I know it... But I'm bad at taking care of health stuff, going to doctors, etc... I'll try, that's the best I can say. :)

[–] Crozekiel 3 points 1 month ago

Every polling place I've ever been to was a church... Separation of church and state, amirite? 😭

[–] Crozekiel 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Knowing that, this might be the best evidence that I am not ADHD I've heard, lol.

[–] Crozekiel 20 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Just sounds like caffeine addiction. I used to be able to drinks pot of coffee and then go to sleep. Then health issues caused me to give up all caffeine for several years and now if I have half a cup im wired for hours...

[–] Crozekiel 3 points 1 month ago

That is a ridiculous take. All you're talking about really is changing the amount of debt that guy racks up before the end - he can still do the exact same thing with non-contract unlocked phones, just has to pay the $700 with the CC and not sign a contract. It really has nothing to do with locked or unlocked phones. It doesn't even have anything to do with phones, dude could have done the same thing with anything with decent resale value - I wouldn't be surprised if a good portion of things for sale "NIB" on ebay aren't the same situation.

The phone companies were not "hemorrhaging" money over this, they got paid by the bank. Banks issuing credit cards, maybe, but only so much money as they were willing to loan out in the form of a credit limit. That risk is there for them with every CC they issue and has nothing to do with phones.

Carrier locking phones is about keeping consumers prisoner, same as the predatory contracts. I have a cabinet full of old Sprint phones from about a decade on their plans that they would never unlock, well after their contracts were up, because they wanted me to just keep renewing... Please don't stan the most obvious monopolies of our time...

[–] Crozekiel 0 points 1 month ago

I disagree with dual booting at the early stages. I like dual booting (or even better a VM if that covers you) once you've figured out what works and what doesn't (assuming something vital is in the "doesn't" category); but, if you are trying to decide if it is right for you, I don't think it does you any favors to be able drop back into old habits so easily. My recommendation is drop a bit of money on a second hard drive, pull the windows drive out and install just Linux. See if it works for you, if your "must-haves" are running painlessly or not. You still have the safety net if things go REALLY badly of just popping in the old windows drive and changing your boot options in the BIOS, but you will be less tempted to just boot Windows every time you use the computer - until you really have to.

For a start, in practice you aren't likely to actually reboot and load into a different OS very often. You can't really give something new a fair shake while you are still spending most of your time somewhere else. Minor things, like how you like your system to look/work will just push you back to windows because it's easy and you won't ever look at the options to find out that it can do what you want (and likely more). Second, there is the pesky windows updates that likes to fuck with the boot loader.

This is really only advice for an enthusiast that really wants to try Linux. I know some will disagree - everyone's experiences are different, but it is definitely my preferred methodology and helped me make the leap.

[–] Crozekiel 6 points 1 month ago

Jesus Christ. 🤣

[–] Crozekiel 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I don't have any direct info on how it works, but I would have assumed it could be done completely offline with some sort of accelerometers. But I am a Lay Person so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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