Mesophar

joined 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

It is difficult to make new friends when prioritizing the second desire, or at least takes a lot more trial and error, or luck, to find other people comfortable with that.

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

Windows Registry

I had recurring issues with registering Bluetooth devices, where they would pair initially but refuse to connect again after a reboot. I couldn't remove the device from saved connections, and registry edits wouldn't save or persist. I'd have to completely uninstall the driver, change the registry, and reinstall the drivers, with restarts between each step, to get it to work for 1-2 days.

Now, having to troubleshoot isn't what turned me away from Windows to Linux. I knew I would run into that plenty on Linux as well, but I came to hate the registry. If I was going to have to go through all this trouble to get things to work, I might as well do it on a system I had more control over. I had worked with different distros on VMs and dual booting before, so when I built a new system, I just skipped Windows entirely.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago

Jokes on you, I always used the safety strap on the Wiiz even if I was just in the menu. My neurodivergent ass brain wouldn't let me hold the controllers without having the strap on

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

I agree with not overly fanboying, but "they might stop support" can literally happen with any platform. If AMD stops open source support, they're in the same boat as NVIDIA but with a leg up from having all the history an experience from the time with support.

Your favorite distro could go out of support and have the project closed tomorrow, just like Windows 10 reaching EoL. Except someone else can fork that distro and pick up the mantle to continue the project.

That game that you really want to play on Linux might suddenly choose to implement an anti-cheat or DRM that isn't compatible with Linux, or a different game might choose to remove that block and it suddenly opens up for the Linux community.

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

Oh, is that a new isekai?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

If my car crashes, will it cause my car to crash?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

That is fair, I gave an over-simplification. But generally it will be part of the overall process.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's just a form of national identification number. It's assigned at birth, and is used as a means to legally identify an individual for government purposes (taxes, benefits, acquiring licenses and other forms of identification). They exist in Europe as well, they are just called something different than SSN. Not every country uses them, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Either put both the coins and bills in your pocket together and sort it out later, or don't pick your items up off the counter until you sort out your change.

Because even if they gave your paper bills back separate from the coins, if your other hand is so occupied with the items you purchased, how were you going to get the bills in your wallet anyway?

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

Counterpoint, if the customer places the money on the counter for payment, how is there any issue if the cashier returns change by placing it on the counter?

What is considered polite may differ by region and culture. (I'm not claiming you specifically would be upset at this, it's just relevant to the meme.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

In addition, be sure to supplement their diet with the occasional human leg

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But Go back far enough, and a surname is just the given name of your father, or the town you live in, or the trade you do.

More accurate to stop using given names as surnames!

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