chaogomu

I was military before my first civilian job.

We had that lesson beat into our heads repeatedly, and yet there were still people who never quite picked up on it.

We had the consent to monitoring pop-up every single time we logged onto a government computer, and then had that consent to monitoring explicitly spelled out every three months as we had to complete a computer based training program.

For some people, it still didn’t take.

All that said, this particular thought crime detection effort is creepy as fuck.

Republican AGs have already said they’ll use KOSA to block anything trans related, so maybe don’t bring that up when talking to Republican senators.

Brother printers are great. If only because they don’t add all the pointless bullshit add-on “features” that everyone else does.

Brother printers, they’re just printers. Nothing more, nothing less.

They also take third party ink.

That’s the coin flip.

The problem is, you can’t trust ChatGPT to not lie to you.

And since generative AI is now being used all over the place, you just can’t trust anything unless you know damn well that a human entered the info, and then that’s a coin flip.

Sadly, VW has never strayed far from their roots.

They’ve always been just a little scummy on the business practices side of things. More than a little scummy during WW2…

They do sometimes have good engineering. Which means fuck all in the face of management who want to cut corners and cheat to make more money.

The only place I see liquid fuel being used is in commercial transportation, particularly in shipping and rail. Anhydrous ammonia would be perfect for shipping, and a nightmare anywhere else. That shit will fucking kill you in an instant, and those who survive just wish they were dead.

So it should only be used in highly regulated professional settings.

That said, it’s still a wonderful fuel option for those settings.

This electrolyte swaps shit? I see it as an attempt to reuse all that gas station infrastructure all over the place.

EV chargers are all over as well these days, but they’re still not anything near as ubiquitous and gas stations.

Hyperloop didn’t fail, it did exactly what Musk wanted. It killed the California high speed rail plan. At least for a few years.

It’s the only thing that works. Shouting Nazis into silence is the best early way to deal with them. Show up to protest in huge numbers, deplatform them, force them to scurry back into the shadows.

Most importantly of all, keep them from recruiting more.

Once these efforts fail, all you’re left with is violence, and violence will come, because the Nazis love it.

I just had a flashback of trying to get cups working…

I’m sort of glad I haven’t had to use a printer in years.

Windows 11 also drove me to Linux again…

Although to be fair, it came pre-installed on my new laptop and I was just too lazy to wipe it and switch over. My (now) backup laptop has been running ubuntu for years now, same with my desktop before it died.

But I got about 6 months of windows 11 after de-cluttering it. Still wasn’t enough to convince me to keep it.

Shelly and 2020 Subarus.

If I were a data miner, that sort of info could identify, well, more people than I expected, honestly.

It doesn’t matter how many people use the service, what matters is how many advertisers are left vs how much debt twitter has to service.

Those two numbers seem to be heavily on the side of the debt now.

Daily Driver

Here’s someone using the term in 2011.

https://xdaforums.com/t/what-os-are-you-using-as-your-daily-driver.919218/

And I’m sure there are plenty of older examples.

But some others are here from 2015

https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34990

2017

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=222919

2014 (ish?)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2njaz3/what_are_you_using_as_your_daily_driver/

All that from a simple google search.

Ah yeah, Lamp. I’ve not gotten it to work at all.

As for Lutris, I tried both Vortex and the BG3ModManager. Couldn’t get either working.

I even tried a straight wine install.

So I’ve been forced to do mod entries by hand. And even that isn’t working, but at least I’ve stopped crashing the game.

Fun fact about Lutris and BG3ModManager, apparently a recent update to Lutris broke compatibility. I’ve yet to track down which version, I’ve just seen posts on various forums from the last few weeks talking about it.

Last week I ditched windows for linux on my last computer.

And yesterday and today have been spent working fruitlessly to mod Baldur’s Gate 3.

I cannot for the life of me figure out what’s going wrong. So far, I’ve gotten a grand total of zero mods to work. If I were still on Windows, I could use one of two or three separate mod managers.

Sadly, this new laptop didn’t come with Windows 10, only 11. Which was what fueled the drive to ditch it for linux.

I recently switched my laptop to Garuda, it’s an Arch based gaming distro. It seems to mostly work right out of the box, but I did have to tweak a few steam games to force them to use my dedicated graphics.

I guess I could go in and force steam itself to use the graphics card via env… But I only have a handful of large games at the moment. It’s just as easy to set the requirement per game right now.

For a specific how to, there’s a bunch of firefox addons that do it, but the mozilla recommended one is this

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher/

It’s super easy to use, just open it and it gives a bunch of options.

This is my current (fake) user agent;

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

With two or three clicks, this is my new (fake) user agent;

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14541.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

A few more clicks;

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; HLK-AL00) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.5112.102 Mobile Safari/537.36 EdgA/104.0.1293.70

And finally;

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_3; Trident/6.0)

Now, that last one is making it look like I’m using internet explorer… Youtube videos will not load with that last one active. Claims my browser is too old and not supported.

I don’t know why they all start with Mozilla/5.0 but the apparently a lot of websites will block your requests if you don’t have it (or a valid browser strings like it?)

He’s more likely to have to part it out in the bankruptcy hearing.

Forcing a company to take out a loan to buy itself should be illegal.

I’ll admit I’ve not deleted my Twitter account.

Mostly because I’ve not logged in since 2013? I think I had a single tweet, and that was a reply to some event that I was personally involved in.

Compare that to Mastodon, and I actually have followed a few people and even got into a debate about different voting systems that drew in a third party who turned it into an argument.

So mostly a wash.