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Comedians, especially those who you watch perform for many hours over many years, are different from just any celebrity. Especially when they espouse a point of view that resonates, until suddenly it doesn’t. PS I don’t think about Dave Chappelle ever until he pops his head up with (these days) something shitty to say

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Damn. I didn’t know it went back that far. I remember him making one or two trans jokes that didn’t land but nothing I couldn’t chock up to a mistake. But the last one I saw he literally talked for 30 minutes about trans people. None of it was nice or funny.

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Have you seen “The Closer”? His long segment about trans people didn’t contain many, if any, jokes.

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…her twitter feed is full of evidence for that. Like other people who say this kind of shit, I think you made up your mind long ago that you’d forever say this regardless of what she says

What phone do you sugest for your grandparents?

I got a task to buy a smart phone for my grandparents, they are not techsavy but they know how to use basic functions. Iam looking for an andoid because it has language pack i need. I dont need it to have lots of functions, onley a good camera and a big screen. Bonus points if it can be flashed with some kind of simplefied...

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It’s a good point, they actually provided security updates to the pixel 4a months after the promised end of life

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It’s cute that you think life is inexpensive once you pay off your mortgage at 65 and have spent several thousand dollars throughout the years maintaining that house that would’ve otherwise been put into your savings account

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That’s the idea we are sold, yes

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No one said it wasn’t. It’s just that people think it’s easier and more profitable than it often is. also people for some reason are okay with giving a bank an absurd amount of money just because they think it’s a better deal. And no I don’t have to like giving money to a landlord to make this observation

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Have you read my other comments? I don’t really need an explanation of how home ownership works. I owned a home for a decade. I lost money. I’m not saying that always happens, just that there are several factors not considered by many people who want to be a homeowner. Yes, it’s practically always less expensive, but it’s also often stressful.

You rent for 20 years, all the money you’ve spent over those 240 months is gone forever.

… we pay for things we’d rather not deal with all the time. No, it’s not money pissed into the wind, I got something for it. Peace of mind for those 20 years. Sleeping in instead of mowing the grass or taking the mower to a mechanic so I can do that.

I have enough stress to deal with without maintaining a property. I may decide to make that trade off again some day, but it’s absolutely not this cut and dried thing where renting is stupid if you can own. There are a lot of tradeoffs involved in owning vs renting.

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I’m going to save my money until the time is truly right, vs hurrying to buy because “anything is better than renting”

Also, I will definitely not be having any children

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Why can’t I criticize the very real issues about something without being against it entirely? I’m not…

I wish someone had properly warned me before I bought a house

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What is not an outlier, happens probably 90% of the time, is when a young person hastily buys a house it is a lot more to deal with and more expensive than they think it will be.

It’s the condescension and bitterness.

Most of the haters here seem pretty condescending and bitter to me, that’s not what I’m trying to be. But then again, I probably wasted 500 hours of my life and $150,000 unnecessarily, which could’ve been avoided if I had just been more careful. Literally no one cautioned me, everyone pretty much encouraged me every step of the way. So yeah I guess I’m bitter, and that comes out when a bunch of strangers tell me I am an idiot who loves renting and hates owning because I dare to dissent

A lot of you are filling in all the gaps with shit you made up.

What happened was I set an arbitrarily low price for a house and stuck to it. The result is that I bought an old house that was pretty blah. Ended up spending a lot on it, and 5 years later when I decided to move it was a huge burden. No one wanted to pay a cent more than I had paid and I had to rent it. Had one good tenant and one super shitty tenant. It was a huge hassle. I lost money, even compared to if I had just rented those years.

Because I thought like a lot of you here (renting is ALWAYS bad), I fucked up. I should have been more careful.

What you are willing to write off as an outlier that never happens probably happens every single day. Buying a house is not magic. They are a lot of work. They can be very expensive.

Made the switch to KDE

I’ve been using Fedora for a couple of months now, and have been loving it. Very soon after I jumped into this community (among other Linux communities) and started laughing at all the people saying “KDE rules, GNOME drools,” and “GNOME is better, KDE is for babies.” But then I thought, “Why not give KDE a try? The...

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title bar that’s practically an entire inch tall

… I think this is quite an exaggeration

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Yeah I watched it just now. There being an alligator in it still doesn’t tell me why this image is interesting or funny

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To say that AI is a weird thing?

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It’s not. “performative” to be annoyed by multiple snarky “duh the trailer” responses

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Alright dude

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I second this. For a while my Nvidia card worked great on pop os for gaming. Then one day a kernel upgrade hosed it all. I tried for days to get it working again and finally realized I was swimming upstream and always would be. Bought an amd card and now I hardly have any issues.

Nvidia usually worked for me fine outside of gaming but I did literally find some distros that had severe issues even in the installer sometimes. Nvidia intentionally fucks over Linux support so I decided it was best not to support them anymore anyhow.

Sidenote, my games all look great and run better than they did on the Nvidia card. I always thought amd graphics cards were second rate, but I don’t think that’s at all true these days.

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I mean, you save money by not having to buy another PC…

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The performance I’m seeing on AMD makes me tend to agree with your first point. Looks fantastic and framerates are really nice.

I’m not really interested in AI except for the realtime background noise removal I’d heard about like 2 years ago which apparently Nvidia rtx cards can do. But in all this time I never set it up so I obviously wasn’t that interested in it!

Surely amd will get gpgpu support working at some point!

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They are different, but they are definitely related despite several confidently incorrect commenters.

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I will never not roll my eyes when someone writes a plural with a fuckin apostrophe. Low quality, low effort.

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