wreckedcarzz

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

Like this, obviously

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

Who the hell keeps their house at 68F?! 74-78 is my preferred temp but I can cope all the way to 85. But you turn that below 70 and we’re gonna have a problem (both in the “I’m fucking cold, bitch” sense as well as the “do you own the electrical company or something? I didn’t know you’re a billionaire”)

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

Well, have you tried not spawning on explosives? smh

💥

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

After I parted ways with faith as a kid, the holidays have always seemed very… ‘adults who still believe in the tooth fairy’ sort of thing. I haven’t actually celebrated since I was very young, and tbh it’s either a faith-based thing (which I don’t believe in, obviously) or it’s a cash-grab for corporations to unload back stock while acting like they are actually ‘so excited for the holidays’.

While I didn’t see a decline or hesitation around my neighborhood generally the last few years, my folks have been less and less giddy as time goes on. A couple years ago they bought their tree on the 24th. It’s like the excitement has weaned and they are just doing it because ‘we have always done it’, which again imo is stupid because you are stressing yourself out (and physically hurting yourself) by decorating the house, buying a tree, etc for something that they are only doing because they feel obligated. I’d happily take an extra $100 as a gift and free up an afternoon by not having to buy, haul home, decorate, and 10 days later dispose of, a tree. Same with house decorations, the neighbors aren’t going to care if we don’t spend 2 days cursing under our breath, stapling our fingers and almost falling off the room.

I dunno, it’s just so foreign to me. Any other time if a fat man burglarized your house, ate your snacks and left mediocre gifts as compensation that you’d return the very next morning anyway, you’d be pissed. But apparently it’s totally normal because it’s cold outside now.

shrug

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

ootl is twitch expanding into the amateur porn market orrrrrr

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

You act like that doesn’t look like shit now lol

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

Well now I have to do it ugh unzips

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

Instructions unclear, penis inside tentacle

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

lemmyshitpost

Uhhh not sure that is the usual check…

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

grabs power cord “au contraire, it is only I that will do the talking”

yanks

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

(James May voice)

Hello.

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

Since I like geeky boys, they can come over and get jacked anytime

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

I have been progressively disliking Windows since 7 - I feel it peaked with Vista, tbh, I was incredibly excited for that OS and even was a beta tester and provided feedback. I hated 8 (never owned, but I worked on customer’s machines that had it and 8.1). I dove into 10 the day it went gold and it’s been a ‘oh fuck, what is this shit’ ever since. 11 I tried for a month before reverting to 10 (yay disk imaging!) and I don’t know what I’ll do when 10 goes eol in like 18 months (for this desktop anyway, see below).

I’ve used Win from 95 all the way through 11, and I started trying and in some cases using Linux distros starting back in… 03? Knoppix was my first, then Ubuntu and it’s various flavors, straight Debian, Arch and it’s many spinoffs, Fedora… I want it to work. It’s the project car in the field with “potential”. It could be great. But every time you try and work on it, you find something weird, some oddity, some gotcha, and give up and let it sit. Until next time. Rinse and repeat.

I installed W10 Enterprise LTSC a month or so ago on my ThinkPad (non-gaming), as it is supposed to get security updates for much longer, as I understand it. I tried to put Fedora on the ThinkPad, but the Snapdragon X55 modem doesn’t work, and that is the reason I got this machine, so that’s DoA. There are fixes but they are for older versions of distros and literally none of them work (again, install *nix, try to make it work, get frustrated, revert). It’s like, unless you’re in this very boring typical user status, as soon as you step beyond that, it’s nothing but frustrating. And I hate that - again, I want this to work, but it just doesn’t. I have years of similar stories, and I’m just like… I’m trapped in this cycle of wanting to enjoy a system that fights me every step, for one reason or another. So after almost two decades of it, I’m like ‘it just doesn’t work until I see proof otherwise, and I’m going to be stuck until that changes’.

Super frustrating :(

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

Not really, unfortunately; the last time I checked, over half the games I regularly play had major issues, such as no multi-player, graphical corruption, etc.

I’d hop off windows but it’s still not viable yet.

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

Imagine getting salty about a light-hearted comment

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

Re: FH4, ms store and steam versions are incompatable, and I’m not replaying 3.5k hours to get back to where I’m at (eat shit and die, devs, it’d be easy as fuck to do but you’re little shitstains and lifting a finger that you don’t absolutely have to is far too much effort, we know). I know this because I got the steam version on release to find out that all my progress is magically gone. Thank fuck steam has refunds now.

Halo Wars 1 is on steam, but 2 is not :( (and it’s the far superior game, imo).

I’m basically looking for a system that scans my existing games, gives a “yes it all works” or “no and here’s why”, that I can use to actually migrate. Other comments deep in the tree go over this but tl;dr I’m so tired of being excited and hopeful and drop a week+ into it just for a showstopping problem and I revert to the windows system backups. I’m tired of being the guinea pig, ya know?

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

I just woke up thinking about this; I have looked very briefly at Bottles (containerizatiom for games and programs), and I actually think it claims to do EA/Origin if I remember the screenshots correctly, but that was about a month ago and I totally forgot to look deeper. Still doesn’t check off everything but it’s still progress if so.

I’m currently latched into windows 10 until eol and I’ve been trying to switch to *nix for two decades now, but something has always been too much of a hurdle (dog war flashbacks meme of the wifi driver hell of the mid-to-late 00s) and I end up giving up, restoring from a backup and waiting a couple of years to do it all again. It used to be fun, genuinely, but yeah at this point I want someone else to do it these days and tell me what’s broken, I just want to enjoy my time these days. Troubleshooting and trying potentially solutions for a few days just to get nowhere isn’t the joy of learning that it once was.

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

The initial comment ended in a :p and my argument are valid as I’ve tried dozens of times to switch myself but alight sweetie, be mad~

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

cries in being home-bound by a disability and needing to pass time until my early death

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

“works on my system, non-issue” helps no one

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

As I recall off the top of my head, gta5 (buggy), the division 2 (anticheat), the entirety of Forza Horizon 3+4 and Halo Wars 2 (since they are MS Store titles)… I want to say watch dogs legion (uplay) but tbh it’s been a bit and my memory is fuzzy. Also since proton is for steam, I assume EA/Origin, which wipes a dozen games with one swoop, too (modern NFS, The Sims, Burnout, Battlefield…).

I’ve got a bunch of older games too that I keep installed for nostalgia, but haven’t looked at their playability scores; stuff like (all listed are non-digital copies) NFS 2 through Most Wanted (2012), GTA 3 / VC / SA, Midtown Madness 1+2, System Protocol One, TDU 1+2 (with third-party multi-player support thru TDU World launcher)…

I think the rest of my currently installed games should work ootb (no mp/steam managed or GOG / physical copy/new enough that I don’t think they’d need patches or workarounds…). But with over 7k gameplay hours logged on the Forza Horizon series alone, there’s a lot I play daily and losing just a couple would be too much. I’m out of the ‘tinker until it works’ phase, I just want things to work, ya know?

Edit: I’m also not sure how deeply ingrained the MS account stuff is, but also Horizon 5 (steam) and Halo MCC + Infinite (steam) too

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

just as long as you aren’t in a barbie world…

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

With the prism project ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM ) along with things like 641A ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A ), G doesn’t need to send anything. The nsa is already swallowing it whole.

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

Turn that off with (on pixel / aosp) Settings, Location, Location services, turn both to off.

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

Does Dell… not offer a way to update the bios via flash drive or network? The fuck? Every board I’ve ever owned had the option to at least flash from USB.