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  • AlexanderESmith@kbin.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Advice on finding a partner?
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    9 months ago

    Don’t.

    Okay, that could easily be misinterpreted. What I mean is don’t look for one. Live your life. Get to know yourself. Find some hobbies, start some projects, do some cool shit. Not as a resume for a relationship, just to do it and be fulfilled. You don’t need to find someone right this moment.

    The worst relationship I ever had was because I was young and lonely and bored and I ended up dating someone who nearly destroyed my life and dominated everything about it. Took 5 years to get away from it. Subsequent relationships suffered, though not because my partners were awful, I just wasn’t worth dating.

    At some point, I just got tired of it and “retired” from dating. I took care of myself, did things that interested me, and relaxed for a few years. Just me. I got really happy just being with myself. Then, my best friend of nearly 20 years and I ended up starting a thing nearly on accident, and now (a few years later) we’re very happily married. Absolutely would not have been possible unless I’d spent the time to figure myself out.

  • AlexanderESmith@kbin.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do I need a new phone for 2FA? (Tad Long)
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    9 months ago

    I mean, lack of consensus notwithstanding, the logic tree should be pretty simple;

    • Employer demands secure device

      • Employee has one personally and is willing to use it for work

        • Employer allows use of personal device

          • Problem solved

        • Employer isn’t comfortable with BYOD, provides a device

          • Employee accepts the new device

            • Problem solved

          • Employee doesn’t accept the device, can’t do their job, is fired

            • Problem solved

      • Employee either doesn’t have one, or refuses to use their own

        • Employer provides one

          • Problem solved

        • Employer refuses to provide one

          • Employee realizes the company sucks, quits

            • Problem solved

          • Employer gets shitty about it, fires the employee, employee sues and easily wins

            • Problem solved

    • updated for more scenarios

  • AlexanderESmith@kbin.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Microsoft wants to hide the 'Sign out' button in Windows 11 behind a Microsoft 365 ad
    2·
    9 months ago

    There are absolutely online stores that do that, but they’re usually gamer-focused, so there’s three issues;

    Note: I’m taking about laptops, because it’s all I’ve bought for the last decade or more;

    • The non-gamer focused stores rarely (if ever) have the option (Lenovo, Dell, Microsoft, etc).

    • The gamer focused stores usually sell hardware that runs Linux like shit because the hardware needs extremely specific drivers (which isn’t necessarily an issue for Linux, but if it doesn’t exist yet, you’re either building them yourself, or waiting for someone else to do so).

      • Note: Most Clevo systems - that are private-labeled by the likes if IBuyPower, OriginPC, etc - run Linux really well. Some of these sellers make custom hardware, or sell other private-label systems, so your milage may vary.

    • The gamer focused stores are usually patroned by people who are all in on Windows gaming, because they don’t do much else with the system, so they don’t experience the kinds of annoyances that power users would gripe about (which is why the above point doesn’t compel those sellers to do anything different).

      • And before someone corrects me: Gamers are not inherently power users, they just have powerful systems. It used to be that powerful systems were only buildable and maintenable by power users, but that hasn’t been true for years. If all you do is install and click “play”, you aren’t a power user.

    As for desktops, I really couldn’t say. Haven’t been paying attention for years. It’s possible that you could buy a system without a hard drive, never mind an OS.

  • AlexanderESmith@kbin.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Microsoft wants to hide the 'Sign out' button in Windows 11 behind a Microsoft 365 ad
    10·
    9 months ago

    I may be spoiled in that I don’t play AAA multiplayer games, but I do play AAA single player and indie single/multiplayer (usually the type where one of the players is also the server, e.g. Terraria).

    Been running Linux on my systems for more than a decade, and - especially since Proton/SteamDeck enchantments made their way upstream - I haven’t had any major ssues (except having to wait a while to play RDR2-PC in Ubuntu because of a weird game-specific graphics card driver issue, but even that was fixed in due course).

    Fuck Windows, and fuck the assertion that it’s the only way to run games.

  • AlexanderESmith@kbin.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Billions of public Discord messages may be sold through a scraping service
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    9 months ago

    I mean, my first reply to OP literally said the same thing, but sure, it’s me moving the goal posts.

    And I’m not talking about private as in “who owns and has ‘rights’ to the data” because “discord is s private company with TOS” (which offers zero protection, since scrapers don’t care about TOS, even when the scraper is a major company - See StabilityAI, Google, et al).

    I’m taking private as in “not any random person can log in and see it”. Private discord servers and DMs don’t appear to be included. That’s the “private” I’m taking about.

  • AlexanderESmith@kbin.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Billions of public Discord messages may be sold through a scraping service
    19·
    9 months ago

    I understand the vector, I’m just saying that maybe if people had conducted themselves responsibly, this wouldn’t be an issue.

    Hiding behind a moniker to do things you would normally be shunned is bad for everyone. It allows trolls to thrive, reduces or removes the impetus for broader social change/evolution (offline, that is), and fosters echo chambers full of people who have zero responsibility to regulate what they say for the sake of sanity (because fuck it, who’s gonna call them on their bullshit, right? And even if someone does, “they’re” not being judged, “their profile” is, so they can separate themselves from any criticism without doing any self-reflecting).

    If you want to post something (text, art, etc) and you have to stop and think about your reputation, that’s a good thing. It means you should either not do something stupid, or you should stand behind your actions, and give support to others to do/say that thing.

    The other option is to post behind a fake name knowing that there are no consequences, and just call it a day (which is why the opinion of the average post is so easily dismissed at “some random person on the Internet”).

    And if you really do need anonymity (because the thing your discussing is super difficult or dangerous for you)… maybe don’t fucking have that conversation in a public discord channel?

  • AlexanderESmith@kbin.socialtogamingcirclejerk@lemmy.world•This guy's worst take yet
    10·
    10 months ago

    The artistry and ambiance are the excellent, and I’m enjoying watching the story unfold. Unfortunately, it’s less a “game” than a walking simulator. Combat isn’t difficult (and has zero stakes). Puzzles are visually dazzling, but braindead easy to solve. I don’t even really feel like I’m exploring, because you’re basically on rails.

    Excellent experience, interesting view into schizophrenia, absolutely beautiful… just not much in the way of interaction. Honestly, I’d enjoy it more as a movie (or mini-series, since it’s longer than a few hours if you let it breathe).