heroes. we should support them more.

I understood more than half of that. I feel so smart.

sure. you create a parental control firewall, and tell them they’re not allowed to see anything fun until they can get past it, and if they do, tipping off the programmeans youll look for countermeasures after a few days. here’s some good leads on the right white papers for a temporary fix. good luck!

no I’m saying weirdshit that made me fudge things in Linux. and I could. it was easy.

in windows my issues were all ‘this isn’t supposed to work, this isn’t allowed’ and I had to fight the system rather than finding the right config file and changing a couple lines.

so my windows problems were much simpler shit. things like getting the taskbar to to what I want, or getting windows to not explode on top edge of screen (literally a checkbox in KDE plasma)

that was the conclusion I came to, yeah.

oh yeah that could happen, but just to be sure…

set them up with something disposable (or at lewst that you can reinstall the OS on every couple weeks) that runs on an architecture other than x86 to avoid viruses; pi is perfect for this.

try cinnamon with mint on a ‘live USB’ so you can try before installing. and see if your ram is broken, or if windows is fucking you for cheaping out on the license.

its a fork of, downstream, tears out a bunch of the annoying shit and has different ux.

…burned out?

lots of versions of windows limit the amount of memory they recognize.

me?

okay so sometimes you need to run a twenty year old game made for another OS or cpu architecture

which… weirdly, easier in Linux than win7; Linux has better backward compatibility with windows than windows. was like three clicks to install.

but sometimes that game uses broadcast UDP packets for LAN multiplayer.

and this is where our problem comes from, because broadcast UDP packets are deprecated, and also most modern routers don’t love them, I don’t think.

so, I needed to find a way to manually readdress outgoing UDP packets from broadcast to a specific set of multicast addresses, which…

also, some issues running USB as serial for some exotic peripherals. and by ‘exotic’ I mean ‘I don’t know for sure the PC is the problem; I might have soldered this wrong’.

also some issues in qubes, but that’s literally all virtualization, and not a distro for anyone who hasn’t both been using Linux for a while and considered the cost of making their apartment a Faraday cage.

a few issues with bare arch, which is the ‘do everything from scratch 0 automation bleeding edge tech nerd, no, seriously you need to manually download a file system’ distro. don’t use arch if you don’t know what youre doing.

okay but then they wouldn’t have as much data to sell and re-sell and corellate, and couldn’t ask as high a price.

do you just hate business?

no. pedophiles are bad. tasting human shit is bad. the feeling when the love of your life walks out of the room for what you know is the last time is bad.

we need a new word for nestle. this company is like Belgian Congo or maybe even “Israeli” levels of fucked up.

I Just told you. do you not remember? are you okay?

this isnt me pretending

No,no, i forgot some people here aren’t American. Been dealing with a lot of american electoralists lately.

Its not that I don’t care for human life (I don’t exactly, for unrelated reasons, though human flourishing is pretty great), its that I’m sick of bloodthirsty monsters pretending they do, because some life is precious and some, when its mentioned, causes them to screech ‘exteeeeerminaaate’ like they’re fucking daleks. Its the forced asymmetry through sanctimony that pisses me off.

I disagree that we’re generally improving society; locally it’s Bad. Globally ive literally lost count of the number of ongoing genocides like ten countries are explicitly fascist and nobody’s doing fuck all about climate change.

I think the only way you get positive change through here involves violence. The violence isnt necessarily the catalyst, but if you do good enough to threaten the current regime’s hold on things, they will absolutely try to crush you, and you need to be ready to defend yourself long enough for that change to take hold-which means doing a bit of killing, defensively or otherwise, and you shouldn’t feel bad about it. Plus, nobody currently in power, making these aggressively terrible decisions, is going to give it up without a gun literally in their mouth, and at that point they’ve probably done enough to more than earn what’s coming to them.

But you do pay taxes, right?

I think youre not catching my distinction between all life (fuck, even define that term for me? Its got some blurry edges) some of which everyone wants dead.

Vs human life

Which seems to have a negative value in the social system I grew up in, which happens to be the current dominant world regime, more or less, and pretending to cherish human life is a deep hypocrisy with a lot of blood on its hands, which adds some recursion to the whole affair. I’m suggesting that a presumed-straight white American man with his own home is someone youre pretending to care about, but in a crowd of a hundred people who hold your opinion, if I were to suggest that we should do what we can to keep unhoused people alive; I’d be fucking lynched.

I’m suggesting that you probably don’t really believe what youre saying here, if you think about it, because arguing with people who aren’t saying what they mean is really frustrating.

I dunno, 80 for a Hitachi seems a little low, but not too good.

Not sure I’d buy one used tho.

don’t condone violence

Yes you do. You just like to hide it. If you’ve ever paid taxes, from city to federal, you have directly funded violence, probably unjustified. I’m going to guess youre not on a tax protest. If you use an electronic device, and replace it any time you don’t absolutely have to, you condone violence. If you wear clothes bought from a store, you condone violence.

Its not a bad ideal to look towards, arguably necessary for a civilized world, but making it myopic just restricts solutions and disempowers those with less power to launder obfuscate and manufacture consent for their violence. It keeps us from a world where its actually achievable.

a living being

This is what I was responding to with the bedbug comparison. I was saying this specific thing is invalid, and there are living things everyone wants dead.

Being precious about human life when we’re having this conversation on devices basically made of orphan bones and glued together with the cum of a ‘captain planet’ villain, one (probably both) of us living in societies that float on a river of blood. Ive spoken to at least five people this week who will likely die of preventable illness within a month or two, and if I even suggest they should get the basic social amenities to live I’ll be damn near crificied, and im guessing youve never given a shit about them. This isnt whataboutism; in saying both the regime abd episteme we live under is blood and terror, and suggesting someone isnt entitled to that without more broadly protesting that is dehumanizing.