Republican legislators keep getting away with awful shit. I don’t see there being a change whenever they vote for extremely unpopular bills because they have an R next to their names. In the eyes of the average brain dead voter, that’s good enough to keep endorsing them every time they drag their dumb asses to the poles. Ted Cruz should’ve been primaried after abandoning his constituents for Cancun during a snow storm but he’s still around. Lauren Boebert should’ve lost her position after the Beetlejuice blow job but she’s still in Congress. MTG’s incompetence and bathshit crazy stuff she says about Jewish space lasers hasn’t cost her anything yet. I could go on.

Meanwhile we have the DNC eating itself over anything that goes against the wishes of those at the top. Mamdani is practically unrecognized by the DNC establishment. Sanders faced the combined efforts of the Democratic party keeping him from getting a fair chance at the 2016 primaries. Al Greene was censured by his peers for rightfully calling out Trump on his Medicaid lies. AOC keeps getting snubbed in committee picks for geriatrics that die months later. It’s so hard to stay positive in light of all the shit that keeps going on. I really want things to change for the better but it’s so hard to keep holding on to hope.

The ratio of empty homes to homeless people in the US is roughly 15:1. We just need to redistribute a few but the average American hates the idea of doing something nice to people they see as unworthy of life to begin with.

Just forget it. Us Americans are too comfortable/scared/tired to do jack shit. We should’ve been out striking and rioting like the French day after day when ICE first started to make their move. At this point we pretty much deserve what’s coming to us because of the election results and us not objecting loud enough.

I ended up making a rather large amount of purchases from GOG: the entire catalog for Prince of Persia, Crysis, Crysis Warhead, Vaporum, Hotline Miami 2, and Men of War: Assault Squad.

I hope you feel better soon Perfect Dark!

No bugs to cuddle up with? Try snakes!

I think the correct term is xenomorphobic.

And now I want to see this meme format for the other deadly sins. Hearing about gluttony would be interesting.

Hearing abour Subnautica 2 and Lego Island made my day. Good news can still happen it seems.

The fancier ones still can’t handle the higher settings of most new poorly optimized games. Even mid-tier cards have a shockingly low amount of RAM for what you’re paying.

Shadow Tactics Desperados III The Thaumaturge

And now those same bumpkins are saying originating countries “are gonna pay for the tariffs”.

Wow just when I thought Borderlands 4 couldn’t get any worse, they just keep piling on the disappointment. Thanks for giving me even more reasons to consider this franchise dead to me!

Windows 7 was a beautifully simple yet versatile OS capable of running on some really weak hardware with little overhead. Windows 11 by comparison is a bloated monster that demands too many resources for mandatory background processes and wants to get its tentacles into every facet of your privacy.

Gaming, simple office tasks, and web browsing work really well in Linux for the common layman. The next big hurdle is to offer some more niche programs that are easy to work with.

I spent my whole weekend trying and failing to set up ZoneMinder, Motion, Shinobi, then finally ContaCam through WINE in an effort to make a simple air gapped security camera system in Linux Mint installed on a 13 year old laptop. I struggled through countless command lines trying very hard to understand what each one does, Time shifted a dozen times through installation failures, and I still couldn’t get it done. The best I could do was unintentionally turn on my webcam after somehow managing to install Motion without then being able to access its functionality through a solely console based interface.

I wanted to gift this laptop to my tech illiterate mom and give her peace of mind that no one was sneaking around in front of her house. Linux failed me on this if I couldn’t even set up the software on my own, let alone my mom if she’d have to learn how to use a terminal to make it work. I wanted it to work so bad but the learning curve and difficulty to figure out why a PPA command failed after following an old and likely out of date guide had no workaround since support is so scarce. Old YouTube video guides with a couple hundred views offered no hints when a line I followed verbatim didn’t work in my setup. As midnight was fast approaching I finally threw in the towel and set up Windows 7 with ContaCam running in less than 2 hours.

Devs for Linux need to do better. If they want their OS of choice to get more mainstream then they need to develop for more mainstream users. A lot of these nittty gritty setup configurations need to be moved to the background with greater reliability and cross distro functionality. I get that there are things like Software Center that offer flatpaks have at least some ease of use when it comes to installing software, but the point is lost when some of that software doesn’t actually run or even appear anywhere after installing, like ZoneMinder.

That’s me alright. Not from lack of trying mind you but I’ve had to reinstall my OS a couple of times this weekend to make an install boot properly on an old laptop. I’mma have to reinstall again because I messed up a console install.

It’s power of Hydrogen. We should’ve been using Watts to measure it this whole time.

He’s not perfect but Newsom’s one of the few political figures resistance to the Trump regime can crystallize around. Yes I’m well aware he’s the type of guy who’d like to find common ground with these assholes but he’s at least willing to risk provoking Trump’s goons into overextending themselves.

Looks like AutoCAD. You can program coordinates to define the drawing in a lot of ways. I only ever used it for 2D drawings but did employ its coordinate system to speed up the process. I’m guessing a real power user could program some interesting models with it.

Seriously. We need mandatory federal voting holidays with democracy sausages being offered at every polling station.

Why bother improving our knowledge of the universe when we can already make even more nukes? FFS…

Canada, Greenland, Australia, and Japan should totally recognize Palestine. It’s not like they need to keep pleasing the US now that it’s actively spitting in their face.