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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • Well for me, my wife had a ton of pictures laying around, and some scattered on google drive etc…

    I basically did a huge scanning project in secret, set up an immich server and surprised her with it. That absolutely is one of her favorite gifts of all time.

    Now as far as doing that with someone that didn’t stay in the same house, on an OS I wasn’t already managing… no probably wouldn’t imagine doing that unless the person was already showing signs of interest in managing something like that… in which case it should be done as a “lets build this together” project.


  • People have hated our product next to steam for years. We’ve never had an interface people like, we’ve never had features. Our competitor has a product that people love and want to use, we’ve given away hundreds of free games just so people will use our software and they won’t, what can make people want it.

    Oh I know. 5 seconds of loading time once a day… and all the good will that bragging about it being vibe coded gets… that’s going to really get people excited to switch.


  • this is all based on the premise that an individual can afford the plethora of products and services on offer.

    That’s the neat part, your access can be dialed down. Oh you can’t afford the normal plan… what about buying in 5 minute increments, what about with ads? They will be able to match you for what you deserve with your current earnings.



  • Sadly I fear worse, the bulk of people will adapt in the stupidest way…

    What’s coming… is obvious. When the AI bubble bursts, there will be an absurd amount more data centers than use for them… and all the hardware is in forms that aren’t going to be convertable into consumer devices.

    What’s going to happen is what microsoft, amazon, and google have been dreaming of for a decade… Remember google Stadia, Luna etc…

    People won’t be buying PCs… they will be buying, thin clients. Your PC will just stream your hardware from a data center. The music and movie industries will be happy because the providers can scan for pirated content… governments may flat out ban individuals from owning personal computers, that’s a security risk they can’t control, they are already looking into bills to prevent personal AI systems. No worries of people bypassing age verification, or running custom OS’s or firmware that can’t be controlled.

    Best of all it’s super profitable, instead of a few grand for a one time purchase, they can hit you up every month… and gradually raise the prices like cable, like movie streaming. Maybe even vendor lockouts… you gotta stream an MS computer to get access to office 365, but you’ll also need an amazon subscription to run some other applications, or games or whatever they locked in exclusivity for.



  • USB should work fine assuming the system itself can boot to usb (googling it looks like it can, you may have t hit delete to enter the bios to tell it to boot to usb first though)… distro inherently isn’t a huge varient in terms of resources used however desktop environment is. You absolutely want something with a very light desktop manager, LXDE, XFCE etc… So depends, if you are looking for something very simple… I’d say probably Linux Mint XFCE edition, if your goal is to learn how linux works, don’t mind reading up some documentation, arch linux is amazing.

    If you have experience with any distribution or like something, almost every distro has a version that’s distributed with a light weight desktop manager. The desktop manager is where the bulk of the system requirement weight is.








  • I hate it because it goes both ways. IE the worse part is it more or less doesn’t give a way to get proof.

    IE the long and short of it is “we don’t have to go to court and spend the money to argue if we ran a fair election, because the law doesn’t require us to run a fair primary”.

    IE it’s not “we cheated but we’re allowed to cheat”, it’s “we’re allowed to cheat… so we don’t have to spend money proving that we didn’t”. Sadly that’s a key problem with the laws in general, or the party system in general.


  • Ethics is kind of a personal viewpoint, there’s no “agreed upon table of ethics”. So of course be aware you are just getting opinions here.

    Now my opinion, I do fall into the “if it’s worth the money pay for it”, if it’s not, don’t, and the Pirate now decide later is IMO a totally valid way to do that, and quite a few independent developers, etc… flat out encourage that method. Of course that doesn’t mean they all do. But to me my personal ethics say it’s more ethical… paying for a bad game, at the cost of not paying for a good game, is a travesty. My ethics say the best games should be the ones purchased… not the ones that had the best marketing and tricked the most people.