uralsolo [he/him]

I don’t remember which Surface I have, but power issues are the biggest bugbear that have followed me with it the entire time I’ve had it. Firstly chargers for the thing are really fucking sketchy - if it’s not in basically perfect, out-of-the-box condition it simply refuses to connect. And even if the little indicator light turns on that doesn’t mean that the bios “sees” it, which is pretty annoying.

Lately it’s been doing this thing where when I try to wake it up from sleep it takes about a full minute to turn the screen on. This wasn’t an issue until like a week ago, I’ve tried updating everything, reverting back to windows/stock settings - nothing.

Nowadays my surface is just a second screen on my desk that I use to run Stremio, because it just can’t handle anything else - and this is after me being pretty positive on it for most of the time I’ve had it. I guess I’ve had it for a few years, but damn if it wasn’t such a compact design I could probably swap out the power supply or something.

Sponsorblock is unfortunately just as mandatory as uBlock these days. That said I won’t critique video creators for doing what they need to do to get paid, my critique is leveled squarely at the system itself for making their only recourse for payment “produce propaganda for capitalists”.

I last updated my uBlock yesterday and I haven’t seen a popup since, I might be lucky or maybe Google has backed off for now.

edit: nevermind just got another one

Hey I went to a DOD school.

They’re not like a top-tier ruling class kids’ school, but they’re on par with a public school in an upper middle class neighborhood or a decently sized Catholic school. Also despite what you might think the DOD is pretty hands-off with micromanaging the curriculum, so you actually get taught history which is nice. I remember parents complaining because they thought the Air Force’s High School/Recruitment Center was too woke, lmao.

IMO it’s a standard every school in America could live up to if they were fully funded, minus the recruitment center aspect.

I don’t think a guide is really needed to install Linux

I had a guide and it was still a big learning curve. Linus had a guide and he still bricked his machine trying to install Steam. Imagine your parents or grandparents being told without context to mount an ISO to a USB and set up their BIOS - for 90% of people there is no way in hell they’re installing Linux without a guide unless they can double click an exe and have an install wizard do it for them.

Crackle is owned by Sony and ad-supported, I assume that the bot just saw the word “free” all over the website and assumed that made it "relatede enough to piracy to place on the list.

Watching a billionaire plead for their life before the Central Park People’s Court

Neither North Korea nor Qatar are fascist. The former is communist and the latter is an absolute monarchy.

Unless you’re saying FIFA is fascist which might be true idk.

Maybe astroturfing, but most likely just people trying to be morally superior to one another.

Me but with Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Space Ghost Coast to Coast.

I carried a lighter for a while. It worked fine when I put it in my pocket, but the first time I whipped it out for someone it didn’t work at all. They say that that happens to lots of guys but I haven’t carried a lighter since that day.

I’ve explained this calculus to so many people - the mental hoops they’ll come up with to justify not using a chinese product (even though the “american” product is probably made in the same factory) are wild.

Me at home: I’ll have some hot wings as a meal.

Me at restaurants: I’ll have some hot wings as an appetizer, and a burger for the meal.

The alternative is my car which sometimes triggers its alarm even though I’m holding the key.

idk why you wouldn’t unless you live in a really cold or cloudy place.

Oh no, don’t leave town. whatever would we do without you beta testing your unworkable hardware on public streets and making the traffic even worse than it was.

The transporter basically requires it to be a clear sunny day with nothing unexpected in the way to function properly, and even in those conditions we see it malfunction quite a lot. TBH if I were in Starfleet I would invent a religion that eschews transporter use and take a shuttle everywhere because they seem safer.

doing something you love

I love cooking for family, but I’ve also cooked for Denny’s and a getting through a meal service is something else entirely. There’s a reason cooks in general are one of the most alcoholic professions, and it’s not because they spend most of their day doing something they love.

I’ve used them for about a year, so far no complaints. High speed, high privacy, only a couple things have required me to turn off my vpn to access them.

thinking you’ll get to retire

lmao