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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • What are you talking about? It wasn’t mandatory for any console. They packaged it in with some, so you’d get it in the same box, but you never had to plug it in.

    And all the voice functionality worked with headsets as well. Definitely watched old roommates do Skyrim shouts that way for around 10 minutes until the novelty wore off.


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    7 days ago

    Yeah, and when’s the last time anyone has legitimately seen Windows bluescreen for lack of RAM? I’m assuming that’s the “logic” here, because in what world would a stuck browser cause a full crash?

    Man, I sure love tech memes not remotely based in reality.





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    Or maybe it’as not. Either way, being upset about it isn’t going to stop the bombs if they come.

    If your apocalypse comes to pass, then what? You get to feel smug while you die of radiation poisoning?

    Work on what you can impact, be aware of the rest, and most importantly don’t worry about what you can’t change.





  • They said they didn’t understand, so I explained.

    The heat was directed at a different user and added via an edit after the initial comment was made, because that other user threw vague ass shade instead of saying what they meant to begin with (that I was wrong about the origin of the term tankie and that it was lazy to not check my spelling, so clearly my point amd that of others saying similar wasn’t worth anything).

    One of the core tenets of getting a good lemmy experience is to block early and often. If you think my response of describing what people mean when they call the main devs tankies was somehow too political, then please block me. And memorize where that button is, because I guarantee this is nothing compared to the folks actually trying to make points politically around here, lol.


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    So to be clear, your answer is “No, I don’t have anything beyond a weak as hell ad hominem based off of entirely imagined character traits and motivations.”

    What are you actually trying to say when you claim I have a lack of curiosity in the matter? Don’t be chickenshit. If there’s something you believe is false about what I said, be out with it.

    Otherwise you’re welcome to fuck off.



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    It’s not hard to understand.

    Dessalines and Nutomic, the two lead lemmy devs, think that Tianenmen Square didn’t happen. They think the genocide currently going on in China of that particular group of muslims (Uighyur or something like that, I can’t spell it right) is actually a social program for their own good. They think that Ukraine is legitimately filled with Nazis in their government and military and that Russia is rescuing the poor populace from their oppressors.

    Effectively, China and Russia can do no wrong. Dessalines in particular regularly bans people from lemmy.ml who say otherwise.

    The term “tankie” is in reference to the tanks China drove over people during the Tianenmen square massacre.

    Edit for the sake of jackasses: Better explanation of the term “tankie” from another commenter here. And it’s spelled Uyghur.

    Happy now?


  • Some of the many ways to bypass making a Microsoft account required hitting the shell in the installer for a moment, but the example screenshot looks more like someone removing shit post-install.

    The short guide to not performing CBT with Windows is:

    • Grab install media for Pro or LTSC (Pro is better if you aren’t a turbo-nerd willing to troubleshoot more)
    • Strip out the versions you aren’t installing from the install media (forget the tool for this, probably dism)
    • Install updates to the install media so you aren’t stuck with it updating for a day post-install (forget the tool for this part too, sorry)
    • Strip out bloat and unneeded shit (such as onedrive) using DISM
    • Install using whatever the current workaround is to not have to make a Microsoft account
    • Keep the damn thing offline, adjust settings, configure GPO, use powershell to remove anything more you want out, etc to your desires
    • Notably: Disable “reccomendations” in the various spots, those are ads. Set updates to be delayed considerably and to not force restart until a week after first notification (you can no longer disable this entirely). Disable web search from the start menu/search bar.
    • Maybe move a few “cleaning/configuring” tools over via USB and run them
    • Use MASgrave to spoof a license you horrible degenerate
    • Keep detailed notes of every step you do, as sometimes games amd shit will have dumbass dependencies on system parts that they don’t expect you to remove

  • Not as much as we have to now.

    I’m usually a Windows shield-bearer around these parts, because it’s not quite as much of a dumpster fire as people say (please for the love of god don’t debate me on this, I prefer Linux and have better things to do), but this is inarguably something Windows has gotten far far worse at. Out of the box experience (besides having to shove drivers into the install media) used to be a pretty definitive thing that Windows beat Linux on. Install and it “just werkd”. It used to be the cornerstone of pushback, that Linux required you to tinker and Windows didn’t. But Microsoft destroyed their lead in that so they only have (fast dwindling) business appeal and entrenchment to lean on now.


  • Ugh yeah. I’ve been slowly backing up my wife’s, my parents’, and my own music CDs, and while it thankfully hasn’t gotten to many of them, it’s ate enough to be annoying.

    Especially because my wife’s collection is mostly very specific performances of classical music and operas, which can make finding rips difficult when it’s not a particularly popular recording.

    And the CD-Rs are almost all toast. I’m lucky the old family PC HDDs still have most of the old family photos, so I’ve been able to back them up. Can’t believe we used to think that backing up the pictures to disc would last longer.





  • I know, right?

    For a while it looked like everyone was just going to stick with calling the older folks boomers and the younger folks millenials, but I guess some intelligence leaked through into the “futile generational hate” machine.

    Is every generation working to make things better than it was? No! Clearly the old folks don’t want the young ones to have anything good, otherwise the world wouldn’t have any problems by now!

    Just give yourself some more years, time for life experiences, and to be shocked and apalled when you learn how hard it can be to coordinate a group of people who all want the same outcomes to a concentrated cooperative effective course of action. Hell, how hard it can be to get them to even agree on the same path to the desired outcome.