Bizarroland @ Bizarroland @kbin.social

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Idk, maybe Xanth would be better than Discworld. Slightly less likely to die in Xanth, and most decent guys end up with a beautiful wife.

And if you ever get stuck you can always take a stroll down the Runthis Bayou and everyone you meet along the way will give you some ideas for what to do with yourself.

And really even treatment is just to enable people to function in society.

You can believe that the dishes and shirts that you bought from the thrift store have demons in them all you want as long as you go to work and pay your taxes and aren't a danger to yourself or others.

Speaking for myself, my house is almost completely full of thrift store things and I have no demons here whatsoever.

Maybe I'm just lucky, or maybe Pat Robertson doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about.

The phrase that I circle back to specifically in the Christian religion about these sort of things is that the wicked see evil everywhere, because you see what's inside yourself.

Nah, there is a lot more grit in the meat. The texture changed for the worse.

Remember that in like 2020 or so Taco Bell got sued by the FDA for putting too much sand in their meat.

For me, my homelessness was caused by being abused and then abandoned by my family members and the resultant depression.

I am incredibly lucky that I have had people come through and support me and give me a place to crash and distractions from my misery long enough for me to process it until I could get back to a decent working mental order.

On a purely financial basis I'm doing really fucking good. I made a little over $150,000 last year, I live in a three-story home, I drive a relatively new car and things are generally pretty good for me in that aspect, but I also have practically no friends and very few people that I can rely on that live anywhere near me and there are unseen costs attached with reaching those levels of depression and misery that I don't have the ability to express in text format.

But yeah if it had just been on me none of that shit would have ever happened in the first place. It wasn't that I was lazy. It wasn't that I was miserable. It wasn't that I was useless. I didn't have issues with drugs.

I was my high School valedictorian.

I did everything that I was supposed to do the way I was supposed to do it.

I still got to experience several years of homelessness because the people who chose to bring me into this world also chose to use me as a punching bag and then throw me away when I got old enough that if they continued to beat me mercilessly they would go to jail for it.

It took me a total of 12 years to pull myself up out of that funk and get back on solid ground again.

Sorry, even though I've been homeless multiple times I've always been fortunate enough to have a vehicle and ID

If I had to do it all over again and I did not have a vehicle I would probably find my nearest Catholic church and ask them for some assistance.

A few weeks of semi-stable homing would be enough to get me my start again.

If I was radically anti-religious on top of that, I would suggest attempting to beg for money to buy or, if you feel unable to beg, steal a tent and a bucket and hike out somewhere where I could establish a base.

From there it would be about establishing a space level of hygiene and normalcy and then building from there. Working for a fast food place should earn you the money needed to eat, and you can use water from the bucket to wash yourself and your clothes.

I would pick up a trade. You can make decent money as an electrician's apprentice or as a roofer depending on your body weight and strength.

You can also go and join the Ironworkers union.

If trades are not viable for you, I would apply at the cheapest college you can get into that has dorms.

Yeah you're going to be picking up a shit ton of debt but you would have a place to stay and a thing to do to help improve your future and the opportunity to meet new people.

If neither trades nor college or something you can or will do, then I would pick up odd jobs and save up the money to get the cheapest car that you can sleep in and then start figuring out what you can do from there.

The reason why I said 7th gen is because the built-in graphics card can do some pretty good quality transcoding.

It's also nice because on the used market there's quite a few i3 and i5 based 7th gen PCs available for a hundred and change.

Aside from the fact that they were being condescending in their reply, that 900 some odd million dollar fine was only a small fraction of the profits they made from doing crimes and misdemeanors.

If you can rob a house and the only penalty is that you have to give the cops some of your loot then there's not really a reason to not rob houses.

Anybody with a lick of sense would say that if you do a crime you don't get to keep any of the profit.

So while 900 million looks really good on paper and it really looks like you're sticking it to the big bad Microsoft, when they made tens of billions of dollars off of those crimes it's a giant nothing Burger.

Now that Microsoft is a 3 trillion dollar company, any fine that isn't over a hundred billion dollars is something that they can easily ignore.

I keep a copy of ruckzuck on a flash drive so I can directly install Firefox without ever touching edge

I didltched amazon for multiple reasons.

The horrible working conditions of the people that actually package and ship the products I purchased, the anti-competitive nature of their platform, and the insane amount of shit that you find combined with the impossibility of searching or browsing their website for any product whatsoever.

I still have to use it for work because it's the only one that our corporate overseers have approved and I fucking hate it.

It's impossible to have any amount of ethics and shop online any more.

It's also very fucking difficult to shop in person and have ethics.

It's nearly impossible to have ethics and exist in America.

Fuck

If you can get a 7th gen Intel or even a halfway decent basic El cheapo Nvidia card then that will help with transcoding but outside of that anything that runs the interface should be fine.

And the same for a domain joined PC. Fresh install of Windows 11, open edge, find that you are already signed into edge on a Microsoft account that Windows helpfully created for you that mirrors your domain account.

You told edge that you do not want to transfer over your data. And it says okay but you'll notice a little blue hyperlink that says manage above that.

And if you click that it tells you all the stuff it's going to copy over anyway.

So you sign out of that and you untick all of the boxes and you close edge and you reopen it and you find that you are still signed in to your Microsoft account that was created for you with your domain credentials in Bing search and you have to sign out of that as well.

Edge has created an account for you, signed you in in two separate locations, and automatically set itself to ingest all of your account credentials and it does not even tell you what it has done unless you click through multiple paths to find it.

The regulators get more money the longer this goes on.

They're not going to step in to fix it. They have no justification for daring to stand up to a 3 trillion dollar company.

They might throw a 5 million fine at them or something, but nothing that's actually going to stop this horrible anti-consumer monolith of practices

I have a couple of websites that I go to that do not like working in Firefox but work just fine in Chromium browsers.

The worst offender is Microsoft admin 365. It will open, and it will work, but if you edit a user and save your edits you can't click on the back button inside of the window that has popped up for editing and instead you have to close the entire section and reopen it to go back to the main screen.

Aside from that, for netdocs you have to open the local host port of your netdocs app in firefox (https://localhost:(port number)) and approve to bypass the security restrictions in order for netdocs to work.

There are a handful of another apps with similar issues and most of them are from software vendors that I have to use for work.

There's one that I can't mention because it would dox me that if you don't use it in Chrome it simply does not work because the JavaScript that they use for generating the app checks to see if you are in a Chrome browser and straight up fails if the user agent does not return Chrome.

I can work around that for myself but I can't work around that for all 17,000 of our employees, and since the entire business runs on this application then we are locked in.

Just got to lube your donuts man

It's fun, like most other people said. And for some things, it's nice.

I have two of my doors with network compatible smart locks with fingerprint readers so I don't need a key to get into my own house, and I have a remote garage door opener that I can fire off with my phone to let somebody in if need be.

All of the entrances to my house have video cameras over them that alert my phone if they detect any movement, and some of my lights are on schedules to let me know when to go to bed because I have problems with that anyway.

Other than that it's kind of nice to be able to turn on all of the lights in my house with a few clicks, although many of my lights are on motion detectors so I don't have to try to find the light switches, mostly in hallways and closets.

The one thing I have left to set up of the stuff that I have bought is a sensor for my front door.

Once it is set up, I will set it so that when I open my front door it will turn on the main light in the living room so I don't have to try to reach around and find a switch.

Finally, it's nice having the peace of mind to know that if I'm away from my house I can double check and make sure all of the lights are out, adjust my air conditioning so that I'm not heating an empty building, and once I'm done with that I intend on setting up a smart watering system so if I'm away from the house during the summer I can make sure that my plants receive enough water.

It's just handy stuff. Makes my life easier, gives me something fun to do, and it can be really cool to watch my house take care of itself without me having to lift a finger.

It doesn't affect it that much. It's very easy to separate out the bands and to put your iot devices far away from your regular Internet devices.

If it was normal sized I'd be too powerful