MrVilliam @ MrVilliam @lemmy.world

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Mostly video games, but some other stuff here and there. A long while ago, I worked my way up to become a chef until I had a boss who sucked to the point that I left the entire industry. After a couple of years, I came to enjoy cooking at home again, so that's become a sort of functional hobby. I also used to be crazy about music, but I stopped having the time, energy, and access I used to so that really slipped away. But I just cleaned up my space and moved things around to make it easier for me to be motivated to pick up a guitar, so I'll do that once I have more than 12 hours off work lol. My wife and I paint together once in a while too. Of course, also movies, TV, and YouTube videos, but I'm trying to reduce passive entertainment a bit. That stuff kinda just makes me existentially conscious of the fact that my time here is limited and I'm pissing it away on shit I'm not even really gonna remember in 24 hours. I'd rather create, even if it's not something I'm interested in sharing.

I was gonna say "good" but settled on "decent". He was certainly flawed like any of us, but he was a loving father and husband who was using his knowledge to teach the next generation. I think he was resentful of how his life panned out, and that's why he so quickly decided to spend his remaining years proving that there was greatness within him to achieve something so much more, especially in spite of the whole Gray Matter thing.

I think it's a show that (very much unlike Arrested Development) is worse when binged for the exact reason you stopped watching. It's too much. You really need a week between episodes once you get that far in to give yourself time to process and chill.

Season 5 does not make it easier btw. If you go back and try again, go slowly.

I understand and respect your decision to not continue, but I have to let you know that your feelings on it are totally justified and even vindicated in the final episodes that you didn't watch. The misery and frustration is intentional. The arc of struggle, glory/success, and awful consequences are kinda the whole point of the show, and there's almost some amount of cathartic redemption in seeing Walter realize just how badly he has fucked up and what he does with that knowledge. I'm being intentionally vague in case you or others decide to go back and finish, even though it's pretty unlikely.

One of my favorite things about the show is that it's very much a show that encourages discussion about morality in a very gradual way. Most people would agree that Walter starts off as a decent man, and he's become an evil man somewhere along the way, but testimony differs from viewer to viewer about where exactly that line was along the way. So I'm curious, as somebody who didn't finish specifically because of what a spectacular cautionary tale it was, where was the line for you? At what point did you stop rooting for Walter White?

What if kink shaming is my kink?

Isn't lol short for "laughing out loud"? Or have I been wrong for like 20 goddamn years?

As a kid, I was in the room at one point while my mom was watching some TV show, maybe law and order or something similar. I heard somebody letting somebody else know (verbally) the details of some victim and described the cause of injury or death or whatever as "GSW". I asked my mom what GSW meant. She said "gun shot wound". I said that that couldn't possibly be right, and she was curious why. I said because "gun shot wound" is 3 syllables and "GSW" is 5; it's literally quicker to say the full thing.

So yeah, GSW is fucking stupid when said aloud, and even me as a dumbass child knew that.

Why is this negative post from over 2 years ago showing up near the top of my front page filtered for hot? Wtf is this?

Anecdotal so maybe not the experience for most or even many, but I've seen kinda the opposite from Gen X. My wife (left office work for bartending) has gotten a lot of nudging from her Gen X parents that bartending is just a small phase and she'll get back to "real work" when she gets this outta her system. She hustles hard, gets to meet people, gets to be creative with some mixology ideas, she's absolutely not a morning person, and most of all she feels in control and has fun. I'll support her choice either way, but in terms of advancement and security, I think her parents are right in a lot of ways. We're lucky that I'm employed gainfully enough that she has the freedom to choose work that she enjoys, but our healthcare and income is nearly entirely on my shoulders in a blue collar job that I really can't do all the way to retirement (if that's even possible) unless I hustle enough to get a desk job within the next 5-10 years. I turned 35 last month and it's become quite apparent that some of my body's capabilities have a very real expiration date. The work can be very hard on my body, but I can't make this kind of money at a white collar new job without probably 10+ years of combined education and experience.

What I'm saying is enjoy your health and the fact that you can make your living without destroying your knees, back, and hands. But be aware that mental health is health. Take time off for it when you need it, and take care of your mental health by giving treats to your brain like fun puzzles, meditation time, and some kind of creative outlet you enjoy like drawing or writing or playing music. Something active, not just passively watching TV. And you probably could benefit from taking some vitamin D, especially this time of year (assuming you're in the Northern hemisphere), especially if you're living pretty far from the equator like me (near DC).

Good luck!

Idk everybody's situation, but I just listen like this and manually skip ads. My car has buttons on the steering wheel for forward and backward (if I skip back into the podcast). My earbuds skip forward and backward with double presses on the right and left earbud respectively. Listening otherwise, it's not that hard for me to grab my phone and skip through a few minutes of ads. Would it be better if it were automatic? Sure. But I'm much more annoyed by YouTube ads popping up every 3-7 minutes.

A laughably small team is expected to do tasks that take triple the team size to do properly, and then the team gets endlessly shit on for Facebook looking different now for unrelated reasons while getting zero recognition for somehow finding a way to get some massive project done on an absurd timeline with no additional resources.

I have been in power plants for many years now. Nobody notices us until we fuck up, and then nobody ever forgets. For example, Three Mile Island.

I fucking hate your comment. Good work capturing the exact futile frustration you're describing.

Ooh, I'll look into that! I was interested in Chimera because of some articles and videos I've seen which were praising its similarities to Steam OS. I liked booting up into Steam directly via the controller like it's just another console, but having the freedom to use it as a PC. And it seemed popular enough that if I hit a snag I could probably find somebody out there who had the same issue and already found and posted a fix. Plus continuing support, which is something I learned is not the case for HoloISO. I guess I was looking for the closest thing to Steam OS which is Arch based, so I thought I had to run an Arch Linux to have a good console-like UI/UX.

Wow, I can't believe I didn't think of using a USB stick to try this out. I feel like an idiot lol.

But now that I think about it, I don't think it will work right because my laptop is Intel/Nvidia and I keep seeing that Chimera doesn't work great unless you're running AMD/AMD. If it runs at all, I'm sure it won't be representative of the experience I'd have with the build I would want. But that's something pretty straightforward that I completely overlooked, so thanks for the suggestion!

I appreciate the link, but I was more asking about the general experience than about game compatibility. I have a Steam Deck and am enjoying the game functionality, and I haven't hit too many snags in general PC usage on it yet in desktop mode (but I've barely used it for that). I'm really just asking around as a medium level Windows user about fully replacing my Windows laptop with a Chimera build to see what concessions I'll need to accept to have realistic expectations. I'm optimistic that frustrations will be mostly at the "dang it, oh well" level which I could either live with or find a layman level solution to kinda fix. So far, the only real concern I've found with my plan to build a modern Chimera steam machine is that the parts I want will cost me like $1500, and that's pretty hard to justify when I already have a Steam Deck, PS5, and a 2015 Windows 10 laptop. It's another expensive device that kinda just does what my current shit can already do, just all in one rig. If my laptop or PS5 died, I'd have a lot more reason to go for it.

Hell yeah! I've only experienced a few crashes on SD, and so far only on 2 emulated games that I'm okay with just not playing. I love that Valve started really investing in Linux support to make it possible for idiots like me to have somewhere to turn when Microsoft phones it in.

How's the experience, overall? I love the Steam Deck OS UI, so I'm thinking of building an AMD machine to run Chimera OS. I've heard nothing but problems when it comes to Windows 11.

I don't intend on playing competitive shooters, so idc about kernel anticheat keeping me out of Call of Duty or whatever.

Agreed. The concession for prime video being so shitty was that it was thrown in with prime shipping. People wanted fast, free delivery and what got them to pull the trigger on paying for that was a streaming service as a bonus. Now the shitty streaming service getting even shittier is making people wonder how much they really care about prime shipping. That's an uno reverse card if ever I've seen one.

Their timing is incredibly stupid. If they had rolled this out in like October, people would've stuck it out for prime shipping on Christmas purchases, and then most people would've forgotten about it because nobody launches prime video because it's fucking garbage. This timing is probably gonna push the most people possible to cancel because we already bought shit, we're looking to cut costs, and people will have a "new year new me" attitude to change habits. The next dumbass move will be to split prime video off to be a separate subscription from prime shipping, and then they'll raise prices on both until shutting down video when nobody wants it, and then they'll introduce a cheaper prime shipping tier (current prime price) that is a required subscription to order anything from amazon. They will make the product shittier and shittier until the entire brand collapses like the hollow shell of its former self that it is.

A pizza can feed a family of four. A cop could feed his family of four if his wife and kids hadn't left him for the domestic abuse reported amongst 40%* of all American cops.

• 40% is the self-reported figure. Unreported instances presumably would make the actual number much higher.