Trainguyrom @ Trainguyrom @reddthat.com

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The sad thing is Roku's UI was pretty dang good before they added a row of ads at the top, a half screen ad on the left and replaced the background with an ad every 2 weeks, waiting a full minute for it to load the latest nonsense the highest bidder paid them to shove in my face. The ads absolutely ruin a good platform.

Oof 32-bit support is becoming less and less on all OSes these days. Debian still has 32 bit releases at least

That's literally what the representative from the charity said they did in the linked article

Hey if you're in the states, I ended up with a pallet of PCs from an auction I didn't expect to win and my wife would be happy to see one more disappear, so if you want to cover shipping I'd be happy to send it off to ya. They're just HP Elitedesk SFFs with 4th gen i5s, but there's a bunch of half-height PCIe slots and 3.5" bays and even a DVD drive so plenty of expandability to get yourself into trouble with

My last go-around with Linux gaming was pre-steam deck. I think it ended around 2018ish? So it's been long enough I should probably give Linux a real try again sometime

However, Linux still lacks some popular applications, such as Microsoft Office and Slack, though alternatives are available.

Lol nice bait. Real talk though, just toss shortcuts to word.office.com, excel.office.com and outlook.office.com on the desktop and nobody will be any wiser

One of my wife's best friends happens to be her brother's ex-girlfriend, and they met while he was dating her and hit it off immediately

Dude modern needles alone make it so much better

Dude medical science is progressing at a rate where I might genuinely be able to cheer science on to outpace my natural aging for certain age-related procedures and ailments that commonly afflict people late in life

I remember they were really worried that I wasn't waking up from my surgery that was scheduled from 7am to 8am. They also scolded my dad for coming in and telling "c'mon get up it's time to go" until they saw me finally getting up and groaning about it being too early. You'd think it was their first experience with a teenager...

I remember thinking that when I was a kid and saw a clip on PBS Kids of a kid using their home fax machine to fax their dad a picture they drew at work. I was also like 4 so teleportation was still distinctly possible to my brain

I mean every programmer says they intend to quit and pick up farming. Might as well give them the knowledge to be successful at their late career while they're at it

Wisconsin is one of the swingiest swing states. Wisconsin's electoral votes went to Trump, Biden and Trump in the last 3 presidential elections by extremely narrow margins (just a percent or two each time) and they've had governors races decided by hundreds of votes in recent years. Every election in Wisconsin is hard to predict other than the hyper-local ones, especially after the court-ordered redistricting away from the Republican-drawn super-gerrymandered districts

Electoral votes do not represent a state's population

Classical Literature tends to be about interpretation more than anything. If you read classical literature and don't try to interpret the message it's trying to tell, you're going to feel that way

I saw a really neat video a while ago that talked about this book, and he interpreted the story to be about disability. You go from being the breadwinner supporting your entire family to suddenly you can't work nor enjoy your hobbies, people don't want to look at you and you feel yourself to be a burden upon everyone. Your loved ones take care of you through a sense of guilt and because to not would be neglectful but the level of care might never actually be as much as it should be. The author of the video (I wish I could remember the name of the channel because he had a wonderful voice, writing style and art style) also proceeded to point out that everyone will either die young or themselves experience disability, so it's also a story about what you will become some day. One day you too will turn into a beatle, struggling to get out of bed, unable to work and relying on others to cook and clean and care for you

Edit: aha I found it! Metamorphosis: The Horror of Disability by Tale Foundry (they're also on Nebula if you subscribe)

Whether or not he's the hero he's been accused of being, he's certainly a living martyr now

From what I've heard from relatives on Meta-owned social networks, it's pretty bad

My 4 year old similarly struggled. I finally taught her to click the icon then hit enter which she's stuck with

My grandmother is struggling with dimensia but still loving independently. She's getting overwhelmed trying to sort through her mail for the last couple of months. I've quietly pulled out ads to toss but otherwise left it be. It's currently all in piles which don't appear to have any rhyme or reason to them so I might take a day and sort through into piles that actually make sense to try to help her. She gets so worried about missing something important, but ultimately it's a mix of ads, credit card statements and mailers from charities begging for money, all of which could safely be tossed

My grandparents absolutely are. I'm just thankful my parents have DOS-era skills that keep them out of trouble so I probably won't have to do more than hardware troubleshooting or general recommendations for them in the long term