NutWrench

NutWrench , vor einem Tag

Stupid AI will destroy humanity. But the important thing to remember is that for a brief, shining moment, profit will be made.

NutWrench , vor 9 Tagen

Well, what are we supposed to do? Choose a presidential candidate who was born after the Battle of the Bulge?

NutWrench , vor 8 Tagen

If the point of taking drugs is to "enhance your performance" then Biden took every drug he should NOT have taken before that debate.

NutWrench , vor 9 Tagen

Also, make sure your password contains L's, 1's, 0's and O's in a font deliberately chosen to make them hard to tell apart.

NutWrench , vor 11 Tagen

It is long past time we got over our child-like worship of billionaires.

NutWrench , vor 16 Tagen

Or . . . you load that old save game and think, "oh yeah. NOW I remember why I stopped playing this."

NutWrench , vor 24 Tagen

Being able to touch type an on-screen keyboard with your eyes would be amazing, but we all know the real reason for this invention would be to make sure you're watching the ads.

NutWrench , vor 26 Tagen

Let's see: Socialism:
A system of government where the country's wealth is concentrated into a small, ruling class of billionaires, who use the media they own to keep the lower classes fighting with each other while they . . . the rich . . . run off with all the farking money.

Oh wait. that's capitalism. I don't know how I got those two systems confused.

NutWrench , vor 27 Tagen

Basically, don't make definitive statements about things you don't understand. Just try to be as helpful as you can with the knowledge you have.

It also helps if you're not struggling with a narcissistic personality disorder that causes you to make definitive statements in the first place.

NutWrench , vor 27 Tagen

Button #3: Restore TimeShift snapshot.

NutWrench , vor 28 Tagen

This. You promise lots of stuff with "the people's" in it, and then you create something that is indistinguishable from 19th century, robber baron capitalism.

No nation on earth has ever actually practiced communism that isn't just a small, ruling class of billionaires, who use the media they own to keep the lower classes fighting with each other while they . . . the rich . . . run off with all the farking money.

The only exceptions to this were small communes, run by people who actually read Karl Marx and who weren't vain, greedy, brutal a$$holes.

NutWrench , vor 28 Tagen

Steam has a native linux client and they've also spent years, developing a proprietary wine-wrapper, called Proton. I've been able to run all my Steam games on Linux with no problems. :)

NutWrench , vor 28 Tagen

I recommend downloading the latest Linux Mint .iso file and using Rufus to create a bootable, live USB drive. Also, if your computer has an internal d: drive, I would recommend using that entire drive, instead of dual-booting from c: (I had a bad experience removing Linux from a dual boot system and getting the partitions back to normal). This way, you're not touching anything on your windows (c:) drive.

If you’re really worried about messing up your c: drive, you can physically disconnect it while you’re installing Linux, so the Live installer only has one choice for installation. After you've installed Linux, change your boot order in BIOS to boot from your d: drive first. Once you’re sure Linux is working correctly, you can run “sudo update-grub” which will add your c: drive to the boot menu on the d: drive. This allows you to dual boot into either OS without touching anything on your c: drive (so the boot menu will be on d:, your linux drive). Grub will let you choose between continuing to boot from d: or to boot windows on c: without you having to change the boot order every time in BIOS.

If you use Steam to manage your games library, you're really going to like that Steam has been developing a proprietary Wine wrapper, called Proton, which lets you run all your Steam games from Linux. Steam also has a native linux client. So all the Steam games you backed up on windows, you can restore on Linux. I've run everything from Unreal Gold, to Witcher 3 to Techtonica to Fallout 4 without any problems.

NutWrench , vor 28 Tagen

(re: learning curve) I'm actually enjoying the process of learning a whole new OS that isn't constantly getting in my way. I like having software that's logically designed, like a Word Processor (Libre Writer) that actually has the "Print" button right on the main screen and hasn't buried it at the bottom of a sub-menu that's not even on the menu bar.

NutWrench , vor 28 Tagen

If you've recently installed Linux, you're probably going to be making a lot of changes and installing a lot of stuff over the next couple of weeks. I recommend using TimeShift (comes pre-installed on Linux Mint) to make a snapshot of your system. (It works like System Restore on Windows). The first snapshot takes up the most space but later snapshots only contain the changes you make to your system.

It's a good idea to take a snapshot before you update things like graphics card drivers or additional desktops. Then, you can always go back to where you were if something gets messed up. You can even rescue a system that won't boot by booting from your Live Linux USB and running Time shift. It will find your hard drive backups and restore them for you.

NutWrench , vor 25 Tagen

I was able to move my Witcher 3 mods from Windows to Linux and the witcher 3 game recompiled the mod scripts for me just fine.

I don't know if Nexus mod manager will work on Linux (haven't tried it yet). I'm hoping Proton is already configured for Fallout 4 mods (mod directory locations, environment variables, etc)

NutWrench , vor einem Monat

Well, since the billionaire class doesn't pay it's fair share of the tax burden, that money has to come from somewhere.

NutWrench , vor einem Monat

Well clearly it's the truck. If you don't eat that truck right away, it's gonna spoil.

NutWrench , vor einem Monat

Every once in a while, a squirrel finds a nut. This doesn't make Musk some kind of Urskek philosopher -sage.

NutWrench , vor einem Monat

"Trial's over. Donnie's a convicted felon. The judge out front should have told ya."

NutWrench , vor einem Monat

Isn't AI amazing?

NutWrench , vor einem Monat

You can buy reversible USB cables online. The connector works in either direction. They're pretty neat.

NutWrench , vor einem Monat

"I do not understand. Why does Zuckerberg simply not EAT his competitors?" - Lurr of Omicron Persei 8.

NutWrench , vor einem Monat

If that picture was of a Windows installation, Windows would be a Sumo Wrestler instead of a kitten.

NutWrench , vor einem Monat

They're also using YOUR bandwidth to download these ads.

NutWrench , vor einem Monat

Yup. And there's also a HUGE difference between being anti-Semitic and just being against genocide. And our "news media" is determined to deliberately conflate the two.

NutWrench , vor 2 Monaten

Yup. This is the lazy devs "difficulty" setting. Harder just means, "Enemies take more damage / Enemies deal more damage."

NutWrench , vor 2 Monaten

Let's see: Communism
A system of government where the country's wealth is concentrated into a small, ruling class of billionaires, who use the media they own to keep the lower classes fighting with each other while they . . . the rich . . . run off with all the farking money.

Oh wait. that's capitalism. I don't know how I got those two systems confused.

NutWrench , vor 2 Monaten

In the 1999s-2000s we used WebWasher. It was basically a proxy server which you ran locally on your computer and it had all the filters. You just set up your browser's network connection to point to WebWasher and it acted as the gateway to the Internet.

If browsers somehow decided to kill all their plugin support, you could still use that to filter your content.

NutWrench , vor 2 Monaten

And in the 1970s it was, "we all need to tighten our belts and conserve resources."

Guess which part of society didn't follow that advice at all?