melpomenesclevage

melpomenesclevage , vor 2 Monaten

I liked 7 and 2k.

melpomenesclevage , vor 2 Monaten

cautionary? Turing and Minsky said this in the early 50s.

Lovelace said this a century before we ever built a computer

melpomenesclevage , vor 2 Monaten

me?

okay so sometimes you need to run a twenty year old game made for another OS or cpu architecture

which.. weirdly, easier in Linux than win7; Linux has better backward compatibility with windows than windows. was like three clicks to install.

but sometimes that game uses broadcast UDP packets for LAN multiplayer.

and this is where our problem comes from, because broadcast UDP packets are deprecated, and also most modern routers don't love them, I don't think.

so, I needed to find a way to manually readdress outgoing UDP packets from broadcast to a specific set of multicast addresses, which...

also, some issues running USB as serial for some exotic peripherals. and by 'exotic' I mean 'I don't know for sure the PC is the problem; I might have soldered this wrong'.

also some issues in qubes, but that's literally all virtualization, and not a distro for anyone who hasn't both been using Linux for a while and considered the cost of making their apartment a Faraday cage.

a few issues with bare arch, which is the 'do everything from scratch 0 automation bleeding edge tech nerd, no, seriously you need to manually download a file system' distro. don't use arch if you don't know what youre doing.

melpomenesclevage , vor 2 Monaten

that was the conclusion I came to, yeah.

melpomenesclevage , vor 2 Monaten

no I'm saying weirdshit that made me fudge things in Linux. and I could. it was easy.

in windows my issues were all 'this isn't supposed to work, this isn't allowed' and I had to fight the system rather than finding the right config file and changing a couple lines.

so my windows problems were much simpler shit. things like getting the taskbar to to what I want, or getting windows to not explode on top edge of screen (literally a checkbox in KDE plasma)

melpomenesclevage , vor 2 Monaten

...burned out?

lots of versions of windows limit the amount of memory they recognize.

melpomenesclevage , vor 2 Monaten

its a fork of, downstream, tears out a bunch of the annoying shit and has different ux.

melpomenesclevage , vor 2 Monaten

try cinnamon with mint on a 'live USB' so you can try before installing. and see if your ram is broken, or if windows is fucking you for cheaping out on the license.

melpomenesclevage , vor 2 Monaten

oh yeah that could happen, but just to be sure...

melpomenesclevage , vor 2 Monaten

you? never. sky will be orange though.

melpomenesclevage , vor 2 Monaten

and in San Francisco, even!

melpomenesclevage , vor 2 Monaten

not necessarily a dick joke in English; sounds like they could handle whatever youve got and whatever you want accomplished with it.

melpomenesclevage , vor 2 Monaten

if its only a dick joke in German, they come off as way more competent in English.

melpomenesclevage , vor 2 Monaten

Okay but wanting to keep your job as a nurse at a charity clinic and wanting to keep your job as an IDF colonel are not the same.

melpomenesclevage , vor 2 Monaten (Bearbeitet vor 2 Monaten)

I mean, maybe in the German SS, but I'm pretty sure every single "Israeli" SS officer gets off on the warcrimes. bad example.

also, intentionally do three (instances of-sometimes you blow up a hospital filled with orphans and POW's in a secondary strike on a medic; happens to the best of us) warcrimes in a year, and the only reason you still count as human is for harvesting parts.

melpomenesclevage , vor 3 Monaten

I walk through the city at least a few hours a week. Every single building with residential (except sfh) has vacancies. Every single fucking one. Or at least signs announcing them.

And there are people dying on the street.

Supply outstrips demand. Maybe by a lot. And people are still dying for need. People are still working two jobs then sleeping in their cars. People are still working high paying jobs and losing half of it to rent.

There are questions a moral person can have about 'what to do with landlords'. Questions like 'should we torture them first' (there are legitimate arguments against, mostly from an efficiency perspective) and 'is physical or psychological torture more useful here?', but at the end of the day, it all ends at the same place, and the later we start on our way, the more people will die before we get there.

melpomenesclevage , vor 3 Monaten

The signs saying 'for rent' are mostly old, many sun bleached. The one I live in has had one unit vacant for over a year.

Yeah turnover happens, but not like that.

melpomenesclevage , vor 3 Monaten

And that's just the one across from me. They've also mentioned two bedrooms on the sign, and I bet the 2 BDRM unit(s) have been the same ones the whole time too. Not to say there hasn't been any turnover, but its not up to replacement.

Ive talked to a few people with similar stories.

And yeah! The rent is consistently too damn high! With your model, that absolutely doesn't make sense, does it? What are some other explanations for this behavior?

melpomenesclevage , vor 3 Monaten

The word 'house' in OP is not necessarily talking about sfh. That's a nitpick. Youre doing that because you don't actually gave an explanation.

If its property taxes, why not just sell? If its not worth it to rent out? Do you not pay property tax on empty units?

'Can't find people that qualify' my dude. Supply. And. Demand. Supply outstrips demand. If theres demand not being filled and supply not being used and they're literally right next to each other, sometimes stealing the signs advertising the supply to make going without a little easier (the corrugated plastic signs are usually white. Durable, lightweight, keeps sun and water off) then maybe the entire system is broken?

Or working as intended, and these people are supposed to die, and everyone complicit in this system deserves a fucking noose, for the murders they commited, because every city in america is becoming an open air concentration camp maintained by exactly the bullshit youre espousing and the idea that 'it could never happen to me'?

melpomenesclevage , vor 3 Monaten

Theeeere we are. So you have an interest in not seeing, and its stronger than your compassion. You identify with your Fucking job more than with your species, and fear the chance of losing some % of treats more than the certainty of people fucking dying of exposure abd pissing/shitting on the street and being exposed to countless indignities while they do it.

What would you call someone like that?

melpomenesclevage , vor 3 Monaten

I'm not angry about housing being expensive. I mean, I am, but I'm not willing to do anything about it.

I'm angry that people are being murdered for your profits. Youre killing people. And its not even for anything.

Fucking murderer. I hope, whoever you are, somebody stops you, in the only way that anyone can once youre this far gone.

melpomenesclevage , vor 3 Monaten

Oh. Yeah everybody thinks "turn offices into residences" is easy.

I get that it's not.

I get that the government isn't helping. None of my proposed solutions are 'government'; they want people to die. Literally fighting for it in the supreme court right now. Like most major cities you can name have signed onto a case about criminalizing homelessness even when no other legal option exists.

I'm talking about empty residential units. Commercial spaces being largely empty energy sucks on prime ground that will literally collapse if they lose climate control for three hours is its own shit show. Its not as much of an easy answer.

But I'm just talking about residential units. Empty advertised residential units.

melpomenesclevage , vor 3 Monaten

Youre acting like they're fundamentally a different species.

melpomenesclevage , vor 3 Monaten

"They can't live in the same spaces as us" like wtf, do you think they need scratching posts or they get sad? That they wither and die without a nitrogen-sulphur atmosphere?

melpomenesclevage , vor 3 Monaten

When I used to, like, try and be a good person, I often got to point out to Christians that I was the closest thing they would ever meet to their messiah. Watching their faces was so fun.