Especially when, sadly, we all know DHS will 100% get a Federal judge or SCOTUS to make this LEO-only OK and let them shoot anyone they want driving, walking, or looking towards them.

A few weeks ago I dealt with my deceased Grandfather’s computer. He passed 12 years ago and once Grandma passed, there was no reason left to shrine it all off. He was a prolific artist. Played the piano, French horn and oboe. Painted, did etchings and lithographs, drawings.

He filled up the HDD on his first PC, a 2006 Dell Optima IIRC, and was on his way to filling up a spool of CD-RWs and his 2010 Dell Inspirion when he passed. Pulled the hard drives and connected them to pull what was on there. One part the mind of an artist - folders of 200 pics of clouds and rocks and mountains, paintings and works from the 60’s and 70’s propped up in the front yard (great light!), random pictures of cacti. Then, the mind of a grandparent - my cousins as babies, my youngest aunt younger than I am now writing this, baseball games and holidays. Most taken a decade closer to Gene Ziegler’s words than today. Saved and copied and backed up and copied again and uploaded for one more incarnation.

you may as well reboot and go out with a bang

Look, I know you’ll not want to hear this, but it’s not actually about screwing people as fast as possible at all. I have family in Vegas and used to live close to the Nevada border, with a few card game dealer neighbors. Casinos, to me, are where retirees throw away money to subsidize my buffet trip. I don’t understand people that play slots. In 2003 I won $13 at my second pull at some slots and never touched one again.

But casinos are truly evil in that they tease you perfectly. You win just enough to keep you hooked, but you do win. People winning keeps the dream of you winning going. They gladly comp you drinks and used to comp shit food which feels like a win. But casinos, at least, are not systematically invulnerable. May partner and I spent maybe 4 hours going between 4 or 5 casinos playing roulette once because she had never been to the Strip. We started with $20 I planned to lose, got a few comped drinks at Slots-o-Fun, never made some huge win but my partner and I had a fun time for less than the price of a movie in terms of value/time.

But, I’m also not addicted, and I never bet more than I plan to lose.

That said, I thought the vote count looked skewed so I threw an upvote because I don’t think the discussion in and off itself is bad. But no, I can’t relate and don’t care to change anyone’s mind.

Yeah, maybe that’s my bad. I think sports betting apps are one of the worst things ever done with a smartphone, so “change my mind” was more so asking anyone who is into these apps to explain why they’re into it. I didn’t expect anyone to take that literally and downvote in…disgust? disagreement? I dunno. Lesson learned that lemmy is still social media.

Yep - pre-coffee comments are never ideal. Learn from my fail.

Yeah - I don’t generally gamble outside of 1 day a year, plus raffles don’t count and I go in for them once in a while. I’m up maybe $800 over my lifetime.

I would bet you $5 that if i asked about crypto, a much larger percentage of people here would tell me about how they made some money and it’s certainly not gambling.

It’s actually a similar to disease r-values vs. fatality rates. If the gambling scheme takes too much profit, it burns out. It can’t give up the promise of winning faster than stories of loss accumulate. I’m sure casinos have hired economists and statisticians to find the optimum percentage payout for slots in Vegas to keep people pounding the SPIN button like rats hitting a feeder bar in a lab.

That’s brilliant

Sorry, I mean patriotism and my brain is stupid about words.

Sorry, I’m an idiot - I meant patriotism. My facepalm is a full body move.

No one cares, and anyone who does is an idiot

I actually have all of these.

I need the potion of ozempic because of the snacks. And a spell to bind a highly profitable part-time creative job to me. Oh, and a ritual to create a highly profitable part time creative job.

I mean…I’ve very nearly been killed enough times that most of the time I just consider every day a bonus. Kind of the same thing, but not quite.

I’ll get downvoted for this, but use Claude for Linux troubleshooting, not ChatGPT. It’s much better at both Linux and PC troubleshooting. Also, are you sure that your refurbishments are compatible with the board and remaining components? Might be worth trying to do a Windows 10 install (don’t actually install, just go through the steps) just to see if you get a GUI from that process.

Also, check and take this to LinuxMintForums.com as that’s more specialized. But try and get more info before you go over there. They’ll want full details.

Hey now - plenty of doctors and lawyers and engineers are idiots, assholes, and dipshits. A degree isn’t magic, and a lot of those degrees were institutional methods of letting wealthy people get their wealthy kids a degree that holds wealth in the family. Many engineers, lawyers, and doctors are overworked and miserable, anyway.

Get whatever degree you want. Live your life. Happiness is your goal, not cosplaying being a person you’re not to impress people who don’t matter to your life.

Let me tell you about how watching the X-Files as a kid made me interested in science - AND the occult!

The rule of thumb is that you’re not going to just find some hidden gem super stealth browser. If it’s not well-known in the privacy community, it’s a scam and scraping tool.

Browsers take huge amounts of work, even FF forks. This seems like bait and until you find a researcher going out of their way to tell you to use it, don’t use it.

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The symbolism of 60 senators and 60 stab wounds. But, in practicality, by #23, a full freakout was probably going on, so #24 was probably like “Oh, hey, can I just get in here real quick and just… ok, fine! Never mind.”

Fair. If you’ve never had a swarm of pasty-pink round noise and smoke machines basically ruin a day at the beach, count yourself lucky.