Wow just when I thought Borderlands 4 couldn’t get any worse, they just keep piling on the disappointment. Thanks for giving me even more reasons to consider this franchise dead to me!

For all the puritanical shame Americans have of their sexual organs, we sure are lax when it comes to giving a little privacy when taking a shit and sometimes even just pissing in a trough.

No but that sounds fucked up. A book collection should be a carefully curated catalog full of things that you personally love or find great use for, not some sad eclectic mix that looks like a hoarder’s pile.

Windows 7 was a beautifully simple yet versatile OS capable of running on some really weak hardware with little overhead. Windows 11 by comparison is a bloated monster that demands too many resources for mandatory background processes and wants to get its tentacles into every facet of your privacy.

Gaming, simple office tasks, and web browsing work really well in Linux for the common layman. The next big hurdle is to offer some more niche programs that are easy to work with.

I spent my whole weekend trying and failing to set up ZoneMinder, Motion, Shinobi, then finally ContaCam through WINE in an effort to make a simple air gapped security camera system in Linux Mint installed on a 13 year old laptop. I struggled through countless command lines trying very hard to understand what each one does, Time shifted a dozen times through installation failures, and I still couldn’t get it done. The best I could do was unintentionally turn on my webcam after somehow managing to install Motion without then being able to access its functionality through a solely console based interface.

I wanted to gift this laptop to my tech illiterate mom and give her peace of mind that no one was sneaking around in front of her house. Linux failed me on this if I couldn’t even set up the software on my own, let alone my mom if she’d have to learn how to use a terminal to make it work. I wanted it to work so bad but the learning curve and difficulty to figure out why a PPA command failed after following an old and likely out of date guide had no workaround since support is so scarce. Old YouTube video guides with a couple hundred views offered no hints when a line I followed verbatim didn’t work in my setup. As midnight was fast approaching I finally threw in the towel and set up Windows 7 with ContaCam running in less than 2 hours.

Devs for Linux need to do better. If they want their OS of choice to get more mainstream then they need to develop for more mainstream users. A lot of these nittty gritty setup configurations need to be moved to the background with greater reliability and cross distro functionality. I get that there are things like Software Center that offer flatpaks have at least some ease of use when it comes to installing software, but the point is lost when some of that software doesn’t actually run or even appear anywhere after installing, like ZoneMinder.

Meanwhile Melania sits as still and lifeless as their marriage.

That’s me alright. Not from lack of trying mind you but I’ve had to reinstall my OS a couple of times this weekend to make an install boot properly on an old laptop. I’mma have to reinstall again because I messed up a console install.

Thanks, I just read a lot and write up whenever the inspiration strikes. This time it happened when I was groggy after sleeping like 5 hours lol.

A pity they didn’t keep going with the rest of the films.

“This isn’t your latte-sipping liberal twig boy coffee. This is an anti WOKE blend grown and harvested in non-free trade prison plantations using pesticides banned by the Geneva convention and common human decency for that delicious taste of freedom. These beans are carefully grown by kidnapped indigenous children under gunpoint of the watchful eye of the revolutionary guerilla army deep in the jungles of Bolivia. Artisanal roasters working for just 20 cents a day create a flavor profile that’s more bitter than the pain of their existence. Try 1775 today and show those libs that you’re not just a piece of shit with poor taste, you’re a Trump-loving conservative. For a limited time for every bag you purchase, we’ll donate 25 cents to the Israeli Defense fund Bombs for Kids. Order now!”

I lived in a shitty apartment in East Hollywood a few years back. Wish I took a closer look at the cabinetry before moving in because I saw little German roaches in every possible nook and cranny. Little bits of them were smashed up inside hinges, drawer rails, and even underneath the kitchen overhangs. The manager said it was my fault for not thoroughly inspecting the apartment before moving in. He had to concede later when rats decided to move in and shit all over my books. I once found a big fat one chilling on my dining room chair spine and do an unsuccessful jump to the kitchen cabinets before retreating to its hiding hole behind the dishwasher.

Frankly both rats and roaches suck.

Tracing over sharpie marks with dry erase markers makes it way easier to clean depending on the surface. I’ve only tried it on non-porous surfaces though.

Looks like AutoCAD. You can program coordinates to define the drawing in a lot of ways. I only ever used it for 2D drawings but did employ its coordinate system to speed up the process. I’m guessing a real power user could program some interesting models with it.

Pretty much all non English/Spanish/Portuguese/Italian instances. No point having them in my feed if I can’t read them.

Few words are dirtier to Republicans than “nationalize”. They must be torn between following their god-emperor’s hurt feelings and allowing Musk’s company to be taken over by the government. The best I see them doing is cancelling all contracts and subsidies with SpaceX/Tesla and passing them off to its competitors.

Hey, we also measure our large soda bottles that way!

Don’t stop there. Have them donate a little to the Democratic party.

Too late. He was already immortal.