DaGeek247

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[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 15 points 2 weeks ago

Not for me. I have no idea when I last shut off an xp machine. My first free computer came with 98se, and my first purchased PC had windows 7 installed. At some point, I shut off an xp machine, either for school or at the library or whatever, and I have no idea when that was.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 7 points 2 weeks ago

You could also modify the frame to have that pole blocking things be removable; cut it off and weld on a pair of bolts to put it back when you're done.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

The phone would be otherwise still fine despite being 2 years old. I'm sure even if it was covered, Google would find some way to not repair it under the program because it is a carrier unlocked model running GrapheneOS.

I had a different, also known hardware issue with my pixel 8 screen. I also use grapheneos. I used the pixel replacement policy that google had (the phone was still under warranty) and I didn't even bother to put the OS back to default, just erased everything on it. They didn't even bother to check for the default software, just that they got a pixel 8 back from me.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 2 points 3 weeks ago

Lmao at the hackernews magazine; did the virus cheat somehow and hacked the man to die quicker?

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 15 points 1 month ago

Fun fact, I actually grew up with the right one inside my house garage, running. My dad managed to find a working one somehow, and was just handy enough to hook it into the water in the wall of the garage. It was actually really neat.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It feels like all the breaking bad characters were designed to be the heel. I couldn't stand any of them, and if I can't stand any of the characters, why would i bother continuing watching the show?

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Repeat offenders. It's always repeat offenders.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

Gender as a social construct tends to pretty strongly fall under the umbrella of "this is one of the arbitrary societal rules" that you run across just about everytime you talk with a regular person for me. I like being male, but all the trappings of being male, like muscles, beards, beer, bars, hunting, whatever, are only there because people say they belong there, and not because that is a thing I feel makes sense on its own merits. Essentially, long flowing wedding dresses as daily office wear on men would make just as much sense as a suit and tie does.

However, gender, for me, very specifically has me appreciate what I was born with. I like having a beard, I like having muscles, and I like the traditionally masculine clothes I wear. These things just aren't really connected to my self-perceived identity as a man. I wear my clothes because they feel right, not because they're what men wear. I keep my beard because it's fun to have, not because men have beards.

I think the autism just makes connecting "this societal trend tends to read as male or female" to "this is how I feel as a man/woman/other" a lot harder for us than it is for most people. The only reason I even learned about what being trans feels and looks like is because of the people in my life who are trans. If they had instead transitioned and just said nothing beyond "use this name and pronoun", I don't know how much I would have actually noticed about it. I had siblings penciling mustaches on years ago and just kinda went "fashion lmao" and didn't look any deeper into it. Like, my parents asked me specifically about the mustache, and I brushed it off, because all trends are arbitrary to my eyes; this was just one more thing on a long list of things that don't have to make sense to be followed as a rule.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 193 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you are an ICE agent experiencing thoughts of suicidal ideation, remember this: your choices and actions have led you to be undeserving of the life you were gifted, and the world is better off without you.

GodDAYUM that article is fucking brutal.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 16 points 1 month ago

From the article:

Here’s what went wrong:

  • Door misalignment — 4 repair attempts
  • Front drive unit whine/noise — 5 attempts
  • Water leaking from the tonneau cover — 3 attempts
  • Suspension clunking — 2 attempts
  • Water leaks from driver/passenger doors — 8 attempts
  • Rear drive inverter false undervoltage errors — resulted in disabled drive units
  • PowerShare system malfunction — never worked and was deemed hazardous
[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

It's funny but I think you nailed the timeline on the head. I got a 2019 corolla (it's a manual and it doesn't need a key!) and all I had to do to get it off the internet was pull a single fuse and reroute a speaker wire. The controls are actually a pretty good mix of physical and touch too.

It used to have support for showing maps on the head unit, but that never worked reliably and required special software that has been discontinued. I tried manual updating the software and that feature is gone gone.

I have actually rented a couple corollas since then, and they've all been disappointingly worse as far as everything about them is concerned.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

About six weeks. I was attached to someone else's unit at NTC in California for a training excersize with them. There were no showers in the field, and the showers pre and post excersize were colder than a witches tit, and open as a gay mans asshole after all night orgy.

And that wasn't the worst part of the whole experience either.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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