ProdigalFrog

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[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Another great book by him is The Shockwave Rider, which predicted:

  • The self-replicating computer virus, and was the first use the term 'computer worm' to describe it
  • DARPA's Policy Analysis Market (essentially betting on the probability of assassinations or political disruptions in the middle east)
  • Normal citizens having no access to data privacy, which is only reserved for corporations and powerful individuals
[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 months ago

Part 2 (available here) goes into other materials that protect against microwave weapons, such as space blankets and conductive cloth.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago

Dreamweb.

90's cyberpunk point'n'click with a dark mature story and a rocking soundtrack.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 26 points 4 months ago

I point it out because it shows how psychopathic he is to cut out a close family member from his life over nothing. He's a heartless asshole, and I think that documentary shows most rich people fall from the same tree, to varying degree.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 73 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

I always like to mention Warren Buffet completely disowned one his grand daughters for appearing in a documentary about rich people made by the heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago

I disagree that stable distros aren't good at general purpose gaming systems, they work fine unless you have very new hardware.

And sometimes the newer stuff csn bring more problems than a stable distro, depending on your hardware.

As an example, my system is an nvidia laptop with an external monitor. Unfortunately, the Nvidia driver is absolutely unusable under Wayland with this setup, which was a bummer for me, as I wanted to use Fedora with it, but starting with Fedora 41, X11 was completely phased out, so I couldn't fall back to it.

I'm not a fan of openSUSE tumbleweed or Arch based distros, which do still support X11, which left me with the more Stable distros. Mint worked flawlessly with my setup, and I have no issue gaming.

Tl;dr there's more nuance to stability vs bleeding edge, and both have their place.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 months ago

Only issue with uBlue distros is the lack of documentation and limited help resources (many questions in the forum are left unanswered, as the uBlue team is quite small and likely can't get to them all).

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

There are a plethora of affordable options that are cheaper than a console or a nintendo switch nowadays.

Hi-points aren't fancy, but they're reliable and cheap, you can pick up a 9mm pistol for around $200 or less.

Farther up you've got PSA, where you could pick up a Dagger (glock clone) for $300 and an AR-15 for $399.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Premiere --> Davinci Resolve (Openshot or Kdenlive for FOSS)

Illustrator --> Affinity (Inkscape for FOSS)

Photoshop --> Affinity Photo (GIMP w/ PhotoGIMP & Resynthasizer for FOSS)

Whatever Adobe has for painting --> Krita (FOSS)

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I reckon a majority of the people working at those brothels probably wouldn't be working there if we lived in a post scarcity society. From what I understand, a lot of them do it to fund higher education since the pay is so good, but I'm not sure if they're like... Excited to go to work.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Eyyy! I see you got mint up and running, congrats dude! :D

 

"They offered us oil, but we don't want oil, we want the institutions and the borders," Abu Qasra said.

I was hoping it wouldn't come to that. They clearly don't like Rojava's federated power, and want it centralized under them. Unfortunately I don't for see a good outcome here.

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