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MonkeMischief

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  • Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again?

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  • Based on this criteria, everything about the sequel, Riven, seems like it passes with flying colors, as everyone says the puzzles tell the story and feel like real devices in the world, rather than a world constructed to be a puzzle itself.

    I'm really looking forward to playing it with my grownup brain haha.

  • Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again?

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  • I got SO FAR through it and somehow lost my cloud saves after a hiatus so...I guess I am gonna have to experience it for the first time again!

    It can be a little tedious in long stretches, but I absolutely loved how this game took us back to those fun quirky self-expressive days of the Internet.

    Stand with Gooper!

  • My hot take on the official pronunciation of GNOME

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  • Mine was studying global information stuff in school. Mainly used a software called "ArcGIS."

    I called it "Arc-jiss." Which she laugh-hated because it sounds like "Arc-jizz." XD

  • As Gold Hits New Record, Some See Warning Signs of Civilizational Collapse

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  • This reminds me of the Shadowrun universe: the cyberpunk megacorporations are literally run by dragons. It's so apt it's scary lol.

  • What a wonderful idea, sneaking around in plain sight.

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  • Yeah, you might use it to spy on your enemies to great advantage, but your mind is basically wide open for the Dark Lord's data harvesting.

    You know, the name is perfect! Why it has any customers at all is the mystery that shames the concept of human intelligence.

  • What a wonderful idea, sneaking around in plain sight.

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  • As far as I know those are all this asshole's ideas too. He's got some hedge fund called Lembas or something too, among others.

    I'm surprised he hasn't just renamed himself Sauron at this point. (While talking ahout saving the world through his wealth and power, of course.)

    Typical villain arc: Some self-absorbed billionaire with a main character complex decides they like a cultural touchstone, completely misses the point ot it, and ruins it for everyone else for their own profit.

  • Thieves steal crown jewels in 4 minutes from Louvre Museum

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  • This is art. Thank you for taking the time to make this. You're reviving the spirit of the best parts of the Old 'Net. :D

  • US tells airlines to disregard ‘X’ sex markers on passports and input ‘M’ or ‘F’

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  • I agree that this is a ridiculous overreach, of course.

    But I'm also so weary of this "Obsession with what's in your pants" argument everyone keeps memeing, as if, somehow sexual dimorphism is not a thing in our species and it's 100% about genitalia.

    It's generally a valid descriptive trait that is often useful for identifying humans you otherwise know nothing much about.

    I think there's room for understanding a rationale of such things while still condemning how petty, hateful, and stupid 100% of this administration's ideas are.

  • US tells airlines to disregard ‘X’ sex markers on passports and input ‘M’ or ‘F’

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  • But it says "VIRGIN" right there on the plane! :(

  • What was hacking like in the '80s and '90s?

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  • They just expected us to know how to use them.

    And they still do. The "kids these days and their compyooturs" fallacy. Irks me to my core.

    I was fortunate to have a middle school typing and graphic design class, and in highschool I learned hardware troubleshooting and stuff (A+ equivalent IT work)...but that "career path" of flipping computers that people downloaded the wrong screensaver on kinda died out.

    Still learned a lot though! If the I.T field was still hanging out with buddies in some dungeon nobody visited, I might be in that field today lol.

  • What was hacking like in the '80s and '90s?

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  • Maybe I just don't know where to look or what.

    I always hear these stories but companies in my city tend to donate old machines to charities (cool if it works that way) or trade them in to their vendor or something.

    I'm actually kinda afraid with all the tarrifs and crap that we're gonna see secondhand hardware turn into speculative inflated eBay fodder because average folks can't afford new anymore.

    Still looking for this supposed mountain of <TPM 2.0 machines that are supposed to surface for next to nothing any minute now. 😅

  • School employee dies after being kicked in the chest by 14-year-old student

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  • Fighting definitely proves the almost paradoxical notion that humans are both exceptionally resilient and pathetically fragile at the exact same time.

    I practice martial arts. I don't wanna fight anybody ever. Too many variables could spell disaster.

  • Do I dare say it 🥺

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  • Ah, you're right!

    Although now I think we're seeing something interesting (hopefully?) where Windows has gotten so irritating that more "average users" are wanting to take the leap to install Linux.

    They'd probably follow video tutorials or quick guides online while understanding just enough to be dangerous, but once they're set up, probably aren't as keen on going around tweaking and editing and getting their hands dirty. Probably just like "Can I set my wallpaper and do my Steam games work?" Lol

    I just hope they're still willing to understand even if they don't care about tweaking it to perfection. Nothing bugs me more than the "everything should just work without me thinking, like Windows/Mac!" crowd. X_X

  • Marine colonel quits after 24 years citing concern for future of US under Trump

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  • I wish there was a better way to sabotage that signal. At this point, those rage-pundits thrive on embarrassing themselves and can say the most heinous and vile things without their audience turning on them. Heck, the worse it gets, the more their audience shifts into insanity!

    Even the fact that they're filthy rich while screaming at and demeaning their audience with "self reliance" and "rugged individualism" messages hasn't phased them.

    The fact they claim to be Christian but are the most useful tools of hell is simply shrugged off because the Bible is too "hard to comprehend" but this media is always right there, screaming at them to hate and be afraid. It's "simple."

    But just hypothetically silencing them somehow will lend more credibility to the narrative that they're the ones with the truth and everybody's out to get them.

    This is literal destabilization PsyOP strategy.

    How do we stop a constant bombardment that wires people to indulge in the worst parts of their nature?

    I'm not being a doomer here. I lost my dad to FOX's bullshit and at a point in my life it threatened to take me too. I really want to know how we can counter this at scale...

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  • The best news is that most distros would be good for those kinds of tasks! :D

    I can't personally speak to Zorin, although it looks fine! People say it comes with lots of stuff out of the box. Worth trying out!

    Mint is really user friendly with an excellent forum and tons of support. The Cinnamon desktop environment is very Windows-esque in a usability way, and it tends to be slow to adopt new features that could break things, so by the time you update, most things should be fixed.

    It doesn't require terminal usage at all, but I started to enjoy using it because it makes "computing" feel really fun. :)

    For a home media server that'd be running all the time that can be a little bit of a hobby...(But a rewarding one!)

    Definitely hit up online communities too, like searching for "selfhosted" here on lemmy! That's where you start learning to run stuff like Jellyfin for watching your movies and such.

    BUT... for starters: You could totally just share SAMBA shared folders off any Linux machine if you wanted. Boom, technically a file server. Pretty sure this is easy in Mint with GUI.

    For a more dedicated "headless server" system for this, I'd look into Open Media Vault

    The important takeaway is that starting is really simple. Just be patient and try things, and make sure your data is always backed up.

    Before you install anything bare metal, both have a "Live USB" feature where you can see how they'd be on your system without actually installing anything.

    Sorry for the long reply!

  • How couples meet in the US

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  • Yeah those apps are predatory. Good call.

    I'm praying for you there, friend. This is really sad seeing what's happening to human relationships. It's very INhuman.

    The best thing you can do is be your best, genuine self, and go engage in what's left that other people do together. Meetups, volunteering, interests, hobbies, social book clubs, whatever.

    Don't think about "dating" like "trying to score a wife." Be your very best self and find a person with a mutual interest in being very best friends forever with you, and then see if romance can bloom from there.

    An innocent shared coffee laughing about favorite movies is WAY less pressure than some formal "date" where two strangers dance around awkwardly feeling each other out for "flags" and sidestepping "deal breakers".

    That's my 2¢ anyway. I hope you find genuine connection. :)

  • How couples meet in the US

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  • all that swiping and trying to maximize compatibility. People are people not clothing or toys.

    Exactly, all these apps need the user to be self absorbed. "Who's YOUR right fit? Who is YOUR type? Who fits YOUR personal fantasy narrative?"

    Love is about two people giving themselves toward each other, not obsessing over their "ROI" in some transactional economic thinking. But that simply doesn't compute to a CEO and natural human friendship doesn't return 4x to investors every quarter, so it's gotta go, right?

    Building a relationship should be out of interest in the other soul, and finding that person isn't what these algorithms promote. They turn dating into just another job hunt with metrics to meet, a "market" of desirability, bullshit interviews, performative fakery, marketing, and ego.

    I also met my partner online, but ~20 years ago on World of Warcraft LOL. Younger people ask me for dating advice and I'm like "Stay off those stupid apps and just go meet people who might like what you like and see what happens!"

  • How couples meet in the US

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  • Well, I heard a big goal of every app these days is to get whales... Maybe this is what they meant? O.o (/jk)

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  • I'm so confused at what I just read in context and why I'm still laughing. XD

    Is there a /c/lostlemmings yet? Lol