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NutWrench

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  • Shovel Knight artist says throwback games need 'retro authenticity' but can't coast on nostalgia alone: 'Part of the appeal of the NES era of game making was that everything was a new idea'

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  • Old games stood on their own merits: artwork, sound design, game mechanics. I have no idea what "retro authenticity" is supposed to be, but it doesn't sound like it involves inspiration or imagination.

  • Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say

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  • "Not realizing. "

    No. They absolutely realized it. Farking the country up is the entire point

  • Password Managers

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  • I recommend Keepass. It's freeware, is available on all platforms and supports biometrics (fingerprints, etc) on Android devices. It also encrypts the password file on your device, so you can keep a copy of that file on a cloud service without worrying if that service really respects your privacy or not.

  • Go to wikihow and press on "random article". That is what you die doing. How do you die?

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  • "Died unblocking my sacral Chakra."

  • Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps

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  • I also recommend StreetComplete (fdroid), an app that lets you contribute to the OpenStreetMaps database. It shows you a local map and asks questions like, how wide is this road? What kind of road is it? Is there a pedestrian crossing here? What kind of parking is here? How do power lines attach to this pole? etc.

  • Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps

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  • Finally uninstalled Google Maps. Installed Organic Maps, instead. (f-droid).

    You just couldn't resist sucking up to Trump, could you Google? Remember when your company motto was, "don't be evil?" That was 20 years ago.

  • Fox host to federal workers: “Get a real job”

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  • This. And there is no way Trump will keep any "deal" that costs him money. He has literally built his business around stiffing contractors. No one should trust him or expect him to keep his word.

  • Go to wikihow and press on "random article". That is what you die doing. How do you die?

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  • Just wait until bots learn how to write agit-prop. We won't be able to keep up with it.

  • Fox host to federal workers: “Get a real job”

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  • Huffing Donald Trump's farts isn't a "job."

  • The numbers dont lie, and they spell disaster for you.

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  • Company-wide email: "We've had our best year ever and it's all thanks to YOU!"

    Me: "Great. Can I have a raise?"

    Company: "Oh, we can't afford THAT."

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  • You'll probably be installing programs and changing a lot of settings over the next few weeks. Make sure you use TimeShift (pre-installed on Mint) to make system snapshots. (It works like System Restore on Windows. You can even run it from your Linux Live flash drive if you mess up something so badly that you can't boot from the hard drive).

    LibreOffice comes pre-installed and you can use Thunderbird for email. And if you used Steam to play games on Windows, you're in for a nice surprise. Steam has a native Linux client and it uses Proton / Wine to let you play your Windows games on Linux. It's handled everything I've thrown at except for a couple of older games.

  • What are some tech products that you want that you can't seem to find?

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  • A media player that isn't just a modified android tablet in a box with an HDMI output. (And loaded with spyware). And doesn't require an always-on internet connection.

  • How many pizzas per month is your rent?

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  • Yup. If your company is too cheap to do pizza parties anymore then either the pizza is too expensive for them to provide (bad sign) or management can't spare you being off the clock for an hour (another bad sign).

  • Android TV Boxes

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  • I still have an old, Viewsonic media player. I wish I could find a modern one that didn't need an always-on Internet connection.

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    A two state solution

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  • A . . . "final solution" you might say.

  • AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications

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  • These companies are already running your resume through multiple AI passes before a human being ever sees it. They can bite my ass and choke on it. I'll use whatever advantage I can get.

  • Warm Horchata

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  • What's a horchata?

  • When we explain to other people how our capitalist system works and they recoil in horror

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  • Socialism: A system of government where the country's wealth is concentrated into a small, ruling class of billionaires, who use the media they own to keep the lower classes fighting with each other while they . . . the rich . . . run off with all the farking money.

    Oh wait. that's capitalism. I don't know how I got those two systems confused.

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  • Giving you contradictory orders is standard operating procedure for cops whenever they need an excuse to abuse or kill you.

    "Get on the ground!"

    "Don’t move!"

    "I SAID GET ON THE GROUND!"

    "I SAID DON’T F*CKING MOVE!"

    "Disperse or you'll be fired upon!"

    Kettles (concentrates) protestors into a small area and keeps them from dispersing.