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BaroqueInMind

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Cyber security analyst, software and hardware exploitation geek.

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Gnome has been the only stable DE I've used in the last 20 years.

Always loved the customization options of KDE and would love spending hours tinkering to get everything perfect. Now I'm old and don't have time for that bullshit anymore.

I just recently tried a few different DEs on an old Chromebook (i use Arch btw) and everything crashed after a few hours due to RAM limits, but Gnome kept chugging along on this piece of shit device and is now my daily driver.

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And so we should turn our attention to REAL democratic reforms. Ranked choice voting. Ending the electoral college. Curtailing political gerrymandering. Converting our two-party duopololy system into an actual multi-party system.

Not to sound nihilistic or defeatist, but the odds of any of that federally passing within our lifetime has the same odds of Congress deleting the Second Amendment.

Maybe state governments can be swayed to add these amazing ideas, but good luck telling rural MAGA retards that is all actually in their best interest to add these concepts into local government.

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I'm a progressive liberal, and a minority who's immigrant parents barely escaped from a fascist religious country with a helpless and disarmed population unable to fight back against the status-quo running the government.

I also have many gay and trans friends who live in opressive bleak conditions every single day and cannot trust law enforcement to fairly help them.

NO matter what happens, I will always vote in favor of less gun control, because hoping the fucking cops/military won't be full of racist/bigoted/MAGA-Trumper/fascist/religious nutjobs not intent on fucking you over is a really really stupid thing.

You are responsible for your own families well being. If you feel safe thinking you live in a fucking fairy tale utopia and most western societies are not at one catastrophic event from collapsing, you are delusional.

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Appealing to the safety of children is what Republicans do to trick voters to join them. You are attempting to do the same here and have a inauthentic argument; unless you have a plan to guarantee to get rid of all weapons, people are going to kill other people including kids. I don't know if you are aware of this, but criminals and insane people don't follow the laws and will still stay armed.

And thinking an armed populace is any kind of threat to a modern military? That’s ridiculous.

Vietnam. Afghanistan. We can keep going...

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So are you relying on Canada or Mexico?

I don't know if you are purposely omitting GOPs primary benefactor Russia because you are obtuse or because you are purposely trying subvert the discussion in a malicious way to attempt at an argument; and if you think Russia won't do everything in its power to support the Christofacist/MAGA/GOP/Nazi/KKK population with their US Civil War 2, then you are indeed fucking dumb.

Guns are the biggest killer of children and young adults.

This seems so far the most intelligent point you have made so far where I agree with you, but unlikely a concept you have independently considered and likely were told to think this way by someone smarter than you.

Non-sequiturs against you aside, you cannot realistically think you can disarm the entire population of the United States without Trump-level door-to-door military style invasive home inspections? Criminals and crazies will still shoot up innocent people, and if Uvalde, TX hasn't convinced you cops are unreliable for your personal safety, continue living in your fantasy.

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Everything you have said here makes logical, coherent sense and have completely changed my mind to agree with you.

BaroqueInMind,
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America invented the internet, silly.

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Solid 7 out of what? If you say out of 100, then yes I agree drinking diarrhea water out of a toilet bowl is more fun to do than playing that shit. If you say out of 10 then you are claiming it's well above average (5) which means you have been drinking diarrhea water.

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I was simply joking, but it seems I don't need to since you seem to be the life of the party. And no, I'll stay here and continue writing with vulgarity instead of going to Reddit, go fuck yourself.

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My skin is as thin and small as my penis.

BaroqueInMind,
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Either your motherboard or your PSU are lemons.

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The next step is becoming a better parent. That's a shit move and you can't stop your kid from playing it behind your back. You simply taught them to find and learn new ways to gaslight and evade you in order to keep playing with their friends.

I guarantee your parents did the same shit to you, and you perpetuate that toxicity.

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How many kids do you have?

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How old are they?

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Wondering what kind of parent you may be. Read through your post history and you sound sane and competent up until approximately minutes ago.

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What difficulty are you playing it at?

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DF Adventure Mode is by far the single best Rogue-like game I have ever played in my entire life. Highly recommended.

A close second would be CataclysmDDA.

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Here's the link to download on Android & Windows.

BaroqueInMind,
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Firefox and GNU Emacs

Lynx and VIM are superior. /s

BaroqueInMind,
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This is what Amazon does already with Luna.

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The time I kept fucking restarting in GTASA trying to follow the damn train.

BaroqueInMind,
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Just buy a video game console at that point.

BaroqueInMind,
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Steam Machines were the solution, but no one fucking bought any of them so the market decided OPs desire was a waste of time and money.

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Or those gigantic multi million dollar game dev corporations could afford to, you know, pay to license that shit for their own games.

If they can afford to pay the CEOs millions of dollars for their golden parachute as well as their yearly salary, then they can afford that license.

If you think a game that doesn't have that is a failure, then both your expectations as well as that game both deserve to fail.

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You sound like you need a refresher on basic intellectual property protections and why they are essential.

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I don't know how to convey to you how important it is to incentivize innovation without worrying someone else will simply steal your ideas to make millions from your hard work you did inventing something while they literally did nothing.

If I make something and someone else can simply take it and dominate the market with it and pay me nothing for the work i did, why the fuck should I even bother making anything?

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Let's take a look at countries with no patent laws and compare their innovations that contributed to the rest of the world:

East Timor - nothing
Suriname - nothing
Somalia - nothing
Eritrea - nothing
Maldives - nothing
Marshall Islands - nothing
Micronesia - nothing
Myanmar - nothing
Palau - nothing
South Sudan - nothing
North Korea - nothing
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My mistake, you're right. We should completely remove the incentive to innovate novel ideas and no longer protect them if they are created to allow theft.

I am a hypocrite thief that uses free software in my daily life.

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TIL that morons here don't know the difference between software patents and copyright licenses.

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No crime was committed here, this was simply a business decision. Why is this being reported as if this was a huge revelation?

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I am very dumb. Thank you.

BaroqueInMind,
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Why does that bother you?

BaroqueInMind,
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He's probably simply lazy. Most explanations can be boiled down to that or stupidity.

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Honestly, seeing this AAA game play like a shit-tier shovelware game on my pretty fucking robust Linux gaming PC makes me kinda fine with Star Citizen taking its sweet time now.

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you can do things in this game that you can’t do in any other.

I'm not a SC hater, and had purchased Squadron 42 almost a decade ago, and I call bull shit on your statement. Please name all of the things you claim it innovates no other game does. I bet you money it does not and you cannot name anything special.

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I personally would’ve loved it if the competition was GOG, but it seems consumers don’t particularly care about ownership

What the fuck are you saying? Of course consumers care about ownership, otherwise Stadia would be dominating the market, and we can see that it's not.

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If you are trying to argue that ownership was not even a part of the multitude reasons Stadia failed and is off the table, you should seriously need to consider evaluating your critical thinking skills.

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They have decided to adjust all development focus on being able to stimulate the perfect realistic animation of a poop crowning out of an in-game dog's ass.

BaroqueInMind,
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What's the Intel equivalent to the nVidia 4080?

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Opinion 👆.

Better opinion: it's necessary to remove certain people who are prone to violence and incapable of rehabilitation. If you have such a problem with execution, then volunteer your time, money, and home to accommodate a violent psychopath with you forever.

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This has been a decade too late for me, but I'm still excited to play again once Adventure Mode is up to speed.

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Dwarf Fortress adventure mode is probably the most fun I've ever had in a roguelike. CataclysmDDA comes second.

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I purchased this game as a kid in college. Now I'm a whole adult with a family and career, while the game still has not released.

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