twykomantis

joined 3 years ago
[–] twykomantis@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I think the more fundamental issue, and something we often forget to highlight with these tech bro shitstains, is how many of them are wholly convinced that with enough money they can just live forever.

[–] twykomantis@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The Steam Deck has been a lightning rod of getting gaming compatibility into the mainstream. The Proton compatibility layer works for most Steam games and the Proton DB will tell you the level of compatibility for a given game on Linux, https://www.protondb.com/ . Additionally, a number of other compatibility layers and ported front ends for GOG, Epic and various others are available and functioning (I can't list them all as I only use Steam, but I'm all in on Fedora and have yet to find a game that won't run). VR is working now on Linux (I have an Oculus Quest 2 I was given a couple years ago and it works flawlessly), as are most game pads. You can go with something like Bazzite which has a number of gaming specific compatibility tools built in, and it's immutable so it's a deliberate effort to break the thing. The only real limitations for software is anything Adobe (but there open source apps to fill that gap, GIMP is among the biggest) and ~~MS Office~~ M365 Copilot, which you can just use the Libre Office suite or if compatibility is a concern due to macros or addins, OnlyOffice is a decent alternative.

[–] twykomantis@lemmy.ml 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Shooter is being bought a round of drinks and is up for a promotion.

[–] twykomantis@lemmy.ml 53 points 5 months ago (4 children)

To paraphrase Brennan Lee Mulligan, paraphrasing Michel Foucault, "Laws are threats made by the dominant socio-economic ethnic group in a given nation. It's just a promise of violence that's enacted and police are basically an occupying army."

[–] twykomantis@lemmy.ml 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

To quote Tool's liner notes from the Ænima album in reference to Hicks, "Another dead hero"

[–] twykomantis@lemmy.ml 50 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Bill Hicks had a joke that ended with, "You are free to do as we tell you."

[–] twykomantis@lemmy.ml 31 points 5 months ago

Relevant user name.

The last guy who tried to do something had shitty aim

[–] twykomantis@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Fedora (I use Gnome on my laptops and KDE on my desktops). I don't love that it's technically an IBM product, but love the OS otherwise.

[–] twykomantis@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Malfeasance and abuse of power is a feature, not a bug. There is no accountability, for any elected office holder. There's the dog and pony show when someone does something deemed too egregious for the voter base to stomach, where the perpetrator will step down to spend time with their family as they quietly reflect on the "damage" they've done, but that's smoke and mirrors for them being offered a private sector role where any connections they made while holding the reigns of power can be utilized to get tax payer dollars for the company that funds them, or help lobby for ever less restrictive legislation that will allow the company to dump toxic waste into the municipal drinking water then charge those effected to clean it up, all while doing everything they can to reduce the chance they ever have to pay taxes. Accountability isn't something that applies to the suits in Washington. Laura Bush and Ted Kennedy both killed people, if it had been you or I doing that we'd still be serving time, but for them the qualifying question of "was the victim someone of power, status, or influence?" was asked before the ball even got rolling on the judicial process. Those in power are all above the law, every single one of them, and it's because of that there is no cognition that these office holders are public servants. They kowtow to the biggest donor, not the public that actually goes to the voting booth. So long as McDonald's, Bayer, Nestle, Verizon/AT&T-Time-Warner-AOL-Atari-Discovery-Paramount-Skydance-Chuck E. Cheese (whatever other fuckin' company decides to buy that behemoth)/T-Mobile, Cargill, Dow, DuPont, Pfizer, Disney, Moderna, United Health/Aetna/Cigna, CVS, ExxonMobil, Haliburton, Lockheed, Boeing, and the Duck Dynasty crew (just to name a few) get to throw unlimited money at candidates promising favorable legislation on their behalf, there will be no accountability for the corruption and incompetence that permeates the halls of power. JD Vance said the right things to Peter Thiel and Thiel cut a check to have a talking head in a position of power that could further his [Thiel's] goals. Until the public gets their shit together and crowd funds a candidate that can't be bought no matter the cost or threat to family/business interests, we'll continue to have one shit stain candidate after another, promising a brighter tomorrow to the public, while working feverishly to ensure the shares waiting for them from their sponsor company reach maximum value upon their leaving office or retiring.

[–] twykomantis@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

The claim will be that it's the Dems fault, so they'll be derided by the gov't media as society collapses; and much the way an abusive partner blames their victim, it'll be people being shot in the streets in droves, drones with hellfire missiles being ordered to fire on urban centers, and the administration will just have whatever blonde talking head they choose come out and say "this could have all been avoided but the Dems were allowed to exist for too long and this is what happened. See what they made us do?"

[–] twykomantis@lemmy.ml 26 points 8 months ago

I think even that is being generous. With how eager this court has been to genuflect to him, I'd expect the ruling to be something more akin to "On clear reading, all government power and authority is derived from the Executive exclusively, including that which is graciously and magnanimously extended to all other branches of government."

[–] twykomantis@lemmy.ml 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This! There will be no more elections, no more representation, just plutocrats fucking the poor to extract more wealth and power, until there is no more clean water or air and then voluntary slavery to the faceless multinational in charge of your region can be instituted to grant limited access to few remaining clean food and water they've stockpiled. Trump is a cancer and has been ignored and enabled at every turn. There is no future that includes a free voice of dissent for any, but especially of you can't afford the toll.

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