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What’s the street address of Google again? I’m already homicidally insane, I’ll start by burning them TO THE FUCKING GROUND.

You misunderstood. I’m a power user… on Windows. I don’t have a choice but to switch to a Linux distro now, but I have found 3 different issues requiring use of the command line to fix over the course of trying to shift to linux over the past 6 months. I understand a command line, what I don’t know is the lingo. Without experience in that lingo, I literally cannot properly figure out many features I could access in windows purely using mouse and keyboard shortcuts, even if it meant navigating an extensive menu system.

Now imagine someone who uses windows because they have dyslexia trying to use the command line. Or how about VR? If I’m understanding discussion from another site I frequent, Wayland or some other critical code for VR is not able to be handled by Linux and even if you run a windows install on the side it’s now going to be windows-fucking-11 bullshit until someone gets VR working on linux, and I do not have the coding knowledge to fix that myself because I don’t have 30 fucking years to become an expert in that shit. I’m not saying windows is good or that linux is bad, I’m saying this whole situation makes me want to fucking burn Redmond to the ground becausae it literally is holding my LIFE hostage. I live on the internet, I don’t interact with “reality” because I’m fucking sick of how things have unfolded over the past ~15 years (2008+) and if you force me to do so, I do in fact become physically violent. Don’t take away my circus or there won’t be anyone left to worship big brother, I’ll fucking kill you all.

As someone willing to switch to Linux now that I’d be forced into using Windows 11, shut up. Linux is, unfortunately, not ever perfect. Windows has become functional enough for the average user, Steam OS has a corporation behind it and still requires command line and other hacks to function.

Unfortunately, we’re fucked unless we start taking more drastic actions against big tech. The only way this will be fixed is public demonstration demanding that OSes and other critical IT software be open source, whether that demonstration is peaceful… or not so peaceful.

I’m at the point that violent revolution would not worry me, corporations and the investors who ruined capitalism with demands for 25% return on investment need to be burned out of house and home. We have no other ideas, we need capitalism to work because otherwise we get Warsaw Pact levels of Orwellian dystopia or a damn feudal society, so fuck data farming, fuck investors, fuck finding new jobs. Just do a “silent strike” and when they tell the lot of you that you’re fired, say “Not unless you want that fire to spread. You hired us, you fucking pay us. We won’t just walk, we’ll take you down, so put up or no layoffs. Not when we’ve been abused for years as contractors. We’re fucking done with being threatened with hardship to cover for your mistakes.”

The problem is that we’re legitimately in the middle of a class war, the wealthiest 0.01% are actually trying to create a world where everyone else is expendable.

I agree purely on a “cultural influence” level, as while I doubt CoD caused a school shooting, it seems the argument these grieving families are making is “CoD glorifies guns and gun culture, therefore this will send a message that gun culture is not acceptable and guns being admired is dangerous.” On that I feel that if they have to destroy an over monetized and creatively bankrupt game franchise to send a message that guns are not toys or fashion accessories, CoD’s continuation will not be missed by the majority of gamers.

My only concern is that if they do succeed, that means anything can be censored in the US if it promotes cult-like behavior, which is too subjective to be properly defined without giving politicians another way to FUD people and thus does not solve the problem.

That, and fuck those cops who caused the majority of the issue. At that point, grab kitchen knives, conceal them, go to a local police station, calmly say you want to report a crime, and when the cop comes out to ask, slit his throat and say “this is for the kids you killed”. I would not trust an American cop ever at this point, so if anyone from my own or any other country reads this, I’m not going to kill a cop because the RCMP are actually trustworthy and have ensured everyone’s safety. I’m not intending to incite actual violence, only stating that these families are targeting the wrong people and they’re probably doing it because they were told justice will never come because the fucking police wanted it that way.

Hello, Dr. Smart, you forgot to take your meds again, didn’t you?

Go complain about PSN, or the ROG Ally being a toaster for microSD cards. Anyone still involved with this game has made their peace with whatever the outcome will be.

You’re not wrong, nothing excuses this kind of behavior. However, I can’t help but feel no company can be held responsible for what an employee does outside of work without essentially giving scummy companies like and including EA an easy excuse to lay people off without paying for unemployment.

Indeed, NDAs and “this is a preview version but…” disclaimers are supposed to exist so that what’s being reviewed is at least close to being the finished product or clearly labelled as not being finished.

It’s not just game devs who can be scummy about Early Access stuff, especially compared to “gaming journalism” ever since people realized Steam reviews are far more accurate than magazines and websites that sell ads. If the game isn’t finished, ask if progress is being made towards being finished, not whether “experts” from GameBloggerYT or Kotacky think it’s going to be. Marketers always lie if someone offers them enough money, and Big Tech has an investment in people not having reliable info on something, so if freakin’ Disney is able to say a straightforward “we fucked up” then you know that’s the honest truth.

But how they screwed up is what matters; they admitted the contract is bad, this isn’t about game quality. The game “journalist” vultures saw a corporate megafauna limping, this was a legal loophole they’re hurting from.

I know they sadly would never admit to making a flawed or predatory product, but I can at least respect that Disney decided not to sue someone. Maybe wishing on a star can work sometimes?

Meanwhile, EA and Uberme- I mean Ubisoft are literally killing good games because their newer stuff is subpar and they have no interest in doing better.

At this point, I’ll take whatever fair corporate activity I can get, Disney might not be Valve or GOG but I consider this incident to be one where a company hasn’t been deliberately sketchy for once.

Fair warning, don’t mess with the internals of the device because - as a Chinese company - their warranty is prohibitively anti-repair, but…

OneXPlayer. Specifically the OneXFly. More ergonomic than the steam deck, far more powerful than both it and the ROG Ally, has an SD Card slot that doesn’t fry itself like the Ally, and comes with a decent warranty for what is essentially the Chinese Lamborghini of GamerDecks. Again, don’t try to fix it yourself, it works well but if anything goes wrong (I had to wipe the SSD and didn’t know how to do so without removing it physically) then you’re screwed.

If you have big hands, just buy a Steam Deck OLED. It’s about as good as it gets for customer service to rely on Valve.

To be fair, I use a simple smartlock whose only purpose is so I alone can unlock my bedroom door without needing my physical key duplicated for others to enter at desired times.

To also be fair, I have a hodgepodge of smarthome lights and plugs linked via ifttt that I am now worried will not have any replacement option in 15 years. Maybe I made a mistake, but I do actually have a need to rely on a smartswitch to turn off the lights when I leave home.

Fair enough.

Maybe he is an employee who bought the pen with employee discount? Just saying that’s possible, even though it’s a complete guess.

Okay, is it just me or is the total global revenue for physical media music less than $2 USD a year? I must be reading it wrong.

Not sure, but I think the WiFi on it was defective or something because I had ridiculous amounts of trouble setting up smarthome devices on that phone. After several DAYS of it, I lost my temper. The 20g forces are a wild guess but the phone was unsalvageable.

Keep in mind I bought that Pixel 7 Pro on eBay.

This. Didn’t even use my Pixel 8 (then brand-new) until Grapheme OS was available for it (my Pixel 7 Pro got damaged beyond repair in an incident, not happy but though I expect privacy I don’t expect a phone to survive ~20G of force) because fuck Google.

Wait, when I said game in quotes (“game”) I was referring to politics and Big Tech’s biggest players. Sorry about that, when it comes to actual video games I was not trying to demand particular content, just a movement away from grimdark.

To be fair, my OneXFly is a “third device” for me, I use a cheap laptop to write (yes, I write sci-fi) and the gaming rig has been a string of rigs since 2012 but I sold my share of a Steam Deck to my younger brother and my Rog Ally was supposed to replace it until two of them died on me (fortunately under warranty), so I’ve only owned a gamerdeck of any sort for the past 18 or so months.

Good point, that actually does make sense. If it takes one to know one, the people who know what oppression looks and feels like are absolutely the ones who know most what a place under an oppressive regime with good PR is from the outside. Not sure if it’s a complex set of skills or if it’s just a matter of comparing dictators to dictators and not to oranges, but stress testing and security testing bounties are things for a good reason.

Sorry about the above posts feeling accusatory, I’m having a terrible time and I’ve had a comfortable but miserable life of never succeeding at anything yet wanting to at the very least succeed in bringing other people happiness by helping to create or protect a near-utopian (since outright perfection is impossible and plausibly a boring existence if it was possible) world. When you’re protected from your failures most of the time but you never actually succeed you start to feel like you are worthless, and if you realize that’s not the case after too long, then someone starts to feel like the whole world is in some manner against them.

Problem is, I’m smart enough to know the logical conclusion is NOT that the people around me are all against me, and it’s taken long enough that I know the problem isn’t me either (long story). If it’s not me, and the world isn’t conspiring, then the real reason must simply be some sort of discrimination against me. As for what, I honestly can’t figure it out beyond “nobody anywhere online believes the truth about what they think I did even though it really is the truth”. I refuse to believe it was simply bad luck, though. Discrimination is not a conspiracy, and if you have psychiatrist A drugging you wrong but you get a new psychiatrist Band you have no issues, it is not a crazy thing to say “my last psychiatrist ruined my life”.

Crazy is - aside from being repetitively delusional - when no answer is ever good enough. I know because the only time in my life where I’ve felt paranoia was under my old psychiatrist’s medications, when every answer didn’t calm me, but stress me out with overthinking everything (and I don’t mean like this post, I mean like literally everything was too questionable to trust at that time, especially social media). I don’t know how people who - unlike my Autism diagnosis - have psychosis for real can stand NOT taking their pills as “feeling more lucid”. I have never felt my mind be more clouded than it was when that old doctor’s prescriptions caused chemically-induced paranoia, and mixed with a literally negative value of myself caused by it and two coincidential moments in my social life where I was unfairly pushed out of a group through no fault of my own, it nearly destroyed my mind and DID destroy my online reputation as a result.

I literally have a doctor’s note in my email and I haven’t shown it to the OpenTTD communit that I am a f-ing pariah of because I don’t know if even that will convince them that “my” behavior from March of 2017 until very recently was the work of this man… https://www.ratemds.com/doctor-ratings/531703/Dr-Richard-McGee-Castlegar-BC.html/ (also https://perma.cc/QE8Y-33US so it doesn’t redlink) …and that website speaks all that I would need said to confirm that that guy ruined my life and I shouldn’t have to and can’t be the one to rebuild it; I’m not this monster’s only victim. I already posted that link to them, they didn’t seem to care and believe I made it up.

I don’t have anything against any group at this point, because I know discrimination should, at the minimum, mean the discriminator silently leaves instead of being arrogant and cruel or you get all the people I feel like I’ve personally been wronged by, and now you know why I apparently have some of the highest empathy, best reasoning and (sadly) shortest tempers of anyone I’ve ever met. Thus, I’m mostly just angry that humanity seems to be falling apart everywhere at the same time and when someone points out that doing X is making that worse, X is either a completely innocent thing that the accuser is trying to destroy for personal gain, or the person doing X is trying to employ X and make it look like they are “allowed to” because they are part of Group Y (either Group Y is rich or Group Y is a corrupt culture warrior who justifies their actions as social justice or religious freedom). The rules are supposed to be equal, I suppose that does mean that if you want to prevent a hacker from breaking your system, some security-testing by a hacker who knows what to look for is exactly what is needed.

…this may sound crazy, but… anyone think uploading the world’s flaws to a Git repository of some sort as “bugs” would go a long way?

Oh, and for the record? Doesn’t mean I think South Africa is somehow free of guilt (see Apartheid). Every country has hypocrisy, what matters is policing each other when it comes to goddamn genocide. People’s lives are not expendable just because the person expending them isn’t affected by the consequences, but that means we all call each other out or we fucking go extinct.

Kids are dying and this asshole thinks he speaks for me? I don’t CARE what his position is, I didn’t vote for him and I no longer trust anyone to speak on my behalf if what they say in such a grim situation isn’t 100% what I would have said.

For the record? “You - Israel and Palestine - have been at this for so long that the only thing that matters to me is that your children don’t suffer. The rest of you either stop fighting, NOW AND FOREVER, or this will be the first time in history that genocide was the ultimate goal of both sides (the Hamas and the Israelis) and I do not give a FLYING FUCK if you were Holocaust victims, because that means YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER THAN TO TRY AND WIPE OUT AN ENTIRE POPULATION AND YOU PULL THIS SHIT?!”

If you’re going to act like fucking Hitler, after your grandparents were the people Hitler wronged, you don’t get to fucking cry when the rest of humanity wants to prosecute you for war crimes. But NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, fucking Trudeau thinks otherwise and my opinion doesn’t matter. If you voted for Trudeau or for the Liberals last election, I hate you and I wish the worst upon you because clearly you don’t care about being FAIR. Life isn’t unfair, people who fucking want to have MORE than someone else so much that they TAKE it are unfair but they don’t give a shit because they’ve never had a reason to care about being fair as long as THEY won. So fuck everyone. I hate this world and I am never coming out of this goddamn room again, and if that sounds like a teenager crying unreasonably, THEN STOP FUCKING ACTING LIKE WORLD POLITICS IS A GODDAMN HIGH SCHOOL!