im in my 40s and feel the same as you. things like fast food dont hold the same appeal, just nostalgia wishing for the 'old taste'
USA President term limits
im 100% canadian, I dont live in the US and wondering about your system.
so as i understand your political system, a president can only hold office 2 terms. in Trumps case, he served once already, does that mean he can only serve one more, or is the clock reset and he gets a shot at 8 years?
im willing to marry anyone from the usa so they get in, for a small fee of course 🤑
The convo has gone way off topic and is better discussed somewhere else.
Yes transphobia is a thing and needs to be discussed, just not here. drag, you got your point in/across and was rebutted. let it end here, make a thread somewhere and continue if your really want but its gone way past PC gaming and onto other issues.
im fairly easy on the moderation here as I feel its better for the community (mostly) and very little reports come in so I let everyone do their thing. im not going to remove comments or ban you, but please let it die here.
as a ~40 year old Canadian looking from the outside at the US election
this one was crazy for sure but the last couple have been kinda out there to say the least. before the internet we Canadians always knew when it coming, but it was never covered in a 24h news cycle like now. other than daily newspaper (that was a physical unit of paper that was like social media, where we could not really choose who to follow other than politically left or right and only updated every 24h) we'd get news at 6-7pm and 11pm. then the noon news showed up. while there have always been issues between right and left, there had never been violence on the scale we see now. like Reagan getting shot, happened just after i was born, so not like it was all sunshine and rainbows but nothing like the scale that's seen now.
this could be from the mass news reporting and social media, or people have just gone off the rails. I'm guessing option 2.
i grew up like this, but in the 80s so no screens like we know them now, just an old CRT. however my free time was scheduled and TV was not an option even tho it was free time. the only real difference is my father would beat the snot out of me if i did something wrong, bad grades, whatever.
the only positive thing i got out of all of that is i hate being late for something. id rather be 45 minutes early than 5 minutes late. I also have not spoken to my father in over 20 years now, so i guess thats also a positive.
If these asshats were vacuuming stuff up instead of just blowing over to the next yard, I’d be a little less annoyed.
when i was not so poor and still owned a lawn care business, i actually had a lawn and leaf vacuum attached to trailers. they work great, blow the leaves into a pile, and suck them up. had smaller versions that were the width of a lawn mower-ish for where it was not feasible to blow. the smaller ones didnt work that well with leaves but great in the spring after spring clean up.
Eren and Erin are scum, dirty names that should be scrubbed from the history books, not the people, just the name.
Right along with Arron and Aron, they are also fake names and should be deleted.
Full disclosure, my name might be Aaron
i wonder if this is the same person you were worried was more popular than you at work a few months ago.
after reading some of your post history, you seem like a bitter person who will never be happy. that tells me there is so much more going on here than what you have let us believe is going on.
i still have a brass one from the 80s that works like a charm, try brass ones maybe
i have a great program that will hide all of your money, send me a DM
forgot to add this from 2017
A national campaign seeks to make all US states prohibit sex between humans and nonhuman animals.
This campaign seems to be sheer bull-headed prudery, using the perverse assumption that sex between a human and an animal hurts the animal. That’s true for some ways of having sex, and false for others.
you lost me at " Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it.
Through personal conversations in recent years, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that. I am grateful for the conversations that enabled me to understand why."
the guy did NOT change his mind, hes scared of getting caught and called out for being a pedo, necrophiliac, and enjoying bestiality
Stallman remarked most recently on the subject of pornography featuring humans and animals in 2018:
Prudish censorship attacks again in the UK, convicting someone for possessing “extreme pornography”, including images of sex with animals.
I can’t imagine a possible reason to punish people for this. The article does not report that the animals were harmed, or that they objected to the experience, or that they thought of it as sexual. The law does not consider these questions pertinent.
What is, however, clear is that prohibiting the possession of copies of some image or text — no matter what that image or text may be — threatens human rights. It creates excuses to search through people’s possessions and files. It creates ways to make people vulnerable to criminal charges without their cooperation or even their knowledge. All such laws must be repealed.
Primary sources documenting Stallman’s political advocacy for:
The normalization of sexual relations between adults and minors [1]
Defense of individuals both accused and convicted of sexual crimes, including the rape of minors, sexual assault, and sexual harassment [2]
Dismissal of legal norms regarding sexual assault [3]
Dismissal of legal norms regarding sexual harassment [4]
Support for the possession of child sexual abuse material [5]
Legal and social normalization of sex between humans and animals [6]
Legal and social normalization of sex with corpses (necrophilia) [7]
Credible allegations of sexual misconduct regarding Stallman [8]
Misconduct of the Free Software Foundation board of directors [9]
Calls from the free software community for Stallman’s removal [10]
Recommendations for reconciliation and closure [11]
fuck him, and fuck you for defending this useless waste of flesh
as someone who needs coke bottles to see properly, i understand how you feel
i would also love to smoke some of the weed you had before posting this
comfy couch
no, but this chair is the first one ive ever been able to fall asleep in
im a bit of a bird nerd here, and while they do put pack a lot in, its not really fat as you and i would think of it. 90% of what you see is just floof to keep warm.
my b&g macaw will put on a little weight in fall even tho hes a tropical chicken. altho admitly that could just be me feeding him differently/different times, cause of the lack of light through the winter.
ok, im not hatin on the steam deck. ive never even seen one in person so im bias for sure. however, what exactly is the appeal of it? I PC game exclusively and have 3 26" curved monitors at 5760x1080, so having a unit that is smaller than my keyboard seems counterintuitive to me. again, im not tryin to come off as a jerk or 'pc master' kinda thing. I'm honestly wondering what the appeal is, am i just spoiled?
im a big bird nerd, and i have seen first hand the decline of birds on the prairies. its really sad, i only see a quarter of the migrating birds now too. humans are the very worst thing to happen to this planet
I'm back! Again
Yeah, so my life is still a pile of crap, nothing is really working out, however I miss Lemmy. I'll do my best to keep up on reports and such.
This really did not need a post, but I figured I should probably let folks know.
What did I miss? Anything good?
The difference between sport bikes and cruisers
I'm in my 40s and just got my first sport bike, been riding dirt bikes before I was 10 and street bikes by 14. I've always liked cruisers and choppers, never had a crotch rocket style.
After a month of having a cbr600f2, I'm convince there is a correlation with how kids slept as as babies and what bikes they like to ride (if at all)
Babies who slept on their backs better, like cruisers, babies who preferred to sleep on their bellies, like sport bikes!
OMG Thank you bethesda
Yeah, i cannot believe im actually saying this where it can be archived and thrown in my face at a later time, but damn. Thank you bethesda for FINALLY baking ultrawide into the game, now I dont need janky mods to make things work and look proper anymore! Dont get me wrong, the folks who made the mods I was using did a 1000x better job than I could have ever done, but im glad bethesda actually did it, seems to work great so far.
Wonder if I can get my orginal save back up and running again.
Hey, so I'm back!
Finally done the move, still setting up but at least I'm back online!
Looks like shit kinda hit the fan a few times while I was gone, did y'all really miss me that much?
I wont be online as often for a week or two still, but soon enough!
Open call for new a mod or two
As most of you might remember, I had asked a little while ago how to go about picking a new mod (or two) to help out.
First off, there is little to no work actually involved other than checking in, last report was 9 days ago, and when things like the bots who were mass posting happen, the admin are on top of that real fast and it was done and over with by the time I logged in again. I'm not asking because the workload is requiring it, no, its more that I was wanting at least one more person. This way a community this size (i have no idea if ours is considered large or active tbh) can have more than one active mod. Much less chance of perceived bias here, now there has been no mention of it to me but I don't want it to get that far even.
I'm looking for one or two more folks to help out around here. This job is paid with bits and bytes sent to your pc or phone while your on this site, so do with them bytes and bits as you see fit, in accordance with all laws mind you. I'm more than willing to send you a digital cookie 🍪 once a month if that helps out.
I'm not looking to pass the torch and split, like our last overlord, however if something would happen to me or my internet for a long spell, only the admin could pass off the mod to someone else.
Anyone up for the job?
I think we need another mod
Not like there is a lot of work, or reports. You are all a good bunch, plus the admin team seems to get to most of the reports before I do, making me more or less useless!
So I'm thinking of bringing on someone else, this way I cant be bias, well less chance anyways, and the guy who got me to mod seems to have gone away, never to be found again. Hope hes safe!
But yeah, I think one person being a mod with a community this large is not right. How do you all want me to pick the next superhero mod here? Eeny, meeny, miny, moe seems like a great idea to me, but I'm a stoner.
Thoughts?
Ultrawide - Superwide
Come across a few different aspect ratios, however 5760x1080 seems to be for rare idiots like me with 3-27" curved. My current setup is not ideal, but modding my desk today so im not so close.
Overkill? Oh yeah, but I do enjoy it!
Tour of my ammunition factory | Fallout 4
So this save file is super corrupt, some of the mods I have used over the years have really screwed it up. Updated to SS2 so this save is extra screwed. Please excuse the audio, the mic I have is a cheap amazon one, but at least it works. I have never wanted to be a youtuber, but I do enjoy sharing some of the things I have done in games. Even when I stream, people watching makes me nervous for some reason, but I still like doing it every now and again. No idea why...but I do.
Anyways, enjoy the many hours I put into building this, it took a lot to get the way it is now.
Let me know what you think of that one room...you'll know what I mean when you see it!
Edit: You'll see the room at about the 40 minute mark
Sweeeeet
I have a wack of content I'm willing to post here, I assume youtube links are ok?
I can upload pics as well. I have a save with about 200 hrs in and build an ammunition factory, fully automated! Sadly some of my mods kinda broke the save, so I went ahead and got SS2 so that save file is super buggy.
Anyways, that's 2 fallout communities I joined tonight, looking forward to posting here for sure as settlement building is the #1 thing that keeps me playing fo4!
Sweet, a fallout community on lemmy!
Been playing fallout since, well the start, currently playing fo4 and 76.
Looking forward to the tv show, but I have low expectations, its kinda hard to adapt the game to tv, but I'm willing to give it a shot.
Finally got both fo4 and 76 to run in stupid-wide (5760x1080) however some of 76's menus are a bit wonky.
Anyways, wanted to say hi and I'm looking forward to posting here
Controversial games of the past.
I'm just sitting here thinking about all the hoopla around palworld right now and I was wondering what other titles out there have been in the controversy filled category in the past few years/decade? I can think of a few, but my game interests are kinda narrow.
What are some of your picks?
I'm breaking the rules!
Well, since the last idea I had for the community crashed, burned and the ashes blew away in the wind. So for shits and giggles I'm giving 24hrs to post basically whatever.
No NSFW, or other stuff that breaks the basic rules of lemmy, just dont be me...dont be a dick.
I'm posting this pic cause im wondering if the speakers are overkill? whats not shown is the 4speaker centre channel, or the exact matching rear speakers that are the same as the fronts. Fine. You twisted my rubber arm, I'll clean and take a current pic and post it in a bit.
Lets see your setups...the 'battlestation' community here on lemmy is just a reddit repost bot and wont let original content.
What am I doing wrong?
I'm kinda new to linux, however I seem to remember running a headless ububtu server years back. Also remember it took a long time to setup being my first headless server.
So, to my current issues. I just installed mint on an old pc and just want to use it to run my security cams, store the files, and host my nas. Took me over 6 hours to get the raid setup properly, so much differing information on 'how to' for noobs like myself, but managed to get it working and moving files over to raid file now.
Coming from mostly windows crap most of my life, its confusing where and how the raid is setup, and honestly I'm still not convinced I did it right, but everything I check says it is, and I'm sure it knows better than I do.
Ok, now the issue, how in the ever lovin shit can I just share that stupid folder/disk to my network. 90% of the options are greyed out while looking at the properties tab, and need sudo access to change it, so whats the point in having the gui? Am I just dumb and smoked way too many doobies? Got samba installed, but not configured yet, only cause I ran across much more conflicting info, some said in mint its easy like windows...right click and share that shit, easy right? Even I didn't think so, and I'm ok with that, I'm really sick of windows and want to convert all the pc's but damn....stiff learning curve.
Don't get me wrong, I ran DOS back in the day, and I was not bad at it, better than your normal user at the time but by no means a power user. So I should be able to grab the concept quickly, but I am failing. Total of 12 hrs on this now and considering just putting win7 back on this pig and giving up.
I know no one can give me direct answers, and not looking for tech support, but looking for advice so im not wanting to 'hulk smash' this thing
Meme Monday is now live!
Lets try our first Meme Monday and see how it goes!
Lets keep it SFW, and pc gaming related. If you think its appropriate, post it and lets find out together. If it gets lots of downvotes, I wont remove it, but that will give me a good baseline for next week.
Free Friday is now over
I'll be renaming it next week, hopefully we get some more interest next week, if not, no big deal. Hit and a miss, but I'm trying!
Free Friday Today!
Hello All!
Today is our first Free Friday (title change suggestions welcome)
Rules 0-3 are in effect still, however tech support, build & game suggestions/questions and just about anything else you can think of, pc gaming related, is fair game today. Please save the meme's till monday tho.
If you have a youtube channel, I dont mind you posting a single video, but its gotta be a lets-play or commentary about pc games/gaming. Please dont be posting your homies channel, or some creator you really like...lets keep this local to us for the time being.
You have an idea thats not listed above? Post it and lets find out how the community reacts, but still better follow the basic common sense rules above.
So, the first official Free Friday is now open!
Opening up the community a little
A while ago I had asked everyone what their opinion on changing up the community here a little. Nothing major, but maybe drum up some other content. No shame to the regular posters, keep doing your thing, I am not trying to shut you out or even hint that I, or really anyone, objects to what you bring here.
I do however have a couple ideas for 'theme days', and any ideas you have are welcome. I am not planning on turning every day into a theme, but was thinking of - Meme Monday, where meme's are not against the rules, as long as they are PC gaming related. I was also thinking of - Free Friday, so as long as its pc related, or gaming related, its ok to post. So if you want to ask about game suggestions, tech support, or something else in the off topic side, barring NSFW, ads, spam...etc, friday is the day.
Now there are communities built around those I have suggested already out there, so if anyone feels like it would pollute our community, or have other objections, please let me know.
If there is no real pushback, tomorrow will be set for our first free friday, lets see how it goes. I'm going to learn myself how to make/get a bot to auto post as reminders when it starts and ends seeing as we don't all live in the same timezone. Since I am in western Canada, and follow mountain time, for the time being, I'll use my timezone as the 'standard' for the theme days. this may change depending on how everyone feels.