No it’s just to run a single proprietary software for some old hardware at my job. It won’t even be connected to the Internet. After trying for a couple of hours I had it set up and working on Win 10 in about 20 mins including the windows install.

My job has some old equipment that has proprietary software that I can’t get to run on Linux. It’s literally the only thing I need that tower to run. It’s a 2nd gen i5. It runs Windows 10 acceptablyfrom a small SSD. It won’t even be connected to the internet.

I sometimes do. But I’d point a gun back and say, make the penguin run this software in a way that doesn’t require a power user or take a newbie three fucking weeks.

I use Linux a lot and have about ten PCs running it so far, but I literally just installed Windows 10 on a shitbox that will very rarely be online because it was my best option for the software and respecting my time. I don’t work in IT. I run a small nonprofit and I used to build and upgrade/repair PCs as a side gig.

It’s fucking wild. I want to go back to 1999 when the N64 was the hot thing and the government wasn’t tracking everything everyone does everywhere all the time.

Meanwhile, I have a 16-year-old son who plays Roblox a decent amount, they do facial scanning and then put you in groups based on their assessment. Or at least that is my understanding. Dude just turned 16 this week, but they put him in the over 21 category. Granted he does have a full beard and has a ridiculously deep voice, but he did at 14 just like I did. I’m not worried about him gaming with older people though, he doesn’t really want to leave the house so he’s not going to get raped by some predator, plus the 21+ crowd is generally more mature. And whatever they have to say, he’s probably already heard it anyway. And I dare a predator to come here lol. They’d never find him.

I tried it once when I was 18. Don’t be like me.

Fuck Reddit but this place is far from a bastion of free sharing of ideas. Honestly fuck Lemmy too.

I have at least 80 DIMMS of DDR3. Upgrading an old tower this morning.

My 4070ti isn’t as beefy but there’s still not a non-nvidia upgrade. And I am able to play most of my games at 4k / 120. I’d like to upgrade mine so I can give my card to my daughter and give her 3060ti to her brother who is currently running a 1060.

Commenting just so I remember to do the same tomorrow. I’m in bed, functions are failing.

A simple.22 riffle with a suppressor is quiet enough you could hunt small game even if it was illegal and no one would hear it unless they’re close enough to also see it.

Professor Nick Harrison recreates songs using AI and giving it stylistic direction/prompts. AI can’t write good music but if you give it direction it does a pretty good job of changing instrumentation and vocals. He does two genres - soul and yacht rock. I don’t care for the yacht rock stuff but the soul stuff is pretty decent sometimes. I have a couple of his recreations in my Spotify playlists. I kinda dig this version of Tool’s song.

My family’s early 1900s experience with Russia did involve that. I’m no lover of capitalism either but most starvation happens for political reasons not supply. Evil people in power don’t care regardless of the economic system.

All of the genres try to push the envelope to some extent. I listened to all of them. I loved the vibe and recklessness of nu metal bands like Korn particularly. It’s funny that two of the band members are Christian now. In my mind the songs pushing the envelope the hardest these days is shit like WAP. Can’t say I’m really a fan of that song in particular but I’m still listening to everything I can.

https://youtu.be/Aldk90jrGNQ

I pretty much like good music from many generations and genres. But you know what I don’t understand? About 85% of the Beatles songs.They had a few great songs, but so many of them do absolutely nothing for me.

It doesn’t have to say to do it when it just consistently happens. It’s what we call the quiet part. Sometimes the quiet part gets said out loud but not always. We do get little peeks here and there even when people aren’t being mass murdered. Like when anti marxists get murdered and their deaths are widely celebrated amongst marxists.

To be fair, Marxism has killed a fuckload of people.

Edit oh no people down voting who don’t like the truth

I noticed that too. I clearly don’t know what the fuck is going on here.

Do you really want the world to join here? I don’t think you do. A lot of the world is anti trans, anti woke or whatever they want to call it. I’m pretty open minded but the Marxist purists who continuously shout down differing opinions get really old sometimes.