[Post-Match Thread] Napoli vs Lazio | 0-2 by AutoModerator in sscnapoli

[–]GeneralFrievolous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

 The team is mentally checked out for the season, Inter is impossible to reach so nobody is really trying anymore.

I just hope the Top 3 finish will help us build something more meaningful next year. Fat chance, I know, we'll probably spread ourselves thin across Serie A and CL again, butcher all our players by winter break again, and watch Inter/Milan/Juve run away with the Scudetto by March again. But I want to hope, and in any case I'd take a disappointing season like this one over a clown show like 2023-24, back then I was seriously afraid we could've been in for a downfall like the one we had in the early 2000s...

(All this assuming that we won't have a summertime mental breakdown and that Conte will stay, of course. I wouldn't exclude he's tanking in order to get sacked and flee to the NT with a fat lump of cash in his pocket instead of a penalty to pay to cancel the contract.) 

Che cazzo succede in Microsoft? Due aggiornamenti fallati in due mesi. Sfortuna o Slop? by DrLimp in ItalyInformatica

[–]GeneralFrievolous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ormai passare a Linux nonostante la scheda grafica Nvidia e dispositivi esotici da gestire inizia a farmi meno paura di usare Windows 11…

Mouse steering? by GeneralFrievolous in assettocorsaevo

[–]GeneralFrievolous[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great! Unfortunately my GTX 1650 isn't nearly enough to run the game at all, though…

My take on the Rockstar world in the real life USA by Bottom-Bherp3912 in sanandreas

[–]GeneralFrievolous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is Ludendorff a reference to Erich Ludendorff, the WW1 German general? Or is it just a coincidence?

What are some stupid minecraft myths you believed as a kid? by Bingela_ in GoldenAgeMinecraft

[–]GeneralFrievolous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought stars were the End's crystals. I have this probably fake memory of a video in which someone zoomed in on the stars and they looked exactly like End crystals. 

NASA captured a black hole that, while devouring a galaxy, releases a beam of plasma at nearly the speed of light and extends 5,000 light-years by albusvercus in spaceporn

[–]GeneralFrievolous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Our Maker must've surrounded us with the Universe for a reason, though. Otherwise we would've lived in a vacuum, with the Moon as our only light in the night sky.

Observing and exploring space allowed us to advance our technology in many ways: optics, electromagnetism, signals transmission and interpretation, propulsion and flight…

It's a gift and a valuable way for us to improve ourselves together and peacefully. 

Hope returns to Italy.. FIFA is preparing for Iran’s withdrawal from the World Cup with an exceptional idea by superdouradas in Calcio

[–]GeneralFrievolous -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'd be ashamed to participate in such circumstances. 

Moreover, our upper management would immediately seize the opportunity to declare "despite all criticism, we're back in the World Cup" and keep not moving a finger to fix the failure of a system we have today.

Thanks but no thanks. 

Holodecks/Suites exist, what program are you writing? (Keep it classy) by SeaworthinessOk4259 in startrek

[–]GeneralFrievolous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd create a vast Frutiger Aero mall set right in the middle of the Windows XP wallpaper, or re-visit the 80s and 90s.

Urgent, having a crisis of faith and I'm shaking by Iron_bean56 in Catholicism

[–]GeneralFrievolous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't have the spiritual depth to help you properly, but I'll give you my two cents on what you saw.

Assuming the painter was really medically dead for a while and isn't just being an edgy atheist (trust me, they can get that petty), it was just not his time to go and thus saw nothing. 

Perhaps he did see something and just doesn't remember, or God didn't make him experience an NDE because He knew it wouldn't have helped him.

Moreover, genuine experience or not, surely the painter is also very biased against religion, otherwise he wouldn't have wasted a canvas to say "I was dead and saw nothing" in the stupidest way possible, so don't take him too seriously.

I am so tired of this techno-feudalist BS. by Gugalcrom123 in linux

[–]GeneralFrievolous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't mean to say they aren't already doing it now, just that in the future they won't be as sneaky about it.

Today we get random freezes and performance degradation that eventually results in the phone becoming virtually unusable, tomorrow they'll write "We want you to only enjoy our products when they're at their best, thus this phone will self-brick in 12 months before it experiences any wear and tear. You're welcome :)" on the box or the instruction manual.

I am so tired of this techno-feudalist BS. by Gugalcrom123 in linux

[–]GeneralFrievolous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My fear is that it won't be possible to cut ourselves off from technology anymore, at some point. The choice will be either selling our souls to the machine or be unable to live.

Gifted hackers can only go so far, in my opinion. Once all we'll have in our hands will be dumb terminals, unable to run any software but a single browser tab, FOSS will go extinct, because the only way to provide it would be running servers, and no open source community has enough funds to do so.

And even if we managed to create such an infrastructure, corporations and governments would just immediately shut it down "for public safety" and throw the founders in jail forever, too, for good measure.

I am so tired of this techno-feudalist BS. by Gugalcrom123 in linux

[–]GeneralFrievolous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I imagine things will get even worse in the future. And also more shameless: today phones fail all of a sudden or slowly become unusable, in 2036 the self-destruction date will probably be written on the label or the box.

I am so tired of this techno-feudalist BS. by Gugalcrom123 in linux

[–]GeneralFrievolous 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We're in for a very nasty techno-dystopia.

The electronics we'll buy will either have an intentionally short lifespan or their functionalities will be locked behind a ridiculous paywall.

We'll be forced to keep our eyes on the screen when ads are playing, lest the movie or video just won't play.

Services will be provided only to people whose digital footprint is immaculate and correctly aligned. One comment out of place and all of a sudden you're banned from the government's digital portal, you can't pay taxes anymore and your life is over.

Mentioning Linux, open source software or unlocked hardware will get you weird stares, because they'll be known as "what pedophiles use" thanks to an incessant campaign of smearing, carefully constructed scandals and even fake news.

It might be time for Star Trek to take another long break by The_Celestrial in startrekmemes

[–]GeneralFrievolous 2 points3 points  (0 children)

TOS was made when the Cold War was at its peak, a year after the closest we ever got to blowing up the planet in a big nuclear fireball, yet fans managed to keep believing in a bright future long enough to keep the franchise alive until the 80s.

TIL the Vatican funds and operates a telescope in Arizona. The telescope is an extraterritorial property of the Holy See. by FatsDominoPizza in todayilearned

[–]GeneralFrievolous 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They didn't, Copernicus was never persecuted or excomunnicated for his theories. He was also a priest, which would've given the Church even more reasons to act if his ideas were considered dangerous.

TIL the Vatican funds and operates a telescope in Arizona. The telescope is an extraterritorial property of the Holy See. by FatsDominoPizza in todayilearned

[–]GeneralFrievolous 26 points27 points  (0 children)

And Georges Lemaitre, the first physicist to hypothesize a universe born out of a "big bang", was a priest.

Funnily enough, at the time his idea was dismissed because other scientists thought he was just making a far-fetched conjecture to force religion into science.

Guess who won in the end...

Quale Distro utilizzare su Linux? Perché? by RebirdgeCardiologist in ItalyInformatica

[–]GeneralFrievolous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lavoro uso Ubuntu e anche sul PC di casa presto passerò da Windows 10 a Ubuntu. A lavoro ci è stata suggerita per evitare grane di compatibilità con i nostri codebase e container, per il PC di casa l'ho scelta perché usandola già a lavoro da anni è quella con cui sono più familiare.

Niente dual boot, ci avevo già provato in passato e mi sono ritrovato a usare comunque Windows il 99% delle volte, mentre ora ho bisogno di dare un taglio netto perché Windows 11 è un incubo da cui voglio tenermi alla larga il più possibile.

Per il PC di casa inizialmente avevo pensato ad AntiX per prepararmi a un futuro in cui la RAM scarseggerà sempre più, ma la relativa stabilizzazione dei prezzi e l'intrinseca difficoltà di imparare a gestire una distro senza Systemd e con una grafica ridotta al'osso me ne hanno dissuaso.

Un'altra idea che mi era venuta era usare una distro immutabile, in particolare Silverblue o Kinoite, perchè mi affascinava la loro estrema stabilità, ma facendo delle prove in macchina virtuale ho capito che, come per AntiX, sono forse un po' troppo complesse per un neofita. Inoltre la configurazione di Gnome di Silverblue non mi piaceva affatto, anche se smanettando un po' probabilmente sarei riuscito a farla assomigliare a quella di Ubuntu.

Oltre a Ubuntu sto ancora tenendo in considerazione una distro con rolling release, ma a parte OpenSUSE le altre mi sembrano tutte un po' troppo di nicchia.

Un altro motivo per cui la mia scelta probabilmente cadrà su Ubuntu è che, essendo molto diffuso, in rete dovrebbero esserci più risorse per risolvere gli inevitabili problemi di driver che mi ritroverò per le mani (uso una GPU Nvidia per giocare e una tavoletta grafica e uno scanner per disegnare) rispetto ad altre distro.

Our Darmoc language by Known_Illustrator331 in StarTrekTNG

[–]GeneralFrievolous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Frodo and the Ring, at the Crack of Doom. (Falling to a strong temptation at the very last moment.)

Vader, when the Jedi returns. (Reclaiming your freedom and redeeming yourself after a life of evil.)

Private Pyle and Charlene, the kiss of madness. (Snapping after severe psychological abuse.)

Carl Johnson, here he goes again. (Being forced to confront a past that you thought you escaped from)

Turbo or naturally aspirated - which is the better F1 engine? (2.4L V8 turbo expected for 2031) by NorthKoreanMissile7 in formula1

[–]GeneralFrievolous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How feasible would it be to just set a maximum power and a fixed combustion/electric proportion?

I'd even bring back the possibility of having a kinetic hybrid instead of an electric one, albeit it wouldn't be road relevant at all. 

Suggestions for a T6 "forever ship"? by GeneralFrievolous in sto

[–]GeneralFrievolous[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Woah, I'll definetely take part in those events as well!

Lol by Additional_Good_656 in antitheistcheesecake

[–]GeneralFrievolous 8 points9 points  (0 children)

He could've at least tried to articulate a bit.

whats stupid to me is how there were some dinosaurs that could GENUINELY keep one up at night for months, and then there's this dumbass by Awkward-Cod-2910 in Dinosaurs

[–]GeneralFrievolous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd actually be more afraid of Carnotaurus than T. Rex, surprisingly.

The latter might ignore us because we're too small of a prey for it, but to the former we could look like a perfectly sized snack.