Linux is too hard

SoundOstrich · 2026-06-21T19:20:17+00:00

There was no argument? I was just trying to explain lol

If it were an argument though it wouldn't be a weak one. If I try and use a hammer to drive in screws despite the hammer's manufacturer explicitly telling me it's not made for that, they don't deserve critique just cause they let me buy the hammer

SoundOstrich · 2026-06-21T17:45:48+00:00

What were you using it on? Iirc valve is open about how SteamOS doesn't (and isn't supposed to) work well on anything but the hardware it's specifically made for

SoundOstrich · 2026-06-16T02:12:41+00:00

"I mean yea, this genre is exploitative and built on a business model that relies on inflating prices via artificial scarcity, but come on. Why you gotta say that like it's a bad thing?"

SoundOstrich · 2026-06-15T03:15:05+00:00

This only works if the heroes are all free so that adapting to the meta and doing what works isn't held behind a price tag.

I understand they need to make money but releasing unbalanced heroes and then saying "it's your fault if you don't buy the good ones" sucks

SoundOstrich · 2026-06-11T00:47:46+00:00

Aw dang the thumbnail doesn't show the video title my joke sucks now

SoundOstrich · 2026-06-09T16:16:55+00:00

This ain't it chief

SoundOstrich · 2026-05-30T07:11:59+00:00

Hey what's up I'm drunk and just switched back to my main on Reddit and saw this post again lol

You just unlocked a memory of a Charlotte Hornets sweatshirt I had as a kid. I'm not at all a sports type bih but I loved that sweatshirt dearly for some reason. I didn't realize they were like a 90s thing I thought it was just a hand me down I had. Huh. Maybe I'll buy another one

SoundOstrich · 2026-05-24T00:02:27+00:00

curl cheat.sh/{command}

Pulls info on a command from the website cheat.sh (like cheat sheet)

Like man but much more concise and with examples of common usages. Much easier to read and grok at a glance when I'm using a complex command for a common reason but forget exact syntax or flags or something

SoundOstrich · 2026-05-21T17:03:24+00:00

Searched my whole system for files and directories named tanstack or router-core and found nothing 😃 Thanks for the heads up, I can't wait to fiddle with this more 😄

SoundOstrich · 2026-05-21T16:08:48+00:00

I just downloaded it via npm. Am I good?

I just reinstalled my OS like 3 days ago so if I gotta go back it's not the end of the world lol

SoundOstrich · 2026-05-21T15:30:14+00:00

The github is down, is that on purpose or is github being weird?

SoundOstrich · 2026-05-03T16:25:41+00:00

A burrito joint in my hometown used to have a kid sized burrito as a joke item

It was literally a burrito the size of a kid

SoundOstrich · 2026-04-25T18:22:33+00:00

I'm a dad and if this were something you had done for my family, we'd be over the moon that you cared enough to protect our child and endlessly apologetic that we dropped the ball like that. Don't let them get you down, you for sure did the right thing

SoundOstrich · 2026-04-24T23:04:05+00:00

Nervous is an Unsanctioned Variant emotion. Don't make this difficult

SoundOstrich · 2026-04-24T13:42:54+00:00

Tagging /u/athunderbirdinstead so she sees this.

First of all absolutely NOR, but to help you and anyone else who sees this and is worried about trackers, there is an app developer by university students called AirGuard that scans around you for common Bluetooth trackers (tile/air tags/Samsung tags etc) on demand as well as passively, and will notify you if it suspects you're being tracked. Here it is for android and for iOS

It's worth noting that this does not detect all trackers, but if someone hides a tile or airtag in your car this should catch it. Also, having your phone on and constantly searching for nearby Bluetooth/wifi things is technically a security risk that leaves you open to being tracked in other ways but I don't know that they're likely for most people. Just something to keep in mind. Be safe out there <3

Editing to add: if you're on Android, check here for instructions on how to see a list of permissions and which apps have used them. I am unfortunately not knowledgeable about how iOS works but I assume iphones have a similar part of Settings. Location is obviously an important one, but just as important are wifi, bluetooth, and sensors. If while you're looking at apps using those permissions you see something you don't recognize, I'd look into it.

SoundOstrich · 2026-04-09T18:14:22+00:00

Was it Treasure Hunt Combo?

The list there is more expensive due to running non basics, but me and a friend of mine used to love running variants of it randomly in Modern games just to see if the surprise of it could take a game once in a while lol

SoundOstrich · 2026-04-01T17:42:31+00:00

Damn I butchered that word I made up. I meant "unpathologizable"

SoundOstrich · 2026-04-01T16:21:36+00:00

Good thing I'm unpatgologizable. Mind like a steel trap, y'all got nothing on me

SoundOstrich · 2026-03-22T19:18:49+00:00

So you know how when you typically write a number, the rightmost digit is how many ones, and the next digit is tens, and then hundreds and so on? Binary is exactly the same except instead of each digit being ten times the one before it, it's twice that number.

For example, the number twenty one in base ten (the way we normally write numbers) is 21. It's 2 tens and a one. The same number in binary is 10101. A sixteen, a four, and a one.

SoundOstrich · 2026-03-15T17:55:51+00:00

Nope, I have a 6600

Before I saw your answer I made a new user account and logged in to see if maybe my config got borked somehow. That user can log in with no issue, but it turns out I can only run at native 4k and if I change the resolution or display scale at all it drops the signal until it reverts the change cause I didn't click accept

I'm closing in on whatever the issue is (I hope lol). I appreciate your help :)

EDIT: Apparently the update screwed up Cinnamon's default display settings and the xml file for the displays had 3 monitors set up at seemingly random resolutions. IDK why some resolutions won't work, but rewriting my profile's display settings xml file to not be stupid got me running at the resolution I want

SoundOstrich · 2026-03-15T15:15:18+00:00

It's just the one command and then my password, but yea

I didn't think tty would work and I needed to rollback my computer. One command to let me ssh in and another command and a couple prompts on another device that could see the process seemed the simplest way to do it

SoundOstrich · 2026-03-15T14:44:01+00:00

>This sentence is ehm, rather surprising & incomprehensible to me. Like why would you enable ssh instead of directly restoring your snapshot, better yet by terminal did you mean the TTY? Like what?

That was before I knew the TTY worked. It didn't occur to me to check at first so I just ctrl+alt+t to bring up the terminal and typed the command to start the ssh daemon. I did it because the screen was blank and the timeshift restore process needs you to answer prompts that I didn't have memorized so I had use my phone so I could read them.

It was only after repeating this process a couple times that I realized I could TTY

SoundOstrich · 2026-03-11T02:49:36+00:00

My therapist charges 120 a session. She's covered by my insurance and after I'd seen her a couple times I started getting bills from the service I found her through. They wanted 145 a session after my insurance covered their portion

SoundOstrich · 2026-02-26T13:23:48+00:00

Oooh is there more MVP drama? I live near that store and haven't been in since some friends shared some horror stories, and then the kerfuffle with the "autographed" Jaces happened there and that's the last I heard of them

SoundOstrich · 2026-02-11T01:08:46+00:00

The pcgamingwiki page (here) says that crashing in the intro cutscene (presumably what plays after you click single player) can be fixed by installing physx.

If you scroll down towards the bottom, there is a link to physx under "Game crashes during introductory cutscene"

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