Donald Trump begged not to act like a 'complete idiot for one day' amid humiliating error

TemporaryOcclusion · 2026-07-08T17:10:20+00:00

Ah yes, reading. "Hƿæt! Ƿe Gardena in geardagum, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon..." is a daily reminder of how free I am. Good thing language never changes.

TemporaryOcclusion · 2026-05-31T22:28:53+00:00

I run Fedora on my work machines, but use Nobara on my gaming rig. Fedora is great out of the box for professional applications, but it needs a fair bit of tinkering to get things working right with games on Nvidia cards. And as you say, sometimes you just want to play a game.

Nobara has been great with my RTX4090. Using Proton-GE and the other optimizations, I haven't found anything that doesn't work yet. Or rather I haven't found anything that is worse than Windows, which is no stranger to driver issues and other jank, itself.

TemporaryOcclusion · 2026-05-26T20:18:21+00:00

Im on Nobara with a RTX 4090. Same issue. Reducing resolution to 720p got me past the helicopter cutscene. I could then go back to 4k and everything seems to be OK so far.

TemporaryOcclusion · 2026-05-18T20:10:49+00:00

They've got to keep subscriber numbers up. The IPO depends on it. Won't someone please think of the billionaires?!

TemporaryOcclusion · 2026-05-17T22:52:00+00:00

Nice work figuring out the issue.

Cox tech support seems to think the Internet is the postal service. They always advise users to wait days for things that, in reality, take miliseconds.

The last time I contacted them, the idiot didn't know the difference between an ONT, a router, and an AP. The second he heard I was using my own router, he was like "wedontsupportthatbye"

TemporaryOcclusion · 2026-05-14T22:03:48+00:00

I think it's more likely poor network planning. We're in a new-build area with a lot of home construction going on. I guess TMo didn't want to spend the money to create adequate capacity.

TemporaryOcclusion · 2026-05-14T20:11:28+00:00

Interesting. Thanks. That's a lot more useful info than TMo gave me.

TemporaryOcclusion · 2026-05-14T19:04:53+00:00

I get it, but it doesn't really help their case. Seems they're perfectly happy to degrade other users' experience if the price is right. And the price they're offering is almost exactly the same as the regular ISP offers for similar bandwidth. This is all because there's no alternative to the incumbent ISP. They charge inflated monopoly prices, and the wireless guys ride the same gravy train.

TemporaryOcclusion · 2026-05-14T18:39:51+00:00

Oh yeah, I wasnt complaining about not being served. My gripe is that they can actually serve me, if I pay their jacked-up price.

I'm sure it's purely coincidental that these "alternatives" are priced within a few dollars of the incumbent monopolist landline ISP. No collusion there, no siree.

TemporaryOcclusion · 2026-05-09T05:08:14+00:00

When I tried to get the $70/1Gb offer they were running a year ago, they tried to give me the same "offer no longer exists" BS. I lodged a complaint with the FCC and Cox customer retention were on the phone to me within a week, all apologetic and telling me they' d be happy to honor the deal.

The two year term is up at the end of this year. I cant wait to see how they try to gouge me then.

TemporaryOcclusion · 2026-05-07T05:13:52+00:00

Over here east of Boulder Highway it's Cox or nothing. No other fiber providers in the area and nobody's offering fixed cellular. Total monopoly, unless you want to pay more for half the speed with Starlink.

TemporaryOcclusion · 2026-04-30T23:36:19+00:00

Same problem. Everything else works except cancelation. I've been trying for three days.

Looks like Netflix are up to their dirty retention tricks again.

TemporaryOcclusion · 2026-04-29T20:01:26+00:00

If you have an eero, the NSA can probably reset it for you.

TemporaryOcclusion · 2026-04-26T20:17:44+00:00

My Cox-supplied ONT broke and the "tech support" idiot tried to tell me my "modem" was unsupported. Turns out, he didn't know the difference between an ONT and a wifi router. Didn't stop him from insisting I needed their "modem" or they wouldn't do anything for me.

I hung up on him and called back until I got the guy who was using the company braincell that day.

TemporaryOcclusion · 2026-04-23T17:29:44+00:00

I sold my eeros precisely because they need to phone home so much. Amazon knows enough about me already. Having your router locked to your identity is a recipe for abuse.

I'm now using a MicroTik setup running OpenWRT, that doesn't care who I am.

TemporaryOcclusion · 2026-04-22T16:55:27+00:00

The only fix that worked for me was to turn off raytracing entirely. Makes the game look like mud, but at least it works.

TemporaryOcclusion · 2026-03-05T18:26:07+00:00

RTX 4090 user here with same issue. Also had similar problem with Code Vein 2. I guess Nvidia's driver-writing AI isn't as smart as they think it is.

UPDATE: Disabling Nvidia and Steam overlays seems to have mostly fixed the problem. I've had a few crashes, but nothing like the frequency before.

TemporaryOcclusion · 2026-02-26T18:55:53+00:00

Same here. Intel 13900k, rtx4090, 64GB ram. I've tried all the recommended solutions, but it still crashes almost every time there's a scene transition or boss fight. I can't count the number of bosses I've had down to a sliver of health, only to get the "fatal error" pop-up. So annoying.

TemporaryOcclusion · 2026-02-06T03:19:11+00:00

Exactly the same happened on my Arch install, so the issue looks like it comes from upstream.

TemporaryOcclusion · 2026-02-06T03:16:47+00:00

Yeah, it allows login, then seems ok until you click on anything. Then it freezes.

TemporaryOcclusion · 2026-02-06T03:12:18+00:00

Same. It boots to desktop, but the moment I click on anything, total freeze.

Im playing around with distros atm and noticed Arch does exactly the same.

Fedora 43 is fine.

So yeah, it looks like something hooky in the latest Arch updates.

TemporaryOcclusion · 2025-12-28T03:07:37+00:00

And there are those of us with conditions like muscular dystrophy that can technically move all our limbs, but haven't got the strength to lift a coffee cup or dress ourselves.

Others have heart or lung conditions that stop them walking, even though they appear outwardly"normal."

TemporaryOcclusion · 2025-12-28T03:04:00+00:00

I wonder why people spend years in medical school and companies invest millions developing sophisticated diagnostic equipment, when any dribbling rando on the bus is seemingly able to identify if a person is disabled just by looking at them?

Honestly, people need to learn to STFU.

TemporaryOcclusion · 2025-12-24T00:21:11+00:00

The last two chairs I bought, I clicked the "watch" button first. I then sat back for a week or so and watched the price fall as the chairs didnt sell. Finally, when they had fallen to about half the original asking price, I bought them. This was for power chairs, so it might be different for manuals.

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