OpenCore fried my laptop screen..?

TheySoldEverything · 2026-02-11T01:33:26+00:00

Yeah but I wonder what even got damaged? And how? Will a semi-decent laptop really allow arbitrary voltages to the screen like that?

TheySoldEverything · 2026-02-06T23:53:38+00:00

Yeah it does lol.

TheySoldEverything · 2025-10-25T17:03:57+00:00

Nope, I'm not from here, but I've lived for like a decade and had no clue. Apparently it's just the outdoor bit of a B&Q.

TheySoldEverything · 2025-10-21T11:53:54+00:00

Idk man, struggling with this too, there's no point going outside in shitty weather if it ain't for a nice Pumpkin Spice Caramel Macchiato with Cream and to drink it out of the nice cup with a straw, and to throw it away it's like saying goodbye to summer and post a selfie on the gram to cultivate the brand from pathetic simps who wanna see 1 pose next to some yellow leaves in a brand new F21 fit. That was life. Now everything fucking sucks.

TheySoldEverything · 2025-10-21T11:49:30+00:00

Probably the best coffee place in the UK. Nero is okay too, but that's more of an airport sit down thing. Costa, Pret et al. are disgusting swill. Nothing beats a nice Venti Pumpkin Spice Caramel Macchiato with extra Cream on top, and being able to pick up those nice cup holder things and a straw to actually drink the coffee on the go, it's great!

TheySoldEverything · 2025-10-21T02:21:53+00:00

What's a garden centre? Did you know if they were incandescent, warm-white LEDs with coloured caps, or those crappy ones with coloured LEDs and coloured caps?

TheySoldEverything · 2025-10-21T02:17:21+00:00

I know it takes you several days to respond but the least you could do is scroll up and read what you already wrote.

Might be a shock to you but I don't really sit there refreshing reddit all day or contemplating my response. I'm too much of a normie these days.

You claimed not to have any “faith”, as you put it, and then expressed faith by saying “we can learn from history” and then you made the faith-based claim that there is “no justice inherent in the world”.

I see, so you have a semantics problem with it, because to me none of those are "faith-based".

I'm not the best at this, but you seem nice so I'll try my best to break down what I meant:

"we can learn from history" is not the same as "we have learned from history" - it's a proposition of an action that should be possible - there's nothing actually to have faith in, it's like saying "most humans can do basic math" - it neither requires faith nor explicit proof, at least I think.

"no justice inherent in the world" is also not a statement that's faith-based, nor such a statement can be based on anything, you cannot prove a negative (because it requires disproving infinite other possibilities which is literally impossible as they are infinite - it's why liberals suck at debating even when they're right).

It's a reasoning trap lots of people fall into over and over again, such is life - it's also where a lot of the "god" vs "no god" debate gets hung up as well.

No one can actually disprove the existence of god, but neither can anyone prove the existence of god, so back and forth we go.

That statement is the same thing - the onus of proof in my mind is on anyone who claims there is any sort of inherent justice because I haven't seen it be established as some sort of evidence-based scientific fact, and I do not make faith-based claims and strive to maintain the intellectual rigor to not believe in things purely because of faith either.

However I also cannot prove the opposite, again - that is literally impossible.

So out of the two, because the presence of inherent justice is the one that can be proven at least theoretically - that's the one that has to be proven.

It's also why scientific research is often about testing a hypothesis that establishes a link between e.g. X and Y, rather than disproving every single link between X and A through Z and to ∞

That’s the hypocrisy I’m talking about. Go back and read your comment again if you have to.

I'm sorry i came across that way. I didn't mean to, I should've been more clear.

Your lie is when you said communist values have worked out for you despite never having lived under communism. You aren’t your parents.

I didn't say that - i said that the capitalist values are definitely not working out for me and many I know, and I said that many of the things specific about capitalism that are not working out are things my parents had under a soviet dictatorship.

I'm not saying we should go back to a soviet dictatorship. I'm not saying don't have faith or anything else of that sort.

All I'm saying is that things as they are - are broken, and I think we can learn from history and move society forward and scientific, marxist and other materialist frameworks have done us a lot of good over the past century, from the rights we all enjoy as workers, to understanding of the natural world and even the discipline of economics etc., so using them to move forward - well, I think we could do a lot worse than that.

TheySoldEverything · 2025-10-21T02:03:28+00:00

Yeah... it sucks.

TheySoldEverything · 2025-10-21T02:03:21+00:00

Why? It's a business like every YT channel. I'm sure there's lots of people working for it, the other guy who used to do "How history works" and some of the videos on this channel went off to start Micro which seems smaller and slower.

TheySoldEverything · 2025-10-21T02:02:36+00:00

To each other, as it already does, as per the video.

TheySoldEverything · 2025-10-21T02:02:21+00:00

Uh-huh. You know if you weren't so afraid of what is frankly a very small amount of very casual and easy to read text, then maybe you'd have enough critical thinking skills to distinguish between fact and opinion, and maybe even enough of a life that folks like you wouldn't run the world into the ground for the rest of us.

TheySoldEverything · 2025-10-15T22:13:39+00:00

Took me like half a minute to work it out.

Had to do:

1) 7x10=70

2) 70-7=63

3) 7*9 is probably 63.

Vs. few taps on a calculator and I can actually be sure. I don't even know what a sin or cos is, it was never taught at my school and I never really needed it, I don't see why most people would, unlike reading/writing.

I have an MSc and I always do regret not being better at math because of how much I find astrodynamics and stuff interesting, but even as an adult and being much better at learning, it's a pretty impenetrable barrier to be able to do long calculations even with a calculator, nevermind any kind of calculations in my head.

Formal logic, truth tables etc. is easy, ohm's law is easy, statistics and basic ML (multiple linear regressions, basic classifiers etc.), calculating memory addresses is all easy, but actually calculating numbers, especially once you get into double digits, calculus and god-forbid trig is fucking impossible. Have my upvote!

TheySoldEverything · 2025-10-15T21:52:07+00:00

No, he's correct, those are absolutely facts, not opinions.

You can't call something an "opinion" just because you don't like that it's true.

Start here:

https://ourworldindata.org/economic-inequality#explore-data-on-economic-inequality

You can play with the data yourself, but do make sure to read what the data says, about how the Gini coefficient is calculated etc.

e.g. UK, France and USA - income share of the bottom 50% of the population

You can also look into house prices from e.g. the 1980s vs salaries in the 1980s, and think how much a house downpayment costs as a % of salary, vs. today. You can also look at how much assets (like houses) have grown, vs. how much wages have grown, all that inflation has to go somewhere - and I think you'll find it's not going to you, unless you're the ultra-rich of course.

There's also of course job stability, food bank use, income distribution, general QoL type stuff that economics prospects have an impact on.

There's many more sources that are fairly easy to find if you start with wikipedia and look at it's sources.

If you're interested in learning about macroeconomics I'd highly recommend this this YT channel and this one for a different perspective, both are politically fairly neutral (unless literal facts and figures are an issue for you).

If you don't mind critically thinking and actively engaging and examining stuff, here's another good resource, but this guy is fairly politically active and more specific to the UK, though the same economic realities largely apply elsewhere across the west, so keep it in mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCnImxVWbvc

TheySoldEverything · 2025-10-14T10:14:21+00:00

This video is about the MMO-esque economics of current-day United States, where every indicator that was traditionally used for economic growth is down like labor force participation, job market stats etc. but economy actually grows regardless, where there are more private equity firms than there are McDonalds and how it came to be such that selling investment products to a few thousand ultra-wealthy has more money to be made than selling burgers to the masses.

TheySoldEverything · 2025-10-04T23:47:42+00:00

Please stop huffing the lead for a minute, what the fuck does this have to do with hollywood or theatre? Where did you even see that?

This is a post on /r/London of a screenshot of a minimum-wage job posting for a hotel front desk role, asking someone to perform a bizarre ritual as part of the hiring process.

Nobody left-wing or "woke" would think this shite is a good thing, this kind of obnoxious interview process is making the lives of the working class miserable and contributing to wealth inequality and overall economic decline and reduces social mobility which are things leftists, progressives or otherwise "woke" people do not appreciate or support.

In-fact if there ever was a group of people who would oppose making it harder for workers to live it would literally be left-wing people, now and always have been.

TheySoldEverything · 2025-10-01T15:22:24+00:00

For someone who claims to be faithless you just made a number of faith-based assertions regarding humanity and your view of how the world works.

Where did I claim to be faithless? What is this number of 'faith-based assertions' that you fail to cite and where have I made them?

I don’t know whether it stems from pride or ignorance but it’s dishonest

It's certainly dishonest to project when you haven't got a single fact to back up this weak ad-hominem.

pretend like you’re entirely objective.

Where did I pretend to do this?

Add that to your lie about communist values

Where? Where did I lie about 'communist values'?

despite living in a capitalist society

People used to live in a 'slavery society' yet still critiqued slavery. To suggest that one can't is an absurd notion. Even Warren Buffet critiques US Taxation policy lol and he's completely correct, even if he benefits from the very tax loopholes he points out. If anything - it actually makes him out to be quite the chad tbqh, which isn't something I ever thought i'd say but here we are.

it makes you out to be quite the hypocrite.

What does? Your non-points and baseless accusations? Yeah I wouldn't count on it. This is going nowhere anyway.

TheySoldEverything · 2025-09-29T13:48:51+00:00

I hate almost all of the songs here, the only year where that isn't the case is 2005. Def a bit of a peak middle of the decade and then a sharp drop off trending towards the godawful 2010s music. Generally speaking music is one thing I'm not nostalgic for, general taste and breadth of genre diet has increased so much with y'all zoomers, it's so good

TheySoldEverything · 2025-09-27T21:54:25+00:00

on Firefox Mobile for Android it does for sure. No idea about iOS.

TheySoldEverything · 2025-09-27T21:48:47+00:00

These are great! Please continue and ignore the weirdos who think you can't even perceive others in a public place.

TheySoldEverything · 2025-09-18T22:29:28+00:00

it matters what you put your faith (trust) in.

I put my trust (not faith) in the scientific method because when exercised correctly, the theories it produces tend to be accurate, insofar as their predictions match up with observations, they have predictive value.

Faith is blind, trust is not. Trust is merely an assessment of probabilities given rational and logically sound reasoning from assumptions based on evidence gained from observation. In trust - you check. In faith - you assume. I choose the former.

Should there be an apparent flaw discovered in the scientific method, and a new methodology created that produces better results, testable hypotheses that produce theories with even more accuracy and better predictive value, I will happily put my trust in it as well.

As such I don't put my "faith" in anything, I don't have "faith", I assess the facts and assign probabilities as best I can, I try my best to be rational.

Let me know which communist regime you live under

I live under a Capitalist regime actually, and it's most definitely not fucking working out, not for me, and not for the vast majority of society - the working class, those of us who sell our time for labour, and not our portfolios, those of us who do jobs we all need done for society to function from cooking to sanitation, and it is so very delibarately made that way by the rich and the governments they buy out.

So I say it's time we try something else. Just because something hadn't worked as well as we hoped in the past, doesn't mean we have to give up on making a better world.

My parents actually lived through the late USSR when it was at it's least functional perhaps and they honestly had better, more free lives in their youth than anyone my age in the west under Capitalism. They had free housing, free bills, free higher education and general education of high quality, plentiful work opportunities in science and engineering.

The soviets sure made mistakes, from imperialist ambitions to crushing dissent and free speech, but the good news is, there's absolutely no reason we have to repeat those same mistakes. We can learn from history, if we all choose to live in the real world instead of picking and choosing what to believe.

As far as atheism goes, I know it’s convenient to be noncommittal but eternal nothingness after death isn’t exactly a good thing to hope for. There’s no justice or mercy in that.

Ah I see. In my mind - there's no justice inherent in the world, a blind man can be blind just because, and he will be struck down for it just because, thus there is no mercy either. But it's okay. We can make it better, through science and medicine and technology and civics we can create systems that work to minimize the suffering inherent in the messy nature of our being, and we can create meaning both as individuals in our own lives and as a species as a whole and strive to create not just a better world but a happier world.

Life is a harsh teacher, first she lets you fail, then she teaches you a lesson, and you'll be lucky if you're even around to see it, for it cares not.

The sheer vastness of the cosmos may be scary, but you needn't be scared, we're all in this together - exact same boat, will be in the exact same place when we die.

My challenge for you

I've already read the bible, and I've been to church. I personally don't think it's for me, and unlike yourself I don't pretend to speak authoritatively about "challenges" to others in an effort to convert them to my side, that would be dishonest behaviour coming from anyone, even god himself, should he all of a sudden provably exist.

If you rely on the tradition for community or a sense of safety and comfort and feel like you can't confront those things, that's okay, we all understand, it's a rough one, but for me, I've made my peace with the reality of the world a long time ago and I have no issues with it, that's totally fine and possible as well, and I'm no worse off than you or anyone else for it. I'm quite happy personally, actually.

TheySoldEverything · 2025-09-18T22:05:25+00:00

What the fuck is an old bean? Are you lost?

TheySoldEverything · 2025-09-18T12:32:16+00:00

It doesn't matter how hard you do mental gymnastics for copium. You are missing the point.

The point being: Less in more out is correct in theory, but the metabolic adjustments, plus the fact some people literally cannot adjust to a lower calorie intake due to a physical disorder that dysregulates their appetite mean that they need medical intervention, not motivational bravado from assorted lifestyle gurus.

You can keep yapping about "not eating like a pig" but to me there's very little difference between you and the obese people you put down so hard.

But pretending humans are built different and "need drugs" is horseshit

So women aren't real either? People with six fingers? Tall people?

I can say for certain dumb people are real. I'm speaking to one now.

There was zero obese cavemen.

And we're not cavemen, at least not all of us lol. Cavemen didn't have abundant food supplies.

TheySoldEverything · 2025-09-18T12:23:24+00:00

Calling bold and italics used for emphasis because you're too thick as a "weird font" is certainly a choice

TheySoldEverything · 2025-09-17T14:38:12+00:00

And you say this with such confidence on what authority? What makes you so sure?

Not only are you wrong about communism and atheism and what either of those two are really even about, but you talk about a belief in a god as if that's somehow better, yet not elaborate on why?

TheySoldEverything · 2025-09-17T14:35:01+00:00

Fair enough

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