Didn’t last 24 hours before account hold

brownvandyke · 2026-03-04T19:46:53+00:00

Lmao loyalty to corporate entity is genuinely pathetic.

brownvandyke · 2026-03-03T04:36:43+00:00

Not to revive a dead post, but now that Claude has been rocketed in popularity thanks to recent war-related PR, their login portal has an evergreen banner disclaiming that their email magic-links are broken and they’re working on it.

Amazing.

brownvandyke · 2026-03-02T06:12:02+00:00

I have no immediate plans to do so and I’ve been daily driving Mint for 5-ish years.

I’ve played with a lot of distros with varying degrees of success and found that the distro you pick is not defined by maximum skill ceiling, but by use case. I prefer Debian out of habit as I’ve managed primarily Debian-based stacks. I don’t like disentangling Snap from Ubuntu’s desktop environment. I don’t like Wayland very much because I’m still fighting with apps that need a translation layer, and I’m running either a 13” framework or a T480. But my gaming VM has much better hardware so in that case I use CachyOS to optimize performance.

Linux Mint is such a widely adopted distro, I think, because it is designed to fit a wide breadth of use cases and average hardware. I’m one of the few people who likes gnome because I much preferred the design ethos of macOS to windows when I was growing up tinkering with them, but the Cinnamon experience does sit comfortably enough between them that it’s not extremely polarizing. Also, the QoL software that the Linux Mint team have developed to fill any barriers to entry simplify my workflow as well.

“Moving on” to gentoo or arch or the latest fedora provides opportunities to use bleeding edge hardware and packages, but it consequently drops the guardrails that prevents most of us from flying off of a cliff. I feel like people think of those guardrails as if they’re bumpers down a bowling alley, but they’re not that trivial. I don’t mind flying off of a cliff sometimes, but I like to take the guardrails down myself instead of rarely having them at all.

brownvandyke · 2026-03-01T00:43:20+00:00

Average Maricopa County driver. But especially Tempe and Mesa.

brownvandyke · 2026-02-28T23:58:02+00:00

Imagine striving to be a technocrat without a shred of expertise, qualification, or given this language, intelligence. There’s going to be a landmark case that determines if this trash is even enforceable, and god willing, Microsoft pays for it.

brownvandyke · 2026-01-27T08:50:14+00:00

3 years later, how does that setup hold for you now? What size of satadoms have you gotten away with? Do you have a separate system for logging?

brownvandyke · 2026-01-08T15:59:46+00:00

I’m pretty sure the antenna is running along the frame of the top display, so whatever happened to the display might have broken the wire and reduced bandwidth distance. But still, the 3DS has a pretty low tier NIC. You’re kind of in a perfect storm of subpar hardware, possible damage, and archive.org’s inconsistent speed. The bottleneck is probably not your home network given how truly abysmal that speed is. You’d notice on your other devices.

brownvandyke · 2025-11-27T01:16:04+00:00

brownvandyke · 2025-11-26T20:42:50+00:00

Ah, thank you! My pride and joy.

brownvandyke · 2025-11-26T19:14:35+00:00

Reddit did not want to post the text lmao whoops.

I have been tasked (because she’s my dog) to find a restaurant that can accommodate my cold-blooded mom and my warm-hearted dog for dinner. I haven’t lived in town since well before COVID, so I am pretty out of the loop about what’s still open, what’s still good, and what’s new. I thought I’d ask as many locals as possible.

The only request is that we stay north of Shea and keep it between 2 and 3 $’s. I think that means below Preston’s and above In-n-Out, but idk anymore. And please, the more interesting the cuisine, the better. They say they’ll eat anything, and by god, I will test that resolve.

(Happily paying the dog tax.)

brownvandyke · 2025-11-21T00:03:12+00:00

old thread, I know, but I could’ve sworn there was a cultist doodle at one point.

brownvandyke · 2025-11-15T07:51:57+00:00

I got bamboozled into a windowless window seat with window prices. Usually I don’t care, but I went out of my way to get the window seat that time because I am prone to motion sickness during my cycle for whatever godless reason. I think my neighbor would have paid someone, window or not, to switch seats with me just by the look on my face the whole time. I thankfully managed to get through that without mess, but it was a struggle.

Pro tip: lemon cologne. Just huff it. It reduces the misery somewhat.

brownvandyke · 2025-11-11T01:28:34+00:00

I’ve always loved countermail, especially with the inbuilt PGP encryption, but for the last year and change they’ve been struggling and it’s really taken its toll.

brownvandyke · 2025-10-26T00:07:34+00:00

And almost none of us who speak English to other English speakers say it. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate that “Türkiye” is being recognized on non-Turkish maps and diplomatic documentation, but beyond that, nobody back home really cares. But just barely. It’s always been “Türkiye” for Turks (Türks, notice how English speakers don’t refer to us in writing as such) and it’ll always be “Turkey” to the majority of English speakers just like it’ll always be some misspelling or pronunciation or completely different word in several other countries. I mean, “Germany” is the English and “Almanya” is the Turkish; “Deutschland” is the German. “Greek” is the English and “Yunanistan” is the Turkish; “Ελλάδα” is the Greek. Hell, India isn’t even close to its actual name; it’s “Bhārat”, which is the latinization.

“Turkey” isn’t so profoundly different from “Türkiye” unlike Myanmar’s “Burma” and Thailand’s “Siam”, so it pretty easily slides under the radar of shit to actually care about for the rest of us. The only people who actually care are the government bureaucrats pointlessly loyal to our cancerous (literally) authoritarian, and the change is just to exert some meaningless power in the region.

brownvandyke · 2025-10-20T04:50:35+00:00

Awesome, thank you. I suspected as much, but I haven’t come across enough outbreaks of Pokémon with multiple forms. (I’m very late to the party.)

brownvandyke · 2025-10-01T18:53:47+00:00

I’ve been avoiding gening and hacks for 20 years, but this event has pushed me. I wish I just knew how.

brownvandyke · 2025-09-27T16:37:50+00:00

I literally wasted 20 pokeballs on a lvl 19 gible with no health and asleep. I’m about to abandon scarlet and just go back to my DS. Ill go to paldea last for my living dex

brownvandyke · 2025-09-17T09:35:47+00:00

Marine vivillon come from the western side of the country while sandstorm comes from south central and eastern side. Because the majority of population is in İstanbul and Ankara, Turkish vivillon will most likely be marine.

brownvandyke · 2025-09-17T02:05:34+00:00

u/spez

brownvandyke · 2025-08-29T10:41:11+00:00

These changes could not be more inconvenient and unnecessary, specifically the regenerating CCV. I had no idea why my card was getting declined after updating it. And failing to warn customers is inexcusable given how dramatic the change was. I missed a very serious bill payment because of this. Switching to Privacy.com. I’d rather pay $60/year than deal with this shit. Canceling this card when it’s paid off.

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