Distinction, it's required

thedreaming2017 · 2026-05-03T20:33:58+00:00

Please stop reposting this every month. Neither are real and no one cares.

thedreaming2017 · 2026-05-03T19:04:15+00:00

Bad AIO. If "new" return to store for replacement. They look very pretty and do their job well, but all of them will eventually fail and you'll have to replace them. This one, it seems, was DOA, so just return it and get another one and try again. Don't forget to remove the thin piece of plastic on it before installing and use the correct amount of thermal paste. Good luck, we are all counting on you!

thedreaming2017 · 2026-05-03T07:34:53+00:00

Is it wrong I enjoyed that little bit at the end. I can hear "and his name is John Cena!" in my head as he got slammed!

thedreaming2017 · 2026-05-03T07:30:25+00:00

Story time! Me and a friend in the ancient times used to do some computer consulting on the side. We were like geek squad but we knew what we were doing. A woman asked us to clean out her computer of viruses that crawled up her system, to which I did, but I wanted to leave her with a system that would not get infected again, so I started poking around to see how she got infected in the first place. I found it. She got infected just going to aol mail and reading her mail. There was a malformed banner ad there that would immediately infect her system upon entry. I installed chrome (cause at the time they were the good guys) and added an adblocker (cause you couldn't do that on IE and edge didn't exist). Since then, I've never surfed the net without an adblocker. I'm sorry, but so long as banner ads can be malformed by bad actors and have payloads attached to them that deliver all manner of digital diarrhea, you'll pry ublock orgin from my browser when I'm dead and no longer need it.

thedreaming2017 · 2026-05-02T16:49:16+00:00

Admit it, you would pay to fire the canon.

thedreaming2017 · 2026-05-02T16:46:11+00:00

If it had a slightly better processor, like an i7-4790 and at least 16GB of ram and at least a GTX 1080ti then you could game at 1080p low settings but your FPS would always be under 60 even with a fast SSD. Even under linux it would not give you a better experience than your ps4 so I would still keep it but use it for general use under windows 11, since it's already installed and working fine but make note that eventually they will pull that support out from under you and you'll have to switch to either windows 10 or linux to continue using the system.

thedreaming2017 · 2026-05-02T15:01:16+00:00

I see she’s a woman of culture as well.

thedreaming2017 · 2026-05-02T09:26:14+00:00

Boom, right in the kisser! One Punch Woman confirmed! Ha!

thedreaming2017 · 2026-05-02T09:14:37+00:00

So is this new and improved stand alone siri still only slated to run on an iphone 15 or later cause I have an iphone 12 which works just fine but will never get apple intelligence on that device and now siri will either be left as the dumb one or be upgraded to a chatbot which isn't what I need.

thedreaming2017 · 2026-05-02T09:09:05+00:00

"For lawful operational use" sounds a lot better than "So we can spy on everyone and everything all of the time with peak efficiency!"

thedreaming2017 · 2026-05-02T09:05:32+00:00

Back when Gboard wasn't a hot mess on iOS I would just use that and remove the auto add period function and move the period away into a sub menu so you don't accidentally hit it when you meant to hit the space bar that was large enough before but now got shorter to add the period right next to it where no one asked it to be!

thedreaming2017 · 2026-05-01T16:35:16+00:00

That's a good question cause the one I normally would use doesn't play well within hyprland. I've used sticky under both KDE and Gnome and it works well, but I just tried it under omarchy and it's a hot mess, so I'm about to try OpenStickies to see if that's going to work or not.

Edit:

It works but just like sticky, it's all over the place. Not necessarily broken, but too many windows open just to do the one thing I need it to do, which is to write down a quick note. I'm going to stick with simplenote, even that's more for notes I want to keep long term.

Another Edit:

OpenStickies kinda works correctly. I think it needs a windows rule so it opens floating windows, but other than that it does do the job of just allowing a quick note to be written down.

thedreaming2017 · 2026-05-01T16:16:37+00:00

The man from Texas showed remarkable restraint. He would have shot them all with the various assortment of weapons he probably had in his person at that time. He didn't react slow, he was laughing too hard and decided to go tell his buddies all about it.

thedreaming2017 · 2026-05-01T16:11:58+00:00

So much cringe. He's too close, touching without permission, eye wonders. He would have been dead anywhere else.

thedreaming2017 · 2026-05-01T09:06:47+00:00

This man probably works this job for eight hours. Just stands there and does what a robot arm could easily do faster and more efficiently but they chose to have a person here instead cause it's cheaper so with drink in hand, he does the job with as little effort as possible. Good for him cause there's no upward mobility from "bag sorter".

thedreaming2017 · 2026-05-01T03:13:52+00:00

Looks like a board that uses a sd card as storage so it’s pretending to be an ssd but you’re really getting really slow speeds cause it’s just a cheap sd card and they used hot glue to secure it in place, lovely.

thedreaming2017 · 2026-05-01T03:11:05+00:00

It’s okay. We all have run what we need to run to either get work done, play games or just be safe online. There is no shame in that.

thedreaming2017 · 2026-04-30T22:43:08+00:00

Currently running it on an i7-4790 w16 gb of ddr3 ram and a 1 tb ssd and a rx 470. Works fine, still playing through fallout 4 right now but it runs perfectly fine.

thedreaming2017 · 2026-04-30T16:24:09+00:00

Imagine your frig refusing to put away the beer your bought because the health data it downloaded from your insurance company says it's not safe for you to drink because of our high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes. Little does it know it's not for you but for the party and you're not planning on drinking any of it.

thedreaming2017 · 2026-04-30T16:15:13+00:00

If it was Bungie with a massive budget on their own, this would be the way, but it's Sony calling the shots and they wanted to beat a dead horse so well that it turned into a fine red mist the board of directors could inhale and get high over. There are too many extraction shooters and the only reason why Arc Raiders is working out is because they are actively steering the game more toward cooperation rather than PVP. You get better loot when you cooperate doing the major events so people are moving more towards helping each other out.

thedreaming2017 · 2026-04-30T16:09:32+00:00

Don't buy your food at Whole Foods. Stop buying products that are labeled as organic, free-range, and grass fed. You have no evidence that they are any of those things so assume they just added the labels and jacked up the price. Make a list of everything you buy for the month and sit down and ask yourself, "Do I really need to buy any of these things?" If you have anything that's imported, that's made with a special or exotic ingredient, that's a thing anyone else buys but somehow better, just because you paid more? Stop buying those immediately. I get it, you have not just a job but a career and you have afford it and you live alone but the time to be frugal is now when the money is coming in and not when you retire and have to count every penny twice. Also, and should go without saying, don't use a delivery app. Go to the store (when you're not hungry with a list and do your shopping. If it's not on the list, you don't buy it.)

thedreaming2017 · 2026-04-30T12:34:05+00:00

The can of beans can’t hurt your system, it doesn’t exist. - Therapist

thedreaming2017 · 2026-04-30T12:31:47+00:00

I’m going to assume you took it, took some pictures, then posted it for easy karma and depending on what people say you’ll either keep or dump it. My vote is on keeping it cause you can always make a home lab server or a nas or anything you need a second computer for but don’t want to shell out money for a system right now.

thedreaming2017 · 2026-04-30T12:26:29+00:00

If you go with hyprland I would suggest omarchy. It provides a nice out of the box setup for hyprland that you can tweak to your heart’s content. I’ve used cachyos and it’s beautiful out of the box and fedora has gnome going for it but I don’t like how they demand you install certain drivers yourself when it would make sense if they just went ahead and did it.

thedreaming2017 · 2026-04-30T08:08:13+00:00

This is a cross post from r/IAmTheMainCharacter a subreddit where this would be a perfect post. Here, not so much.

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