Just a guy shilling for gun ownership, tech privacy, and trans rights.

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  • There are legitimate reasons not not want to use or not be able to use Linux.

    Calling the very real privacy issues presented by windows as a “conspiracy theory” is not one of them.

    Also these people are delusional. They don’t understand why the steam deck is popular because quote “the main appeal of PC Gaming is modding and using a Keyboard and Mouse.” Which is a bold claim because I thought the point was having better control over what you play instead of hoping Microsoft, Nintendo, and PlayStation release those games on chosen console.

    Do these people have an idea how many Stardew Valley Clones I can play on PC that will never touch an Xbox?



  • I voted for Harris

    It is the DNCs fault Trump won.

    The DNC has spent years kinda sorta offering enough social and popular policy. And then half heartedly pushing it, but ultimately giving up when there’s resistance because it’s better to promise those changes then actually do them.

    Abortion rights for example. That’s been a carrot on a stick for decades and it ultimately was attacked and the Biden admin didn’t get it codified or push for a new federal legalization.

    Or student loan forgiveness. He kinda pushed it and then the courts said nu-uh so it died.

    I’ll admit they did do lots of cool stuff but they didn’t do anything that an actually progressive candidate would do, but they promised they would. This has kept an actual lefty progressive candidate off the ballet for decades and this cycle of ineffective, dispassionate campaign apathy has failed to get anyone enthused to vote.

    “People should just vote! It’s their duty! They shouldn’t need to be excited to vote!”

    Okay but consider. They weren’t enthused. They didn’t vote for another useless Democrat. Trump won.

    It’s the DNCs fault because this is the second time they’ve ran a candidate less progressive then Obama and just hoped the strategy of “You should want to vote for the first Woman president! Please ignore she did terrible in the primaries or all why we didn’t do another primary”


  • I ultimately agree with a lot of communism and as such I’m probably more likely to agree with the average Tankie than most people.

    And with that disclaimer, yeah kinda it has aided them in doing that.

    They created a reddit alternative that has a “default server” as it were. And they have the ability to admin that source of information to tailor to their specific ideological needs.

    But is it effective in a grander scheme? That’s pretty debatable.





  • Couple things

    1. Start applying for things you’re not sure and you know you aren’t qualified for. Often recruiters or HR people don’t actually know what the fuck the job needs and just sorta copies similar job titles recs. Once you’re able to talk to the actual hiring manager, then you can see if you’re a good culture fit and if they can give you some on the job training.

    2. Get a job at something not really what you wanna do but feels related enough. For me, my big break into my career was working at a call center for a hospital. It was not IT related, but it got me office experience that I spun into IT experience.