The only show I ever liked enough for that was Venture Bros, and it was only that bad once.

I mean this as softly as possible:

It’s not your job to shout at people online and be negative about things in relation to your personal past traumas.

You might be intending it as help, but you’re just coming across like a raging asshole.

This sort of behavior is a sign that you have a lot of shit to work through still. I’d expect that this sort of aggressive admonishing didn’t work on you, and is part of that shit you have to work through. Don’t perpetuate it.

From: Someone raised by a narcisist anxiety riddled wino with emotional regulation issues, and an absentee emotionally unavailable depressive man with ADHD.

Not trying any sort of one upmanship, just highlighting that plenty of people have personal traumas. Try to not make it the world’s problem to deal with.

There will always be people succeptible to this kind of grift, but people have also been calling out this BS for decades.

Genesis - Jesus He Knows Me

Well, I’m countin’ my blessings 'Cause I’ve found true happiness ‘Cause I’m gettin’ richer Day by day

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Literal millions of us (myself included) voted “correctly” for Harris. Blue no matter who. We did our part for your petty ass purity test and we’re still getting fucked.

Must be nice to live in a world where people only experience the results of who they voted for.

Shame that it seems like people don’t realize you’re using a real issue someone opened on github as a copypasta.

Same as it ever was

If chkdsk has been running for multiple days, your drive is fucked.

Cancelling it could make it worse, but we’re talking a gut stab and losing a finger vs just being gut stabbed.

Don’t have that drive powered on more than absolutely necessary. If it’s a HDD in a laptop, don’t move it if you don’t need to, and never while powered on.

For the best chance of getting as much as possible off it: Get access to another computer and make yourself a USB stick with some live-bootable Linux on it (so it runs all from the USB and RAM and the HDD is only in use when copying stuff off). Get another drive of at least the same size, and use a low level disk copying tool to copy the busted drive to your new one. Most of these tools will overwrite whatever is already on the destination disk. I think dd in Linux will work for this, but it’s been over a decade since I last had to do this, so best to do some research on your own.

I had a sip of beer or wine here or there as a kid, but my first “real” drink was shitty vodka mixed with grape juice. Tasted like cough syrup. I was 18, very depressed, hanging out with friends, and up to make poor decisions.

Later that night I had one mouthful of “Natural Ice” and poured the rest down the sink at some house party we managed to wander into. Don’t know how something can taste like skunk and watered down piss at once, but they made it happen.

Shocked I drank much at all after that mess of a night. Now I know that I have a recessive genetic liver condition, so no more booze for me, outside of small sips of whatever new craft beer the wife has found.

Zandronum was the Doom server browser of choice, at least 4 years ago or so. Even will auto download the mods the server is running (if the admin configured things right).

Updates are usually automatic (at least in the modern days with Steam), and DLCs are optional.

DLCs are also usually a paid affair, unless they’re explicitly referred to as “free DLC”. Not sure if you worded it that way or not, came to this post after you edited the title.

It started from right to repair advocate Louis Rossman. If MS has got their claws in him the right to repair movement has just stalled out.

Are you not familiar with Louis Rossman? I think this “change your pfp to clippy” thing is dumb as hell too, and I’m upset that this is the thing from him that broke into the “mainstream”.

He’s been championing right to repair, boycotting shit companies, documenting corporate bait and switches for years. He started and runs consumerrights.wiki, to document companies pulling shit like pushing out an update to smart TVs that blocks you from continuing to use them unless you agree to let them harvest your data. And ways to work around it. Trying to hold these fuckers accountable.

Only a few weeks ago he put up a $5000 bounty for anyone that could jailbreak a specific smarthome product that is trying to get owners to now pay $100 a year to keep running.

Again, I loathe this clippy bullshit, but “it’s not enough” applies to the people doing it, not the guy who started it. There is a movement, this is just so far the only part of it to hit mainstream.

People with one rarely feel the need to assert such.

Usually “you might have to adapt this shit to your personal situation” is implied.

For fucks sake. Where did I do anything to defend this shit?

I said I understood the guy’s frustration, called out a bad choice, and offered alternatives.

Then I explained that I did that, and offered more alternative solutions to work around the issue.

How the fuck do you see that much work to keep identities separate and get “I <3 Microsoft”?

I’m familiar, and I said nothing about any of that other than that I understood the frustration.

That’s also not the situation of the person I replied to. They thought the correct way to sub for someone in a meeting was to share credentials and log in as the other person.

I was calling out that absymally bad idea, and providing a work around.

To your point, you also shouldn’t be mixing use cases of your devices. You don’t want to end up in some legal shit, or in a data exfiltration investigation.

My personal desktop (and personal laptop when I still used one besides my work one) was a local account, signed into my personal Microsoft account via the browser. That could also work directly signed into the personal account instead of using a local account.

All work stuff stays on work provided hardware, or on a VM. I even spin up a light VM to just open a VPN session so I can remote into work resources. If I had multiple gigs, I’d make separate VMs for them. Personal Microsoft account never fucking touches these.

For elevated access accounts for work: separate browser, separate browser profile, or private browsing mode. Most admin work in Entra is through web portals (or Powershell).

I still can end up with minor issues from stuff like needing to use my admin Entra/Azure account to log into the Microsoft Graph Powershell module, so I end up with two entries in the Entra logon page on the work devices sometimes, but I just select the correct account if I get prompted. If it doesn’t, logout of that specific system/program and select the correct account (which I’m logged into the work machine as). Loss of a few seconds, not this massive issue.

i literally just needed to log in to someone’s account once, for an hour, to substitute for them in one call.

I get your frustration, but that’s a fucking awful choice for a whole bunch of reasons, not only because of Microsoft’s bullshit. You really buried the lede.

Don’t share accounts people!

Have them forward you the meeting invite or reach out to the organizer to call you instead.

And if you fucking insist on logging into someone else’s account again, use Private Browsing mode and the web client of Teams to keep it from touching the rest of the machine. It works fine for audio and video calls.

At any place with a half decent security policy you’d be looking at disciplinary action. At certain workplaces this would be an immediate firing.

We are so far away from a paperclip maximizer scenario that I can’t take anyone concerned about that seriously.

We have nothing even approaching true reasoning, despite all the misuse going on that would indicate otherwise.

Alignment? Takeoff? None of our current technologies under the AI moniker come anywhere remotely close to any reason for concern, and most signs point to us rapidly approaching a wall with our current approaches.

Each new version from the top companies in the space right now has less and less advancement in capability compared to the last, with costs growing at a pace where “exponentially” doesn’t feel like an adequate descriptor.

There’s probably lateral improvements to be made, but outside of taping multiple tools together there’s not much evidence for any more large breakthroughs in capability.

I’m a huge fan of Shout Factory, and I’m at a place in my life where I can generally afford to pay for my media, so I do. I’ll have to look up Arrow.

Voting with your wallet works both ways, and while most of the payment will be eaten by corporate interests at least it signals “I want more of this sort of thing”.

My comment was mainly meant as a response to the statement regarding later seasons of Always Sunny simply not being available to purchase physically. In situations like that, I see no reasonable objection to raising the sails.

May I interest you in the !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com wiki/megathread? Yo ho yo ho…

I support creators as I can, but when there’s literally no other option to own it in a way it can’t be just taken from you I don’t feel there’s any strong argument against it.