I might’ve unintentionally over exaggerated what I meant, edited my comment. I meant bricking as in how Xbox would ban your console for cheating or modding them forcing it as an offline only system, not making them a paperweight. That’s my bad

Let’s assume you stole the Switch 2 early. To get this update, you’d be connecting it to the Internet. Nintendo has not only recently updated their TOS to state they can brick your console if they suspect you of pirating, but console manufacturers have been known to ban accounts brick and or flag devices if they get connected before official launch. What will stop them from doing that immediately if you connect online before it’s release date? I’m sure they already know which serial numbers are green lit for people with early access and which aren’t. You won’t be worrying about a day 1 update because you probably won’t receive it, and you’ll be locked to whatever game you’re able to steal with it as long as it works offline.

Your best option is try to flip it immediately to some other schmuck and hope wherever you post it doesn’t alert authorities to you or just get removed for being clearly stolen.

There’s still a fuck ton of pennies in circulation and on the ground, unless they consider them no longer legal tender we’ll have plenty.

However, if we end up following how Brazil does it, in my experience, it depends on the person/vendor and the amount. If you buy something that’s like R$3,99 you’ll usually get give them R$4 and that’s it. I’ve also had it where I’ll pay for something that’s say R$4,89, give them R$5 and get 15 or 25 centavos back. Could also depend on what’s in the drawer at that time.

Corporations will 100% pocket the difference at first, but once it becomes a normal thing to do the rounding I’ll wager it’ll fall to the Brazilian method, especially with local businesses or vendors.

Dug through my meme archives for this one, here’s what it’s referencing

Now that I have more experience with Linux yeah I’ve gained some skills, still just scratching the surface though. TrueNAS just worked for me, maybe just due to my simple use case as a Plex server/ light network storage.

KDE Plasma has been great for me since it (as well as Cinnamon on my Mint system) are close to the Windows ecosystem I’ve been used to for decades, so it makes sense for me. Having KDE Connect out of the box helps move ROMs from my desktop to my Steam Deck without having a dingle dongle adapter for a flashdrive, works kinda like AirDrop in my experience. Pus I like the way it looks out of the box, except for the floating taskbar which I immediately locked to the bottom of the screen.

At some point I’ll setup Syncthing and automate that process for keeping game states synced up as well.

Fair, like I said I’m not smart so I was only following a YouTube tutorial on how to install Arch, first time the guy was using Gnome which I didn’t like so I had to find another that showed KDE. All those experiments and even the Plex server setup were built alongside YT tutorials and an IT friend who also has a Plex server helping me with upgrades when I needed to add a SAS card for additional drives.

I’ve honestly just been winging it here lmao

Care to explain? I run TrueNAS because it was the easiest for me to setup at the time. I’m not smart and it was a simple and free solution. Plex because Jellyfin wasn’t where it is now, but also because again, I’m not smart and I have family outside my network use the server. Setting up wire guard and all that makes my brain hurt, let alone getting my mother to understand how to connect to Jellyfin.

Already engaged 👈😎👈

I’m a masochist, not only have I installed Arch from CLI several times, I’ve attempted running GPU passthrough to a Windows VM on several different distros just to play like 3 games that only run on Windows.

I attempted this through a fresh build of Arch, 7800 XT for the Linux system and an RTX 3090 for the VM. Every attempt in hijacking the 3090 failed, refusing to not load the card on boot. I struggled with this for hours and days, and through multiple different distros, all while my gf pretended to understand what the fuck I was talking about. “Ok, honey, I’ll be in the living room watching my shows.”

This went on for a while until I decided to give up and just build a second system dedicated for MichaelSoft Bindows.

When my Plex server had a botched TrueNAS update, this effected her as well. Not only were there shows she was watching on there, but she had to endure a week of me copying my media from different drives to rebuild the server on every piece of storage I had in the apartment. I’d come home from work and immediately continue working on it. Computers left on overnight with little progress bars slowly filling up. She’d call me into the kitchen for dinner or ask me to come to bed at 1am when we both had to be up at 6am.

She was actually supportive, maybe a little annoyed, but supportive nonetheless. Everything has now worked as intended for over a year and she even uses our home theater PC running Mint with no complaints or hiccups. Soon I will convince her to move her gaming PC to Linux as well, in due time though.

Absolutely fuck them for this if true, and as a carrier I will not comply if they start coming down and asking us if names are valid at addresses. They can walk me off the job, charge me with obstruction, I don’t care.

Just another arm of the Gestapo and I hate that I’m associated with them. Time to look for a new job.

I woke up from a good sleep last year, got up refreshed and ready for work. First time in years that it happened. Stood up and did a big yawn and stretch, then felt a sharp ripping feeling in my back. I tore a muscle stretching. I was 29 and it still wants to lock up today.

Bonus; tore it a year before almost to the day by literally just rolling over in bed. I felt it happen, said “aw fuck” and went back to sleep. Road trip to Maine and Martha’s Vineyard cancelled because the pain was too intense to drive.

They’re actually not prepaid, they’re counted as postage due at the destination office and either charged to their account automatically or paid at the time of pickup.

There are lower cost options like nonprofit or third class postage, but that’s usually what they’re paying to send out the junk with these business reply envelopes in the first place. Business reply mail AFAIK is charged at the first class postage rates.

Sadly we have a weight and size limit on these, but if you can load a mini fridge and keep it under 70lbs it should be accepted.

Legally this is not shipping advice and purely a shitpost

Xubuntu brought a garbage Vista era system to usable levels for me for a dumb video I made a while ago, wasn’t fast but definitely usable.

And has reliability issues, I got one for my mom so she could use my Plex server, it died just outside of warranty. She didn’t use it often so it wasn’t used and abused, just stopped outputting video one day.

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes me wish for nuclear winter

They know what they are, they display it proudly

Found Trumps Lemmy account

Same with curved TVs. I knew a guy who dropped $2500 on a 65" Samsung Curved TV thinking it was the coolest thing ever. He mounted it on his wall and quickly realized he made a mistake because of the horrible viewing angles. Unfortunately for him, he threw away the box at the store because it would t fit in his car, so he was stuck with it.

I’m using them lol I know I could sell all 3 for a good price, 2 are EVGA K|ngP|n cards and one is a FE that has a very good overclock potential. I’m not looking to upgrade now, they still work fine.