Things are well here. Just gearing up for upcoming holidays. I’ve treated myself to a new video card for my PC as an early birthday gift (its been a decade since I bought one), took this as an opportunity to move away from windows on my computer. Finding the time to do stuff like that is very challenging. Something I might have dedicated a weekend to I have to stretch out over several weeks. One of those things where you might hit a snag or do something that unveils more work or complications.

Finally got the PC back into proper working order today. Which felt nice.

Its funny how quickly you adapt to a change in routine. Kiddo had a yearly checkup this week which meant she wasnt coming in with me to work/school at the same time. It was weird! Like i didnt know what to do with myself haha.

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I support the One NYC Principal.

Also turn this into a table you can roll d6s on and you have a nice character background chart.

Im playing on hard mode, Billionaire Socialist Podcaster.

Lol so mamdani has what, -30 points out the gate?

Good luck, steam has a lot of bullshit in it (looking at you market place) but it also has stuff i can’t imagine another company getting right, like steam workshop.

Every time i take the kiddo to dance class. He’s supposed to jump to but he always leaves me hanging.

I will push .reg files if I have to! I’ve gotten by this far with out needing intune.

What’s a good primer or introduction to eco-marxism?

Hey are you me?!

81 is young for a US Congressperson.

Chat is this real?

Yeah I also agree with this.

I would argue the American Left doesn’t include the Democratic Party and anyone running within it. The “left” in this country broadly does not engage in electoralism and anyone calling themselves the left and running as a Democrat will always show themselves to be an opportunist. Which i think makes it harder to see the activities of the actual left organizing in the country.

What America is going through right now is a transition from clumsy disorganized fascism to “the trains run on time” fascism. A return to liberalism with fascist characteristics.

God fucking damn it. Im so glad im done with windows in my personal life but im so fucking pissed that im going to very likely end up deploying this horse shit to hundreds of school desktops while desperately praying there are GPOs to turn it all off. Its fucking bad enough that notepad.exe has a god damn fucking copilot button.

The amount of fucking energy middle schoolers pour into trying to access AI shit gives me nightmares about how fucking disfunctional an entire generation of kids will end up being as a result of every application being infected with this shit. Chrome browser has AI in it, Chrome Search, notepad, windows photos app, fucking paint probably… Now the whole fucking OS!?

There is only so much you can do to prevent these kids from having direct access to these fucking psychosis inducing MKUltra machines. My kids have zero access to personal computing devices. They are not allowed to handle our phones, but can look at content with us on a very limited basis. Next year my kid will be assigned an iPad, and while I know how to manage that relationship, I know for a fact most parents have no idea how to manage it.

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This story really got the brainworms wriggling over on my instance.

Uh oh. Is Brisket not Barbecue?

I’ll have to look at the advanced options in the installer, but that sounds like an ideal setup.

Ok that basically confirms what I thought would be the issue down the line. I’ll have to redo that tonight. Thanks!