nik282000

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[–] nik282000 3 points 1 month ago

That was never a thing, we have the most technologically ignorant government around. At least the US government can use privacy violation for their own gain.

[–] nik282000 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What voice? Your/my choices are between lining the pockets of an ethnically and culturally diverse collection of rich people, or a collection of old, white, rich people.

[–] nik282000 3 points 1 month ago

But we tried lying to them on TV AND online, what else can a politician do?

[–] nik282000 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Both two and a half parties at all levels of Canadian government serve only to protect and promote businesses. The liberals will support their business interests, the conservatives will support their own. Neither will measurably improve day to day life of Canadians, both will make it less tolerable, just in different ways.

A kid on a roof almost made more of a difference than every vote cast in the US.

edit: a word

[–] nik282000 -2 points 1 month ago

Blogger uses a clickbait title, you're never guess what happened next!

What happened next is I don't take the article seriously, titling it like the audience is a bunch of 14 year olds with impulse control issues is a great way to burn credibility.

[–] nik282000 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fubar, Carts of Darkness, The Delicate Art of Parking.

[–] nik282000 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Virtual Box. It's dead easy.

[–] nik282000 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If that stupid kid hadn't flinched we wouldn't be in the universe where Kirk and Spock go back and find a Nazi America.

[–] nik282000 3 points 1 month ago

I'm not familiar with it but you might get lucky and it will work with Wine. It took me years before I was comfortable dropping Windows but I am a lot less anxious now about having an update randomly brick my PC or wipe out my settings/tweaks.

Good luck!

[–] nik282000 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

For anything that HAS to work and only runs on Windows (eat a dick Siemens) I put it in a VM with no network connection. A physical machine that gets regular updates is too unstable to rely on.

When ever I'm teaching a new guy I try to get them on board with using VMs at at minimum for reliability and a VM under Linux if they are interested.

[–] nik282000 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That sucks. About 5 years ago I put ideology one peg above entertainment and just avoid games that use Windows only anti-cheat, I don't get to play the biggest releases but there are literally thousands of other games that work perfectly and are just as fun.

If I were you I would keep my Windows gaming machine as a single function device. Play games, get all the MS updates and 3rd party spyware, don't let it touch anything you want to keep private or safe.

[–] nik282000 8 points 1 month ago (16 children)

Make the switch, even if it's on an old laptop first just to try it out. About 90% of my Steam library runs without any extra effort needed, a few games needed tweaks that I found in the steam message boards, and 5 or 10 just refused to work at all.

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