Man, every privacy comm on lemmy could use a sticky about this sort of stuff.

What is your actual risk profile? What are your goals and why? Basics of privacy vs security vs anonymity, practicality, trust.

That drastically increases the risk. Then you have to have hosting experience on top of everything else, and if your OpSec isn’t fucking perfect the powers that be will tear you a new asshole.

Small correction: US companies sell it to the US government.

How else are those tax dollars supposed to stimulate the economy? Everybody wins this way! So much winning! I’m so tired of winning!

No

The gamble is if there’s enough of these people in the right places to keep society running.

I’m not as confident as a lot of people seem to be that there are/would be. And that’s ignoring the aspects of training, physical ability, etc and just considering interest/desire.

In less terminally online terms: “I think they’re a member of a US intelligence agency doing some vaguely psyop thing, not a normal poster”

So, you still don’t understand why it wouldn’t be appropriate to react strongly in a room full of kids is what you’re saying.

It’s not an ad hominem when calling out your inability to comprehend the reason for that is the entire point to my comment. It highlights a severe deficiency in your social awareness at the bare minimum, which doesn’t reflect well on your ability to discern the motives of other people online.

Fine, let’s put that aside. In your eyes, what would have been an appropriate response for Bush to take in that situation? This ought to be entertaining.

You’re the one that brought up Bush and his reaction. If you can’t understand why someone would act like nothing was wrong in a room full of young schoolchildren, then you’re sure as hell not mentally prepared to make serious claims that someone’s a government plant.

Don’t make someone (even a landlord, but it would most likely be their maintenance person) have to find a decomposing corpse. Not cool.

It’s absolutely possible. That’s why reputable sites like FitGirl reccomend you disable the security, restart your computer, play the game, then re-enable the security, and restart again.

Don’t run other shit or browse the web, minimize what you’re doing and running while your security is weakened to the bare minimum. Play the game and that’s it, then put things back to “safe”.

As with any crack or bypass software, you shouldn’t run it if you don’t trust the source. These hypervisor bypasses are really for special cases where you absolutely can’t wait for a traditional crack.

I’d argue personally that you can always just wait.

Now the actual likelyhood of anything taking advantage and being able to deeply persist once you turn the security settings back on? Can’t really say. I would assume the chance is unlikely, but that’s not based off of fucking anything substantial.

I love that IMDB Internet Archive has the complete collection of Mr Roger’s Neighborhood, but yeah, the episode numbering didn’t match any release I could find.

That was a fun hour or so with bulk file renamer, or powershell. Can’t remember how exactly I fixed it.

Edit: IMDB -> Internet Archive. Where the hell was my brain when I typed that?

Just patch the Youtube Music app with Revanced Manager, or use NewPipe’s background play feature.

As others have said, time. Also, the realization and repeated internal reminders to yourself that they were not who you thought they were.

It’s very easy to build up someone in your head to be better than they are and to fill in the gaps with positive assumptions, especially when you’re crushing on them. You have to realize that those fuzzy feelings were in your head. The feelings weren’t based off reality, and they obviously weren’t the same feelings in that person’s head. At the very least, those feelings weren’t based off the full person, because you didn’t know them fully.

The version of them you liked didn’t exist, because that version wouldn’t be (in this specific case) homophobic, ableist, hating special needs students, and making fun of you behind your back.

Yes, it may hurt to remind yourself of the reasoms they are shit, but it’ll hurt less than allowing yourself to pine for a “what could have been” that was based off a version of them that only existed in your head.

Fair enough, still seems silly as hell to me. Windows is perfectly functional for corporate, and even software development use as long as the team managing the image and standard settings at your workplace is competent.

Yeah, being able to customize everything to meet your preferred workflow etc with Linux is preferable.

Odd to use it as part of job hunting though, which is the context in this image.

Sure, but kind of silly for someone who would take a stand against MS to the point of refusing a job to be happy with Google.

Then again, they also expressed they’d be happy with Apple/Mac

They say while using gmail.

Most video playing apps have an option for this, I know VLC does.

It was a way of setting up video to save size while not sacrificing visual quality on old CRT TVs. Got left behind as it looks like this on more modern TVs.

So there are some exceptions to size being quality, and you’ve found the most obvious one. .ISO files are full copies of discs, including blank space or filler garbage data. So a DVD might only have a 1GB game on it, but the disc is 4GB, so the ISO is 4GB. Video discs are usually filled more “fully”, but then there are also limitations with how the video can be encoded for DVD that tends to make the video files larger than they would be using more modern formats.

All that to say, if you aren’t interested in the special features on a DVD, or the experience of switching virtuap discs, you’re probably better off looking for the video files outside of an ISO file, if the ISO is of a DVD.

Blu-ray ISOs are closer to space effective, but it’s still most effective to get just the video files.

There is the (more difficult) option of finding a dev job for an older tech conservative company. My workplace has just barely rolled out access to copilot chat. Our devs are still doing things without the slop.

Look at the more heavily regulated business sectors, they tend to be more resistant to tech fads.

Great callout! That’s where the audio player app I use, PowerAmp, gets its presets! I was blanking on the source of them when I made that comment.