Dating myself a bit but it had to probably be the first Half-Life. It wasn’t only about realizing how limited and awkward a gamepad is, but the mods opened my eyes too.

I still to this day don’t see the point of consoles. They’re just a way for companies to try and silo off customers and get everyone on proprietary hardware.

-Gets punched in the face-

“Mmm, strawberry daqueri!”

Because the term “woke” when used as a criticism is literally just a dog whistle for racists, misogynists, and homophobes.

RDP is kind of limited because it’s a virtual session. It’s useful if you only need to do stuff while you’re actively connected but you can’t, for example, remote in and start an app or process going and then disconnect and have that app continue. When you d/c your profile is essentially logged out. Your activity also can’t be viewed by a user on the remote system, if you needed to collaborate or assist somehow.

UltraVNC has worked ok for me for windows systems. It has some of that open-source clunk to the UI, but is pretty straight forward and does what I need.

This was my thought, retirement being placed out of reach is kind of a defining characteristic of the Millenial generation. We had to start building tiny houses and subsistence gardening lol.

Download the kiwix app for whatever OS you’re using, then go into Kiwix and click on the folder icon in the app and navigate to where the .zim file you downloaded is located. If you click it it should automatically pop-up and be viewable.

If you did that and it’s still failing, is it giving you a specific error or anything?

The 100Gb version mentioned above does only have thumbnails/lowres pictures, yeah. Better than nothing for some types of articles, but not everything. The true text-only version is actually only ~14Mb though.

It might partly be that a lot of what is designed for a screen is made deliberately to be maximally appealing to begin with.

For example a film or tv show is shot with various lenses that create pleasing depth of field, color and light is carefully controlled. Same with high fidelity video games. Even the UI of your applications is made to be appealing and clean.

Sports are sort of shot like films too, and often the cameras can resolve much higher detail than our eyes alone can. The way a sports event is shot in high def can be like gaining the visual abilites of a hawk or something. The lens can zoom in close while our eyes can only squint.

Not sure about Nair in drains, but if it’s a bathtub drain many of them have a sort of catch where all you need to do is unscrew the cover thats over the drain hole and pull the assembley out, if it’s the kind I’m talking about it’ll have kind of a long screw thing with a bunch of hair and junk wrapped around it.

Same. I did it with all the “moe” communities as well, really cut down the spam when browsing.

I’m not sure about dystopian stories, but I think the big appeal with post-apocalyptic and disaster stories is the fantasy of being able to start society over from scratch. To get a fresh start at a scale where the individual has a stronger influence on whatever group they’re part of.

I think as real life society becomes more complicated, oppressive and individuals lose their sense of agency, those kinds of stories become more popular.

Like the hair Akua used to bind Anansi.

It would grow and behave like any other hair I think, just be movable.

You could use it to hold some snacks up there or something.

I’d have everything the same except there was one hair on my head that I could control like a tentacle.

Giving Israel the means to continue ethnic cleansing is more than cheerleading. Not that it would be acceptable if he were just cheering it on.

There’s no evidence that Trump can do anything that Biden already isn’t already, barring sending American soldiers to participate in the genocide which I doubt would be politically feasible for him. Israel doesn’t need our soldiers, they do need our bombs though, which Biden has provided without any effective conditioning.

Is it possible to just hide the computer or to try and mask it as something else?

That’s kind of what the anti-fingerprinting settings in browsers are meant to do. A lot of the info that sites like reddit and many others use to identify you are based on browser settings and data. This is stuff like your canvas/monitor size, timezone, browser/OS version etc. Note that not all browsers have anti-fingerprinting settings.

Anti-fingerprinting isn’t perfect though, it’s just one tool to help scramble your identifiable info a bit. Ironically, really strict security settings themselves can also be used as a unique identifier, because you basically stand out against the crowd of normal users as an anomaly, so it’s a double-edged deal.

That’s why I recommend using a different computer to create the account and don’t use the official reddit app at all, make sure that the browser cache and cookies are wiped before going to create the account. If you can’t use a VPN, you’ll maybe want to go to a cafe or somewhere public to create ypur account. That first IP that reddit sees seems to be most important, once you establish yourself on that IP for a bit, you can potentially start using your home network.

The reason your other accounts got banned together was because reddit was able to link them closely enough that they IDed them as alts. They collect data and build up a correlation, your aim is to make it difficult as possible for them to correlate separate accounts.

This is all just trial and error by me though, I’m no expert and we can’t know for sure all the efforts reddit takes to ID users, I can only speak for what worked for me ~1 year ago or so. I’d read up on browser fingerprinting to get an idea of how that tracking works and how to combat it (it’s actually really gross and distressing to anyone concerned with privacy).

Alternatively, you could leave your router off all night and see if you can get a new public IP, though you may need to ask your ISP to issue you a new public IP address. They might not do it without justification, but that would go a long way to giving you a fresh start, especially with the other measures I’ve outlined.

Is the one trying to overthrow democracy the fascist or the one funding the ethnic cleansing?

OceanSoap being loaded into the train car: “Ok guys, any minute now will be the prime opportunity to stop these fascist guys. Just remember to consider both sides, they might have a really good reason for taking us out to this isolated camp.”

I don’t use reddit anymore, but I’ve had plenty of accounts banned there, mostly for arguing with sock puppets and tankies and stuff who will stalk your account and mass report anything that can be construed as even remotely violating the rules. Or one of the power mods just back channels the admins, who will ban based on that alone, no questions asked.

The key is, you need to create your new account on a separate computer (so the browser fingerprint they get is unrelated), use a VPN for the creation, build up enough karma to get past the automated systems (answering stuff on AskReddit was usually my go to, but don’t spam, take your time and give thoughtful answers) then make sure you use strong anti-fingerprinting settings on your browser on whayever device you plan on using. Possibly use a different third-party app on your phone (though I dunno how well this works since the API changes). Boost worked well for me, and Bacon Reader. And obviously delete your browser/app cache if you eventually use your main device.

Also, when you create your new account, sub to a bunch of shit you normally wouldn’t, if you’re not a sports fan sub to a baseball subreddit, avoid subbing to any niche subreddits you had on your old account for a while. Try to be bland and unremarkable in your choices.

The key is to avoid as many connected data points to your old account as possible until you’re pretty well established as “someone else”. Avoid attracting too much attention, and have multiple accounts that live on separate devices (I had one that I used on my phone only, and usually only when not at home so it was a separate IP) and one I used at home. Then a couple created on a laptop that were just kind of aging, just in case.

That might seem like great lengths to circumvent a ban, but I have a thing about abuse of power where it just kind of sticks in my craw, plus getting one over on the reddit admins was fun and I was curious exactly how deep their profiling went. I left the site on my terms eventually, which puts a smile on my face.

A mixture of poor education in some states combined with a steady, deliberate demoralizing of the voters by the political class.