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flamiera
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Dec 21, 2025
Yeah, okay, China.
How about produce the thing and don't pull any marketing tricks, hm? We'll find out one way or another whether these are the real deals.
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flamiera
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Dec 20, 2025
DDR4 is serviceable to me.
Here's some actual advice for PC builders - what do you actually want from your system? Nothing you say can be vague, you have to set up goals. That's the entire important note of PC building is what you're building it for and how long you want it to last for as in, how long until you're wanting to build another?
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flamiera
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Dec 20, 2025
That's because it's their project. Not yours.
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flamiera
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Dec 20, 2025
So the only win here is that you got to extend your time on Windows 10 for one year. That isn't saying much because you're just going to confront the same issues again, a year later. Again, do yourself a favor and grab the Windows 10 version that guarantees you til 2032. By then, you could skip Windows 11 entirely and see what else is on the horizon.
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flamiera
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Dec 20, 2025
Good, because fuck that platform and its parasitic hold on society.
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flamiera
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Dec 17, 2025
It is exactly how when companies make the most cutting edge software or develop a platform that gets white-hot. It's about building portfolio and padding it.
They pour into the hard work to make whatever they make the best of its kind. Then when so many people are using it and the value grows, once a company sees its peak value, then it is time to sell.
We've seen this happen many times. Skype to Microsoft. Twitter to Musk. Deals that are worth billions and are making the original creators set for life.
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flamiera
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Dec 17, 2025
Firefox Fanboys; "LEST IT NOT CHROME!!" they'll cry.
Yes I will always take any and all jabs at Firefox fanboys over issues with Firefox because they've drank the kool-aid.
LibreWolf and Floorp is better.
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flamiera
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Dec 16, 2025
"ADVERTISE TO ME CAPITALIST SENPAI!"
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flamiera
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Dec 16, 2025
We really should have and we have had a good track record in doing so.
SOPA, PIPA targeting online piracy have not passed in the US because of the fighting efforts.
We shouldn't be content just because we use a VPN. Companies are getting smarter about handling VPNs by putting pressure on the companies themselves.
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flamiera
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Children car-seats are such a scammy looking business. They build them as cheaply as possible and use materials that degrade. Some people even toss them for the slightest thing wrong that wouldn't otherwise ruin the purpose and security of the car-seat.
And yet the average cost is like $100 ~ $300 just for a decent one. I can understand tossing one if you've been in an accident or something but if it can still be used and your child is still secure and safe, what's the problem?
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flamiera
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I'm sorry, I don't want anymore chinesium-quality junk of an idea they consider electronics, much less RAM and SSDs. Bad enough they sell deceiving GPUs and CPUs.
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flamiera
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We know they aren't. But the point is to make their jobs so discouraging, they wouldn't ever want to do shit for these companies again. That's only the beginning.
Besides, a lot of them chose to do that job anyways. Don't try garnering sympathy for these kinds of people.
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flamiera
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I've been pushing it for a while now.
But, we need to start harassing marketers.
We need to tell them "No, I won't and haven't ever subscribed to your shit. I've never bought your shit. You spend millions to shove your shitty product and service in my face, everywhere I go and everything I use. I will continue to use adblockers to spite you. I will shit all over your product and service in anyway I can. I will send back the shit you've sent me. And if anything, I will get personal with you because you've been harassing me and getting away with it for however long, just because you've spent millions to do so. I am making it even."
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flamiera
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Plus you can't really drive motorbikes if you live in places where snow and ice happens. I never really see any motorcyclists out in winter and for very good reason.
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flamiera
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College.
My high school 'career' showed nothing but embarrassment, I long knew the risks and costs of college and I could've formulated a plan to attend a college had my grades and education improved. Unfortunately this never came to be and I never got so much of a sniff at college, even at community level.
But now with how colleges and universities are handled today, I'm glad I didn't attend any because the costs would far outweigh any benefit.
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flamiera
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I'm seeing this a lot with how people post on some instances in the fediverse. I've already made like several reports alone of the some of the posts people have made where they just simply disregard the rules of the instance. It isn't to be a dick, its just pointing out the obtuse behavior some people have in regards to the rules in place.
If you want your posts to stick better, learn to read the rules. It is not that hard. And it isn't like the rules are like miles long as they would be in Reddit. They're short, comprehensible and not as confusing.
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flamiera
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Weirdly, chat logs and friend conversations.
Whatever I've told them and whatever I said somewhere, it's a pinpoint recollection of where things were at for me at the time.
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flamiera
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This is a morbid take but it applies to me right now.
After 30 or 30s rather, you are in a position of your life where you can look back at everything that has lead up to your life at its current point. If you decide that your life hasn't been as fruitful as you wanted it to be, you've endured a lot of shortcomings, you've taken a lot of shit on the chin, you're not looking forward to growing old where anything and everything will take advantage of you. I can't blame a single person who decided to call it a wrap, if you know what I mean.
I plan on going on a little more further but there will be a stage in my life where I've got nothing to both look forward to and nothing worth of merit that had made my life completely worthwhile, where I'd just call it right then and there.
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flamiera
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Yup. And they've been trying to do this for years.
They have as better shot as any right now, considering who's in charge of the FCC.
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flamiera
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Dec 13, 2025
Yeah and that's a jointly created protag too, because Square Enix helped make him.
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flamiera
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That's not what I'm referring to.
What I'm referring to is the attempts made to axe Net Neutrality from corrupted chairmen of the FCC who wants to put ISPs in control of what content you're to access, based on tiered internet and wanting to charge you more to access other parts of said content.
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flamiera
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My phones.
I have a Samsung Galaxy A15 as a substitute work phone, it plays music for me when I'm there overnight and whatnot. Provides me entertainment.
and I have a Samsung Galaxy A32-5G which is the main primary phone with a plan on it.
The battery life apparently drains faster than I remember it. Sometimes when I leave the phones alone for awhile after a work week, I'll usually get a good extra day and a half off from them. But, sometimes I have to keep charging because from 100%, they dip down to 94 and 96 respectively.
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flamiera
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The planned internet as a subscription idea that has been on and off.
It's teetering, but I believe it's going to happen one day or another. Where, you'll have to pay a subscription for a part of the internet. Like for Streaming or Social Media or whatever else .etc
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flamiera
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I see Trump's terms the same way as I saw Bush's terms.
Bush and Trump were the blatant, chaotic and incomprehensible senile fools on the surface. It's the people they put in their administration are the ones running the show.
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flamiera
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Dec 10, 2025
Prefacing with: Yes yes yes, we know, you hate AI
"URH SO WE DU IT ANYWAYHS! HURHURHURHURUURHURUHRH"
Fuck you, iFixit.
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flamiera
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Dec 10, 2025
OP, if people have to do the work for you in posting sources, consider this a learning lesson as to what not to do.
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flamiera
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I loved that movie's version of King Ghidorah, I liked any and all of the monster scenes. The problem is that it fell to the Transformers issue, where they focused on the humans than the monsters. I didn't care about the parents and child conflict but it tried butting in the story at many moments.
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flamiera
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Or why Azog was there, a character who died out many years before the Hobbit journey even began. Like was Smaug, the Necromancer and the Goblin King not enough for antagonists? That's quite stacked if you tell me.
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flamiera
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Probably for the best. I just can't imagine Will Smith being Neo.
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flamiera
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I believe it's already happening, but it's not as straightforward as people imagined it'd be.
Like for example, the healthcare costs. I think that's a filter to see who can survive by paying the absurd amounts. Therefore, people will die if they can't.
Recruit people for the military, send them off into battles, eh a few hundred or a thousand die - more filtering.
Mishandling pandemics and ignoring solemn advice in how to handle them, 350k people died, what do you say President? "It is what it is" just more filtering.
So my point is, is people need to drop these fantasies of countries who actively plan to wipe out populations by sheer force and throwing bombs around.
It's already happening because we're dealing with con artists and cunning megalomaniacs.
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flamiera
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Three...movies...
For an otherwise 350-page book.
I'm still not over that. My solution to the Hobbit mess was, go for broke and make one 3-hour film. If the LOTR movies were long and got extended editions, why not Hobbit? No it got 3 whole movies and so much stuff got crammed in there that honestly shouldn't have been in there in the first place.
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flamiera
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Yeah because Cape Town Stadium - that sounds like it's an establishment of community. Like the name is named after something that represented that community.
But when you hear DHL Stadium, it's like they expect you to go there, after paying tickets and be thinking about "WHA, I THINK I WANT...I WANT TO SHIP SOMETHING BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT BUT I HAVE THIS STRONG DESIRE TO SHIP SOMETHING WITH DHL! PLEASE TAKE MY MONEY!"
That's what they want anyways.
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flamiera
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I roll my eyes everytime a stadium is named after some company, it's just a reminder of how radioactive capitalism is in america.
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flamiera
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Dec 08, 2025
Firefox Fanboys still: LEST IT NOT CHROME!
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flamiera
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Yeah but my point is, we'd still have democrats in office to ensure no Republican is voted in to destroy the country from within. Gore would've won over Bush, we'd still have Obama, we might've even had Bernie Sanders or so. All politicians who're democratic who might not just keep Reaganism alive, they have their own ways too.
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flamiera
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We make it so Reagan still runs but doesn't win presidency, ever, until he dies. We make sure Bill Clinton doesn't do that incident with Monica that got him impeached so he can still have some goodwill with the people enough to make them think we want the current path he paved to continue.
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flamiera
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That's dumb.
What would've really needed to happen is to speak to the parents and the school about "hey, your child and student is doing some pretty fucked up things and they're raising the stakes soon, so you may want to commit them somewhere or talk or smack some sense into them"
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flamiera
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I'd pump the brakes on technology. Especially the internet.
"Does X need to be improved?" "No" "Then we don't progress it because its current state functions and does things as efficiently right now"
"Does Y need to be improved?" "Yes" "Then we research, fund and progress it"
Phones would be fun again and not just a series of rectangles with silicone. They'd have any design that they want, so long as it still functions normally as a phone would.
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flamiera
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Envious of the people with good metabolisms who can practically eat everything in one day and gain maybe...1 pound.
Feels like anything I eat I'm going to gain like 10 pounds despite how light it was.
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flamiera
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What's the hardest addiction you've tried to break or are trying to break?
Mine is porn addiction. I don't ever want to become a coomer but I think I've became that already a few times in my life. I shamefully have watched porn, saved porn images and visualized people who're probably not as into porn as I was.
I really do wish to be done with porn, it's done nothing for me. I've masturbated for many years and I feel like it has hollowed out my mind. I don't even get that much enjoyment from masturbating as much and the porn hasn't really gotten any better so I guess I can say that I've seen porn when it was at its best when I was younger and everything.
Now all of it is just loli shit, artificial shit and that's gross or the fetishes have gotten too niche and unappealing. I look around me in porn communities and I haven't found anyone worthwhile to speak to or associate with. Everyone is six feet under in porn that there's no way for them out.
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flamiera
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What's the hardest addiction you've tried to break or are trying to break?
Mine is porn addiction. I don't ever want to become a coomer but I think I've became that already a few times in my life. I shamefully have watched porn, saved porn images and visualized people who're probably not as into porn as I was.
I really do wish to be done with porn, it's done nothing for me. I've masturbated for many years and I feel like it has hollowed out my mind. I don't even get that much enjoyment from masturbating as much and the porn hasn't really gotten any better so I guess I can say that I've seen porn when it was at its best when I was younger and everything.
Now all of it is just loli shit, artificial shit and that's gross or the fetishes have gotten too niche and unappealing. I look around me in porn communities and I haven't found anyone worthwhile to speak to or associate with. Everyone is six feet under in porn that there's no way for them out.
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flamiera
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Most of the voters who vote Republican are usually rural. They're the people out in the middle of bumfuck no where, with their farms, their farm animals and what little family they have. And all that they can afford are things like dial-up internet. So they're completely out of touch with more 'civilized' people who're in towns and cities.
And even so, there are people who are completely nuanced and naive to what is before them even with better access to information. They can't and won't challenge their intellect, they won't question information as to what's infront of them. Nothing. Just deliberately clueless and oblivious.
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flamiera
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If they're saying something I already agree with or I already know, I kind of see that as just rubbing salt in the wound so I hate them even more.
Because the worst people I knew, always told me shit I already know about so it isn't anything surprisingly or insightful. It was just more babbling from them.
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flamiera
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I do support the basics of Libertarianism, but I can't support the extreme-versions of it left or right sides.
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flamiera
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Sugar is bad for you.
Drinking sodas and energy drinks is bad for you.
Ultra-processed foods is bad for you.
Smoking is bad for you.
Alcohol is bad for you.
so on and so on.
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flamiera
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The credit score system is one of the most bullshit systems ever created.
The only way you can increase it, is paying off loans and very few bills. It's also easier to lose points than gain them. It took me 3 and a half years to pay off a $5k loan just to see my credit score get back to 714. Once it was paid off and of course I signed a new lease, about a good half of that score went down so I'm back to slowly building it again.
It's bullshit. And so many things rely on a good credit score. Whether you'll be approved for an apartment, whether you'll get good rates on a car deal or whatever.
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flamiera
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Well that also leads to the saying that you can't force a horse to drink water but you can lead them to it. Which follows with play stupid games and win stupid prizes.
If anybody hasn't learned from their failings by not taking sagely advice, then the blame is flat on them for the fuck up.
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