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  1. 38 minutes ago, USMCHorn said:

    OU and Nebraska are both on a path to irrelevancy and its fucking glorious.

    Nebraska is on the path like the ocean is getting a little wet

  2. 17 minutes ago, Lhorn said:

    Graham Harmon masturbating over OU getting worked right now as proof that Texas ain’t shit.  (Avoids analyzing Bowling Green’s season). 

    Graham Harmon: OMG OU SUCKS!

    Texas: no shit?

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  3. 1 minute ago, Gatorubet said:

    short true story. In college, I worked at the ABC liquor store part time. I finally had a date with this girl, but my manager called me, begging me to come in because reasons, but he would give me double time if I did, as he was so desperate.   I told my date I would get the double time and go on an even nicer dinner when I got  paid.  I did not get my double-time. When I asked him, my boss said “I’m not giving that to you. I don’t care what I said.”

    I figured out how much he owed me and took a bottle of bourbon as close to that sum and did not it pay for it. About a week later (I’m sure unrelated to that one bottle), they asked everyone to do voice stress analysis tests to see who is stealing from the store.    They asked me several questions like “did you ever take anything that didn’t belong to you?” As i absolutely felt I was not stealing, I said “no” confidently. 

    I passed.  They fired two other guys. That is the thing about polygraphs - sociopath who feel no guilt pass those things easily. Or people who feel they have a legitimate reason for doing what they did. It’s only us normal guilty people who start to sweat and act differently because they know they did something wrong that it MAY catch. Even that is dicey. 

    The opposite can be true as well. If you, for example, are medically diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, you'll basically automatically fail a polygraph test every time. It's less an indicator of guilt, and more an indicator of stress. Which, depending on the situation, can be caused by tons of things. Like, I'm pretty sure any husband's stress would skyrocket when being bombarded with questions that remind him that his wife is missing and/or dead.

    It's really wild that the idea that polygraphs are legit persists. I hate it when it comes up in movies and tv shows. I don't blame people for not knowing, I blame media for keeping it around. It's so, so hard to find any movie or tv show which calls them out on their bullshit.

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  4. 11 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    It just gets shut off and totally disappears from my system tray and then I have to restart the PC.

    that would be a symptom of what I described, give it a try. And basically all manufacturers use the same controller chip components which are cheap, even the "premium" vendors. When in doubt with bluetooth, try buying a better adapter, it's the rule of thumb. You don't need to go crazy and spend like $100 or anything, but a $20 USB receiver should be better than whats on your mobo.

    Bluetooth recievers malfunctioning and turning off is the new phonojacks fraying and making your headphones useless.

  5. 1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    I would never volunteer for a poly, are you kidding me? That is designed to get you to admit shit on your own, not to rule you out. 

    also, and I can't stress this enough: POLYGRAPHS ARE BULLSHIT. They are PSUEDOSCIENCE. They DON'T WORK. They are not admissible evidence in texas. They literally do not detect lies, they detect relative heartrate from a baseline. They are not in any way lie detector tests, they are NOT real. Never, ever, ever, EVER take a polygraph test, the entire test is interpretation based. It's some dude saying "Hmmmm his heart just beat faster when he said that, MUST BE LYING." NEVER take one. EVER.

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  6. Oh, one other thing regarding how Linux handles installing things: I mentioned that different major branches of linux have different build systems at heart. This means you can't, for example, install a .deb file in Arch linux. It's one last hurdle of interoperability that needed crossing. In comp sci circles, there's a joke where people will respond to others who complain about programs breaking or not running well or being hard to install with "well it runs on my machine." And thus that actually turned into a generally great idea:

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    Now, without getting into the weeds about how it actually works, this is the basic gist of containers in linux. The really basic premise is that programs can now bundle their own tiny version of a linux distro inside of themselves, so they can install on any other linux distro, even otherwise incompatible branches. There are a few really popular container formats in linux right now. SNAP is one, and Flatpak is another. Flatpak is the container format the Valve uses in Steam, and thus has gained a lot of acceptance. From your distro's "store," you can install flatpak, which will let you install flatpak applications by just downloading the flatpak file and clicking on it, exactly like a setup file in windows. This will work on any distro. If you install Steam, flatpak will automatically install as well. Flatpak files have a .flatpak file extension.

  7. 3 hours ago, ztejas said:

    It shuts off my bluetooth randomly and the only way to fix is restarting. I've tinkered with a couple settings already but it keeps happening. 

    Here is how it's set up by connection. 

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    I thought it was maybe an issue with power saving settings but my laptop stays plugged in and I've tried turning off the "allow machine to turn off to save power" or wev but that didn't seem to fix it. 

    My guess with this would actually be the bluetooth chip itself. Cheap bluetooth controller chips will drop signal quite a bit. I would suggest getting something like an ASUS bluetooth USB device and seeing if that solves your problem.

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  8. On 10/17/2024 at 12:06 PM, Handcruser said:

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    presumably he wants to leave a walled garden, which means that going to Apple would be going in the completely wrong direction. The things he could be upset about with windows re: big microsoft, were made popular by apple. The reason a lot of people are leaving windows is because they're emulating the mac ecosystem, which they don't want.

  9. I've been using linux as my daily driver since 1998. Today is a perfect time to jump into Linux, it's literally never been easier. My recommendation would be Kubuntu, it's a debian/ubuntu based derivative that comes pre-installed with KDE Plasma. If you're coming from Windows, KDE Plasma is the desktop shell that will most resemble and look like Windows, you basically won't know you've switched. The bit about it being debian and especially ubuntu based means that it's a very widely used distro, so you can look up and find lots of help online, compared to more boutique distros. KDE plasma looks like the image below:

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    Coming from windows, the part that usually trips up people the most is how software installations work, and the file directory. A linux file directory generally looks nothing like windows, it's full of obtuse folders that have various usage, and what's worse is there are redundant folders in different spots that certain programs aribitrarily use. However, don't worry about that. The average linux user really never needs to dig into the file system. For most linux users, you will have a home folder, which is usually located at /home/username. This folder is where you'll download stuff and store documents and all that jazz. So /home/username/documents, that's where your docs go. In linux, you can abbreviate /home/username/ with a ~. So ~/documents is where your docs go.

    Explaining how installing stuff works requires a bit of backstory on why linux even exists in the first place, to understand the reason and workarounds involved. See, back in the old, old days of computers, there was no interoperability. At the heart of every computer, they spoke completely different languages in their CPU. If you wrote a program, it was specifically for that computer, and if you wanted to run it on another computer, you had to rewrite the program. This, obviously, was not optimal, so a higher level language known as C was created. C is an intermediary language which can be turned into computer code for each platform. So if you had 3 different computers, you didn't need to write 3 different programs. Instead, you could write one C program, and turn it into code that would run on each machine. This process is known as compilation, and the tool which does the converting is known as a compiler.

    Now, this is all fine when your computers are dead simple, but we run complex machines these days. We don't want a single program to take over our entire computer, we want to be able to run multiple programs at once. A CPU, ignoring things like threading and such which are more complex topics, can generally only run one program at once. So in order to create the illusion of running multiple programs at a time, a type of program known as a scheduler works with the CPU to swap programs in and out of running billions of times a second. From our perspective, it looks like multiple programs are running at the same time, because it's too fast to notice. This scheduler forms the heart of what is known as a kernel, which forms the basis of an operating system.

    So, back to C, an idea was formed for a "universal operating system" which could run on any hardware. The kernel would be a small program built around a set of tools known as gnu that would form just enough backbone to allow C programs to be compiled and run on the machine. This whole project of stuff became known as Linux. To get linux running on a machine, all you have to do is port the kernel and gnu tools to the specific platform, and in theory, any C program can run on the hardware. Your linux operating system will always have the tools needed to compile c source codes into executable programs.

    Thus, in the early days of linux, programs were distributed as C source codes, and you had to know how to compile stuff to run it. That was fine for hardcore geeks and nerds, but it caused problems. As programs grew more complex, they would begin to use external libraries of source codes and executable programs to avoid rewriting the same boilerplate code over and over. Compiling your program depended on you having all these libraries present on your system. This created what was known as dependency hell, where you'd run into situations where to compile your program, you'd need to find and compile another program, and that needed yet another program to be found and compiled, and so forth near infinitely. This obviously was a problem for the average user.

    To fix this, the concept of build managers came into place, programs which automate the entire process for you. You tell the build manager to build and install a program, and it'll automatically find all the dependencies and build them for you, eliminating the fuss. The way this works is that each build manager has a list of what are known as repositories, basically a list of URLs which link to servers that host lots and lots of code for libraries. Whenever the build manager needs a dependency not on your system, it'll search these repositories for the appropriate code and download it for you.

    And thus we have arrived at how modern linux *generally* handles installing stuff. You don't need to compile or make your own software, you have what essentially looks like a built-in store on your desktop, where you search for programs and click "install." These "stores" look just like stuff like the windows store, or the apple store, or similar. Only difference is where those stores only look on microsoft or apple's internal servers, in linux you can edit your repository and thus add other sources for the store. So software in linux is now usually distributed as a repository link that you can click to add the source to your "store" which will let the software you're looking for be found. So, example, if you want to install Steam, you could link to the valve repository and then when you search for "Steam" in your "store" it'll be there to install.

    Now, with that said, a bunch of large companies actually handle general repositories for public use, which automatically host the biggest software. So by default, your kubuntu install will be able to find chrome and firefox and steam in their "store" without you doing anything. If all you do is stick to the biggest software in linux, that store is your one-stop shop where you'll find everything. In ubuntu-based distros, the store is known as Synaptic, and it is powered by a tool underneath called apt. If you ever see someone telling you to, for example, open a terminal and type "sudo apt-get install firefox," they're telling you how to search for firefox on the store. An easier alternative would be to open the synaptic manager, which is window application with graphics, and search firefox and install it there. Apt and synaptic are automatically a part of ubuntu on an install.

    With regards to distros themselves, if you don't want to use kubuntu or whatever, you can go to other distros. The difference between distros is much like the difference between, say, the home and professional versions of windows: they simply change the bundled software. You can, for example, find Bazzite, which is a gaming-oriented distro, and thus comes with lots and lots of video game related stuff pre-installed. The major branches of distros (i.e. debian, arch, fedora, etc) generally have different build managers at their heart. Like Manjaro uses pacman instead of apt, but the same concepts apply.

    One last thing to mention is that compatibility for windows programs in linux has, within the last 4-5 years, DRASTICALLY gotten better. The tool linux uses to run windows programs is known as WINE, and it has been in the works for multiple decades now. It was generally a hobbyist project for many years, until gaming giant Valve decided to start pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into its development. Rapidly, WINE has become compatible with most Windows programs to a great degree. WINE is the general program to run windows applications, and Valve's specific branch of WINE is called Steam Proton. If you install steam on your computer, it'll automatically setup and install WINE for you. This lets you run huge, demanding windows applications, mainly games, in linux at windows-like performance. I would recommend you basically immediately install steam and thus WINE if you go to linux. With Steam, running windows applications, even non-games, is a snap. There is a drop down menu in steam where you can select "add a non-steam game" and it'll let you select any .exe file and run it, even if it's not a game.

    That should be a good primer for what you can expect from linux as a windows user. Sorry if that's a big wall of text, I tried to be as descriptive as possible while avoiding jargon or leaving gaps that would confuse you. Best of luck!

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  10. 5 minutes ago, Mdhorn said:

    Great. Did she sound articulate, quick on her feet and thoughtful?  I bet she did. All the while he’s outside screaming potato, but it’s important to reach these people and somehow get them to actually hear her, which they’ve been actively avoiding. He’ll still scream potato while the media talks about his love for the quality vegetables from labor and knowledge of cultivation—a real man of the earth and pro farmer. It’s almost like the media does his talking for him. She can interview wherever, different rules man.  

    But maybe she can convince a few that she’s not scary or looking to destroy their teetering livelihood of bad decisions. Whatever, a simple interview on any media can give them that same insight. How many Aggie minds do you think she changed? How about west Texas types? Independents that can actually stomach Fox?  Based on nothing, I’d guess that liberals watching specifically to see how she’d do is a large part of that audience. Few come away from almost voting for a cult with whew, till that Fox interview I was going to vote for potato. 

    7 million people watched, which means 7 million potential people chopping up clips and throwing them online. And what do you know, there are now numerous clips which have been all fucking over social media which reaches beyond the normal fox news audience. Stupid, stupid undecided voters will see her on FAIR AND BALANCED FOX NEWS and watch her call them out on doctoring Trump's responses and admire her strong appearance and how she didn't let the reporter bully her and will be swayed. Nobody who wasn't a trump loving dipshit watched the clips from that interview and thought "Wow, Trump is where it's at!"

    The interview was great strategy. You doomers have shit for brains and think small.

     

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  11. 9 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    If any of you know any Ukraine supporters who unfathomably still support Trump, please share.

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    https://www.threads.net/@thereelrandom_/post/DBPVtxRSzNx

    Trump blames Ukraine's Zelenskiy for starting war with Russia

    WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Donald Trump on Thursday blamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for helping start that nation's war with Russia, a comment that further suggests Trump is likely to radically shift U.S. policy toward Ukraine if he wins the Nov. 5 election.

    The Republican former president has frequently criticized Zelenskiy on the campaign trail, repeatedly calling him "the greatest salesman on Earth" for having solicited and received billions of dollars of U.S. military aid since the war broke out in 2022.

    Trump has also slammed the Ukrainian leader for failing to seek peace with Moscow, and he has suggested Ukraine may have to cede some of its land to Russia to make a peace deal, a concession Kyiv considers unacceptable.

    Trump's comments on the PBD Podcast on Thursday with Patrick Bet-David went a step further than his previous criticism. He said Zelenskiy was to blame not just for failing to end the war, but for helping start it, even though the conflict broke out when Russia invaded Ukrainian sovereign territory.

    "That doesn't mean I don't want to help him because I feel very badly for those people. But he should never have let that war start. The war's a loser," Trump said.
    Zelenskiy presented his "victory plan" to end the war to Trump during a meeting in New York in September, an encounter both leaders described as cordial.

    Trump's public comments, however, suggest he could seek to wind down aid for Ukraine if he defeats Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, on Nov. 5. He has repeatedly said he could end the conflict before he takes office in January, but he has not said how.

    Harris has pledged to continue supporting Ukraine, and she has portrayed a victory for the eastern European nation as a vital U.S. national security interest. She has frequently rebuked Trump for being unwilling to stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

     

    I refuse to believe there are any Ukrainians who support trump. That's simply not possible. The entire reason Trump was impeached the first time was because he was extorting Zelinsky for aid in exchange for making up dirt on Joe Biden. It gave us this hilarious clip:

     

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