The Great Filter awaits us all.

That’s how it was in my last house, washer was on the right… That’s how they had the hookups. Built in 2006.

I think you meant VHS won out. Betamax was also a video cassette format.

And yes, porn had a lot to do with why VHS won!

As someone who volunteered in an animal shelter I can sadly say that is not the case, more frequently than it should be.

Is it possible he has a growing brain tumor, without the required substrate?

I’ve been using Windows since 3.11. I’ve been supporting it for a career since 1998 (although almost entirely servers not desktops for the last 23 years). I’m tired of Microsoft’s bullshit.

On the other hand, my expertise at resolving their (server) bullshit over the last couple decades sure did pay well. So I guess it wasn’t all bad. But these days they can kiss my ass.

Yeah I haven’t completely gotten rid of Windows. I have it installed on another SSD but in the last 8 months since I switched, I’ve only needed it for Dyson Sphere Project (needed AutoHotKey), Deadlock (crashes too often in Linux and they ban you for 2 hours every time you leave a game), and whenever I feel like playing C&C Generals which for some reason runs like absolute dogshit on my Linux box despite everything else working fine.

But that Windows SSD has nothing, NOTHING on it but Steam games and Winamp. Microsoft isn’t getting access to a damn thing anymore when it comes to personal data. I’m tired of protecting myself against them, and FFS I’ve been a Microsoft backoffice sysadmin for over 25 years so I know how, but I’m still sick of it! I don’t even surf the web on that install. I play my game and when I’m done I boot back to Tumbleweed!

Gonna have to look into Lutris, I really like the idea of that sandboxing!

Worked on me, I finally switched (like, REALLY switched) on my primary PC this year after using Linux only for servers and hobby projects for a long time. My only regret is that I may not live long enough to have used Linux longer than I used Windows. I’d have to make it to my mid 80’s just to break even.

Valve gets all the credit. Gaming was the main thing holding me back all this time.

why is it normal for males to call women degrading things like “female”

I can’t even…

A girl did not write this anyway.

Violence yes, starship combat not so much (in the TV shows anyway). I love watching the battles from the movies but yeah, that shit’s expensive yo!

I think the internet solved the whole “boobies seen per capita” thing.

Anyone who watches Star Trek for the space battles must REAAAALLLY be into delayed gratification.

That’s ok, I took away my support for Apex Legends many seasons ago!

Their anti cheat has always been a joke anyway.

But what if someone hid a Bat’leth inside one of them?

That’s a man who knows his game.

Is any part of the OS installed on the HDDs? If not, disconnect them and see if the OS is stable.

I’d also recommend running memory tests on your RAM just to eliminate that as a factor. You could also decrease the clock speed on your memory for a while and see if that helps.

After all that , if the issue persists, try disconnecting all storage and running Linux from a usb drive. If the system is stable at least you know it’s something in the storage, but if it keeps crashing you’ll know the storage errors are a red herring.

Bitwarden can be fully self hosted, I’m doing it. My Bitwarden server doesn’t (and can’t) talk to them at all as it has no way to access the internet. They know nothing about my deployment except that I signed up for a free license key.

I understand being in that pit, I was there in my 20’s and early 30’s as well; deep, deep in debt with credit cards and student loans. But I was able to get out of debt in my late 30’s, and then in my 40’s things just started snowballing. I’m almost 50 and in really good shape financially now, but if you’d asked me in my 20’s I would have sounded just like you. It takes a while to get going if you’re not lucky enough to have a headstart from wealthy parents or something. I grew up poor as fuck so I know exactly what it’s like to have not just nothing, but be net negative. Just don’t give up or feel hopeless because as your career progresses it gets easier and easier.

And make sure you do find things that make you happy while you’re plugging away at your obligations. That’s really important.

It’s definitely a bug, I went and looked at my old achievements and even though all the ones from the base game are unlocked, almost all of them say 0.0% of players have that achievement.

That has to be bugged or they reset something with the new release. I did all the achievements years ago and the numbers were not that low.