Not sure what all happened there, but…

FAT ≠ NTFS

Oh that’s right, I forget people like to use online services these days. Back in 2008, I worked at two different banks installing new computer systems.

They gave my dumbass C3 security clearance, just to fix an icon on the desktop that didn’t properly refresh after a software update. Do you comprehend how much damage I could have caused if I wanted to with C3 security clearance?

I don’t trust online services at all. If I want to deal with my bank, I go in the bank in person.

Edit: I’m a cash only person since then.

Name your bank accounts? Since when is that a thing? Don’t they like use your actual name?

Not for me, but then again I have residual nerve damage in my pinky fingers from a case of meningitis back in 2004.

However, I do still use my left pinky for the left shift key, and my right pinky for the enter key. At least those keys are big enough that the mild numbness doesn’t cause me to miss those keys.

I do not have an answer for you, but if I may ask…

Why?

I just finished watching for myself. I think he held up pretty well and brought up many valid points and fact checks.

One thing I didn’t see anyone bring up much regarding the topic of abortion is the topics of the health of the mother and the baby.

When I was 2 years old, we were rear ended by an 18 wheeler. My mother’s head hit the windshield. They took her to the hospital and ended up prescribing her pain killers.

It didn’t cross anyone’s mind that maybe she was pregnant again. Once the doctors found out, they realized the pain killers were the kind that cause gross life threatening fetus/baby deformities.

There was literally zero percent chance that embryo was going to survive at that early point in her pregnancy. So the doctors had no choice but to highly suggest she abort the pregnancy. Otherwise she’d either end up with a highly deformed baby, or even worse she’d end up dead herself.

She regretfully had them carry out the abortion, realizing that her first child (me) was literally named after my uncle from my father’s side that only lived to be a day and a half old, because of intestinal birth defects where his intestines were formed on the outside.

Medical technology wasn’t so great back in the 1950’s when my deformed baby uncle was born, so there wasn’t much way to know that he would be born deformed. ☹️ My father decided to name me after him in honor.

By 1984, at my own age of 2, my mother was pregnant again, but nobody knew when the truck rear ended us. But medical technology had improved enough by then that they should have at least checked whether she was pregnant or not before prescribing her medicine.

The doctors made the wrong call and prescribed something known to cause extreme birth defects. So once they found out, they insisted she have an abortion, which she regretfully did, for sake of her long term health.

She still regrets that decision today to an extent, but my mom very likely wouldn’t even be alive today if she had carried that baby.

So, my opinion on all of that is, pro choice, and to hell with politicians or religious people practicing medicine without a license…

Whether factual or not, that’s still the direction Canonical is heading.

Here mofo, go purchase Ubuntu Pro…

https://slrpnk.net/post/13269933

Canonical can suck my balls.

Have you not caught the recent news that Ubuntu is now plastering adverts on the desktop if you haven’t paid for it?

Please kindly fuck off.

Wanna hear a scary command I’ve used before?

sudo aptitude reinstall '~i'

Not for the faint of heart, nor meant for a fresh install, but that literally reinstalls every single registered package in Debian based distro.

Edit: If you ever dare use that command, you better make 2 pots of coffee and roll 3 joints, cuz it’ll take a good while…

I sorta had a feeling that wasn’t necessarily the best link after I posted it. Check this for more info (I’m on my phone right now…)

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/41273/how-to-create-a-list-of-installed-packages-for-easy-automatic-reinstall-after-di

I feel your pain from a distance, I really do. ☹️

The best advice I have in the meantime is to prepare for a full backup of all packages and consider switching to a different Debian based distro…

https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=138166

Your problem is that you’re still using Ubuntu, after Canonical started injecting advertising and wants you to pay for it now.

Try a different distro, like anything besides Ubuntu…

Spez (or one of their admin monkeys) perma-banned me from Reddit after like 7 years, for of all stupid things, posting actual facts about Elon Musk and his Boring Company’s “Not A Flamethrower” contraption.

Wasn’t any hate speech. Wasn’t misinformation, I even posted reference links. Wasn’t anything inappropriate or gory. Just straight up facts.

That was not all that long before Elon bought Xhitter.

Gotta love the irony huh? Fuck Spez and Musk.

I had already spent years doing occasional side work with around a dozen if not more folks originally from India. Most, except the oldest of the elders spoke good if not excellent English. But there’s pretty much always gonna be at least a subtle accent, if not a heavy accent with secondary languages.

I thought I understood the fella clearly, but it was both a combination of his accent plus the strange sentence structure context that threw me totally off.

He said he was ‘updating his tiles’, but I misunderstood his vowels, so I heard ‘updating his towels’

And why the hell would he use the word updating, he was literally having all the carpet removed in 44+ rooms and having tiles installed, not ‘updated’.

So even the context clues didn’t add up, I never guessed he was talking about the tile work he had been planning for months.

Ouch. Good luck with that 🤞

Indeed, and understandable. Modern AI does tend to do fairly well these days, but obviously no system is ever going to be perfect.

Not even our own ears are perfect. That’s why humans have the sense to ask questions sometimes, like “Hold up, I didn’t understand you, what did you just say?”

And if you check my other comments, you’ll catch an interesting story of mine over the misunderstanding of a simple spoken vowel…

Meh, true that. Hell, I dunno how to properly cross post on Lemmy, nor do I bother doing that anyways so whatever. 🤷‍♂️

Honestly I haven’t studied foreign languages all that much, but I’ve heard the accents that come from a variety of regions and countries.

The last time I got confused about anything spoken in English by an Indian man, I mistook ‘tiles’ as ‘towels’.

I totally lost out on a tile installation job offer over that, because of a misunderstanding over what’s basically the pronunciation of a particular vowel.

Like, in the back of my head, I’m wondering why this hotel owner is telling me he’s updating his towels, when really he said tiles. He was offering me a job…

I didn’t find out until he got others to do all the work ☹️

Vowels can be extremely important in communication…

Perhaps 🤷‍♂️

https://tinyurl.com/elonroll

In case you don’t trust TinyURL, which I totally wouldn’t blame you, that’s a short link to a ~1MB low quality archived version of Elon Musk Eating Toilets…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EAG0dC8l3SU