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My PC started glitching out like this and I don't know how to find the cause.

Columns of red lines dominate the screen, and certain characters aren't being displayed during startup. This happens with every operating system and every monitor. I can only get into the OS in recovery mode.

Did my CPU get fried? My motherboard? GPU? Corrupted BIOS? How can I find out?

https://youtu.be/0Yi-5puU7B8

[-] loom_in_essence@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Cumming to my relentless trust for insurance agency middlemen.

[-] loom_in_essence@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

Spotify is garbage. You pay them to basically pirate unlimited music (they pay table scraps). They have no values or integrity, but they do have a greedy business model.

I buy albums off bandcamp instead. Or from the artist's site directly.

[-] loom_in_essence@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Therapy is never a cure. If you have a problem then therapy can help you confront it and deal with it, but if we have a massive society-wide mental health crisis it will not be solved by each man individually seeking therapy.

We need meaning in our lives, something worth dedicating ourselves to, and the means to pursue it. Mercenary capitalism won't provide that.

In short, I don't see an answer. I think it will get worse.

Addendum:

Most importantly, this new wave of mental health problems is not caused by a new wave of "not being vulnerable." It's a societal issue and must be confronted there, not shunted onto each individual man.

[-] loom_in_essence@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

It's not slippery slope because we have already been instance-hopping as every instance defederates and bans and defederates and bans, all the while we are ridiculed for expressing a desire to be connected, told to get lost.

[-] loom_in_essence@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

You're right, the existence of a tool justifies any abusive use of the tool. Every instance should block every community and we should all get our own private instances and block each other.

[-] loom_in_essence@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Maybe you can host your own private instance and smirk as you block everybody while the rest of us communicate.

This nonstop suggestion of "hOst yOuR oWn iNstAnCe" is rarely a good solution. They already know it's an option. You never provide anything when you say it, except to display your own smug smirk as you tell your fellow lemurian to get lost.

[-] loom_in_essence@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago

The nice thing about federation is that we can all go fuck ourselves and die alone on our personal private servers under a bridge.

[-] loom_in_essence@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

This is basically an ad saying "if you want to get laid visit reddit." Honestly reddit probably suggested it. They're going to coin the phrase "reddit and chill."

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I need to just pick a distro, install it on all my laptops, and become an expert on that one. Forget the rest!

I've got Void on my T420 (for writing), Mint on another T420 (hosting my music files) and an x380 yoga (with ubuntu studio controls for music production), NixOS on a T440p and a T430, and EndeavourOS on my T16. Previously I ran Arch and Debian on a couple machines, too.

Arch is really fun. I probably just enjoy giving in to my OCD tendancies, so that gets satisfied with my EndeavourOS install. That SHOULD be my final distro, the one that I use forever, eschewing all others.

But there are two problems:

  1. Too many updates. I fear leaving a laptop in the drawer for a few months and then it crashes when I update it.
  2. I'm getting nixpilled

Nix is obviously awesome. I love having that master config file. But the nix repos aren't as robust, and there's a learning curve to getting everything to work. So now I'm telling myself, "become an expert at nix and then you'll finally find your home!"

But meanwhile Debian beckons. It's so tempting to just go back to the safest, stablest distro with all the packages and all the documentation.

I know this is silly but it actually bugs me. Why can't I just pick a distro?

Has anybody gone through this and then actually made the decisive move to stick to a distro? What compelled you to finally pick one?

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Reddit and Windows (lemmy.world)

Today I installed Windows on my laptop and then I visited Reddit without being logged in. The two experiences are very similar.

I usually use Linux, so installing a new OS is really clean. You just end up with an empty operating system and you can do whatever you want.

But while installing Windows the damn program kept asking me for information and pressuring me into giving up my email address and phone number. Then when I finally got in, it's full of apps like fucking D!sney and Sp0tify... GTFO.

Then I go on Reddit, which I usually think of as a place where people post funny paragraphs and interesting questions... BUT NO... now it's just a splash page full of pictures and ads and other bullshit.

I know that you already know this, but it's sooo annoying and ugly.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by loom_in_essence@lemmy.world to c/musicproduction@lemmy.ml

My OS and software are on a 2280 nvme 1TB drive. I'm thinking of installing a 2nd m.2 2242 drive in the wwan slot (it does work on my laptop) and putting my drum samples on that.

My question is, would this increase performance?

[-] loom_in_essence@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

They're still bad people, but this kind of blame has to run uphill. The devs only have the option of quitting, not necessarily of not doing what they're told.

That being said, I bet there are some Very Good Boys who enthusiastically and proactively suggest some evil shit to the execs.

[-] loom_in_essence@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Okay I saw 21 but I am colorblind

[-] loom_in_essence@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

They really are morons.

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[-] loom_in_essence@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I hope they get that cash

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