Just for the historical record, here’s Mussolini’s last public appearance:

So uh… I had to look up the term ‘CJ Degree.’

… Criminal Justice.

As in… learn ‘industry practices’ to be qualified as a corrections officer (jail/prison guard), private detective, cop, paralegal, etc.

The first thing that came up was a particular college’s course overview and goals checklist… one of the goals was …

Attend a financial literacy workshop.

So not only is this person a moron, not only is this person in all likelihood a prison guard, not only did they go to college to become a prison guard, they shouldn’t have even graduated with their degree.

As a person from a white trash neighborhood, who got real degrees, first in the family to go to college… I have not gotten white trash vibes this strong in quite a long time.

Sure it’s not technically a fillibuster, but if he can go over 24 hrs and 18 minutes, he’ll beat Strom Thurmond’s… current record holding fillibuster length for… opposing the Civil Rights Act, back in 1957.

Erp.

Well then.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_in_the_United_States_Senate

He’s done it.

Excellent work Sen. Booker.

I also need this shirt.

I’m autistic, loved trains as a kid…

… and the last two women I dated actually were part time models, got paid to do shoots, one of em got featured in a few print/static advertisements, and then even had a role in a tv/video commercial, lol.

The joke works on many levels for me, haha.

If you punch them, do gold rings explode out of them?

Here, have some beans.

We don’t do pay-a-social-media-ceo-to-win around here, we do beans. Practical, eatable, 100% all natural digital beans.

Some other users may be able to gift you a proper lemmy kilmister commerative gold token, but I don’t have the jpg.

EDIT: oh right, a possibly useful warning:

About a month or two ago, lemmy seems to have attracted its first mass spam bot, dming thousands of users with basically a phising email.

If you get a message from ‘Fediverse Chick’, that’s not her, someone stole her image, just block the user.

Threadiverse is a terrible name, the most immediate word association is Threads, ostensibly a large corporate competitor, and the most immediate search result is a geeky/nerdy tshirt/merch company.

Better names?

Fuck uh… I dunno.

Lemmyverse

Lemmy and Friends

Reddit Asylum Seekers Club (RASCL?)

The front page of Web 4.0

Fediverse’s Fractious Forums

???

Its like they went to the same school!

You can’t freeze a credit score.

The scores can and usually will still change even while frozen.

What you can do is enable a security freeze on your credit account, which disallows a credit score from being provided to a bank for assessing your credit worthiness of a loan or credit card or mortgage or afterpay/klarna/microloan type thing.

Freezing your credit is mostly a way of making it so that someone with your personal info can’t open a fraudulent account in your name.

There are three companies, credit bureaus, in the US that keep giant permanent records of everyone’s credit history.

TransUnion, Equifax and Experian.

Your credit history and other info can differ between all three of them, if there are errors, you have to get them resolved with each one seperately.

There are many different algorithms / scoring models that each of these 3 will use to calculate your actual score.

VantageScore and FICO are the main ones, and the algorithm for each gets updated every few years.

https://www.creditkarma.com/advice/i/vantagescore-vs-fico

So… you can have a FICO or VantageScore from TransUnion, Equifax and Experian.

Different banks or apartments or car loans will all use different scores from different bureaus, and there is usually no way to tell exactly scoring model they’ll use before hand… and actually fully applying for anything that requires a ‘hard inquiry’ into your credit history… that in and of itself will hurt your credit score.

CreditKarma and KikOff will give you your Vantage Scores for free, but not FICO scores.

CreditKarma will only give you TransUnion and Equifax scores, but KikOff also gives you Experian.

Beyond that, other companies have other apps that may give you scores not provided by CK or KO, but you generally have to pay a monthly subscription for that.

…

If this all sounds like a giant confusing mess, ripe for scamming opportunities, that’s because it is, and it will only get worse now that Trump and Elon are completely destroying all kinds of financial regulation agencies.

Same with autism.

If you get low grades, off to special ed with you.

High grades? Oh you’re just a socially awkward dork or quirky nerd or something.

I guess we’re all living in America, now =(

I think the less sexually charged interpretation would be that they are talking far more than they are eating.

I have no idea what is going on, woke up in the middle of the night due to idiot neighbors assaulting/shooting(?) each other…

saw this image, which i can only describe as

‘too much nyquil harold’.

uh anyway hope everyone’s doing great

… When a game dev team/studio licenses usage of EAC, Battleye, or Denuvo, they are provided access to dev tools.

In those dev tools, they just need to select a few options (click a few boxes) to enable their game build to be compatible with the linux/proton versions of those AC systems.

These 3 ACs are on record stating, 3 years ago, that they already developed support for this, and all that game devs have to do is indicate that they want to use these features that they have already developed, support, and are included when licensing their use for a game.

This is typically why a game studio, or any software developer really, works out some kind of licensed usage agreement for many elements of pre existing code: It does a thing they want to be able to do, and does it more cost effectively than said studio developing their own solution in house.

… But I’ve already explained most of this to you multiple times.

As for pc specs… I’ve been building custom PCs since before 9/11. I’ve been modding all kinds of Windows games since 2003. I’ve done contract work for MSFT for a few years after I graduated University.

I understand how PC specs work, how gaming, and coding, on Windows PCs works.

I am attempting to illustrate how the ability to ‘just game’, on a Windows PC, is nowhere near as straightforward as you are implying it is.

But anyways, your responses have become increasingly bad faith and/or indicative of poor reading comprehension, so you’re either not interested in, or capable of meaningful discussion, so I won’t be entertaining you any further.

The point I am making is not that linux can perfectly run every game. Obviously it cannot.

The point I am making is that for many popular online games, the only reason that this is the case is because many game studios just don’t bother to click a few options, which would cost them basically nothing.

… Anyway on a Steam Deck its super simple, the compatibility grade is just right there in the screen for looking at and potentially buying the game, simple color codes.

… Compared to a Windows PC where you’ll need to check your hardware specs against the min and optimal specs and basically just guess how well you can run it.

Steam Decks, like consoles, all have the same hardware, so its a unified experience, simplified.

Anyone who has played PC games on Windows knows that you’re probably gonna have to do research to figure out how to build or upgrade your rig to be able to play any given game at the fidelity and frame rate you want, which is significantly more time consuming, complex and disparate than looking at a single, built-in-to-your-gaming-device color grade that lets you know what to expect in 2 seconds.

Personally, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve bought a PC game for Windows and oh oops, turns out the min specs are functionally unplayable, turns out the advertised graphics at a stated hardware level was false advertising, etc, etc.

Meanwhile, almost everything in my Steam Library works on a Steam Deck, with the most major exceptions being online multiplayer games that just refuse to enable their Anti Cheat to allow the game to run.

My out of the box set up process for getting a Steam Deck playing games was significantly simpler and less time consuming than with a Windows PC.

So linux absolutely can ‘just game’, even more straightforwardly than a Windows machine.

As for not being viable… you’re saying that checking a few boxes in a your dev panel to make it so your next build supports approximately 5% of the market that you previously did not… that this has no major benefits …

I mean… 5% more potential marketshare availability isn’t major, but for approximately 0 additional cost seems, this seems like a no brainer, obvious benefit to me.

The ACs and Proton handle working on linux.

Proton is not paid for or developed by these studios.

Thats the magic of Proton, it functionally ports everything designed for Windows automatically, at no cost to the game studio.

The ACs already include linux/proton compatibility in their agreements with the game studios… they don’t need to pay them more for supporting it.

This isn’t like the game studios have to ‘port’ a game to linux, like the immense cost of porting a console game to PC, back before most game engines just had an ‘export to whatever architecture’ functionality.

This is ‘We can choose to increase our potential player base by about 5%, for essentially 0 expenditure, but nah, fuck that, who wants a free buff to sales?’

Its not that I believe I can achieve parity.

Its that giant corporations already have access to technical parity, and choose not to have it, use it, distribute it, despite this choice being essentially costless at worst, and profit improving at best, as it would expand their games to work in a small, but growing share of platforms.

We are, as ever, at their utterly spiteful and incompetent whim.

See my other post: Linux supporting ACs have existed for 3 years.

The functionality to support them already exists, the market share is arguably already there, and the cost to game dev teams to enable these already existing linux AC functionality is in many cases literally 0. They’re already paying to license Battleye or EAC or Denuvo, and all they have to do is request usage of a feature that already exists, that they are already paying for, but just not using.

Also, as you seem to agree, the vast, vast majority of cheats/hacks/trainers are made for and used by Windows users despite ACs having kernel level access in Windows.