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Only acoholics actually need to try to convince others that they aren’t alcoholics. Nobody goes up to a person on the street to start aggressively asking if they have a drinking problem.
Any serious questions about how alcohol is affecting your life will quickly demonstrate whether it is is or isn’t a problem, without you ever saying that you don’t have a drinking problem.
Man-ish tush-u. It aint hard to see why the kid would grow to hate his name.
Manishtushu is nearly the worst name i have ever seen. Kids would absolutely wreck that guy all the way to college.
It’s weird seeing a town i grew up next to show up on the news. The context doesn’t surprise me at all though. Having it described as ‘a rural college town that has been rapidly drawn into the expanding orbit of Dallas to its south’ is even weirder. Sherman is 45 minutes away from mckinney, much less dallas. It’s more of it’s own town than anything else.
Which makea it the #7 most used email client in the world. That is not niche.
Thrunderbird is a very very niche client these day
No. It isn’t. https://stats.thunderbird.net/
Similiar amounts for the literal absolute best. Most people don’t spend more than 1500 total though.
Ignorance is not stupidity.
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Avoiding anything other than government (up to and including a corrupt cop or town)? Drop a gallon of your own stored blood in your residence, hitchike to a state or three away, grab an under the table job and never do anything like file for taxes, credit, or use your real name.
It’s just so hard to imagine because all our land here is getting developed.
There is a lot of development going on, yes, but damn do you have a skewed idea of what ‘all the land’ actually entails. America is fucking huge, and there is a fuckton of empty space on the western half of it. https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/nobody-lives-here-mapping-emptiness-in-the-us-and-beyond/
So for example if you plan on walking into the mountains until people assume you’re dead and then leave, the right people will see and you’ll catch back on.
Only if you do something dumb like stick around in the same spot of wilderness for months on end. The whole point of disappearing is that you go to a new place and start a new life.
Made worse because we have progressed so far into forensics and many countries are using that to monitor peoples’ whereabouts.
Yes, but actually no. Just because they have the data doesn’t mean they’re actually using it. A government motivated to find you will be a huge problem to deal with. What exactly have you done to cause the government to want you specifically?
Soon there will be no running away from anything you want to run back to and no pretending to run.
Paranoid fearmongering. Breaking the law bad enough (regardless of how moral of a law it is) will absolutely get the government on your back, but just assuming that the law will turn into hellish big brother with motivated tracking is putting the cart before the horse. Yes, it’s entirely possible that the current trajectory we have will get worse / follow a downward trend into 1984 style bullshit. Obviously that’s why you prepare for that. But it does not mean it will follow a downward trend into 1984 territory, and assuming that it’s impossible to stop that from happening means you’ve given up, and are therefore a part of the problem.
It’s why witness protection only works when it’s government-sponsored.
Citation needed.
Oh, youre thinking about the actual death bit. There’s a couple of ways to do it easier then holding your breath and hoping the coroner doesn’t notice during the autopsy.
Head to a place that’s known to be semi-dangerous for whatever reason (a beachfront hotel, mountains, etc). Inform people of your vacation plans, and then dissappear the same way that other people who probably died did. If you’re really didcated, go to bear country, leave food out for a bear, and then dump some pre-drawn blood of yours around when a bear shows up and then disappear. Switch countries and never look back. This is a dick move, but if pretending death is the best solution you can find it should work well enough.
If you’re just trying to run away, it’s actually relatively easy. Sell/trash everything, buy an old car, drive across country, and start completely over without ever telling anyone where you went. Don’t even sign into your old online accounts. As far as everyone but the government is concerned, you’ll have disappeared. If you’re leaving an abusive family behind or avoiding the mafia, this is plenty, and you don’t have to worry about being deported. Spend a few years as a waiter or construction worker being paid under the table and as long as you keep that up, you’re even invisible from the less proactive parts of the government.
I’ll be honest, faking my death seems dramatic and way too complicated for any situation i can come up with. I’d just do the disappear thing and leave it at that.
Forge it. Governments mostly take paperwork in good faith, and only question it beyond surface level if they are given a reason to.
My point is that for office tasks, a 150$ laptop isn’t just an option, it honestly will run office tasks incredibly well. Telling someone to not spend less than $500 on a laptop because it will run horribly is almost ten year old advice, and not helpful in 2023.
The latitude 5490 sells for 150$ and has everything a person running office stuff would want.
I’m sorry, but, no, you’re not even close with the size comparison. Office 2021 is 4gb, libreoffice and office 365 are smaller than that. The cheapest bluray will hold 25gb.
Obviously office programs have not become easier to run (with libreoffice maybe being an exception), but processing power has vastly outpaced whatever new requirements they’ve gained.
Shit like teams needs a supercomputer to run well, and will be slow on everything else. There is no point in buying a top of the line laptop just to keep teams or a badly made website from lagging.
People haven’t seriously used floppy disks for twenty years now.
This is a lot less true than it was five years ago. Web browsing and basic word editing has not become harder to do in the past ten years, but hardware has made some major leaps. (thanks amd) So as long as it has an ssd and a semi modern (within five years) processor, it will do a great job of handling homework and 4k video. With windows replaced with linux, it’ll do all those things and feel snappy while it does it.
Avoid sub 100$ laptops, and keep a skeptical eye on anything between that and 400$, but it can absolutely be done.
I’m biased, but the dell inspiron laptops that businesses offload are perfect for this sort of task. They have connectivity out the wazoo (useful for that outdated projector in the seldom used classroom) and their batteries are easily replaced.
Exxept for the source csam required to get the model started, of course.
Back when OSU! was the big thing for streamers, and I was mainlining adc Draven bot lane in league of legends, i bought into the hype that was disabling mouse acceleration. I thought, surely, since disabling it gives the raw values rather than accelerrated ones, that my game performance would improve and be more accurate.
I stuck with it disabled for over year, thinking that eventually i would adapt to this new method of input and even become a better gamer with more clicks going where i wanted them to.
It never got better. Hell, my performance stayed worse than before the switch to disabled accelleration. It took me a month to go back to my previous level acurrracy once i switxhed it back on, and i have never turned it off since.
What people and apparently large language models don’t understand is that mouse accelleration doesn’t make the mouse movement unpredictable. It makes it accellerate on a known curve. I grew up with mouse aceleration and by the time i learned i could change it, i was not able to master or even learn this new way of using a mouse.
For those of you who don’t want personal anecdotes, turning off mouse accelleration on a three-monitor setup means unacceptably slow traversal, or unacceptably high (skipping pixel levels of too high) speed in the fine movement level.
The last time i got drunk was two months ago. The time before that was back in January.