Well, I tested both modules, and one of them turned out to be faulty. The other stick works, I can use my PC with it for now. And Corsair’s customer support turns out to be really handy; they can send a replacement first for a deposit, and after I receive it, I can send the faulty one back. And once they receive it, I can get the deposit back.

So it’s all (kinda) good now, regarding my PC.

I’m pretty freakin far from okay.

My girlfriend has been mad at me for almost a week now; who knows if she ever even wants to talk to me. She hates me at this point.

And this is my first day of vacation, I have more than 10 days off. I decided to work on one of my hobby projects, and sometimes take a break for gaming. Guess what! My PC broke, Memtest shows more than 3000 RAM errors, so at the moment I’m sitting here testing each module in every slot.

And then once I figure it out whether I have to send the RAM or the motherboard back, I’ll have no PC for at least a month (I expect longer than that). So I cannot make any progress with anything, now that I have some free time.

I’m especially pissed off, because it was quite an expensive build, specifically for reliability.

More like undergoing the humiliation of what it comes with.

Other than that… yeah, I don’t have many friends, so not many favors to take care of.

Once a friend asked me to buy him cigarettes while I went into the store to buy some food for myself and he was waiting outside. I did it, but I hated every single second of it. The fact that the cashier, and anyone around me could potentially think I was a smoker… utterly terrifying. The humiliation was even greater when the cashier asked for my ID (I was around 20 that time, I looked young enough for them to assume I was underage). Disgusting, horrible experience. Never again.

There was another case, where my best friend actually didn’t really ask for help, but it was a really serious case. Her mom got into jail as a victim of someone else’s attempt to clear himself in a corruption case. I helped her with my savings (a thousand dollars or so) to get her out of jail. Well, this was another horrible experience, but in a different way. I would do it again if such a situation arises, but luckily her and her entire family have managed to move to a better country since then.

In my opinion, social media is extremely harmful to society. Fediverse has implemented some proper moderation, while those more popular platforms tend to amplify what makes this world crazy (and eventually completely destroyed).

If there’s one reason why it’s not okay that those platforms are more popular than the fediverse, it’s that at least the Fediverse has the chance to properly moderate content, while on those platforms it’s either unmoderated, or even worse, the quality content is oppressed.

What do you mean? I once tried to ride a bike with inverted steering. It sucks. I couldn’t stay on longer than 2 seconds. Most people can’t, although there are few who have managed to learn it.

After all, your comment matches the post.

Digital without a doubt.

• More convenient to travel with it
• Awesome how the e-ink looks just like paper and draws little energy
• Your entire library can take much less space
• Save the trees
• If it gets damaged, only your device will be destroyed, but your library (hopefully) remains (if you make backups)
• Instant access to basically any book (no need to wait for delivery or in-person shopping)

To me, my Kobo was one of the best investments I’ve ever made. Before buying it, I didn’t really read many books

“I’m sorry”

If it starts like that, it’s not gonna work, no matter what.

In fact, according to my experience, if you have to apologize for something, you’re already fucked. There’s no way to make it better.

SQL. There are so many SQL dialects. Only if there could be a way to standardize it…

Basic cybersecurity skills, like

• don’t click on random links in random emails
• identify phishing/scam emails
• use a password manager & generate long enough passwords
• know how long a safe password is
• use unique passwords everywhere
• use an ad blocker
• don’t click on sketchy links
• identify sketchy links
• don’t share your personal data when it’s not necessary
• make offline & online backups
• change the admin and wifi passwords of your home router from the factory default
• have some sort of a firewall and antivirus software
• etc…

Hmm. In the country where I’m from, absolutely, that’s the case. The average level of IQ there is incredibly low, so it’s not really surprising.

Generally on the internet? Well… kinda yes. Of course, I know there are many cases thanks to social media garbage that are making people unwilling to read and use their brains to think, thus degrading their abilities to pay attention for a longer time, which would be required for reading even just a moderate length of text. Yes, I’m fully aware of that, and that’s a tragedy for today’s generation.

So why “kinda”? Apparently I tend to follow topics that actually require a certain level of intelligence, and the communities there usually have adequate reading and comprehension skills.

But yes, long story short, that’s the trend unfortunately. People just read less and less, and with that, their skills are degrading as well.

I wouldn’t imagine it like that. I would think of it more like just an AI tool, that teams are using, and they wouldn’t need a CEO.

Of course, not with today’s dumb AIs.

What?! That’s so cheap! Mine is 1000/50 (cable) for €60. Also Germany.