Big win for  Toronto last night in an away game.


This now puts them up 3-2 in  there series with the Milwaukee Bucks,
in the east conference finals

So y'all, I have some relatively bad news? 

I bought a brand new Macbook air (the 2018 retina model) about three weeks ago. The thing was honestly, quite frankly, an awesome piece of technology. The battery life was insanely good. It wasn't the fastest machine in the world (1.6 ghz dual core, although the turbo would go up to ~3ghz for a few seconds at a time while you were opening programs or booting). 

Anyway, I was downtown with some people last week, and it got stolen out of my car. I suppose I forgot to lock it, but either way, it's nowhere to be found. Find my iPhone has been no good whatsoever, and it hasn't been connected to the internet since I lost it. I've locked it, and nobody will be able to do anything to it without my password that I locked it with. 

I've also filed a police report, and if someone tries to pawn it, it's gonna turn up. 

Wish me luck getting this thing back guys. Hopefully I'll get it returned to me sooner rather than later, but if not, I suppose I'm out ~1,000. 

On the bright side, at least I have my 2012, and this thing is still a champ. Still works great, and will probably last several more years before it's completely obsolete.

i've always kind of believed that everyone makes their own way in life, when it comes to things like beliefs, friends, personalities.. just the way you are and if something happens and you have a hard time than its your own fault and that you should change something.

i realize now that this is just what society wants you to feel. when everyone around you kicks you down and leaves you to suffer it's your own fault and that you're a bad person for it. maybe you just need to think more positively and get your mind off the bad stuff, and maybe you even deserve it because you're such a shitty person.

it's just to make you feel like the corrupt one. it's constructed by all the winners in order to take advantage of the losers, then dispose of them when they are no longer useful to them. that's how it all works. if you're a loser, you're destined to a life of pain and suffering at the hands of the winners, who don't feel a thing and perhaps even feel good about using and abusing the losers. even though the losers are in their position due to no fault of their own, they're still destined to this kind of life.

that's why I don't trust anyone anymore. after all this bullshit, i'm done putting my trust in any single human being at all. it's not worth it to me anymore, including the people who i once thought were my friends. everyone would just be perfectly content to see my suffering, along with those others who they have no problems with beating down and kicking aside. 

if anyone actually reads this they will likely think i'm crazy but we all are in our own ways. i just felt like venting to some people that i trusted at one time. i know it wont change anything but thanks for reading this anyway.

by the way this can be deleted whenever, just felt the need to post it.

Anyone remember chatbots back in the day?

the early DIY attempts at creating programs which could communicate with people, in some cases an effort to beat the turring test.

ALICE, and it's variants.

and of course the more... questionable one's designed for the more... adult of us.

anyone still using them or see them used more recently?

I've been feeling really confident with my programming skills over the last few weeks since I've been able to actually pump out a decent amount of projects that actually work and have some degree of optimization. As such, I've considered making my own little video tutorial series on programming (specifically C++, for a number of reasons.) If anything, the series will be put up on Youtube since I'm pretty new with content creation and don't want to monetize immediately with Udemy or something. Knowledge should be free.

So I'm asking you guys, have you ever tried to learn from a video series? What was your biggest pet peeve with it? Why did you stop (if you stopped) or what kept you coming back to learn from that one series of tutorials?

Right now, I want to start doing a focus on adding some sort of 'homework,' like small projects that I'll explain at the end of a video then go over a solution in the next video or something like that. Since I'm a bit mic/camera shy, I've also noticed my videos take pretty long since 1. I'm giving some pretty detailed explanations and 2. I'm speaking a bit slowly from shyness.

What else would you personally like to see? (Not that I'm gonna spam advertise my shit here, but just so I know what the audience is looking for rather than simply going for it without a regard for the viewers.)

Back to Linux. I'll be dual booting between Manjaro and Windows 10 for the time being. I need to keep Windows around for all of my games.



I built a second computer as well to keep my Plex server running and my torrents seeding while I dual boot. Ryzen 2200G CPU, 4 GB RAM, mostly built from parts I had lying around.

So over the past few years I've seen a pattern, one that has become extremely annoying...

90% of tech has become throwaway nonsense!

Phone screen cracked? back up your files, toss it, buy a new one.

Car trouble?, Pay someone $150+ an hour to "fix" it on their time.

Computer Not turning on?... you going to check the power cable? nope call geeksquad to make sure you didn't unplug from the outlet again.

the list goes on, and while the first one has been a gold mine of free parts as I've learned to recycle other people's junk one thing keeps coming to mind.
WHY?! why do people pay overpriced "specialists" to do simple jobs, why be lazy and not fix it yourself... not like it's actually difficult... in fact it's gotten easier.

Granted if your TV screen is cracked that's one thing, or you need a new windshield... or you need a valve job on your car or alignment done which require special tools but for the easy stuff, why throw it away? why shell out buku bucks for some college student in a back room to fix it in 30 min and charge you for a few hours?
It just doesn't make sense. 

it's not like I'm expecting my grandfather to build a PC from scratch but even he does simple maintenance on his computer with defrag and keeping his anti-virus up to date...
I'm not sure if it's society, laziness, or something else but working in tech support the most irritating thing I hear daily is the following.

"Alright sir is the power off?, good! now i just need you to take the yellow cable labeled printer on the port labeled 1 of that box on top, take it out, and plug it back in."

"I can't do that, I'm not technical, I shouldn't be expected to do this"

Insert facepalm with phone on mute while I figure out how to convince them to do a simple trivial task.

BTW, that yellow cable? is keyed, it can only go in ONE WAY!!!!!

these are people in government jobs that literally make the world work 

anyway, rant over...

what do you prefer to do? do you try to fix things yourself or do you take it to an overpriced repair shop so they can fix problems that in hindsight are probably pretty easy?

Hi,
I am new to the forums, however not to the internet

Well.. I hope to stay here for longer so.. I just wanted to say Hi

wasn't quite sure where to put this so I stuck it in general.

so the quotes cycling through the banner could use some refreshing so I thought hey, why not get some suggestions for some!

so post here any quotes you think would be cool or awesome to have come up on occasion.

I'm opening this thread today because lately I have been playing Simcity 4 a lot in this region, and I wanted to start sharing it with you all, as well as give myself more reason to participate in this here forum!  

Today for you I just have this picture of a Cruise Ship Port I unlocked in the city of Zhurstl, apparently it had many more jobs in commercial than I thought. I may post the area again later when it is fully developed.