I support this.

People need to deal with their own bullshit, and also understand that… the internet is forever.

Take some accountability and grow from a mistake, and foster a culture where its normal to be stupid and wrong about some things, and then grow… none of this bs ‘i have never had a bad take’ nonsense.

If you want something to be temporary, figure out how to say it in an actually temporary, disposable way.

Yep, well said.

I remember the… genuine glee amongst those I was with, back in college, when Obama won.

People really thought he was gonna fix everything. I was skeptical.

I was saying we needed ranked choice voting, some kind of massive overhaul to the entire Federal election system. People acted like I was speaking an alien language.

… so anyway Obama did some good, fair bit of bad, not enough to actually change the course… squandered the only possible moment where Citizens United could have been countermanded by a law he could have demanded the Dem trifecta push.

Now I contrast that moment, with the hellscape we are in, and causing globally, now.

Most of those people in that room? Went on to work for big tech firms, and more recently, get laid off.

As a people, us Americans got high on our own supply, and now things are so bad that if back then, in that room, I told them what is now happening, would happen?

They’d have not only shunned me but also actively spread rumors to ruin my reputation.

… yeah, I… I like some Americans, but generally speaking? I’m with David Bowie, I’m Afraid of Americans.

Its basically just a malignant narcissist flag.

David Lynch is going to haunt you.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=DV9AUSHXWF8

Lets be real:

Most console gamers, console primary gamers… have no idea what an indie game even actually is, let alone how many of them there really are.

(Indie means self-published, btw… Independent -> Indie)

The expections to this are the ones that specifically hunt for really niche, not advertised things, or go hard into emulators.

Only true console peasants are in hysterical despair right now, or denial, or whatever stage of grief.

If your brain can only process passive consumption, if you’re not capable of or willing to actively seek out specific games, find out which ones actually jive with you, put in some effort?

Then you have an abusive parasocial relationship with a or multiple corporate entities, which is mostly just sad.

Maybe try like, actually talking to someone, an actual person, who actually knows games, instead of just following the herd and listening to marketing branded as ‘journalism’?

Yeah, another American here, I am absolutely appalled and disgusted by this, and frankly by my own countrymen broadly.

Its up to us to put a stop to this horrendous madness, and I strongly fear … we won’t be able to.

I fear the upcoming midterms will basically be stolen by Trump, and at that point shit will get even more wild… more consitutional crisis? Something approximating a balkan style civil war? Fascist crackdown? Jan 6th type bullshit, but in many locations, backed by or carried out by ICE?

Guard the Leaf, friends… Keep standing that guard.

Julia… are you logged in to Amazon?

Have you heard of ‘personalized search results’?

No prob!

Did any of this work out… or problem still perists?

EDIT

Oh shit… actually read your full initial comment.

Yes, if the entire game… or Steam… is running from an external HDD… including the shaders and such?

Shaders generally are used many times, every frame.

Having those on an internal SSD could make a difference, and possibly be part of the problem you’ve shown, depending on your total hardware setup.

Generally speaking, more graphically complex 3D games that make substantial usenof shaders should be run from an internal SSD.

You can do HDD for 2D or less complex 3D games and its usually fine, but if fancy pants shaders are involved in many more modern games, use an SSD if you can.

Home/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata

That should be, if you are on Bazzite, the dir that houses all the Proton data for each game.

Home/.steam/steam/steamapps/shadercache

And that should be the … basically the shaders assembled by Proton.

Unfortunately, the individual folders in those dirs, per game, are all named with an ID number that Steam uses internally.

You probably can figure out which specific game is which number, or, you can just wipe out everything in the compatdata and shadercache folder.

Doing that will essentially clear out Proton, Steam will then redownload Proton and rebuild game specific shader caches, as per your settings as to if that is automatic or on game launch.

You might need to shutdown and restart Steam, or reboot the system, or jump in and out of deck-game mode or something like that, to fully kick Steam into realizing you just performed surgery on it and it should start healing.

If that doesn’t work, in Bazzite terminal:

ujust fix-reset-steam

This is a much more thourough reset process though, read up on it.

… what in the goddamn fuck was that.

Tommy Wiseau Directs a Porno?

… ok, bed time for me, goddamnit.

What can I say, I aim to please, lol.

… you might try Bellesa.

‘Porn for Women’, basically… meaning that many of the uh … skits? are basically smut novel / short story plots, but actually acted out. All the ‘skits’ are directed by women.

You’ll often get an intro with a character voiceover narrating a bit about themselves… what I’m trying to say is they actually attempt to have at least half decent plots, and sometimes what you could maybe call character arcs… and, while the sex can be uh, raucous, they also spend a good deal of time on the proper foreplay or whatnot, before hand, the building temptation, etc.

The better ones are closer to X rated short films than … intentionally or unintentionally schlocky, more standard pornos.

Wait its a ‘fan theory’ that Mimi is basically the author’s Tyler Durden?

… I thought that was the fundamental premise?

Mimi is going to be some kind of emphatic that you found it!

Best case scenario, HR is setting up fake jobs to make it look like an internal transfer or promotion was actually competetive.

Worst case scenario, they’re just doing it to pad the numbers of ‘how many new positions we’re looking to fill = we are growing rapidly!’ Stupid shsreholders might buy that.

Super duper worst case scenario, its all a data mining operation on the pool of potential employees… the company is so fucked it has to essentially contract itself out to market research firms.

Those are my 3 guesses.

Your particular situation makes #1 seem unlikely… thats waaay too much man hours devoted to interviews, when the company itself is bleeding out employees.

In fact your company’s situation is so fucking bad that I’d lean toward #3.

Which would mean the entire company is now essentially a fake/scam company that mostly exists as an ostensibly legit front for data harvesting, presuming it was at one point an actual company that actually did… something.

I would be entirely unsurprised if it turns out that, through a series of shell companies, LinkedIn is behind this, just cannibalizing its own real asset, its userbase, as they already know its curtains for them.

40% of companies/recruiters freely admit to posting fake job listings.

https://www.fiscalreport.com/40-of-companies-admit-to-posting-fake-job-openings/

Entire economy is a rapidly imploding scam.

See this right here is your maybe stealth ‘Mimi is a bit off’ indicator.

She’s wearing a full sized sweater, but also carries around another full size sweater, in her purse, not for a camping trip, but for a presumably routine commute via metro.

How… does that make sense?

… I feel like Agent K shooting only the cut out of the school girl with PhD level books in hand, lol.

Conservatism is still conservatism.

There must be a well defined, stratified, social hierarchy, and this system also must be morality itself.

This is what all conservatives believe and hold most dear… it does not matter that they are often too stupid to consciously realize this about themselves.

Their swollen amygdalas are terrified of uncertainty and the unknown, and a world that doesn’t follow a fairly simple set of rigid, universal rules is essentially an apocalypse to them.

All that has changed in the last ~250 years is that democracy became normalized by way of violent revolts demanding it, or the powers that were acquiesing to reforms and limitations of their own power… so as to avoid a violent revolt.

This allowed capitalism to arise… initially it appeared to, or at least rhetorically presented itself as offering a more democratic approach to conducting an economy… but it has enough fundamental flaws that it guarantees the recreation of a stratified hierarchichal society.

Now, capitalism has fully captured most of the governments and much of the population of the West… and the Western Conservative is a-ok with this: Capitalism offers its own social castes, rules, morality system, and has the coherent power to be able to enforce these.

Democracy is just… a vestigial element of society, to a modern Conservative. Ancient, outmoded, optional. So long as the hierachy exists, and can perpetuate itself, of what use is allowing a potential for disruption?

I think that Victor may not have English as his primary/first language, I am trying to use a simple comparison that is more likely to convey the general, fundamental concepts.

No.

Secure Boot is basically a ‘lock’, on the UEFI.

UEFI - Shim is basically a ‘lockpick’.

UEFI is the first step in your computer booting, turning on.

So, if Secure Boot is supposed to be a ‘lock’, that limits who can access the UEFI … but it turns out that there are many, old, UEFI - Shims, that defeat that ‘lock’… then Secure Boot is not a good ‘lock’.

I don’t mean to be rude but it seems like there might be a bit of language confusion going on here… In English, a ‘shim’ is a kind of crude/simple tool that can be used to break or bypass some actual physical locks.

So ‘UEFI-Shim’ basically means ‘a thing that breaks into your UEFI’.