FinalBoy1975

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[–] FinalBoy1975 6 points 1 year ago

but that's awesome you figured it out and shared the solution here. There's nothing about this out there that is searchable. Thanks for the learning lesson!

[–] FinalBoy1975 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's more like after they bought the new clothes. Like, your friend bought new clothes and wants to show you what they bought. It could be a friend, a brother, a sister, a cousin, an aunt, anybody. While shopping for clothes, before they buy the clothes, is the right time to criticize. It's perfectly acceptable, and desired, to be out shopping and trying on clothes before buying them, to say whatever you like. "That makes your ass look huge, don't buy that!" is desired, not discouraged. Never trust the salesperson. The employee of the store is going to tell you it all looks good so you buy it, even if it looks bad. They even try to sell you more crap, saying things go together when they don't. I'm talking about after they bought the clothes and they're showing you what they bought because you're their friend or relative or whatever.

[–] FinalBoy1975 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, the glaring "permissions denied" is right smack in the middle of all that. Then it just continues like that to the very end. One thing that makes no sense to me: manually changing the permissions on every single game. I'm a basic Linux boy and I do basic things, so don't do what I'd do. What I'd try doing: changing the permissions in the .steam folder to the correct permissions, applying them to all the enclosed files and folders. I'd even have the stones to do it in the graphical UI left clicking on the .steam folder out of sheer basic laziness. My solution is totally basic and dumb, because it does not foresee new games being acquired through steam, which could revert back to the erroneous permissions. I searched for the error message to see what is relevant, nobody is reporting this problem, so, you're unique. What a way to feel special, right? I'll keep looking shit up like you're doing. While we're busy with that, someone more competent will come to your rescue, for sure.

[–] FinalBoy1975 59 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Just misunderstanding social cues. Where I live (Spain), there's a script you're supposed to follow for certain things and newcomers, understandably, don't understand the script. One famous example is buying new clothes. They all look great on. The idea here is that the poor person spent their hard-earned money on the new clothes. Damned right they look great on! Another would be birthdays celebrated in public venues. Perhaps someone you know is celebrating their birthday in a public venue and you had no idea they were celebrating their birthday on that day. You walk up to them and wish them a happy birthday, BUT you were not invited to this celebration. Since you weren't invited you did not come prepared with a present for the birthday person. The safe thing to do is to ignore, socialize with the people you came with, and make like that person isn't even there until they approach YOU. When and if they approach you, you make pretend you're all distracted and you have to be like, "Ahhh! I didn't see you! What's up?" The reason: that person is buying all the invitees the drinks and food. In exchange, the invitees have brought presents. It's a very nuanced and weird situation all of us have encountered. We err on the fear of not having brought a present because we had no idea because we were not invited.

[–] FinalBoy1975 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you could show an error message in the terminal either I or another person could help you. I'm guessing you've already searched the internet for a solution since you went through the painful process of re-installing the whole nine. What a marathon you're running! Anyway, to run steam game in the terminal, you have to know the game id, which is a long number. If I'm correct (someone, if this is wrong, please correct me!), you would type something like this in the terminal: steam steam://rungameid/{YourGameID}

[–] FinalBoy1975 6 points 1 year ago

Your comment is really smurfy! I was just thinking, "This type of account should be called a Gargamel account, not a Smurf account. Smurfs are nice. Gargamel is the bad one."

[–] FinalBoy1975 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It's #1, but there's plenty of room for error, and the exact number the researchers came up with was 1280. That's just what the genetic sampling says. They did the analysis on the samples that they have. It's not like they could travel back in time and take a genetic sample of every populated area in the world, so it isn't a precise number. However, they would expect more variation if there were more of the species actually living at that time. The number they came up with is useful, though. It tells you there weren't a lot of people alive to reproduce at that time and they know there was a higher population of the species before that time. Also, outside of this article, the same evidence is cited along with how it is known that there was probably a huge population collapse thanks to other pieces of evidence. Anyway, plenty of specialists in multiple fields can confirm that environmental conditions were very harsh, making it very difficult for most forms of life to survive. So, the number, as outrageously small as it might seem, is pretty close to reality.

[–] FinalBoy1975 9 points 1 year ago

This theory has been floating around for several decades. It's fascinating to see a genetic study confirming it. There wasn't enough direct evidence to prove it before.

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