A “good” thing from a bad thing: my 6 year old computer monitor decided to croak today. As it’s currently black friday deals, I managed to order a new one fairly cheap-o.

No thanks.

Slow, buggy, annoying interface, hogs extreme amounts of resources locally, can be used to spy on its users.

What’s not to like? It’s basically how Elon envisions X, an “everything app” that is actually good at nothing specific.

We’re already seeing games coming out which have a soft requirement for DLLS or FSR simply due to how incredibly unoptimized they are.

Awesome! If I can ever afford a card with frame generation, that is. Looking increasingly unlikely though.

I don’t want to live on a planet where these are the kind of people who decide, well, everything.

Doesn’t look like I’ll have much choice though.

Looks at the heap of empty cans on the desk

Wabi-Sabi it is!

Something tells me this day will eventually live in greater infamy than 9/11.

Like in 2230, provided there is still something resembling the human race, “9/11” will be just another boring date to memorize together with shit like the Alamo w/e.

The day the republic fell, however, will be a lot more recognizable and memorable.

248 years. Empires “always” last around ~250 (Let’s ignore the Romans for now) so we’re exactly on time.

Wanna bet he’ll put up one of his kids (hell perhaps even Barron?) and bend the whole sycophantic side of the GOP into endlesdly propping them up?

In 4 years, you may simply get Trump III. I want to say this notion seems absurd, except that it absolutely isn’t.

Let me put it this way: we will see the true beginning of WW3 in the Baltics. Trump will predictably not act upon that and the response will be 100% up to Europe itself.

That response better be an armed one, and quick too, or we all better start practicing cyrillic here in W-europe.

Regardless if we are lucky, “only” tens of thousands will die. More likely it will be millions.

So yeah, Trump kinda bedazzled us there, no way around it. Won’t be until the people who voted him in will start hurting personally that they’ll finally realize they’ve been conned. But too little too late.

The mark of the beast was fiat money and we’ve been using it for a while.

There’s no better way to stifle a discussion than to see there’s 10k+ replies already. Pissing in an ocean of piss.

Pretty much for form I suppose, there are other ways to get those drivers.

I’ve been in a few online games with RU players and it struck me as so weird to be playing a game with someone from a nation we are basically at war with. Major WWI Xmas football vibes.

I wouldn’t bother. People who arrive at any opinion without using logic can’t be reasoned out of that opinion using logic. It’s an emotional thing.

Pretty telling when the only way you can get your users to “upgrade” is by stealth. I wonder what the % of involuntarily upgraded win11 users is vs people who knowingly and willingly did so.

“Rich people’s yacht money.”

Just replace 99,9% of instances containing “the economy” and substitute. Makes a lot of things click.

Embrace

Extend <==== you are here

Extinguish

Lol these clowns. They’ll have to come up with a whole new song & dance routine if they ever expect another red cent from me.

Eh. Maybe in a -90% sale.

It was two movies Frankensteined into one. The first half is awesome. The second, not so much.

I did one once. Managed to somehow install Catalina on a Lattepanda sbc. I would’ve never expected it to work, so I was positively elated.

The thing then promptly shorted, let out the magic smoke, and I haven’t tried anything similar since. Took it as a sign from the universe that if I were meant to be good at it, i wouldn’t have managed to fry aforementioned sbc, and several other ones (2 Jetson nano’s as well).