Changing from the original upvote scheme, where the absolute peak was Obama with like 10 or 12k, to now, where we see upvote in the six figures, was a huge mistake over there, really watered everything down. One of many mistakes along the way.

Can’t brick my G500 and my Z5500s. Best in class, approaching decades old at this point.

But as with every company, profits over quality. Fuck em.

Yes, streaming, for me, is the gateway to new. I do use Spotify and I’ll say what I’ve said a bajillion times: It has shown me numerous new artists, a good many of which I have given money. It seems like a good deal.

Yeah, I think the whole idea of the US wanting the chips produced inside its own borders makes sense in a vacuum. China fucks around (which, sure, is against their character), chips are safe.

Obviously we don’t live in a vacuum, and the US diplomatic mission is, at best, totally unreadable, and at worst, won’t help anyone but itself.

As with just about any other nation, the US is using what is ostensibly it’s only bargaining chip these days, their massive consumerism, knowing that Taiwan sells the majority of its chips to the US.

This play seems to be Trump’s only play: Demand something outrageous, with some thinly veiled threats overlaying the demand. Get rejected. Receive counterproposal that is far, far less than initial demand. Tout superiority.

Yeah, a lot of these drug companies have ad budgets larger than the R&D budget, but any overhead is used to jack up the prices. I swear ads are sold at inflated prices for the sake of being able to sell high.

I’ll probably catch a little flak, but it’s sad to see the Forza name live on only through Horizons now. Motorsport was a great game.

We did that too. But as the meme says I have one fork that doesn’t fit, I don’t know where it came from, but there’s times when it’s been the only available fork, and so I won’t just get rid of it.

Happy Birthday.

I have little to no background in IT or CS, but I always wanted to set up networks with those Ubiquiti antennas that can broadcast out a few kilometers. I got a buddy who just happens to be a few kilometers away. We could set up our own private, albeit incredibly limited, internet. Outside of that, if you’re using a utility or a service, you can’t expect your info to be locked up right. And so you need to keep certain shit offline, or use a HAM radio, or some other kind of private network for broadcasting, which is not feasible. But it would be neat.

Could always have a really long string with cans on either end. Can’t tap that phone.

I use Google suite. Use it for work stuff, general bullshit. Works great. None of the data going over it is of particular import (to me).

There are things that I believe require a better handling, and they’re handled differently, all the way up to physical media.

It just might be naive, in this day and age, to think a company won’t cooperate with authorities. Yes, there are exceptions, but they either fear repercussions or they were never built well enough to keep authorities out in the first place.

Unfortunately I don’t have a receipt in my email for it because I bought it at MicroCenter, got a really good deal on it. So I can’t remember what gen. I think I just need to enable the TPM thingy in the bios, but that it was specifically the processor that was the issue. All this is beyond me, I’m in following instructions mode and not inherent knowledge mode.

A buddy of mine has the same, we bought them together, so I know it’ll work, I just need to do the work.

I’m a little out of date in my tech knowledge, but I built my current PC, built them all, always had enough knowledge to just get my shit going. It’s a 9900k so I got a do the bios thingy to make it work with 11, but I just haven’t gotten around to doing it. I know it’s not a big deal, but here I am. I even did something in the bios not too long ago trying to use Docker to host a Minecraft server for my kids.

And so yeah, if I didn’t have to TPM, it’d be over and done, but I’m just dragging my feet, and will presumably continue to do so. Hey, maybe they announce a moving of the deadline, I feel like that’s been a thing in the past.

And let me just get out ahead of this: I have a proprietary software that only works with Windows. I’m in a niche field. I’m also not so aggressive about the whole OS thing, it works fine for me. I turn on computer (who am I kidding, it’s on 24/7 for literally every) and it starts up quickly, does what I need it to do, etc. I have laptops with 11 and they do the same. I turn off the stupid copilot features, do some light tweaking here and there, as I’ve been doing since XP, and it works.

I am admittedly interested in the Linux, but my interest in using my computer is not what it was back in my teens and early 20s, and so I just don’t care.

I have great gear, I have FLACs, I have 180g records, and I have Spotify, and they all sound fine. Perhaps I come from a time when 192 mp3s were what you downloaded, but IMO if it’s a 320 mp3 or above it sounds the same. Only time I ever noticed and appreciated a difference was when sampling or mixing, and then higher quality can be appreciated, but if I’m just cranking tunes, Spotify, FLAC, or vinyl, really makes no difference, they all drown out the ringing in my ears just fine.

I’m in a family plan, so when this change hits, going to have to find alternative methods.

Ha, got me. So true, though. Maybe not at that age, but I always tell my wife (and kids) that it took time for me to really love them. Now, forget it, wife is an easy third place, AINEC.

The preexisting condition is having a brain.

Half of the posts here apply to the general population just as well.

When I run and come on people who clearly have no idea I’m there, I yell “HEY,” when I’m like 15 feet back or so. That’s all I feel obligated to do. If you wander around the world completely unaware that it ain’t a private server, you deserve a little scare.

Back when I was young, swimming competitively, my go-to high snack was an Entemann’s All Butter French Crumb Cake and a half gallon of 2% milk. 2700 calories in a clip. Literally couldn’t put on weight.

But this story’s going to take a turn, because let me tell you, that shit catches up, and a poor diet is hard to forget, but when you’re old you do put on the weight.

So I’m going to say no, don’t eat the whole thing. Eat half of it.

I don’t even know how to pronounce it. Forge Joe? For Gay Ho?