I’m excellent at moving from one task to another

(they just may not be the ones you want me working on)

i hadn’t heard that one. but woohoo get 'em boys. do a noriega–come here and drag his fat diaper-covered ass back there for judgement.

it can do it!

… just not today

got a ripping and converting pc that ain’t any better. it’s all it does, so speed don’t matter any. hb has queue, so nbd. i just let it go… and go… and go…

well, say i’m playin’ off my legacy gaming rig with northwoods p4 and geforce 3. how many hours per ‘ai’?

skates are, iirc, the only piece of ice hockey equipment that might cost extra on import.

was the item coded right?
9506.99.25.40/hockey stick

Prices will increase

as always.

cut costs, raise prices on the now-cheapened product. if sales don’t continue to go up anyway, raise prices even more to compensate. must have infinite profit growth regardless of consequence. the struggles of a public company are just so heartbreaking.

i read this as something like ‘we had a deal to rent the show to a different service but that fell through…’

probably started more around the switch. it takes microsoft forever to invent copy something.

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-project-leader-matthew-miller-a-change-of-hats/139422

‘the chart’ is a good starting point.

note: linking to harvard because they have a static snapshot that is viewable without scripting enabled. just click it to go to the source at ad fontes.

i tend to stick with local public radio. it’s always on when i’m in the car. when i see a post or headline that i want to read more about, i feed it to the duck and look for relevant content at places like reuters, ap, npr, or the nearest major papers (milwaukee, madison) that aren’t in chicago (too much ‘chicagoland’ in them, and i avoid the city).

note that in addition to staff reporting, the ap is also reliant on member publications–which means that those biases end up on ‘the wire’, too.

guessing they’re using the carrier’s data for verification. name, address, phone number, socials and at least partials of credit cards, bank accounts. whatever relevant that they have.

this is all data the credit bureau has on you already

in my experience they change brands about the same time the bulbs start burning out

lifetime guarantee!!

your lifetime? nope.

the fixture’s lifetime? nope.

the building’s lifetime? nope.

the lifetime of their marketplace seller account.

of course they wanna charge you. they’ve been purposefully fucking with incandescent light bulb lifetimes for a hundred years as a means to increase profits.

they can’t do that anymore, so they need another racket to get you to keep coming back and giving them money…

and they found it.

just like every other greedy bastard corporation—subscriptions.

at least they aren’t gimping the led units to some arbitrary lifespan, but you know damn well they’re using the cheapest shortest-lasting sub-components and cheapest manufacturing they can find.

have you updated the bios yet (latest appears to be v2.9.1) and reset the bios settings to defaults?

when it doesn’t affect you, and it doesn’t for the vast majority… you can just sit back and enjoy the show.

if you can’t get your haswell qsv to work (it does here, btw) and need to make a move…

at that budget (100gbp ~ 120eur ~ 125usd), your best play might be the cheapest, lowest wattage video card you can find that works with your software and supports at least the encoding you need (if not also newer formats).

you might find something like an alder lake n-series barebones mini pc or itx/matx board/cpu (might not be a ‘drop in’ swap in your t20) for something at least close what you’re looking to spend. anything else for 100 quid is probably gonna be surplus or used stuff you can find locally.

just a step or two removed from what’s probably their ultimate goal: a unique guid for every device, that you can’t change, can’t remove, can’t decline, and is always with you–including linking multiple devices when you log-in to the same account somewhere across googleland from them.

it’s effective, timely, accurate, and profitable.

ofc they’re gonna use the audio, too; where and when possible.

it’ll blow a door, drop an engine, and veer off-course before crashing, long before it got to ya.