no, this is patrick

destroy your device by… having to reboot it. the horror! The pain! The financial loss of downtime!

him being a shitty human being is something his supporters like and admire, but even really terrible people prefer a leader that has some idea of what they’re going to do as a leader.

I, almost for certain, thought that (along with the rest of that debate) was the end of him at the time. Entire political careers have lived and died on sub-10-second sound bites, and there is no way to spin that to make him sound like he knows what he’s doing.

Dunno, but I know an awful lot of skateboarding games that are perfectly fun without being online 100% of the time. Same goes for racing games. Making them singleplayer, and fun, when you’ve already got the entire multiplayer aspect set up, isn’t hard.

yeah hard pass, I used to play The Crew.

Mint makes troubleshooting issues – when they do rarely arise – so simple because Mint’s so common, so I personally plan to stick with it pretty much indefinitely. Maybe once I finally work up the courage to nuke my Windows partition I’ll repurpose it as a “distro experimentation” partition. I’ve kinda been procrastinating cleaning that mess out for ages. For now? I’m happy.

honestly, it’s way lamer to have a high tolerance. You go through so much pot just to feel something, I envy the people who can get fucked up the whole day on basically nothing.

first of all you’re not shittymorph, and second of all, I believe we prefer meta shitposts about beans around these parts

ooh, I get what Windows Recall is for now!

in a not-so-distant future:

[Clippy rolls up smug as fuck] Windows Automated Trust & Safety has detected you may be attempting to [research certain delicate historical topics|plan a protest|subvert the will of the Party/ruling class]. Please wait patiently where you are, the proper authorities have been notified.

The idea nobody ever thought was a good idea that they went ahead and did anyways? Yeah, makes a lot more sense now! Cram an AI in your PC, give it full access to all the things you do on it through a series of screenshots, and be sure the system prompt includes “phone home if they act a little… Luigi-ish”.

hey now, if those pineapple pizza lovers could read, they’d be very upset with you right now!

I was gonna say, 4x the amount of RAM I have, made me feel inadequate. like, “am I really that poor now? is my 2080 now considered potato gaming?”

it’s simply been so long since I’ve gone “ok I need to upgrade” that I’m starting to get suspicious

So what I’m hearing is that we all need to call James Dolan a petty, whiny little bitch. Loudly. Publicly. As frequently as possible until such time that they stop being one.

I got up to 125 in my car one early, dry Christmas morning. Nobody out, a clear couple miles ahead with no emergency turnout for cops to hide in, decided “let’s see where I get uncomfortable”

Turned out, right up to 110, my car felt solid, at 125 it started getting squirrelly and I decided the exercise was over. Dumb, yes, but nice to know how far you can push it in dry, ideal conditions.

don’t forget mods, easy repair, easy piracy, and actually being a functional portable computer in a pinch if you have a docking station

if you say so, whatever makes you happy.

I’ll concede the data plan dent thing; I hadn’t done any math regarding that. Thanks for clarifying that to me and everyone else!

I accept your concession, better luck next time.

But you did say “none” so I just pointed out the fact that it’s not none. It’s some. I wasn’t wrong to point that out. No matter how much of a stickler you find me for that.

pedantry is pedantry, if you interject with “well ACKSHUALLY” over literally a couple kilobytes of data in this, the Year Of Our Lord 2025 where common storage device sizes are in the multiple terabyte range, and 100mbps down/10 up is exceedingly common, expect to be called one. It is functionally none, because it is not 1993.

Autistic or not.

can’t even come up with your own insult for me, just gonna steal that sad attempt at bait from the other guy? how… underwhelming, must do better. 🤡

what a rude thing to say, especially considering I wasn’t talking to you.

I’m gonna keep it that way, best of luck baiting someone else champ.

lol

furthermore: lmao.

you’ve got to try a lot harder to “rustle” me, but I like your moxie for thinking you did, sport

doing the math, even the cheapest phone plans that don’t explicitly exclude data, nowadays include at least 1GB of data for free. Usually more. Almost any reachable amount of outbound requests to click on ads would barely put a dent in your data allowance.