I stopped ordering tech on Amazon when I got a fraud twice in a month on back-to-back orders a few years back.

First was a laptop that wouldn’t start. I looked at the bottom and the scewes were mostly stripped, and once I got them out most of the components had been removed from the boards.

Second was a Spyder color calibrator. What I got instead was a iPhone 4 screen protector with a sticker slapped on with the UPC for what I’d ordered. When I tried returning it, they gave me flack for slap-tagging a return, but I was able to escalate in that case.

https://youtu.be/o6p0W4ZsLXw

I remember when the Texas Lone Star Rail project between Austin and San Antonio finally got “fully funded.” I was in college taking a transportation systems course, and one of our guest speakers was the director of the project.

I realized how doomed we were when I found out she was the only employee of the project and only worked 20 hours a week - almost all of which was speaking engagements.

Because they’re in the epilog of the book maybe?

For me, there’s 3 reasons to watch movies. 1 is to kill time because I’m bored while being too tired to do anything that requires real attention. That’s mostly been replaced by YouTube. The second is because I want to experience a good piece of art. And the third is for a fun experience.

If I’m going to a theater, it’s gonna he for a big, splash film with gorgeous visuals. I ain’t paying 15-20 dollars a person for a slow, contemplative film I could enjoy at home.

At the same time, when I’m by myself at home, I’m not really into the flashy stuff, because fun is something to share with friends and family. So that’s when I watch the deeper stuff.

What we want is a solution for customers who don’t understand the benefit of DP and won’t buy an adapter when there’s already HDMI ports on both devices.

The book has an epilog that takes place after the events of the original books and specifically mentions them.

Mangioni is being charged as a terrorist. Life insurance typically has a clause that it doesn’t cover acts of war or terrorism.

Thompson’s life insurance should have been withheld.

Yeah. They solved protien folding with ML a few years back. And I like using it for things like noise removal in Lightroom.

But so much of it has been focused on useless (at best) bullshit that I just want the bubble to burst already.

I work in government, and the “work on work phone” rule is sacred. If I do any work on my personal phone, my personal phone becomes subject to Open Records.

The earth is also rotating and orbiting the sun, which is rotating around the galaxy, which is itself moving.

Top of that lorry is gonna be whipping around at relativistic speeds.

Heck, just hitting a potholes will make it move millions of lightyears.

Scaling goes in both directions.

While nobody is talking about the Intel B580, which was actually spectacular for the price.

if you haven’t played Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night you really, really should. It’s made by the creators behind the Castevania games and is REALLY good.

Batman: Arkham Asylum should count. Maybe not the later games as much, but definitely Asylum. It’s all about backtracking with new gear to unlock new areas and paths.

The Tomb Raider survivor trilogy scratches the itch a bit as well.

Which is super fucking annoying to me. I teach Scuba, and that’s like the number one hand gesture we use underwater, and in my circle of diving peeps we use it constantly on the surface as well.

I’m a fat, white, Christian, straight, male gun-owner from Texas who also happens to be a leftist.

I really didn’t need another reason for people to assume I was MAGA.

That’s not accurate. A tax write-off isn’t “taxes you don’t pay”. It’s “lost income that isn’t taxed”.

The US corporate income tax is nominally 21%. If a company writes off 100 of loss (or charitible donations, or expenses, or anything else), their earnings are reduced by 100 dollars, saving them 21 bucks. There’s no way to “profit” off of failure through write-offs.

Yeah - he could have fixed it. He had a whole team of people who probably already knew how to do it and might have even known himself.

But the video isn’t supposed to be someone who knows how to navigate problem-solving on Linuz setting up Linux. It’s supposed to be someone trying Linux, and it’s a good representation of the experience.

Indo not EVER recommended random people to try Linux, because as much as Windows and MacOS suck, they generally work out of the box with minimalist user intervention. You buy a laptop with Windows it’s generally gonna turn on and run the software you want it to run.

Linux does not have that experience for the average user. And the very fact that there’s a million forks doesn’t make it better. Especially when the system-crashing bug is unique to version 1.9763x version of the weird fork you’re using that was only the live version for 17 minutes 8 months ago and only pops up when using version 4.63x of whatever software you’re using.

When Windows has a bug that is occurs when using Excel it impacts millions of people and is discovered within minutes.

The patents expired iirc. The doubple-chop flashlight should be on every phone. It’s just so handy.

They can’t sell them at a loss without a locked-down ecosystem. Sony learned that the hard way with the OtherOS support for the PS3 that lead to a ton of them being purchased to build cheap supercomputer ls and never spending a dime on games or software to cover the loss.