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.

Yep. And since I carry 3 laptops in my backpack (2 for work and one personal), it’s a problem.

Though I will say the fact that all 3 can be powered by Type-C cables has been since huge life improvement since i don’t need to carry around 3 different charging bricks.

Getting it to display on a screen is gonna cost enough to kill any value proposition.

How many people in 2025 are still going to be using a display with vintage inputs?

Can they fix the “randomly turn itself back on and drain the battery while in its bag so that it’s always dead when you actually need to use it on the go” problem?

Because that’s been a problem for like 20 years at this point and means I have to treat my laptops as if they don’t actually have batteries because it’s schrodinger’s power any time I pull one out to work.

I was at a conference this week, and half the attendees were huddled in the cafeteria the whole time because there were some tables on one wall with outlets.

Lazlow, Dan Houser, and the rest of the old creative team at Rockstar are no longer with the company.

GTA6 is gonna sell like mad regardless, but unlike the last several Rockstar blockbusters I’m waiting to see if it’s good before giving them any money.

The city is buying me like 15 grand in new software licenses this year, but I can’t convince them to spend another 2 grand on a new fucking computer because mine is “supposed” to be good for 2 more years.

My work laptop was upgraded to Windows 11 and performance has severely suffered.

As someone who usually uses 3 monitors (sometimes 4) and does GIS, it’s an issue.

I read “platformer” and was excited for a sucessor to Mario Teaches Typing."

But this is still pretty awesome.

I actually also have a Razr+. My employer pays me a stipend to have a second phone so thay when I eventually leave I don’t have a bunch of contractors calling my personal number.

I just realized my Z-fold with controller case could make a truly excellent DS emulator.

Anyone know if there’s an emulator out there that supports folding phones in landscape mode as a DS, similar to the way YouTube will split the video and the controls when partway folded in landscape more?

Gaming on Linux is like gaming on Windows 20 years ago when you spent more time just trying to get the fucking game to run than actually playing the game.

I got an error trying to launch a BF2 expansion that told me to contact the nearest rendering developer.

It’ll be handy to have a tool that makes things up that they can use an an excuse to arrest you.

Lots of single-use plastics are years old by the time they make it to the end user.

The logistics of a plastic that degrades that quickly are difficult.

I’m an American worker. Bitching is pretty much the only benefit we get.

That’s the beauty of AI. It can look everywhere without requiring additional manpower.

I do like Inkscape a lot, but GIMP simply isn’t a viable alternative for photoshop for most users. The interface is horrid and the capabilities are limited. Adobe knew what they were doing with their strategic buyouts of developers.