It was expected, or should have been.

There’s no way I’m joining. Give it a little time, it will be a festering boil.

Edit to add I’ve never used Twitter either. They just seem like they’re designed to promote conflicts. I have enough of that in my life already. I’ll stand by my prediction though.

I will take your windows 10 PC and give you a keychain made of DDR2 RAM in trade.

I did the cigar thing for about a year. After that I went to a pack of cigarettes a month. About a year of that and I finally quit. I smoked for about fifteen years but I haven’t smoked tobacco in over fifteen years.

I did that once.

I have a decent list of software I need it for unfortunately so I’m keeping my best PC on Windows, but I have four PCs in the house. I’ve been running Linux on one of them for a couple years but the other two will be moved over by Windows 10 EOL.

I’m going to have my B450 in the house until it stops working. My son will own it next.

I know this post was from a few weeks ago. The PC is still working perfectly with its old PSU. My guess was the one case fan that was completely seized was drawing too much power or causing a short. I may still replace his PSU since I already have a good replacement, but I might wait until I have a GPU upgrade for him and just build a new rig for him. I pass my video cards down to my kids as I upgrade.

People in the comments had mentioned I didn’t really explain what it was doing. It would spin up the fans for about two seconds and then shut down, it wasn’t posting. That motherboard doesn’t have a code display, it will give beep codes for some errors but it wasn’t beeping, it just powered down. Whatever, it’s working well again, and as old as it is, it runs the games he plays very well at 1080p/60fps which is all his monitor supports so I’m not in a hurry to build him a new rig just yet.

I’m playing Fallout 4 right now. It’s not the only game I play by any means. Too many new games are overly focused on graphics or monetization. I’m always trying new games and the better ones often don’t have the best graphics. We want 2010 gameplay. Hell, I’ll still play Unreal Tournament 1999 GOTY edition, but older games usually need resolution and texture upgrade mods. Fortunately a lot of great old games actually get them.

Also a lot of people who are against taking away choice from society don’t consider abortion an option for themselves personally. There will always be accidental pregnancies that result in children that people struggle to afford to feed, house and care for.

The top of this thread is pushing for it though.

Yes, and probably a slim majority of those armed people voted for Trump. This power equalizer is one of the reasons our protests don’t get more violent. In a lot of places here, if someone reasonably fears for their life because of your actions they can can just shoot you. It’s why leftists rarely take protests to conservative areas. And the fascists just laugh while Democrat voters burn down businesses in their own neighborhoods. We need to target the oligarchs’ businesses and income streams, but too many people like “their” billionaires who donate pennies of their dollars to popular causes to appease those who might otherwise bring out the guillotines.

Not to mention “most people” wouldn’t fit in here or feel welcome. Remember Donald Trump won the popular vote and even those who didn’t vote didn’t feel strongly enough about either side to pick one or the other. It’s not just the US, far right candidates keep gaining popularity in parts of Europe. And I think a lot of people aren’t interested in Star Trek or trans rights. The niche communities have very low levels of activity too. The fediverse just isn’t for everyone.

I honestly have no idea why anyone who cares even 1% about their privacy would have ever bought one of these abominations in the first place. If I ever receive one as a gift I will burn it with fire.

I like to pick out my own produce, shop markdown items and sales, and I like getting out of the house. My regular store has a bar too. I never drink there, but there is usually some eye candy around. And for those who want to shop from their PC or phone, Kroger delivery is quicker where I’m at.

There are some documented communications from Dems doing this. Of course Trump is doing it ten times as hard. Precedents matter, and this has been going on on a smaller scale since way before Biden. Probably back to Reagan or much earlier. Before social media it was controlling the major news outlets, although back then there were still a few independent journalists. Now independents get deplatformed.

They just keep getting more and more emboldened. They’re determined to control the narrative, and by they, really I mean oligarchs.

Left authoritarianism is a scourge just as much as fascism, but I’m an anti-authoritarian centrist. Yes it is normal to fear authoritarians. The proletariat must not be disarmed.

Their computer. You’re just a user.

I’ll buy it when but drops to $19.99. probably Steam summer sale 2028.

The car I drive was only $22k new and it’s able to drive moderate jeep trails and get me deep into the forest and up mountains on unmaintained roads/trails which when I’m not on a trip for work, that’s where I’m going. You can’t rent vehicles like that in my area. I have a Thule hard sided cargo carrier on the roof to hold the extra gear.