Self-respect. I’m not going to tolerate my property being sabotaged against me in service of some other entity, and I don’t understand why anybody else would either.

As soon as Windows 10 “telemetry” (read: spyware) started getting backported into Windows 7 almost a decade ago, I was gone.

Windows users in 2025 are nothing but cucks and simps for corporate abuse. They don’t “just buy, have, and use a computer;” they are part of the problem.

Alternatively, I would argue that all LLM code output must be GPL, since it was trained partially on GPL code.

Either that, or LLM code output cannot be used for any purpose at all, by anyone.

My car is old, my TV is old, and my phone runs Graphene OS. I’m not worried about the CIA in particular, but maintaining my property rights free of interference (whether corporate or government) is my non-negotiable requirement when shopping for technology.

First immersion circulators, now ultrasonic vibrators? What the Hell are you people doing to these eggs?! Modernist cuisine has gone too far!

Workarounds like this are the “oh, this black eye? I just fell down some stairs” of software development.

Never mind the tri-fold part; it’s ridiculous that anybody is stupid enough to buy Samsung’s DRM’d shit.

Uh… you do know that people don’t literally save a bunch of Linux ISOs, right? It’s a euphemism for collecting less legit things, like pirated media or porn.

By the time you want to install the same distro again, it’s likely that a new version will be out and you’ll want to re-download it anyway.

Edit: okay, okay, some of y’all really do collect Linux ISOs. That’s fine; I won’t kink-shame.

Why the state of the industry is shit, in a nutshell.

…my GPU reaching the age where it overheats easily…

That’s not some sort of natural aging process; that’s you failing to do maintenance. Clean out the dust and/or replace the thermal paste.

Radeon 780M iGPU for a $2 K price (I am assuming this is American style list pricing, even if they are London based) seems like a unattractive proposition.

It’s deceptively good. The 96 gigs of RAM is unified memory, accessible to both the CPU and GPU. It’s not great for gaming, but it punches above its weight running large AI models.

That said, for $2K I’d be looking for something with a Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 and 128 gigs of RAM in it.

Of the movies you listed, Hackers is the only one I’ve seen. Hack the planet!

That’s why they’re all-in on authoritarianism.

Pathetic compared to a 150+ MPH train. You don’t even fucking realize how much of a backwards, loser country we’re in.

I’m seeing the same sort of behavior in !fuckcars, and that community does (or at least should) have a pretty strong sense of what’s appropriate.

The kicker is, the stuff being posted is appropriate — in fact, often higher quality than the memes some of the established users post — so I’m at a bit of a loss as to what I (as a mod) should be doing about it.

You’re saying “'Abolish all money” is anarcho-capitalist propaganda?" LOL, that’s significantly stupider than anything I ever expected to read. Congratulations. 🤡

Quit posting ancap propaganda.

The way this sort of thing would actually improve is by government regulation.

For any machines that are too inefficient to be worth continuing to compute with, you could at least save the power supplies for electronics projects. I’ve got some 12V addressable RGB Christmas lights being powered by an old ATX power supply, for example.

Lack of marketing.

But I do agree that there should be 30 levels of checks and protocols to prevent anything like this from happening.

I don’t. General aviation is already overly expensive as it is; we don’t need to create even more barriers to entry by trying to hold homebuilt light airplanes to the same standards as commercial airliners.

Remember: this incident is newsworthy because it’s unusual. Changing policy based on it is a hysterical overreaction.

Taking less storage is almost the entire point of a zip file. It only takes more space than the original files in pathological cases (e.g. maybe if you’re trying to compress already-compressed data, like a video file).