Fun, aren’t they?

That’s your state. Just looked and registration fees and tags are all over the place.

Texas used to, maybe still does. You made me try to look it up and couldn’t find a simple source. Plenty of states use MRSP or some measure of the vehicle’s value.

Back in the day (Tulsa, OK) my friend had a 2-ton dump truck with antique tags (over 25-yo), paid $20. Meanwhile, someone buying a super-light Corvette was paying $650. (early 90s money)

I say go on weight, maybe some factoring of value. Registration fees are paying for roads, if your monster vehicle is doing more damage, you pay more.

C’mon! I’m in the South and never saw some shit like that. Spent 6-months loading cars at Lowe’s, not one elderly person in a monster truck. Old dude’s like me stick to “normal” pickups like my 2004 F150.

Fucking with a coworker back in the day who drove a monster SUV with zero need. I don’t noramlly make judgement on that but I knew the family well. Her husband had a nice truck and their one kid was adult and moved out.

“I drive it because it’s safer.”

“So you’re happy to kill someone in a tiny car like mine, as long as you’re OK?”

<stares motherfuckerly>

“Aren’t you Christian? What do you figure Jesus would say about that?”

“Get out of my office Shalafi.”

🤷🏻

Meh, who knows. First one was pretty good, original cast is back. If they have a clever angle it could be good, or maybe it’s a rehash with a new girl and this time Hathaway abuses her.

🚢 -> 🐀

K thnx bye

You are reading way too much into my comment. I just thought it would be a more interesting experiment if the guy had put a tiny bit of effort into making it look at least plausibly real.

Maybe he made it awful on purpose? 🤷🏻

Missed that line! Thanks!

I deploy it through PowerShell.

PS really is the bomb. Been a Windows sysadmin for a decade and I couldn’t do a damned thing without PS. I have no modern programming or scripting experience, yet picked up PowerShell and started implementing it very quickly. If you’re running Active Directory, it’s a must, no question.

Snover has some great intro to PS videos. That’s what got me started.

It’s a whopping 6 pages and mostly double-spaced and more white space. And lemmy upvotes these cynical comments without a shred of investigation.

I’m reading it as making data centers harder to block, now I’m not so sure. Your take?

I just read the bill. Where are you seeing restrictions? I’m reading it as restrictions are banned unless there is compelling reason for the government to enact such restrictions. That’s all well enough defined.

EDIT: I was wrong on the DCs. Restricting them is specifically called out in the bill. Good deal!

Only negative thing I’m seeing is this seems to make banning new DCs a lot tougher.

Would have been far more interesting as an experiment if he had done a better job on better media. Doesn’t usually look so hot, but printing on canvas isn’t some rare thing.

How long would it have stayed up? How would people react?

One reason I like living around rednecks. After the last hurricane, which didn’t really touch our hood, dudes were patrolling the streets in pickups, hunting downed limbs.

There was a sandy patch on the way into our camp where cars would get stuck. One day I pulled up on 3 with 2 vehicles and a bunch of neighbors working on getting them out. Parked up the street and walked down, “OK. Who we getting out first?” I’ve been towed out myself on 4-5 occasions.

Coolest thing is that all those dirt roads are private. Somebody put their own money into upgrading and fixing the whole mess. There are at least 2 guys that cruise around on their little tractors and grade the streets now and again.

Thought on this before. I don’t think any of us could take the change without going insane and likely catatonic.

It’s not just about learning coordination all over again, getting used to new physical quirks. Different hormones, reflexes, nerve wiring, gut bacteria, senses, just too much to handle. Hell, I’d go into shock if your dropped me in my own body from 20-years back.

I’m behind on all this. What desktop OS runs on ARM?

Spellcheck crosses out even basic English, has me questioning myself! I’ve probably added 2,000 words to the dictionary, no improvement.

Weird graphic artifacts, non-stop, it’s blinking as I edit this post.

Sometimes the graphics go fuzzy and I have to reboot, not even restarting the video drivers works, no issue in Edge.

Imgur doesn’t load. I use the Imagus extension in both browsers, flawless in Edge, spotty in Firefox. (Yes, that’s on Imagus, probably not the browser.)

I can watch YouTube logged in on Edge with Ublock, no ads. Have to log out in Firefox. So if I see an interesting video here, I have to copy/paste to Edge.

Porn browsing? Straight to Edge. What six keys do I need to hit for private mode again? CTRL+SHIFT+N, as it ever was.

There’s more, but those issues are top of mind.

I could probably figure out these issues, point being, non-technical users would run away. Kinda like how lemmy is utterly broken for me. My brain just shunts off the annoyances, but I can’t expect anyone else to do so.

I can hardly sell Linux to Joe User, when not even technical people use it as a daily driver, was the point of my original comment.

This is Business 101. You establish a product or service, get a customer base, trade off the low-paying customers for high-paying customers. I don’t know why this is offensive or mysterious, did it when I fixed PCs on the side. Low paying customers were a pain in the ass, biggest complainers, had the most issues, cost me overhead and time. Wanted to help them, couldn’t afford to. Bigger businesses have already figured this out.

The mystery is why so many are happily paying for this bullshit.

Posted on Nextdoor.com how the Trump admin was slashing NOAA and how that was serious for us on the Gulf Coast.

“Don’t care! I can pay for my AccuWeather app you filthy liberal!”

“And where do you think they get their data?”

“Not talking to ignorant toddlers!”

<somewhat paraphrased, but that what the gist of the conversation. Also got made fun of for bringing up Project 2025. “FAKE!”>

Point being, I had no idea anyone was dumb enough to pay for a weather app. Imma stump for Weawow on Android. Free, works for me. You can pay for bells and whistles, works great without. Only thing I’d want is tides, can’t expect that from a free app. 🤷🏻

Lemmy: “Switch to Linux!”

Me, in IT for 3 decades: “Fuck is Wayland?”

Comments: Clusterfuck of conflicting opinions.

Seriously, y’all are not moving me to switch daily drivers here. I run nothing but headless Linux servers, but for a desktop? Let me start a fight: Which distro?

Last job was at a software dev. One soul of 130 worked with Linux as his daily driver. One. And y’all expect non-technical people to run Linux?!

Also, and this guarantees downvotes, I don’t have the Windows issues you all tell me I have. Same install, years and years, multiple SSDs and PCs, no issues. I can hear you grinding your teeth, “NOAWW! You have problems! I INSIST your desktop fucks up all the time! I INSIST $MS crams unwanted updates up your ass!” Well, there is an update icon waiting on me. Not touching it ATM.

Only issue in recent memory is that it sometimes doesn’t wake properly. About once every 2 weeks I have to hold the power button for a few seconds, let off, hit it again, acheive desktop.

Not trusting the gang who talked me into Firefox last year. What a fucking mess of a browser. Was on Edge last week, without realizing it, everything was smooth as glass. Firefox fucks up the most basic spellcheck. Really?! Still have to swap over to watch YouTube without ads, how’s that for irony? Imagur is plain broken outside of Edge. I get weird graphic artifacts and issues on Firefox.