Lol. Some galaxy brains were ‘Oh my Apple would never roll over and simply do what they’re told! They’ll keep our data safe!’ and mad at me for saying exactly this was going to happen.
Well, huh, look at that. A corporation that rolled over faster than a well-trained golden retriever. Who would have guessed it.
No no, you don’t understand!
He’s one of the good billionaires!
(/s for some of you, and for others perhaps you should reconsider why you feel the need to defend a billionaire, regardless of your opinion on video game platforms)
Now now, they’re not just inconsiderate assholes and leeches.
They’re inconsiderate nazi oligarch assholes and leeches.
For what they’re charging, you’re not going to get elite private security, you’re going to get mall cops on their day off.
This is not for the actual rich, it’s for tiktok influencers to show off.
Ah cool, the one time I read the article it’s wrong and saying that there hadn’t been someone who had stepped up yet.
Well, I’ll go back to making uninformed comments based solely on the headline, because clearly the articles are not adding any value. (/s, etc.)
Make H5N5 great kill everyone again!
Well, “maintainer” is usually a single person job. They didn’t write all the code or whatever, just were the gatekeeper to what got added and making sure shit works.
So I mean, it’s not great nobody is stepping up, but it’s also not like they magiced up the entirety of linux’s wifi support single handed, either.
Even following ‘beginner’ tutorials is hit or miss
It’s gotten worse than it even used to be, because more than half the “tutorials” I’ve run across are clearly AI written and basically flat out wrong.
Of course, they’re ALSO the “answers” that get pushed by Bing/Google so even if you run into someone who is willing to follow documentation, they’re going to get served worthless slop.
One thing I will give arch is that if there’s a wiki entry for something, it’s at least written by a human and is actually accurate which is more than I’ve found ANYWHERE else.
There’s no such thing as too much seeding.
Well, maybe the 85tb of Ubuntu 24.04 I’ve done is too much, but I mean, whatever.
(I’ve got basically everything I’ve downloaded in the last 7 years seeding, some 6000 torrents. qBittorrent isn’t the most happy with this, but it’s still working, if using a shit-ton of RAM at this point.)
And more fun, lots of laptops have really goofy routing. I’ve got one where the DP alt mode on the USB-C ports are on the dGPU, but the HDMI ports are on the iGPU. And the internal panel is on the iGPU unless you switch it to be on the dGPU because yay mux.
Why? I don’t know. Too much meth while laying the board out or something I guess.
Everything is temporary, except for that 25 year old system that’s keeping everything running and can’t be replaced because nobody knows how or why it works just that if you touch it everything falls over.
I mean, eBay exists. You can get a Commodore 64, a Mac II-era mac, or a 486 for not that much money.
I have a giant pile of retro stuff including those, and an absurdly expensive Pentium 1ghz box with a proper Vortex 2 and 3dfx voodoo 5 card, sitting around for retro gaming.
Which uh, mostly is all I do anymore. There’s also a TON of modern improvements to emulate floppy drives, replace hard drives with SD cards, and even new video and sound cards that are waaaaay better than what you had to deal with when the hardware was new.
It’s not as cheap as it was 5 years ago, but it’s still reasonable if you have an era you’re after and kinda stay focused on one or two retro computers and don’t, say, decide you want to own one of every G3 and G4 tower that was made or anything insane like that.
…stop looking at me like that.
There’s also a ton of Youtubers that are touching all sorts of rare and expensive hardware that’s a good watch, too. (8 Bit Guy, LGR, Adrian’s Digital Basement, Necroware)
I’m not quite THAT old, but I certainly remember the early 90s.
Tech was all new and cool, and I remember very much reading computer shopper or going to various computer stores looking at all the new cool shit I desperately wanted but could in no way afford.
And, of course, the BBS lists that were in the back of computer shopper and various other things like that: I spent uh, more time than I should admit arguing about stupid shit online via local BBSes and Fidonet and a couple of other networks. But, even then, you’re right: the absolute hostility was very high, but it was about who had the “right” computer, or my dumb 13 year old opinion of which games were fun, and the level of absolute grumpiness was way lower.
(As an aside, those FTN-style networks do still exist, and still have people having conversations on them, and it’s still pretty great.)
Now even the hardware is boring: oh gee, the new CPUs are 5% faster for $600! Oh yay! New video cards which are 10% faster for $1800! Like who gives a shit anymore. The days of there being generational or even every-other-generational improvements sufficient to justify prices of buying it are quite dead, and I don’t know if that’s just physics being a pain or if it’s straight up engineering design choices. Both, probably.
Anyway I’ll stop internet Boomering and go take my metamucil and watch the wheel.
They were NiCad batteries, which would leak, and then completely eat and destroy the charging/temperature board.
Source: I have one and uh, they did and it’s completely useless because it won’t power on without the batteries attached, and I’m at a total loss as to how to or where even I could get/fix that charging board.
Shame since you’re right, it’s super cool, but must-have-a-battery was a horrible design choice that’s made repairing it seem like it’s probably not possible - I’d have to buy another one to get a working charger board at which point, well, I have a 2nd one so why fix the first?
You keep cloning and configuring shit on a Win10 instance because you can’t find the key?
That’s silly and you should just stop doing that: https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
There you go! One less problem to deal with.
Not voting was a vote for Nazis, so yeah, the ~40% that did not vote are being clumped in with them.
While I don’t disagree, I still think using a Kindle device is stupid.
No reason that they can’t just go ‘oh we didn’t sell those books, we should clean up all that unauthorized content’ at some point in the future.
Buy something that’s not made by Amazon, even if it costs a bit more or has worse features, because well, they’re not to be trusted.
(Or custom non-connected firmware if that’s a thing for Kindles. Never really looked so no idea if that’s a thing.)
many US citizens are that stupid
Most.
30% voted for this, 40% couldn’t be fucked to vote against this so we’ve got a base of 70% of this country being dumb as shit.
0.001 ElonCoin says that absolutely nobody will revolt against anything.
70% of the country either wants this or was too lazy to do a single thing to stop it, and the other 30% is too busy yelling at each other about how they’re the most pure.
Ain’t shit gonna happen.
Every platform ends up coated in a layer of CSAM filth, so I wouldn’t really attribute this to a malicious intent desiring Bluesky to be destroyed as much as people are horrible and gross and the internet is a prime example of why we can’t have nice things.
The real test here is if Bluesky is going to do the legal minimum, or actually do something aggressive, proactive, and useful.