UnspecificGravity

We literally had hundreds of games and had bought maybe ten of them.

Petite who want something better probably shouldn’t be shopping for a commodore 64.

The government of Venezuela is still in place. The very same government that was in place before the US kidnapped ONE member of that government.

Which is exactly why you want to deal with companies that don’t collect that data in the first place. You know, exactly what he said.

I’ve watched pornhub a million times, but my data isn’t in this breach. Know why? Because I never made a profile or gave them one shred of information in the first place. All they could possibly have is a browser fingerprint and my VPNs various IP addresses. That is the point.

Oh look, a government that seems to be at least a little interested in things that benefit their people.

Good point, it’ll just be XP, which is already happening in lots of places.

Anyone that cannot figure out how to install linux probably shouldn’t be fucking with their operating system in the first place.

You can also just buy a live USB distro and install by doing nothing more than turning off your computer and turning it on again, which is even easier than installing a program in windows.

Furthermore, there is a very real argument to be made that you should NOT be able to EASILY nuke an operating system from within itself. Windows devs would be pretty reasonable to define any program able to easily do that as being malware.

This makes me think about the hospital I used to work at that had an old 386 parked in the shop running the HVAC system. They had it completely off the network and had to keep it because it was the only way to run the proprietary HVAC control software and would cost an absurd amount of money to upgrade to be compatible with modern systems and it still did its job.

I imagine a future where there is a computer like that running windows 11 in some basement and new employees are trained “don’t even think about touching this thing, its doing its job.”

Literally everyone I know that runs a Linux desktop and also has a job.

Its is almost universally the main reason that even a lot of Linux daily-drivers still have a windows install available to them. They fuck up Office enough and there isn’t a reason to even have Windows for most users.

That’s why they want you to put all your stuff in their dumb cloud, because its the only reason people would keep using this garbage, because they can hold your work ransom in their shitty ecosystem.

That is the whole business model of tech now. Stealing your shit and selling it back to you. That is it.

The fact that the two halves of their face smooshed together only make a slightly grotesque but plausible human says a lot about how much they really do resemble each other

Only the female bees have stingers.

Birds lay eggs and bees pollinate.

For the traditional story, birds are girls, bees are boys.

Hence the common UK slang of calling girls “birds” or in the US “chicks”.

Ironic given that bee sexual reproduction is probably the least analogous to humans in the entire animal kingdom and the VAST majority of bees that you encounter outside the nest (and the only bees with stingers" are sterile female worker bees.

The company absolutely does own shares of itself and it’s ability to secure credit and just engage in business in general depends of the value of that holding.

Weird to think that there is some percentage of this world that still goes to BestBuy, GameStop, and watches ads on TV and that its big enough to be worth marketing to.