The trick with selling Linux is not telling the user it’s not Windows. I used to refurb old laptops for old ladies. Throw a light version of Linux on there, show 'em the internet, maybe setup email, done. And I never got pestered to come back and fix shit.

I don’t believe this meme for a second.

Wikipedia:

The production of single-core desktop processors ended in 2013 with the Celeron G440, G460, G465 & G470.

Those are so weak it’s not even funny.

neckbeard freedomfighters

LOL, that is delicious.

Been downvoted plenty of times for saying I don’t get 1/10th of the Windows hassle lemmy talks about, probably less. Don’t have the LTSC version of 11, but it’s from a plain Jane ISO, not a factory install, which I would bet is the cause of many people’s pain.

A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union.

In the momentous step which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so long formed a part, it is but just that we should declare the prominent reasons which have induced our course.

Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.

Sounds fun to play around with, but lonely, socially isolated people will get sucked in. God knows the internet has created enough people like that, this just feeds the beast.

When I was a kid you saw it on the big screen or you waited several years for a truncated version to hit one of the three networks. Saw Star Wars in 1977 at 6-yo, didn’t hit broadcast TV until 1984.

Nah, not better. You will eventually stop thinking about these things and they’ll just happen.

Those don’t even come to my mind, I live them without thought.

OK, sometimes if a thing is a PITA I’ll think, “Crap, can’t make someone else do it.”

Beast Master FTW.

Been wanting that gif and been too lazy to record it!

AI is far more than LLMs. Why does everyone on lemmy think AI is nothing but?!

The Way of the Gun is fantastic.

The government will still have to pay to use Excel. Too much shit will break, you can’t just flip an .xlxs into another program.

Bingo. Lots of stupid things at this level boil down to legal protection. You’ll see it everywhere once you learn and look.

Gillian Anderson may get my view, but in any case I’m not going to the theater.

Scots sounds like:

"Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna’ be fooled again!”

I got an AC powered unit off Amazon a couple of years ago. How can I tell if it’s fake? Jewelry comes out bangin’, but I’ve wondered it if should work even better.

Wife got this stuff last week and it seemed to make a dramatic difference.

OTOH, I can’t see this thing having a legit transducer. Anyway to tell without tearing it down? Guess that’s easy enough if I really care.

Should I try something rusty? Should a “real” one work for that? Also, it gets the water pretty hot. Is that an indicator?

I have a few.

This is how my tech interview went this week. For every question the panel had I returned a battle story. They were laughing and serious at the same time. Bagged it!

But… HR stuck their nose in and wants their guy interviewed. So now I have to wait a week for them to (hopefully) say, “Thanks but we’re going with Shalafi71.”

I do much the same in my head.

Know what’s crazy? We sling bags of mulch, dirt and rocks onto customer vehicles every day. No one, neither coworkers nor customers, will do simple multiplication. Only the most advanced workers do it. No lie.

Customer wants 30 bags of mulch. I look at the given space:

“Let’s do 6 stacks of 5.”

Everyone proceeds to sling shit around in random piles and count as we go. And then someone loses track and has to shift shit around to check the count.