Awfully big words, for someone who doesn’t believe in germ theory.

Gotta vote to keep a clear conscience for what comes next

Found the magnet: link

Fair warning, this crashes the Jerboa client when clicked directly. I was able to copy it over to qBit, there’s a few video files, but I haven’t had time to watch through them yet.

Y’all doin god’s work. Archive saved my ass a couple months ago, had to run Win7 in a VM for legacy software, had to pass a USB 3.0 Ethernet adapter into it. Pulled a generic USB 3.0 driver for Win7 from archive.org, last place on earth to grab it.

One to break, one to fix, one to use.

Minor system modification that would life-changingly benefit >90% of the population, for this generation and the next, while leaving the other 10% relatively unaffected, blocked with no support after decades of waiting: “Absolutely not, this is an unprecedented proposal, fuck you for even considering it”

Major system modification that uproots all precedent, completely changes all the existing procedures, massively benefits two people while fucking over everyone else, passed with unopposed unanimous support three weeks after submission: “Look, someone was gonna push the ‘Fuck You’ button eventually anyway, might as well do it now”

This is insider trading.This account gambled with bitcoin and ethereum, placing shorts every few minutes to increase how much money he was throwing on the blackjack table, up to around 80 million u-bucks, with the last one placed in the same minute as the trump post which tanked the crypto value, which immediately doubled the value of his shorts and he closed them out and walked away with 190 million. Someone close to trump is using crypto to do what would be illegal in the stock market, and is betting on trump triggering the end of the bull run and will make billions of dollars.

Huh. I’ve… already done everything on the list. Very slowly, over the better part of a decade, piece by piece. It’s nice to have a sanity check to know I’ve kept up with the jargon. The work is never done tho, almost have a site-to-site intranet set up to make it easier to loop family in.

I think we’re watching a major shift happen, similar to when smartphones took over. At the moment, I can’t see the market ever opening back up the way it was, because apparently smartphones are produced at a loss. If there’s really no way to manufacture them at a reasonable cost, they’re never ever gonna let go of the hardware control ever again. The last couple decades were just a long con to grab market share, now we’re in the late stage where they lock down and grab as much data as possible, laws be damned.

I just spent too much time writing another comment on this post, but I have the same wants as you:

recent processor, a good camera, GPS, Tailscale, 18 hours of battery life a good enough browser to get to my bank and edit photos

I really think we’re watching the smartphone era fade away for tech-minded people, and it’s time for us to just ditch the expectations and let go of the all-in-one convenience. Phones for talk/text, dedicated devices for everything else. Most of these specs you mentioned can be exceeded in a compact touchscreen 2-in-1 netbook, for about the same cost as a flagship phone, and be fully compatible with Linux. Currently tablet sized, almost small enough to fit in a purse, but hopefully smaller variants come around in the future.

Only issue is GPS and camera. Phone GPS modules aren’t very precise as it is, hopefully we get a compact USB receiver someday. And cameras never really made sense in a phone to me. Loved the convenience, and I will miss them dearly in my future phones, but a cheap digital camera will beat all but the high end flagship phones, both in price and image quality.

I see my next phone being a flipphone. I don’t like how locked down mobile platforms are already, and smartphones are so big now.

Netbook 2-in-1’s look promising, picked one up off eBay to update my mobile rollout when all this started. ~550ish USD for a better CPU, more RAM, easily replaceable storage and battery, and actually compatible with Linux, all for the price of Google’s 9a at launch. It will be slightly more inconvenient to travel with, but I’ll try to fully replace the smartphone with a flip when that’s ready for an update.

Google seems to be gambling that their monopoly is big enough to start strongarming everyone, but with a slight reimagining, their mobile division can be completely cut out of my life, and the replacement devices are cheaper per specs and more open to modification, so really I should’ve done this long ago.

Things are changing, but the people who care enough about this will change too. Still sad about it, was hoping the smartphone platform would go the other way and become more open. Mobile processors have more throughput and better energy efficiency now than briefcase laptops from the 2005 - 2010 era. Always dreamed of everything evolving into a single device where my phone could plug into a docker and replace my office desktop for web browsing, but I just don’t see it happening in a closed environment like this.

Because in prehistoric humanity, without the knowledge of toothcare or ease of access to scrubbing agents, your teeth would rot out in old age(about 20), but then the wisdom teeth would grow in, and you might barely live long enough to be a withered old husk and maybe see your grandkids born(about 30). The before times were rough.

I find it amusing that the ultra wealthy believe pornographic images would replace an entire human relationship. Really shows how deeply warped they are, projecting they’re own callous insanity onto the masses. What a small, sad existence.

There was a video I watched several years ago, no idea how to find it again, where this guy fucked up a motherboard / CPU with thermal paste to see if you actually can add ‘too much paste.’ Directly underneath the pins, wayyy too much on top, extra around the socket for good measure, smashed it all together, and the thing just… boots normally…

Kinda makes sense tho, every tube of paste I’ve used was marked as nonconductive, and the CPU socket should be designed such that carbon buildup is scraped from the pins when reseating, which would clear away the paste and allow good contact.

There’s an easy compromise here. Let the customers start sitting 30 minutes before the movie start time, play all the commercials and theater brand promos, then start the movie AT the start time. Everyone wins

Quick edit: Nothing even needs to be changed! Just adjust the start time!