The bucket of sand is a good tip, my solution was an empty paint can filled with sand and the lid hammered back on.

Wait until you find out about Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic. It’s a very fun game, can recommend.

This reminds me, the Korean version of this song goes so hard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD5pAHYEC6Q

Imitation truly is the sincerest form of flattery it seems.

Make sure you have virtualization enabled in your BIOS, without it you’re going to be doing software emulation which is not very fast.

I can feel a shit storm brewing Randy! This is going to start the Linux struggle session isn’t it?

I assume a lot of the machinery itself does run on some flavor of Linux (or maybe even some real-time operating system like VxWorks) that has been stripped down for embedded use, Windows just wouldn’t run on this kind of hardware. I imagine this desktop is (as you can kind of see in the photo) just a display that sits in an office and serves as an overview of the machines, display warnings, and all that kind of stuff. Though, since it seems to just be a website, I’m not sure why they also wouldn’t use Linux in this scenario either and set it up in a POS (point-of-sale) fashion where all it can do is display that website and nothing else. Maybe they also use them for general office work as well? Who knows.

They’re in the process of moving away from Intel/AMD chips in all government machines now that their domestic alternatives (namely LoongArch) have gotten to a state where they’re good enough for most day to day tasks. I give it some time, but I wouldn’t doubt them requiring a similar move away from these chips in extremely crucial settings like this.

Sorry to hear this. On the contrary, my Cybertruck saved me the other day by engaging automatic emergency brake when I was distracted for a moment!

Another good comment:

Tesla isn’t lining any pockets so the lobbyists are practicing some internet gorilla warfare

Gorilla warfare? Never seen that before, but I imagine it’d be pretty scary!

That leaves like what, only 1 more that can still fly?

Change browser.urlbar.showSearchSuggestionsFirst to false in about:config to fix the search results showing first :)

Yep, this sort of thing happened when the New Palestine train derailment happened. For a month or so after it happened all you heard about was how another train derailed even though it’s (unfortunately) very common in the US and statistically multiple of them happen every single day. It’s not like trains just started derailing out of nowhere, it was always happening, it’s just that the media found something new that gets them clicks and keeps rolling with it.

Damn, don’t know much about this guy but I’ve seen a few of his videos and from what I saw he seemed like a cool guy.

Was his death ever confirmed? I saw people saying he died but I never saw like an actual confirmation if it was true or not.

It will happen, it’s inevitable. Capitalism can’t sustain itself forever despite what people think. It may not happen during our lifetime, but it’s still our job to lay the groundwork of a better future so the comrades that come after us can pick up where we left off.

Where will Windows users draw the red line? Please, for the love of Lenin, just install a Linux distribution. It’s not as scary as it seems, I promise. Pick something that has a large user base, things like Fedora, Linux Mint, Ubuntu, literally anything is better than Windows at this point. This is especially important if you’re doing any real life organizing that requires you to do things on your computer, don’t just hand over everything to Microsoft (who will hand over everything to any government that asks) out of convenience.

well well well…

“Homosexuality, just like heterosexuality, represents a variant of sexual behavior. Homosexual people do therefore not stand outside socialist society, and the civil rights are warranted to them exactly as to all other citizens.” ― Supreme Court of East Germany, 1987

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