I spent waaaaaay too much time when NMS did the update where we could build out the custom corvettes. But then I did the same when they updated freighter bases to be worth building.

I’ll take the Zuckwit over Bozos or Ellison.

Yeah, it’s nice that they fixed the ozone and acid rain, but now they’ve gone and walked back what stopped it, so we’ll see it again soon enough.

At least in the 80s there was potential for improvement, in spite of the problems, rather than an eternal spiral into oblivion.

We also were still able to rely on legal protections rather than having it all privatized and laws bypassed by T&C.

People have commuted suicide, though.

Just because it’s not a physical addiction does not men it can’t be as extreme, and generally a physical addiction will end up with nausea, exhaustion, and mood swings rather than death. It takes deep or long-term addiction to be fatal.

They are deployed to addict, there is some benefit to them, Google used one back before they dropped “Don’t be evil” to enhance the relevance of search results.

Now they use it to censor, and sell shit, but it was not a bad technology before it was corrupted.

The biggest issues I’ve had with sd cards has been the exFAT file system, not the card itself, the ext4 or btrfs drives are soooo much faster and cleaner to use than “compatible” exFAT formatting.

I was looking for a 2TB 2230 and they have a few at around $200, then most are at or over $500. They’re nuts right now.

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-3070-vs-AMD-RX-9060-XT/4083vsm2417253

There’s nothing wrong with the technology, it’s who is running it all that needs to be fixed, with the general f*ckery that is through everything now I miss my 2400 baud modem that was bigger than my computer and dialing in to a BBS.

Bad time to be doing this, the specs are lower than my tablet I dropped $800 on a few years ago.

Before anyone drops a console they need to wait for the RAM to stop being $500+ and a decent sized SSD costing more.

I even looked at sd cards to slap in the slot and move my media off the drive and those had also doubled in price over the time period they’d normally have halved the cost of a larger one.

I really should have fiddled with the Cyclops, only put the basic junk in there I needed to have with me down in the lava pits.

If a service requires it they are not worth using.

The Cheeto-in-Chief is more a flabby senile economically illiterate pedophile rapist who has trouble rolling out of his own golf cart to cheat on camera while his sycophants tell him how skilled he is.

At least that one works, the one for Invidious keeps failing me on the bot checks.

The reason he’s a “scammer” is his lack of connection. Put him in a corporation or in government and he’d just be on task to increase profits.

I mean, isn’t Neo mostly Nova but with things fixed like those “ghost icons” Nova has left broken since the Lollipop update?

You say that like they ever do things the right way, even a fair chunk of the proposals I see for Linux take it out of the user’s hands.

I already nuked my hard drive and went to Debian when Microslop kept trying to force me to “update” my local account and turned their creepy AI stuff back on again and again no matter how many times I dug in with PowerShell to shut it off.

We’re going to be running a fork not licensed for use in the US or Europe soon enough, or bowing to surveillance and de-anonymization. Or maybe go back to legacy systems, like dumping systemd and wayland for init and x11, just to have things actually work for us again rather than embrace the ever-present creep of the “Framework of Fuckery” ™ that is being pushed by the corpo scum and their pet “Representatives.”

The rules have always been for us, not for them.

The police are enforcers for the elites, they don’t stop crime, they extract fines from people and provide a deterrent to anyone standing up for themselves.

A lot of places are making incomplete web versions, or outright cutting access outside of the app, they all want that sweet sweet spyware in your pocket.

Except it’s more ZuckID, since Meta was behind the “grassroots” campaigns and wrote the script “representatives” are using globally.