Many countries have HoA’s.

Why America has them is, simply put, racism. HoA’s got started after WW2, specifically to keep non-white people from moving into white neighborhoods.

and a lot of them are still used for this purpose to this day. just not as overtly

I’d rather have a shit neighbor with an overgrown yard than some wannabe dictator who alienated their children and takes out their hatred on the neighborhood with bullshit fines and harassment.

in America, at least… Racism.

Thats literally it.

HoA’s became a major thing after WW2, in large part, to keep black and hispanic people from moving into white neighborhoods… with rare exceptions for “servants”.

literally the first words out of my mouth. It seeing a news headline about TiVo feels like i’m back in 2001

Just ban the sales of pervert glasses, period.

It’ll accomplish the same thing, but be a lot easier legally.

go one step further and open it up and unplug the wifi antennas, just to curtail it even further.

If you marginalize it so its no longer usable on the modern web to do all the things you need to do… Then yes, thats the same as effectively killing it.

Aside from, you know, not being able to access anything that looks for that OS okay, or worse…declaring people not on compliance in criminal violation of the law and mass arresting.

same thing in this context.

I wasnt a professional, Just the “computer guy”… and its been like 25+ years, but if I recall correctly they didnt hire me to reformat it specifically, I believe it was windows 98, and memory serves it hadnt been reformatted in years, and i think they slapped some new PCI cards into it without removing the software for the old ones? I dont remember the details, but basically told them that a clean start would have a 98% chance of fixing their system, and if it didnt… I’d still need the clean start to figure out what was wrong where.

They were over my shoulder the entire time, wouldnt have let me if i wanted to (Edit, and I wouldnt have wanted to, because I hate going through peoples stuff even with permission)… and quite frankly I just wanted to get out of there asap cause I didnt like the attitude i got for being there trying to help them.

I did run into them again at a later time, where they were sad to have lost their stuff, but said the computer was running faster than ever, not realizing how much the bullshit had been dragging them down.

I was once hired to fix a computer. I told them that the fix would just be a simple reformat, and asked if they wanted me to back up any files.

they said no, they had backed everything up already. I asked if they wanted to take one last look through the system to make sure. They got huffy and told me to just take care of it already.

So I did.

then they asked me to restore their files.

it was a CD-R of hundreds of desktop links to programs, and even photos. no actual data. just links.

They were not happy when I explained it to them.

i can totally believe the story in Op’s picture to be one that actually happened.

Sure Buddy.

Sure Pal.

Sure Pal.

Sure buddy.

No, I think you denying reality because of sunk cost fallacy has said enough.

Which is bull, because we’ve been playing games from our couches for like 40 years and there were beautiful, amazing, wonderful graphics long before the 4k propaganda.

i miss when GPUs just rendered the game, and that was all.

None of this upscaling, AI graphics altering bullshit that is there ultimately to distract from the impotent promises of 4k gaming, which is unnecessarily ridiculous to begin with.

Statistics: Right Wing extremism is responsible for 80% of all domestic acts of terrorism.

Republicans: 1 IN EVERY FIVE DEMOCRATS IS A TERRORIST.

yep, all of the mythos about having to baby delicate cast iron basically came from the era of lye soap. . soap isnt caustic anymore, so as long as you dry it when its done (or throw it in a warm oven to dry off) you’ll be fine.