What was the question?

On my ass.

And that kids, is why you should study engineering in college.

FBI servers?

Exactly

That only works when the majority isn’t working to attack a minority.

Deliverance wasn’t a celebration of culture.

“In other words: the reaction to protect software freedom ended up undermining software freedom. That’s the trap Jithendra is warning about.”

I disagree with this. It’s similar to stopping a political movement that wants to limit free speech. Yes it limits free speech because the alternative is the complete destruction of free speech.

I haven’t used BlueMorpho anywhere but here. I picked it because of Venture Brothers but then noticed it has a political connotation.

It was as easy as pouring a lot on a paper towel, rub on, and let dry for a day. I tried isopropyl and the baking soda scrub but acetone worked best. I think it works best because isopropyl only cleans off the outer sticky layer and baking soda scrubs it off as an abrasive (works but very slow).

I fixed a logic mouse, a bodum coffee grinder, and the handle of a fancy umbrella.

Even at current prices it’s $3k tops.

AI has poisoned me so much that you might have spent hours on this creative writing and I only think it was prompted.

I have fixed many “soft touch” plastics that have degraded to sticky with acetone. I believe it dissolves the soft touch with the underlying abs leaving behind a hard plastic after it evaporates.

Likely available on a torrent.

That $50 is only worth $25 in goods or services.

Selling products as loss leaders is not some absurd esoteric strategy,

Selling at a loss is fine. What isn’t fine is coming back later and grabbing the hot dog, a hot dog you already paid for, out of your hand because you didn’t buy the soda a while later despite nothing in the hotdog purchase that required the purchase of a soda.

They sold it with Linux and then later grabbed it out of the customer’s hand.

I thought hbm would have already become standard by now. It’s been out for over 10 years. Years ago I thought it would be like 16 GB of HBM on the CPU package as layer 4 cache with ram slots as optional if you needed more.

It’s a joke based on op image.

Their plan was to make up the difference in game sales. You were paying full price with the cost shifted to the games to trick you into thinking you got a bargain.

If I sell you a hot dog for $1 with a business model that you will buy an overpriced soda 5 minutes later at the stand next door, I don’t get to take that hotdog back after sale when I see you didn’t also buy the soda.

Grow the hell up.