Just don’t expect your university course to accept you using it during exams.

They usually want you to use a standard model to make it easy for proctors to ensure all data is cleared from them before the exam starts.

Given the spongebob comics being posted lately, I truly believed this was going to end with something heinous.

I think you’ve severely underestimated just how critical Linux is to the tech industry, and just how hard it would be for companies to move off of it.

If companies were afraid they’d have to face that kind of work, they would push back on our behalf.

Or they would make their own forks, we’d end up with a painful unmaintainable mess, and then they’d push back on our behalf.

You manage upwards against people unwilling to listen or comprehend by forcing them to experience the pain of their own poor decisions that they were already warned of. You don’t accomplish anything by proactively capitulating to bad requests.

I love that IMDB Internet Archive has the complete collection of Mr Roger’s Neighborhood, but yeah, the episode numbering didn’t match any release I could find.

That was a fun hour or so with bulk file renamer, or powershell. Can’t remember how exactly I fixed it.

Edit: IMDB -> Internet Archive. Where the hell was my brain when I typed that?

I believe it was in preview build versions of Win 7 or 10 where researchers found it was sending the generated thumbnails of images on your PC to Redmond (MS HQ). Can’t remember if they said it was for CSAM detection or just a debugging feature in the preview builds.

I haven’t had that kind of stamina since I was 20.

Hit me up around 9pm so I can smoothly transistion from after sex cuddling and pillow talk to snoring in your ear and drooling on the pillow. Don’t ever say I don’t know how to treat a lady right.

The corporate lobbiests. Unless you’re seriously arguing that swapping the Presidents from their era until now would have actually made a significant difference.

You aren’t seriously arguing that, right?

The issue is that Linux shouldn’t be making any attempts to handle this at all.

If the various governments are going to try and require this, they can make and maintain their own forks and accept all the responsibility and risk that entails. Or the businesses beholden to the laws can. We have no obligation to make this easier on them, and every reason to make it harder.

If various Linux (and Linux software/component) maintainers would hold the line, we’d be fine.

The godawful mess of what would come from all of these different groups scrambling to implement their own solutions would be the fucking point. The most effective way to manage upwards at people who don’t understand or want to listen is to make them feel pain for their shitty decisions.

Are you shitting me? Computers are the best tool for having access to literally thousands of fucking games for free that can all run on garbage.

My family didn’t have anything top of the line, held onto what we had for 8+ years. I had (and have) more free games than I could ever possibly play.

There’s source ports of classic old games, there’s emulation of the hits from decades kd previous consoles and handhelds, there’s plenty of open source games out there, there’s the entire back catalog of old browser games (mostly flash) through flashpoint, US game development college students release their projects for free all the fucking time, there’s fan games for stuff like sonic, and lastly there’s easy as hell piracy.

And by waiting or playing older stuff, you let time and other people sort out what’s good from the trash, so you can better rely on what people say is good.

I was living out of a low powered business laptop released in 2011 until 2021. In 2018 I upgraded it to 8GB of RAM and an SSD. I gamed so damn much on that thing, just not whatever the latest popular game was. I still use it occasionally for chilling on the couch or my porch.

Can confirm, my wife’s account doesn’t have one set up because usually I just gift her games or we share through thr family settings.

It’s not wrong, but I think it’s sad that this qualifies as a political humor comic. Honestly would have been better as a sketch and without whatever weird fill tool pattern was used.

I mean, that’s not even entirely wrong. That’s why his companies keep focusing on the “cool” stuff: making rockets.

I love that, and I consider it the kind of thing that should be a trope but doesn’t seem to be.

If you’re in a setting where player power can get as big as it does in high level campaigns, then the NPCs should have access to a lot of that as well. Not nearly everyone, but far more than seem to in most campaigns and settings. At the very least people running shops selling high end gear or magical artifacts aren’t going to stay in business for long if they can’t deal with every hotshot murderhobo or sticky fingered arcane trickster that walks in the door.

Doesn’t even have to be a beat down. Maybe the items are cursed to burn whoever’s holding it if they leave the store and the owner just lifts the curse when someone purchases. You can get creative with it.

I think too many players think of settings like it’s Oblivion or Skyrim, where a few days of magic training can allow you to set a whole guardhouse on fire. And survive. They know it’s not quite that way in D&D, but since that’s the reference point they have, even adjusted they still tend to assume main character privileges override versimilitude of the setting.

Your cleric is a powerhouse of skull crushing and healing? Congrats, so was old man Bartholomew who runs the local temple. He’s not quite as spry as he once was, but those skills are like riding a bike and his magic has only improved as his physical prowess has aged.

The players should still get to be special, but they shouldn’t go into every situation expecting to just “win” if they’re going to play stupid games.

Holy shit Kojima’s done it again! 10/10 storytelling. Layers upon layers of meaning.

Where do I invest?

Through God, all things are possible. Don’t let your memes be dreams

That’s interesting dear. Have you finished your homework?

You know you have to finish your homewoek before you can play games on the computer or talk to your friends on the phone.

WOAH

Glad a hothead like you is on the road so much. His insurance did what they’re supposed to do and your insurance did what it’s supposed to do.

Sounds like you should have pushed them for some therapy, because you’re right that the motorcyclist’s completely at fault. But his lawyer’s BS really shouldn’t be sticking with you like this.

Do you seriously think lawyers don’t pull that kind of shit in every possible case? I’ve got a relative who’s a public defender. Compared to some of what he can tell, that’s absolute beginner level stuff. Of course they’re going to reach for every bit they can, including your logs, fair or unfair. That’s their fucking job, and why most people hate lawyers. Prosecution’s purpose is to arrange every possible shred of anything they can grasp at that might convince the jury you have even a grain of culpability.

If you’re looking for more dystopian fiction classics, I highly reccomend Fahrenheit 451 (especially if you can find it with the afterword from the author that includes an extra scene he wrote a number of years after the book came out that is between the fire chief and the main character) and Brave New World.

I feel that together with 1984, they cover a wide variety of causes and methodologies of dystopia, which is useful because no one book is going to cover everything. 451 features a society that has effectively entertained itself into the state we find it in, masses desiring and ultimately pushing for the suppression of emotionally upsetting information long before the start of the story. Brave New World features a carefully engineered society where reproduction and ultimately the upper limit of a person’s lifetime ability are carefully constructed and engineered, where sex has been divorced from intimacy, and people are on strict drug regimens to regulate emotion and thought.