I dunno, but it’s a pain. Hiding low-level components from the user to make it more user-friendly.

I have an old 2014 macbook with a busted GPU temp sensor. The Mac firmware assumes the worst - that the computer is dangerously overheated - and therefore throttles back the CPU by 80% and runs the fans at full blast.

Fixing it on Mac required a number of third-party tools and flashing a custom firmware. I then installed Linux on the device - about ten lines of script that read from the working temp sensor on the CPU die and write a scaled value to /sys/ in response.

So much flippin easier on Linux.

The third line of a haiku is traditionally meant to show a turn or a surprise element, so this is a fine haiku indeed.

America might once have cared to defend Taiwan, because the whole tech economy is powered by their chips. But the U.S. is so diminished, overextended, and chaotic that China clearly recognizes an opening.

I think Xi makes a move within the next two years.

I mean, Neal Stephenson coined the term “metaverse” to reference a virtual world not limited to gaming but to all kinds of business and commerce and social interactions.

Zuck’s concept for the metaverse was basically the same thing. I’d be surprised if the connection wasn’t intentional.

I’ve always appreciated that they stole the name from Snow Crash. Like Zuck completely unironically named his company after a technological dystopian hellscape infected with a virus that destroys people’s brains. Honestly, I don’t think there’s a better name for Facebook.

This is true, but Dollar General also tends to move in after the economy is already hollowed out. You used to have vast distribution networks of local merchants and independent businesses. Now everything flows up to the Waltons and Bezos and Dollar General licks up the scraps.

U.S. law enforcement is out of control with this animorphs shit.

I don’t know that the real Ken M is active anymore. But yeah, the imitators have never gotten his tone right.

I already despised Texas A&M for ruining the jalapeño pepper. Now we get further dumbassery.

There are probably some people who decided to use GIMP instead of Photoshop, some people who simply pirated Photoshop, and some people who bought Photoshop anyway.

It’s difficult to quantify the degree to which the existence of GIMP caused lost sales for Adobe. I started using GIMP instead of a high-seas Photoshop version, so I still haven’t spent a dime!

I bet it’s even faster if you reduce the weight by combining it with the deckhand obliterator!

My feel-good news headline every morning!

Yep, this is pretty true to form for U.S. intervention in Latin America. It just used to be done covertly by the CIA instead of plastered all over Twitter.

And an obligatory fuck Henry Kissinger.

My 12 year old Hackintosh MBP is doing great with Ubuntu. Mid-2014 machine and it’s still my daily driver!

He sold a money-losing business with massive untapped potential to be a psyop to someone with infinite money and a desire for a psyop.

Fucking great deal for both of them. Fucked in the ass for the rest of us.

Pay for it all over again every 365 days, because now everything is a subscription and you’re not allowed to own even a permanent license to your software, let alone the software itself.

There’s one on the way to my parents’ house that says “Behold! I come quickly!” And on the other side it says “I will come again! Be ye ready!”

Tried these lines on my wife and it kinda killed the mood tbh

Marjorie Taylor Green posted about how invading Venezuela is a terrible idea.

I hate it when I agree with Marjorie Taylor Green.

I would note that every single time I’ve tried to reactivate windows after a mobo or CPU upgrade, it has failed.

I guess it’s supposed to work better if you sign into your Microsoft account ever, which I don’t, because I see literally no reason they would need me to expect to advance spyware and adware.

The phone activation is the only thing that has worked. Good thing I’ve been dual booting a Ubuntu fork for the past six months. I guess after my next hardware upgrade I’ll be Linux only.

We attend a Passover seder every year where the host mother dedicates the ceremony to the people of Palestine, that they may one day be set free of their bondage and suffering as were the Jews in Egypt.

Easily 80% of the Jewish people we know are fiercely anti-zionist and horrified by the Israeli government.