I always wonder… what’s sort of big ideas do you have for mobilizing a nation of disparate people?

I doubt you’ve ever successfully wrangled 3 mates to get a pizza order together, much less a nationwide protest.

An RTX 5090 is like $4-$5k depending on the model.

That sucks bro, sorry they did that lol.

I don’t know if this will help you but I throw everything I scribble into a “Liked” playlist and remove it into a “Tired of it” playlist when it meets the criteria you describe. Then every 6-9 months or so I think to sweep through that playlist and move some stuff back lol.

It’s obviously a hacky solution but it makes me feel better.

If it’s direct then why the 10GB limit?

Gotta take it in stages my dude and it won’t even feel daunting once you finally do it. I procrastinated for months too lol.

Stage 1: Note down the software you need to bring with you Stage 2: Do the distro decidin’ (watch some videos, read some nerd posts, whatever) Stage 3: Check hardware support, starting with your most expensive components. Stage 4: Figure out where to look for help before you’re stuck. The hardest part is that most guides start from step 1 and you probably need step 0 so don’t be scared to ask an AI for help, they’re great for stuff like this. Stage 5: Backups! Stage 6: Set aside a whole day and do the dang thing!

I mean, I understand and agree with his message and that sounds pretty catchy… but doesn’t he have those definitions switched around?

After all you don’t have “optimism” when all is lost lol.

… and exactly 2 weeks later modders will have figured out how to get their hands on the yummy free unlimited data inside it.

Then as a stickler you should probably clarify that 20yrs isn’t the lifespan of a panel but the simply the end of most warranty periods.

The panel itself is (typically) fine, just less efficient after so long.

I love a good dirge where I agree with about 70% of what the person is saying and can’t tell if it’s cringe or eloquent until I’ve sat with it awhile. It usually tells me I’ve made it to the right parts of the internet lmao.

However I don’t think the internet is dying, I think it’s fragmenting slower than it used to because the informed are moving away from the social spaces where they’re obviously being mistreated, just like they always have. Only now most of them have digital baggage because these companies have been around so long they have become a large part of our every day lives. Migrating from MySpace to Facebook was 100x easier than trying to move your family from Facebook Messenger to Signal.

Sure, officially. I recognize the hurdles a fascist takeover from the inside is presenting to the smooth operation of a judicial system lol but I’m talking about at a personal level for this one guy.

How does he go to work day in and day out and not hear about this fuckery going on in his own circles when I’m hearing about it constantly? Or maybe this is a new low even for them since the article mentions that they have a duty to inform the judge. In which case there shouldn’t be any words of admonition, just action and explanations after the fact imo.

I know judges are just people that go to work like the rest of us but I still can’t understand why they haven’t already noticed the same contemptible behavior that the rest of us have been seeing and dispensed with the leeway they always give the DOJ attorneys. I mean shouldn’t they, of all people, know how scummy the DOJ has been recently when it comes to getting what it wants?

Has no one mentioned shucking yet? I’ve had 8 shucked drives in my server for 5yrs now and the motherboard died before any of my drives did.

Buy western digital external drives (MyBook and Passports) to tear them apart for the white-label drives on the inside. No warranties after you start using them (unless you save the enclosures to send them back) but they’re essentially the same drive as the red label NAS drives for about half the price.

All storage prices are insane in the current market but if you’re careful and test the drives before you use them (since that’s when you usually need the warranty) then you shouldn’t have a problem. Just be aware you’re either going to need to use the “kapton tape trick” or buy “SAS drive adapters” from your online store of choice for about $10 apiece to allow the drives to power on outside of the enclosure.

lol how much have you been paying them?

Not that developing competition wouldn’t be great for the consumers imo, but doesn’t Apple hold future contracts with the biggest memory makers as their #1 customer?

Seems like they, of all people, wouldn’t need to develop new relationships like this.

When these companies accept these long-term contracts, do they ask for payment upfront? Or do they just assume that the companies are “good for it” because they’re so well known?

Home is where they scroll on their feeds, which reinforces everything they did that day because they don’t show the same things as mine or yours. They don’t have a minute to think.

That’s my entire point.

They’re not people making the conscious decision to be good or evil, they’re cogs who’re constantly given positive feedback by everything around them. Asking yourself “why don’t they just…?” is a non-sequitur until you break the machine they’re in.

Ah, you’re right. Don’t know how I missed that part but it at least means my statements were a bit myopic compared to the point he was trying to make.

So this is based on numbers from the same site that was putting out the arsenic levels in candy that was like 100x higher than the WHO numbers? The ones that said you could only have like 240 tiny Nerds per year?

At this point I’m more skeptical of what agenda is trying to be pushed from these tbh, because I’m not seeing any methodology to support any of these findings.

Garbage in, garbage out. COVID and screens were just accelerators that could’ve been managed and incorporated if we hadn’t been cutting the education budget to the bone for the last half dozen decades.

Teachers are worse quality, infrastructure is worse, and now the products of that steady decline are sending their kids (or their kids) back into a degraded system to show its “value” once again.