And our Candian friends absolutely should until we get our shit back together, not a moment before and I could understand holding out many years after just to be fucking sure.

The assholes doing this ONLY listen to money. General strike is by far our largest weapon before the 4th box - even more than ballot box in many ways and less open to manipulation. It’s why our media doesn’t mention a peep about a national strike.

Shout out to Brightworks and Drongo on Youtube for their BAR coverage. It’s a great game. I just wish RTS wasn’t so toxic.

My marketing pitch is “Below average but not so much so that people stare.”

Had me literally LOL. Thanks for the laughs - we can all use more of those.

We call that Linux here and you can start winning today!

Wait for the Polio!

Microsoft steeply lowered expectations on the AI Sales team, though they have denied this since they got pummelled in their quarterly and there’s been a lot of news about how investors are not happy with all the circular AI investments pumping those stocks. When the bubble pops (and all signs point to that), investors will flee. You’ll see consolidation, buy-outs, hell maybe even some bullshit bailouts, but ultimately it has to be a sustainable model and that means it will cost developers or they will be pummeled with ads (probably both).

A Majority of CEOs are saying their AI spend has not paid off. Those are the primary customers, not your average joe. MIT reports 95% generative AI failure rate at companies. Altman still hasn’t turned a profit. There are Serious power build-out problems for new AI centers (let alone the chips needed). It’s an overheated reactionary market. It’s the Dot Com bubble all over again.

There will be some more spending to make sure a good chunk of CEOs “add value” (FOMO) and then a critical juncture where AI spending contracts sharply when they continue to see no returns, accelerated if the US economy goes tits up. Then the domino’s fall.

I’m just preparing myself for the crushing down votes here, but you’re going to have a hard time with the no more Millionaires angle. A HUGE chunk of the US are millionares, at least on paper with their houses alone. If you weave in retirement, it’s going to be many, many more. Plus with inflation this is only going to get more saturated.

Can we draw the line at say… 100M and tie it to what the median Net Worth going forward? I’m just being realistic on messaging to get the most impact from your statement. There are very very few people at 10M Net Worth, and after 100M, you’re into the super greed and not like professionals: Doctors, Lawyers, Teachers, Plumbers, Electricians, Dentists, Engeineers, & etc. who’ve actually earned that money and are in their late careers vs. making it off someone else’s back. If they got there earning a check or even many small businesses it’s probably pretty legit.

I can’t however, see how anyone could get to 100M without 1) Family/Inheritance, 2) Big Business and all that entails, 3) Lottery, and 4) Illegally: Grift, Corruption, Stock Manipulation, illicit drugs, Weapons, etc.

We’ve done the latter since WWII, just not generally in allied countries.

Edit: ooof - just now seeing the “always has been” emoji. I’m owning it… whatever.

4GB? An embarassment of riches in today’s market!

I, for one, am triggered.

Totally get using others if something isn’t working. I’ve been known to (gasp) throw on another distro to get past a problem until a new kernel release or bug fix comes in, but it’s the rarity now. I gotta be honest that I’m surprised it was Debian which solved a corner case for your gaming table. Maybe it was a monitor issue or weird (old) hardware?

Good call on the final pass with Windows. With Steam, you really can’t miss on hardly any game these days unless it’s bloated with DRM, but who am I to speak - I have XBox that can actively spy on me for those DRMed games… Carry on.

That’s crazy talk right there. After decades of who knows how many Linux distros, SunOS/Solaris, HPUX, AIX (and a splash of FreeBSD), the proper answer is this:

• Mint
• Already correct! >Mint
• Mint
• Mint - hardened if external
• I’ll allow it

Non-Linux

• por que!? OOF… this should be Mint or really any Linux is better
• I’ll allow it, though I find OMV to be better for various reasons

Not gatekeeping - just having a bit of fun. You do you, but I found it crazy supporting so many distros after all these years. At some point you go for “works great out of the box with minimal tinkering” that covers like 99% of use cases and frees up your time. That being said I’m sure I have a system or two around here still running Ubuntu or Debian or whatever that I just can’t be arsed to change.

We can only hope it’s a rats on a sinking ship scenario.

I just heard $7000 for the cheap seats?

I Can Haz Cheezeburgr?

That’s just what they call every Tuesday. Like Taco Tuesday, only from MicroSlop: “Disastrous Patch Tuesday”

’m no expert computerologist, but I think that any system that requires anybody but you to have your key is insecure.

Computerologist here. You are 100% correct. If anyone says otherwise, they are selling you something.

Got a link to a favorite, especially large tumbler size?

I doubt this goes anywhere other than “virtue” signaling to his puppets that he’s stronk-man big tough! IANAL, but discovery works both ways. He would have to pony up ALL KINDS of juicy corruption transactions, etc. as soon as JPMorgan claims they closed it over money laundering and fraud. Not to mention that JPMorgan has DEEEEP pockets to fight it. I expect either a very quiet and quick settlement where they just cave to get on his good side or they go balls deep and he withdraws. My money is on the latter. TACO.

You’re not far off, though Trump is far below average: https://medium.com/collapsenews/new-study-54-of-american-adults-read-below-6th-grade-levels-70031328fda9