why isn’t he waiting until Russia or China actually do something?

The thing is, Russia already has done something. Trump has a mandate from the people to fuck up Russia militarily by arming Ukraine. Why he chooses to not do this, while making statements about Russia taking land, is maddening.

It’s not even like Russia is getting much out of this. It isn’t like they already conquered Ukraine and are a good way through Finland (pre-NATO). At least then you could argue the sacrifice is for something…

While it won’t be usable by consumers, lots of businesses will happily scoop up a rack for their own servers. Not only will a ton of demand vanish, but a ton of supply appears at the same time.

Any middle-class person who puts their mind to it will become a millionaire. It involves living below your means, not buying cars constantly, and investing your money for decades. I can’t stress enough how big of a difference those things make.

A huge portion of retirees are millionaires because they were responsible and didn’t blow all their money.

Millionaires shouldn’t exist.

Why would you want responsible, middle-class retirees to blow their money instead? Why would you force them into a situation where they have to rely on others in their retirement rather than living comfortably off their own hard work?

Don’t cheat in multiplayer games. Keep that to single-player games.

I have always liked ODST quite a bit for changing up the formula and being an overall solid game. I might do another run of that soon. :)

Though, I have spent more time playing CE than every other Halo combined. Much of that due to the fact only it and 2 were released for PC until somewhat recently, and Halo 2 got saddled with Games for Windows Live. But, mostly just because CE is damn good.

I feel particularly bad for the mother (and any siblings). She lost a husband and a child this day.

The hard parts of murdering someone you live with has always been: 1) people don’t actually want to murder others; and 2) getting away with it. Clearly this kid was not concerned with either of these.

so much focus on the handheld videogames, and not the handheld gun

It isn’t hard for anyone you live with to kill you if they make even a basic plan. The same effect can be accomplished with a knife, something readily accessible in any kitchen. The interesting part of this story is the murderous 11-year-old, which is why everyone is focusing on him.

Kid certainly won’t be getting another Switch…

The good news is the old, non-subscription versions do work in Linux.

Honestly, unless you make a shitload of money off it, subscription Adobe products are just too rich for my blood.

Would like to see some confirmation, but this is probably the #1 thing I see people say is holding them back.

Yes. Though the parts that make Ubuntu bad aren’t the base code. The parts that make it bad are the Ubuntu-specific things Canonical puts on top, like Snaps. Mint doesn’t include those poor choices.

O, that is a real cool feature. So you just lose space then as they fail, not redundancy.

If two are dead, you probably should get at least one of them replaced. I’m assuming you are running a RAID 6 with zero redundancy at this point.

When the bubble bursts, used computer components are going to be real cheap. Even just a few liquidated data centers will provide a ton of used supply. Even if they don’t part them up, that is still a bunch of supply that won’t be drawing on new supply.

God damn is that a headline.

Hmmm, now that is not something I’m qualified to answer. Hopefully someone else speaks up.

Debian and Mint are both good. The former is aimed at servers and the latter is aimed at desktop use. They are otherwise very similar under the hood.

That explains why I kept getting lost.

Anything specific I could help out with?

Got it down to Ubuntu or Mint

Mint is good. Avoid Ubuntu; snaps just make your life hard. You don’t need to know what those are, and if you avoid Ubuntu you never will need to know.

• This assumes latency between one’s current location and the remote location is almost non-existent. It isn’t.
• This assumes we have fast and available internet all the time. I sure don’t.
• This assumes we can use the remote computer in every way we use our current computers. No way.
• This assumes, as you point out, they won’t be greedy once they control everyone’s machines. They will be.
• This assumes they won’t censor ‘dangerous’ sites on these machines. They will.

I will happily pay more for freedom from the corporation.