They enable the ones who do cause problems.

Helping others do harm but not physically doing it yourself does not absolve you of responsibility.

Aha I did a double take for the same reason. Not just techmoan but a really old photo of him too.

Most of the older stuff is really energy inefficient. That said they have looser tolerances so they break less and keep on chugging.

The new stuff has tighter tolerances and is made to reduce cost. These powers combined make them shit.

The worst part is that in a lot of cases paying more won’t actually get you out of the trash. They just strap smart garbage to the cheap shit. You have to pay 5 to 10 times the amount for an actual decent appliance (ie one that’s just good at doing what it is supposed to do) and even then it’s a gamble.

Yeah at some point they are all the same to me it’s just the different package manager. Pacman, apt, yum or whatever they are calling it now a days.

Most use systemd.

I started using Arch flavors because when you have brand new hardware the latest kernel can be important. After the machine is a couple years old it doesn’t really matter.

Also Endeavouros is where it’s at (but don’t tell the vanilla Arch people, they won’t help me with my problems if they find out)

Arch is fine, installing it is a good learning experience. After that endeavoros does what I need to and I just have to click next a couple times and get on with my day.

While I don’t disagree with you I think what drives designer clothing has more to do with image and projection than actually looking good, even on attractive people.

It’s more velben good than looking good.

I mean this is a false dichotomy. You can have a payment system that isn’t a shit show like crypto or a duopoly like Visa and Mastercard.

Usually you want to just record dead air for the maximum time your provider gives you for the message

I feel like most tools stop and warn me it appears to be a binary file but honestly I so rarely directly cat a file.

The problem is, and I’m sure you don’t need to hear this from me, is that if you give them a place to do drugs they will congregate there and without correct support and supervision (and that is never provided because money) the addicts and community end up at odds with each other.

And also with you, please be seated

Use whatever you want, but remember Google gets to decide what Chrome supports and if Chrome doesn’t support it…

That makes it sound like webp is the only option, it isn’t.

I remember the cube, might not have been this, might have just been the animation to change desktops.

That or a tacit " I’ve seen this"

It’s not really an “of course”

Some countries don’t tax lottery winnings, Canada for example. Though for Canada game shows are a bit more nebulous.

Kernel level anti cheat is such crap.

It isn’t true Arch though, so the Arch forums would never accept them. They would have to go install from scratch to be able to get “I use arch btw” badge.

I use endeavouros btw.

Cameras are there to lower insurance premiums. That’s why for years and years every security camera video looked like it was filmed on a potato because there was no incentive to upgrade. The rise of phone cameras has caused the price of 4k cameras to plummet though so they are getting better.

Yeah most self checkout at grocery stores is hot garbage for all the reasons you mentioned and more.

My favorite self check out experience is at Uniqlo. You walk up to what is effectively a plastic bucket with an iPad attached. Toss your shit in the bucket it shows you what it thinks you put in there and you click ok and tap you CC. It takes like 30s.

Grocery stores are just cheap and won’t put the 5 cent RFID tag on things.