My power company recently contacted me with an “exciting offer” where instead of billing me based on my energy usage they’d just bill me based on what my average usage was previously. I politely declined. I think I’ll keep paying based on something measurable instead of vibe based billing.

There’s a certain irony in someone using a racist dog whistle complaining about fascism.

They should just run Linux, but if they have to do Windows then 7 is just as good as 10 now, they’re both equally unsupported. Blame Microsoft for fucking up 10 and 11 so bad nobody is willing to run them. If they had at least left 10 alone people would still be using that but they’re too greedy for everyone’s data and they couldn’t leave well enough alone. It’s also not like there aren’t an absolute ton of Windows 10 and 11 installs that are part of bot nets. Running a new version of Windows makes it slightly harder to get rooted, but doing stupid stuff no matter what you’re running is ultimately the problem, not the version of Windows. The age of worms self propagating through service 0-days is largely over, it’s almost all phishing and trojans these days. It would be one thing if we were talking Windows 98 or XP, but 7 is fairly solid out of the box.

Apparently some are even opting to reinstall Windows 7 rather than the trash fire that is 11. It seems like 10 was never loved, merely tolerated, and as MS continues to enshittify 10 in an attempt to force people onto 11 some are just going back to the previous good version of Windows.

They already did, that’s the problem. If they want more consumer spending they need to fix the wealth gap, but they don’t want to do that. They want to keep the pump running that transfers wealth from the poor to the rich but it’s starting to stall and they’re panicking, hence pieces like this.

Yeah I don’t understand this situation at all. One of my family members was speculating maybe Mamdani has some kind of blackmail or leverage over Trump. Maybe some property Trump still has in NYC? Either that or this is a rare instance where Trump realizes Mamdani is going to be good for NYC and that Trump’s businesses in NYC will in turn benefit from that. I don’t know, the whole thing is bizarre.

These days I’d say disbarment is a far more likely scenario than any prosecution.

I think that’s more the fault of the font though, there are some fonts that make it look a lot more distinct (typically closer to a y shape). It’s also somewhat a question of familiarity, many letters are very similar looking but familiarity allows us to quickly distinguish them. Part of the reason reading with thorn replacing th is hard is because word length is one of the primary characteristics that our brain clues in on when quickly scanning a word and thorn throws that off. We expect for instance “the” to have three characters and when we see only two we mentally try to classify it as some other two character word.

Thinking about investing in new AI IPOs?

Not even remotely.

Windows will be the default until suddenly it isn’t. Valve is doing amazing at destroying the core of Microsoft’s support. This story would be different if this was a decade ago, but these days most average people do their computing on phones and tablets. The ones sticking to traditional PCs are mostly gamers and now more than ever Linux is a viable alternative to Windows. Vanishingly few games can’t be played perfectly fine on Linux. Once enough gamers are using Linux it will become the default choice, and once it’s the default choice for gamers it will become the default choice for most people, at least the ones not on phones and tablets.

Just wait until they figure out that the hundreds of billions of dollars that keep showing up in deals don’t actually exist because it’s all a giant circle and all the deals cancel out. They’re literally trading the same imaginary money back and forth to generate headlines to pump the stocks. Also apparently the company formerly known as Facebook might not actually have enough money to cover the cost of their shiny new data center. If Zuckerbot manages to bankrupt his company chasing the AI fad I am going to laugh so hard I might actually pass out

The merits are that the only “precedent” they have is an idea that was spitballed a while back, never implemented, and even back then regarded as blatantly unconstitutional and unlikely to survive a legal challenge. The article even says as much itself. The entire rest of the article is based on the idea that that idea would magically work rather than being smacked down by the Supreme Court instantly. They wouldn’t even need to come up with some convoluted unconstitutional bullshit to do so, the constitution is actually on their side in this one.

They should call it the FIFA corruption prize, it would be a far more accurate name and actually match what FIFA is all about.

It still does despite what Trump and his gestapo claim. They are illegally deporting U.S. citizens. If we ever manage to dislodge these parasites the ones responsible better face jail time for these crimes, because “I was just following orders” isn’t a valid defense for breaking the law nevermind the constitution.

This idea keeps coming up and while it sounds great it has the slight problem that states don’t pay taxes, people do. Basically your suggestion is then that people living in blue states should stop paying their taxes. Now, the majority of those taxes are collected for them by the companies they work for. You can reduce (maybe eliminate I’m not actually sure if you can opt into 0% withholding) how much is collected by your employer by filing out a new W-4 form, if they let you. But even setting that aside there’s the problem that none of that will matter in the slightest when the IRS comes for you with an arrest warrant for unpaid taxes. Or they might just start garnishing your wages, I’m honestly not 100% sure how that would play out. I just know that number 1 rule is you don’t fuck with the IRS.

I think maybe it’s a short term thing. They’re trying to expedite getting off wikidot and having a read only copy of their data is the fastest way to do that. I’m assuming the plan would be to then transition to a write enabled implementation as soon as possible. That’s my best guess anyway.

That would be incredibly unlikely. As a general rule the US military does not use foreign made gear, particularly anything from China. More likely it’s human error, someone fucked up the maintenance.

It’s very popular to the point where multiple other distros are starting to offer its patched kernel on their distro. It’s very focused on gaming performance, particularly around Steam and Proton.

Yeah that should be completely fine then. Try dual boot, if you don’t have any issues you can always go 100% Linux at some point in the future and in the meantime the old Windows partition can provide some amount of reassurance if something does go wrong.

Is it a newer Nvidia GPU? If so I believe it pretty much works the same these days. It was mostly the older Nvidia GPUs that seemed to have a lot of problems.