BallsandBayonets

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I had to reboot my Windows 10 desktop because the software I have to manage my wallpaper wasn't working (and still isn't), and had to unplug my second monitor during reboot otherwise the Steam overlay won't work. After rebooting, I had a different software prompt me to update and the save file location window froze the browser for 3-4 minutes, while discord was freezing in the foreground. The taskbar disappeared until I restarted Explorer.exe, some telemetry process I had never heard of before was eating up 92-100% of the CPU and I had to go into the scheduler to disable it.

This is an average day with Windows nowadays. I didn't even mention the myriad of perpetual issues I've been having.

Of course on my Linux laptop Chrome wouldn't update automatically either through the browser or from the command line (and I have to use Chrome because Google Drive doesn't work right on Firefox on Linux).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

The owner class wrote the rules and will never give up one iota of power. If we want positive change, meaningful progress, it won't be from working within the system.

History only teaches one lesson and it teaches it very plainly: no progress is made without bloodshed. The blood of the worker class has already been spilled, millions of times over.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Bows can be roughly created from easily available materials, making it impossible to ban the ownership of.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

"I fired hundreds of employees because a con artists sold me on this new technology, promote me."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

It would suck if working class Americans lost their retirement money due to Wall Street getting what they deserve. But what sucks more is that our retirement system is based on letting rich people gamble with your money in the first place!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

"Would you like to donate money to us that we pretty pretty promise will go to some vague charity while we reap the tax benefits? No? Are you sure? Fine, we'll just ask you next time (regardless of your answer this time)."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's only malware if wealthy companies aren't making money off of it.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

It may be too late on this front, but don't say AI when there isn't any I to it.

Of course it could be successfully argued that humans (or at least a large amount of them) are also missing the I, and are just spitting out the words that are expected of them based on the words that have been ingrained in them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I wish you would! The closest one to me is just under 1,000 miles away.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

And now Safeway!

But don't worry, there's still Walmart as an option.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Have you seen fast food prices recently? $25 is a meal deal with one additional burger/taco because the meal is too small to feed anyone older than a toddler.

Not saying that fast food is the cheapest option anymore, but it is a common option.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I miss my college days, Terabytes upon terabytes of "Linux ISOs" accessible via the blazing fast internal university network. And the IRC channel, where I learned what trolling was, but never learned to not feed the trolls.

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