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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolute truth. I haven’t run into a single game that doesn’t run on my second-from-top-of-the-line gaming PC I built last year under Linux. I know they exist because I see articles about a developer removing Proton support for odd reasons, but it hasn’t impacted me yet.

  MS has largely made their own OS irrelevant by putting the Office Suite in the cloud. If you need Excel but don’t want Copilot throwing all your screengrabs to Redmond a box running Ubuntu or Mint or Bazzite or MacOS (a legit option for some people with niche applications that cater to the Apple crowd). MS is following the same playbook with the Xbox brand. If everything is an Xbox then why would you harness yourself to a crappy MS branded one?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple’s making it easy these days. Mac Minis are cheap and more than enough computer for 95% of people’s tasks, while also using sipping watts. I’m on a M4 Mac Mini and it’s using 3.91 watts right now. I’ve run it at full tilt for extended periods of time and I barely heard the fan. It even runs BG3 somehow.

  That said, the power button being on the bottom is dumb but not a real issue. MacOS’s assumption that you’re going to be using a trackpad is annoying for those of us with nice mice. Actually, MacOS is just annoying in a lot of ways. I get that the bumpers are there to keep people from causing long lines at Genius Bars, but I wish there were just a single button that I could hit that tell the machine I know my way around a *nix and don’t need to be babied at every turn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendon't⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like the old school iPad dock connection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have no idea what this is about⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That shit’s been going on for way longer than South Park has existed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of people share blame but Obama did not fight for it at all, which amounts to appeasement. There should have been a Supreme Court case about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Obama not fighting for his Supreme Court appointment is a lot more than indirectly responsible for all of this. He abdicated his duty to execute the office and fucked us all in doing so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hikers Rescued from Mount Everest After Severe Snowstorm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no let’s all get worried about the rich narcissists who got scared on their way to laugh in death’s face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TV/MA 'High School' teen drama shows should be set in college and centered around young adults or adults.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lost my v card at 15, drank and smoked weed in high school. My friends were partying too, and I went to an elite prep school. Kids got kicked out of school for doing opiates, someone dropped a bottle of MDMA pills in the girls’ bathroom and one of the teacher’s kids got his GF pregnant. There was a couch in the library that there was effectively a public challenge to fuck on. Don’t even get me started on the shit that went down in the drama department. Theater/band kids FUCK.

  Kids do these things, especially the kids with money and little accountability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Analog computing is undergoing a resurgence⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  New, programmable analog chips that perform basic sound processing aren’t retro. The article is worth reading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DIY rubber pad switches?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most decent MIDI keyboards feature velocity detection via the same method as SP404 pads, with two sets of contacts. Their contacts strips are usually quite narrow and could easily be placed in rows. Might be easier to use them instead of DIYing a bunch of rubber.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Awooga⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  K cups, like the shitty coffee pods? Doesn’t seem too bad to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google should have called it JIF, not WebP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  G on it’s own can do hard or soft sounds. P needs the H to do the F.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Very true. The last decade and a half have just been switching between round and square corners with mild spec bumps. VR was supposed to be it I think, but it just isn’t useful enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anons brother has some strong opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You didnt have that one kid in any of your classes? A kid I went to school with had similarly deep feelings about evergreens over deciduous trees, and got in a fight with a Canadian kid after he started talking smack about maple syrup and maples in general. I dont think the Canadian wanted to fight, but he had on a Canadian flag shirt so the maple leaf was front and center, making him a target for the arborist. But it was literally trees all the time. Evergreens can photosynthesize year round so they are always giving us oxygen. Evergreen lumber is better for construction. Evergreen seeds are adapted to sprout after fires when there is more likely to be room for them to grow. Nonstop. Middle school is a weird time for a lot of folks and people on the spectrum are not exceptions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I should call her.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Scanning electron microscopes image in a vacuum. Nothing looks 100% like it does at sea level when you suck all the air out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peruvian dog⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t pet strange dogs on the top of their head, to them it feels like you are trying to dominate. Pet them on the shoulder or chest with your hand visible to them. Better yet, let the dog come to you and leave it alone if it doesn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ofwat to be abolished as ministers look to create new water regulator⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Y’all used to be an empire but you haven’t been keeping sewage out of your rivers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you charge an electric car without a credit card?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I charge it at home, but years ago I got a credit card to build credit so I could get a mortgage so that might not work for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For the second time in my life, I'm going to eat soap.😋⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gen Z isnt partying or fucking nearly as much as Millenials and Gen X did. They’re inside kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moonbase Alpha: That time NASA made a meme video game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mario 2 music.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you put a ship inside a Klein bottle?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Klein bottles have no inside, so no. Either that or everything is in every Klein bottle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite indie game?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It does add a lot of very good playable content, but the quality and tone of the writing is a departure from the main game. Some find it a deal breaker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite indie game?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude, The Fate of Atlantis was awesome. Don’t you be crapping on my LucasArts point and click adventure games

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could wastewater plant simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I cannot comprehend things for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could wastewater plant simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because if you capture it you’re distilling instead of evaporating. I’m just pointing out the difference between the two. If you read further up, you will see that I don’t think it’s a good idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could wastewater plant simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Evaporation is a component of distilling, but if you don’t capture the vapor and condense it it’s just evaporation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could wastewater plant simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, turning wastewater plants into sewage distilleries doesn’t seem like a public health win.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  thank god we didn’t see a massive wave in inflation out of that.

  Where are you that hasn’t seen massive inflation since COVID?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best game ever?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard how great the Outer Wilds was, so when I saw The Outer Worlds on sale I thought “oh hey sure I’ll buy that for $15” and I was EXTREMELY confused at why people had said it was the best game you could only play once, because that game wasn’t even fun the first time. I later realized my mistake and got the real deal and oh my god I wish I could forget that game and play it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, AWS is ginormous and largely invisible. You can usually figure out when something’s in AWS if you can traceroute it, and sometimes by IP, but that requires knowing the IP of the server in question AND having the know-how to use and understand those tools’ output.