rockandsock

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just spend a couple of months of growing pains slowly switching everything over to Linux and spend all that cash on something fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So they’re going to try to get everyone to buy new hardware when there is a shortage of ram and storage and they are ridiculously overpriced.

  The timing of this couldn’t be worse.

  Pass the popcorn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t live in a border state the chances of using a second language enough to really learn it well and become proficient are really small unless you have close family members that speak it.

  I took a couple of years of Spanish in high school but live about 12 hours from the Mexican border so I didn’t use it enough to retain much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They want to control what information people have access to and want to feed us propaganda to keep us doing things that make them richer and will put and keep them in control of economic policies.

  This isn’t sudden, it’s been brewing in the background for years.

  They’re up to fascism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s being pushed in a bunch of countries by the same group of authoritarian billionaires.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout ‘SAVE US!’…and I’ll look down and whisper 'No.”