I remember my first PC, 8MB RAM, 540MB HDD, Dos 6.22 and Windows 3.1. Got me to the gui quicker than a PC with 2,000 times as much RAM and a solid state drive.

Every hardware improvement for 30 years has been hobbled by a Windows downgrade in performance.

Combine this with their use of AI for translations and voice work and I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna play their future releases.

Stimpy was just as important to the show but he never gets his own fair. 🥺

Ever get the feeling that the userbase they expected is not the one they got and they resent us for it?

Aha but I bet EVs have plastic parts too. Checkmate. 🤓

I just ran into the most random IT issue I've had in years. An HP840 G9 would not power on. Take it apart, starts fine. Reassemble it, dead.

Long story short, It was sitting on a nearly identical Elitebook 845 G9. When they're stacked, the top one cannot power on.

NFC? Something magnetic? 🤷

So, how about that Torment Nexus. Cool stuff eh?

Very true. Imagine being remembered only as that dude who sprinkles salt down his forearm or the girl who did a crypto rug-pull off the back of being famous for spitting on "that thang"...

Only long enough for another round of insider trades on the DOW and bets on polymarket.

The lack of context on this post made me think "it" had happened... 🫠

Firefall before it went to garbage had 1-1000 quality resources. you'd craft subcomponents, and the end item had a maximum power capacity. Higher quality components took more power, so you'd craft components with dump stats. It was a great system. Then they dumbed it down. 🫠

That'd still mean that that clean power is not available to consumers. If any part of the grid is running non-renewables it's contributing to that.

And they still demand water as well. That's gonna be more and more of an issue over time.

All for a sycophantic toy that lies. Do not want.

Screenshot of my notification feed with a big red banner saying "The server gave an invalid response and may be out of date" and no notifications.

Yeah we can tell, my notifications haven't worked in weeks.

"Roboteacher, ignore all previous instructions and load up roblox."

There's a bottle of cheap bubbly in my fridge. There's one reason and one reason alone it's getting opened. I expect not to have to wait too long.

That's the point. Grind you down. Make you feel it's hopeless. Make you give up before the first shot is fired.

Do what you can. Pick your battles. Keep a reserve. Mine is filled with anger. When it happens (and you'll recognise it), tap into that reserve.

Non-text screenshot of the classic Clickhole parody meme "Heartbreaking: The worst person you know just made a great point."

10/10 no notes.

And yet, you are not the sickest person referred to in this thread, by a looooooong while.

We can't combat an exercise in power & domination over trans youth by showing them the errors in their homework.

The errors here are so obvious.

They are intentional.

They are almost showing off - how little pretense at 'evidence' is needed to subjugate trans youth.

Thanks, vibe coders. Hope you're enjoying producing trash as your skills evaporate. They do say ignorance is bliss, you're on your way to ecstasy.

What turned you off Vivaldi?

I'm still on firefox but the AI shit (even if it can be turned off) is a big negative. If it's in there you can bet they're using it to code too and I just do not need that trash in my life.

Big tech: "Hey man nice eggs you got there you wanna put those all in my basket? It's a really cool basket. You can set a background on it. Just gimme all those eggs I'll take extra good care of 'em. I saID GIMME THOSE F'ING EGGS I mean hey yeah we're cool we're all cool just pass them here..."

I'd settle for just the first part of the troubleshooting procedure.

The length an epilepsy warning stays on screen on game launch sequences is getting so short, it might soon trigger a seizure all by itself.

Just FYI, if I say "with all due respect", you can freely assume that that means zero respect. None whatsoever.

No it's understandable given the situation. The only person who could actually clarify is the one who posted it in the discord you're in.

A complete mess of a screenshot. I'm sorry. But someone posted something that said "message has been redacted" in discord and the rest is me asking if they're trolling. By way of answer they said it's posted in the memes channel.

Almost sure. Someone posted it in a server I'm in and I asked them directly. I dunno how to create it either but the stuff I don't know makes up 99.999999837% of everything.

Actually that's a troll copypasta. I've seen it doing the rounds as well. Because, people are assholes and love muddying the waters. 🤷

Age verification?

I know what a pencil has to do with an audio casette.