Posts by LBJsPNS

Elon Musk makes another cut – to his time at DOGE

Re: The "waste and fraud" he claims to have stopped

Another Guy Fawkes mask covering a clown face, huh?

How to stay on Windows 10 instead of installing Linux

"Microsoft doesn't have pity tier in their licensing, an individual's issues in complying with their profit making is of no consequence to them."

All the more reason to get off their crappy OS.

Boeing offloads some software businesses to private equiteer Thoma Bravo

What Could Possibly Go Wrong™?

Downward DOGE: Elon Musk keeps revising cost-trimming goals in a familiar pattern

Re: Just another Trump lie

NPC

Got it. Another clown to be ignored.

Re: Just another Trump lie

Your V mask seems to be covering a clown face.

Re: "That often translates to "being greedy" "

You know exactly what they'll do. They'll march right into the voting booth and vote for whoever has an R after their name. Some stupid you can't fix.

MX Linux 23.6 brings Debian freshness, without the systemd funk

Re: What is it with Linux...

Try Manjaro. I know a lot of people diss it, but it's the only distro I have found that lets me run my show control software (that uses the second video port for show displays) correctly.

Tesla fudged odometer to screw me out of warranty, Model Y owner claims

Re: [somebody] bought a used 2020 Model Y Tesla

"All the parts falling off this vehicle are a product of quality BritishAmerican manufacturing."

Tech tariff turmoil continues as Trump admin exempts some electronics, then promises to bring taxes back

Re: US companies did this to us

There is no such thing and never has been such thing as a free market.

Do you like sportsball? Would it be better with no rules?

Trump thinks we can make iPhones in the US just like China. Yeah, right

Re: Trump doesn't think

If you put that image in my head it will drive me insane.

Trump doubles down, vows to make Chinese imports even more expensive for Americans

Re: I bet

"Am I expected to esteem your opinion?"

I really don't give a fuck what you think. Your mangled grasp of English in that one sentence speaks volumes about your utter bullshit. And yes, the responses you've received are exactly what you deserve. Bye now. I've wasted sufficient time on you.

Re: I bet

Got it. My *pocketbook* is more important to you than dead kids in Gaza. That says all we need to know about your Very Principled Stance™.

Re: I bet

And as usual, every accusation is a confession.

Re: I bet

So, you've got nothing, bless your heart.

Re: I bet

Please elaborate as to how Russian = race.

Re: I bet

I'm sure the good people of Gaza who are currently being slaughtered by the IDF with Donald the Dull's blessing are just jumping for joy over your Very Principled Stance™.

Bad luck, Windows 10 users. No fix yet for ransomware-exploited bug

Re: Oh well...

The most recent installations I've done of Linux have been far easier than Windows installation. Everything Just Works™. If you don't have any Windows-specific software you need to run I can see no reason not to switch.

China hits back at America with retaliatory tariffs, export controls on rare earth minerals

Re: Thanks How much

"left wing press"

Oh my stars and garters. My sides.

Re: Meanwhile...

Oh good, idiot boy is chiming in.

Re: Some time ago I made a few posts about the USA being 'number 1'

I believe the term you're looking for is "projection."

OpenAI wants to bend copyright rules. Study suggests it isn’t waiting for permission

Re: "rigid copyright rules are repressing innovation and investment"

*hands you a roll of tinfoil*

Musk's xAI swallows Musk's X in ego-friendly, all-stock deal

Re: Smells like panic

"The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy." - Guess Who.

So hey, fuck him.

Windows 11 roadmap great for knowing what's coming next week. Not so good for next year

If some of the companies paying thousands of dollars a year per seat for Autocad would invest some of it in FreeCAD/LibreCAD, they wouldn't have to pay those licensing fees after a year or two. Same with other commercial-only packages.

Tech support session saved files, but probably ended a marriage

Re: I know about ambitious lazy know-it-alls as well

[citation needed], you lying twit.

Nuclear center must replace roof on 70-year-old lab so it can process radioactive waste

Re: Sellafield, where taxpayer monies go to die...!

Easy peasy.

Throw out the lowest and highest bids. Take a mean average of the rest. The one coming closest to the mean gets it. The assumption is that the bid is realistic and allows for the project to get built and a reasonable profit to be made.

Brits to build ExoMars landing gear after Russia sent packing

Your English tutor did a good job, Boris.

The passive aggression of connecting USB to PS/2

Yeah, yeah, I know. ST-506s and 412s went from 20 meg to 30. It's been a few years. :)

Then show them how to double the capacity of a MFM drive by using it with an RLL controller.

UK govt data people not 'technical,' says ex-Downing St data science head

Re: I'd go further

You *do* know that governments shouldn't run like a business, as the two functions are completely separate and in some cases diametrically opposed to each other?

GNOME 48 lands with performance boosts, new fonts, better accessibility

As a KDE user, it's great to see all Linux desktops continuing to improve.

Photoshop FOSS alternative GIMP wakes up from 7-year coma with version 3.0

Retarded

God help you if the timing on your car's engine ever has to be retarded.

Context is king.

"Yeah, GIMP. GNU Image Manipulation Program. Programmers have a weird sense of humor."

"OK, cool. What's it do?"

See how easy that was?

Feds charge three over Molotov attacks on Tesla sites in multiple states

Re: Blue and pink hairdos

You mean all the felons in the current administration starting with the boss, correct?

Re: "The days of committing crimes without consequence have ended"

"They did not invent it, it has always been there."

Tell it to Nixon.

You've been spreading your bullshit all over this thread. You don't say a peep about what's happening in DC and who the real criminals are. Here's a clue: It's never a good thing to be sympathizing with nazis, because guess what that makes you.

Re: Irony

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK

Ubuntu 25.10 plans to swap GNU coreutils for Rust

Re: License

Damn. The hypocrisy is stunning.

DOGE helps Veterans Affairs end IT contract run by service-disabled entrepreneurs

Re: This just keeps getting worse

Legal system. There isn't a justice system in the U.S.

Re: Valued Veterans

If we in the US had shitcanned Kissinger's realpolitik and spent half as much as we did on defense on building roads and schools and clinics and the like instead of military bases, we'd have been the most beloved country in history. Instead, we spent our money being bullies. And we still haven't learned a damned thing from it.

Apple has locked me in the same monopolistic cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users

Re: Raspberry Pi and iPad

Nothing you said takes anything away from what Ztec has said.

Free95 claims to be a GPL 3 Windows clone, but it's giving vaporware vibes

Just for the record, ReactOS has been worked on for at least a decade and probably longer, and is still a buggy alpha mess. This is going nowhere.

Microsoft adds another Copilot hotkey – this time for AI voice chat

So in other words, Copilot will be listening all the time. Holding down alt-spacebar just forces it to tell you that it's listening.

Earth's atmosphere is shrinking and thinning, which is bad news for Starlink and other LEO Sats

Re: Starlink?

So Leon is putting the equivalent of disposable soda cans in orbit. Designed to become space junk. Why does this not surprise me?

Uncle Sam mulls policing social media of all would-be citizens

"I fail to see why anyone would want to visit that dystopian shithole of a country let alone live there."

Some of us are too old and too broke to go anywhere else.

Crypto takes a dip as Trump signs Bitcoin Reserve order

Back in the day, we used them as anodes for gold plating. Use them a few times then pull them back out and they look uncirculated with just the slightest amount of gold removed.

SpaceX's 'Days Since Starship Exploded' counter made it to 48. It's back to zero again now

Re: Tariffs

"And there will be a lot more of those"

Yeah, pissing off the Europeans enough to send them elsewhere will bring tons of customers, won't it. You must be an MBA.

Ex-NSA grandee says Trump's staff cuts will 'devastate' America's national security

Every time I see a comment like this, I simply assume that the poster is terrified that:

He'll meet a transgirl and fall hard.

She'll have a bigger... package.

She'll be a top.

And He'll love it. Won't be able to get enough.

US stocks slip as Trump pulls trigger on Canada, Mexico, China tariffs

OK, if we're going to get pedantic, it was Fla-Vor-Aid in 1978. :))

Don't forget greed.

Microsoft trims more CPUs from Windows 11 compatibility list

Re: "Not Very Difficult to Install 11" (On Unsupported PCs)

Note the all ages part of your comment. Thank you. Please understand, it's annoying to have it assumed I'm a doddering fucking idiot when I've been using technology since I first built a PAIA system using an RCA COSMAC 1802 in the late 70s. Or maybe early 80s. I was taking a lot of acid back then. Anyway, dull twentysomethings who assume I can't work a bar code reader at a self checkout are the bane of my existence. OK, maybe that's a bit strong. But they're still annoying.