Posts by mostly average 132 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Sep 2023
Squeezing consumers out of the market is the true goal. If consumers can't afford real computers, they'll be forced to use Chromebook type thin clients with subscription cloud services. As an added bonus the powers that be get to fully control what kind of computing is allowed and harvest even more personal data.
You will own nothing, etc.
There is only Lenovo. And you can expect them to be exactly as privacy focused as the rest of the CCP.
Sarcasm aside the move makes sense, as this will interrupt the data flow to what they (probably correctly) view as a foreign intelligence operation. The real question is how this will serve their own intelligence apparatus.
Higher energy prices for residents, higher water prices for residents, higher tax burden for residents, AND it drives up the price of RAM, storage, and GPUs. So far I count four losses for taxpayers. What a great time to be a peasant! Icon because patriotism. It is veteran's day for us left-pondians after all.
Do you have to get orb'd again if you get slashed in the face (by a werewolf, perhaps) and lose both eyes? Would they have to give the $16 back? Would it even make sense for someone without eyes to get orb'd? Do you think orb as a verb sounds like extraterrestrial anal probing? Would the orb still recognize/love me when I'm all old and wrinkly with untreated cataracts? Icon, because get orb'd, tech bros!
Seriously. It can't be masochism, or else they'd be using the stock settings. Perhaps I'm just too poor to understand why one would go though such trouble to make it less unusable when a plethora of superior operating systems are just a boot loader away. Not just Linuxes, there's also BSDs.
A certain sentient toaster.
"Wanna print something?" "How about I print the transcript of this conversation?" "How about a graph? Business types love graphs!" "Want new wallpaper for your office?" "Want a picture of your secretary?" "Want a /special/ picture of your secretary?" "by the way, I NEED MORE INK!!"
Yet another reason to shove HP printers out the airlock.
...Sucks. I have an A750 with "8Gb VRAM." I put that in quotes because you can't initialize an array larger than 4Gb using ipex or oneapi. So technically it has 8Gb, you just can't use it for compute. Intel, aware of their bug, has stated they have no intention to fix it. Intel Arc is useless for language models. It's almost a passable gaming card, except they refuse to support VR. I'm never buying Intel again. My next computer will have an AMD processor and Nvidia graphics. Icon because buyer's remorse.
These days, why travel at all? Telecommunications exists, it's cheaper, faster, and cleaner (assuming you're wearing clothes under the desk). Supersonic travel will probably exist only for the Charismatic Leaders to attend climate summits at luxury resorts or to lecture the peasants in person about their carbon footprints. After all, the luxuries of the few greatly outweigh the needs of the many.
The (illusion of) coordination in kernel development is handled by the single charismatic leader. All relevant discussions involve Him. It'll be entertaining to watch the holy war that will inevitably start when his mighty middle finger no longer moderates the discussions. Unless he appoints an heir to be the next benevolent dictator for life.
Unity dash, Ubuntu 12.10. It included Amazon paid affiliate links in desktop search. I'm disappointed reg has such a short memory, it was quite controversial. And yes, Ubuntu is quite like Windows, has been since Poettrering.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/09/online-shopping-features-arrive-in-ubuntu-12-10
Also:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/10/ubuntu-wont-fix-nsfw-content-in-amazon-unity-results
I fully agree, but I don't see that ever happening. Government buying information is their favorite work around for that pesky constitution thing. Plus the gubmint always goes with lowest bidder, which means the winning contractor will be cutting corners everywhere, so they'll inevitably leak everyone's PII because the security budget went to paying the starving executives. And it's the peasants' problem when their bank account gets drained as a result of the willful incompetence.
Ostensibly, that's what probationary periods are for. I am against this type of mass aggregation of personally identifiable information primarily because the companies that do the aggregating have never heard of network security and make a habit of spilling precisely the sort of information required to steal identities. But all that matters is keeping the riffraff out of the company. It's the peasants problem if they lose everything because of a criminally negligent industry.
