‘profitable’ for him, as in bribes and ‘donations’ from specific persons to allow such projects in specific places, and for specific purposes.

10 years on top of the generations to recover from economic and social policy being shat out by a deranged geriatric.

glad i kept all the ones pulled from previous ssd upgrades and ewaste that went through here. i have several i have yet to reuse.

the shit-tier shingled ones i got a couple years ago to store media files had been relatively stable for years on price at ~ 100-110usd. they’re now 170+

the thing is… you shouldn’t have to “search up the settings to turn off the saving redirection in Office programs and toss it in the default Group Policy settings”. cloud shit in windows and ms office needs to be optional, and explicitly opt in

dell’s been going down the crapper for at least a decade… ever since dell and the vultures took it private ~ 2013.

‘entry level’ specs have been 4gb ram for over a decade, and they’re still selling shit-tier laptops with only that today.

that would require the software companies to actually spend money on competent developers instead of tossing peanuts at prompt writers.

an 8gb pc with win11 is today’s equivalent of running vista on 1gb.

there’s a number of laptops already that do have 8gb on the board and no sodimm slots.

Not long ago that would feed you McDonald dinner for a month

in the 00s, that 75 dollars would have bought SEVENTY-ONE double cheeseburgers (including a typical sales tax rate of 5.5 percent). today, it would only get you seventeen of them.

if you’re being paid to run windows software… that’s a little different.

i’ve run across a couple prebuilts where shift-f10 didn’t work at any screen of the oobe. those just got clean installs via rufus.

rufus can download the latest 10 or 11 iso direct from ms servers (incorporating the fido ps1 script, made by the same guy), so you only need rufus and a flash drive.

And no, 4k desktops do not “look nicer”, it is stupid and tiny for no reason. Unless you have like 250 shortcuts on your desktop what is the point?

if you have an ultra-high desktop resolution, you’re probably using a scaling factor to make everything look about the same size it would otherwise be at ~ 1080p… windows will even default to something around that… just no ‘jaggies’.

so yea, it does ‘look nicer’ and no, everything is not ‘stupid and tiny’.

fuck airbnb. rents have tripled here with so many apartments and homes taken off the market and turned into untaxed and unlicensed hotel rooms.

demolished is the only answer.

it won’t be built to code. shortcuts will be taken as everybody looks to score some free cash along the way.

no one will know what ‘extra’ items were planted during its reconstruction. even more significant if the security bunkers underneath the demolished east wing are also rebuilt.

my ‘arch based’ system is a cinnamon-flavoured manjaro. manjaro gets shit on for reasons, one of them being they hold back updated packages for a bit… which is basically what you recommend, and it’s what i usually do anyway–defer updates for awhile (even on windows), unless it’s a super critical issue that could actually be a problem.

that manjaro desktop has been solid, never once messed-up an update even with the aur packages i have installed, and even if it’s been a month or two since it last updated.

2000 ran the best and was the most stable of all of them for me.

apple did their part by putting siri front-and-center on iphones.

opera has been owned by chinese company since 2016.