because that’s how capitalism works. PC hardware is so cheap and easy to make, the ROI is getting lower and lower each cycle.

if they only sell access to the hardware, profits go up exponentially and potentially forever.

this is why “x as a service” is used so much.

it’s one of the reasons why windows 11 is so shitty. they’re using it as a playground to test the limits of what consumers will accept. the experience is so atrocious that the next version will likely be hosted as a virtual desktop through Azure that you pay for hourly.

when it’s released, all the shitty things with 11 will be magically resolved and you’ll hear so many “reviews” talk about “how they listened to the end users and care about the user experience but it’s just not possible to deliver the great experience they want on consumer hardware”.

it’s always about the money.

been preparing for a decade, but got serious after 2018 for some reason

Imagine a world where you have been blacklisted from their services because you posted online about the corruption he feeds.

now imagine how difficult it will be to get or keep a job where you can’t use a computer when 85% of all jobs now require AI “skills”.

don’t worry, you can work in one of the many warehouses at Amazon…

rotten will make a comeback if any of those “save the children” bills get passed.

no bigger than a phone, no harder to destroy than a phone. just as easy to conceal as a phone.

SD cards are pretty resilient.

anyone do a search for him on Epstein airlines?

cameras exist.

Going to a Protest? Don’t Bring Your Phone

FTFY

that’s hilarious. I remember the scene back in the day was more like, “if you don’t know, get fucked because nobody is going to be responsible for your incompetent bullshit.”

oh how times have changed.

I2P is a secure network protocol. to your ISP it’s just an encrypted stream.

it can work across any network connection. Bluetooth, Lora, ARRL, etc.

the way I interpreted your comment presented the possibility that the ISP would cut services based on the content being hosted, not as a wide area communications disruption.

https://geti2p.net/en/

your shits gay and you sound retarded

you’re that guy. congrats!

I2P

makes sense but wasn’t that already fixed with dockers rootless patches?

question, why would you leave docker for podman?

fuck you

– Rob Pike

to them it’s not gay unless you’re the bottom.

Mind you, the power connection was a PoS, would have been as well keeping that on an annual reorder for how often it failed. Pretty good laptop otherwise.

Jesus fuck were those connections bad. I’ve got at least three dead Dell mobos in the parts bin because of them. it’s like the engineer’s thought the little smd USB/power ports would be enough to “hold it”.

PostgreSQL

fuckin gross!