Five convictions for inciting hate against Muslims.

Probably his wife and children, too.

And I wouldn’t be too surprised if occasionally he goes out to recreationally hunt the homeless.

Its wild that you can od on pure coke for less than the cost of 64gb of ram

30 minutes before releasing the Epstein files:

“Grok, how do I redact a PDF?”

It’s the difference between minimums and maximums. In most American states you have to have $50,000 worth of liability insurance to legally drive, which covers the majority of financial consequences for accidents.

That being said, now that cheap cars are $35,000 brand new, it might be a smart thing if you’re an American driver to have $100,000 or $125,000 worth of liability insurance to keep yourself from going bankrupt.

The extra $100 a year for that coverage would totally be worth it if you ever have to use it.

Where I live, you can choose to not have it as long as you take $50,000 and put it into a bank account and secure it and not touch that $50,000 as long as you are driving without insurance.

Also, there’s probably a lot of money to be made in being a font hunter for these companies. You find a company that has infringed on the font holder’s rights. You bring that information to them. You get permission to sue on their behalf and then reap the rewards. And most companies will fork out the $20,000 rather than spend $50 or $100,000 on Litigation, and the font rights holder will catch the $20,000 on the year after for free

What idiot IT specialist does not run a segregated VLAN for guest wifi access? That is just rude.

I have an older Legion, 10th gen i7, 2060, 144hz display, and it’s a perfectly solid machine.

Never given me any issues except its Linux support is kind of so-so.

I would say though that there are other devices out there that are much lighter. This laptop is a chonky boy.

One thing to note is that planned obsolescence for machines is not something that is easy to do to the level that you’re describing it.

Even if they use substandard materials at specific junctures with an estimated wearout time limit, there’s always the chance that a manufacturing flaw can increase the time between breakdowns

I think a good follow-up plan would be something more like finding the parts that break down and then digitizing them and then contracting with a service like JLCPCB to manufacture those individual parts on demand.

You could probably start a fairly successful company on just that if you had the time and energy to get the whole process rolling.

A combination of a SLS 3D printer to make the parts out of metal, or, you know, really high-quality 3D printer to make them out of nylon or whatever plastic is necessary, and getting the appropriate springs and levers and bearings and everything to fill in the gaps, you probably could make a nice side business for yourself just custom making the parts that break down the most often for appliances.

I’m willing to look the other way on this one.

Every time I image a PC, I have to run so many Windows 11 Debloat scripts and fixes to get rid of useless AI shit and then it just comes right back and it’s such a pain. It’s such a pain. I would gladly pay an annual amount of money to not have to deal with that pain.

Microsoft needs to get on this. I would pay money out of my own pocket to be able to upgrade my Windows 11 to hardcore mode at work just so I didn’t have to deal with all of their AI and tracking bullshit.

And actually I know the company I work for would pay to upgrade all of their employees to the same level. Like they’re sitting on millions of dollars of profit to just be able to turn off the bullshit they’re forcing on us.

I just tell them I run a private cloud. It’s so much easier because they understand in general “cloud equals internet”

Isn’t that one of the big problems?

Reputation doesn’t mean shit.

Everyone knows Meta is terrible. Everyone knows Alphabet’s and Google is terrible. Everyone knows fucking Disney is terrible. Everyone knows that the fucking Republican Party is terrible. Everyone knows that the Democratic Party is terrible.

Everyone knows all of this shit is terrible, and nobody stops giving them money.

I use Raccoon.

It’s pretty good.

There’s a lot of complexity to the settings, and it’s not exactly intuitive to find which section does what, so there was a lot of trial and error getting it set up.

But now that I have it set up, it works for me perfectly. It’s not quite where Reddit is Fun was, but it’s close enough.

The one thing that I wish could be added would be some sort of like system where posts or entire communities could be labeled with a category and that you could block or follow those categories.

Technology, music, politics, memes, NSFW, like each and every single broad topic could be a category, and then the magazines would align themselves to that accordingly.

I, for one, get all of my political news from other sources. I do not need it from Lemmy, and so I would love it if I could block Lemme’s political sections in a fell swoop.

Even though I have blocked dozens of political magazines and politics bots and posters, and bammed several key words, I still get political memes that pop up and political discussions that pop up, and I wish I could just blanket ban all of them.

That is the kind of shit you would expect to see in like a Harry Turtledove alternate present America where Hitler had won.

I’d be surprised if there wasn’t an FFMPEG command to run in PowerShell to automatically convert all of them.

I block communities and bots and obvious trolls.

My feed is perfectly fine without them. And the communities I block are the ones that I don’t want to see or know anything about like fucking politics and news.

Yeah, it was supposed to be for just like three months, but my mom didn’t want to put me into their remedial school because she would have to drive me, so instead she paid for me to go to a private Christian school for the rest of my high school.

Honestly, it was a good thing because I had no friends at that school. I was ostracized for being weird and I was weird because I was mentally ahead of all of my classmates, but emotionally and socially behind all of them.

Which is also ironic because on two separate occasions the school offered to skip me two grades out of fear that I would be intellectually understimulated, and therefore more prone to truancy and other bad behaviours like architecting plans to destroy my school with a fire bomb but my mom held me back out of fear that I would be emotionally and socially behind my peers, and despite that, I still ended up graduating a year ahead of my class and architecting plans to destroy my school with a fire bomb while being emotionally and socially behind my peers.

One thing in my defense, I planned on doing it at like two o’clock in the morning when nobody was there.

I was not attempting or thinking or hoping that anybody would be harmed by the action. I just wanted to get rid of the school because it was a never-ending source of misery for me nine months out of the year, and my 11-year-old brain could not comprehend any solution that did not involve destroying the source of the problem.

Sorry, I was too busy drafting plans and schematics to blow up my elementary school and getting caught by the principal and subsequently expelled to write my trilogy.