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Well, yeah.

You were expecting maybe all of the countries of the world to absolve their differences and join hands to defeat the problems of climate change?

Sounds kinda like a fairy tale.

I would but my Pixel 6’s USB connection is entirely useless. It hasn’t successfully connected to a cable in over a year.

I was considering it for my next one, though, whenever that is. Don’t really feel the need for an upgrade atm.

I like how almost everything we do now is in response to things going to shit.

Lemmy - Reddit went to shit

Linux (Desktop, anyway) - Windows went to shit

Piracy - Distribution and pricing went to shit

Jellyfin - Plex went to shit

Emulation - Nintendo, mostly…

Matrix - Just in case Signal tries anything… switchblade

normal people can’t just… grab a single board PC and… install Linux on it! What are they supposed to do!?

I dunno, suffer, I guess. Pass the keyboard. I’m feeling Friends.

edit: my cousin and his wife came over about four months ago and saw we used a keyboard and the TV was just a computer and he went “why the fuck haven’t we just done that?”. He doesn’t know know Linux, but he has a Steam Deck and got by alright.

Sometimes, they just need the idea, a little push.

uh, yeah, machine’s broke, no ice cream today, sorry.

Did you try the one up town!?

The world spins on a thin disc made of corrupted stability.

And the thing is, it’s almost universal across everything humans touch and it isn’t just terrible, shady shit like a company tossing 50k computers in working order just because it ended up being a cheaper option over finding a buyer, I mean shit like this.

Like only an idiot takes everything at face value and follows the system to a T and everyone knows it, everyone abides by it, everyone suggests by it, and law enforcement ignores it.

There’s a parallel world where no one pirates anything, books are $30 each and cops chase actual problems. There’s one bathroom with an asterisk next to it, the old don’t have to work because they’re easily paid for, people retire before 55, people drive on the right side of the road and pass on the left(in America), all because literally everyone does what they’re supposed to do.

…but like, nah. That’s sooooo hard, apparently.

Ah, I figured they were as common here as anywhere else they were, but now that I remember it, Honda makes their American cars in Ohio, they aren’t imports. That stacks.

Why bother using the car? There’s a phone in your pocket telling them where you are 24/7.

9th Gen Civic

1.8 or 2.4L, no turbo, tons of manual transmissions out there, cheap to fix, easy to find and source with tons of motors still in crates brand new.

Except a lot of it doesn’t fit because tons of it is predatory trash sold as functional when one or two things can go wrong and ruin everything.

It’s hard to expect the layman to need something technical, not know enough technically to do it themselves, but have enough surface knowledge to not get ripped off. It’s like threading a needle of the perfect level of wisdom.

Like I’d wager the common every dude would look for a connected hard drive, maybe Western Digital because of the market saturation, but there’s just so much garbage online that half works.

Then there’s interconnectivity issues, software not being available cross-platform after already spending hundreds on hardware, Apple problems.

The average user is just set and ready to be ripped off at like, all angles.

Trump is president elect of the USA and you think the problem to this issue’s path to visibility is political correctness?

Call it fuckification if it gets clicks and attention, this is the USA. They vote for trash, speak their language.

The joke: every year is the year of the Linux desktop

head tap

because Linux is rather awesome.

My thought process:

Desktop: I need cost for performance…

Server: fps for the Jellyfin, transcodes for the transcode god

Actually, maybe.

Nissan and Honda both have a long history of undercutting everyone else to sell compacts and both have been working on EV tech, Nissan a little more openly than Honda, although Honda does have a deal between Acura and GM in the states for battery tech.

Honda cooks forever before they release new things, but Nissan will keep cooking new small EV compacts… forever. It’s just their thing.

Facebook is really nothing without people, opinions, think groups, pacs, and assholes all fighting for attention. That is Facebook.

Once you boil it down to that, it kinda makes you wonder why on earth would want to make another one to start with rather than remove the entire concept from existence.

No, it’s what I can put back rn barring photosynthesis so I wouldn’t have to buy food.

I’m working on it.

The functions I use Facebook for are only valid if it’s full of the majority of mankind.

Dating, and finding cheap used shit to buy in a parking lot.

Was it implied that I was in dire straits because I was streaming?

His statement was pretty general. It’s hard out there to save money, even if you aren’t streaming.

Yep, roughly $400 a week.

I run lean, dude. You don’t want my life.

If it’s about the hobby, the low end is what an old laptop and a crap hard drive? Cycle out new releases as they come and go.

I could set someone up with Jellyfin and a full arr suite for $50.

Illegals aren’t growing crops, prisons step in, now prisons are growing crops, now prisons are profiteering from growing crops, higher food prices despite the ““free”” labor as they have conflicts with farmers…

messy messy messy situation

Great if you own a prison, tho.