An expanding market and competition don’t change the fact that prices go up when prices go up. I suppose I can grant that it’s cheaper to sell ones and zeros over the internet than it is to ship a bunch of discs to every GameStop. But still, physical manufacturing and distribution make up a small percentage of the price of a game

Gary was modifying hardware that people owned. That the modifications he was doing allowed for the play of pirated games is not in itself piracy. Besides, there is no fucking way he personally cost them enough money to justify having to pay them 30% of every dollar he makes for the rest of his life.

I like that analogy. A walking stick you buy from a store can never fit you as perfectly as one you make yourself, but if you don’t know how to make a walking stick, you’re gonna make a shitty walking stick. I’m happy that I’m in a position to walk with a shitty stick until I get better at carving, so to speak

Me going from Mint to Ubuntu to Kubuntu to Neon to Arch. My experience with the Arch installation process is just the command shutdown

Someday I’ll be comfortable enough with this nerd shit to trust myself with unsupervised access to a CLI. Until then I’m happy just knowing what a DE is

People really don’t seem to understand that video game prices have not kept up with inflation. It’s why I didn’t bat an eye at spending $70 on Baldur’s Gate 3 despite the original costing like $50. When you account for inflation, it’s actually cheaper.

That said, I avoid Nintendo on principle. Refusing to sell old games so that they can use people who pirate them is ghoulish and inhuman. As long as Gary Bowser is forced to pay them, I never will.

Fr, GitHub may as well be written in wingdings

Thank Linus for nerds that write proper readmes

This is a job for water detectors, which I have no qualms about connecting to the internet. They have the added benefit of detecting leaky pipes as well

Personally I would much rather touch my phone with my dirty hands than a toilet handle

I have become the red shirt from my favorite SMBC comic

However, my feelings regarding smart devices remain intact

Day 3,801 of thanking God I was born a Luddite

Anyone who thought their toilet would be improved by having an internet connection deserves this

For me, it’s that the app I use does not have the chat feature. I’m 99% certain this is just an attempt to push out the revanced users

Can, and opt not to. Big difference. I’m sure I could ask chat GPT to write a better comment than this, but I value the human interaction involved with it, and the ability to perform these tasks on my own

Same with many aspects of modern technology. Like, I’m sure it’s very convenient having your phone control your washing machine and your thermostat and your lightbulbs, but when somebody else’s computer turns off, I’d like to keep control over my things

This is a salient point that’s well worth discussing. We should not be training large language models on any supposedly factual information that people put out. It’s super easy to call out a bad research study and have it retracted. But you can’t just explain to an AI that that study was wrong, you have to completely retrain it every time. Exacerbating this issue is the way that people tend to view large language models as somehow objective describers of reality, because they’re synthetic and emotionless. In truth, an AI holds exactly the same biases as the people who put together the data it was trained on.

I am so happy God made me a Luddite

Anyone saying anything but #7 is delulu. There’s a reason Bic won pens

duel boot

Lmao Linux and Windows sitting there like ⚔️ ⚔️ ⚔️

Some might switch due to windows OS locked apps

Fusion360 is literally the only reason I still have a windows install. I’ve had people try to recommend Linux alternatives before, and none of them can match my level of stupidity. If I can’t draw a circle in your CAD program without looking up a tutorial, then I really can’t design a webcam adapter for my telescope

Fuck the sphere, marry the antiprism, kill the stellated dodecahedron

A lot of people think that to get to orbit, you just go up. That’s partially true, but in reality you go up to get out of the atmosphere, and then go sideways really, really fast.

Imagine throwing a ball in the air. If you throw it straight up, then no matter how high you throw it, it just comes back down. Now imagine throwing it across the room. It falls in a curved arc, right? Now imagine throwing it so fast that it goes past the horizon. That curved arc is still there, and it’s much longer now.

Now imagine throwing it so hard that it not only goes past the horizon, it actually never hits the earth in the first place. That’s an orbit! Of course, the earth has an atmosphere, so it would slow down because of aerodynamic drag. That’s why we send rockets way upward—to get out of the air.

So a satellite in orbit is literally just falling constantly, but because it’s going so fast, it’s always missing the earth. It’s for this reason that an astronaut can’t “fall off of” the space station. They’re moving just as fast as the station is, and so even if they pushed themselves off of it, they would remain in orbit.

Jerboa. It’s not the most functional but it reminds me of RIF the most.

I switch to Sync any time I need to use the search function