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https://blog.4chan.org/post/781845918774394880/still-standing

I haven’t had calamari in like 16 years and I love that shit, bring it on

shit load securing, good luck everyone behind! I want to play big strong truck man

vanity trucks are so dumb. we bought a truck when we got our house because we live in a less populated area that’s hard to get to and we had to do a decent amount of renovations. we found a 25 year old dodge with low miles for 3k. Runs fine, super easy to work on. It’s the smaller truck they made but still has the 8ft bed. They stopped doing the 8ft bed altogether after 2000 on the small truck. Even for big trucks like ram and f150 the 8ft bed is a special order thing since ages ago, you generally won’t see them on lots and used they can command a decent price because they’re pretty uncommon

It’s so fucking stupid that stupid assholes made the most impractical vehicle part of their ego and as a result made it overall worse. Like I can just load a 4x8 sheet in my bed and close the gate dipshit. I also spent an entire house less than you. Still has carplay too thanks to a $30 cheapass head unit from aliexpress. Also mines not associated with white nationalism and when we finish our renovation we can probably sell it for a small profit or at least what we paid, unless we spend like 5 years doing work. Even if we don’t, 23ish days of renting home depot trucks and we come out ahead (except not really because insurance and maintenance but you get the point). I didn’t pay the price of a condo in a low cost of living area for the fucking thing

I was considering purchase a Japanese switch 2 because my Japanese is decent enough for most gaming but then I saw it was region locked pretty hard so I can’t use any of my us e shop purchases. Plus fuck Nintendo, even without the tariffs the price on this thing is a bit much and their behavior is garbage

If I ever do get one it’ll be because someone broke theirs and I got it cheap as fuck and fixed it. That’s how I got my switch, had a busted battery management IC and a fucked usb C port. I think in total I paid like $90 for it with parts. It would also help if the console was exploited for piracy

There’s a supposed message from one of the admins promising it will return

If it does come back it will likely take ages given much of the 20 year old hacked together source leaked. If they simply relaunched as is it would likely go down again in minutes

Right? I miss fun logos. I get everyone wants to shit on ai but minimalist logos are booooooring

The long term play is regulation but good luck with that

Why do you think the tech oligarchs are banding together to dismantle the government? They see the future you describe and recognize that we are at a key juncture to get there. Once the groundwork is laid they can go back to focusing on fighting each other for total dominance of the market

But what’s the net benefit if they overall lose a ton of market share? Sales of, absolute best scenario, 10 million dollars? That’s a lot of money but it’s also really unlikely they’d get that level of sales and is it worth having a shareholders meeting in 1 year where they have to address questions about market share continuing to slide noticeably? Apparently I guess

It seems like it would mainly be a good deal for oem pc manufacturers. If I was lenovo or whoever I’d be jazzed about it, let microsoft take all the negativity and sell more thinkpads

This makes sense, the tinfoil hat shit is one thing but it’s much easier to just explain it as tpm and secure boot will enable more data collection, which is probably a stronger revenue stream than keeping windows on 75% of pcs vs 72%

Of course some nerd will probably figure out ways to defeat it all eventually but microsoft is probably (correctly) banking on your grandma not knowing how to install extensions and whatever 3rd party shit that will require

The sad thing is at one point I would have said that’s a foolish way thing to bank on and eventually those computer illiterate folk will die out but it appears that that younger gen z and below have many people that are slightly more advanced than boomers in tech knowledge. They know how to use their phones but have no clue how to do anything interesting with them and have barely any idea how to use a pc.

I worked in a school for a bit a few years ago and the amount of kids that didn’t know about something as basic as Adblock was shocking, let alone how to navigate the file system. Modern phones as a primary computing device really fucked that generation

It’s crazy that microsoft, a company that once had 90+ market share of the OS market and is now down in the low 70% range and falling, would rather force this shit and potentially lose people to ipads than simply just make an upgrade path for older hardware (that isn’t even that old)

What could possibly motivate this? They have to see the folly in such a decision with all their market research and shit. Do they really have the hubris to think that people will just go out and buy new hardware en masse because they said to so they could check emails, go on social media, and do streaming shit? Tinfoil hat time: were they influenced by a three letter agency or something to include the need for secure boot and tpm? Is there an exploit or backdoor in these?

These political signs are such trash and should be banned. Like that’s the modern political advert: a name on a color with a thin rectangle, littering the environment everywhere. They tell you absolutely nothing about the candidate, often not even what office they are running for

At least the farts sign sends a message

Some of my stuff is consumer level (the netgear modem, which tbf I’m genuinely surprised has lasted this long). some is in that weird “prosumer” space like the synology stuff; they are a bit pricier but have, in my experience, more resilient hardware. They also had much better support but in recent years they’ve kind of scaled back on this, bummer

My best advice is to not overlook the potential of e waste. The best and most resilient networking gear I have also happened to be the cheapest. The brocade switch? $45, 48 gigabit ports and 8 10 gigabit sfp+ ports. The hp POE switch? 24 gigabit poe ports and 2 port 10g sfp+. The server for pfsense was $50. These were good deals from local sellers, ebay prices are higher, sometimes quite a lot (especially with shipping). They also use much more power than just a consumer router which is worth mentioning. I’m transitioning to solar so I’m less concerned about it