Funny, I've seen that roadside alien ship getting a jumpstart art countless times. It's located on HW 285 northbound coming into the southside of Roswell. Never thought it'd be used in an article about government spending.
I've got a 13" M1 MBP about 2 years ago and I wanted to test it's power after I set it up. I loaded up Final Cut Pro, got to work editing a 15ish minute 1440p video with a lot of elements to it. The render time was about 3 minutes, which is on par or faster than my 5950x/3090 K|ngp|n desktop, and the fans didn't even turn on. It's not over hype. M2, sure I can agree since it was marginal uplift over M1. I'm not even an Apple fanboy, but that M1 chip is damn good for an off the shelf workstation.
Listen the game isn't perfect and did have a rough launch, but they're actively working on fixing and improving it. I've had 8+ hour straight binges of gameplay on it and enjoy it plenty. Is it completely what I hoped for? Not exactly, and the game could use more optimization but I still very much enjoy it, personally. It's more enjoyable to me so far than the first game, especially with the new tools and features they've added.
Toxicity is so dumb with g*mers, just refund and leave an honest review then move on with your lives people, geez.
The timing of a Trump crony shutting down mail sorting machines during the largest mail in election in history shortly after being appointed by Trump isn't a coincidence. I agree with the rest of your statement, though.
It wasn't just blue boxes, he also shut down sorting machines, slowing mail processing in another attempt to delay mail-in ballots. Luckily we weren't sending these off to get sorted at the plant and would take them to the town hall directly which probably helped circumvent a lot of late ballots. Can't say this was done in every office but in my local area I know we did that.
I've run into a similar issue, I built a media PC for my living room which includes a 4K compatible Blu-ray drive. After spending an hour trying to flash it's BIOS in Linux, realizing Windows would take 2 minutes to do the same task, then finally testing a disk, I find that DRM ruins that. All my 4K disks will not play because it's a crapshoot if they do play. It will rip them no problem, but not play.
I could fix this by using Windows, however I don't want windows on this system, it works quickly and with no annoyances in Linux.
So now I have to resort back to the PS5 as my player until I figure something out.
Personally can't justify many series in 4k, some of the ones I have only ever got SD releases (DVD at best) but there are a few I can justify 4K for. Mainly very cinematic shows such as The Mandelorian or The Last of Us. As long as they have subtitles in the other shows and are available in their best original release resolution it's fine for me.
For example if the original Doctor Who series had a 4K release for it's entirety it would probably be my entire server lol. 693 episodes in 480p is almost 300GB.
I feel Damon Albarn might fit this as well, specifically with Gorillaz. They don't have a style because it always changes on each album, hell their shit post song if the full version of Do Ya Thang where Andre 3000 just says "I'm the shit" for over 7 minutes.
I've got an '08 iMac with this version of MacOS, El Capitan I believe. Going from that to my 2019 M1 MBP running Sonoma is really no different. Sure there's features missing but I can still sync my notes and the few other Apple things I actually use between the two.
Plus my iPods can still sync with both devices, they just moved iPod into Finder in the new versions.
I stopped updating Discord's app once they did the shitty port of the iOS version to Android. Rolled back to 126.21 and haven't updated since. Sure some things are bugged, like the new usernames (shows Username#0000 for unique names now but who cares) and the nitro profile animation things. Once that version stops working, I stop using Discord.
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