dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️ @ dual_sport_dork @lemmy.world

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What a useless pile of words spent moaning about ad clicks, specifically to gain ad clicks.

Don't talk, "organize."

Okay, how? How do we effectively organize to fight against an enemy who has already for all intents and purposes won, in a way that won't get us rounded up and shot by the Gestapo? Please tell us.

"We don't know, that's your problem. Just 'organize.'"

You used the magic word, "modern."

Lots of houses in this world are not modern, and some of them are old enough that they were retrofitted to have electricity, as mine was, rather than even being built with it to begin with. And done so in a haphazard manner when electrical codes were either much more lax than now or didn't exist. And further when the expected power draw for a household was considerably lower, because basically all of it in the 1920's or whatever was only used for lighting and we didn't have all of our current appliances, TV's, computers, 3D printers, or even indoor space heaters.

So moaning about what ought to be rather than what is really doesn't accomplish anything, especially in OP's case.

My small house has basically the entire ground floor wired to only two 15 amp circuits.

Well, that's annoying.

Let's not kid ourselves, most people will not start looking at Linux. They should, but they won't. They'll continue to use the version of Windows their machine came with, becoming a botnet petri dish in the process, forever, until it breaks or becomes unusable. If Microsoft actually forces their machine to become unbootable they'll rush off to the mall and replace it with a Mac.

And in the meantime they'll click off any nags and warnings Microsoft sends them without reading them.

Just like happened with XP.

Just like what happened with Vista.

Just like what happened with 7.

Etc.

Most users are clueless, barely understand how to use their computers except by rote, and therefore are extremely afraid of change. Microsoft could offer a free puppy with your updrade to Win11 and I think about 75% of users would still refuse to take it.

I still maintain that the first Goomba in 1-1 probably has the highest kill count of any single creature in the universe.

The Qidi X-Smart 3 leaps to mind, if nobody is offended by my constant shilling of Qidi printers. (Not for any particular reason other than having owned two, and having no trouble with them in contrast with other machines.)

I would not buy a Razer if they paid me $120. Do yourself a favor and don't. I've owned a fair few Razer products in my life and they've all been overpriced flimsy pieces of shit, and when they break Razer will do anything and everything to weasel out of doing anything about it. As a matter of fact, the last Razer product I had break on me was a Blackwidow Chroma, and not coincidentally it was the last Razer product I will ever buy. I think it made it a whole nine months.

Anyway, I was in this very boat not too long ago and settled on the Glorious GMMK 3 100% for my wife, which is indeed available in white. It's $140 USD list price, so I don't know how that fits your budget. She got some nice cat themed keycaps for it and she's having a ball. You can get it with various keyswitch options prepopulated, or even swap the switches around as you see fit. She got the "Fox" linear keyswitches which are not short throw but are definitely quiet.

I use a Logitech G512 Carbon at the moment, myself. It's not white but it has otherwise been bomber for over a year.

This is a sterling endorsement for me. I don't know if anyone's noticed but I type a lot. Not just bickering in the comments, but for work as well. I am not rough on keyboards and mine never moves from this spot, but I will tickle the keyswitches on any 'board a couple of million times in short order and I probably find the service limit on all the keys that are not W, A, S, or D more quickly than the average penguin.

I think James May got there quicker. The first episode of his Cars Of The People miniseries explores (in part) the driving idea behind the Beetle and its origin, including its proceeds funding the Nazi war machine.

Or pretty much anywhere in the manufacturing sector.

Plenty of products you use on a daily basis, especially processed foods, are being cranked out on equipment controlled by PLC's from the 1980's or earlier.

A Hind-D??

95 is easy, you can use all zeroes or all ones and it would pass the algorithm check and let you install. There was no online check requirement, unlike XP.

98 you could do 12345-12345-12345-12345-12345 or some similar variant as I recall, so I never bothered knowing an "actual" key for those.

XP and above could be trivially bypassed with software, so the whole thing was moot after that. Silly technology.

Bankrupted three casinos: Trump's Taj Mahal, Trump Marina, and Trump Plaza.

Somewhat relatedly, I still have the MSDN Windows 2000 license key memorized.

Needless to say, I have not had to install Windows 2000 on anything for quite some time.

As a penguin, fuck this guy.

If you do it the former way, you're supposed to use a zero as well: "Pr0n."

What part of what I wrote expressed that I was "proud" of it?

I'm just telling you how people behave. I don't have any control over anybody but myself. For what it's worth, I'm probably one of the six people in this damn country who doesn't drive like a nut.

For what it's worth, the I-95 corridor from about Richmond to Boston, particularly the DC-Balitmore-Philly-NYC part, is probably one of the worst stretches of highway in the country for generalized insanity and phenomenally poor driving skills on display from everyone involved. It is easily my most hated patch of asphalt in the universe.

A small but measurable improvement would be made to the world instantly if every person in DC and Baltimore had their licenses revoked. Although if experience is any judge, that still wouldn't prevent any of them from still all being on 95, three inches from the car in front and raging over "only" being able to do 80 in a 55.

Practically no one actually drives at or below the speed limit in the US, especially on freeways. Whether or not you personally like this doesn't matter -- it's just how it is.

You're welcome to try it, but speeding is so pervasive in our culture that this will single you out and Ruggedly Individualistic Americans will get frothingly butthurt at you over it. Prepare to get tailgated, cut off, bullied out of your lane, stuff thrown at your car, etc.

choked on a pretzel

I wonder how many people reading this remember that this actually happened to Bush the 2nd.