A sizeable chunk of us were banned from Reddit. I’m convinced some of those bans were justified.

I got banned for making fun of Elon back when people were burning Teslas.

I never really had heroes. I did see some people are more trustworthy or credible but never another I ever gave hero status to. The entire idea seemed strange to me.

I will say I was right about Elon Musk. There was just something about him I couldn’t put my finger on that screamed monster and nobody believed me. I just had a weird ick feeling about him.

Jobs was an interesting man in that he’s a prime example of an environment creating a person. If you haven’t read the biography it’s a fascinating read. The TLDR is that personality didn’t appear in a vacuum.

I think we have that with dr Mike on youtube now. He’s still in the pre-enshittification stage where he’s responsibly saying “I know things but I’m a YouTuber. Please ask your actual doctor.”

But pressures change people over time so I have no doubt he’ll be shilling supplements eventually.

I haven’t coded in years and wanted to pick up python finally. I’m using ChatGPT to demonstrate all the wrong answers to problems and I have to admit it’s a great learning tool for an unexpected reason.

It is productively wrong. All the time. But by screwing with it I can learn why things do or do not work. It does not give me an answer direct but instead guides me through all the possible ways to screw things up and I can learn from that.

I haven’t coded since C++ and Java in high school outside some arduino shit I did for a bit in between and chatGPT has been great and bringing those skills back from cold storage in my brain.

But as far as put in question, get response it’s obviously terrible.

This kind of demonstrates the bigger problem though. Business majors are making decisions and not engineers. And business majors are fucking stupid outside their element.

As much as I like the idea of this, I don’t really have any way to vet this. That’s not where my skills lie. And I live in a country run by fucking morons that want Russia to win this thing anyway so no traffic coming from my country should be considered trusted any more than this.

While willful participation in a DDOS attack is a literal crime where I live, the greater concern I have is not being able to confirm this does what it says it does and nothing else. We are well beyond the Low Orbit Ion Cannon days.

Guys, MacOS isn’t everybody’s taste, especially now. But it does do what it’s trying to do. Windows isn’t succeeding at anything it’s trying to do.

I went with Intel ARC since I don’t actually need GPU processing power so much as a decent media engine and VRAM for future projects and Intel has that ready to go under Linux. In the CPU side AMD is the only option that makes sense and for gaming AMDs GPUs have already been the practical option for years but their media engines are trash.

But we don’t need NVIDIA and we don’t even need high end GPUs as much as we think we do.

you are Apple-centric:homebridge

There’s a mix: homebridge

You are out of mood stabilizers: arduino and an ESP32

Retroarch disagrees. I don’t need your newfangled enshittified slop. I have megaman X and wine.

AMD can already beat nvidia at the price tiers most people actually buy at, and Intel is gaining ground way faster than anyone expected.

But outside of the GPU shakeup, I could give a shit about Intel. Let China kill us. We earned this.

God, the tantrums from the established media channels would be hysterical.

The behavior I described spans multiple Oracle products, not just virtual box. There are plenty of other sins they’d committed too.

Oracle is a shady company. They do this cute little trick where they give out free software, but if it ever appears in a corporate environment and phones home, that’s no longer free and they shake down the company the person they tricked works at. So Sharon in department X brings her laptop from home and hops on the company wifi and virtualbox phones home, now her employer is being sued. They do lot of other shit too but a general rule in the IT world is to stay the fuck away from oracle whenever possible.

No this is Patrick

The mini is actually a pretty good buy but it’s hardly how Apple has historically priced things.

Still Oracle, still not going to touch it.

Well it’s all the leftovers at this point. When the priority is loyalty, performance suffers.

Dude, that’s talos principle. You aren’t clever.