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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Imagine I have two choices: end world hunger, or end world hunger and kick a puppy. If I choose to end world hunger but also kick a puppy...well I'm kinda a dick, right? Ultimately I did a very good thing ending word hunger, so on balance, my actions are "net positive." But the choice I actually made was to kick a puppy.

Now, I need to eat. So I have a choice: eat yummy food and don't kill an animal, or eat yummier food and do kill and animal. The choice I'm effectively faced with is, "kill an animal for better taste."

It's totally up to you to decide if that is a good choice for you personally.

If course it's not always so simple, and there are financial, cultural, and health reasons that complicate this. But for some folks (like myself) that's kinda how I view it.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Property can take a while to close


offer to title in under 30 days is on the quick side.

Of course, you could probably close very fast if you offered 100M cash on a 10M property...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 25 points 1 year ago (7 children)

...unless it's an N64 controller, and you just got blueshell'd in Mario Kart/Oddjob'd in GoldenEye, in which case that's perfectly normal behavior

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Oh for their cloud services absolutely, you're right.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"...today is opposite day."

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you program some keyboard-presenting device to automate this? Still requires plugging in something of course...what a mess.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As much as it pains me to say it, it's not really Microsoft at fault here, it's CrowdStrike.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably coincidence? It sounds (???) like this is a pretty simple fix on Windows.

The number of times I have borked my Linux machines so they wouldn't boot is, well, greater than zero for sure. Any operating system can be bricked to the point of requiring manual intervention by software with elevated privileges.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago

*The data do not lie

(I know, it's acceptable to use it as is done in the title, but the cartoon dude seemed to me the sort of fellow who might have opinions about the Latin roots of words and whatnot.)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 32 points 1 year ago

"Over the last 3–4 months, we have observed that CPUs initially working well deteriorate over time, eventually failing," he claims. "The failure rate we have observed from our own testing is nearly 100%, indicating it's only a matter of time before affected CPUs fail."

Not used to seeing significant age-related degradation in silicon used under normal conditions. Sounds like Intel dun goofed...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

Also X often supported a different size viewport and desktop so the view would scroll.

I remember encountering that the first time I used Linux! Can't recall personally finding a good use for it but...neat I guess?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Multiple desktops, 1999. What an amazing feature.

A quick web search suggests that macOS (then OS X) got this in 2007 ("Spaces"), and Windows not until 2015.

This alone makes this GUI more functional IMHO.

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