qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Elon has stated his distaste for Apple, and seems to be taking it out on its users. Who are notoriously, well...dedicated. Oh, and there are viable alternatives to Xitter, both federated and not.

What I'm trying to say is that I'm sure I'm just too stupid to see how this is a Big Brain move here...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 21 points 3 months ago (4 children)

An ARM laptop that can run mainline Linux out of the box and performs at an M1 level or better would be phenomenal. Sign me up.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My favorite hypercorrection (a hyperforeignism, if you like) is "habañero," and really stressing the "ñ" when you say it.

Except it's just "habanero," plain ol' "n." The confusion is presumably due to "jalapeño" having an accent.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months ago

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

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 49 points 4 months ago (2 children)

"...today is opposite day."

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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.)

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