According to the Sailor Moon dub, they’re ‘cousins’.

Free expression? That doesn’t sound very brand-safe, how will we sell ads alongside that?!

Obligatory: Just one more lane, bro

the ICQ age

There’s a blast from the past. Uh oh!

IIRC TRIM commands just tell the SSD that data isn’t needed any more and it can erase that data when it gets around to it.

The SSD might not have actually erased the trimmed data yet. Makes it even more important to turn it off ASAP and send it away to a data recovery specialist if it’s important data.

Have you cleaned the inside of your windscreen?

They can get scratched up, but if you haven’t cleaned the inside of the glass before, most of the crud is probably there and cleaning it will make a huge difference.

That’s because small businesses know there’s half a dozen competitors within a 20 minute drive and care about keeping your business.

When there’s two huge corporations that own the market between them, there’s more profit in not competing than they’d get by trying to win customers from each other.

Reddit has more bots arguing back and forth to encourage humans to engage.

+1

It’s more about what happens after it stops running. If used cars are scarce and prices are high it makes a lot more sense to do that expensive engine repair. If used cars are cheap, you get more repairable cars going to the wrecker.

To be fair, those cars don’t just get set on fire when they’re done with them. They’re supplying the used car market.

It’s a terrible idea financially, but it isn’t actually wasteful.

Probably it’s cheaper to get 60 used low-end devices than one device that can run 60 copies of the Facebook app.

Reminds of when companies offshored their whole dev team and just sent requirements to them thinking they’d make code cheaper.

I mean, it was cheaper. It’s just that it was also awful. It was basically like firing all your senior devs and giving their work to randos who can’t code, but with plausible deniability.

That’s binary blob drivers for you, you just try different versions and hope it gets better someday.

One of the big advantages to open source drivers is that you can do a bisect to track some new breakage back to a specific patch. Sure, most people don’t know how to do that, but there’s a lot of people who can. And then the problem gets fixed for everybody.

I’m not sure government can. AI isn’t a profitable company with a product that people want which has a short-term cash flow problem, AI is a money pit that will just burn up as much cash as you can pour in.

If they hand AI firms a trillion dollars, they’ll be back for another trillion next year.

she should be in charge of her own sexual decisions

Not if she decides to use contraceptives, get an abortion, or have sex because she wants to. Obviously. But if she’s forced into something then that’s on her.

So just like “the deep state controlling America” the MAGA types are actually right about immigrants taking government handouts and ruining the country, they’re just targeting the wrong people: Democrats instead of billionaires, and poor Mexicans instead of Elon Musk.

IIRC that’s AVI files that aren’t indexed properly. VLC could either build its own index for the file or it could just start playing the file one frame at a time and hope for the best.

I didn’t do the legally mandated number of "Hail Corporate!"s yesterday.