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Yeah, it's about the same as how my dad buys those Amazon Echo things. I absolutely hate them and am incredibly uncomfortable with having them in the house, but he sees no issue with them whatsoever despite the fact nobody uses them and they just suck up our power. He's quite the impulse customer however, so I can see why he would buy anything Amazon would show him that remotely resembles a "good deal". He was really confused when he got that big Echo Show they came out with that could run Fire TV applications because it was like $30 one Christmas and I told him I really hated it.

Parents never saw there was an issue. I was mostly "normal" until I started seeing symptoms pop up in the 5th grade. Don't have a guidance counselor but I should probably just ask my dad.

I'm a teenager, I don't spend the money in this house.

What do I do if I'm 16, diagnosed and unmedicated?

Another brand that was moderately OK about 10 years ago down the drain, but they've been on a path of enshittification since about 2017. My family bought a brand new Vizio TV for our living room in 2022 and that thing is nothing but headaches. It forcibly updated once while I was playing my PS3, took 15 minutes and I wasn't even showed a changelog or any reason I should've had to update. We should've just saved up for a Sony, but we had no working TV in the living room.

Does Adderall even work?

I was born right into the age of streaming since I was born in 2008 (didn't this website exist before me?) and this is why I love CDs. I actually control decent quality music, I can pay the artist directly for their work and I control it without any ridiculous copy protection like AACS. I tried Spotify, Amazon Music, TIDAL, everything else and I cannot get used to it. I really hate subscriptions, and prefer to own things.

As much as I don't really have an issue with what Musk did to Twitter mainly because I don't use it, X is a shitty name. Could've made a cool new name like Phaser or XLog or something.

That would literally be the same as Microsoft trying to trademark the "-soft" suffix. Can't wait for OpenAI to make more wacky decisions over time.

I never said they weren't doing anything wrong though. Maybe it shouldn't be as easy to wander into an airport with a bomb.

The 1986 Assault Weapons Ban in the US restricted the sale and ownership of several non-existant gun attachments and modifications. It also for some reason banned specific guns like the KS-23 (quite ridiculous gun you should read on if you're a fan of them) that was only manufactured in the Soviet Union and other bloc states and literally couldn't be imported to the US normally regardless because it used the barrel off a 23mm aircraft cannon.

Remember to always put someone with no knowledge of guns in charge with making gun laws.

This is why even if you aren't doing anything wrong, you should always use E2E encrypted communication.

Good thinking. Like how Portal and Half-Life are in the same universe. I'm also pretty sure most Rockstar games (Max Payne, Midnight Club, GTA, Red Dead Redemption) all happen in the same universe as well.

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What? I'm just on ProtonVPN.

I'm from Alabama and having to pay a toll to get to work sounds dystopian.

I have felt the same way about it a bit, and I do think they need to change a few things if they plan to get anywhere with it. I do hope though that they're able to succeed, they aren't stuck with that design forever and what they learned could be applied to a successor model. They should really consider partnering or merging with Raptor Computing, the last thing the scarce POWER market needs is more fragmentation.

I think a relatively substantial issue with swapping ISA is the software library, which is what's kept Intel in business all these years. Older/retro games is a large part of gaming, and being able to play 15+ year old PC games easily with a single download and no kajoogling is a major 1-up for the Steam Deck, especially when some games have better compatibility under Wine than Windows 11.

The Xbox Series consoles are capable of playing a select portion OG Xbox and Xbox 360 games almost natively, while presumably playing Xbox 360 games via an emulator, but they stopped adding new games to their backwards compatibility program for some god unknown reason despite the fact they were some of the best selling on the platform, but to me it seems like Microsoft wants to shift literally everything to the cloud, starting from Xbox and eventually getting to Windows somewhere down the line, which scares me honestly. Sun said the network is the computer, but I'm sure they meant a network you controlled, not goddamn Microsoft.

I think everyone knew about the Disney World and ski resorts doing this. If you pay an outrageous amount you can get a $70 burger with Mickey Mouse on it and skip all the lines. The airports however, THAT is shitty and should be borderline illegal.

Gaming still may be interested if there's compelling enough options to get a leg up over the competition. The PS4/XBONE and PS5/XSX were both identical hardware, but that's starting to drift away with the PS5 Pro and the recently leaked portable Xbox. Who knows, x86 performance may hit another dead end for a while like it did the early 2010s and ARM may not fit their performance profile. I would mention Nintendo but sadly I don't see them making another non-portable console.

OpenSPARC is apparently used as a base for the Elbrus CPU line in Russia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbrus-8S

That specific chip I linked to the article about has the ability to run x86 code via translation and they claim it can run Windows. Guess that solves the chicken and egg issue, but the biggest problem is who would be willing to fab it for them, sad that politics and war interrupted this.

To be fair I got banned trolling like twice and I could kind of recall what got me banned, but at the same time I'm still not too sure because the process is the opposite of transparent and you aren't alerted to what got you banned, nor are you allowed to save your data from your account.

If a company is serious about making POWER based SBCs or motherboards that are affordable yet fast enough for enthusiasts (no ECC, commonly used components), there would be a lot more interest. The price is what would make me turn away from POWER, as much as I love it and the ability for it to be based on completely open hardware. Someone with a lot of new ideas and a lot of energy doing something crazy like x86 binary translation or a Cell-styled CPU would also bring more attention to the platform.

RISC-V built a lot of traction very fast and was affordable and is now starting to be competitive with ARM, so it has different circumstances around it.

There's a group developing a POWER based laptop with a quad-core NXP processor, I've been watching them since 2020 and they've made some pretty good progress. It even has an MXM3 slot for adding a dedicated video card.

https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/

They ended up going with a different platform that's still newer than Power9. It's even bi-endian.

https://www.talospace.com/2023/10/the-next-raptor-openpower-...

It's already possible to lookup the carrier of a number, and I'd love for the ability to be listed under their location on the incoming call screen. Makes a big difference if the call is coming from T-Mobile or some company you've never heard of.

1. Been through 6 accounts, A slightly edgy joke will get you banned and appeals are not accepted nor are they replied to anymore.

2. The "app" is literally just Electron and somehow they still screwed it up, it's laggy, always being overhauled, and almost always has a new useless feature only for nitro that increased it's size several hundred megabytes.

3. Used to be fast and pleasant to use on mobile until a major redesign I had to revert from that put everything in tabs and made it look like every modern mobile chat application.

4. Nobody really cares about this anymore, but the people on their platform-wide moderation team were caught back then having very egregious double standards, allowing content that was on the border of being CP because of "artistic interpretation", look up discord cub controversey for more information

Kemonomimi ≠ furry

I long for one that isn't a glorified web browser as well

You know, I actually should start a blog. I hope you don't mind if I just talk about the PC here.

Wanted a retro build for mid to late 90s games, did almost an entire year of research and after a failed attempt involving Socket 939 I finally found some guy on Facebook Marketplace of all places who was selling a "Retro Pentium 3 PC". I was shocked because I live in central Alabama and cool stuff is never sold here, me and my brother went to meet him and paid for it. I already knew the specs from messaging him but it had a 733MHz Coppermine P3, an odd 320MB of PC100 RAM, a Netgear GA311 (which I already had like 3 of) and a Voodoo3 3000 AGP. I cleaned it out, put it in a brand new ATX Cooler Master case, gave it a SATA hard drive with a SATA to IDE adapter, repasted the CPU, put in a new PSU, installed a Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS, got Windows 98 SE set up with Photoshop 7, Office XP and a crap load of games and it's been one of my favorite pieces of technology I've ever owned. Beat Deus Ex for my first time on there and my life was changed, my vision is now augmented.

YouTube (mostly PhilsComputerLab) and VOGONS taught me how to work on all this retro stuff, and when I was a kid I would make XP and 98 virtual machines for fun so I got really used to both of them. (I still like 2000 the most)

100% agree about the terrible GUI choices. That actually turned me away completely from libvirt for virtual machines because when I actually needed to work with virtual machines I didn't want to finick around with CLIs and I stuck to VMware until recently. (at the time I ran Windows 10 on my main PC and Windows has a pretty terrible CLI)

The only social app I have is Discord, I'm 15 and it's like the MS Teams of my generation. Nobody likes it, it's designed like crap and we hate the developers but everyone uses it so we just kind of have to. There's really nothing better I can think of, and my friends aren't as much of a nerd as I am (They still think the nerdy stuff is cool though, they love my Pentium III + Voodoo3 retro PC) to use anything like Matrix clients or Revolt.