There’s was free upgrade from 7->8/10 as well, that doesn’t make it a rolling release.

Good podcast episode:

Better Offline - William Lazonick on How The Stock Market Killed Tech

William Lazonick is an economist. In this live recording Ed Zitron is joined by William Lazonick, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts, who is also the co-founder and president of the Academic-Industry Research Network, to talk about how the incentives of shareholder capitalism and stock buybacks are destroying innovation.

They also said Windows 10 would go rolling release. They don’t really deserve anyone’s business for any product.
I’m not going to sit here, wag my finger, and preach the gospel of Linux. I find that kinda cringe. I use Linux, and if people ask for a recommendation I’ll happily give my opinion.
Don’t really see the point in standing on a soapbox and yelling at passersby that they’re sheeple or whatever, doesn’t really help make anyone want to switch, just like having someone yell at me to repent or burn in hell.
It’s a bad look.

Seems to be working fine with the telecom and ISP markets, don’t see that we’d need a study to see that everything is a-fuckin-ok 👍

Gets worse. I came over on a fiancé visa, which meant we had 6 months from approval to get married. It was over a month before I got my passport with visa back after approval, and another month and a half to get everything we had lined up for me to move actually rolling. So by the time I got there we had 2 and a bit months to get married. We had done all the legal stuff to get married before covid, as we had planned to have a civil wedding in April of 2020 after visiting her family in Japan. Obviously that didn’t happen. So we’re in and out of lockdown. They open up, the town hall knew our situation, and would call us to book a slot pretty much the day after lifting was announced. 3 whole times the dates we picked from the available ended up being the day of or one after locking down again. Finally another lockdown was lifted and we booked again, arranged a party and everything, then locking down again, again our date was the day after. Town hall called us up and said “we have one slot available on this Thursday at 11.15am.”

Long story short, if you like wild architecture, highly recommend visiting Woolwich town hall, it’s painted all sorts of garish colours inside, but it’s a lovely building.

Sure it’s a bit crazy, but it’s really not as crazy as you seem to feel. That’s just the way expansive, fancy gfx games are going.

I’m from Vancouver, but I moved to the UK in November of 2020, watched it around Xmas/new year that winter.

So… different ship, still sinking 😭

"Everything I write is a form of witness – against war, indifference, against amnesia of every sort. From when do we begin to count the dead?”

- Anne Michaels

Well Anne, I know $100k is probably enough to fund starting the count.

I’ve no idea what kind of person she is, but to say something like that, and then happily accept a fat payout funded by institutions backing a genocide is pretty fucking sickening…

Like, fuck, we all gotta eat, and it’s just getting more expensive. There’s some money you should just say no to.

Not really how I recall it, but I watched it during the height of lockdown…so my memory of that time is absolutely going to be full of more holes than a cheese grater…

I would highly recommend watching the documentary Behind the Curve.
It follows a group of flat earthers. It’s a really good watch, a bit depressing. Gives you a look at how these people, who aren’t always the stupid people we think they are, got to where they are. How their lives and social connections start falling apart because of their belief in a flat earth. And at the end, how some of them realised they were wrong.

Baldur’s Gate 3 is 150gb, so not really.

I wonder if there’s some sort of natural treatment that could give immunity. Like maybe a dead virus or something. No, not a vaccine! Those give people autism!

New Brunswick antivaxers… probably

Bazzite is also immutable though…

“BuT yOu CaN jUsT iNsTaLl LiNuX”

Hard agree with you. I don’t own a handheld, but have friends with steamdecks and a friend who has an ROG Ally. My buddy installed Linux on his ally, and the experience is objectively worse than the steamdeck.

Eh, probably. Linux Nvidia drivers kinda suck

I moved to Scotland from Vancouver, and you would be absolutely shocked at the number of SCOTS I’ve seen hoping he’d get in, then celebrating, or walking around or hanging out at the pub wearing MAGA hats…

Oh…shit…uhhh…woooow… I’ve never seen that type of cloud in my life!

I thought it was the gas station meth

Grew up in Vancouver and Richmond. Used to see them all the time.

Good point.