echodot

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm sure the CIA have a heart attack gun or something, he'll be taken out if and when, assuming he doesn't decline to the point of which is no longer a threat.

There is no way he'll be allowed to just walk away. The 1% don't have total control of him and they can't have that.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Trump only has influence because he is president without that is just this whiny goblin that cannot keep his mouth shut and knows too much. Epstein had influence and knew too much, and look how that turned out.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

That's one of the problems with having an open loop. Cold water comes in and it has a tiny quantity of an infectious agent, far too smaller quantity to be a problem for anyone.

Then Meta kindly warms that water up by running it through lots of hot computers, the bacterium multiply and do so at a rate proportionate to the temperature (if it goes too hot they die but I doubt even an AI data centre is going to get that hot), then the water gets dumped back into the mains water grid complete with all its lovely infectious agents.

You get bacteria growing in closed loop systems as well, that isn't an issue because it's closed loop you just have to clean it out every now and then.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 12 points 1 month ago

That's the problem with making RAM so expensive. It's not physically very big so you can fit a lot of it in a truck

[–] echodot@feddit.uk -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel like you're saying no, but with extra steps

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I was going to push back on your point here, but then I couldn't think of a game that makes a good counterpoint.

The Finals, Battlefield 5 (amazingly it has no loot boxes), Helldivers 2, Arc Raiders, all have anti-cheat so need kernel level access, but they're not predatory.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

It's only slow if you're running a slow computer. Anyway it's way faster than all your electron apps which each insist on taking up four for gigabytes of RAM

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I used to work at a place that had dot matrix printers for printing on envelopes, there was some complicated reason why this couldn't be upgraded, anyway the computer that ran that was an Acorn, with all its three mouse button goodness, it could only save to floppy disk and the only supplier of old floppy disks is like this one random dude who seems to have bought up the global supply of floppy disks back when they were discontinued. Apparently he makes bank.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Some of Microsoft's corporate products are actually quite good, if very boring. I would love it if Linux had some version of Active Directory, although Microsoft's attempts to cloudify it are a very annoying. Fortunately you can just ignore that, at least for now.

They also get a lot of credit for releasing VSCode for free as well.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I don't really know what it is, but I do know that a whole bunch of stuff doesn't work if you don't have it installed. That and Java.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 1 month ago

I would be quite prepared to pay a price for an operating system if it meant that it just works the way that Windows just works but without all the bloat. I'm really not all that interested and installing an operating system that likes to fight me.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Does it run Windows applications?

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