Relax, only the card was hit. Even if it was broken, I have a spare 2008 VGA+DVI-D video card that does about the same thing and I imagine he can get one for cheap too /s

No, I just observe enshittification. The real art is to legally (or legally enough) collect the required data, process them automatically to calculate each customer’s tolerance, and maximize profit (through dynamic pricing, incentives and targeted ads) while internalizing the risk of backlash against these unethical practices if they’re too obvious. I know the steps and so does OP, but that doesn’t mean I/them could or would do any of them.

The algorithm knows this and calculates exactly how much you’re willing to pay for the convenience of a button. As soon as you get a date, they know, the price triples and you receive a notification: “you wouldn’t want to explain the bucket to her*, would you?”

* insert appropriate pronoun here

GPUs that have their own proprietary network stacks and need cryptographic authentication when?

Yes but by reflecting >95% of the light, it does not get nearly as warm as what the light would otherwise shine on (typically gets dispersed all over the room, very little gets back out the window). Also, if placed outside a multi-layer window (which you should or the window may overheat and crack), the heat exchange to the inside via convection/conduction is stopped, only radiation remains, and the 80°C foil radiates way less than the 6000°C sun (also, shiny things are bad at receiving and transmitting black body radiation).

I thought it was obvious but A and B have to be 3-letter FIFA codes. For example JERsey × SEYchelles.

Did you run a script over the list of countries to find if other pairs can be used as A, B, C?

Padded to protect the TV (not padding the TV to maintain ventilation of the projector and keep warranty)

Better than a headline leaving out the important bits

What is oenisn? Misspelled Genshin? Open-ish? Leninism? Bosnian? Penis?

Yes, it’s by a guy who thinks inciting a violent attempt to overthrow a major democratic institution should be protected as free speech. And did not even come up with the 1984 reference himself, just parroting Don Jr. See this video by Jacob Geller about why such a wide spectrum of people points to Nineteen Eighty-Four, that’s where I got the information from.

Don’t forget how this cartoon originated:

• 2021-01-06: Failed coup by pro-Trump degenerates storming the Capitol (Trump denies involvement but his tweets from the day definitely played a role, as decided during the impeachment proceedings in the following week).
• 2021-01-08 Trump is banned from Twitter in wake of the scandal.
• 2021-01-08 Donald Trump Jr. tweets: “We are living Orwell’s 1984. […]” (Yes, shown as Jan 9 shortly after midnight but that’s in UTC)
• 2021-01-09 Conservative artist Gary Varvel publishes this cartoon.

Old slop (likely not AI)

It’s a robust system: when a bone is fractured and not straightened before healing, it will eventually get close to the right shape.

Is an osteoblast posting this? They hate constantly getting their hard work removed by osteoclasts.

That’s like 10⁵ size discrepancy (30 mm/3 km).

🧬🪐

(That would be 30 nm/300 Mm, or 10¹⁶. Also there’s ⚛️🌌, 80 pm/800 Em, or 10³¹.)

I already use unattend scripts for the rest of my family’s Windows shit… I add irm https://christitus.com/win | iex at the end too so I can then install cool stuff

And no, I’m not upgrading any Windows 10 stuff rn

Drive letters? (Yes, they are stupid and don’t work with MTP but I won’t explin /dev/ to him)

We’ve been using Classic Shell since Day 1 of course. I modded it to quit qBittorrent when Mom opens the Shutdown dialog* (yes, she always opens that awful window) because that takes the longest to terminate. I’ll use it plus Explorer Patcher on 10, a semi-transparent taskbar without blur is so handy

* Classic Shell Start Menu can run arbitrary and predefined commands from buttons but not both at once. The Shutdown dialog can only be triggered with a predefined CSSM command or JS script so I’m using a VBS script (unlike BAT or JS, it can run silently) that runs the JS script and taskkill command.

Our family PC still has 8.1 (parents really don’t like change and Firefox got security updates until recently). I think I’ll upgrade it to 10 when I have time, the amount of debloat required to keep it sane is manageable as opposed to 11. Mom could handle mildly riced XFCE Linux with Firefox and our legal copy of Office 2007 under Wine but dad uses Total Commander and won’t use anything other than drive letters.