This could never happen where I live, the government decided to spend 13 million dollars on 30 something machete bins so that everyone, apart from murderers who use machetes (who won’t actually care about the amnesty), will be made to surrender their machetes.
Soooo, the metaverse paid plots? I swear, every company with even an inkling of a 3d environment now just wants to “build” and sell worthless plots as if it’s real land, and literally nobody who uses these actually fucking asked.
I hate the cybertruck, but I think it’s chassis modularity is really neat, they just cut a predefined line in the chassis, then drop in a replacement section, although I’m not sure if I should trust the glue they use to fuse them, even after seeing how it happens in JerryRigEverything’s video on it.
As a wise man once said, “the cylinder must remain intact”
The whole reason I’ve switched to DuckDuckGo on all devices, but there’s also the fact the google page is heavy as fuck and takes too long to load because of the AI bloatware
Didn’t think I’d cross digital necromancy off my bingo card!
And the classic “I just took it out of my bag and it was like that”
Good question, although I’m unsure too since I don’t use it for reminders, I usually use it for weather, opening apps (since the app draw is a mess of like a hundred plus apps I’ve forgotten to clean up) and web searches, although I’ll look into that, since I’ve heard dicio is pretty configurable
On all my phones I’ve chosen to remove gemini completely and installed Dicio Assistant, it’s pretty solid and does all I need it to do. It’s a lot easier on resources too, Gemini loads and stutters while trying to do tons of bullshit for no reason. Dicio just opens, but I do find it being a bit quick to kill the mic.
Then again though, I’ve found tons of my apps have AI shit bolted on so the whole thing is still slow lmao
That shit’s more processed than the old iPad I’m typing this on but damn is it tasty, imo especially when fried
Damn the west is really becoming brave new world huh. Although that said, I’m in Australia so I’m getting crumbs of the surveillance pizza everyone else is having.
Sorry guys, the zip broke. /s
I completely agree. At my home, cousins houses and other peoples houses, everyone takes shoes off as standard, but when I go to friends houses, they don’t mind what route I take, sometimes I take them off, sometimes I keep them on until getting to their gaming rooms and leave it by the door, or I just leave them on all the time.
Hopefully nobody shoves a bottle up their ass this time!
My dad’s a sysadmin, this is definitely correct.
Technology moves on. Any meaningfully upgradable desktop will blow away the highest spec iPads of 2026 once the owner finds it necessary to upgrade. And upgrading a pc doesn’t mean you have to replace the entire thing just because you want a new GPU, it’s just like bulldozing your house because you don’t like the current wall paint colour.
Sure, if you’ll go clinically insane if you get the smallest bottleneck with your hardware, sure, replace your rig if it’s viable for you, but most of the time for most workloads, small bottlenecks don’t mean much, so upgrading components when it feels right is generally just a better choice.
Also, the highest spec iPads only have 16gb of unified ram, and sure, with compression and it only having a single page table between all processors, it’s impressive, but realistically, what do you need all that insane power of memory architecture as well as the m5 chipset for a mobile workflow? And how are you supposed to replace the storage/ram/processor when it begins to feel slow after defying the trillion dollar company by putting a desktop OS on it?
iPads and workstations/desktops aren’t applicable to each other, they’re entirely different classes of devices. Frankly, if you manage to put a desktop OS on an iPad, I’d like to see you try using it for gaming, productivity and other workloads for at least a decade. And if you can’t? Well you can’t upgrade it like you can a real workstation/desktop.
What about what they said was childish?
I agree on that front, the engineering of these bins has gotta be a big factor in the cost, although there has been government and union corruption recently, which would’ve ballooned the cost a little, but I’m not sure by how much.
what I don’t understand however is why they chose to do a machete amnesty program rather than anything else, such as improving rehabilitative justice, and removing the endless crime loophole caused by bailouts (which tbf is being acted on currently,) for example.
Edit: now that I think of it, its probably since the government might want free credit for “solving the crime epidemic”, even though they’re mostly half solutions