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This person also said if my co-workers and I died in terrorist attack, we would have deserved it for taking a job at a health insurance company.
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2026-05-26 16:45:41 GMT

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I am an American. I was born in America. My culture is American. I only know English. I've only ever held one citizenship. I'm not a foreigner.
For me to be a foreigner, there would need to be some land I'm native to. That land is Tennessee. I grew up here, and even after living in other countries, I returned to my native land. America. It's where my closest friends are. It's where my family are.
I'm sorry you can seem to comprehend the concept of "foreigner."

2026-05-26 01:38:55 GMT

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> We had this problem with the Vietnamese in the 80s
One of my best friends is Vietnamese, and was a Navy Seal. Served his country .. hell still serves his country as a reservist and working for a Navy contractor.
I'm sure some of them were bad. ... why is your enemy the races and not your own government. Why is it other humans you don't know based on some tiktok shit you see? ... Also do you ever go outside?

2026-05-26 01:29:25 GMT

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Like I said, that's a different issue. If they are pushing out qualified Canadians and don't have the skills, then yes, they're being brought over to race bait your and create a pressure cooker of anger. You getting angry at some people who went through a process and took a job (maybe they weren't qualified for it; once again .. different issue) and then screaming your ass off at some behaviors you see on tiktok you associate to an entire race is exactly what those people in the government **want** you to do.
It looks bad on me too man. I get it. My dad worked his ass off, got his EE degree, got a visa and worked nuclear for over 25 years! But he was qualified. And yes, I see companies, including my own, contracting out to Indian or Mexico for what should be domestic jobs. They're pinching every penny, but then again, this economy is shit and logistics are on tiny margins.
Whole deal is you're getting angry at the people the government wants you angry at instead of them .. and you honestly feel like an asshole the entire fucking time. I'm so sick of your posts man. I feel like you're fighting the wrong war.

2026-05-26 01:13:53 GMT

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Has the straight actually been closed at all? All the real indie media (American Vagabond, James Corbett, etc.) all seem to question if the strait was ever closed, or if any of these Iranian mines were even real. You could use the ship trackers and see tons of ships moving in and out the whole time it was "closed."
I've heard some ships won't move because their insurance carriers won't cover them if their companies don't pay the Iranian fees, but that's far different than an impassible blockade.

2026-05-26 01:11:00 GMT

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Have you seen any of these people in real life? Your tiktok brain is going to be fed the most extreme cases .. and yea these two might be shitty, but that doesn't mean all Indians are like that.
Same with your continuous black posting. Yea there's a problem, in general with any social group believing victimization is some intrinsic part of who they are. But I never see the shit you post in real life. I live in the deep south. Half my neighbors are black, and although some neighborhood meetings can be cringe, they're all generally good people. Same with the dozens of blacks I encounter at every bar or restaurant every time I go hang out with anyone downtown.
I guess I shouldn't pick on you explicitly, but I'm so sick of this side of fedi and all this race baiting bullshit.
Like .. go outside. I spent my entire birthday with my friends and it made me realize I hated the way even fedi is rotting my brain ...
Maybe I need to unfollow a bunch of people

2026-05-24 22:15:26 GMT

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I dunno man, the idea of a woman I love being attacked and killed by a bear while I survived seems horrific to me. Maybe I'm just not psychotic enough :blobcatshrug: ?

2026-05-24 22:13:48 GMT

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Last item I sold got damaged in shipping. The guy claimed USPS wouldn't cover it, which I said couldn't be true. eBay sided with them, made them a return label, which shipped it to an address I haven't lived at in 13 years! eBay refused to refund me. I had to go to my bank to force a charge back, and I think they just paid it instead of charging back to eBay, which kinda just made me more angry.
I stopped using eBay for a while after that, but there are just some parts I can't find anywhere else and I don't want to go back to Amazon (who I haven't used since 2016). Mercari requires uploading your photo ID to sell there, so fuck them.
I think I'm only going to sell things on Craigslist now.

2026-05-24 21:04:40 GMT

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Well that's horrific :gummysad:

2026-05-21 14:59:28 GMT

First time I've gotten the new graphical kernel panic screen. Goodbye uptime.
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2026-05-21 14:09:03 GMT

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don't lose power

2026-05-21 02:12:34 GMT

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He might have been up to no good, but you can't go out on a hunch. You gotta tail him till he leaves or does something actionable.
Also, I use to live in that city. It has the airport where Epstein's Lolita Expressed is currently impounded.

2026-05-21 01:06:56 GMT

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nah, that was totally an accident, or a heart attack, or a two-to-the-back-of-the-head suicide (what we call a "Hillary Clinton")

2026-05-20 17:10:08 GMT

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I can tell you didn't watch the documentary or even the interview with Zimmerman near the beginning. The facts: Travyon had zero injuries other than the gun shot wound. All the neighbors witnessed him punching Zimmerman relentlessly. He was literally beating Zimmerman's skull into the concrete. Martin didn't live there, Zimmerman did. He had no reason to be there, and when a man on neighborhood watch asks why he's there, the man starts to beat him to death. It's all literally in the 911 call (which CNN deceptively edited to make Zimmerman seem racist).
Most people don't know, Zimmerman also volunteered with big brothers/sisters and mentored two black kids for about a year. So neighborhood watch, volunteer mentor? Seems like someone trying to do something positive.
Zimmerman was found innocent in a court of law because he was innocent. A man has a right to shoot someone who is beating them to death unprovoked. Martin was not murdered. He is not a victim. He died by his poor choices.
You have a weird interpretation of self defense.
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2026-05-13 00:47:42 GMT

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The value of the vote is getting yourself drafted for jury duty where you are forced to sit in judgement of another man.
If voting made a difference, it would be illegal.

2026-05-12 01:28:22 GMT

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AI Tump raped us.

2026-05-12 01:12:47 GMT

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politics

2026-05-07 23:35:56 GMT

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I dunno. What was the resolution of that first CRT? Did it just display lines? I've played on one of the original Asteroids units at a museum. CRT with analog circuits and those beautiful, crisp, sharp and haunting white lines .. and that came after decades of work; well past the radio era.
Artisanal CRTs would be a huge leapback for last least a decade.

2026-03-19 02:05:30 GMT

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No. I think it's been over 30 years since I've seen that .. I barely remember anything about it.
I think it would have been cooler if the car controlled the remote, but the remote could also control the car .. like they were both remotes and both vehicles :blobcatshrug:

2026-03-19 02:03:06 GMT

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Exactly. Thanks I hate it!

2026-03-15 01:29:58 GMT

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Don't go blind!

2026-02-24 22:59:20 GMT

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Yea, that's the easy one. I think I figured one of the others out once, but don't remember ...

2026-02-13 06:08:21 GMT

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I've seen worse

2026-01-29 03:57:50 GMT

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I like the term "Load-bearing shell scripts." If it starts getting past 20 lines and you're using it for CI/deployment/tests/etc. you should replace bash/sh/zsh with something else.
Why the Python hate? Python3 is pretty stable, and even has type hinting. Virtual environments and uv are your friends. Although at that point it's no longer a simple shell script, but if you really don't want to use a venv, almost every linux distro has the major libraries you need (requests and such) in the package manager.

2026-01-20 02:50:37 GMT

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I am an American. I've only ever been an American citizen. I've only ever been in American schools and English is my first language.
What even is an American to you? Did your family come from a place that's now a reservation or did they descend from British, Italians, Russians, Germans, etc?
You can define your own rules that no one else follows and obeys and I guess that's fine for you .... but that still makes you an idiot that lives in a different reality than the 330 million other people here.

2026-01-20 02:39:07 GMT

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Permanent residents before I was born. Dad and sister go their citizenship on their own. I didn't sponsor anyone.

2026-01-18 20:19:00 GMT

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"coggers" is my preferred slur for the Weighted Random Code Generation Machines (a.k.a LLMs or AI)
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2026-01-16 12:25:38 GMT

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It shows how absolutely worthless the peace prize is, as if there was any doubt after Obama and Gore got one.

2026-01-06 02:58:10 GMT

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My generation had out share of dumb fads...
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2026-01-05 01:58:57 GMT

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Wouldn't war with Canada be easier? They don't have any guns.

2026-01-03 16:04:17 GMT

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Do only the elites get real hookers?

2026-01-03 15:41:40 GMT

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Guess it's war season.
Wonder if Curry is gonna defend Trump.

2026-01-03 15:37:37 GMT

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I had a buddy who worked and a video rental place who'd bring those over and we'd rip them ... that's how I saw Napoleon Dynamite ... was not a big fan

2026-01-03 15:34:43 GMT

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if you're doing to do any crazy war-driving at an ingratiation, you can just do that with a regular phone. The pi is bulkier and needs a battery; just worse overall. Real jammers are large and difficult to conceal .. although that idiot in Chicago just had it out in his hand back in 2016.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-man-arrested-for-using-cellphone-jammer-on-train
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2026-01-03 15:27:23 GMT

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Has that 1990s VHS FBI warning vibes

2026-01-03 02:18:08 GMT

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Yea, I wish I had asked me buddy more about it. I have no idea what he meant. He never got on social media and last I heard he was somewhere on the west coast, long after I had drive back east.
From other crap I've read, it seems like this was turned into a crazy propaganda story for everyone. What's interesting is if you look at photos of people who were burned to death .. they're all in uniform. Apparently the government didn't allow the soldiers live around, and the student strung a lot of them up ... not to defend China. We know they're an insane totalitarian regime that promotes corruption and stifles densest ... but this may have been more closely associated with modern "leftists" in the west
... but who the hell knows. History is a black box from which we draw out memes :blobcatgooglyshrug:

2026-01-03 02:06:45 GMT

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I went to high school with a Chinese kid who was there (as a kid). He said it was nothing like what people saw on TV ... I really wish I has asked him more about that at the time..

2026-01-03 01:57:34 GMT

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Probably not ... was your pink stuff like the consistency of pepto-bismol, or lighter/heavier?

2026-01-03 01:54:10 GMT

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"magic mouthwash"? .. it was a mix of like 3 other drugs. I did not like that. It did nothing over a decent cough drop.
Now that orange syrup from the 90s .. tasted terrible! but your throat immediately felt better. No idea what was in that.

2026-01-02 23:57:36 GMT

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Interesting. SCART had RGB+sync on that port right? The US version are what need all the mods you solder onto the board, if it didn't come with component?

2026-01-02 23:52:28 GMT

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I have no desire to own any retro hardware or recap shit and will gladly emulate everything and say "no thanks" if you're throwing out a CRT.

2026-01-01 18:19:43 GMT

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I stopped Watching Lost in chapter 3 I think I prefer my current timeline...
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2026-01-01 18:09:02 GMT

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I think Season 1 of Westworld was interesting. By 3-4 it really goes off the rails. But I also think that was predictive programming in some ways (some of the characters wore scamdemic masks in scenes filmed in 2019).
I'm glad I stopped watching Stranger Things after season 2. The believeability and story telling was already on its way out in that one.

2026-01-01 17:15:29 GMT

I have one machine where I still have Firefox instead of Librewolf. Stock FF has sponsored suggestions now
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2025-12-30 22:17:44 GMT

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Some penguins are like that (@npub1dc4…f55l)

2025-12-30 03:26:17 GMT

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huh ... didn't expect it to be real. News sites say it was a "gaff" ... was it? or did the truth want to come out? ... or did he know exactly what he was saying and told to write it off as a gaff later?

2025-12-29 00:43:34 GMT

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I don't. I use FreeTube and turn all suggestions off, so I only see the stuff I subscribe to.
Google has gotten more hostile to FreeTube and yt-dlp, making me as a bot often, forcing me to proxy through a VM. But I do avoid a lot of the garbage at least.

2025-12-28 22:04:32 GMT

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It's just smoke an mirrors man. Tons of my friends are out of work, or have taken huge pay cuts. Drivers I know truck drivers who haven't gotten miles or have been cut. Prices are still high, no one is hiring. MAGA people are trying to defend the pedo in chief from have staff so incompetent they can't properly redact the Epstine documents, many of the redactions shown to remove pictures of Trump and his name. He's bombing more countries.
I don't see the win here man. Some minor social issues? Shifting some money around? Look he took the spec out of his eye and everyone and just put a massive rod in theirs to defend him.

2025-12-28 21:54:04 GMT

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Some of it. A lot was moved directly to the State Dept. I doubt the CIA lost any significant amount of funding. It's another one of those things that looks like a major change, but it's probably not.
Trump is also literally bombing targets in Nigeria due to .. terrorism or some shit. It's literally Bush era neoconservative. Maybe the CIA just doesn't need as much funding now that they're openly bombing targets with drones guided by Palantir software.

2025-12-28 20:42:20 GMT

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It's always owned by the CIA or USIA no matter which puppet is in the presidential seat.

2025-12-28 20:24:04 GMT

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or ... both sides knew about this but kept it in their back pocket on something to act one when they needed a distraction.
A number of these operations are reported by people and placed "under active investigation" for years ... maybe even long after their operatives have more than enough evidence.

2025-12-28 05:09:54 GMT

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Is he still defending Israel? (I haven't listened to the show in months. I still git the grifting newsletter constantly)

2025-12-28 05:07:15 GMT

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ah that makes sense. I think I saw it as a kid. Cartoon Network did replay it .. I don't have either of those. I've never subscribed to a streaming service. I just pirate everything. I'm sure it's on MySpleen.

2025-12-28 03:02:43 GMT

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I feel like this theory was going around a decade or more ago. .. Now I want to find that crossover.

2025-12-28 02:20:07 GMT

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No, I'm not. I don't hate Christians.
What is a Christian anyway? The only thing that makes you a Christian is that you say you're a Christian. One thing Christians seem to have so much trouble wrapping their head around is that it's literally a self identification.
I've heard some people say "you're only a Christian if you accept Christ's gift" or "Christianity is defined by Christ's sacrifice" or something about the holy spirit. These are cliches in the faith that aren't really legal tests.
It's the "No true Scotsman" situation. You also accuse me of "looking for reasons to hat Christians." Another fundamental aspect of Christianity (dating all the way back to the the early church ~300 AD) is the idea of victim-hood as virtue. The blessed are those who are persecuted because of Christ (Matt 5:10) ideology. Therefore, you are also subconsciously always looked to defend yourself against any perceived persecution and a strengthening of your faith. It's truly and amazing feedback loop.

2025-12-27 23:58:02 GMT

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I mean ... I'm sure that there are many people who are Christians who work the welfare system. Hell, there are pronstars who love Jesus. You stating some versus doesn't prove x for _all_ Christians. And if you say, "well they aren't _real_ Christians," who are you to judge their relationship with God?

2025-12-27 21:38:37 GMT

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Maybe her children will be so disgusted by their parents they'll strive to not be like them.
Also wonder if she loves the Jesus, and thinks this is a form of God providing?

2025-12-27 14:51:03 GMT

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I remember my parents would get letters from family written in Hindi. Blue pieces of paper, airmail stamps. I never learned to read it though. Do most authors just write in English to try and hit the international markets?

2025-12-27 14:48:13 GMT

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`vim` comes with `vimtutor`, a built in introduction. That's how I learned it like .... decades ago. ... damn. I'm old.

2025-12-27 14:34:33 GMT

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You can always self publish

2025-12-27 05:41:20 GMT

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no indication if they replace the hard drive with flash memory ... neat, but also seems kinda silly

2025-12-26 19:33:34 GMT

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Their bills shouldn't change though. The big companies enter into dedicated/reserved prices for AWS/Azure instances. The reason ram prices are insane is because Micron has exited the consumer market and Samsung has cut back a lot. Even though a lot of the specialty high-bandwidth memory is getting soldered directly to nvidia compute units, they should still be demand for a ton of expensive RDIMMs, Registered ECC and other modular enterprise shit.
If MSI, ASRock, et. al. others are smart, they'll have designs up last week for AM5 consumer boards that take server ram in in anticipation of cashing in on the bubble explosion.

2025-12-25 04:36:08 GMT

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Took over three hours this morning. Slightly cleaned up the cable management. Had to flip around the radiator and the pump; glad I had extra thermal paste. Otherwise the tubes were pulling right on the hot part of the GPU.
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2025-12-24 14:04:46 GMT

I got this thing Saturday and still haven't installed it. Guess today is the day. Goodbye 17 weeks of uptime!
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2025-12-22 05:28:42 GMT

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The bubble should pop before the end of 2026. There are some smaller producers that make up less than 5% of the market. This could have been an amazing opportunity for them to expand massively into consumer markets, but I guess they didn't invest into the infrastructure needed.
Also, what happened to tall the LPCAMM2 memory and motherboards that were suppose to finally change the memory standard?

2025-12-21 22:54:12 GMT

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What about Avenue Q or Book of Mormon?

2025-12-20 08:45:27 GMT

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I could see him not wanting to shoot him as he's running unarmed. That's a tough call. Cop shouldn't have stood out in the street though. He should have taken cover behind his police cruiser.
...I wonder what the guy's motive was for parking there, and then trying to run the cop over. Did he know the guy?

2025-12-17 03:28:42 GMT

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2025-12-16 04:37:28 GMT

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The one with the affordable robo waifus? (the good ones, not the murderous ones).

2025-12-16 04:30:48 GMT

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I feel like we somehow got on the stupidest timeline.

2025-12-16 01:51:11 GMT

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They'll be plenty of extra gear after depopulation

2025-12-15 23:46:43 GMT

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I hope you're right. This seems worse. This is a larger spike than the the one back in 2018 when DDR4 prices doubled due to the Samsung Note recalls. Even back then, people knew Samsung would be back into the consumer market. Who knows when Micron will come back .. and they're only three major memory suppliers in the world.
I bought a 2x16GB kit for $86 in October. This same kit is now $370.
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2025-12-15 23:33:58 GMT

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Is micron axing their nvme flash chips too? I thought it was just their DDR5 consumer line (Curcial) in favor of the high-bandwidth data centre crap

2025-12-15 23:27:01 GMT

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I'm glad I don't need any ram. I did finally pull the trigger on a RAID pool I've been meaning to build, since the prices had been climbing but were reasonable the other week if I ordered straight from Seagate:
https://djsumdog.com/@djsumdog/posts/B0z3HQih2aTlNyHCDI

2025-12-15 23:23:39 GMT

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"We've bought up all the PC hardware and you got laid off due to our bullshit, so you literally cannot buy anything else. Do it peasant!"

2025-12-14 14:16:33 GMT

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Same. I made it to book four and thought they were terrible. She's a much better political commentator than she is an author.

2025-12-14 05:46:29 GMT

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huh .. weird. His illegitimate son (Trudeau) is always clean shaven.

2025-12-14 05:42:57 GMT

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no? .. I just switched to a different brand of razor ... they're pretty much all the same anyway.

2025-12-14 05:39:37 GMT

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I still avoid P&G products to this day .. they have so many brands it's hard to remember what they own. I hate buying their shit by accident. .. like Crest toothpaste.

2025-12-14 05:31:59 GMT

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or devices get so expensive no one owns their phones any more and people just rent them forever

2025-12-14 05:21:46 GMT

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I wonder if my workflows would be affected at all with just 4GB. My last device went nearly 5 years. I'm hoping to go longer with my current one:
https://battlepenguin.com/tech/sony-xperia-1-v/
I don't use Gapps. I don't even use microG. I don't have any social media. I don't play any mobile games (I have Star Realms installed/synced but haven't played in months). I use the camera, music, podcasts and very rarely, Here maps/navigation.
I still have a felling even with all my scale-down and customization, it might run like shit with 4GB of ram because that's just how insane base-Android has gotten.
I'd look at Linux offerings, but I really like the Camera on the 1 V and how the Sony camera app will just work without any GServices.

2025-12-13 14:46:01 GMT

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I've never been there, but I've worked with several of them; met up with a Brazilian manager when he was visiting the states. They seem pretty normal, at least the ones I've worked with. :blobcatshrug:

2025-12-13 03:39:19 GMT

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Vintage Frameworks 😄

2025-12-13 03:30:27 GMT

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I just drive...

2025-12-06 06:07:30 GMT

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That Yurt doesn't look temporary. I've been in one that was built as a permanent structure.

2025-12-06 00:27:11 GMT

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It was done back in the late 1990s
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2025-12-04 23:47:35 GMT

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No, just Windows 3.1
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2025-12-04 04:57:27 GMT

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Yea it's a similar situation with memory as with Silicon. Samsung, Intel and TSMC (with TSMC dominating) own the silicon space. All of them depend on the Dutch company ASML for their UV Lithography machines, who depends on Zeiss in Germany for all their glass lenses ... all of whom depend on one glass/quartz mine in the Eastern US that refines quartz pure enough to use in silicon fabs.
It's an insane house of cards.

2025-12-04 04:52:54 GMT

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You ready for your tax dollars to bail out the silicon industry 2008 style?

2025-12-02 01:19:48 GMT

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How much did it go f--oh wait it's in my browser hist--holy shit!
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2025-12-01 03:56:01 GMT

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Like a 2 ... I had a friend who was obsessed with that movie and I was like "What the fuck did we just watch?"
If you want a good Elvis movie, watch _3,000 Miles to Graceland_

2025-11-30 16:00:57 GMT

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The article kinda shows how the delusion works both ways. The author is not immune to it. He treats the Trump assassination as a real incident as it was portrayed in the media, the same media that has lied about everything, when it is a highly questionable and contentious events. TDS runs both directions, as we're now watching the ultra-MAGA defend the orange pedophile apologist vaccine pusher who was elected the President of the United States of Israel.
The dual inconsistent narrative is intentional. It will help legitimize more authoritarianism no matter which puppet is in power.
It's Hypernormalisation.

2025-11-30 04:13:14 GMT

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I really don't want to know the answer to this .... but ... I'm probably going to still read the answer to this :gummypopcorn:

2025-11-29 16:59:08 GMT

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Did they have an arrest warrant with the employee's names (or photos or other identifying information)? If they didn't have a warrant it **is** a violation.
I'm all for not allowing people to stay illegally, but you have to arrest, detain and deport them legally with fully due process. It does take forever, which is why the real problem was letting them in. Once they are in, it's pretty difficult to deal with. Everything that is being done is symbolic to cause unrest. Orange Man has no intention of mass deportations. He knows it's part of the outrage agenda, just like the previous puppet.

2025-11-28 05:13:42 GMT

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If this story is accurate, it's something even conservatives should legitimately pissed off about. It'd be different if they were going after known individuals who are staying in the US illegally. The police have no right to ask an individual on the street for their ID without any probably cause. In this case, the federal officers don't even know the area or what all the legal IDs even look like.
This is worse than when W. Bush allowed this anywhere within 100 miles of the border. Redmond is hundreds of miles further from the Canadian border.
This is retarded bullshit.

2025-11-25 21:44:25 GMT

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People like to say we're in a post-scarcity wold, but I don't really think that's true. Stuff is cheap and food is plentiful in the west but we're not in the Star Trek universe of near limitless energy from di-lithium crystals, and the power to replicate anything by rearranging atoms.
That's really the only situation where work could be _optional_. Even then, only a small subset of people can make their own value without specific work. Capitalism has really allowed people to outsource their labor to add greater value to a whole. Most of the people who enjoy making transformer windings in a factory don't really have the creative capacity to make anything of value on their own; something those who despise factory work as beneath them, can't understand.
People are **not** inherently equal. Making a world that's enjoyable to live in despite our inequity is far different that those who want the forced dystopian equitable world found in stories like _Harrison Bergeron_.
A world without money would be much more like the series _The Expanse_ and much less like the world of _Star Trek_.

2025-11-25 19:17:51 GMT

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I don't see how. Large Language Models (a.k.a Weighted Random Word Generators) aren't intelligent and they're constantly wrong. We're already seeing the accumulation of technical debt from bad generations. The market should swing back around, but unfortunately, too many people believe in the oracle chat bullshit machine. So we'll stay on a downward spiral and crash and burn out pretty hard.

2025-11-25 19:14:55 GMT

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The x86 architecture can be power efficient. There were Atom chips that did well and there were a few x86 Android phones. The Edison platform (x86 Raspberry Pi-type systems) had a lot of stability issues, but Intel could have attempted to fix them instead of abandon it.
Intel did drop the ball there, but I still think the architecture can be made power efficient. The trouble with ARM is that it is not an architecture. It's random shit soldered to random pins, which is why the mobile device market is filled with e-waste and non-recyclable paperweights.
The biggest problem with x86_64 is the barrier to entry for competition. Intel owns x86, AMD owns the 64-bit ISA, they cross license to each other and the only other player left with both licenses is Zhaoxin (VIA). There's no way Intel/AMD will grant anyone else licenses, so real advancement/competition is impossible.

2025-11-25 15:59:32 GMT

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I really don't like the government owning 10% of Intel. I wonder how much Gelsinger knew about how bad the 13th/14th Gen disaster was. Two generational of hardware failures are what crippled that company.
I don't see how dropping in a Chinese yes man, who just nods and agrees with everything Huang says (as Huang's own company is about to implode with the massive bubble everyone can now clearly see from space), along with government backing, can possibly save Intel at this point.
Gelsinger was right about needing to expand fabrication. There need to be more chip manufacturing options out there than TSMC and Samsung.