win11 is a shitshow coming from win10

Calling it: win12 will have a thin client cloud hosted SaaS edition, for those who can’t afford new ai-priced hardware.

It does provide the consumer what they want. It’s just that YouTube is in the business of selling ads, and their consumers are the ad companies, not the viewers.

And apparently lemmings are all too happy to play Helen Lovejoy, as long as the children are girls.

IIRC that was the plan, but it turns out worldwide metal audiences don’t really work that way.

…to the blackmailer, yes.

In addition, how quick they are to declare others to be beneath them.

The usual route is “fascism is when the state takes your freedom, freedom means freedom to own, abolishing slavery was de facto taking away property, so abolitionism is fascism.”

Well if the choice is between cheap spying hardware and expensive spying hardware…

You must be one of the Inebriati

In particular I like the last line.

“It’s all true, but you’re still an asshole”.

If you carry a ladder, they even open doors for you.

IDK, the Altman talk a few days ago sounded a lot like bargaining.

Hah, bunny suicides.

If I remember Devereaux, the village itself was set up to minimise that risk first and foremost, at the expense of optimisation for max yields. So, every year was around subsistence, never much above, but also never much lower.

…I have to say, “beer from the woods” sounds a lot better than I’d’ve thought.

Frankly, I can easily imagine them going “hey let’s got for a beer and see which one of our two paranoiacs freaks out first”.

Which, hilariously, neatly matches the machine-learning approach of “just keep shovelling data, it’ll work eventually”.

Is… Tharg unusual? Like, the rest are exaggerated for humor, but I’ve met more than one Tharg. Hell, at one point if I switched majors I’d be Tharg.

Occasionally…