I will not buy a Lenovo without the clitmouse

This just in: rich people want to get richer by charging more for the same product.

I have been in an argument with a landlord before. They were arguing that it was a real job because of all the paperwork. I was just like… bruh

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• OS: turn the computer off
• Software/hardware: turn it off
• Phone: off
• Car: don’t drive
• Construction: buildings allow the man to control your surroundings
• Farmers: farms allow the man to control your vegetables
• Food producers: only eat used food

Yes. It is not uncommon.

Also, the license gives one some knowledge about what one is actually doing with the transceiver. Without that it isn’t really a hobby anyway. It just becomes an illegal walkie talkie.

Tbh, I can’t condone that as a ham myself. And yes, you can be caught. It happens all the time and fines are hefty.

The basic ham license (called “Technician”) is very easy and cheap. Just get one.

You do not need a license to listen to ham radio with a traditional transceiver. You only need a license to transmit.

There are no licensing requirements for equipment purchases.

There doesn’t really have to be one. There companies have deep pockets and the legal process itself is long and costly. They know you might win, but they also know you can’t afford to slog through the process to actually get an outcome.

Strange to hear Civ described as a Grand Strategy title. Usually that is reserved for things like Victoria or Crusader Kings, which are not turn based.

Personally, I’d take this as a red flag about the company to which you would be applying. It sucks, but tells you what they think about “people”.

Guns are useful for a fearful populace, to give them the illusion of some kind of control.

And the other side of that coin is: personally I’ll happily accept shimmering and moire effects if it means I don’t lock myself into yet one more corporate ecosystem.

FSR also combats those things, but can run on any GPU.

The question isn’t whether or not it is safe. It’s whether or not it is less safe than US counterparts.

Given that US counterparts are doubling down on fascist insanity, I’d argue giving the Chinese your data is the lesser of evils at the moment.

But intrinsically: stop using corpo social media.

Replace every fine with executive jail time.

Watch the world change.

And Meta’s and X’s aren’t…?

This may be a hot take downvoted to oblivion, but I think DLSS and all similar AI-dependent frame generation type stuff is a band-aid on a problem that won’t (or shouldn’t) exist for long, in the grand scheme of things.

If you have performance improvements, you ultimately don’t need such things once that performance reaches an acceptable level.

So two things may be happening:

1. Performance improvements are not possible anymore. That seems false, because we still see them. Costs are high, but they’re there.

2. Things like DLSS allow corps to give you less performance while still maintaining an illusion of a good experience. It ultimately reduces hardware costs, which the corpos ultimately just pocket.

I lean strongly towards 2 at the moment. Notice how nvidia also continues to push DLSS as an exclusive feature – notably different from FSR in that regard, while FSR is admitted to be a tech allowing for better framerate on lower-end hardware.

For nvidia, it’s a selling point, and it allows them to sell you less hardware with fewer actual improvements. It is the same snake that just wants you to (eventually) stream games instead of processing them locally, because it enhances corporate control.

Soon *nix will be the only legal fetish. Until they get to it.

This is an excellent observation.

We now no longer have the debate over whether or not this content is necessarily harmful to minors. It’s now automatically bad, and the new framing is: shouldn’t we ban bad things?

Should expect more of this kind of newspeak/doublespeak as the Trump years continue.

This seems obvious.

What is less obvious to me is why so many seem to have been comfortable voting for an open fascist as a protest vote for something not happening in their own country.

“This is wrong, so I’m going to make sure the US gets way worse in solidarity. That’ll show the dems.”

Put that energy behind housing prices.