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I could use more dolphin porn in my life.

and it had Turbo button, which did absolutely nothing These old ‘turbo’ buttons actually did do something – they limited your CPU clock speed. Because some old games (and perhaps other software) relied on counting CPU cycles for timing the game. The faster your CPU, the faster the game would run, and the faster things in the game would happen. When CPUs got too fast for this, such games became unplayable because everything was happening in such fast-forward speed that the player could never hope to keep up. The counter-intuitively named ‘turbo’ button would bridge a jumper on the motherboard and change your CPU clock speed to a lower value, slowing it down so these old style games could still run at a reasonable, playable pace. Ironically enough, the ‘turbo’ button made your PC slower.

Neither. While violent resistance to Israel’s abuses is very understandable and maybe even commendable, deliberately targeting civilians is not the way. I’m also under no illusion that Hamas would be any less abusive if they were the ones with the power. If they had the ability to do so, they’d gladly commit genocide as well. They’re also, to some degree, themselves a tool of Israel, propped up by Netanyahu’s regime in order to justify Israel’s continued aggression, oppression, and war.

Sorry, I just wanted more RAM.

Use with caution. Back in the day, I used this multiple times. It was all good fun at first, but after a few dozen times, something went wrong involving a black hole and the destruction of the universe. And what’s worse, after I rebooted the universe, I still had issues. Harambe got killed and then humanity was shunted to the bad timeline. Still looking for a fix. Just FYI, don’t double your RAM too many times in a row without taking into account the mass-energy content of all that RAM.

Sounds like it would be a lot easier, and even more of a ‘board control’ game. And you’d be able to play your whole 7 letters in pretty much every turn (if you wanted to), since you’ll always be able to find some combination of your 7 letters that doesn’t form a real word. Or … at least almost always? I find it hard to imagine any combination of 7 letters that will always spell a real word no matter which order you put them in.

At a high level, Scrabble isn’t about what words you know – it’s about strategy and board control, being able to take advantage of space to play while denying your opponent space.

How much control does the average worker have over the state? Practically none.

Out of curiosity who do you think controls the state in China? Not the workers.

Sure buddy, sure. Take it this way, then: Socialism is when the workers are in control of the means of production. Supposedly, socialist countries accomplish this by the state being in control of the means of production and the workers supposedly in control of the state. But in reality, the workers are not in control of the state, so the workers are not in control of the means of production, and it’s not socialism.

State capitalism is not socialism, and it is not a friend of the working class.

Nah. Being attacked by evil doesn’t make you good. You’ve got to stop with this black-and-white thinking.

non-straight ruler(?), i guess It actually gets its name because in ye olden days, it was made from a malleable type of lead that came from the island of Lesbos.

True true, and their ‘justifications’ for war are entirely bogus. But I just caution against over-correcting. Just because someone is an enemy of the US doesn’t mean they’re perfect. Or even good.

But also … just because something is used by the US as propaganda doesn’t necessarily mean it’s untrue.

Democracy dies in darkness This stopped being a warning and started being a mission statement.

The US military knows that targeting civilians, especially children, is not only bad optics, it also makes their jobs exponentially more difficult as they always depend on local support. And a war crime, of course. But it’s only a crime if you’re on the losing side, I guess.

Maybe that, itself, is me projecting. The effect is certainly more pronounced in those who lack empathy. Which conservatives often proudly do. Lacking empathy prevents you from seeing the world through other people’s point of view … which often leaves you unable to properly understand others.

They choose to believe in things they know aren’t true, and they call it faith. And that’s how they think everyone else comes to their own conclusions about reality as well. They think we’re taking the existence of homosexuality on faith, which is why they think they’re making some kind of point when they say they don’t believe in that.

I’m not pulling it, I’m just licking it! Stop your nagging, I could use some help over here.

Because an 8GB RAM stick costs $9,000 and hard drives literally can’t be had at any price, but this shitty thin client thing is only $49.95 + $10/month subscription. ($25 per month if you want it with no fewer intrusive ads.)

I’m still petty enough to hope this effort is a miserable failure I hope this is effort is a miserable failure … because if it catches on, it could spell the end of desktop PCs in general as a consumer product. Desktops will always exist, because you need the local processing power (and the cooling to support it) for certain professional workloads. But if everyday computing and even gaming becomes mostly done on thin clients fully dependent on internet servers, then desktops will become more and more of a niche, professional product. Which means they’ll become more expensive and harder to get. Replacement parts will become more expensive and harder to get. A desktop PC will be an expensive industrial machine, hard to justify the upfront price of for an average consumer. (Especially when a cheap thin client with a “cheap” monthly subscription can do essentially all the same things.) It may also slow the adoption of open-source software because these thin clients are likely to be locked down and not able to install any other software without putting up a fight, if it ends up being possible at all. And if most people get used to the paradigm of renting their computing power from the cloud, they’ll be resistant to change that and go back to locally run software on their local machine that they then have to buy because their old thin client hardware can barely run anything, even if you do manage to install other software on it. (Imagine how hard it will be to convince someone to install Linux instead of using Windows if the first step of installing Linux is that they have to replace all their hardware with much bigger and more expensive hardware…)

If any baby in the history of the world ever actually deserved it, though…