CocaineShrimp

I’ve been telling people this for years: Post-secondary educational institutions are no longer about education; they’re a business. They do everything they can to maximize profits, and don’t really care about the quality of education.

This is equivalent to asking the road construction workers and engineers to be held accountable for those that break the speed limit

People were calling it from day 1. I’m surprised it took this long for the FBI to come out with a statement… although…

I fully flipped over every device in my house off windows about a week or two ago, and so far so good!

I’ve been daily driving linux on my personal laptop since 2009 (16 years now!?) for school / work / personal work-esque stuff, and my work laptop is now OSX. A few weeks ago I flipped my gaming machine from windows to popOS and been quite pleasantly surprised at how well gaming on Linux is these days. So much so, I convinced my wife to let me flip her gaming machine to Linux as well.

The only hiccup I’ve recently had was having to deal with windows-only, non-steam software. Ie. insta360. Luckily, there are compatibility layers / emulators I can use to be able to run it. It’s slow, but good enough.

At this point, there’s no good reason for me to go back to Windows or anything Microsoft. It’s even become a red flag when I hear a business is using Microsoft’s products. I want to hope Microsoft gets a wake up call at some point soon and turns the ship around, but I think they’ve got too many big-company deals to have to worry about their consumer products being shite.

I’d like to point out that one 747 is ~$400 mill… [source]

I’m actually ok with this one. There wasn’t much intelligence happening in that department anyway

There’s another option…

This is why I’m not going to buy RAM / Dodge / Chrysler/ Jeep / anything Stellantis owns, and this is why I’m not buying any new car with “smart” / “built-in” junk.

I don’t know of any car that has an actually good head unit. Its either garbage because its a giant touch screen, making it super difficult to navigate without looking (that’s why all the controls in an airplane are different shapes and sizes), or its just a hub for you to run Android Auto / apples equivalent.

Now ads? Ffs…

They’re already making suggestions. Got one this morning telling me I can ask it for updates on Amazon packages.

Speaking of which, anyone have any suggestions for better smart speakers?

Next headline at the end of this quarter:

“Procter and Gamble sees record profits for the billionth year in a row!”

Sounds like bullshit coming down the pipes to try and distract us from the news that the commander in chief is a kiddy diddler

I usually only keep documents and media. Programs can be redownloaded and reinstalled (and it might be better to reinstall them in case you move to a new OS anyway to ensure compatibility).

For docker specifically, only keep stuff that’s specific for your instance; which you normally setup as an external volume anyway. Docker is designed such that you should be able to nuke the container, and all persistent data is restored via an external volume on the host. If you’re not doing that, you should immediately go and set that up now (to get the data out safely, setup a volume connection such that the container path is new - that way you don’t accidentally destroy what’s there, copy the stuff you need out, then readjust the path so it’s correct)

I’m taking the stance that Putins got some dirt on him, or he’s being held hostage via assassins. We all saw how close he was assassinated. Definitely russian special ops with how precise that shot was. No way would anyone like him be able to get in normally without external help, and no one sane would try to dismantle the US Gov’t from the inside. Notably he’s doing it with such efficiency - can’t be a moron & get into office AND be dumb enough to dismantle the govt like he is. BRICS even got Elon helping to take the govt down; and now they’re forcing them to create a 3rd party to destroy the US political system…

…Or they’re just fucking idiots