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Even the rest of the Republicans wouldn’t piss on George Santos if he were on fire. That’s kind of impressive given their affinity for scumbags and criminals.

The PC OS market is saturated and has been for years with Microsoft dominating the market since mid 1990’s.

They were smart enough to realize the market was tapped out a long time ago and have worked aggressively to transform the entire organization from an OS provider into a SaaS provider that also happens make the dominant PC OS. Windows is slowly becoming just a funnel to chain you to the Microsoft “ecosystem” and make it easier to sell you more of their services. Good business decision but shitty deal for the customer.

That said, one of the major selling points for Windows has always been backward compatibility. Enterprise customers like to keep running their ancient software and some of them will pay exorbitant licensing fees to keep doing that.

You could do what my dad did and accidently delete some of the system files, leaving it for your kid to fix.

The reason I want my children to have access to a computer specifically, is that while TVs and phones are used to consume, computers are used to create.

Joking aside, that’s an interesting perspective. I hadnt really thought of it that way before, despite using a computer to create things almost every day.

It really used to piss me off when the older techs would make me crawl around in nasty crawlspaces while they stood around and smoked cigarettes.

I get not wanting to be there but I’m not not about to leave some poor kid who doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing fumbling around in the dark by himself for half the day.

Sometimes I think I should have stayed in the trades. Then I remember having to tear hundreds of HVAC smoke dampers out of a new building and replace them with fire and smoke dampers because the boss decided he was just going to whatever instead of what the blueprints called for.

Then I’m good for a while.

I’ve seen plenty of back ends that needed to be destroyed.

He’s just mad that John Tyson hasn’t shown up at the White House with a box of steaks yet.

Trinkets and a little ass kissing are all it takes to passify the toddler in chief.

No, no, no. You just don’t get it. If we make rich people richer, eventually some of that wealth will trickle down to everyone else.

It’s like this: If we give Elon Musk most of our fresh water, Elon will still have to take a piss now and again. When he does, his urine will flow down the drain, into the sewage treatment plant, and finally into the reservoir where the rest of us get our drinking water from.

But, we can streamline this process even further. We’ll eliminate the government bureaucracy by getting rid of the sewage treatment plant, give the rest of our fresh water reservoir to Elon, and then pipe his sewer lines straight into our faucets. It’s WAY more efficient that way.

One time I got written up for stating that “failing to take cyber security seriously creates a massive potential liability” for the company. Apparently that was “out of line.”

Well you know what else is out of line? Critical infrastructure organizations (i.e. utilities) that don’t take security seriously.

I do not miss that dumpster fire.

I grew up in a family with a cycle of abuse.

I now understand why my dad was as angry and violent as he was. It honestly made me feel sorry for him and made it easier to forgive him. But in no way did it excuse or justify his actions. What he did was still wrong.

Being a billionaire means knowingly and willingly allowing other people to suffer. Just as evil as being a pedophile in my book.

Fair point.

Back when Zoom recalled all their employees to the office a couple years ago, that should have been the end for them.

Their product is designed to facilitate remote work and communication and they basically advertised to the entire world that, in their minds, it’s ineffective. That was a blunder of epic proportions.

Imagine being a white Evangelical in Texas of all places and somehow believing that YOU are the one being “discriminated” against.

Orthodox Jesus is willing to overlook the sixth commandment as long as the person you’re murdering is Ukranian.

My oldest is a senior in highschool. From what I have observed, appearance – especially for teenage girls – is less about self expression and more about seeking approval from other girls. Clothing is entirely a status symbol.

There’s often a few girls who are the “trend setters”, a much larger group of “followers” that basically look like carbon copies of one another, and yet another group that doesn’t follow the latest “trend” because they either can’t afford to or (much less often) don’t care.

My daughter is obsessed with looks, as are most of her peers. Trying desperately to fit in because she’s not yet mature enough to realize that it doesn’t matter if all the other girls “like” her. It only really matters if she likes herself.

I’ve told her, only half joking, that she will know a guy is good boyfriend material when he asks her which books she’s read lately.

Call it “pest control” and charge an additional $75 per month.

Apparently it had been real popular for people to throw empty bottles over the fence, and hear them smash into the empty pools.

It’s not the focus of your story but this right here make me angry. I HATE litering. I don’t enjoy confrontation but I have given complete strangers ass chewings in the middle of the street for it. I can think of few things more selfish and entitled than treating the world like it’s your own personal trashcan.

I use Proxmox for Work and Hyper-V at home. Looking forward to retiring my old Hyper-V host and replace it with Proxmox because Hyper-V is a pain.

Virtualization really helps with reliability. In particular, by allowing you to quickly take snapshots before doing anything destructive and by streamlining backup and recovery.