Yeah but your income adjusted for it, so stop complaining /s

What’s with authoritarian world leaders having the tackiest taste in decor?

Like, they manage to make expensive things look cheap and nasty. I know the things in this picture are not, but the whole vibe is falling so far short of what it’s going for, it actually goes in the opposite direction. It’s nasty.

“Why should I pay for their burning down house?! Privatise the fire department!”

There’s just a lot of thought put in for the user. Excellent UI and productivity features, so much customisability. It’s super fast and light. Then there’s built in blockers, VPN, all the usual. To top it all off, it’s made by a small group of Norwegians that hate corporate control and love an open and free internet. They even have their own fediverse instances.

After I had spent an hour going down the rabbit hole of tweaking every UI element so the browser was now my browser, I was hooked. I still have to use Firefox at work, but I now find it intrusive, sluggish, and crude. I also hate having to restart it for updates lol.

I prefer Edge over Chrome, and if I had to choose one, Edge is definitely better. But gladly I don’t have to choose one and never will. Been with Vivaldi for years after switching off FF.

The only thing unexpected is the numbers are smaller than anticipated. But these things tend to accelerate as they grow, not remain linear or plateau.

That’s a thing and people.do, especially apartment dwellers. Dogs learn it quick too.

It’s just no one would have an animal shit in a box in the house unless they absolutely had to.

Oh…

In case anyone’s wondering, scytale’s ad blocker.

Yeah but they don’t have the money to introduce quality governance into this. So the brain trust of Reddit it is. Which explains why LLMs have gotten all weirdly socially combative too; like two neckbeards having at it—Google skill vs Google skill—is a rich source of A+++ knowledge and social behaviour.

Yeah I know. It’s the same with beers too. But you gotta find the places and directly order them or ask a distributor in the country to grab them. It’s not something you can just grab from the shelf at the local store like other whisky countries.

I feel like you’re kind of proving my point here. Looking at the dollars and sales.

So what percentage of that was the really good whiskey distilleries most people haven’t even heard of vs the big ones that supply the world with the novelty of American whiskey?

Well, let’s be honest. American whiskey isn’t very popular outside of NA. It’s a mixer whisky but only for those that want a whiskey and Coke. There’s just far better done elsewhere on the planet.

But an American whiskey is for when people feel like that Hollywood western Americana vibe. It’s a novelty.

Even in USA media, the JD bottle is always used in the “hit rock bottom” scene.

I dunno who’d ever want to use that font as an override for the default.

How much more anti-American can the USA get?

There can be benefits to a monarchy; the UK hasn’t seen them in a while.

lol

“I think it’s clear the deceased handcuffed themself and decided to just sit this one out. By staying very still, Mr Parkington had no knowledge of the deceased’s presence and eventually they succumbed to aparhy.”

Pipe bombs and the decomposed body of a handcuffed male were also found, the latter likely involving foul play, police said.

Foul play, you say? 😲

Well it’s pointless engaging with them any further. So become an actual bot.

Create a ChatGPT conversation, give the context and ask for a reply. See how long you can keep it up by telling the bot what reply you got from them next. You barely have to do anything, just copy+paste.

Its more fun to not even read anything that’s going on until the end.

Also, block ML already.

I’m a follower and just go with Corsair Vengeance. Hasn’t ever let me down.

I think all my SSDs are Samsung. Nvme are Kingston and so I like to think they have thick Jamaican accents, mon. No issues with any of it and some of that storage is getting real old.

Thing with PC parts is it’s worth paying a bit more for quality. Ends up being much cheaper in the long term.

It’s already more appealing for the private individual, which makes you wonder how businesses aren’t in the same boat, being all for profit and whatnot. I think it’s just old business mindset of the support being worth the cost, but that can come for internal hire with more intimate knowledge/speed of the environment, resulting and less downtime/issue/progress, obviously paying itself off very quickly.