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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Oh for sure. Kind of forgot about that.

    I usually build my own PCs, or I buy certified refurbished systems from eBay, so I usually don’t pay the Windows tax(or its baked in).

    But definitely a good option to get something for cheaper, I do wish more systems had a Linux or no OS option.

    And even if I plan to use Windows on a system, I usually re-install Windows anyway. Can’t be too careful with what has already been installed on something.



  • Really trying not to sound pro-Trump or whatever this move is, but the US military certainly does not need to be boots on the ground and deal with “guerilla attacks”.

    We’ve seen with Ukraine that drone warfare is highly effective and if the US wants to clear a supposed guerilla location they’ll just carpet bomb it all.

    And if they establish FOBs then a few drone operators(based in the US still btw) with infrared and some dudes in outposts with thermals will do just fine against any guerilla tactics.

    We can compare this to Vietnam or whatever, but a lot has changed in 50 years and with Venezuela it’s clear that South America is not ready for this type of aggression.

    Again, not advocating for this and certainly this move against Venezuela is clearly illegal and warmongering, but saying this will collapse the “US empire” is beyond ignorant.












  • The regular average joe isn’t going to switch on their own. The average person sees Windows and MacBook as their two options for a laptop.

    Also, Linux isn’t a replacement for Windows. It’s its own thing, with its own issues but also advantages.

    And most young people don’t have their own computers growing up anymore, it’s all phones and tablets and in the USA apple has won that race.


  • I wonder where they got 100hr?

    I wonder if there’s some metric they’re going off of where the majority of the subscriber base only plays less than 100hrs and the “abusers” or whales play over the 100hr mark.

    100hr / 30 days is 3.3 hours a day. Which as a father of two… I’d be lucky to get that much in a day.

    100hr / 20 days(5 days a week) is 5 hours a day.

    100hr / 8 days (weekends only gaming) is 12.5 hours a day.

    None of these are outrageous and probably are the “average” user of the service.

    Now if you’re doing 8 or 12 hours a day for 30 days, that’s 240-360 hours a month. Which is pretty much gaming full time.

    I think 100 hours is a weird number to land on. I think 120 hours makes more sense (4 hours a day over 30 days).

    I do expect Nvidia to lower the hours over time. Expect to see 80 hours or 50 hours soon IMO.







  • Star Wars comes to mind immediately.

    What’s funny is I liked Rey as a character and the first movie was fine, but it quickly went downhill with the next two and I haven’t watched any of them since.

    But I’ve probably watched Rogue One about a dozen times so far and it’s one of the best modern Star Wars movie we’ve had.

    A crap movie is a crap movie. Just sucks to get tossed in the incel pile because incels hate a specific movie too.