“Won’t someone rid me of this meddlesome pope?”

Not to mention, if you miss a payment, you typically have to pay interest on the full original loan from the date you took it out, at some egregiously high interest rate.

More of this, please.

Sam Altman’s appeal to humanity is pretty weak. Dude directly took actions that made life worse for a huge number of people, whether because data centers are being erected in their communities, because their friends and loved ones are being victimized by AI-originating scams, because the jobs they went to college to get are being lost to AI, because the internet is being overrun with slop, or simply because they can’t afford ram and storage anymore. He shouldn’t be surprised that, when he antagonized hundreds of millions of people, some of those people are going to take their frustrations out on him. Maybe he should have thought about those potential consequences before he acted - but no, he saw the dollar signs and just couldn’t resist. Now he gets to live in fear.

So you’re saying he has a future career in government?

Even just like… hitting a speed bump would be pretty bad.

Yeah, I mean… Steam holds the vast majority of the market share, but they got there by… having a good storefront that people actually want to buy from. Any of the others could compete on this metric, too, but they choose not to. It’s like a store surrounded by barbed wire and landmines and caltrops complaining that another store gets more business.

Ooh, this looks great!

“If you want to make a historically accurate moon landing sim, you must first model the universe.” -Carl Sagan

Mark my words, someone’s going to make a video game with 100% historical accuracy with this.

he sure is an antichrist

He is anti-Christ.

The problem is that it says it in the same general section that it talks about how to treat your slaves and things, so it’s really kind of ridiculous to cherry pick this one thing as something we should uphold today while ignoring everything else.

He did previously say that as the “winners” of the war, the US was entitled to collect that toll, basically. So, yeah, I think you’re spot on.

You forgot to praise Allah.

Sure, I’m not sure why we’re arguing about backup strategies. My wife is the same way; she’s got two 12 TB externals of just backups for exactly the same reason. You implied that you would need to back up your drives specifically because you’d be installing a new OS; that’s all I was commenting on. You do you.

Presumably you’re backing up important files as a matter of course, not only when installing a new OS…

As a point of interest, you can partition an existing HD, install a new OS on that partition, then when on the newly installed OS, move your files around to the new filesystem and format your old drives / partitions as convenient. Installing a new OS doesn’t need to be a “Backup everything, blow it away and start over” process.

Haha… Yeeaaah, I suspect this instance might have a somewhat higher concentration of those folks than the average.

I don’t know… I know quite a few folks whom I’m sure would be into that.

I mean, also the way he imagines, really, if I’m interpreting his poorly worded statement correctly. ‘The Government’ (that is to say, Trump) should be held accountable for instigating J6… but so should everyone who participated.