I think JD is still likely to be puppeted by a consortium of evil, but he may also be beholden to a smaller subset of evil masters than DT. Not sure if that’s a good thing or not

The problem with evil-but-connected people going to jail is that another similarly evil person may get them out again…

3 days seems fairly doable. I know after my stomach has been upset and I’ve taken Immodium or an equivalent it can be several days before the seal breaks again

What makes you think it hasn’t?

Clover. Clover is great:

• Lush and green
• Holds down soil we
• Soft to walk on
• Needs less water than grass
• Needs less mowing
• Bees love it

5 and the seat beside it would both be free sure to Kevin Smith being kicked off the plane (at least if the fight was United)

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/aubreygordon/flying-while-fat

Tech communities make sense. That’s where a lot of it started on other sites (Slashdot, Digg, Reddit) and the first user-base I’d expect to move. The rest will likely stay where they’re “comfortable” until the water gets too hot

Next they’ll just say he killed the guy with a fookin pencil

We don’t need to mourn the monster killed by monsters, but we SHOULD remember that even in this short time many innocents have also been killed in the process.

Since when has associating with somebody been a crime?

You can have dinner with your neighbor and not be in trouble when it’s discovered he’s a serial killer. Hell, you can dinner with somebody you know is a mob boss.

It’s when you’re involved in the actual commission of crimes (including covering up crimes, or in various cases but reporting your knowledge of a particular criminal act) that it becomes an “go to jail” type issue.

That also doesn’t justify hanging out with repugnant criminals from a moral perspective, but moral and go-directly-to-jail criminal actions are not the same thing.

You won’t open the content, and you’ll have absolutely 0% privacy because all of your processing and data will be on somebody else’s system.

AI will go from making cute GIF’s to fully automated surveillance and ensuring nobody uses those systems for anything not approved by the regime.

Yeah PXE boot has been a thing for decades, and with network speeds going from 10/100, gigabit, and now potentially 5-10gbit it’s pretty viable for home environments. It’s great for common libraries, and mine has an emulator plus a bunch of GoG etc games which I’ve been tinkering to make run nicely.

My preference though is still “thick” clients which use the network for boot and OS/storage, but still have their own CPU and RAM.

Other than storage and networking, the server side requirements aren’t huge. My plan is to make a portable environment which people can patch into and play classic games together.

(If anyone has experience with OpenSpy and getting it to work sans-Internet I’d love to pick your brain, as I really want to get BF2142 and other classics running fully without internet)

Don’t worry, to make it work,he’ll only need to open the firewall to the Internet for dozens of MS subdomains and thousands of IP’s in ranges that can randomly change from day to day. Totally more an issue for systems which might have been segregated from the Internet before!

/s

Just waiting for them to bring back Clippy as an AI agent…

To play games coded by a shitty AI, full of bugs and as many microtransactions as possible …

Yeah and TBF I’m pretty sure a lot of “right wing” folks would love to have a pet dino.

But they’d get a Tyrannosaurus to go with their Rottweilers and then tell people “don’t worry, he’s friendly” just before it bites some kid’s head off

It’s not like that even try to hide a lot of the shit they do.

Stuff like:

• locking authors into exclusivity contracts with Kindle Unlimited/Audible (monopoly abuse/anticompetitive*
• Advertising items as “on sale” - especially around Prime Day/Black Friday etc after jacking up the price a few weeks in advance
• Items with “free Prime shipping” but the exact same item without Prime is less about the shipping cost
• Stuff like Kindle ebooks shown with a discount price when no other medium exists, it was never sold at the listed “regular price” to begin with, and/or it’s only available from Amazon in the first place

All my banks have apps but I haven’t found any that don’t support just a browser

Second to worst for that is the excessive use of Google stuff, including Chromebooks replacing PC labs, and a bunch of G-software

Their dick probably didn’t look much better. Even with lube that’s gonna chaff after awhile and probably took off at least a layer of skin