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yeeeeeeeeah gamers in general have been doing that for quite awhile now.

yeah they were horrible, could barely run anything. I always remember the sticker on the front of it “you’ll never have to upgrade again!”

My dad would get deals on them because he would pay for like a years worth of internet service up front so we’d either get the emachines pc for dirt cheap or practically free. so depending on the deal that was being run we’d end up switching ISPs like every year. MSN, AOL, Prodigy, etc.

it’s also for the purpose of targeting ads. Even if you don’t have a reddit account the home page is still going to tailor the feed to subreddits you’ve visited in the past or your geo-location for example. this makes it easier for advertising.

I’ve seen this episode before…something something IE something something Netscape

in 98 they were taken to court because at one point you couldn’t even uninstall IE from your PC since, if I remember correctly, It was so tied into the file explorer it would break your system. they also made it difficult to download alternatives like Netscape.

I remember my Dad had a thing for “eMachines” PCs because A. they were cheap and B. most of the time they came preinstalled with Netscape as opposed to IE and he liked Netscape a lot better. Problem with this though is I liked to play X-Wing vs Tie Fighter and Jedi Knight online and the easiest way to do so was via Microsofts Internet Gaming Zone which ONLY worked on IE. and downloading/installing IE in the late 90s on a dial up connection took forever. and THEN once you did install it good luck uninstalling it.

I’ve found the same thing. a year or so ago there was a humble bundle for a whole bunch of 40k e-books so I got it and tried getting into them. a lot of them were just “meh”. The Salamanders book was alright but man does it just trudge along.

well it’s not so much that it’s more about the fact that addicts roam the TTC now more than ever. Only just recently have they stepped up the police presence around Union station (main transit hub in Toronto) to clear out the drug addicts that pretty much made the place their home. But it’s a daily thing, multiple times a day, that a subway gets stopped because the alarm is pressed because of an addict or they trespass onto the tracks or whatever.

As someone who is all about the 40k lore, have no clue how to play the game, don’t have any miniatures, you really gotta take it all in small doses as there’s so much of it or let someone on youtube explain it for you.

It’s good lore, it’s insanely deep lore, and it’s all over the place. Keep in mind it all takes place of the span of 10s of thousands of years. there will be entire novels of the most mundane Astartes chapter/legion. There’ll be legions/chapters you have no clue about because no one has written about them or they get shoved off to the side. I know a lot of the lore but I honestly couldn’t tell you anything about the twin Primarchs Alpharius and Omegon nor their Alpha Legion.

if you have a couple hours per video to kill, Luetin09 on youtube. Otherwise, and honestly this is how I learned most of the lore, youtube shorts. Astartesanonymous gives the best shorts with a basic introduction and then lore. Isyander & Koda is another good channel.

yeah that money would be gone in a heart beat in Toronto today.

depends. for fresh grad new hires I would say yes but said grads don’t know any better. mandatory weekly on calls, no dedicated workspaces (first come first serve desks), weekly recap meetings with god knows how many managers and team leads they have. But once you “pay your dues” so to speak at Amazon and you get senior status you pretty much dont’ do anything. This coming from a buddy of mine that worked there. Current amazon is pretty much riding on the backs of oblivious junior devs and LLMs/AI.

what I don’t understand is why don’t they just come out and say “ok, no more elections. this is a dictatorship now” like they keep tip toeing around it, they keep breaking the law, insider trading, illegal operations, all of it and they’ve gotten away with it every time. So why do they keep teasing something they know they have a strong possibility of getting away with? who are they afraid of?

a few years ago I had a really stupid issue with my laptop. about twice a year, for whatever reason, Windows 11 decided my internal wifi card wasn’t worth existing and would just wipe it off the face of the earth. Just completely remove it, delete the drivers, everything. hard resetting the laptop didn’t work, physically unplugging and replugging the card back in didn’t work, manually installing the drivers didn’t work. the ONLY way Windows would accept the card again was on a fresh OS install. So twice a year, like clockwork, i’d have to do that except the last time I couldn’t because I needed an MS account. well I couldn’t get online. for whatever reason it wouldn’t allow me to connect to wifi and I didn’t have access to an eithernet connection. So I gave up and finally decided to give this Linux thing a try. Installed Mint within 15min.

The added bonus of installing Linux on the laptop was it suddenly brought my battery back to life. on Windows I MAYBE got 30min out of a full charge. On Linux with a WM like Niri it’s now a few hours. Linux also made me fall in love with the PC again. Now I’m on NixOS and i just love configuring my system or doing more dev work with ease thanks to nixshells.

yeah you really have to be careful sometimes when you want to donate within the FOSS community. Like Hyprland or Kitty. I wouldn’t give those dudes a dime.

in the early 00s my Dad and I bought a copy of Linux Mandrake from a Software ETC. didn’t have much of a choice in the matter as unless you were in university or something that was the only way of getting it.

Man did we fuck up the family PC trying to install that thing. Came with a massive manual and my Dad figured he could do it cause he kinda sorta not really knew DOS. me? I knew how to put ram and a cpu in a computer. we were not prepared.

yeah I’m not sure how it works in the US if you take the severance you forfeit unemployment but with the way the tech sector currently is I would be in favor of taking the unemployment instead because god damn is it rough out there.

Also not to knock Oracle employees but that place doesn’t have the most glowing reputation for “quality”. that right there might hinder their job search. Unless they go to Amazon. they’ll just hire anyone with a pulse as long as you agree to working on call.

I donate to Codeberg and do kofi to linux content creators (many of whom have been a life saver) and whatever random neat FOSS CLI or TUI I come across. I also donate to dnkl who is the dev of Foot and Fuzzel.

If it’s something I like and I use daily then I donate.

oh Braid is so fucked up once you realize the story. At the end I was like “why the hell did I help this little prick?”

Dark Souls 3. NO ONE can convince me you’re the good guy in that situation. It’s a shit world that ISN’T worth saving and the people who all realize this are the only ones that can save it and refuse to. so your job is to force them to save it.

All you have to do is read the lore on Yhorm and then tell me you’re the good guy.

you’re telling me a country that has been prepping for this situation for decades is…gasp…prepared to fight the US? well i’ll be.

I worked with a guy that used to work at Oracle and he pretty much said the same thing. Essentially if you sneezed anywhere within a 10km radius of Oracles code base (and it didn’t matter which product) you ran the risk of it all crashing down. dudes spent more time talking about how to theoretically fix something as opposed to actually fixing it.