Conservatives love forcibly imposing their lifestyle on people in the name of “freedom.” It’s amazing how successful they’ve been in getting people to buy into their ass-backwards logic.

Huh. I just kinda assumed Norway would use the Euro, but TIL it’s not even a member of the EU. Weird.

I’ve been using AMD (and ATi) for 20+ years. An Arc GPU is the first* Intel product I’ve actually been interested in and seriously considered getting, in all that time. I still ended up picking an AMD 9070 XT because there isn’t an Arc card in that market segment, but maybe next time.

(* Other than a Chromebook I had to buy for college, which at the time didn’t have any reasonable AMD options available.)

Oh, it’s only 13" diameter? I’d rather just hang a real laserdisc on the wall in that case.

I want a CD-R mirror that’s like 3’ wide.

Is there ANYTHING that’s going well for Intel?

Their Arc Battlemage discrete GPUs are a success, relatively speaking.

I’ll use Dutch to clarify

!brandnewsentence

Does that person have a video on The Landlord’s Game (the “version of monopoly” that actually matters and that people need to know about)?

Monopoly is intended to be infuriating, not boring. If it’s boring, you’re probably messing it up with house rules or something.

12/F/Langley, VA

I now blame AOL for more than I had previously considered.

Look up the phrase “eternal September.”

2000 was better, though.

Those things are still top quality, for retrogamers looking for authenticity in how the pixel art in their old games gets rendered. High-quality CRTs need to be found a good home, not discarded.

Flash was also cancer that ruined web pages.

The reason Java Web Start wasn’t, was specifically because once you clicked on the link, it downloaded the app and started it as a real desktop application, with its own window and taskbar entry and whatnot. It didn’t rely on being embedded in HTML (I’m specifically not talking about Java applets, BTW – they sucked too) or manipulating the DOM for its UI; it could use Swing and have the same look and feel as a native application.

I make this point at every opportunity:

The “normal” working-class single-family neighborhoods in my city are zoned R4, with a 9000 sq.ft. minimum lot size. The rich neighborhoods are zoned R1, with a 2 acre minimum lot size. That means every R1 lot could fit at least nine R4 homes on it. Why do we have ridiculous shitty traffic on the freeway going past that rich neighborhood? Because every single one of those mansions physically displaced eight other households out into the suburbs, who could have otherwise lived there if the law wasn’t being (ab)used to subsidize the rich.

And that’s just the difference between two kinds of single-family, let alone rezoning to allow the real level of density the market demands! If my city were zoned appropriately, the entire metro area population could be housed within the ring road.

Don’t get me wrong: I’m not saying it’s “selfish” or wrong to want to live in a single-family home… just that you only deserve one if and only if you’re actually willing to pay for it. That means being willing to outbid multifamily developers who would build the lot out to its highest and best use, not hiding behind zoning to protect you from the free market.

(I’m also not saying it isn’t selfish or wrong; I just try to stick to the geometric argument to deprive the person I’m debating of an excuse to turn it into an emotional debate.)

At this point, Canonical is so desperate that even if you try to use apt on the command line to install certain packages it’ll override it to install the snap version anyway:

$ apt search firefox

firefox/oracular,now 1:1snap1-0ubuntu6 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  Installs Firefox snap and provides some system integration

What was that phrase, again? Oh yeah: “VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO.”

So what? That doesn’t mean it would’ve worked.

The Democrats, as played by Prince John from Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Eh, “executive order,” “royal decree” – same difference, at this point!

“Diversified.”

“Divested” means kinda the opposite of what you were trying to say.