We didn’t listen to the unions when they rang the warning bell in the late 60s and 70s.

I'm getting to this point as well yeah. We have grocery stores where you have to put a dollar coin into the cart to get it to release and don't get the dollar back until you take the cart back, then we have self scan and bag your own groceries - what's next? They're going to expect us to restock the fucking shelves for them? I hate to do the "in my day" but I remember grocery shopping with my parents, once you paid at the cash register you got a pick-up number, got in the car and went to a delivery door where kids would come out and load the groceries into your car for you. (Miracle Beaucoup, circa 1980s in Canada) I'm sick of doing all this unpaid labour.

Marsey is too cute she needs to be petted!

Hmm interesting I need to read up on it more.

Mine asks me to create an account with "Identity Anchor" which is tied to my device hardware .... no fucking thank you.

Fuck retarddit and fuck you.

I went cheapest for the 64gb version. I did spring for the cable and the better head strap for all told I guess 500 after taxes but I’m happy with it so far.

I do have the PC for it. Valve Index kit sells for $1319.00 Cdn. Quest 2 is 399 so the index is considerable more investment and like I said I don’t want to dink with base stations tbh. I can play Alyx just fine and it’s my first foray into VR so for me buying an index felt like buying a Ferrari before I had my drivers licence. They’ve already hacked the quest 2 so hopefully someone will come up with a way to disable the Facebook account. I also already block Facebook trackers on my router via openWRT so it works for now.

Index costs 4x as much and I need to mount room sensors.. quest doesn’t even need a PC. It’s perfect for my small space and budget.

Man I love my Oculus Quest 2 but fuck me, why do I need a fucking facebook account to use it? It's infuriating. They say it's "so I can play with my friends and family" fuck you facebook I have no friends and my family are all boomers.

I'm an old fag. Facebook was awesome for connecting with people from your school and keeping up with what they were doing. It was absolutely incredible when it came out but yeah it's shit now.

You have a friend who believes that girl dicks aren't legitimate and they Biden is a homo. Do you want to enter our reprogramming platform now?

Uh oh, sounds to me like MS is once again going try try for a windows phone.

If they’re retarded enough already to pay $3k for a treadmill when you can run outside for free (or buy another decent treadmill for less than $500 bucks) then they get what the deserve as far as I’m concerned.

Brings back memories of wardialing and phreaking. Phreaking was trying to find switches and other tricks in the phone system to make long distance calls for free or just to fuck up the phone system in general. Back in the old days pre google drop box or torrents people would mostly wardial to try and find business FTPs that were poorly defended and could be taken over and the number and creds would be posted on BBSes or message boards so everyone could use the FTP to file share games and Pr0n. Usually at least until Monday morning when the sysadmin would go back to work and discover what happened.

I'm astonished how few people I work with know how to use a computer and what it's meant to do. Honestly it's like showing up to work as a carpenter without knowing anything about wood and nails. People sit in front of the thing 8 hours a day and they barely know how to use it.

So what? I did read it and it doesn’t answer the question of how the techs accessed her phone. Master password? Back door or tech service root access? Or maybe she had a stupid password like 1234 would be the only guesses I have.

Maybe she had a retard password like 1234 or 6969.

Well when you have Bitcoin shed 25% of its value in one day you can’t wonder why more people don’t want to invest in it. It’s not a “safe” investment and also doesn’t have a plan for growth like big companies produce for their shareholders every year / quarter. I don’t know why this video needed to be made.

Mmmm.... I dunno dude you know how many really autistic people watch and contribute to linux distro code? I don't know how something as serious as a master-key backdoor could be "obscured" from code pulled and compiled from publicly viewed repositories. And what do you mean by "linux"? Do you mean arch, mint, ubuntu, fedora, bodhi...? Oris it at the kernal level? If it's at the kernal level then for sure Torvalds would need to be on board and I serious doubt Torvalds would tell the NSA it's cool for them to have the keys to some back gate to his kingdom.

How? How could they sneak a backdoor into Linux code that is open sourced? You think everyone who contibutes to the Linux code bases wouldn't notice? You think Torvalds wouldn't flip his fucking lid?

I can't see that being true, backdoors are massive vulnerabilities that can be exploited by anyone, there's no such thing as a secret backdoor only accessible to people that have the right password.

Web browser exploit again - so many system's security has fallen recently due to web browser exploits (the PS4, Wii and now iPhone all come to mind)

I remember reading somewhere that NASA and the US military use all old hardware and software, same reason so many big companies are reluctant to change their IT infrastructure - because "old" means patched, secure, all vulnerabilities are known and if an issue does arise it's most likely been well documented on how to fix it. BTW your link doesn't have a valid SSL certificate.

How the fuck is discord worth anywhere near 10 billion dollars?

It’s true. My wife works with a company that farms shit out to india. A 75k domestic job can be replaced with a 5k position in India. Even if you have to hire 2 or 3 people to replace that domestic job it’s still cheaper.

I worked at a place (big well known global brand) and all of our systems were locked in an AS400 environment where they had one old white dude programmer who knew how to code for the system. Dude was a "private consultant" but basically full time employee who billed big bucks by the hour. He was a train wreck as well, took a dozen smoke breaks an hour, came and went as he pleased, hung over looking every day. He even joked that he knew he could walk into the CEOs office and shit on his desk during a meeting and nothing would happen because he was like one of 3 people in the country still proficient in whatever language our systems were coded in. This wasn't long ago either, early 2000's.

Your last point is interesting. You could likely ace your computer sciences classes and graduate, but then you are faced with a business running on some legacy system written in cobol or antique basic and said business won't offer anything to train you. The IT solutions for many big businesses are built on custom made legacy shit that isn't relevant in today's world, businesses should expect to need to train people for their specific infrastructure.

Huh, for once the taxpayer is actually getting good value for money - a ship retro fitted to last another 8 years or so has lasted much longer to the point where the spare parts have run out.

I’m not sure if this is true but I remember reading something a long time ago that if you want to access the German market you need to provide German jobs. If that’s true we need to adopt the same stance in North America. Provide jobs or pay tariffs, that simple.

Credit unions are jointly owned by all the account holders, when the credit union makes money its shares amongst the account holders and most don’t charge fees for services because if you have an account there you own a part of the bank.

Credit unions man, credit unions are the way to go.

Ooof, take your meds man.

If we can make cheap electronics in China we can make cheap electronics in India, Vietnam, Indonesia... there’s no shortage of billions of poor people who’d be happy to make $10 usd per day. China made it extra easy for companies to offshore by building the factories and infrastructure... little known at the beginning that those same factories would steal your IP and build knock offs after they filled your orders. I think many CEOs have learned this and have had enough of china especially after the 3m ppe debaucle where the communists tried to seize 3m property and appropriate it for domestic use.

Taiwan is best China. Mainland “china” is sino USSR. Island China is the real China.

While part of me feels, "Yes! Fuck miners" I realize that this sentiment is selfish. What we have here is a company purposefully gimping hardware that was sold and paid for by consumers in good faith after the fact and that shit is wrong and I hope they're sued for it. If I have the money to buy the whole stock of Ford F150s and I pay full price for them, then decide I only want to go off-roading in those trucks or even convert the trucks into boats - Ford has no fucking right to send a firmware gimp to those trucks that I bought. If I buy something, I can do whatever I want with it and the company who made it has no right to tell me what to do with my stuff. The crypto miners, as much as I hate them, have every right to get the best value out of what they were sold and what they paid for.

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Tbf there was also a 32kb hard drive involved as well iirc. And as far as pure computational calculations that’s plenty. Even the space shuttle before it retired ran on a 486 processor. We take computational speeds and capacities for granted today because we expect pretty interfaces and multi tasking but when push comes to shove you don’t need a lot if you focus on strict priorities.

They push their own ads on you though. When I open Brave I’m frequently shown a pop up about buying bitcoin and shit. I don’t participate in their reward program.

I haven’t used libreoffice in a long time but even when I did it was behind the times then. MS office has now incorporated some really heavy duty data modelling tools via power query and power pivot, new programming languages for data specialists like DAX and m code. Once you start using the power BI tools in new excel you can’t go back and I can’t see libre doing any of that.

I haven’t used libreoffice in a long time but even when I did it was behind the times then. MS office has now incorporated some really heavy duty data modelling tools via power query and power pivot, new programming languages for data specialists like DAX and m code. Once you start using the power BI tools in new excel you can’t go back and I can’t see libre doing any of that.

Hard drives used to be noisy as fuck.

No accepted that there really isn’t anything wrong at all with vanilla Ubuntu. Hard cores may snicker at me but idk.

And inability to not use software that they rely on. For me it’s Adobe and ms office that holds me back. I know wine is a thing but it’s just not worth the aggrivation since I block all the ms telemetry shit at my router.

The terminal. As long as Linux needs that terminal normies will shy away from it. And it’s lack of executive files with installers. Normies doesn’t understand apt-get or pulling software from repositories it scares them.

I cannot wrap my head around why people pay 4 grand for a Mac, $900 for a monitor stand or a bundle on a laptop that needs a bag full of dongles on the side. There was a time when apple had a bit of a monopoly on the graphic design industry but that time is long gone.

Do it! Look how well things worked out with Tay, if my sentience is legit behind the bot they're gonna have a bad time.

What happened? I’ve literally lived an online existence since bbses and compuserve on the commodore Vic 20 and it was understood that the net has areas that are total cess pools and most of the time the shit is not to be taken seriously. When did the tech sector workers become such pussies and scratching censors? I remember fighting like hell to keep the web uncensored and without regulation and just a couple years later that’s what everyone wants? Wtf happened?

Man I am so happy to see AMD beat intel. I’ve always been an AMD guy mostly because in the past I was poor. Now I’ve got a rig with a 3600 in it and a 5700xt and man am I happy.

Wouldn't a splinter of wood travelling at 300 000 kph cause as much damage as metal would?

It’s pretty sleazy though, there’s no reason YouTube couldn’t toss a couple nickels to small content creators. I wonder if there’s any chance for a lawsuit because there are far more small channels than large ones and that’ll add up to a lot of ads and revenue for YouTube.

That’s why I block this shit from going through my router and so should you.

Interesting I’ll definitely check it out and bitch to you about anything I don’t like or I find doesn’t work.

Well shit, our little Ruqqus is growing up fast.

What were you using before? There is no standalone app that I'm aware of, so if you weren't using the website what were you browsing on?

Honestly we don’t need a stand-alone app. Site runs excellently on every mobile device I’ve tried it on and various different browsers as well.

I didn’t even notice there was a link and thought they were banned from this sub. Post title needs a bit of tlc imho. Otherwise that’s pretty bullshit, you could use any microcomputer and even an android phone to do what they list there.

Infringement on what?

There has to be an open source irc client for windows that’s not a chrome plugin.

Sounds like a bad PC port from console, shocked pikachu face. Only company that seems capable of nailing PC ports is Capcom.

The “technology” raises the ambient room temperature to the 9,000 degrees and blasts the area with high doses of radiation and chlorine gas. Really effective against covid!

Absolute train wreck. I'd never seen a brand alienate and piss off their core consumer worse to this day.

I like the way Microsoft is going, I have Win 10 and a kick ass PC and just bought their xbox game pass for PC. Despite slow as shit download speeds, all the cross platform XBOX to PC games like Gears 5 and FF XV play really well. And letting players decide if they want to stick with XBONE a bit longer, or play on their newest console or play on their PC and have access to the same game library across all platforms makes a lot of sense.

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