My copy I lost the key that came with my disc ~15 years ago so it thinks it's a pirated copy. Thanks microsoft. I only have windows installed to play steam games.
 
Luckily Valve has their own branch of Wine, Proton:
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(software)
 
And apparently many/most games support running on Proton these days. I'm sorely tempted to just yeet windows once and for all.
 
I will upgrade my computer when I feel like it, thanks. On my "gaming pc" I visit like, 6 websites (gmail, steam, slashdot and a handful of others) and use Steam, security updates are nice but I'm not at enormous risk, and if anything happens to the PC I'll just wipe it and reinstall anyways. This is my only windows PC at this point, there's nothing to back up.

Home assistants to do things like, set a timer, set an alarm, check the weather, turn "smart" lights on/off, adjust "smart" thermostat can be handled by an open source LLM running on a raspberry pi class device. I suspect offline "home assistants" will start hitting shelves soon enough. Weather or news API is the only tricky thing as there's some cost associated with it; the device might come with a 1 or 2 year free subscription to those services.
 
As soon as those devices become available/reliable, I plan on ditching our google home setup.

Cry harder, nutjob.

https://apnews.com/article/job...

Best Buy honestly isn't that bad for a fair number of consumer electronics -- you can get decent deals on TVs for example.

Fortunately books 4-6 can't be spoiled because they're gibberish and nobody understands them.

Up until volume 3 at least. After that, Herbert kind of went off the rails.

Oh do they have proof that he was killed?

Do I think the medical examiner and all the other investigators are right and he killed himself, or do I believe in a vast, shadowy conspiracy requiring all those parties plus the prison guards, plus whoever controlled access to the federal prison building to function? A conspiracy whose goals seem to silence him, with the assumption that he had something juicy on powerful people, something that wasn't kept in with the other blackmail materials that law enforcement actually had possession of, and something that he had never decided to use before to save his own neck? And that suicide wouldn't make sense when he was almost certainly going to spend the rest of his life in prison, where he had already been assaulted and was in constant fear?

Yes, I think he killed himself.

Several of the cameras were still working. Not a very effective conspiracy.

"We'll see if he "kills himself in prison at the same time the cameras malfunction". He lost access to all those funds so he isn't able to make protection payments or party donations."

Some of you people need serious psychiatric help.

"A decent private school costs anywhere from $2500-8000/year."

Are you on crack?!

It also restricts the voice of the youth on political issues. Youth can't vote*, but they can express their opinions, and youth are overwhelmingly liberal until at least age 16
 
*In a handful of cities, including, yes, you guessed it, SF, youth citizens can vote at 16 in local elections, and public high schools are polling stations, so most youth in those areas have already been voting for 2 years before they leave public schools

Why not sanction 500, or even 1000 at a time? 15,000? Let's cast a wide net, and then redact as necessary. This is one of those rare cases where "shoot first, ask questions later" is probably a valid solution.

Getting kids off of social media is good for them, but it shouldn't be paired with Florida running it's already-pitiful educational system into the ground. The politicians doing this are purely doing it because they can't control social media the way they can the school systems.

BBC is worlds better than Fox News and all other cable news. Stop complaining.