I don't remember exactly when I learned a single bitmapped screenshot of Super Mario Bros takes up more storage than the ROM file for the whole game, but I remember it was the moment I first grasped the concept of bloat.

I thought back to playing Donkey Kong Country in 1995 and seeing Cranky Kong's rant about "my beard has more frames than I had in the whole game". DKC used pre-rendered 3D art to make the SNES do things it was never meant to do and the game still had to be heavily-optimized to fit within the 4MB available.

There's a lot of Venn overlap between people spooked by AI and people who hate Bill Gates because of 5G microchips in COVID vaccines (pick a conspiracy theory, I guess).

AI Protestor: "Down with AI!"
Bill Gates: "AI can be dangerous. We need to be careful."
Same AI Protestor: "... More AI!"

Was it because the suits needed MS Office? That's really the last stranglehold Microsoft has in the business world. LibreOffice and such just aren't "there", yet.

I can't decide whether I'm impressed or appalled. Little of both, I guess.

I guess we meatbags have been on the chopping block far longer than I though.

Even an AI should catch that.

I'm legit retarded and even I know that.

"If you prove your ability to get shit done without being babysat, I'll be out of a job because that's literally my only 'skill'."

I'm forced to dick around in Linux less often than I ever had to with Windows. And most of that is simply due to being _able_ to change things I want to change. With Windows, you get what you get and that's basically what you're stuck with.

My Win11 laptop kept kicking back to S Mode after every major update and I completely forgot about that until I had to put the old SSD back in to copy some old browser bookmarks and couldn't start Firefox because that doesn't run in S Mode.

My Bluetooth earbuds that never ran in Win 11 no matter what I tried worked out of the box in Linux. Framerates in games gained about 25% across the board with some games nearly doubling the framerate. RAM usage is _way_ down. Power usage is way down on my desktop (where the hell were those watts going?). Battery life doubled on my laptop (Again, where were those watts going?). And no more fucking notification nagging breaking my concentration.

If there's one area where Linux falls short, it's the user community's infighting via numerous Holy Wars. i.e. Gnome vs KDE still ongoing, and X11 vs Wayland being a recent arrival. And the gatekeeping. Oh gods for the gatekeeping...

Hollywood reflects reality? Great! So where's my goddamn warp drive and flux capacitor?

And my Cherry 2000 robot wife? Actually we might be real close to that one.

Paychecks are for sellouts.

This is going on in my home county with all the official stuff going on in my hometown. My position on it is the same. The design is pretty great, but the odds of the finished product matching the design aren't. I still have zero faith in Kevin. There's nothing short-term that will change that. Trust has to be earned.

"If he dies... he dies."

"Hi! I'm AMD Knoxville! Welcome to Jackass!"
*Minutemen - Corona (Jackass opening theme) ensues*

I'm reminded of Henry Rollins talking about how people think he's an angry person. "I'm not angry _at_ you. I'm angry _for_ you." Louis and Henry both hate seeing people get screwed over (especially by politicians) and are quite vocal about it.

To be fair, being a "nice guy" isn't considered positive in modern parlance.

Louis is probably the best weapon the Right To Repair community has right now.