We always like to blame the kids because we're old farts and old farts hate kids because kids backs don't hurt all the time and kids have their whole lives in front of them whereas we're staring down the barrel of eternity..

But no the problem isn't that young people don't care about truth. The problem is virtually all of the news outlets have been bought up by a handful of billionaires and those billionaires not only don't care about the truth they are actively opposed to it. So the last thing they're going to do is buy a bunch of AP stories and run them and pay the AP for real journalism. They want AI generated slop propaganda that tells you how great having an Epstein class is.

So for example they don't want journalists reporting on all the dead bodies in Iran from the civilian infrastructure we are targeting. And they don't want journalists explaining that when Trump said he would attack Bridges and power plants in order to get leverage during the negotiations that it became a war crime because you aren't allowed to attack civilian infrastructure just to get a leg up and negotiations, they have to be legitimate military targets.

Stuff like that is why the AP needs to go. Now billionaires don't do things out right and directly because you would notice and get pissed off. Instead they buy up all the newspapers and TV stations and then just stop buying content from journalist outlets. And then the predictable happens that the associate press can't make enough money to survive and here we are.

And most people don't put two and two together and realize that it was downstream impacts from the Epstein class season control of our media that killed journalism. Instead we blame tiktok which is to say young people because tick tock is associated with young people...

When you know damn well they're not going to happen. It makes it look like you are getting out ahead of all the problems you're causing even though if there was the slightest chance of us actually taxing them they would spin up dark money super packs so fast your head would whirl.

Throughout all of human history everything you have has been taken from the Epstein class with that best the underlining threat of violence.

Unfortunately violence doesn't really work anymore because you cannot beat a standing army. Fuck over 200 years ago the people who found it America knew that and they didn't want standing armies because of it. But you have to have a standing army or somebody else with a standing army comes over here and takes your stuff.

Honestly I just saw a story about how the police are using the data generated by people's routers to track where they're moving in their homes and who is entered their homes and where people who are being tracked have moved in the homes. I mean Jesus fucking Christ what do you even do with something like that?

Honestly don't think this civilization has a future. People are too fucking stupid. Every single system designed to protect you is collapsing and every single right and privacy you have is being taken away and about 40% of the country is deathly afraid that trans girls are going to play in women's sports. Sports they have never once given one rat's ass about..

I get it it's a moral panic it will eventually burn itself out but Jesus fucking Christ it never should have happened in the first place. It's like when we all freaked out over mortal Kombat or when we all freaked out over Satanic music lyrics or when we all freaked out over comic books or when we all freaked out over Penny dreadfuls or when we...

Seriously at some point we should fucking figure out the pattern.

The associate press along with reuters are one of the last bastions of reality. The Epstein class needs them to go away. That's what this is really about.

90% of our news media is billionaire owned propaganda. They spent the last 50 years buying everything up and what they couldn't buy up they sued into oblivion. Gwaker was a muckraking operation that did real journalism funded by that muckraking. That's why Peter thiel took them out. It wasn't because they outed him or anything, literally everyone on the planet already knew Peter thiel was gay and as a member of the elite he didn't have to fear persecution the way normal gay people do. But Gawker would often report on theil's dodgy business dealings. So they partnered with hulk Hogan to shut them down and we lost a shitload of journalism. Teen Vouge was also doing real journalism and they got bought up and their journalists fired. Independent journalists were also making good money on Twitter and of course musk bought them and shut that all down

Over and over and over again any attempt to get the truth out is being silenced.

A few years back someone noticed that if you wanted propaganda it was free but the truth was paywalled. Now you can't even pay money to get the truth.

There are a handful of hobbyist journalists but they simply do not have the time and resources to do the kind of work a professional journalist does. It takes a lot of time, effort and money to build the kind of contacts that make journalism work.

It's another reason why our civilization is going to collapse and there's not a lot we can do about it.

On the plus side as long as you're okay with the propaganda you'll have a good five maybe 10 years without getting triggered before it all collapses. And if you're a older baby boomer you get to die before the shit hits the fan. As always, I got mine, fuck you.

Right now it is a terrible time to have a PC. Windows 11 has forced many to buy a new PC if wanted to stay with Windows. After years, Intel has competitive CPUs especially for laptops, but RAM pricing has made everything expensive. At the same time, MS seems incapable of releasing updates that don't break computers. Lastly, Apple just released a $600’budget laptop that upends the PC laptop market.

Hey, people are willing to pay for porn . . . Allegedly, from what my friend told me.

The border collie helps round up the cattle but it would be easier if the rancher knows where the cattle are located to send out the collie. Some ranches can be hundreds of thousands of acres. And that is the main herd. If there are stragglers, they have to be located too.

The answer is rather simple: don’t upgrade the kernel to a newer version. At this point, any kernel features added would not benefit a 486. Existing and working code is unaffected.

Who is throwing away working code? New versions of Linux will not support x486 processors. The keyword is "new". Existing versions will still work. All versions are archived for people to use. And Linux is still open source. Anyone who want to modify Linux going forward to support 486 is free to do so.

386 and 486 CPUs were back in the day. I used a commodore 64 for most of my school life and a word processor / typewriter when I needed something that could print text better than the ancient thermal printer I had (no joke I had an okidata thermal printer for my commodore. Quality was good but when you eventually couldn't get the regular paper you had to buy the rolls and I had the jury rig a feeder)

A lot of people complain about the Sega 32x and Atari Jaguar ports of Doom but it was mind-blowing to be able to play Doom on $300 worth of hardware in 1995. If you wanted a computer that could match the performance of even a Sega 32x you were dropping at least $1,500. Literally five times the price.

But I do remember when prices came down after I got back into computers after a bit. Picking up a 486 DX 100 for about $150 and then going to a computer shop asking for a Vesa local bus video card for it and the guy just pulled it out of a junk pile and gave it to me. Remember going home and booting up primal rage and X-Men children of the atom on that thing and being blown away with that computer could do. Terminal velocity .

Given that Windows now need 16GB of RAM to work well then I see that the answer in 'NO'.

That was enough when I used one of the first Slackware versions in the early 1990s

AI slop articles that get summarized into yet more AI slop. I doubt many humans read this stuff.

It doesn't affect text so ctrl F still works. The rest can be mitigated by supplying element sizes in the HTML.

Complete 24/7 tracking of you as an individual. They have to have a unique identifier for you and it has to be stored somewhere for this to work.

And we are just letting it happen because why the fuck not? Any politicians it's going to oppose this is also not going to play into our love of moral panics and knee-jerk reactions. Making them completely non-viable.

Windows 11 requires 4GB to "run". In my experience, MS defines "run" as "very low values of 'run'"