...if you are a dictator running a command economy, sure. That's what Socialism produces.

Why are you looking at a Communist dictatorship and calling it "toxic capitalism"?

just to live somewhere else in your own country? To anyone who thinks there is freedom under Socialism, just know that Socialism doesn't work if the state doesn't decide where you live. It's an unavoidable necessity for a command economy.

Why is it that the same political party that advocates for massively increasing the minimum wage also wants there to be people they can pay far less than the minimum to pick their crops?

Stop pretending to be someone else.

Too late for a discount, but not too late for a rebate.

That makes sense though. Traditional "dumb" TVs are designed for OTA broadcasts and cable boxes. They aren't designed or equipped for the now-dominant medium of streaming. You can get a Roku or some similar device, but that's an extra expense and remote to lose.

That's an excellent point. Ads are how TV and radio could be broadcast to everyone for free, why aren't they making other things free? Hell, are they even making things cheaper? I don't pay less for Amazon Prime because they started running ads. I didn't get money back on my TV when it started showing ads (though it stopped when I called Vizio and yelled at them - HIGHLY RECOMMEND! Call and complain!), and I suspect Samsung doesn't plan to offer any refunds either.

I like the absence of distinction between local news/alerts and advertisements. What a fun way to pretend a bad thing is good!

I couldn't speak to the "smart" fridges, but I have one that's about 11 years old now and it hasn't given me any trouble. And it was the display model at Best Buy.

But I wouldn't waste money on a fridge with a builtin tablet, regardless of reliability. What's the point? Seeing ads, I guess.

As I recall, a number of colleges opened during the Vietnam era, and closed down afterwards. I haven't checked lately though, may be wrong.

I see the value in separate work and personal phones, what I don't see is any potential issue with having an authenticator installed.

What if you already had one on your personal phone? Would you have an issue with adding a work account to your existing authenticator? What if it's pure TOTP? In that case there's no communication between your device and your job at all, let alone anything to subpoena.

I am entirely unfamiliar with the event or the interview. What I am familiar with are religious discussions, which can be fascinating.

Oh, I don't expect frame rates like that, but I do expect that a game's autodetect or Nvidia's performance optimizer to give me a decent idea of what settings should work. And when they result in 60-90fps for a little while then drop to 4-9, I get a little annoyed.

Discussing it here helped though. I have some new ideas about things to check just from talking about it. It may even be something as stupid as my GPU throttling down, or not throttling up. It has, on occasion, done this odd thing where it runs at min power in a full screen game, but throttles up to max when I alt-tab out to check the management software. Maybe that software itself is the problem.

Well, unfinished Bellwright would certainly count as a later release, but what about Oblivion? That's a pretty recent release, though I wouldn't know how long the development took.

For all I know, it's my system. Maybe those games hate a bios setting. Maybe I forgot to adjust the rBAR transfer limit (big deal for Control and a couple other games). It's frustrating, especially since Nvidia's tuner app insists I should be playing on max settings. Which works great, for a bit.

Well, I've got a 3070ti and r9 5900x with 32gb ram, and I get inexplicable slideshows. Well, unexplained slideshows. I'm sure there is an explanation, I just don't know it yet.