some anonymous jape on teh intarwebs said :

Which is what these greedy out-of-control AI fuckwits are doing in a more diffuse manner.

There's non-destructive ways to scan books, that probably are just as fast as what these negligent morons are doing. It's just plain greed above all else.

This kind of behavior tells you who these people are. And why they should be shunned. It's starting to look like good people need to take action to stop their destructive rampage.

His. Name. is. BOBBY Tables! [1]


It's right there in the ancient [2] webcomic you linked. I know, I know, IHBT, IHL. HAND.


1 Tyler Durden, freaking the norms by inserting subliminal images.
2 2007-10-10 !, Early happy 19th anniversary Robert!

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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.

I wish. That would be grand!

Everyone gathers to watch the securitybots fall down and violently flail around trying to right themselves.
Meanwhile, while the crowd is distracted, I pick their pockets.

Truly a golden age of law and order.

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...

We really shouldn't encourage that type of behaviour. That's how you get more of it.

I doubt these purported robotaxis are capable of dealing with I-4 in the daily 3PM toad strangler.

That's all the more reason to not try to appease him, because there's no limit to reasons he'll think of to retaliate against perceived grievances. He could wake up one morning and fart crosswise and impose sanctions on the EU.

So the EU (and rest of the world) should just go about their lives, do what they need to do, and not worry about trade sanctions, because even trade agreements signed by Trump himself won't prevent sanctions.

Hey, people pay good money for non-radioactive materials!

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.

I was going to notify you that you have a cranky Scottsman here wanting a word with you, but then I double-checked, and for some reason a thousand Watts is a kilowatt. But then why is it abbreviated kW? WTF world? Please fix.
And no, I am not a train fancier. Well, any more than anybody else.