Pretty much every machine I’ve had open has upgradable ram. Unless the machine is the absolute thinnest of ultrabooks, the ram has been easily removed, replaced and upgraded.

(And good luck getting your IT people at work letting you put Linux on your laptop.)

What am I gonna do? Stop myself?

I mainly just turn mine on. Not a lot of work.

I mean, it’s been a lot of work lately because I’m learning a new OS and mucking about with shuffling some data around on a couple different drives, but for the last 5 years or so, the “work” involved in keeping my desktop running was mainly plugging it in again after moving to a new apartment.

Yeah, and we’ve had peaceful transfers of power up until this one fucking guy…

Don’t have what? A Steam deck, a PC, or a USB?

Edit: StReam deck

Yeah. I don’t think MTG’s district is gonna flip, but it’s funny that the race is even that close.

Not of age, I got through the “draft period” during GWB. The US probably won’t have a draft, mainly because we have a sizeable “volunteer” military.

However, if I was drafted, I would talk to my draft board about how I’ve read books about fragging, and how all I can think about is how powerful that is, for one man with one weapon on the inside to destroy or disrupt the chain of command. Then do your best Private Pyle “Seven Six Two millimeter. Full Metal jacket!” imitation. The military doesn’t care about sending untrained and unqualified conscripts into an active war, but I doubt they will take someone who seems to have uncontrollable fantasies about shooting their own officer.

The goal is to put the US in disarray so that he can declare it’s too dangerous to have elections this November.

Best I can do is Google it and read it to you. I’m a little knowledgeable about how a pihole works since I have my Net+, and I’ve set up a few Pi-hole’s (or the same one a few times tbh), but I’m definitely not a networking expert.

Your Pi-hole can only block the things that query DNS. Try this, ping a website you don’t normally go to, and you should see that show up in Pihole log. Next, ping an IP, I usually pick on 8.8.8.8, and see if that shows up in your Pi-hole’s logs. I’m fairly confident it won’t.

Pi-hole blocks the name resolution. TV wants to go to Hisense.com, asks your Pi-hole where that site is. Your Pi-hole sees that Hisense is on a block list, so it says back to your TV “sorry, no idea how to get to that site, it must be offline.”

If the manufacturer wants to get around this, they program a public DNS in, like 8.8.8.8, or they hardcode the static IP for their website into the TV. Now when it wants to go to Hisense, it never has to ask your Pi-Hole where that site is, and it doesn’t get blocked. Heck, it probably won’t even show up on your Pi-hole’s logs.

If you black hole the site, then any traffic going out there gets dropped, and the hard-coded addresses on the TV don’t matter for shit.

Why wait? Streaming services are only getting worse, and we can only really fight back one way. Yo ho!

I bought my last TV about 7 years ago. I got a “small” 38" TV. As I was checking out, the cashier asked me if I’d rather upgrade to a larger model from the same brand with smart features for 10 dollars less. I flat out told him ‘no’ and that was probably the best decision I made that year.

AI is an assistant, not a replacement. It amazes me that Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and all these “tech leader” companies are going to make the same tech fuckup multiple times.

I pay a road tax for an EV. Whenever they cut the gas tax in my state (which is frequently, I don’t think it’s actually been back at “full” since 2020) they conveniently forget to reduce the registration fee for EVs to match.

He has said and done so many things that would get anyone kicked out of politics 25 years ago. Howard Dean’s campaign was scrubbed for an enthusiastic yell. Trump supporters are the main reason why I think democracy is doomed to fail, unless we can find a fair and unbiased way to remove the most vile, stupid and gullible people from the voting pool.

True. I wouldn’t say he’s the greatest, but the guy has a good sense of pacing, framing, and understands how to create a narrative with just the camera.

Can’t believe I forgot the Princess Bride on my list. Also, Time Bandits.

Jurassic Park. (1,2 and 3)

Tremors (1 and 2)

Lake Placid (RIP Betty)

And Then There Were None

The Thing

Robin Hood (Disney animated version)

Star Wars (Original trilogy + Episode 1)

Addams Family Values

Django Unchained

Inglorious Basterds

Pulp Fiction (not a Tarantino stan, I swear)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Aliens

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Ironman (first one)

Pacific Rim

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Big Short

Probably more than that TBH. I rewatch a lot.

Your wifi probably isn’t even down. Most of the time its your ISP and you just don’t know the difference between WiFi and internet.