It’s almost as if that trillion dollars came from the working class in many indirect ways

Piracy is now fully justified

Sounds like a very similar situation to car mechanics

100% Microslop.

They expect layoffs. They’re just going to blame AI for it.

Wait for billionaire Zuck to make a quick phone call to Trump followed by a “donation” and the EPA will say that there is nothing wrong with the water.

Become complacent, make a sub-par product, prioritize Corporate decisions over user experience, do nothing to fix what the users criticize, abuse your control over the OS to double down and try to force it down your user’s throats through increasingly intrusive ways, fail to understand why people hate you. That’s the Microslop way. Its corporate culture, size and dominating position in the market prevents it from making a good product. Large companies like that should be broken up. They are too large for their own, or anyone else’s good.

Seriously, I am forced to use Teams and OneDrive for work and my productivity is constantly held back by the complete lack of basic quality of life features that most FOSS applications made for free by volunteers would have.

Great move by Snapmaker. In considering buying a new printer soon I am very annoyed by how difficult it is to know beforehand how much functionality of a printer is locked behind cloud connectivity that can be remotely disabled at any point. I know Bambu is to avoid absolutely thanks to the very public backlash they got but what about the others?

I know Prusa is a shining example of letting their customers own their devices but they are pricy. I didn’t know Snapmaker had the same kind of mentality until now thanks to that move.

A widget to make the fresh Windows refugees feel right at home

I guess he realized Canada wasn’t gonna let it happen so he switched to a smaller target to bully.

Upgraded to an AMD card and suddenly Linux became perfectly reliable.

Depends on the back problem. For my situation, reclining was the worst thing to do.

I have messed up my back so bad a few years ago that I couldn’t even stand or sit on a couch or normal chair for very long without pain for over a year afterwards. Fortunately I got better after a slow recovery but it never fully went away.

I sit at a desk for most of the day so solutions had to be explored. I’ve tried many things during that time. I’ve found out that what worked best was to be sitting with my legs not fully at 90 degrees with my body and my back held vertically, supported only by my core muscles.

Exercise balls worked fine if you sit more on the front edge of it, but you have to resist the urge of moving around and bouncing on it because that will absolutely wreck your back.

I’ve settled on a kneeling chair without a back support. The one I have you can adjust the angle so you can decide how much of your weight is on your knees and how much is on your butt.

Both of these require an adjustment period to get your core muscles used to be engaged for so long. Stretching your quads and hamstrings to gain more hip mobility so you can sit with your legs at 90 degrees without having to tilt your hip back and stand without tilting it forward helped a lot too.

The saddle chair does look like it would help too I might try it one day.

That’s one way to describe the effects of his body odor

Kevlar only stops very low power rounds and shrapnel. A typical rifle round is much more powerful and will go through too many layers of kevlar for a vest made entirely of kevlar to be effective and practical against that. For that you need ballistic plates that are designed to shatter on impact, absorbing the bullet and its splash and dissipating its energy in the process.

The total can probably weigh something around 30 lbs for something Trump-sized and can stop a typical rifle round. But the worst is that this stuff isn’t flexible or breathable. It’s hot and sweaty, chafes your skin, hugs your chest tight and you are sandwiched between two rigid and heavy plates. The front one goes way up to the base of your neck and can press against your throat when you’re sitting down and slouch, which Trump does. It’s a miserable thing to be wearing all day.

There is no way he will wear a proper vest with the plates required to stop a rifle round. His old spoiled rich unfit lazy pampered ass would find it too tight, heavy and uncomfortable to wear.

The profit motive has been getting in the way of a lot of productivity lately.

The connector is flimsy, will wear out in applications where you connect and disconnect it often and the whole standard is controlled by big tech and they abuse that power to hinder open source efforts.

It is stupid for even more reasons than that. I’ve thought about it back when North Korea had pretend nuclear suicide bombers march on their military parade.

Even if somehow they manage to cram one in a backpack that is carriable by a person, there is no advantage whatsoever given the blast radius. You will have to use a vehicle of sorts to get near the enemy and more importantly away from your friendlies anyway. Whatever distance you can cover on foot afterwards won’t make much of a difference. Might as well make it vehicle borne.

Also the whole point of a suicide vest is to be able to get in the middle of an unaware crowd or near your target before using it. With a nuke you don’t need to be in the middle of a targeted crowd or get that close to your target to have an effect.

Ah, I see you are logging in using Bash