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Comment Re:Sadly (Score 1) 71

Comedians are, in fact, a more credible source of news than TV news or newspapers. They generally pay more attention to what's actually happening in the world.

Makes sense to an extent. The best comedians use observational humor, and will make you laugh and think.

That said, comedians are merely another group that isn’t sponsored to warp Truth for Profit. Anyone could deliver factual news reporting if they wanted to AND if the audience actually gave a shit about being informed with facts.

The latter is the real problem, and sums up why MENSA isn’t delivering the news. They gave up on humanity long ago. Now we need a humor specialist just to deliver anything close to the horrors of truth and fact to an idiocratic society seemingly hell-bent to demand anything but.

An idiocratic audience, is why Charlie Clickbait and Viral Veronica work for mainstream news now.

Comment Re: In "normal person speak" (Score 1) 14

There are a lot of technical topics on /. I don't understand, but the point here is that they use an abbreviation like 20 times in a summary without ever defining it. If you use an abbreviation in technical writing (including a summary), you should define it the first time you use it. There may be some very common abbreviations that don't require defining, but this is not one of them.

I do understand your point, but there is also the grammatical concept of knowing your audience.

CVEs, have been around since last century. How long before you figure a Common Vulnerability list on a planet run by computers riddled with bugs, is Common enough for Nerds? The irony smacks in the acronym. Hard.

Comment Re:Voting (Score 0) 48

Bets on how long it takes some Republican congressperson to suggest this is the only way we can be sure that illegals aren't voting?

Bets on how quickly a 1990s Democrat would file a class action against Republicans for threatening to take their patented idea for curbing illegal immigration.

Hey, doesn't Obama own that patent? Pretty sure the Deporter in Chief would have earned that.

Not a single word can explain the American who believed an Open Border Czar operating freely for four years, would result in zero consequences for that delusional stance. And let's not forget what could avoid your theory; Democrats could simply understand that assuming a part of their constituency is far too dumb or incapable of obtaining an ID card while enforcing ID laws against every other citizen, is fucking insulting. To ALL.

Comment Rubbing Salt in the Snapper. (Score 1) 48

We all saw it coming, but fucking Tinder?

That dogshit wasn't even on the same table with my EyesRUs Bingo card.

It'll be a hell of an eye-opener when the retinal scan database gets cross-referenced with all the whores uniquely confirmed to have 7 accounts, 9 aliases, 4 rosters, and a pair of perpetual born-again-virgin claims.

Comment Just a marketing "change". (Score 1) 67

This is just a GUI change. Windows already supports mounting these larger drives and already supports formatting these larger drives on the command line. Nothing about the actual spec is changing.

What you casually call a GUI "change", I would more call an error/bug in need of correction, long overdue.

How long have the other methods built into Windows, functioned properly in supporting these larger drives again?

Call a spade a spade already. Otherwise, the next Spectre Ping Death Touch Meltdown will be dismissed as a Class-3 Annoyance, because stock price.

Fuck that.

Comment Re:The real gift. (Score 1) 29

I spend A LOT of effort to make certain I see no ads. It is shocking to see how other people interact with tech. Why would anyone put up unfiltered internet is beyond me.

Companies spend a LOT of money to secure the default setting now, because almost everyone is too lazy to even put in a little effort to change it.

Tends to explain why ads practically sell themselves if humans are involved at all.

Comment The real gift. (Score 4, Interesting) 29

"My real contribution at Netflix wasn't a single decision; it was a focus on member joy, building a culture that others could inherit and improve, and building a company that could be both beloved by members and wildly successful for generations to come.”

I’d say the real gift to Netflix consumers today, is No Fucking Ads.

Given that is now an old-fashioned outdated mentality no matter how far consumers pay to bend over and take it up the streaming pipe, I smell change coming soon.

Enshittification, is something to be expected with the departure of an executive born last century - New Profit Order

Comment Re:can it run mac os? (Score 1) 92

If it's not from apple, it can't run mac os. Unless you create a hackintosh. But that's not for the ordinary user.

I find it rather disappointing to read this, as if there readers here are unaware of ANY other possible solution out there that could be installed on an Intel based computer running the next-gen Celeron chip as justification.

The “ordinary” user is a 25-year old touchscreen app junkie who doesn’t have a damn clue what setup.exe is anymore. I’m at a loss for words if no one can make any FOSS that brain-dead simple to operate.

Comment Re:Intel: Our new radiator is the answer to their (Score 1) 92

And there is hardly any shit Intel or AMD can do about it. Their fortunes are tightly coupled with Microsoft Windows. Which can only get crapier release after release.

Hell of a marriage, isn’t it.

Just imagine Intel finally getting that divorce, and getting a good hard fuck from an OS that weighs less than 500 pounds. They wouldn’t even know how to behave knowing that hotness was out there the WHOLE time.

Comment The OSbesity Epidemic. (Score 2) 92

All of it -- from the specifications down to the messaging -- feels extremely aimed at trimming the fat and delivering to users just what they'll want.

Really? I must have missed the part where they said it was running Linux. Trimming fat? Telemetry and AI are the obese resource twins “running” around in their OS “solution”, which Intel fails to grasp is one of the main underlying reasons people choose Apple every time now.

Intel launches the new Core Series 3, which at one time might have been called a Celeron chip.

And just when I thought the story couldn’t get any more hilarious from a marketing perspective, the new hotness comes strutting in wearing an old scent; Smelleron Cheese.

Some of us remember being forced to build PCs on a Top Ramen budget. Celerons were quietly in the IT Nerd category of CPUs for Thee, but not for Me.

Price remains a big question..

Yeah, that tends to happen when you realize 32GB of blazing fast RAM priced at cats-singing-opera rates, might not be enough.

Comment Re:Old smoking theories, are dying off. (Score 1) 70

You're in denial. The most basic of searches reveals the following:

Vaping-related deaths are primarily linked to E-cigarette or Vaping Use-Associated Lung Injury (EVALI), with the CDC confirming 68 deaths and over 2,800 hospitalizations during the 2019–2020 outbreak.

Did you simply assume Juul voluntarily donated two billion in settlement funds, because it's harmless?

Anybody who smokes tobacco should switch to vaping immediately.

Let me clarify how ignorant you really are. Anyone looking to kick the habit of nicotine addiction for good, should consult with a medical doctor and get a dermal patch. Not go to the fucking gas station and consult with the asshat selling imported unregulated vape dogshit while assuming "vaping" is vastly safer and won't harm you.

No. I'm not dismissing your pain. I share similar loss. I'm dismissing your damn ignorance about vaping.

Comment Re:Old smoking theories, are dying off. (Score 1) 70

Vaping is better than smoking because cigarette smoke has acetaldehyde, which literally turns one of your genes into a cancerous gene in the lungs. That's why cigarettes are more likely to give you cancer than marijuana.

I think you tried to compare an apple, an orange, and a banana there.

We've heard and been victimized plenty by the denials of Big Tobacco likely affecting most of the audience here in some way, since most of us are old enough to remember a related generation who was still being lied to about smoking, with everything from television commercials to MRE ration inserts to the damn family doctor shilling the fucking things to Mom as a stress reliever. There is no doubt that actual smoking (via cigarettes) causes harm, including cancer.

The fact that you basically never heard of a teenage cigarette smoker being hospitalized because of severe lung damage, tends to bring into question exactly why people are still delusional about the marketing tactics of nicotine vaping being "healthier". We've heard plenty of stories of teenage nicotine vaping addicts causing the kind of harm that cigarettes could only dream of after a decade of three packs a day. I'm sure we'll discover more in the Big Vape lawsuits of 2030 - 2055.

As far as cannabis goes, there's a few thousand years of evidence in which humans can count the death toll on one hand. The LD 50 is such a ridiculous joke that it's used to measure corruption, not lethality. If marijuana actually starts killing humans, then we should know it was engineered to do it.

Comment Re:War and Genocide (Score 1) 70

Just in case we were wondering what Deliberate Genocide looks like by the numbers, fifty million human lives are prematurely ended every year on this planet via abortion.

That's all of the deaths in the last World War, every two years.

Five World Wars worth of death, every decade.

I'm not so sure we should be "thankful" for that reality, regardless of the population increase that certainly wouldn't have been linear, because actually having children tends to force young adults to grow the fuck up real quick-like and prevent repeat customers at the abortion clinic (currently at 40%).

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