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Microsoft shops from the 90s called in to say: "You're wrong" It just takes a bit more effort, that's all.

Adjusted for inflation? Who cares? People's compensation haven't risen enough to even account for inflation so how is that helpful? It's not. Saying something isn't expensive becau…

The accident is that you basically can't buy a dumb TV anymore. It's a really sad state of affairs.

As it so happens I currently run a Roku TV that is not connected to the internet with an Apple TV attached. However that is not long a term solution and if it ever dies you can be …

ROFL - Are you seriously telling me a device running Roku software is trouble-free? Sell this lie somewhere else please. Devices running Roku software, TVs especially are a straigh…

This post resonates a lot with me. As somebody in the twilight of their coding career - I totally understand what the author means by "over-responsibility" After 25 years - I'm ove…

Excerpt: So over the last week I’ve been subjected to multiple uses of the term “vibe coding”. Now back here under the rock that I live, that term struck me as rather peculiar so I…

So with each passing day I’m being forced to face the cruel reality which darkly looms: My country, the United States of America, is basically speed-running its way towards collaps…

Over the last few weeks, the situation here in the United States has degraded considerably. The Republic is breaking down and none of the checks and balances the founding fathers p…

No it wasn't. The law specifically states that the president can only enact an extension in the event that TikTok is credibly attempting to negotiate a sale. They are not doing tha…

Anybody who thinks TikTok is coming back anytime soon is a sucker. They aren't selling and the law only allows for extensions if they are in the process of selling. Trump may be ab…

From the article: "WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden won’t enforce a ban on the social media app TikTok that is set to take effect a day before he leaves office on Monday, a U.…

So the other day on Mastodon I posted a link to this amazingly depressing video in which the author laments the fact that he lost one of his freelance writing gigs to AI powered te…

Well if they can reach 300fps at 4k then they can prove to everybody once and for all that their dick is bigger than everybody elses. Cause it ain't about the gameplay or the usefu…

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Oh so its almost like everything else AI related, they basically cheated and lied. If you are shocked by this, you are the sucker in the room.

So as was typical with my end of year posts that I used to make on my previous blog, this is an end of year post. All of my end of year posts are basically rants regarding the stat…

The amount of desperate rationalization in this thread is unbelievable. It's like watching people at a Pentecostal church start speaking in tongues in the hope that something wonde…

Love to see and I've been waiting for the Pi500 release for awhile. I'm running my house on Pi400s so the Pi500 will be a huge upgrade. They are still silent, have double the RAM, …

Its a shame you aren't even reading what I'm saying. Let me be especially blunt: The entire healthcare industry is full of companies that are making bank at the expense of the dyin…