ROFL no. I once knew someone who got offered an upgrade from whatever to Windows 10, only for it to fail half way through because their CPU was some weird corner case that the OS thought it supported but when it was time to boot… didn’t.

Also if you want to talk e-waste, look no further than Chromebooks.

Windows 11 has problems, this is hardly one of them.

If you still use twitter (no, asshole, you don’t get to own a letter of the alphabet - fuck off) then you are part of the problem.

Ok that app is deleted.

All the soulless companies that employ temporary tech workers in the US for the mega corporations here just collectively got erections. This is their goal.

Unlike social media?

The fucking healthcare conglomerate (owned by UnitedHealth, yes that one) that bought up the majority of medical practices in my region just sent me a completely unsolicited debit or credit card.

They don’t provide my health insurance. They’re just who owns most of the doctors offices around here.

The early adopters certainly are. You still see plenty of them including cybertrucks, unfortunately.

One of my friends is considering replacing his with Lucid cars.

They’ve had Teslas since well before Elon was problematic publicly.

Hey remember when Google used to have a motto, “Don’t be evil”?

Used to.

Yup it’s mostly bullshit. Someone, somewhere might benefit, but certainly not any of the people within two thousands miles of where the rich guy lived. Which is still better than nothing, but Bill Gates could end homelessness in America immediately if he chose to do so. (I’m not saying it would be easy or fast, just that he has the money to make it happen.) He could make ALL COLLEGE FREE for students. Musk could have too, likely for less than he spent on Twitter.

It sounds like Klarna is a nightmare that should be avoided as much as possible.

Me too. You mean out of a giant cannon to the sun, right? And it’s still Ajit Pai, right? This guy here can make the top ten though.

The next time this happens look at task manager and see what % memory you have available.

Also as others have said consider replacing your HDD with an SSD, that’s the single biggest upgrade you can make to see a massive difference in quality of life with your PC.

Some of us are face blind and this could be helpful.

No fucking way I’d trust meta not to exploit it though, so this is a hard pass.

Because after twenty years of it your body will be wrecked.

I work in IT and have multiple coworkers who actually work physically harder than I do (in their roles vs. mine) in their 60s. One is 65.

Got lots of 65 year old factory or construction workers, do ya? And I’m talking about laborers, not supervisors etc.

I’m never giving epic games a dime, I can assure you if that.

This is one of those things many people seem to think will be a win but will actually suck once every app is able to charge you directly.

All that surveillance and they let all the criminals go free anyways…so, what’s the point?

They’re not using these to catch criminals - that’d be like expecting anti-gun laws to give murderers pause. No, they use them to make people like you and me pay hundreds of dollars when the light goes from yellow to red while we’re in the intersection or close enough to it that we couldn’t safely stop without stopping literally in the middle of it all. That’s what this is about - making people like us pay. Not actual criminals who commit a crime that they would be arrested for.

the move is a first step toward the broader deployment of those cameras, a tool that has the potential to dramatically improve traffic safety across the city if implemented well.

It’s Seattle. It will not, sadly, be implemented well.

Agreed. I have a compromise. They can put in all the cameras they want - but absolutely cannot, upon pain of losing 50% of their total budget for a year per violation - outsource or subcontract the operations or anything akin to the operations of the system at all. Hire IT staff to run it, pay people to process the data. No you can’t use AI. Do this or fuck off, Seattle.

I will never ever forget when a red light camera came to Redmond, at the turn leading to driving through Microsoft’s campus. Can you guess what happens when you piss of a bunch of smart motivated people who have money and aren’t necessarily the kindest people? That shit got challenged and removed after about six months. I still see the stump/the concrete it was embedded when when I go to my buddy’s house, and it warms my heart literally every. single. fucking. time.

That’s why I play using a PC and not a console. Though PC components have also been overpriced for years.

This is silly. Absolute worst case, we go back to bartering for goods and services. There will never be a need to panic.