I still have my black Core 2 duo Black Macbook, it’s cut to a 4th of its size, a magnet is stuck near the lid sensor and it outputs video from the port on the side.

I mean it used to output, I haven’t tried turning it on in like a decade

You don’t understand, they’ve got children! Which matter, unlike the children their governments likes to massacre all over the world.

267€? What are those, 4GB sticks?

We’ve all heard these excuses before. Why do you want to force me to repeat the usual answers?

What few rights you have were paid in blood, and you refuse even slight discomfort, you simply don’t care enough, stop making excuses.

I don’t see how the size of the country matters, when labor movements have always been GLOBAL. What does Europe have to do with this?

My goal was to explain why the status quo is the way it is and most of it does come down to whatever makes the games the prettiest. I can’t fault people for that.

You can and you should. Just blindly going through life chasing your own enjoyment at the expense of everything else is egoistical and detrimental to civil society. Egoism is what is destroying the world.

Everything in life shouldn’t require research and an ethics check.

Unfortunately it does, and while I agree we can’t fix everything at once, some things are easier than others.

These kinds of issues are why we have elected officials and governing bodies and it’s their failures you should be upset at.

Yeah, and that’s another thing where people should pay more attention, but they don’t because they care more about their immediate satisfaction, with hobbies and enjoyment, rather than long-term outlooks.

Russia is just codename for “world powers”, which include the US and China.

EU officials can’t just outright say we can’t trust our main ally anymore.

Yeah, you’re confirming that gamers people care more about numbers and shiny things than principles. Who cares if you’re destroying your hobby, when you can have slightly better lighting in a game?
Gamers made nVidia’s fortune and nVidia is one of the main reasons for the crypto and ai messes. It’s not the only factor but it’s one.

I used to work with a guy who was addressed exclusively by his nickname. Sometimes I wonder if his work contract sported his name or nickname.

Funnily he was one of our union reps in the company, one day we had a big assembly with a couple of union officials, at the end the officials thank each of our three reps: “ok, so thanks to [name], [surname], [name], [surname], and… [guy’s nickname], sorry I don’t know your actual name.”

I’ve been AMD-only since forever, since before AMD cards even existed, my computer ran an ATi card when AMD bought them and when they went from being team green to team red. I swore off nVidia after they killed 3dfx, that’s decades ago.

I never had problems running games except when they were infected by nVidia’s fuckery, and I never had to put much effort in avoiding them.

Gamers just care more about big numbers and shiny things more than they care for the well-being of their hobby, and are directly responsible for part of the AI-shitshow we’re in nowadays.

WHEN ARE YOU FUCKERS GONNA START SETTING YOUR FOOT DOWN?

CALL A FUCKING GENERAL STRIKE.

Americans make movies depicting themselves as badasses ready to fight for freedom, while in reality they can’t even do the most basic thing to defend their democracy.
Not to mention how their shit spills out all over the world.

He now has a fancier PC, courtesy of LTT.

Might be nice if you’re used to it

I have a raidz5 array of 8tb drives, one died, replaced it with no issues

Kind of like me, but I also have a friend who matches my description above

Maybe he was neurodivergent enough to become great at each and then lose interest, never engaging in them again despite investing thousands of hours?

Weird. It’s just a plant, takes plenty of sun and water and that’s it. I’ve got two in pots, one even survived the winter, which they usually don’t, although I had to fight Noctua caterpillars. (very silent caterpillars? no, not that Noctua)

A85?! That’s gotta be minuscule!

It’s such a cheap ingredient, it makes no sense to omit it

Depending on what you are unblocking, grease or simple oil can be a longer term solution

So unfortunately WD-40 as a product has become actually several different products with different properties, so it’s possible that yours is actually a lubricant. But if you have to reapply it often then no, it’s normal WD-40. What it does is it unblocks and cleans the gaps between moving parts, and it does have a slight lubricant effect but that doesn’t last long, so after a while you have moving parts, where WD-40 has removed any remnant of lubricant, rubbing against each other directly.