Interesting. I han’t thought about this aspect, where the toaster is capable to do more human activities to harass the person. This is actually a problem if there isn’t a way to stop it wholesale. And there isn’t and probably won’t be. For a while if it ever changes. If this thing grows in occurrence, it might force people into private communities and systems to escape. That particular effect being arguably positive.

Some of them are winning. At this point the game us shifting to an internal fight between domestic oligarchs for power and therefore profit.

Better yet, use an off-shore instance outside of US control with third-country VPN. The DHS could only get the IP of the foreign instance. If somehow the foreign instance cooperates and gives them your IP, that would be the VPN IP. Then the foreign VPN provider would have to cooperate for DHS to get your IP. Your ISP would probly give you up.

Talk to your your colleagues to form a club that coordinates all of you taking actions together. Like asking for more money, or stopping work. Talk to other such clubs at other workplaces so all those clubs can coordinate taking actions together by all the club members. Like stopping work. Once that bigger club operates, stop work and ask to get off this timeline, demand a specific different timeline. This is how we get off this timeline. The method has been proven to work.

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If Iran still has a functional missile program, might hit an oil target in Saudi Arabia to restart peace negotiations.

Men in their 20s, 30s, and 40s—runners, CrossFitters, lifelong nonsmokers—were streaming through her door at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. They all appeared lively and strong—yet there they were, battling colorectal cancers

Well there’s your problem. Don’t run, drink beer with friends, smoke socially and you’d happily get to retirement! 🤭

Eat your free soup.

about her cup holder one time and yes she was talking about the cd drive.

This shit used to happen often enough that we joked calling optical drives “cupholders!”

Pls do.

Here’s one that came with “memory issues:”

The chips were visibly desoldered from the DIMM even before taking it out.

Was a long time ago but I think the push pins weren’t broken so they did reattach well enough for it to get the customer some more mileage out of it. After clean and repaste of course.

The little fan on the videocard is also disconnected.

That’s how you turn on the quiet mode of the GPU.

Pretty sure it’s a P4 on a 478. 423 is significantly larger and the cooler retenrion clip goes directly on the socket. This has a plastic bracket that the cooler is attached to, but the plastic bracket itself has fallen off the board. You can see it on the cooler itself in the other photo. 😄

It’s a 478, some Pentium 4.

Yup. It’s a potato. Taken with a Nokia E51.

Lol, unlikely. Either XP or 7. Don’t recall exactly.

I think they were a clueless computer user so I just told them what the problem was and how we fixed it went over their head. But we laughed good with my colleague. Falling coolers were common on Intel boards at the time when the retention brackets ware hooked with push-pins. Note this is the factory installed bracket on the board that’s fallen. 😄 It’s not a poorly installed cooler.

Reminds of this one from around the same period:

Oh Beryl jogs a memory too! There was also Compiz Fusion.

No, I’ve been GNOME peasant since Ubuntu switched to it from Unity. Now also using it on Debian.