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Things System 76 does: maintain their own os distro, desktop environment, coreboot fork, system firmware

Things System 76 refuses to do: usbc PD

I say this as a very happy S76 customer

This is a bad take.

"White power" is a call for supremacy. "Black power" is a call for equity and solidarity.

Conflating the two by saying that blocking both or allowing both would be "equality" is.. Mind you, I've only been awake for half an hour; but it's definitely the worst take I have read so far today.

My first "hack" as a teenager was soldering a USB cable into the place the USB mini port was on a palm I was using as an ereader. The port would just become detached from the board if you looked at it funny; so this worked pretty well. I could just plug the whole device in to charge from then on.

Then I realized that the three volts that were supplied from a pair of AA batteries was really more of a suggestion. That summer, lots of gadgets I had became "USB powered"

Wow, imagine thinking you are REQUIRED to put your intellectual energy into labor in order to make wealthy people wealthier... truly wild.

I would posit that you aren't rejecting any ideology, you are being presented with the fact even inaction is a political choice, and that seems to upset you. That's okay, there are a lot of facts about reality that upset me, too!

Unfortunately facts don't care about our feelings, and no amount of sulking about it will change the fact that so called union neutrality is an anti-union position. Not only is it anti-union, but kind of a cowardly anti-unionism, at that. It's wanting to be both anti-union, while also wanting to accept none of the social consequences that come with that position.

> I like to keep business and charity separated.

I don't know if that really tracks, tho. You still have ethical obligations in your day-to-day business. As an extreme example; if your business is "I sell fentinyl laced heroin to elementary school children" isn't really something you can make up with any amount charitable giving.

But aside from that, I was making the self-interested argument that even complete sociopaths wouldn't necessarily want to work in an environment where "My coworkers can and will try to fuck me at the first opportunity" is a true statement.

If you do have leverage, and you don't use said leverage to help those that don't; then you are a bastard. And having policies ensures that your company, at high levels is ONLY staffed with bastards because people who are not bastards won't want to work there.

Granted, that might be exactly what Amazon et al are selecting for; but at some point, a company being anti-union will be a signal to prospective high-level employees that many of your potential co-workers will be entirely self-interested assholes and you will have to decide if such a work environment is for you.

Just want to give a recommendation for this, and pretty much EVERYTHING Alan Reznick has worked on.

Watching Fifteen Million Merits while very very high on a pot brownie was I think the single event that started me on my path away from techno-optimism.

Such an incredibly strong, poignant piece of art; and so shocking after the goofy PM pigfucker episode

I would totally be down for that, but I don't have access to the breaker box, and I don't feel like trying to install anything into anything that has hot wires.

I own two editions of it and they are great! Just chok full of really, really wonderful stuff. Particularly the tomagatchi hacking articles!

I feel a little uneasy reading them in public, though. The cover has, in big, bold beautiful letters "PoC || GTFO" which might lead someone who isn't familiar with the binary OR operator and the use of PoC as "Proof of Concept" to believe I hold opinions that I VERY much don't.

Well, there is this thing that some humans do called "humor" where one party will perform some action that serves as a benign violation, usually of another party's expectations. When this benign violation is revealed to be in jest, both parties receive a rush of endorphins; which many find pleasurable.

> play mainstream artists, mostly, but throw in a few songs from unknown artists that play similar genres

Isn't that just "radio"?

Lol, don't worry about Texas. It's about 4 years away from being a deep blue state.

Not being forced to choose "work or death" every day of their lives would free people to actualize the fuck outta themselves

I don't think a life sentence was appropriate, but I don't think you're concern here is really what happened.

judges have some discretion when it comes to which end of the minimum/maximum end of the scale to sentence someone convicted of a particular crime, and using facts entered into evidence and never contested when exercising that is pretty standard.

I kinda doubt it. Youtube's "moat" against competition is the fact that storing, processing, and serving video is insanely expensive. Google can only afford to do it to begin with because they are the world's largest digital advertising company.

It would have to be another player willing to invest a ton upfront, and continue burning ludicrous amounts of capital over many years before they could actually compete

I mean, if by reason you mean causation and not purpose, sure. But I think being that reductionist is pretty boring and unuseful.

Not to mention that you can still reproduce without a foreskin, but if you were just a disembodied but otherwise intact dick-and-balls; I doubt your reproductive chances would be particularly high. So from an evolutionary standpoint, I would still argue that it isn't the most important organ.

Seriously, I have slowly become subscribed to all of the streaming services; and I still use a system that automatically obtains rips of the content I actually want to consume. Having everything served to me in Plex instead of needing to remember/look up where something was streaming, load up that app, be at the mercy of my shitty connection, etc.

Yea, it's not a great experience; fortunately, yarrr! thar be options, matey!

It's almost like venerating selfishness and calling it individuality is a recipe for a society that malfunctions in some pretty key ways.

Actually, this is kind of an interesting thought experiment.

If I wanted to really push it, it's WAYYY down on the list. Like, the choice between losing my dick and one of my fingers; fine the finger goes. Between penis and the whole hand though? Sorry willy. Two fingers? Can stand to lose them. Three? Depends if it's the same hand. Any four fingers? Junk is back on the chopping block.

Gallbladder? Dunno what that even does, but my sister had hers out and she seems fine, so I think I would go with that. Pancreas? Yea, I would rather have a pancreas than a shlong

> their most important organ

Lolwut? Look, I really enjoy my penis. Ol' penie and me have been through a lot together. But it's not even in my top five list of most important organs.

Like, gun to my head, I have to live the rest if my life without one of; dick, heart, liver, kidneys, brain, or dermis; I'm sorry but the choice is pretty obvious

I am really stoked on how many opensource smatch platforms are coming out! Between this, the lilygo Twatch, and pine time, I have been drowning in neat tinkering options

Yea, given how easy it was for the author of the post to find it, I would guess that literally nobody in the last decade bothered to run a profiler to see where they were spending time.

The only possible explanation is that management never made it a priority.

I could see this happening. A project/product manager thinking "We could spend $unknown hours looking for potential speedups, or we could spend $known hours implementing new features directly tied to revenue"

Which is kind of ironic since this fix would keep players playing for more time, increasing the chances that they spend more money.

Not sure which is the worse way to go. 3-8 mins of flaming, falling terror; or weeks of facing potential death in a hospital

Don't you need more states, or an invalid state state to account for bounces?

I never said it wasn't.

I am just saying that in security, while it can be very difficult to always find where the line between ethical and unethical conduct is; and what will get a company to pay attention to an issue without getting yourself arrested;

What I AM saying is that this person blew so far past that line that I wonder if they are even aware that one exists. All without even considering that, maybe, "that time last week when I committed wire fraud" probably isn't the best topic for a blog post.

Do I think that the author was acting maliciously or in bad faith? No. But the US justice system has a really nasty habit of not taking facts like these into account; as Aaron Swartz tragically learned.

Tl;dr "it's just a prank, bro" is not an effective legal defense, and prosecutors fucking LOVE convicting hackers.

Wait, founded by George Hotz? As in GeoHot? The PS3 jailbreak guy?

I see ads like that all the time. Never see anyone drinking the product, just sophisticated looking adults mingling intercut with shots of liquors being poured into glasses.

And then a voice at the end saying "please drink responsibily"