you mean like istrumpdeadyet.com ?

i’m guessing that i would hear the cheers and fireworks regardless of my state of consciousness, even in this maga red small town.

google did play this long game pretty well… get mozilla on-board with webextensions format. get microsoft to adopt chromium for its own browser. use every trick in the book, legal or not, to gain marketshare. then start the rug pull. first: neuter the adblockers (we are here), next (and there will be a ‘next’) will be killing ad or content blockers and manipulators completely.

the one here was running the original firmware, probably factory original from asus. the board was on a ‘performance’ preset setting–and defaulted to that when i tried a bios reset to defaults. when i updated the firmware, that setting changed to a ‘normal’ one when i reset to defaults again.

i didn’t really dig into that too much because i knew it was already an rma case, but i think part of it had to do with boosted power draw. it still crashed on ‘normal’ and that’s what it was set on when i ran intel’s diagnostics (which took a few tries just to have it not crash before finishing with a result).

the last build i did for someone, we specifically went zen4 to avoid all the various ‘problems’ that both companies were still dealing with.

probably based on traffic patterns and volume, perhaps visibility plays a role too.

both are reason why the one in front of our office here does not have two crosswalks across the through street. people still do cross on the unmarked side all the time… but they’re idiots that don’t realize some traffic can’t see them until it’s ‘too late’… they get hit or the car that has to stop suddenly sits awkwardly in the middle of the intersection and becomes a target itself.

turn on the news for five seconds to know that’s absolutely true.

probably had an intern change their windows’ locale to prc and then construct the ‘proof’

while personally training the next generation, too.

that wasn’t ike, though. those nutcases thought he was a commie.

a failure so spectacular, it lead to fdr, the new deal… republicans wouldn’t win the white house back until 1952.

when re-broadcast on television or cable, those older programs are often re-edited or literally sped-up (or a little of both) so they can have the current norm of 10-12 minutes of ad time per half-hour.

“considering”.

hah.

it’s your interview for a staff position. don’t mess it up.

they had been offering a no-cost equipment promo in some coverage areas for awhile, with only a year or something commitment. you paid $20 to ship the gear. your recurring bill was the monthly plan rate. that’s it.

they’re probably going back and now charging those sign-ups a ‘rental’ fee.

that’s a special feature of hanes socks from walmart.

the feds don’t run states’ elections either, even for federal offices.

the last ide adapter i got (this would be at least 15 years ago) came with a separate power supply for the molex connection. i’ve used that power supply more often than the adapter itself.

lowering the price and doubling the storage.

meanwhile, new google/gmail accounts are getting 5gb instead of 15.

4-day work weeks are great, especially if you have a significant commute, because you’re cutting 20% of that right out. the adding 2 hours to every work day, not so much; but the longer hours can mean that traffic is a bit lighter. the guaranteed week day off is huge when you have ‘stuff’ to do.

probably lack of volunteers to make it uefi compatible, and not worth putting paid talent on an optional feature used by a really, really small number of people. bitlocker-as-default would have broke it for good anyway.