The numbers are all made up, and they’ve not kept track with inflation or the economy in a long time. Things like “minimum wage” simply lingered to allow those better off that sometimes have a conscience to sleep at night, thinking there is a system in place for the less fortunate. Our Federal government has been failing us longer than Mango Mussolini’s presence, he is simply baring and accelerating the asshattery.

Reminds me of a scene in Fight Club when Robert Paulson accidentally becomes a martyr. The crew partially took his death as, “we are all Robert Paulson,” we are all this martyr.

There is a nation of Luigis, and it’s everyone. Everyone just has to stop waiting to die. It need not be violent or deadly, either. One way would be merely: Everyone just has to stop. Doing everything. At the same time.

Probably a good time would be around when the supply chains completely collapse in 10 or so days from now.

Too little, too late. I’m helping everyone I can get away from Google services as fast as possible, including that terrible store.

That is the most accurate and concise summary of their position I’ve seen to date.

Losers for a whole bunch of reasons.

Try Quake LAN parties. You also gotta drag that tower around and belt it in. Oh no, it slipped on the expressway and knocked you out of 4th gear into neutral!

and a party of “the adults in the room” that don’t have the juice, the wherewithal, or the drive to do anything about it

Worse, that party is taking advantage of the distractions of the time to push all the authoritarian wet dream rhetoric they’ve ever dreamed of. It seems while the Rs were slip-n-sliding towards Fascism, the Ds were rollerblading towards Authoritarianism in parallel.

The Ds see Authoritarian control as a way to “regulate” and “clean things up” “for the children!”

It’s as if the political spectrum is but a donut, and as each party circles around the donut, they both exit centrism, neutrality, logic, freedom, and go directly to a Hellscape from either side.

Neither party knows what America was meant to be, nor understands freedom, nor the Constitution. They just want control, for opposing but similar reasons.

I consider LLMs basically high-frequency StackExchange trading. You gotta be exact and not keep the thread alive too long or driftrot is real though. Much faster to parse, though.

Also, the ones that can access the web are great for “I want specific lib x version y to solve a weird problem, what support libs are needed?”

What happens when you feed your chia pet after midnight.

A narrative the manufacturers push, so not surprising that the thought pattern developed that way.

The or was more from hope at this point, honestly. Although we really need a first-world free nation to stop that El Salvador shit. Unfortunately, that will probably be the trigger for WWIII the morons in the US federal government are hoping for.

UI designers hate usability anymore. Is it text? A link? A button? Who knows? Tap and find out you just subscribed to Satan-of-the-month club.

To add on to what @pivot_root@lemmy.world and @Beldarofremulak@discuss.online said, the primary use-case for personal firearms in the US outside of hobby/hunting in day-to-day is self-defense, and as a last resort.

Even with a concealed carry permit, most states’ concealed carry laws state that you can only use your weapon if you have no method of retreat, and retreat should always be the first option. (Rightly so.)

Second problem that this seething pile of shit administration has created, is even if you were cornered, no way out, and used a gun to defend yourself, as soon as they say (real, fake, made up, or retroactively) “oh that was a Federal agent” you’re now looking at having to deal with the Federal “justice” system, which is currently a big lying pile of shit that does whatever it wants with no regard for any life. (State and local laws are, for the most part, still functioning correctly.)

So basically, a death-and/or-El-Salvador concentration camp sentence for the person-that-would-be-helping.

Signing up as a rogue citizen to defend others, as a firearm owner, is at minimum legal fees, possible loss of firearms, possible jail time, or these days, possible disappearing.

You basically have to be in a mental state of writing off your own life to do such an act. If we are at that point, we’re probably in civil war.

There’s not cowboy justice in modern America, most of the time, surprisingly. Only Federal cowboy injustice.

Closest that could be maybe done is if a group of armed citizens in a state where open-carry is legal set up groups to protect those being targeted by the Nazis just outside the legal land boundary of the courts. Specifically because officers (read: thugs) are trained to shoot first and ask questions later. You’d need a mass of armed citizens, not touching their firearms, so the thugs know they’re outnumbered and no matter how tiny-penis-brain they are, they know they’ll probably come out dead if they escalate. Still very risky, could easily escalate as the thugs are also trained to purposely aggravate citizens so the citizens will make a mistake and the thugs can “apply the law” (do whatever they want with no consequences) as they see fit. This would be the tipping point Mango Mussolini wants to declare Martial Law across the US, and then we’re back to the civil war thing. All the rules change at that point, and the perceived “authority” that the ICE cowards think they have disappears, but we’re also looking at massive loss of life, no matter how it plays out. Unlike the Nazis, most Americans value life.

It sucks, right? When a majority of a country follows its laws, but they’re dealing with human trash in power that can mutate it at-will with almost god-mode powers, it becomes infinitely more complex to save the People and Democracy. They’ve done a good job stacking the deck in favor of Tyranny.

Problem is, CA is doing their own version of wacky insanity. Newsom is nuts. The Land of Liberals hates homeless, is losing empathy in a different direction, it’s really weird.

Secede.

It’s cool that most American jobs tend to have a mediocre pay raise that barely keeps up with inflation. Couple that with increasing accelerated cost of everything multiple times (most recent big jumps, Pandemic, end-of-pandemic-fake-price-hike-for-alleged-still-supply-chain-disruptions-moneygrab, runaway inflation from Mango Mussolini 1.0, now all the stuff from Mango 2.0, insurance rate jumps due to climate change) and even a tiny 6% pay raise is still a pay cut (if one is lucky to even see a pay rase.)

RAM speed is going to be negligibly different in daily use, and on-die RAM will compensate for that slightly slower clock on the ARM computer. Intel’s hyperthreading is much less a performance advantage than it used to be. Intel chips suck anymore though, full stop, and generate heat like mofos. I wouldn’t be surprised if this computer uses that generation of Intel chips that randomly dies, gen13 I think?

Worse, that Beelink will be using Intel embedded graphics which is basically the worst on the planet - I’d take Qualcomm Adreno before Intel embedded.

It’s also listed on Amazon as frequently returned. Not worth $869. Could get an Asus (née Intel) NUC that would serve much better, I think there are at least some AMD variants now.

The Beelink might make a dandy headless server if one got lucky though, if GPU isn’t needed for AI/ML or other GPU-based acceleration/calculations.

Beelink also wins points for having actual hard drive and RAM slots as well. Still probably not worth the money versus anything else.

Really can’t wait for some computer companies that aren’t Apple to start pumping out ARM mini PCs and laptops with decent chips.

FWIW, and not trying to be an apologist as I find their pricing insane, they at least seem to be using good SSDs. I’ve found over the last 10 years that SSD life can vary wildly. Just some light-access databases destroyed some consumer-grade SSDs and hybrid drives’ SSD portions. A couple in less than a year.

Have a dev mac that I absolutely constantly murder the SSD on daily over the last 3 or so years. I’m talking gigabytes of data written daily 5 days a week. Available spare sectors is still 100%, and percentage “used” (which granted, is a vendor-specific life metric) is 5%.

That being said, I’ll still be hating on them for soldering the SSD to the motherboard. That is the real crime.

CLEAN COAL thank you very much. (/s)

We are idiots.

You give them too much credit. More like, type to an LLM:

“Hey ai, here is an mbox file full of e-mail from people. Find all the names and make a table of names and email addresses.” uploads file

“Hey muskrat, we got the list of people to deport!”