(Price is in € EUR)

For context, six months ago I bought a renewed Thinkpad X395 for exactly this price and I got: An actually decent CPU and not something as powerful as a Wii, 16 GB of RAM, 256 GB of actual M.2 SSD, a really nice 1080p Touchscreen, really nice build quality with metal and a nice backlit keyboard. Heck, even when I bought a cheap laptop in May 2020 it was much better than this and it even was brand new for the same price.

I know this CPU very well, for this price you are getting something that has trouble playing a Youtube video in 1080p at 60 FPS and can't even run the latest version of Minecraft at above 10 FPS. Now imagine this combined with Windows 11 and only 4 GB of RAM...

No, this is not because of the current hardware crysis, this is pure greed. But hey, 1 year of Microslop 365 is included!

Not sure if this is a "me-issue" or if this is Microsoft being a dick.

Am I not supposed to dualboot with an external drive?

Is this a typo?

For the record, this item retails for 8 euro in my country (one single unit bought in a store, including our 22% VAT), so it does not make sense to buy a container for 3.5 euro

It's a (rage bait AI ?) video of an old lady trying to cross the street through an ongoing riot. And there are some protestors intentionally blocking her way. After this clip, there is a guy explaining how empty inside those people are.

Credit to jim3692@discuss.online for providing description.

I've been paying $20 for years. Today it was $25.

These fucking health insurance companies...

Fuck you.

You nasty asshole.

Not only did you leave the stall looking like your ass is a fine mesh strainer and you fire out all sides simultaneously. Not only was the only thing you did not cover in shit the inside of the fucking bowl. Not only did you fail to even fucking flush, but my guy, you didn't even fucking WIPE.

The stall looks like Jackson Pollock's fecalpheliac nephew got a little too high on ketamine and decided to have explosive diarrhea at work.

You fucking asshole you didn't even tell anyone that you left the stall like the inside of a diaper. Bro our cleaning lady puts up with enough and you're going to just casually go back to work? Fuck you you asshole.

Finally got around to playing Stellaris. It's an older game but I work my way through my Steam unplayed list slowly at my age.

Great game, so much to learn, so complex yet elegant. Really enjoyed it, got 40 hours gameplay for my first time out over the last few weeks.

I noted some tech unlocked items I didn't have access to, options that were referenced but never appeared. Did some digging and discovered that almost every system in the game, from research and military through diplomacy and government, has a DLC which contains the full range of options.

Bit annoying when they're effectively selling me what is really a patch for the game. Then to add to that, for a ten year old game the DLC is still full price. There's some places selling it at a discount but mostly mostly its mad pricing. The full edition is £180!

If this was happening with a product more serious than a game, I'd be more than mildly infuriated.

How has Skyrim managed to include all the DLC in the last three editions and these people are still trying to milk every drop from a ten year old game just because it had a decent release?

Bonkers.

https://piefed.social/c/nonpolitical_comics

Those footprints are on land, and we were the only people out there who actually attempted to fish. NM mountains

The amount of time it's been since my wife has gone through some of her old work notes that she has made me cart around the world, around two different countries and in the garage of 6 different houses.

Finally told her that that's it and I'm chucking it all away. She was fine with that.

So the head of a church (priest/preacher/pastor, whomever calls them self father) calls in asking why he's getting charged taxes on apps in his app store. Says he bought two new iPhone 17 pro max's tax free (one for his wife one for him) and his computers should be tax free because "they are for the church". Your apps aren't for the church. Your phone is not for the church, God didn't demand you answer a phone or download an app.. get back to your damn church and pay your sales taxes person who points his phone at a Donald Trump tie and thinks you are the person who isn't the mooch

If you open the timer app on a Xiaomi phone, you can click on a recent time to set the timer. Here I click on "19:00" and get 13 minutes. Why? Because if you click "go" before their gee-whiz animation is finished, you get whatever time happened to be on the dial at the time you pressed the button. Like, all they had to do was just have the button set the timer. And God forbid you just want to type a number. Nope. You have to spin a dial. It's literally easier to do this right, but they chose to make it suck because it has to look cool.

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Guess which one is which?

I don't really care about 1, because it's usually different, and I can't be arsed to change the font.

No Hello

I noticed that accuweather measures snow differently to rain. Rain is in mm but snow is in cm - that's mildly infuriating to me.

Tried to

Turns out my mouse not working was the result of a certificate expiring in the app used to configure it, why is the Logi Options app a website?

Not many folk realise that Options+ (which is Electron based) doesn't need to be running for Logi peripherals to function, the app just has to be there and run once to let the OS know about the drivers tucked inside – the OS will use them if Options+ is running or not. (The coders at Logi did something that when the browser-core certificate expired it effectively reset all device settings back to default, which of course were sent out to all connected devices, and then shuts itself down.)

Top screenshot is from a regular instance of Firefox where I'm returning to LinkedIn after having signed out before. Bottom screenshot is from a private browsing session -- no cookies saved, so I guess I look like a new user to them.

The frustration emerged when I didn't realize I was in a private browsing session and clicked the big blue button to sign in.

The big blue button on the right is apparently not always the "sign in" button. It is the "this is the button we want you to click" button.

Utterly ridiculous for a singleplayer game. These aren’t even listed on the Steam store page. For some reason I thought id was better than this.

It’s blocked from firewall so I don’t think it’ll successfully call back home (unless they did some Steam networking trickery I guess). I just hate this bs on principle.

Just a paper bag now. At this point they’re gonna bring back the supersize but it’ll just be a large lol

SMBC comics have a comments section, run by Hyvor Talk. It used to work great, but after SMBC parted ways with the Hiveworks Comics, it seems the Hyvor Talk service tier was downgrade massively and now it shows the error "Embed temporarily disabled (limits exceeded)" almost all the time. Only on the first day or two of every month, the limits reset and we can both post and read comments again.

And yet, on those two days lots of people comment. There's an active community, but we can't talk!

Can be observed on any individual comic, e.g. the most recent one: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/language-6

Now I need to take a loan in order to afford 32gb for replacement thanks to the ai bros hoarding all the chips...

Tried on three different PCs, both Intel and AMD, both sticks are damaged, somehow

"How do we ensure our patient drops and loses ~80% of his pills and that he slices the absolute fuck out of his fingers in the process?"

They're locking my mental health goals behind a fidgety Saw trap built from scissors and miserliness.

I've had boxes where there were several single pills snipped from their blister packs rattling around in them. These pills in particular are tiny, like you can't even feel them in your mouth when you take them, but they expect me to be able to finesse one out of a single blister with at least 3 extremely sharp and piercing corners on it 😒

If you're a pharmacist and you do this, please go ahead and take the pills yourself, you clearly need 'em more than I do, ya sick fuck.