BreadstickNinja

You can also set a group policy to allow no updates at all except when you approve and download them manually.

Ridiculous that you need the group policy manager for the basic setting of "don't put shit on my PC without asking," but here we are.

Moore's New Law: The price doubles and the stock halves

I was thinking irradiate them and give them guns, but your idea works too.

I dunno, but it's a pain. Hiding low-level components from the user to make it more user-friendly.

I have an old 2014 macbook with a busted GPU temp sensor. The Mac firmware assumes the worst - that the computer is dangerously overheated - and therefore throttles back the CPU by 80% and runs the fans at full blast.

Fixing it on Mac required a number of third-party tools and flashing a custom firmware. I then installed Linux on the device - about ten lines of script that read from the working temp sensor on the CPU die and write a scaled value to /sys/ in response.

So much flippin easier on Linux.

The third line of a haiku is traditionally meant to show a turn or a surprise element, so this is a fine haiku indeed.

America might once have cared to defend Taiwan, because the whole tech economy is powered by their chips. But the U.S. is so diminished, overextended, and chaotic that China clearly recognizes an opening.

I think Xi makes a move within the next two years.

I mean, Neal Stephenson coined the term "metaverse" to reference a virtual world not limited to gaming but to all kinds of business and commerce and social interactions.

Zuck's concept for the metaverse was basically the same thing. I'd be surprised if the connection wasn't intentional.

I've always appreciated that they stole the name from Snow Crash. Like Zuck completely unironically named his company after a technological dystopian hellscape infected with a virus that destroys people's brains. Honestly, I don't think there's a better name for Facebook.

This is true, but Dollar General also tends to move in after the economy is already hollowed out. You used to have vast distribution networks of local merchants and independent businesses. Now everything flows up to the Waltons and Bezos and Dollar General licks up the scraps.

U.S. law enforcement is out of control with this animorphs shit.

And like they didn't leave Massachusetts after its millionaire tax was imposed.

I don't know that the real Ken M is active anymore. But yeah, the imitators have never gotten his tone right.