I’ve been mostly listening to Big Special recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M60Cx5yl7Js

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV5xTptjB1g

“he and his husband” … “Chick-fil-A”.

Yeah, fuck this clown.

You’re a straight shooter with upper management written all over you, Sharon.

Putting that nasty concoction aside, here’s how you cook rice properly.

Put a cup of rice in a small saucepan, wash it until the water is clear. Add enough water so it comes up to the top of your thumbnail, about 3/4" above the level of the rice.

Put it on high heat and leave it until it starts to bubble like crazy. Remove from heat, put the lid on the pan and leave it for 15 minutes.

Save leftover rice in the fridge for the best fried rice the next day.

I’d love to see the numbers for computers with it immediately uninstalled.

Step 1: Start with lots of money

Step 2: Find a bunch of other rich idiots willing to invest their money.

Anyone remember A Very Peculiar Practice? I watched again recently, it still holds up.

I guess that’s one way to get me to support bombing Gaza.

Maybe build something useful that solves a real problem?

That’s the problem. For now at least, we’re at the end of “new tech make line go up”. Crypto wasn’t it, neither were NFTs, LLMs are no different. All the low hanging fruit was picked a while back so they’re stuck trying to make us believe that there’s a Next Big Thing just around the corner when, at best, there’s some fairly niche and difficult to monetize tech requiring vast resources to work.

Corrected, thanks!

We even have small nuclear reactors that can use spent fuel from the larger ones, thus solving in part the disposal of it.

Do we? Last I heard there aren’t any in service.

Furthermore, significant advances have been achieved on fision power.

We’ll need a hell of a lot more advances before fusion is even close to powering a grid.

The C suite and management of these companies want two things - for the stock to go as high as possible, and for them to be able to sell at the top and leave a bunch of bag holders wondering what the fuck just happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKiVSuDEF2c

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.

All the way through it felt like there was more coming until there wasn’t, it just fizzled out.

Hmm, the only barrier to upgrading was that the i5 processor wasn’t supported, no complaints about TPM/motherboard compatibility and a fresh install worked fine on the exact same hardware. Oh well, it’s done anyway.

I just went for a new installation. Why would that work? Just curious.

Thank you for this. I already did a fresh install but it’s interesting that your link is to the Surface subreddit just to rub some more salt in the wound. The processor is officially supported for upgrades only if it’s in Microsoft’s hardware. I hate them so much.

A cyberpunk style, tech-worshipping doomsday cult doesn’t sound too far fetched these days.

Given that he talks like an LLM trained exclusively on MBA bullshit, he’s only adding to the problem.

I detest this company for many reasons, it’s like they go out of their way to make dealing with them as painful as possible.

Here’s just one example I discovered today. I have a Windows 10 VM I needed to upgrade to 11 but the “PC Health Check” app says no, the i5 processor isn’t supported.

I can, however, create a new VM and install 11 on the exact same hardware, so that’s what I did, along with a whole bunch of extra work to get the new VM set up the same as the old Windows 10 VM was.

Why? Because fuck you, that’s why.

Assholes.