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I upgraded my PC over the last few months (more than I intended; the only original part left is the motherboard) mostly because of this.

I also built it SFF (small form factor) so that I can more easily transport it if I feel the need to leave the US.

He literally invented the concept of Free Software. So yeah, of course he’s extreme about it!

I fucking hate autocorrect. I mean to say “its” a lot more often than I mean to say “it’s”, but Gboard on my phone tries to change it to the latter almost every time.

I say “almost” because it did it the first time in the above sentence, but not the second time, so it managed to make the wrong guess for both of them. Goddamn useless trash – Markov can suck it!

Good ol’ #37.

This is part of how they rationalize their resistance / apathy towards movements for justice, at the very least they believe it is futile to seek justice in this life.

Sounds like bullshit an unjust leader would feed them.

If he’s been convicted, he shouldn’t have a choice about that.

Welp, that’s embarrassing for me. Good catch!

The article doesn’t mention this rapist’s name, though.

What makes you think the fake screenshot is Mastodon? I don’t use it so I don’t know about fonts and colors and margins matching up, but I’d at least expect there to be an instance name attached to the username.

Also, RMS is certainly not the kind of guy to use social media at all, libre and federated or not.

It has to be. RMS browses the internet by e-mailing a remote machine that wgets the page and e-mails it back to him, then views it in lynx so that JavaScript doesn’t run. There’s absolutely no way in Hell he’d be on corporate social media.

(I’m not joking, by the way.)

My parents have an LGB train set that they got to put around the tree each Christmas, and added to it a little bit each year. It was a great memory for me.

IMO it’s a very appropriate scale for that use-case, even if it’s intended to be “garden” sized.

I’m annoyed that they’ve refused to either give it to me or continue displaying it themselves for Christmas, depriving their grandkids of the experience I had.

Plenty of LGB

I feel like the number of closeted model railroaders might be declining, though, along with other “older” geek hobbies like ham radio, because they’re being replaced with things like homelabbing and Arduino and 3D printing.

I’d be kinda embarrassed to be compared to Johnny Bravo, though.

Buying just slightly below highest end (so 5700X3D/3080) is the best bang-for-the-buck of all, IMO.

I just upgraded my seven-year-old 1700X/Vega 56 system to 5700X3D/9070 XT, and I expect it to be good for probably another seven years at least, give or take failure of the original motherboard I’m still using.

Sorry, I was just trying to emphasize the more “sword-like” rather than “club-like” nature of the thing, not impugn their technology.

There’s a way to do that: it’s called “build your mod on top of a FOSS game instead of proprietary shit.”

The thing that annoys me about game modders is that they never seem to learn the lesson that they should just build on top of a FOSS game instead.

Or what happens when a society that doesn’t have metalworking wants to make a sword.