3 one minute long adds are better than those 2 hour long prageru racist propaganda videos trying to masquerade as “Educational” content

Im old enough to remember the internet before ads, and with ads became a thing and you had to make sure to keep your speakers low/off all the time less some screaming loud ad popped up somewhere to burst your eardrums at 2am.

There were so many obnoxious, visual cancer ads.

Then they became actual digital cancer by being injection points for viruses and malware, and thus adblockers became a necessity.

And they remain a necessity to this day, for the same reason as they were 20+ years ago.

and yet the ad servers want to blame the end user for adblocking.

not their absolute refusal to moderate or police any of the content they deliver.

don’t underestimate how lazy and stupid even the smartest person can be.

thats what /s is for.

I wouldnt be so sure about that. I’ve heard people say stuff that was mindbogglingly dumber than that, completely seriously.

Where did anyone say anything remotely like that?

House quality is already in the shitter. Hell, not even the shitter, its down the pipe and in the septic tank.

and its not cause home owners doing repairs.

Its cause developers spinning up an LLC, buying a plot of land, shitting out a development of 300+ homes in less than 6 months that just barely meet the barest minimum of code (and anything that doesnt typically given a slide thanks to a few greased palms), just to sell all the homes in the mad housing rush before shutting down the LLC and walking away with all the money and no liability on the terrible houses they’ve built that arent suitable for living in.

CyFy on youtube highlights the problem a lot (and how hard the builders and bribed inspectors go after him for threatening the grift).

And I have own personal experience witnessing more well off friends struggle with newly bought houses being built like shit at best, to needing 10s, to 100s of thousands of dollars in repairs less than a year after purchase at worse.

Thats some goddamn thought police shit.

Also tells you how goddamn awful the powers that be are, that the only way they can stop criticism of their badness is to ban anyone that even gives the lowest effort agreement with the criticism.

the menu prices are insanity.

last time i was in there, they wanted 3 bucks for the shitty little burger they used to sell for 99 cents.

Not even getting started on 10 dollar bigmacs and other stupidity.

My laptop is the only device I have that isnt linux, lol. I otherwise came over a long time ago :p

Its why my laptop is still on windows 10

Cause the last time I tried to put linux on it (admittedly this was like…6 years ago), it was an absolute fucking nightmare… 75% of the reason being the goddamn graphics card, and 25% of the reason being piss poor power management that ruined my battery after a week of trying to get it to work before giving up.

its also why my desktop is all AMD, just for the lack of headache with linux. Don’t even have to do any driver purges or reformats when I changed cards.

but with Windows 10 getting ended soon, I guess I’m gonna have to roll the dice again and see how far nvidia support has come because I’ll rather be fucked by a elephant than use 11.

I genuinely cant even remember the last nvidia card I bought… MX440 I think? (My old laptop did come with a 1050 QT, but its not like I had much choice in that, being a laptop and all…)

Not for lack of interest, its just…every time I’ve had to replace a GPU, AMD was the better bang for buck option.

Course, most of that interest came from them monopolizing tech… Like buying Ageia and getting rid of the dedicated card and integrating it onto their gpus, so only nvidia could use fancy PhysX stuff…

Yeah, I laugh at it every time I see it.

“Oh yeah the AI was trained on 3000 zettabytes of illegally obtained/stolen data, but it’ll totally respect me copy and pasting a line of text in my post!”

Depends.

Is that 200 euro fun money that you can set on fire and be absolutely unaffected by its loss?

If yes, then why not. roll the dice.

If you cant afford to throw 200 euro in the trash? then obviously do the smart thing and don’t buy a potentially seriously damaged/unfixable card.

as vaccination rates plummet, freedom soars sores

My friends who are less tech literate swear by brave

I am entirely unshocked that people who don’t know shit, swear by bad products and scams.

not only refused to restore the account, but still insisted he was a pedophile producing child pornography despite the cops and doctors and every other authority involved insisting he wasnt, and that the images were medically necessary, and refuse to even give/let him get a backup of all his family pictures, emails, etc.

and theres gonna be a lot more of it once this stupid invasive spyware rolls out and gets going.

If our parents and grandparents photos were digitized, they’d all probably be labled child porn producers, because almost every parent/grandparent/etc has some picture of their newborn getting a sink bath or some other completely harmless, and otherwise normal photo.

and I think its so they can artificially inflate their numbers. They arent doing shit to stop actual child exploitation, so they hammer hard on this shit so they can make a big show of “cracking down and stopping” it.

Hes the kind of person that gets haughty and arrogant over warnings to be safe.

and the first person to start crying about “how did this happen, how could anybody let this happen, why didnt anyone stop this from happening!” the second they are personally fucked over by ignoring the repeated warnings they were given.

I dont know why people keep recommending brave.

its a fucking scummy fucking browser that has a history of stealing money, hijacking referal codes (like honey just got in deep trouble over), installing unnecessary software without consent and more.

Its a classic example of using “BUT THE CHILDREN” to be invasive dickheads.

And it immediately reminds me of the story of the guy whose kid had a rash in the diaper area during covid, and the pediatrician requested pictures to remotely diagnose and treat, which google flagged as child pornography and called the cops on him, and banned/locked him out of everything (phone number, emails, pictures, etc etc) because he had everything on google.

and no amount of the police, or even doctor, insisting the pictures were medical necessity and not child pornography would convince google to restore his acount or even let him recover his number/email/pictures/etc.