I feel the specs are fine for the use case that the device is aimed at (media consumption, some office usage)… you know, the things that a huge chunk of the population use a device for… if that doesn’t suit, there are more powerful options.

I don’t think it is productive arguing that an ultra cheap/low end device isn’t powerful enough, or specced high enough for activities/use cases that it wasn’t designed for.

ICE providing security for American politicians in another country? Don’t they have a dedicated security group called the Secret service or something like that?

Yeah, my daughter broke it to me. I remember my friends (back in the day) telling me the problems they were having getting their kids off it and I hadn’t heard much since… apparently one of my daughters friends is waiting for a catwoman skin to come back

Fortnite has certainly showed them! They won in Australia, and their game that hardly anyone plays anymore is should be the shackles in 5 more years or so. Edit: my daughter reckons people still play it

Soooo… that means he is gay, right?

As someone who is in a country without marijuana legalisation, what is wrong with the current laws? Is there a massive spike in deaths where the cause was attributed to marijuana use?

When we keep having these arguments about how our country could possibly legalise given our driving laws, I always point to the tonnes of countries that have already legalised and ask why we need to reinvent the wheel.

I don’t really see the problem with having the password manager in the cloud if it is protected by 2FA. I tried vaultwarden (self hosted) about a year ago and the showstopper was that I couldn’t store a new password when off LAN or without first connecting the VPN. I am sure there are on demand vpn type services, but it was clunky. It would have been great it if would work locally on the phone then sync the password to the vault when it came back online

The thing about owning cats, especially ones you haven’t had from kittens, is you literally have no control over anything lol… they eat what they like, and use the toilet that they have been trained to use. My recommendation is if you re-home cats, ask the previous owner to show you what they eat (specific brands and types) and what toilet they currently use and start with that. I also feel pure bred type cats will be even pickier. I have Burmese and they are incredibly fussy and set in their ways

I would like my chances… grab it by the neck, swing it like a hammer at the ground

I got proxmox setup pretty easy and I am running Plex in an lxc, and docker in another. In docker, I use paperless NGx for electronic document storage

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Which bit are you objecting to? If you don’t believe that the US is being portrayed by every news agency (worldwide) as a dumpster fire, you are deluded

I assure you, everyone outside of the US knows how bad the US is… the US is the laughing stock of the world right now. We get daily reminders how shit it is, how shit the economy is, how many mass shootings there were today. The world is fascinated by it, sometimes bored.

In this case with the young travellers, they have probably had the holiday booked for ages. Some people just think it wouldn’t happen to them. These sorts of checks would seem random anyway. These sorts of things appear on near every episode of Border Patrol (in Australia) where someone is being sent home because of lack of funds to sustain their length of stay etc…

is part of the plan so if they lose the next election, the opposition has to spend 4 years trying to fix everything while they get called out for wasting money?

The pessimist in me feels Microsoft need people to buy the new devices with the shiny new co-pilot button more than ever… gotta recoup the hundreds of billions sunk into OpenAI

It is funny how fascinated we have become with politics while it is this stupid theatre. I would prefer have the Government do a good job so I don’t need to think about them at all

I always thought this is why the Facebooks and Googles of the world are hoovering up the data now

Because Windows 11 is yet another painful transition for staff who are mostly IT illiterate folk, and it easier to leave things the way they are until necessary…

I thought I read that Intel said this was from messing with voltages? I have had plenty of these processors in the last couple of years and never experienced crashes, but I don’t overclock

Hot tip… it will harm it, then after 4 consecutive years of weather events, the other mob will get voted in and try repair it, and the cycle continues