Rhaedas

Far worse, and this applies to more than programming. If something is broken, I want it to be consistent. Don’t fix yourself, or sort of work but have a different effect. Break, and give me something to figure out, damn it.

I feel called out. I’m not sure which way I’d go.

To be fair, US gas prices normally have been artificially lower than they should be from just supply and demand forces. Taking inflation into account, current average high prices still aren’t anywhere near the all time peak of 2008.

So yes, higher gas in a society that requires its use but doesn’t keep wages matched with inflation sucks. But it could be worse? We need a bit of pressure to reduce usage anyway, and while I still see people idling away in situations where they didn’t need to, we aren’t hurting that bad.

That and put his name on something. He’d call them “best friends” then.

*Don’t Look Up

This should now replace Idiocracy or Wag the Dog. It’s so on the nose in so many ways, that’s why so many people didn’t like it. And there’s no positive really, like “well, they had a President who cared and recognized the smart people’s opinion” or “well, at least the war didn’t really happen”.

He might… and give me a bit of latitude here, but… he might be an idiot. Just a hunch.

Just one layer removed from the problem.

“WTF does this comment even mean?”

Just gives them a bit longer, they were eventually on the way out, or evolving. But it will make things rougher for the mammals who found a sudden niche to fill.

You’d have to make infinite trips. Someone is going to do it eventually. Now, change the environment so they CAN’T grow grain. Or do something to prevent a perfect setup for the abundance of oil creation. Make it so people can’t do what they’re going to do when they find things.

That’s why the Moon wobbles (libration), it’s always adjusting its direction to look round.

Hell, I’ve never been to Cleveland, and anyone who says they have is obviously a paid shill.

MFW I first got my current router and went to set it up and couldn’t find the factory ID and password on it anywhere. Then realized it was on a damn app now. Which was bad enough, but after jumping through all the hoops, I discovered that (to no surprise really) what you can set up is very limited.

Sure I should buy my own router or flash an older one… but then again the last bad storm that fried the router this one replaced, the ISP replaced it at no charge. So… I live with it, I guess.

As the comic says, it depends. I was going to do DE or MATE for my old hardware, but figured out Cinnamon would run fine. But I knew better than to try Ubuntu. I use it on my main PC that can handle it, but older stuff, no way, it’s got too much going on.

My wife’s laptop has always had those lovely features with Win10. She’ll be doing normal Word stuff, some browser tabs open, and suddenly Windows decides to do something in the background, fans kick on high, even her mouse becomes sluggish. I had hoped that moving her to an SSD and 64GB(!) of memory would remove any of that, but nope, just Windows being Windows. Meanwhile, I have btop open all the time on my Linux machine, and my memory and CPU are always where I’d expect them to be (except for Snap stuff, I need to do a bit of extraction there for the rest of my normal apps).

Was running just the 2GB original, original HDD, and LM XFCE, and it “worked”, but it was painful.

I just put Linux Mint Cinnamon on an old MacBook and it’s running pretty well. I had an SSD that I could use and an extra RAM (total of 3GB now), and it made all the difference. Planning to get two 4GB RAM cards to max it out, yay for old memory that’s still cheap.

Now do the Nvidia DLSS 5.0 version.

No, j/k, do not do that. Pixelation, imagination, and simple but unique gameplay are what made those games great. Even back in 2000 for EverQuest, I said I would trade the graphical improvements of the game for the alpha test version’s blocky low textures and simpler animations if we could have all that its marketing demo had suggested would be possible.

The problem is it could be any of these guesses, depending on the region of the US. Even the hair style could have persisted into late 70s.

That’s what happened with ours. They were pushing to have longer and more complex passwords, which was great, since forever they had stuck with an eight character requirement (which I couldn’t believe, that’s breaking a few basic rules of security that I knew about, and this is a large corporation).

So I figure okay, I’ll make my next password something that’s finally decent. Except when I go to use the older terminal based systems that are still crucial to operation, they won’t take anything past eight characters… because that’s what they were programmed for. Turns out IT had jumped on the better security bandwagon before they either had gotten to migrating things at the core level, or they didn’t think that far until the tickets started hitting. Likely the latter.

It all works now, but it was funny having to go back to a less secure password for a while because of a slight oversight or assumption on IT’s part.