Yep. And since I carry 3 laptops in my backpack (2 for work and one personal), it’s a problem.

Though I will say the fact that all 3 can be powered by Type-C cables has been since huge life improvement since i don’t need to carry around 3 different charging bricks.

Getting it to display on a screen is gonna cost enough to kill any value proposition.

How many people in 2025 are still going to be using a display with vintage inputs?

Can they fix the “randomly turn itself back on and drain the battery while in its bag so that it’s always dead when you actually need to use it on the go” problem?

Because that’s been a problem for like 20 years at this point and means I have to treat my laptops as if they don’t actually have batteries because it’s schrodinger’s power any time I pull one out to work.

I was at a conference this week, and half the attendees were huddled in the cafeteria the whole time because there were some tables on one wall with outlets.

The city is buying me like 15 grand in new software licenses this year, but I can’t convince them to spend another 2 grand on a new fucking computer because mine is “supposed” to be good for 2 more years.

My work laptop was upgraded to Windows 11 and performance has severely suffered.

As someone who usually uses 3 monitors (sometimes 4) and does GIS, it’s an issue.

It’ll be handy to have a tool that makes things up that they can use an an excuse to arrest you.

That’s the beauty of AI. It can look everywhere without requiring additional manpower.

I wouldn’t sign that. I work in government, and with new generative AI tools some of the emails are getting very good.

We had one sent to an applicant pretending to be me thay appeared to have scraped data from staff reports and minutes for public meetings for vatiances and SUPs. It was very detailed.

It had also scraped our fee schedule, so it had convincing fee amounts with links to the relevant codes and everything. It’s just that the payment site was not actually us, but a site made to look just like us with a 1-letter change.

They shouldn’t be. My internet comes from a WISP antenna network that I help manage connected to Fiberlight.

We’re a small neighborhood across a lake from any meaningful cities, so we have a 150-ft tower on either side of the lake. One side is connected to the fiber and the other has directional antennas aimed at receivers for each house.

My internet isn’t great (about 15 megabit), and HBO has really bad compression artifacts and buffers really often, whereas Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, Disney, etc all do just fine.

My biggest issue with them is their shit streaming quality.

If I had a car that had suddenly stopped working due to a careless update, I’d want it to be bricked so I could make the manufacturer pay for a different fucking car.

Yes, but also make it clear why you are leaving. And as dirty as it feels, don’t tell them their actions are irredeemable and they’ve lost you for life.

If you tell them you’ll never come back no matter what, then they no longer have to care about your opinion. You’re essentially telling them that they should start catering more-heavily to the fascists now that the only potential customers don’t mind them bending the knee.

States and cities try to criminalize recording police all the time.

But they don’t have the fucking power. They’re letting Trump do whatever he wants, and eroding their own authority in the process.

That’s what I was referring to by hacking stuff together to work.

Customers shouldn’t have to do that.

Casings, not bullets. In this image, the casing is the big brass part, and the projectile is the smaller part sticking out the end.

Also notice that 30.06 has a large casing. It’s a big round.

It was the standard infantry round for the US through 2 world wars, and was by far the most popular hunting round for decades. It was replaced by the military with the adoption of the 7.62 NATO (essentially a .308, but there’s more to it than that) with the move to standardization between the allies, and that was replaced as the standard round by the 5.56/.223 with the move to lower caliber, and now this new Sig whatever.

It’s a little outmoded these days and lots of manufacturers have moved on to more modern ammo for hunting and precision shooting, but it remains popular simply because of how ubiquitous it was.

I wonder if it has something to do with how they count users with ad blockers.

Sure would be nice to be privileged enough to be able to relocate myself and my family.

And, increasingly, there’s no such thing as offline.