I just installed EndeavorOS on an HP Spectre360 that’s roughly 2 years old. I am honestly surprised at how easy it went. If you google it, you’ll get a lot of “lol good luck installing linux on that” type posts - so I was ready for a battle....
Doctors are compensated this way because our tax system punishes wage earners, so this setup was done to allow them to make more money without fixing the overall issue of fairness.
Donald Trump is set for a major stop in the 2024 money race Thursday when he travels to Silicon Valley for a high-profile fundraiser with tech billionaires.
These people really need to read up on Fritz Thyssen, Jack Ma or any one of the many Russian oligarchs who’ve been defenestrated, ventilated or irradiated under Putin.
A small amount of taxes in a functioning democracy when you’re already a billionaire is a lot cheaper than a hole in your chest under a thin-skinned fascist autocrat.
None of these folks think they’ll be a line in Niemoller’s poem. They’re horribly wrong.
The other point from that thread is that the whole idea of having to price shop when you need care seems sadistic and inhumane to anyone from any other civilized country.
Even if pricing was transparent, it’s still the wrong way to manage it. Healthcare should be a utility, paid for by taxes, like it is anywhere else in the world that isn’t a capitalist dystopia like the US is.
Apparently our fiscally responsible conservative leaders are a-ok with paying private nursing agencies and clinics more than they would if they just staffed public facilities adequately.
I’m not sure why, but I’m always told that conservatives are “good with money” and “fiscally responsible”, which Ive learned means “good with transferring public money into private coffers”.
This group sees election fraud everywhere because they know—they know—they would do it if they had the opportunity, so they can’t see why everyone else wouldn’t.
Apple doesn’t actually make it at all difficult to use a Mac or iOS device without an Apple account. You’re asked once during setup and that’s it. At most there’ll be a red dot in Settings>iCloud.
There’s one notice, and it’s in the System Settings app. And it’s a little red dot beside the iCloud section. That’s not really the same league as what Microsoft is doing, or Even Google’s nag to use Chrome across all their Web properties.
You’re right about the first-party apps that you can’t remove, but it’s also not the same as, eg, Edge where those apps are used constantly and your preferences are reset on every update.
On my Mac I set my browser to Firefox in 2018. It’s never reverted to Safari, not once, where Windows really wants me to use Edge and goes so far as to not just reset it periodically, but also direct start menu searches and in-app web links to an ms-edge: url instead of using the http handler.
The Hitler-Trump analogy is controversial. “Some of Trump’s critics – including Biden’s campaign – argue that Trump’s incendiary rhetoric and authoritarian behavior justify the comparison,” the Politico website observed recently. “Meanwhile, Trump’s defenders – and even some of his more historically-minded...
I realized I composed that entirely incorrectly; here’s what I should have said:
I hope they use full-motion video for characters, rather than rendered CGI models. This didn’t look great in Myst, and it was really nice when an enterprising modder added FMV back to Myst. I get why (FMV doesn’t always work with VR) but I hope they give us the option on day one with Riven.
A handful of years ago, I read an article which concluded that unrestrained capitalism will inevitably result in an entire industry sector being controlled by roughly three companies, working as a collusive oligopoly.
It’s happening with vets, it’s happening with restaurants, with contractors, utilities, with anything and everything. Anything that can be bought, will be bought, and it will be squeezed relentlessly.
The rich will not be happy until they’ve wrung every cent of value out of us, and even then they won’t stop. They can’t stop. They don’t even understand how they could stop any more than a tumour might understand why it shouldn’t grow uncontrollably/.
The PC OEMs really, really, REALLY want to get back to the 90s and 2000s, when the six-month obsolescence cycle reigned supreme and you couldn’t sit on the same Ivy Bridge machine for a decade.
That’s a large part of the push behind NPUs and AI: it’s the only way to get the cycle going again, because otherwise the PC OEMs are going to be looking at a market similar to automotive OEMs, mature, and where replacement happens at the customer’s discretion instead of the market’s.
Qualcomm lets them do this because ARM isn’t anywhere near as open and standardized as x86, and Qualcomm can–and will–sunset platforms whenever it suits them, resulting in millions of machines getting boat-anchored.
(side note: Apple doesn’t indulge in this despite selling ARM machines because Apple plays the long game, and would rather chase revenue from conquest sales than cannibalize their existing customers; it’s remarkably long-term thinking from an erstwhile hardware company)
Linux really has come a long way
I just installed EndeavorOS on an HP Spectre360 that’s roughly 2 years old. I am honestly surprised at how easy it went. If you google it, you’ll get a lot of “lol good luck installing linux on that” type posts - so I was ready for a battle....
Google avoids jury trial by sending $2.3 million check to US government (arstechnica.com)
Inside the Campaign to Kill a Step Toward Tax Fairness (thetyee.ca)
It’s been almost two months since the federal budget, and anguished cries about the horror of capital gains tax changes are still coming....
Alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud for an easily frustrated boomer...
Not me. I have a client who’s a very sweet old lady who’s business is doing real bio science to treat cancer patients with cannabis extracts....
Behind ‘Suicide Squad,’ the Year’s Biggest Video-Game Flop (www.bloomberg.com)
Archive link in case the original link doesn’t work: archive.is/5mnQ4
Billionaires in Silicon Valley are opening up to Trump. It's not just because of taxes. (finance.yahoo.com)
Donald Trump is set for a major stop in the 2024 money race Thursday when he travels to Silicon Valley for a high-profile fundraiser with tech billionaires.
Oculus Rift Creator Palmer Luckey is Developing a New XR Headset (www.roadtovr.com)
GoG: "Cloud Saves files that exceed the default allocation limit (200 MB per game) will be deleted after August 31st, 2024." (support.gog.com)
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After the Trump verdict, most Republicans say they're OK with having a criminal as president | YouGov (today.yougov.com)
Government won't commit to releasing names of MPs who allegedly conspired with foreign actors (www.cbc.ca)
Republican who refused to certify Georgia primary a member of election denialist group (www.theguardian.com)
Julie Adams, who abstained from certifying May results, belongs to Election Integrity Network, founded by Trump ally Cleta Mitchell...
Holocaust museums debate what to say about the Israel-Hamas war (www.straitstimes.com)
Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts (www.pcworld.com)
The reich stuff – what does Trump really have in common with Hitler? (www.theguardian.com)
The Hitler-Trump analogy is controversial. “Some of Trump’s critics – including Biden’s campaign – argue that Trump’s incendiary rhetoric and authoritarian behavior justify the comparison,” the Politico website observed recently. “Meanwhile, Trump’s defenders – and even some of his more historically-minded...
Qualcomm says it's tested 1,200 x86 Windows games on its new X Elite Arm chip but won't say how well they actually run (www.pcgamer.com)
Riven remake launches June 25 (www.gematsu.com)
Leftist Climate Scientist Claudia Sheinbaum Wins Mexican Presidency in Landslide (www.commondreams.org)
The close ally of outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is the first woman to win Mexico’s presidency.
Investors reshaped Canadian home real estate. Something similar is happening in agriculture (www.cbc.ca)
When asked if young, aspiring farmers ever inquired about buying his farm, Marcus Collinson just laughs....
Qualcomm: Snapdragon coming to "all PC form factors," including desktops. (www.tomshardware.com)