WHAAAAAT?

Microsoft can by Blizzard for $46 billion but one website can’t buy another website for $7 million. (Probably because Freedom!)

Have to admit I’m surprised. I really expected this to be a romantic triangle or business rivalry thing.

In other news you can’t shit in the street anymore either.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess nope. What do I win?

Everybody who sees the hitman as a social justice vigilante is gonna report back here when we find out it was some personal bullshit, right?

When you “have” to keep making new versions to satisfy market “demand” in the “free” market.

I showed up and voted. The problem was y’all who didn’t. You also literally don’t understand what the word “literally” means.

The Democratic Party did try to campaign based on what they thought the public wanted and what the country needed, and more than 74 million people showed up and voted for her. The 10 million or so Democrats who voted in 2020 but didn’t in 2024, who could have changed the outcome but didn’t, can’t blame the party for their own fuckheadedness.

What could go wrong is millions of childish idiots would decide to walk across broken glass barefoot because they don’t like the choices of shoes available. And then blame it on whoever brought the shoes.

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compared to who Trump pardoned

…and will soon add himself to that list.

They’ll cling to it but now that Hunter is pardoned all they can do is whine, just as Dems will do after Bonespurs pardons himself. But both will be done deals. Hunter Biden’s case will be over - no more wasting congressional time and resources with pointless hearings and investigations.

Very well said. I’m NOT looking forward to watching anybody eat crow if all that shit happens. We will have far more pressing concerns than gloating over a bunch of petulant dickweeds who didn’t show up. They didn’t, and that’s that. The reality is settling in that America may be about to end - like every civilization does. It was fun while it lasted - Cheers!

Who GAF. If Americans didn’t want a Trump dictatorship, the 10 million who voted for Biden in 2020 and didn’t bother to vote in 2024 should have fucking shown up and voted for Harris - in spite of blaming her for Gaza, or not liking that she used to be a prosecutor and therefore theoretically MUST have sent innocent black guys to prison, or being sick of no good choices, or whatever their half-assed reason was for doing nothing. At this point Biden can have Seal Team Six take out Santa Claus for all I care.

“All the communities” you’re … dude, what kind of serial shitposter… nevermind, have a nice day bye.

I’m about to switch from Windows back to Ubuntu, which I ran for a year or two but I missed Photoshop and Visual Studio. I’ve been using VSCode for dev work for a while and it’s fine, and I can live with Gimp. I haven’t used Office in years (Google docs & sheets are great). So I really don’t expect to miss anything this time.

Two video terms: Variable Refresh Rate and Low Framerate Compensation (adjusting the refresh rate for the framerate of a slower video source). Both pertain mostly in gaming and entertainment software.

CUA is Common User Access, which just means standards such as universally implementing Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V for copy/paste in apps. Linux devs do tend to follow common conventions, they just aren’t as strictly enforced as when a corporation has near-total control over the software.

One thing I really do hate is a download page with a giant green DOWNLOAD button that’s just an ad link, and the thing I went there to download is a tiny text link.

I imagine it’s like me trying to watch a TV show with commercials after 20 years of Netflix. Holy crap, I don’t know how I ever grew up with all that noise.

LOL yeah I actually understand that last part LOL (former web dev, retired). Sites jinking around while the ads load and I’ve already started reading the content are super annoying.