If there was no charge then everyone would bring their own, and they would have to start charging more for the food to make up for the loss.

If he’s catching a jumpseat on an existing flight I don’t really care.

It’s a testament to how terrible internet access around the world has been. Starlink is literally the only option for a lot of folks. It’s not cheap and it’s not fast. You only use it if you don’t have other options available.

Gaming on Starlink is fine. You’re not winning any tournaments though.

No they aren’t.

It’s been slipping for over a week. Today’s has been up and down but it’s not tanking.

Set up gentoo while in college. Switched major to IT, but stayed on gentoo for about 5 years.

Got out of college and was dual booting windows for gaming. Eventually got a job in IT that was managing a large Windows environment with some non-windows infrastructure.

Realized that the world runs on windows. Eventually lost interest in figuring out why things (audio, video, wifi) would stop working and having no community with a similar setup as mine. Got tired of evaluating random config files that didn’t have any cohesion with ther OS. Additionally, I started using enterprise hardware which had even better windows support than consumer-grade.

Then there’s the app support. I have software for my vehicles or stereos that only runs on windows for example. At another time was a DJ and the best software was on Windows.

I still test distro out occasionally but it’s dumb shit that keeps me from using it as a general purpose OS. I’ve tried popos and mint and find it usable but had problems with gpu drivers.

At the end of the day though, I just need a browser, and a few apps that only run on windows. Why would I dual boot and maintain 2 OS’s when I’m perfectly capable of dealing with only 1?

Zip tie your power strip to that rack. Then buy a roll of Velcro strips to get your cables under control. That’s…hard to look at.

“Your eyes look a little red. Have you had any alcohol in the last 24 hours?”

Great but the message needs to be better. Frame it as stopping wasteful spending. All those anti-woke assholes are still going to vote in two years and you need to curate the message they hear.

No, lock the doors. Burn the ships.

When you make your time machine and go back to the 1900s and tell people “don’t kill those big bears roaming around Iowa, we’ll have too many deer in 2026” please also tell my ancestors to invest in oil.

Grizzly bears see you as food though.

What bad policies?

A significant number of republicans didn’t leave California. It looks like there are around 5 million there. Texas is estimated to have only 6 million republicans.

No, but the US needs its own chip fab. The rest of the world will need to figure out on there own where to get theirs.

It’s to get chip fab in the US. Taiwan is not a stable place for the advanced chips the US and rest of the world rely on.

Maybe not the worst, but I called into HP server tech support and the girl on the other end was chatty. I wasn’t too busy and she talked me up for nearly an hour and a half, at the end asking if I was single and lived near Michigan.

Good on her for shooting her shot.

Google it my friend. It’s very easy to detect fraud when you’re working with big numbers.

Because you need a backup.

It’s purpose is archival, not access. Tape density, cost, and reliability is much better than other mediums for that purpose.

Archival of everything being scraped before its pushed off the internet and replaced with AI produced garbage.