Fucking young people never learn until they have a fall. When I was working 50 hours a week at a high paying job that I stumbled into by nothing sheer dumb luck, I ACTUALLY believed that diligent hard work at a large corporation was the ticket to prosperity and anyone that for some reason couldn’t succeed in life that effortlessly was a lazy liberal.

I then lost my job during Trump’s presidency and my life never really recovered or got better. Fuck young people that think voting for a fascist is cool and hip. I guess we’ll all have a chance to talk some sense into them when we meet in christofascist gulag.

ACKTCHUALLY Trump won because he exposed how Kalama ate my dog /s

Fuck Nintendo. You can’t even sell an nes on fucking ebay without getting harassed. I managed to sell my Switch faster than it could get taken down at least.

I will never buy anything from Nintendo again. Ever. Even Apple is a more ethical company which isn’t saying much. Being better than Nintendo is an incredibly low bar to meet.

I have a really old one that doesn’t do part pairing and is new enough to do color so it’s worth holding on to. The ink expiration, refill and status is still locked and it still can still brick specific ink cartridges if detects stuff like low ink or whatever. At least non-hp cartridges aren’t all-out blocked. I might have to steal all the information in the post so I can build my own whatever that is before hp sues everyone involved and purges it from the internet.

Some day I hope I’ll find a way to refill the cartridges with ink and hack them to reset the ink levels.

I fucking hate these. I’ve seen old people that don’t know any better get stuck on these for at least 30 minutes.

Seeing a large company doing anything involving Linux besides blocking its users from using their product is a rare occurance these days.

Please ban all the stupid password rules. I would rather just get hacked than be required to come up with an impossible to remember password with ever-increasing requirements once a month. It’s too much.

The best way is to try it over and over until it works and then assume it works but then go insane wondering where all the edge case bugs are coming from.

I wrote a test one time.

I’ll stop using ai when Pearson stops using ai to generate broken homework assignments. Sometimes the only way to get whatever incorrect answer the ai autograder is looking for is to fish it out from the model.

Seriously. You can’t even get loose risc-v chips even from mouser and especially not ebay or alibaba. I’m not counting those bullshit low pin coint microcontrollers, I want an actual microprocessor with a parallel bus and peripherals so I can do personal computing stuff with it. And is at least more powerful than a Pentium 1.

With arm cpus you can at least get the bottom of the barrel microprocessors no one else wants. A53 1.4ghz chips are actually reasonably priced but beyond that it’s not. Arm is currently a better contender for a “build your own computer” type thing.

I want a pi with a gt210 somehow. Hacking the vbe extensions to work would be hard (since its stored as x86 code) but it should be possible to come up with a device-specific series of arm instructions that accomplish the same thing.

I hope it becomes possible to have steam games that run on arm64 and (eventually) risc-v linux. You actually can get at least some frames on those pi-like dev boards if whatever you’re trying to play is compiled for arm64 and whatever os you’re running has a high enough opengl version.

Sucks that blender needs such a high opengl version but besides that, the knockoff pi I’ve been tinkering with is reasonably good with a few caveats. The framebuffer on mine is really slow though, I think a dos era pci card would be an improvement even, it’s astonishing how bad it is when doing something that isn’t opengl accelerated. Wish they made pis with either parralel pci edge connectors or pci-e slots. If I ever get around to diy-ing and arm64 board it’s going to be just so I can mod an fpga on to the cpus parralel bus it to use it as a pci chipset.

One time I asked a Linux question in unity forums and the only response I got was something along the lines of “you people have no idea how lucky you are that unity is under contract to have a Linux version. It’s almost up though and soon we won’t have to deal with Linux questions”

Just use Godot or make your own with Irrlicht or Ogre. Fuck unity and fuck unreal, I’m not making a game if I have to do it in fucking Windows. The ui is too clunky and slow for the type of asset pipelining and file management that a game development or mod development workflow demands.

I’m saving this. Not because I want to make bombs, but if it really is that easy to make lithium batteries then knowing about the process will be beneficial someday. It’s hard to find information about how rechargeable batteries work. You probably couldn’t even make a lead acid battery from raw materials using just information on the internet.

You have to use user agents to fool scummy websites into thinking that you’re using chrome or edge.

Rememeber how “no one will ever need more than 8gb of ram”? Up until fairly recently (a few years ago) you could not talk about anything having to do with ram online without someone coming along and being like “ACKTCHUALLY no one needs more than 8gb of ram for anything even gaming”.

Fuck Nintendo. I think Palworld is a stupid game that I wouldn’t ever bother to play but Nintendo is pure evil and they NEED to lose. They do not deserve a monopoly on whatever type of genre that is.

Uhh. Who’s counterfeiting a cpu that only basically 2 factories in the world can make? Functional fakes are a thing for some really basic chips but an apple arm cpu seems like a little much.

Part of the reason I went to school for computer engineering is just so when people try to argue stupid bullshit like leaving your router plugged in will start a fire, hopefully they’ll recognize that im qualified enough to know better and fuck off.

We should normalize programs that don’t use such exotic and impossible libraries that you have to do anything besides type “make” and “make install” for it to work.

In theory it’s a no brainer. In practice not so much.