Washedupcynic @ Washedupcynic @lemmy.ca

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Linux has entered the chat. I installed linux on my older machine that's ~ 7 years old. My new machine has windows 11 and I fucking hate it.

Anyone with a brain already knows mentions of piggy trump will be heavily redacted.

There are several cyber truck owners in my town, (2 on the same street.) When I see them on the road driving, I flip them off and curse as loud as I can. Those were released a bit before Elon went full Nazi. Anyone that bought them is a straight up Nazi in my book, and deserves to be publicly shamed for it.

I should have clarified better. To date, there are no instances I know of where GPU manufacturers are bricking people's GPUs. When I said manufacturers, I meant it more broadly in terms of gadget/tech manufacturing.

Sony removed other OS function after units were sold, which bricked online function for those that wanted to keep it, since the only way to keep that function was to not update the console or take it online. There have been instances of manufacturers bricking devices, in this case robot vacuums, when the user discovered it was reporting location data about his house to the home company. The user stopped that data collection, and the company remote bricked the device. Spotify bricked a piece of hardware, car thing, after people had already paid for it, with a limited 1 month refund window from when it was discontinued. Belkin is bricking some of it's smart home products on January 31, 2026. In 2019, Sonos launched a trade-up scheme that offered existing owners 30% off the cost of a new speaker. But owners had to activate "Recycle Mode" on their existing Sonos speaker, making it permanently unusable - even if there was nothing wrong with it.

My brain went, kill = brick, then thought about all of the shit I've seen where tech manufacturers fucked over their customers in the past, and just assumed the worst from the start before reading the article.

Are they hoping for a distraction from everyone's healthcare costs doubling to quadrupling when the subsidies expire? Like if they just give us bread and circus we won't notice how hard we're being anally raped?

Time to add Toyota to the list of companies I am now boycotting. Fuck it's getting to the point where I will need to live in the wilderness and make all my own shit from scratch, and ride a horse and buggy.

I had a knee jerk reaction to the headline, and I want to clarify for the TL;DR people. They are talking about stopping manufacturing lower and mid-range graphics cards. They aren't going to roll out an update that would brick cards that have already been sold to customers; (that was my knee jerk assumption, because manufacturers have done shit like that before and I assume the worst.)

Their, as in the disdain microsoft has for the user, not there, as in microsoft put the disdain in a box and it's sitting across the room over there. However, your point is valid and stands.

Because they make so much more $ from selling your data. Microsoft would rather push these AI programs in an update, and bank on their users not noticing. The majority of users operate in a walled garden, they aren't editing registry files or manually running commands, so they are less likely to notice the changes. It's the power users that notice this shit, and sound the alarm.

From reviews I'm seeing that lots of content is AI/AI made and it's full of microtransactions. 100% a gatcha game.

Trump, the second coming.

Time to find the young women with daddy issues.

Gestures broadly at American Coservatives.

She has experience in govt, but has never been elected to any office. I hope the voters primary her for a slightly more experienced candidate.

SHHHH. The console plebs won't know. This is the type of product we need to open their eyes to the wonders of PC gaming.

I agree with you. I dunno, but it seems that the average American, especially in red states, need to experience more misery before they turn on the fascist GOP.

No, fuck that shit. Let the subsidies expire. People will cancel their coverage. Let the health care system implode under the weight. Stop giving the fascists what they want. Fucking disgusting. I was born into this country with the right to have an abortion. A right I had to avail myself of because I was raped by my step-father at the age of 12. Being forced to carry that child would have destroyed me emotionally and physically.

YES! Tell those mother fuckers to jesti govna.

A literal fucking pocket, as I expected. SMDH

$2000 would do almost nothing to improve my life. It's a rent payment. Just die already trump.