PSA to always run a full length SMART check for any drives you buy, even from OEM. The short test and log are not enough, I have bought faulty drives that someone had reset the logs and power on hours.

All passed short SMART test, but failed long SMART test after only a few minutes. Found just one drive that the skrub forgot to wipe and the log showed 6 continuous years of power on usage.

Even from OEM, you will at least know if the hardware is DOA which you can then RMA.

I don’t know if mac has something similar, but you can run a command on linux to list all the CPU vuln mitigations applied, and its hilarious to see on something old like a skylake or haswell with the amount of patches that have dropped since release.

I read this entire comment synced to smashmouth lmao

Buddy that’s a Lexus. The corect way to sit in those is to put the seat low and far back than what even a bucket seat would do. You should basically be so reclined like it’s one of those sofas from a shrink’s office.

It’ll take you a few minutes to adjust to the new ride height and gain your superiority complex over the other peasants on the road.

Pakistan whenever India opens its mouth about being the world’s biggest “democracy”:

If it makes any of you feel any better, Rizvi also famously berrated and mocked Abdul Sattar Edhi for wasting his time making a volunteer ambulance service before he himself was transported in an Edhi ambulance where he died before reaching the hospital.

This marks a reversal of Biden’s policy aimed at curbing settler violence and supporting a two-state solution.

He’s gone, you don’t have to keep pandering to his fake ass policy that totally wasn’t full send arms to Israel for 15 months. Blinken clocked out as well.

Not to mention we were all here when these sanctions got announced, rescinded, and then reannounced, in case it wasn’t already clear a few settlers would likely never be traveling to the USA.

India too iirc

Wasn’t the first ever webcam just a regular camera that took shots of the office coffee pot? I’m pretty sure it was a bespoke script

I also remember the dude who made a homebrew app for his DS to control his Canon DSLR for long exposure shots because the alternative was to drag a fat laptop around or buy a $300 Canon PDA.

It’s their second highest market after Indonesia? They dragged this out as much as possible in congress and in court because its valuable to them.

They’re going to stop moderating posts

That just means they’ll favor the right wing content since it currently benefits them. They will continue to moderate and shadow hide whatever they don’t agree with or are paid to censor.

I wonder if they’ll sell or go down in flames.

If they sell, it’ll just become overly moderated like Facebook.

If they go down in flames, a bunch of overnight competitors will compete to succeed.

That would be masterclass but I highly doubt it because it would be the USA showing up to shutdown the entire country just to release Netanyahu.

Not to mention Mossad has carried out sketchy and illegal operations in NATO countries without any consequences.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/biden-administration-award-nearly-11-billion-stellantis-gm-ev-production-2024-07-11/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-administration-awards-1-7-billion-in-grants-for-electric-vehicle-manufacturing-in-eight-states

Don’t worry I’m sure the billions of dollars we just gave GM to make an EV will actually result in GM making an EV and totally not pocketing free tax payer money for the nth time.

Last time I checked on ansible, it was a sysadmin complaining that he could just do everything better with vanilla bash scripts and that redhat keeps riding it because every company keeps asking for ansible experience, even if it’s now a dated product.

And just personally, declarative anything seems to defeat it’s own purpose any time you want to do something non standard, which comes up more often than you’d think.

Reject modernity, everyone go back to forum boards usenet lol

Well since we’re here:

You can’t easily remap keys

You can scroll right but not left with the track pad

The delete key doesn’t do anything in the finder

There was no window snapping until literally a few months ago

The terminal uses cmd+c instead of cmd+shift+c (really should be ctrl but okay)

The dock sucks when using multiple windows per app

Every app relies on an antiquated menu bar at the top which is straight out of 90s UI

The Fn key is where the ctrl key should be and the alt key is where the command key should be (hardware, can’t rebind without addon tho)

You can’t control audio levels on external displays (because Apple)

Software does not support multiple displays per port and instead can only have one display per port, meaning in order to have two displays you need one cable for hdmi and one cable for USB-C, can’t have two of each.

The mouse acceleration curve is a troll for anyone not using the trackpad, and cannot be adjusted aside from being turned off.

There’s a ton more but these were just off the top of my head.

EDIT:

Because multiple people mentioned this, I have a big issue with the command/meta key shortcuts because of Apple’s braindead placement of their keys on the keyboard, so its a combined hardware software issue.

I otherwise wouldn’t mind having to use command except my pinky has to wrap around to hit alt or I have to shift my entire hand to hit command because using a standard keyboard layout like literally every single other keyboard in existence is too much to implement.

Weren’t the statistics from the last election a big deal because Gen Z actually didn’t align with Millennials?

I’m pretty sure I saw people getting mad at the number of young voters who opted to vote for Trump

Could be wrong though

Cases are for sckrubs, you already have a clamshell that protects your device.

Not as protected as a DS, but good enough.