She’s amazing!

Democrats and Republicans are trash. Here’s hoping for more Bernie Sanders style democratic socialists like Zohran Mamdani.

I agree that such large-scale action is effective.

Masturbating, I’m masturbating. And so are you when you think that voting with your wallet does anything.

Indeed, you are thoroughly pacified. Your objections and moral outage quelled and your sense of significance sustained by the illusion that simply buying from a different conglomerate will have any impact.

Any suggestion that your impotent protest is inadequate must surely come from a childish fool.

I think the point is that we’re deluded to think that voting with our wallets does anything. You still work. You still buy. You still support the system. The one step you’re taking only gets you partway from the couch to the refrigerator. It doesn’t get you out the door and into a protest that would actually make a difference.

Windows 11 is enshitified enough to be annoying and loaded with government and corporate spyware enough to be alarming. Meanwhile, Linux has become user friendly, optimized for everything but the latest hardware and capable of running most games.

Wow, that’s expensive. I’m a cheap ass. I’ve always had cheap, old Toyotas.

I can see how it’s nice to have a more modern car but I just can’t justify all the expenses. I’d rather retire sooner.

Oh, I just checked and I was wrong. I pay $61/month to Progressive for liability on a >20 year old small pickup truck in California. $100k per person, $300k per accident, in case I crash into a pile of Ferraris or something.

The liability is $50/month but uninsured motorist insurance is most of that additional $11.

I’m paying for insurance in case I get hit by someone who doesn’t have insurance? Ridiculous.

That’s wild. I pay less than $500 a year for like $100k in liability insurance. Maybe I’m just old and have a good record.

Do you have tickets?

Even about 25 years ago, $1000 would get you a car without major cosmetic damage but it’d have a couple hundred thousand miles on it. You can still get that for around $3k today. I see them on craigslist right now. Where I live, minimum wage has increased 2.5x since then.

There’s your beater for roughly the same number of minimum wage hours worked.

I can currently find a bunch of used, decent Toyota corollas in the 7-10k price range. Liability insurance should be like $50/month.

Your estimates seem quite high to me.

Absolute ghouls

I don’t know how the timing of each release is planned but the Firefox website gives instructions for using the repositories for esr, beta, nightly, or dev edition.

Using Debian as your distro doesn’t lock you into firefox ESR.

And that the majority of that output is being hoarded by those who already have far more than they can ever use.

I don’t know anything about Mac hardware, but if it’s possible to put another 2gb of RAM in there and an SSD, it should be fine for web browsing.

I did something similar for a friend. I spent about $25 on hardware to put equivalent upgrades in an old laptop that had a single core celeron processor. I installed linux mint xfce. It ran firefox fine but couldn’t quite play smooth video on YouTube. It was otherwise usable. A dual core should be workable.

Top: Me the first five minutes of project zomboid.

Bottom: Me the second five minutes of project zomboid.

There is no third five minutes.

Why is that game so hard?