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Bizarroland

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  • What are your best intrusive ads ideas?

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  • You have to watch an ad to crank your car.

    Every time you bring your car to a full stop while it is running, an ad plays through your audio system and displays on your radio.

    You have to watch an ad to make a phone call.

    When your phone rings, it plays an ad jingle, call JG Wentworth 877 cash now.

    When you send a text message or write a text post to an online system, an ad is injected with your text post so that readers in order to read what you wrote also have to read the ad.

    If you have Smart lights or anything smart in your home, in order to use it you have to watch an ad.

    In order to pay for something with a credit card you have to watch an ad on the credit card machine and click one of the choices that are offered to you.

    Smart pillows that play hypnotic ads at you in your sleep.

    Your electric toothbrush requires an ad to be played the whole time it is being used, and if you brush your teeth for less than the length of the ad, then they take a dollar from you.

    Some guy comes to your house and screams logos and add quotes at you all of the time. If you try to get him to shut up he murders you and your entire family.

    Replace the guy with a robot.

  • [ META ] What is the community's opinion of Pop!_OS?

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  • My problem with Pop OS is that on the two different machines I've installed it on it was very slow.

    One of them made sense because it was an older mini Lenovo box, but the second machine I installed it on was a 10th gen Intel core i7 laptop with a Nvidia 2060 and 32 gigs of RAM and a decent one terabyte nvme SSD, and there would still be a massive pause with every click, somewhere between half a second and a second before anything would respond, and when updating or launching Firefox or anything it would always spin for a while and then pop up the sign saying this app is taking too long to respond.

    Both of the devices were Lenovo devices, maybe there's some sort of fundamental incompatibility or missing driver or something but I couldn't cope with the lagginess of the OS.

    Fedora worked swimmingly on both of them, for comparison.

  • The last time you were misgendered and the last time you misgendered someone else, why?

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  • I used to have very long hair and from this behind or beside people would call me ma'am and then when I turn to look at them they would correct themselves and say no I said man man.

    But I've been incredibly fortunate, if I've ever Miss gendered anyone either the person I misgendered was kind enough to let it slide or didn't make a big deal out of it.

    It's very much a nothing Burger in my life.

  • The way my daughter's middle school health class classifies drugs is insane.

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  • It's kind of like in the 1800s they believed that human beings could never generate enough pollutants to actually affect the Earth. There are intelligent opinions statements saying that the Earth was simply too large for anything a mere handful of 100 million humans could do to leave any lasting impact on.

    Of course, they had no idea that we would swell to 8 billion humans or that the industrial revolution would take off quite so well as it did, but even today there are many people who believe that nothing that they individually do can leave any type of lasting ecological impact, positive or negative.

    And because of that you have bum fuck HVAC technicians venting refrigerants into the atmosphere willy-nilly and assholes driving down the street throwing lit cigarette butts out in the middle of a drought and people just dumping their trash wherever they find an opportunity to dump it.

    I said all of that to say that it's probably likely that even minor usage of drugs cause effects that are at best difficult to quantify. I don't think getting high one time is going to be the differentiation between a homeless bum and a Nobel Peace prize winner, but it might be the difference between someone who works a career and earns at their best $250,000 a year and someone who works a career and earns at their best $80,000 a year.

  • The way my daughter's middle school health class classifies drugs is insane.

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  • I could have sworn nicotine was technically a stimulant because it has vasoconstrictive properties.

    And I don't know anyone who has ever put off going to sleep in order to take more depressants.

  • Elon Musk reveals Tesla software-locked cheapest Model Y, offers 40-60 more miles of range

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  • Reminder that the people most affected by this would be the kind of people who can afford a $100,000 vehicle.

    And the stingiest people on the planet are the rich.

    I don't think it would be too crazy to rely on that to help draft pro consumer legislation.

  • Elon Musk reveals Tesla software-locked cheapest Model Y, offers 40-60 more miles of range

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  • Maybe we should write an open letter to our senators and congressman and request that they draft legislation to make it illegal for hardware vendors to software lock hardware capabilities behind a paywall.

    If I buy a $100,000 vehicle I shouldn't have to pay 50 60 80 100 $200 a month to utilize the features that are built into the physical hardware of the vehicle I have purchased.

    I can understand a fee for internet access or for premium radio subscriptions or something but not to use the heated seats and battery life that is physically built into the vehicle I purchased.

  • Why are many men growing beards again ?

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  • It's kind of like when Justin Bieber was rocking the pedo stash and nobody said anything.

    Anybody over the age of 25 was like dude that's a pedo stash, you shouldn't wear that unless you're a pedo.

  • why cant we connect 2 computers using USB

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  • I have taken the A+ certification on two separate occasions and the first time I walked in with no training and aced it. The second time I walked in with no training and I struggled but I still passed.

    The CompTIA certifications do get updated on a roughly 3-year cycle, but even so they're never going to cover everything and even if you can pass the test it doesn't actually mean that you are a competent IT person.

  • why cant we connect 2 computers using USB

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  • Yeah I only learned about that in the comments down below. I was just going off what they taught me when I took my network+ what 3 years ago?

    Ethernet being reconditioned to Auto negotiate crossover connections was not covered or if it was it was a blurb and I forgot it in the meantime.

  • why cant we connect 2 computers using USB

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  • I was not aware of this!

  • why cant we connect 2 computers using USB

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  • You would also need a type A to type B ethernet cable, AKA a crossover cable.

    Without that you will need some sort of switch to act as an intermediary between the two devices.

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  • How are you going to make any money then?

    Answer: paywall their fucking site.

    I'm paying for Internet access. If they don't block their site it's free game.

  • Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements.

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  • Yeah they're following the IBM playbook of being the operating system that businesses run.

    I just wish they would take a hint and release a paid version that has none of the ads, none of the bloatware, and none of the bullshit.

    I feel confident that I could pay them just as much money as they would ever earn from mining my data and annoying the ever-loving fuck out of me and I would be happier about that.

    But since they won't do that fortunately there's things like Atlas OS.

  • Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements.

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  • "Come take care of big pappa penguin, baby bird"

  • Make straight lines straight again!

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  • Did you get your hypercube new in the store?

    Lucky! I found mine on the side of the road and I had to stuff all the strings back into it. Took me ages!

    Then I got like this dinosaur infestation I had to wipe them out with a fucking meteorite, and now I'm pretty sure I've got humans and I don't know what to do anymore.

  • They say the opposite of pro is con right?

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  • If Start menu ads in Windows 11 aren't bad enough, something worse might be on the horizon

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  • Yep. It's my goal to be as unprofitable a citizen for our corporate overlords as possible.

    I want them to lose money by doing business with me.

    I want them to go bankrupt so that their future replacements can learn from their mistakes and not repeat them.

    If they choose to be user hostile, I'll match their energy and multiply it. Fuck em.

  • What was your most recent dream?

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  • I wrote it out as if it were the spec script plot of a movie.

    Guys out with his friends watching the eclipse and all of a sudden some other guy walks up behind him puts an umbrella up and covers over the view right at the apex of the eclipse. He turns to look at that guy and the guy says don't look at the Sun. As soon as he says that all of the main characters friends suddenly explode in a puff of dust.

    The guy starts freaking out and then eventually they end up working their way back to the house as he has the other guy the angel explains what is going on

    It's the end of days. the eschaton. And the Sun is claiming every single person it can.

    This guy claims to be your angel. To prove it he shows obviously hobbycraft Dollar store wings and a Halo that's clearly being supported by a strand.

    The guy says that there must be something going on I'm going to look at my phone as they're driving around and right as he's about to open up the news the guy slaps the phone down and it says don't look at your phone.

    As someone who freezes the video should be able to see a picture of the eclipse on the phone, from a camera stuck pointing up at it and everyone who looks at it to turn it off instantly explodes

    Why did the angel save the man? Is the Angel actually an angel? What things happen?

    The angel says that the guy is not exactly the best dude in the world. And given that is the end of days this is the last chance you'll have to make everything right and the angel kind of goofed off a little bit so you know I got to figure out a way together to get him into heaven so that the angel also gets to go to heaven and to do that they've got to do some good deeds really fucking quick, well everyone that even catches a glimpse of a reflection of the eclipse Sun immediately explodes into dust.

  • meme, and reality.

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  • Your powers of deduction are sherlockian and uncanny