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CaptPretentious

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  • Why do servers and supercomputers primarily run on Linux and not on some Microsoft/Apple/Google/Amazon OS?

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  • This is the only correct answer. It's cost. A business decision always comes down to cost. There's nothing deeper to it than that.

  • Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period

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  • I didn't buy it because fuck Nintendo. They treat their customers with such disrespect and disdain, a company that's only bring held together by nostalgia alone. They've gotten into a cycle of seeing just how much money they can get while putting in no effort.

  • Minnesota could prosecute the ICE shooter. Trump can’t pardon him.

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  • Admiration

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  • When I figured that out, I was so pissed. I didn't tell you to hibernate! If I wanted you to hibernate, is have told you to do that. I said shutdown damnit.

  • What events are you looking forward to in 2026?

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  • Yeah, being able to do it DIY probably saved you a ton. I had been saving for years (didn't want to pay interest on a loan). But had to pull the trigger last year because the government got rid of the 30% solar incentive. Funny side story, I also told a friend of mine about my plan; her fiancé is an electrician in Germany, and he was baffled why it was going to cost me so much. It would have been cheaper to have me hire him, fly him first class, get him a swanky hotel for however long it took, and pay him like x3 his normal rate.

  • ICE Shoots Minneapolis Observer in the head

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  • Yeah, notice how fast the shooter checked to make sure his mask was up and ran from the scene, didn't go after the vehicle. He knew what he did and ran.

    What's that phrase "if you did nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide" (granted I hate that statement, just the irony of who did the shooting, who did the running, and who they likely support....)

  • What events are you looking forward to in 2026?

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  • More personal I suppose then anything large. But I'm getting solar installed! Was supposed to be installed last fall but due to weather it was pushed back. I'll be glad to see lower, if not negative power bills (especially since the price recently jumped). Having 39 panels installed. So that'll be nice.

  • Elon Musk is giving legal help to an activist who posted a photo of a trans woman in a bathroom - LGBTQ Nation

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  • Damnit. Is it too much to ask for him to fuck up so bad he finally gets locked up.

  • Microsoft CEO wants you to stop calling AI "slop" in 2026

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  • The phrase "my world is brighter with you" is literally true

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  • Elon Musk is giving legal help to an activist who posted a photo of a trans woman in a bathroom - LGBTQ Nation

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  • It's probably not reasonable to expect this to improve in 2026.

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  • This is the same kind of response when someone denies global warming/climate change because they looked outside and the weather around them appears normal.

  • Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI

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  • I'd say '92. I think he had a full coherent sentence in Home Alone 2.

  • More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds

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  • I report each one. And then I tell YouTube I never want to see anything from that channel again. I even pay for premium because I don't want ads and I want to support some content creators (not shorts, no AI, etc). But this AI shit is really making me wonder what I'm even paying for?

  • NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions

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  • It's the same grift that every cloud provider does. The "You'll save money because you'll eliminate CapEx and only have OpEx instead of both!" And then they present you with numbers that look reasonable, hoping you don't do the math.

    CapEx - Capital expenditure = the cost of buying the things (ownership)

    OpEx - Operating expenses = cost to run things

    So, yeah, you don't have to buy their overpriced $2000 GPU... you could just rent it! But renting it means you never own it, and the contract will state that the SLA will change. So they get you to sign up and then the prices change. And when your money is being dumped into the monthly bill, you are now constantly short what you'd need to buy the hardware and get yourself out of that hell. Ask anyone who's accidentally left something running in AWS and got a MASSIVE bill. Or made an API but didn't put rate limiting on it.

  • Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI

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  • Cool, now fire the entire executive staff. Replace them.

  • Proton Experimental latest update improves playability for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Farlight 84, CHRONO TRIGGER, Rec Room, Warframe, Darksiders, GODBREAKERS, Indivisible and King of Bones

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  • Oh, gotta go with birria tacos con consome im thinking

  • Something's not math-ing

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  • That's not an incentive for people to shop there. Grocery store prices are already bad enough. No one wants to pay extra money for a more limited selection.