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He should’ve done something like that on top of a delay in the script to prevent it from potentially being associated with the deletion of his name in AD (assuming the company backs stuff like that up, which is questionable since one dev was able to do all this lmao).

The other issue is that the computer responsible for the infinite looping was associated with him. Since he had seemingly unlimited access to everything, should’ve either plopped it on some shared device with a separate user or just configured it to also delete itself once it noticed the AD name being gone.

Anyway, this entire scenario is both hilarious and makes me never, ever want to use Eaton products.

If you’re gonna use it for backups, you should ensure it’s only syncing in one direction. If it’s set up like normal (where it functions like Dropbox and syncs changes from any device to all your devices), if your data is corrupted or something on one device, it’ll be synced everywhere. You can also configure it to store a certain number of revisions (which you could use either instead of one-way syncing or in addition).

Also, if you’re gonna use it for backups, it’d be a good idea to store your data offsite somewhere (whether that’s by storing your data encrypted at some cloud provider through a VPS/whatever or at friend’s/relative’s place or something, that’s up to you).

Google is such a fucking joke of a company. They release multiple products that do the exact same thing regularly, have apparently no capability for long-term planning, and are just shoving AI into everything even if it makes the end product worse. Why would I purchase a Google product when anything that hasn’t existed for 10+ years is likely going to be axed in a couple years? The cherry on top is the idiot execs giving themselves raises for their shit performance while laying off workers.

It’s always laissez-faire capitalism until some big company has issues, then all of a sudden it’s state capitalism.

Anyway, supposedly the government doesn’t have a board seat, so it should have limited power. However, who knows what the unspecified “limited exceptions” are for it to be allowed to vote. I don’t really think this makes much difference from the status quo other than the US being able to pressure Intel slightly more easily and further tying Intel to the US. However, it’s probably something to watch in case the government starts trying to vacuum up other shares to gain majority control, voting power, etc. If something like that happens, I’d be wary of using consumer Intel products.

The cannibalistic symbolism in Christianity has always been incredibly bizarre to me. It’s even more bizarre that Christians don’t seem to think anything of it.

It makes absolutely zero sense to require someone to pay child support when the sole reason you took their kids away was because they didn’t have enough money for housing.

He says a lot of stuff, but then when push comes to shove, he usually either doesn’t follow through or starts capitulating to the right. Frankly, he’s clearly gunning for the presidency, which is why he’s outwardly taking such an adversarial stance to Trump. If he gets elected, it’ll be just back to the status quo (which is at least better than Trump, but it’s still not good).

Stuff like the gerrymandering plan benefits him, which is why he’s actually going through with it.

Mm, sounds about what I’d expect of you.

Just doing my part to provide as little empathy to you as you provide to others.

Compared to other competitive swimmers, yes, he was. 500th ranked in just the USA college system means you’re never getting anywhere close to being a professional swimmer competing at world championships or the olympics. Never. Not even close.

You really love ignoring everything other than the 500 free.

Since you brought up the Olympics, I wonder how many of her competitors (other than obviously Douglass) actually made it.

Incorrect.

Unless you’re talking about pretty much worthless pool records, I am indeed correct. Since you love calling me incorrect, how about you actually provide some numbers other than an unsubstantiated ranking from a letter written by someone supposedly om behalf of anomymous teammates. She did not set NCAA records, USA records, etc., unlike someone else she competed against.

Grow up.

Right back at you, ma’am.

Where?

I literally wrote in the parenthetical which term you used. Are you blind?

Went from a “bad” mens swimmer to the best womens swimmer while swimming basically the same times as pre-transition. There’s nothing to say that even if Lia didn’t “transition” that he would have improved his times.

I think I’m done. You’re just repeating conservative talking points without actually thinking about what you’re writing. Lia Thomas was never a bad swimmer. As mentioned, the improvement in her rankings was within normal bounds for three years. You’ve also curiously avoided noticing how the other rankings were below 1st despite her starting at a higher ranking in men’s competitions. Likewise, none of her times have ever blown away the competition. She didn’t set records. The 1st place finish isn’t even in the top 50 all-time for NCAA.

I feel like I’m talking with my relatives who voted for Trump. Given that you don’t even have the decency to use the correct pronouns, kindly go fuck yourself conservacuck.

Lmao joining north korea in having an “encrypted” messenger pre-installed I see.

Some distros are more fragile than others. Stuff like not having the Nvidia drivers installed by default (I’m assuming for the llvmpipe issue) are sometimes discussed in installation guides. IDK if Ubuntu has one since I don’t use it.

Blink-based browsers (like Vivaldi, Chromium, etc.) IMO kind of suck on Linux (or at least Wayland). It’s probably worse with Nvidia cards since Nvidia is still sometimes flaky on Wayland.

The LibreWolf issue is maybe not an issue at all. I’m assuming you mean RAM, and if so, browsers just like to eat as much memory as they’re allowed to eat. If you open up something else and it needs the memory, LibreWolf will likely let go of some of it. There are probably some knobs you can dial in LibreWolf (or Linux kernel settings) if it’s really an issue for some reason.

I only really have issues when I’m trying to set something up that’s not already configured by the distro (or if I’m doing something particularly weird).

It’s obvious you don’t actually have a researched opinion since you just used the wrong term for a trans woman (they said trans men, in case they edit it).

You seem to, once again, be ignoring that on top of the decrease from transitioning, they are still a human being, and thus age and practice like any other human being. From sophomore year to their redshirt senior year, they grew, trained, etc. like any athlete. Expecting them to just drop 15% or whatever from their sophomore time and never improve from that is completely idiotic.

The numbers you are using I’ve only seen from that letter made by people complaining about her, frequently posted everywhere by conservative sources. Also, it’s fucking obvious she’d have slower times. That is the entire purpose of requiring trans atheletes to be on hormones for a couple years.

EDIT: I’ve looked into the 462 number more, and I’m further convinced it’s either made up or not an official ranking (i.e. from some practice run). Also, if you’re gonna pull some random quote, give your source. One of the very first results when I search “lia thomas 462” is the Daily Wire, which does not inspire much confidence in your sources. The other results are a Wikipedia quote from the letter I mentioned, and a random comment on the site for a swimming magazine.

She swam for the men’s team 2019-2020 while undergoing hormone therapy. Then there was a year break because of COVID. Then she swam for the women’s team 2021-2022. The difference was over two years.

EDIT: Actually, the 500th place stat was from 2018-2019, so it was over three years.

EDIT 2: Also, she went from 554th to 5th. The other two are basically not even worth mentioning since she went from 65th to 1st and 32nd to 8th over three years.

EDIT 3: Also, regarding your “the same people” bit, a large chunk of the people she’d have competed against would have graduated and been replaced by underclassmen. This is how college works.

I really dislike how we’ve come to this despite realizing it’s probably necessary.

It’s amazing how all these dumbasses look exactly the same. I knew exactly what she’d look like even before watching the video.

It should also be noted that a college athlete’s times and rankings would presumably improve every year. Freshmen competing against seniors are just less likely to win (in most sports at least). IIRC I saw an analysis of her rankings that indicated the jump was within normal bounds for year-over-year improvement.

I personally don’t think that’s really feasible unless they provide smartphones for every citizen themselves, and even then people like my grandparents would basically not be able to live given that they only barely know how to message me (and even that they do wrong sometimes, so…). They can certainly make it difficult without a smartphone, but they likely can’t completely eliminate physical IDs until those issues are gone.

EDIT: also, if that does become an issue at some point, you can keep your smartphone off unless necessary and don’t use a simcard. When on keep it in airplane mode. If you need a connection to use digital ID, do it briefly over wifi (since presumably most places you’d need digital ID would have wifi) and then turn it back off. While not perfect, this would probably be good enough for most people.