Recent content by live627

Ha! I am not considered "Family IT Technomage"; that misfortune is on my younger brother, who has moved out three years ago. They never did get that chip back; it probably died on its own and the update was a red herring: not even the bios can find it.

I ended up not using the "safely remove" function because the device was "busy" 70% of the time, and back in the day when I'd copy files to and from flash drives multiple times a day, this was enough to make me ignore it and just yank the drive. I got catastrophic data loss once where a...

That technical issue could be a Windows update.. My Mom's computer lost its sound after one last month. As in, gone.

This meeting probably should have been private.

Well yeah, real estate doesn't seem very conducive to good ethical behavior, especially when working with the mafia.

Too late. Google already has access to photos and have banned people for child porn over parents taking photos for the doctor. I guess now dedicated point-and-shoot cameras have a renewed purpose. The irony. Big tech is making old physical gadgets worthwhile again.

This is EXACTLY what we voted for! We're gonna cut so much, you may even get tired of cutting. And you'll say, 'Please, please. It's too much cutting. We can't take it anymore. Mr. President, it's too much.' And I'll say, 'No, it isn't!' We have to keep cutting. We have to cut more!

Anything involving Rachael Maddow is as hard "no" for me.

I do not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_den_Elben

Simply the next step in Starbux trying to shake their roots of trying to be a French-style café

Because none of those hits were existential threats to Russia's existence and so never triggered nuclear missiles as per their nuclear doctrine.

I have a magic wand, too. It's called a keyboard.

This is how we get nuclear war.

lol I was trying, and apparently failed, to point out that the big man revoked it. the high prices are a result of many years of bad policies and that snowball will take months or even years to chip away at.