The high failure rates of both Razer and recently Logitech made me try the Razer Basilisk with the optical switches. So far so good on multiclick failures, and it works fine without Razer’s garbage software. It’s a 502 knockoff ergonomically, so its also got that going for it.

I just with someone would recreate the G701 with optical or hall switches, and a decent battery life.

Nah, America is cursed because it was built on an ancient Indian burial ground, and they only moved the grave markers while leaving the bodies there.

Yes, but as much as we all like the Brutalism style, would the cost difference really not be worth it for Art Deco or anything a bit more psychologically welcoming or uplifting combined with generous green spacing and walkability.

Layer 8 is colloquially the User, as that is the next “layer” up above the application. Only really used in a troubleshooting context indicating where the issue took place, it’s the networking equivalent for an PEBKAC (problem exists between keyboard and chair). For this analogy, layer 8 would probably be physics itself though.

I felt the OSI model was pretty relevant because while speeds and latency has improved astronomically, it is all still run off of the Ethernet framework and the humble copper twisted pair and fiber optic cable aren’t really substantively different than they were in the 70s.

Another way to look at it is comparing water to electricity itself. No one is complaining that going from the electric light bulb to vacuum tube logic gates to semiconducter logic gates to q-bit logic gates is just “using physics to direct electrons again”.

Boiling water is just the layer 1 physical transport, all the cool stuff is happening at layers 2-7. The real mind blowing breakthrough would be if they finally did something to fix layer 8, but I ain’t holding my breath.

Every time I notice I cannot use my full refresh rate over the HDMI on my 7900xtx in Linux because of licencing issues, I get rationally pissed off.

Unfortunately we are all out of name brand luxury gay space communism.

We do, however, have Temu deluxe ambiguous resource “sharing” managed by Grok, and an couple open packs of glow in the dark ceiling stars. Only $19.99 a month at 30% interest when you buy now, pay later.

But the other options are Junos, whatever unholy abomination Dell is doing now, or HPE Aruba.

Reading that both made me dumber just by its existence and made me throw up a little in my mouth.

God, I almost trauma blocked the driver situation for that first year or three. My q6600 and 8gb of ram ran like greased lightning, and disabling Aero made it even more responsive than 98SE or XP. (I am a latency and user experience fluidity whore though, so sacrificing eye candy for performance was and still is A-OK with me). The Aero design language was still killer even with the bells and whistles turned off.

The main reason to jump from XP (or 98) was the 64 bit jump and breaking the 4gh ram limit. XP x64 was kinda hot garbage, also due to driver issues if I recall correctly.

It would be nice if the old democratic Iran came back to be an actual “peaceful democracy in the Middle East” as a stabilizing entity.

I hope I am wrong about either Sha 2.0 or Islamic Republic remaster.

Vista honestly wasn’t as bad as we all said/remember, but it was the start of Windows optimization downturn. It worked great on top of the line systems with tons of power, and was the best looking Windows Microslop ever developed.

It just happened to also coincide with the start of netbooks and low power computers going mainstream, and marketing thought that the F1 requiring OS should also be sold on a 3 door hatchback with 60 horsepower.

It’s a scientific fact that legs cannot be or get cold. Much like birds, the legs of Midwesterners, Rock Mountain statesers, and Canadians evolved separated blood supplies in their legs that just exchange oxygen within the thighs to preserve core temperatures.

Source: someone who would lived in shorts year round until being forced to wear real pants by corporate America.

P.S. the best time to go to the beach in California is over Christmas, because you have the whole place to yourself and can laugh at everyone wearing coats in 60° sunny weather. Come on in, the water’s great!

My issue has been with #1 on your cheat sheet. My first modern (post 2014) migration attempt was with Manjaro, but every time I would install updates it would break secure boot. Then 2 weeks ago it just flat out killed grub.

I decided to take the advice of many people on the Linux side of Lemmy and nuked Manjaro in favor of CachyOS. I like it quite a bit more than Manjaro, and limine kicks grub’s ass, but I keep running into more limitations with the package manager. I look for windows software alternatives, find they should be available on the AUR, but then have problems getting an installation.

There is a lack of good documentation for using AUR on Cachy, and things aren’t intuitive for a long time Windows power user. That doesn’t even get into flat pack or AppImage. It’s a very steep learning curve.

TIL that Lithuania is Russia’s Scotland. Now I know, and knowing is half the battle.

The Hunt for Red October did the same, the first minutes are in Russian with subtitles and then it slips into English mid sentence as if the audience adapted to the language. Very effective actually.

Doesn’t change the fact that it’s Sean Connery’s brogue on a Russian naval captain, but at least it somewhat explains it. Clearly the captain is from wherever the Scottish equivalent for Russia is.

They are not subject to Federal taxes (except FICA if you count that but they receive those benefits), which is just one of the reasons statehood polls in Puerto Rico tend to be relatively divided.

What a horrible day to have eyes.

It’s almost like the Bible is actually a collection of separate books written by a bunch of random people with wildly different ideas and perspectives over hundreds or thousands of years, and not a single coherent document written by a single omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent entity.