A very good chair is important, it doesn’t have to be a $1,000 chair, but, never returning to the back-crushing racing chair.

Man, I got excited for a moment they brought back the SE line, but at an even cheaper price.

I knew it couldn’t be true, not with Apple, but, it is what I first thought.

Pedant thought: The thumbnail shows one biting everywhere but the bullet.

I’m a big fan of the Keep It Simple (KISS) approach, and went with Password Safe. Works on Linux, Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android. It’s big thing is it just makes an encrypted password file which then you can sync between devices however you like (Box, Dropbox, etc)

Which one works on all browsers including mobile safari and mobile Firefox?

It has an auto-type and copy feature, so no need for browser support. Though, the main criticism of this offering is if you want a ton of features and don’t care about KISS.

Protip for the room: Use a password manager with a unique password for every service. Then when one leaks, it only affects that singular service, not large swaths of your digital life.

“Dad, I don’t know how to say this, but…I’m gay”

“We know. Now, would you like some tacos?”

“What?”

“Sigh, I guess I’m eating all the tacos.”

The good news is. Even if you don’t change your strategy, you can just chill on index funds. When the bubble pops, they will go down, just keep buying more. In the long term, you will still make money. US index funds earn ~8% per year on average when invested for long periods of time.

I never got into options investing, but I believe you keep re-upping them. Every time you do so you pay a small price. So, the game is: ‘can you stay liquid long enough for the bubble to pop’.

Capital gains are taxed. Profits from this are capital gains.

Mid-Cap index funds should be fairly insulated from the damage as well, given they would exclude companies as large as nVidia.

Either way, biggest thing people is when the bubble pops, that is the time to buy in more, not the time to sell. The buy high-sell low strategy is easy to fall into emotionally.

This is pretty much my response any time Google or Microsoft does anything negative at this point. My good will for those two was spent years ago. Swapped over to Protonmail, non-google phone, Linux. Done with their shit.

EA was easier to get away from. Just…not buying more EA games solved that one. :)

By harnessing low-cost, nonstop solar energy and avoiding land use and fossil fuels

1. “low-cost” - Nothing about launching data centers into space is low cost

2. “nonstop solar energy” Continuous solar energy is certainly nice, but that is a pretty minor buff compared to current ways of making power. If you think nuclear or solar+battery is expensive, go calculate the price for space-based solar per GW…

3. “avoiding land use” - We have a fuckload of land outside of cities, build them outside of cities… Datacenter land use is removing a cup of water from the ocean.

4. “avoiding…fossil fuels” - You can achieve that on earth, nuclear or solar+battery…

In summary, this is probably the dumbest way to build data centers. It’s stated goals are better accomplished on land with nuclear or solar+battery. It really just feels like venture capital money trap.

The United States has tethered 16% of its entire economic output to the fortunes of a single company

Yeah, this article should compare nVidia’s revenue to the US GDP (both measure of annual production). But we know why they aren’t, as it wouldn’t produce an alarming stat.

The United States has tethered 16% of its entire economic output to the fortunes of a single company

And to be clear, this stat is simply factually wrong. nVidia IS NOT 16% of US output. They sold $165B last year, US GDP is $29.2T. This means the US has tethered… 0.5% of their economic output to one company. Not 16%, zero-point-five-percent.

I agree with the other poster this seems like a hardware issue.

1. Start with a general battery of hardware tests.

• Memtest for memory. One or two errors in a full run is OK, more than that is not. A full run will take a few hours, just run it overnight.
• Furmark for GPU. Look for visual glitches or crashes.
• Prime95 for CPU.

2. If those fail to point out the issue. Swap components into another system. This will allow you to eliminate (or confirm) them as the issue. Example, does this GPU have issues in a different system?

So a complicated set of terminal commands and alternatives you need to have memorized ahead of time. That’s definitely the linux solution. You can do it, but no average user would ever be able to when they need it.

As a point of contrast. In Linux Mint you press the eject button. That’s it.

The other guy was getting into more detail for people who want it.

Whelp, time to shut down the whole computer! (Or just yank it and hope you didn’t do anything bad, lol)

Linux Mint has an eject button that allows any cached writes* to finish, prevents new ones from starting, and un-mounts it. It’s actually important to use the eject button as flash drives are slow, and the write cache can obscure the fact that a file isn’t done writing yet.

*Copying a file will add it into the write cache while it writes out to the disk. As soon as it is in the cache, you can use the file as if it was already done copying, including making changes.

Signal? No.

I’m running Signal right now on Linux Mint.

Can you run Battlefield 6?

This isn’t even a Windows or Linux thing: Why the hell do you want Saudi Arabia and Jared Kusher* to have kernel-level access to your machine? Why, why is that worth it for just a game?

*I really wish I was joking with this part

Remember when the sales pitch of The Cloud was it would always be online?