Sweet. Soon I won’t be chained to shitty android boxes for 4k streaming needs.

It does technically hurt the quality, but 320 kbps mp3s are largely indistinguishable from lossless to most people.

On a side note, why mp3 instead of a lossless format?

And how much would you have to pay people to take those thousands of Home Depot systems, string them all together, build a facility to hold all this, then hook it to the grid?

We don’t need to abolish all Christmas songs; the kids tend to like them. We just need to abolish that one Mariah Carey one.

Office suites like this are usually more aimed at corporate customers anyway.

It might be. Fluorine chemistry is not exactly the most widely researched avenue simply due to the inherent danger of it.

I’m hopeful. A lot of true breakthroughs are relatively simple and seemingly obvious in hindsight.

Looks like this is going to be a browser based suite with online collaboration, more like Google docs than Microsoft office.

Well now I want to eat a cheese based stew. That sounds delicious.

Well fuck.

That ship sailed years ago. We are all criminals now.

If the pirates have taught me anything, it’s that there’s a way around everything, and someone somewhere is smart enough and bored enough to find it.

New rule: incorporating now costs $100,000 per share. Pre-existing corporation are exempt from this fee, of course.

If they structure their supplier contracts anything like the auto industry does, that would only be because they are on the back end of the product’s production lifecycle.

When the bread starts to get expensive, you can’t have the masses protesting against the circus. Doesn’t surprise me in the least that they’d come down hard on the anti-tech crowd.

Less of an issue with Valve. They don’t have as much of a need for a hardware loss leader since they earn from Steam regardless of which hardware it’s running on.

Here’s a fun way to fast track this descent into corporate hell: one vote per share.

You know, I think I just came up with my first $1,000,000 product; drywall with embedded copper mesh.

Gonna be a whole lot of people born on Jan 1, 1970

Whether or not the economy can be called “OK” is extremely dependent on who says it and when. At the time of the election campaign, it was fair to say that the economy was OK. It wasn’t great, but inflation was getting under control, employment numbers were rising, it was generally trending in the right direction and could be called “OK”.

Then trump comes in and from his (more specifically his ownership group’s) perspective, this is currently beyond OK. Profits for the ultra-rich are skyrocketing. They clamp down on immigration to get rid of the sources of cheapest labour, then make sure the cost of living keeps rising to push people into taking whatever job they can get, for wages they previously would never have accepted. All while cashing in on planned market swings.

But yeah, tell me again how both parties are the same.

You still be identifiable as the walking cylinder. What we need is a ministry of silly walks.