I’d be all for YouTubeAI.com with only AI content there, then I can stop blocking that 1 asian dude with 500000 channels

Is there a revolt against self checkouts that I missed?

Since I first saw em, I refused to use em. Pay workers or pay me to check myself out.

Brainless job, for me anyway, hehe. Security supervisor, just directing people to where they need to go, making sure the company doesn’t try to take advantage of my guards. Also just play vr/stream and play other pc and retro games and hope no issues come up

Then I will be a criminal, again. If “they” implement the on OS ID, even if we are exempt from the identifying info on our systems (linux), there won’t be anywhere to really visit online anymore and as I said (here? another thread?) once my pixel 6 is dead I will be going the dumb phone route. No google play, no QR scanning, so I guess no more browsing except for the few non compliant sites. Will IRC networks need to comply? That would be my last stop (00s) before going back to the 80s where I read books, went outside, and didn’t worry about anything outside my little child world though it is hard not knowing what is going on in the world, tried it a few times. Hell, after my kinda “smart” tv dies (it doesn’t require an internet connection, has not been connected since I got it) I don’t know that I will find one of them that doesn’t require internet connection just to play a video off my pc. I saw shit going south 3 decades ago, never thought it would get so bad in my life

I got burnt out and took a job that is not tech.

It used to be fun to trouble shoot issues, help people understand, on their terms, what the pc was doing and why. Then it got old cause everything started turning to crap, starting with vista (spent a week regressing ~30 laptops from vista to XP cause I didn’t want the headache of dealing with that brand new operating system). I used to build and wire, by hand, networks. I could whip out a cable in about 2 mins, from cut to crimp, and then set the Dell and/or Cisco routers/switches. I just couldn’t keep doing it and keep my sanity

It won’t be illegal, it will be unavailable. We just won’t have access to anything cause they won’t make it. Why make something they can only charge once for when they can rent the same equipment and earn multiples of what it would have sold for

Same boat here, minus the “still in tech” that I left over 10 yrs ago. Picked up my last pc end of last year and packed up my previous rig for future use. With the old tech around my apt: Laptops, old pc’s, and raspberry pi’s, I should be able to last til I die. I will never use cloud gaming, only use for that I see is linux users that want to play certain “competitive” games, next phone will most likely be dumb as well. I started my journey on a Commodore Vic 20, never thought this would manifest

spend a day at 90m, 70m, 40m, and 30m you will sing a different tune hehe

the most boring sport

Archery would like a word

Windows 10 used to do similar to me, I’d wait until I had no choice to install updates. While waiting to ensure the updates wouldn’t have unfortunate side effects, my PC would noticeably slow down but as soon as the update was applied, boom, back to normal speed. I did reboot before every VR stream but only applying the update would return the pc to normal speed.

“I am the only one who is allowed to crash this system!”

even though it doesn’t affect you in any way whatsoever

Nope, doesn’t affect me at all… oh, wait, I can no longer afford a platter drive or ssd to expand storage, I can no longer afford ram, cpus, soon to be pcbs. Nope, doesn’t affect anyone anywhere at all.

Recently bought a 1tb m.2 for a friend, it cost more than the 2tb I bought in december

NO!

(Don’t have that bugs bunny meme handy)

Hello Mr. Sure

It is a lot of fun in VR, I’m glad they “flattened” it

Was over at Burger King iirc

I did the same with both 10 and 7. Turned off aero transparency etc all of it I could find so windows would allocate enough resources for what I needed

I’m a 5 yr upgrade cycle, well was. Not sure there will be another pc purchase in my future. I do have a few old laptops to use for media, and my old rig in case something happens to this one

The US govt can and has done the same, minimize everything

glad I read your previous msg correctly