MSI recently pushed a firmware update on my motherboard that somehow reset the device ID, so windows decided I wasn’t running genuine windows anymore.

I lived with the watermark for a few months, then kept running out of space on my old 256gb windows drive (all I could afford at the time) and I decided that instead of just migrating to larger drive and buying another copy of windows, I’d take the leap and just do it. It was unexpectedly painless.

My one concern was gaming, specifically helldivers, which has been pretty much the only thing I can play with my friends. Turns out, it just… runs… everything else… just… runs…

The last time I tried linux was like 10 years ago, and its definitely come a long way, at least with some of the more consumer level distros.

I live in a fairly blue state which tends to lean into highlighting the atrocities of the south during the Civil War (and all other eras to be frank) and I never learned about John brown until after high school

Where can this 10 hour midwest emo Playlist be found?

There’s an area in the cascade range (western US, specifically oregon) that is a giant field of knapped obsidian, that was used as a training ground for young knappers, as well as a trading ground to trade knapped obsidian that has been found all over the western US. Not just miles, but many many miles. I’ll see if I can go find a link.

Wow. What a throwback. He ranted about those movie titles on harmontown how many years ago? That had to have been close to a decade ago.

That’s a pretty boilerplate criticism. While true to a great degree, it’s also true of a lot of western capitalist nations.

It’s pretty hard to find information about real communist societies because media companies have it in their best interest to bury any good that has possibly been done by a communist society, meanwhile demonizing them and making them the enemy. You really have to dig to find honest information about communist societies.

Moreover, a lot of otherwise successful communist regimes have been sabotaged and poisoned by capitalist interests. Either by literally arming fascists, or just by demonizing them with foreign policy and media coverage.

Thanks for the info. I’m stoked that they didn’t get buried by the lawsuit. They employ a lot of people in my community and their Chilipeño chips are the bomb!

I just noticed the Juantonitos instead of Juanitas thing in the store tonight. And I felt like I was being gaslit. Like a Bearenstien bears gag. When did that happen? I would have thought I would have heard about it because they’ve got a factory in the next town over.

If someone made half a million a year I’d say they were rich… half a million in total assets would just mean you own a home and might have something saved for retirement.

I’m not saying that it’s poor, and I know that there’s a good chunk of America that’s “worth” less than like 10k, and probably a good number of people who are in the negative, but half a million isn’t fabulously rich.

Half a million is within reach for people who didn’t start out dirt poor, got an education, and a professional gig. I say this as someone who would be worth less than 10k if I didn’t inherit my home. A lot of people’s Net Worth Includes things that they can essentially never turn into actual money, but it still acts as a money saving asset.

I checked out phyphox and it’s so cool. Gonna show this to my wife who is a high school science teacher. Young students love running experiments like these. When you give a curious mind a tool to measure the world with, and set them loose, good things happen. Thanks!