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Remember Oprah and a million little pieces. I'm pretty sure that guy was a complete unknown before he made that shit up.

"they" don't though. The low level employee/intern who read it might but that entire industry is up its own ass smelling it's own farts at the top.

I mean they don't make it very hard to play their first party Games. Just pay the online free. The main issue is that not all of those games from 1997 are their games. They are just made for their system.

They are that's true, but it's because their parents bought it for them when they were young.

That's true and not true at the same time. The one advantage Windows has in this regard is that everyone is working on the same "distro" as it were. With Linux the various components can vary enough to be confusing. I think that is why it's important to choose a distro with a sizeable community.

Something like Ubuntu, or an arch derivative like endeavouros are a good choice for that reason.

I would also warm against the copy paste of commands that you don't know what you are doing with. The one nice thing is that in 2025 you can drop a command into your choice of LLM assistant and get a pretty good description of what it does without breaking out the man pages.

Cameras are there to lower insurance premiums. That's why for years and years every security camera video looked like it was filmed on a potato because there was no incentive to upgrade. The rise of phone cameras has caused the price of 4k cameras to plummet though so they are getting better.

Yeah most self checkout at grocery stores is hot garbage for all the reasons you mentioned and more.

My favorite self check out experience is at Uniqlo. You walk up to what is effectively a plastic bucket with an iPad attached. Toss your shit in the bucket it shows you what it thinks you put in there and you click ok and tap you CC. It takes like 30s.

Grocery stores are just cheap and won't put the 5 cent RFID tag on things.

I mean... That is effectively what Instacart and Uber are.

It isn't wrong, it's just the less common usage in 2025 which is why it reeks of AI.

Conveniently for Putin he can stop because he wants to, not because someone dropped a cigarette and lit up one of their ammo dumps the other day.

I mean I'm pretty sure the massive game sizes we see today are almost exclusively caused by high res textures and assets.

Honestly in an office situation there is no excuse not to have a super automatic espresso machine. They cost like 1500 dollars and you don't need to buy the damn kcups.