Remember when Hamas was democratically voted into power in Gaza because everyone knew the PA was a full of shit organization run under the complete control of Israel?

And then the PA refused to recognize the vote outcome, which was shortly followed by a military incursion by Israel because God forbid the Palestinians actually form their own government.

There’s an inside joke about Iran that after the Shah was deposed, the only thing that changed was all the illicit activity happened inside instead of outside.

Its pretty believable considering you can find plenty of Muslim Iranians who openly drink and party, hence why they’re actually the least likely to be seen amongst a group of Muslims.

PSA to always run a full length SMART check for any drives you buy, even from OEM. The short test and log are not enough, I have bought faulty drives that someone had reset the logs and power on hours.

All passed short SMART test, but failed long SMART test after only a few minutes. Found just one drive that the skrub forgot to wipe and the log showed 6 continuous years of power on usage.

Even from OEM, you will at least know if the hardware is DOA which you can then RMA.

some day

I don’t know if mac has something similar, but you can run a command on linux to list all the CPU vuln mitigations applied, and its hilarious to see on something old like a skylake or haswell with the amount of patches that have dropped since release.

I really don’t care how much the US complains about Chinese nationalism when they pull the same crap in practically every 3rd world country for the sake of holding power.

There’s a reason why so many 3rd world immigrants in the US feel unfazed by Trump because they essentially grew up in some Washington backed imperialist government which was way worse, hence the reason they emigrated.

They understand that neither country is some beacon of hope, they’re just two big competitors that keep each other somewhat in check. The tradeoff you get for joining the US is freedom of expression and representation (mostly) and the tradeoff you get for joining China is faster upward momentum and social stability (mostly). Its better to have at least two choices instead of one which in reality would be none.

Yes there will always be sketchy things you probably shouldn’t touch, but we’re really out here defending internet censorship over TikTok as if the NSA doesn’t have 2/3rd of the modern world permanently bugged.

I read this entire comment synced to smashmouth lmao

Buddy that’s a Lexus. The corect way to sit in those is to put the seat low and far back than what even a bucket seat would do. You should basically be so reclined like it’s one of those sofas from a shrink’s office.

It’ll take you a few minutes to adjust to the new ride height and gain your superiority complex over the other peasants on the road.

All the free widgets that used to come preinstalled in Android before Google killed them to save the extra $2 of development cost from their yearly interns.

Whenever the new standard hits the almost impossible golden triangle of “cheap, reliable, and fast”.

It’s gotta be cheaper than the alternatives, better and more reliable than the alternatives, and faster/easier to adopt than the alternatives.

Early computers for example had various ways to chug math, such as mechanical setups, relays, vacuum tube’s, etc.

When Bell invented their MOSFET transistor and figured out how to scale production, all those previous methods became obsolete for computers because transistors were now cheaper, more reliable, and faster to adopt than their predecessors.

Tbf though transistors are more of a hardware thing. A better example of a standard would be RIP being superceded by BGP on the internet.

Pakistan whenever India opens its mouth about being the world’s biggest “democracy”:

Dear God at least give them a chance with IBM.

Oracle would use it to sue Facebook and YouTube for stealing their IP for vertical video, all while the platform combusts.

hmmmmm…

Actually on second thought…

Pakistan: “First time?”

“How do I do X in linux?”

“Yeah so basically you just need to run this command and it should work on Ubuntu 12.10 (Last edited: Nov 2012)”

“Hey guys the way to do X changed in Ubuntu 16.04, see this updated link (Posted: Jan 2017)”

“Actually Ubuntu 18.04 is now using Y so you have to follow this new guide (Last edited: Jul 2019)”

"Crossed-out outdated guide

For Ubuntu 22, please reference this Canonical guide here. All other distros can simply use Z (Last edited: Aug, 2022)"

“404 not found (Canonical)”

“How do I do X in Debian?”

“You can run Z to do X (Posted: Oct 2013)”

“Thanks for this, it worked! (Posted: Sep 2023)”

“How do I do X in Fedora?”

“Ah just follow this wiki (Posted: Feb 2014)”

“(Wiki last update: Mar 2023)”

“How do I do X In Arch?”

“RTFM lmao: link to arch wiki (Posted: May 2017)”

“(Wiki last update: 3 minutes ago)”

I’m dumb, thank you

If it makes any of you feel any better, Rizvi also famously berrated and mocked Abdul Sattar Edhi for wasting his time making a volunteer ambulance service before he himself was transported in an Edhi ambulance where he died before reaching the hospital.

I was gonna make a joke about Nintendo, but I’m pretty sure they actually sued someone for publicly hosting 30 year old copies of the Nintendo Power magazine.

Torvalds is a C programmer who didn’t even consider himself accomplished until he made Git, long after Linux.

Sebastian is a warehouse manager who still thinks he’s better than everyone else because he worked at NZXT NCIX lol.

Most of these pictures are from NYC and DC, bar a few from London, Brussels, Panama, and the US Embassy in Mexico

I’m starting to think is community is actually a bunch of refugees from Twitter.