I have a X220 and a T14 Gen 2 (11th gen Intel core) and the quality is night and day. Also they introduced cheaper models like an E series, the L series and those have even worse materials or QC.

The other day I compiled libreboot. It was a fun experience.

I know back then we needed drivers for speakers, I remember the AC’97 hardware being more reliable and accessible than the HDAU, but a KB & Mouse?

The reason why you feel we don’t need driver discs anymore is because the internet allows you to download the windows binaries directly from nvidia.com but what would be the case if I wanted to set up a gaming station in a remote area? And also make sure that a flash drive won’t die, get lost or lose its contents over time for electron decay?

The other day I got an enterprise 10G NIC and it came with a driver disc lol. Is Intel X520 based.

There have been multiple instances of drivers simply missing from the installer. Like Mouse/Touchpad drivers. Or disk drivers.

This, 100% irks me to this day, but not as much as their broken reinventions of the wheel for an attempt to make it more ‘user friendly’ to install drivers automatically, that is if the user knows what Device Manager is, where to find it, etc. And then they broke that, and decided to include everything into windows update.

Did you know MS scans for drivers and uploads them automatically to their database, just to be paired based on the Hardware ID? I only see so much potential for malicious drivers with fake signatures its unbelievable, I am legit surprised no one has come with a PoC so far (and if you’re interested on working on it, send me a message, I’m kinda interested too)

I really miss the old XP days were you knew you had a driver disc somewhere, and could pop it in after a fresh install and let it do its thing. And the disc came with your motherboard / new hardware directly from the retailer.

and switched his workflow to GIMP from PS.

Wow I just gave up and started running that shit on Wine, I have never liked his content but I admire his dedication.

I use Krita from time to time for basic screenshot manipulation tho, I just wished it could print directly.

They never saw a cake base and dome? The candles could be stuck to the dome and blown that way…

So does Dell but I’d rather buy their Latitude line up pre-owned, they seem to have QC issues lately on their motherboards and once you manage to get a good motherboard they basically last forever.

I wouldn’t touch their Inspiron line up with a 20m pole.

Imagine turning on the engine and the A/C via SSH on a hot day, remotely from the office.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Putin had the Trump videos on Epstein’s island. What a crazy love triangle.

Maybe if you didn’t keep your head inside your ass you’d feel a bit embarrassed of saying stupid shit online. The confidence you have to say stuff like that is truly perplexing.

Ohh no :(

Anyway…

Have y’all tried tater tots? My gf introduced me to them and I swear she makes the best ones!

as a part of userbase I don’t want to be on sale, thank you very much.

Yeah unfortunately, if you’re not paying to use it, you are the product. If you don’t wanna be part of the sale you gotta stop using it.

Also in a similar topic, but not quite about chrome, Firefox is still the most popular browser that doesn’t come preinstalled by default in any phone or mainstream device, that does not mean is free of issues but is sort of a lesser evil.

Ardamax Keylogger takes screenshots too, should they change the name?

Linux truck

And has to resemble the late 1970s-1980s body styles because of the kiss methodology. I’d love me a 1972 C10 or a 1981 F150 with Debian.

Struggling economically and doom scrolling from the moment they wake up, until they go to bed.

I feel it started before and it was like that before covid. I’m gen Z and I remember around 2017 the rise of popularity of songs about “me me me being the #1 gang banger the gangster, them bitches love me, them ni**as hating” among the people in my age group, and it sorta just grew from there.

What I noticed during covid and once TikTok style videos became mainstream was sort of a “normalization” or acceptance of the phenomena mentioned above.

Remember Wall-E were everyone in the future is a fat individualistic human being, connected to a bed on wheels with a screen and everyone seems to be doing their own thing with no resemblance of families, couples, friends, goals?

We found the first undesireable by the normal population.

And that’s why adult diapers with cutesy drawings are a thing.

Well at least the Gulf of Mexico got his papers and is legal now.