You don't find it funny that the people so concerned about "the children" can't be bothered to parent their own?
You can tell that capitalism is working because the first trillionaire is going to be someone who owns a car company that sells clown cars which fall apart when they’re not exploding and locking you in, a rocket company that builds exploding rockets, a tunnel company that does nothing, and the most antisocial social media platform there is.
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I can't believe it hasn't been a whole month since the last time someone brought a spicy pillow to me for unrelated repair.
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Today's good deed: Saving a customer from a spicy pillow.
They brought an HP laptop to me because some keys didn't work & the screen had lines & flickering.
The battery was already so swollen that the front edge of the case had popped completely open between 2 of the front edge base screws. With their permission, I opened the case & removed the battery.
It put so much pressure on the plastic that the base popped free on its own with each base screw, & the battery jumped with each battery screw.
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a new #retrozilla version 2.3 launched back in june! https://github.com/rn10950/RetroZilla/releases/tag/2.3-release
Fuck absolutely every CEO, but especially this one.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/microsoft_ceo_job_cuts/
This ignores that Microsoft Windows is the problem, not the solution, but one result of that problem, Microsoft's OS monopoly, is that there's no viable alternative to Windows.
There are literally hundreds of alternatives, but none of them are viable. The closest ones, Apple MacOS & Google ChromeOS, are servants of capitalism pretending to be servants of users as well.
What will it take, short of dismantling & abolishing capitalism, to get Windows PC makers to include the two most important user instructions & warnings in their leaflet excuse for a user manual?
Instruction 1: How to turn this daffy slab of scrap plastic off, as in for-real off.
Warning 1: The most intuitively obvious way, the power button, doesn't. It puts it in still-on sleep mode instead.
Instruction 2: How to reboot it.
Warning 2: Shutdown/"Turn Off" then turning it on again doesn't.
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