I’m planning to get rid of the lock as soon as I graduate. The only reason I haven’t done it yet is because I’m worried that doing so would break some of the bizarre black-box proprietary software that we’re required to have.

I was required to rent a laptop as part of my enrollment there. At the 2-year mark we were given the option to trade in our old laptop and rent a new one or buy it outright, and I chose to buy it because it was working fine.

The university I go to locked down the BIOS on my laptop so you can’t boot any other operating system that isn’t the Windows 10 that it came with. I own the laptop, very annoying.

Meanwhile, at the Legion of Doom…

The virtual machine I installed windows on to play games with kernel-level anticheat and other such spyware apparently isn’t compatible with windows 11. That’s a positive for 2 reasons, which are:

1. It can’t run Windows 11, so no risk of a forced upgrade
2. Windows won’t constantly harass me to upgrade.

10/10 experience, would not give give Windows access to bare metal again.

Yeah, I read about that yesterday and I have none of the documents listed as a valid form of ID. If this was passed, I wouldn’t be able to vote.

I don’t shop at Target because their stores smell weird and it’s a sensory issue.

I haven’t stepped foot inside a Walmart since I was 6.

lol I have 3Mbps down .5 up for 40$

I saw my first cybertruck in traffic yesterday, I initially thought that some redneck had every part you need to make a car except for the frame and body, and was like “I don’t need none of that fancy shit, I got square tube and steel plate!” and welded together the laziest design they could think of. Then I realized it was just a cybertruck, and promptly laughed at it.

Oh my god it’s back? I was hoping we’d seen the last of it back in 2023.

After Chinese spyware banned, users of banned Chinese spyware migrate to not-yet banned Chinese spyware.

My physics professor has us compare our answers to physics problems with a LLM’s output. Somehow, the AI is even worse at physics then I am, it once simplified (4pi2) to 4.

800,000 users…

I need to get into scamming idiots, that sounds incredibly profitable.

I mean if you’re mechanically talented enough and sufficiently motivated, you could probably rip out the digital controls and replace them with mechanical analogs, getting rid of the computer entirely. Extremely difficult, but probably doable if you know what you’re doing.

That aside, we shouldn’t have to do that to get out of being spied on.

I spat out a bunch of fur afterwards.

When I was 6, I bit my rabbit in retaliation after he bit me, does that count?

Yeah, due to the nonexistant moderation TF2 voice chat tends to be the most intolerant thing I’ve ever heard in my life.

I honestly didn’t like factorio, which is odd because I’m pretty much the exact target audience (autistic). I bought it after buying Mindustry, played it for about 20 hours and then put it down and didn’t pick it back up again because I realized that it just felt like work. I think the reason I didn’t like it was that you spent 5 minutes coming up with a solution to some problem, and then spend 50 minutes implementing it, which bogs down the gameplay with monotonous block-placing.

Illinois Nazis

Illinoizis?