Notices by Charles U. Farley (freakazoid@retro.social)

@codewiz "Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/WTF."

@codewiz If a human responded that way, wouldn't one conclude that they were just taking stabs in the dark and didn't actually understand?

It's dirt simple: the Consumer Price Index is a proxy for wages. Politicians consider it "good" when it grows slowly. Asset prices such as houses and stocks are a proxy for the income of the ultra-wealthy and the unaffordability of housing to the working class. Politicians consider it "good" when those things grow quickly. In other words, our society is designed to produce wealth inequality. QED.

@codewiz I'd love to, but I live in Pittsburgh, PA now!

When the fireworks started going off, our dog moved from the bed down to the floor on the opposite side of the bed from the window. When it stopped, she got back up on the bed again. Then there was another burst and she moved back to the floor again.

@codewiz As they should be.

@codewiz The Arch community is the opposite of what I would have expected for a "hardcore" Linux distro. Though it's not at all surprising if you've read their docs.

A family Christmas tradition.

Is William Shatner on Mastodon yet?

@dosnostalgic Does the money go to Ukrainians?

@codewiz My guess is that they're good enough for Google, whom I seem to recall were a major proponent.

@dosnostalgic Are the two screenshots CGA and EGA versions?

@codewiz @daniel The crypto crash has already made it way easier to get a GPU.

@codewiz Will they ship with no drive at all? I just bought a 2TB NVMe drive for my X280 and would want to transplant it.

@codewiz When I first looked at them it appeared they were just selling branded white label laptops, so I passed. Sounds like it may be time to take another look. Does the laptop come with LibreBoot?

@codewiz Could well be made in the same factory.

@codewiz @adam @stevelord Eek! That must be a big shock.

@adam @stevelord I've talked about Japan recently, but I'm in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. @codewiz is in Japan.

In case there was any doubt in your mind: yes, the Russians are deliberately targeting foreign journalists in Ukraine.

If you @ me about this being Putin's doing and not Russians', I will block you. The Russians are the only people who can save us from Putin now. It sucks, but that's reality.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/21/the-russians-were-hunting-us-down-the-war-on-journalism-in-mariupol

@tagomago @ArneBab What is the point, exactly? Most of Mozilla Corporation's revenue comes from their contract with Google.