And don’t even get me started on how we drive on parkways and park in driveways.

I have a syringe of RSO earmarked for that day too. It’s no bottle of wine, but I’ve yet to encounter a bottle of wine that can get me fucked up that well for that long.

Sure, he shows off now, wait until he has a hard braking event.

I suspect that, given it’s just a controller, they likely won’t run into the same supply issues that might hit the steam machine or frame. That and I’m anticipating it will sell stronger, for longer, than their first steam controller; so even if stock does sell out at some stage I wouldn’t expect them to discontinue it for some years, any stock shortage would likely be brief.

Lastly, the staggered release cycle will probably help them manage supply issues (if they do arise) better than if they were to release all of them at the same time (the people buying a controller now, won’t need to buy one bundled with a steam machine later, etc).

I really wouldn’t worry about this while on a job hunt. Wait til you’re financially secure and then treat yo self.

Sorry, no can do. All we’ve got are pills that make your dick stop working and your mind numb.

No, just little attachment (metaphorically and soon to be literally, by the sound of your workplace) to your genitalia and a love of pain, I assume. I can think of a lot of people who fit that profile.

Also,

thousand plus degree metal

What kind of metal? I can think of at least one gentleman who canonically would be in the market for an unfortunate schmelting accshident if you had the right kind.

Visit national parks while you can.

today, I am instead playing Steam games for hours and wishing death would hurry up already.

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that’s why I poop on company time.

A fate worse than death.

yup. at the moment if you want a truly private, properly useful local AI agent you basically have to set one up correctly, manually, yourself. Having one come as part of the OS already largely set up for the user would be a massive W.

but yeah, If.

yes I’m sure this decision will have lots of well-reasoned and civilized debate around it.

Don’t mind me, just here to watch.

[wistful sigh]

oh good someone else remembers he went this way, too, I’m not just imagining it.

Personally I’m quite a fan of Peter Brown, Styropyro, Chronova Engineering, Attoparsec, and Robert Dunn’s channels (the woodworking/maker channel Under Dunn, the car channel Aging Wheels, they’re both fantastic), to name just a few of the better ones. I do genuinely miss AvE’s storytelling abilities and Red Green style humor, but there are still lots of people who are enjoyable to watch who I don’t think support fascists, or at least have the good sense to keep it to themselves.

I knew someone was gonna ask me about this, so allow me to clarify: I don’t know that for a fact, but I picked up on bits and pieces and you would too if you watched him long enough. The thing that made me say “yeah this dude’s politics are probably problematic” was when he put out a video in support of the Freedom Convoy. He never came out and straight up said he loved Trump or Poilievre or whatever – at least not up until then, but that was the point I stopped watching. But it was enough altogether that made me go “yeah nah I don’t need to watch this dude I’ve got other ‘make/do cool things’ youtubers I can enjoy”.

you mean, someone else found a way to do the exact same job but cheaper? According to capitalism, all is as it should be and you should rest easy buying the knockoffs.

More pragmatically speaking, from what I recall when I watched AvE (before he revealed himself as a canadian maga), the performance of knockoff batteries was in general adequate as long as you didn’t expect the same low temperature performance. That’s apparently where knockoffs and the legitimate batteries tend to differ, is when you’ve got to use them in freezing temperatures. So if you’re planning on using your power tools in a frozen shithole, stick to buying legit batteries – I know you were asking about the ethical concerns, but that’s something else to keep in mind. but imo fuck DeWalt, they’ve already got their pound of flesh out of you buying the legit tools in the first place.

the fact the world functions at all while running on matryoshka doll levels of bullshit and duplicity is equal parts impressive, terrifying, and depressing.

Think about this for a moment.

We made bullshit generators that ingest all the actual knowledge we feed them and manage to vomit out bullshit that’s so close to perfect most of the time that we now need a second bullshit generator to re-bullshit that output into a more palatable form of consumption for us. And it’s being sold to us for an additional $4.99 a month.

Fuck me.

Ahhh, and like that, the motive becomes clearer.