I click the link to listen to the song intentionally. It’s a great song!

It’s still tactically stupid to let the enemy control the conversation.

“Intellectual property” is not actually a thing. The term is loaded language that cedes framing of the debate to the authoritarians and should not be used.

Furthermore, how do you go about running cables in your home?

You watch some Youtube videos about how to do it and then you follow the instructions.

It’s going to depend a lot on the construction details of your house:

• Do you have wooden framing (common in the US), masonry (common in Europe, as I understand it), or something else?
• Do you have access to an attic or basement/crawlspace?
• Do you need to run wires on exterior walls (which means dealing with insulation), or just interior ones?

For me (wooden frame construction, accessible attic and basement), I didn’t find it to be too difficult. Is it work? Yeah, of course. But it’s not that bad, and I recommend spending the effort because having proper wall plates wtih in-wall wires is way nicer than having stuff snaking along surfaces.

LOL, it lights up when the character jumps.

WTF are you talking about? Charlie Brown isn’t Soviet.

Laughs in Memory: 46.84 GiB / 62.72 GiB (75%) with (probably) several hundred tabs open

There’s no real good reason that all RAM shouldn’t have been ECC since decades ago. It doesn’t actually cost much more to implement. The only reason it isn’t, as tal’s reply mentioned, is artificial price discrimination.

Also…I’m not sure that ECC is the right fix. I kind of wonder whether the fact is actually that the memory is broken, or that people are manually overclocking and running memory that would be stable at a lower rate at too high of a rate, which will cause that.

Some of it is cosmic rays, right? I think ECC is still worth it even at JEDEC speeds.

LOL, nah, Firefox isn’t that stable. If 10% of crashes were caused by bad RAM, it means 90% were still caused by something else.

(My install regularly gets a memory leak that eventually makes my system unusable, BTW. I don’t think it’s necessarily the fault of Firefox itself – more likely Javascript running in tabs, maybe interacting with an extension or something, and some of the blame goes to the kernel’s poor handling of low memory conditions – but it’s definitely not “dev humblebrag stable” for me.)

I mean DRMing and Tivoizing every new computer so that it can’t be rooted or jailbroken and Linux won’t run on it. Requiring a license from the state to have a compiler. You know, The Right to Read or Unauthorized Bread type shit.

By destroying all general-purpose computing available to consumers.

Good riddance. All consoles are cancer, by their walled-garden nature.

What kind of shitty-ass dorm relies on cellular connections? When I was in college, we had wired ethernet in the dorms and then wifi on top of that. Piracy was huge, in part because it was a lot of folks’ first opportunity to have a fast connection, LOL.

(Admittedly, that was at a research university that had been sitting directly on internet backbone since the NSFNET days, but still…!)

McDonalds french fries aren’t even the best french fries, let alone the best thing made from potatoes in general.

What does the 15^th have to do with it? In theory at least, ICE prisoners aren’t citizens.

Did you mean 25^th?

Even knowing it’s satire, I can’t bring myself to upvote it.

As the owner of a pair of (very) cheap (very) old Dahons, I understand what you mean.

I feel like the design details matter a lot and – though I hate to say it – it could be actually worth getting a Brompton, despite how overpriced they seem.

Get folding bikes.

Hot dogs Wat comes in packages of ten, while hot dog buns injera comes in packages of eight. You’ve got to buy 40 each of the damn things to use them up evenly. It’s a conspiracy, I tell ya!