Yeah, I know I’m not the target demographic.

That doesnt mean I dont think its an interesting piece of tech, and I would like one as a toy/curiousity… but i’d only get one if I can get it used/second hand and dirt cheap (and probably broken, so i can drive the price lower and fix it myself)

7 as well. Super nostalgia seeing that patern again… i wonder if they still sell it.

If that was the reason and logic then every store would do that.

They don’t.

Everyone on earth but this one stupid ass gas station just does the 1 dollar precharge.

If that was true the steam deck would have already done it.

people who care about the difference between ephebophilia and pedophilia are the kind of people who deserve being called pedos.

Both of you guys are missing the point.

He wasnt charged 150 bucks for gas.

The gas station is using a 150 dollar pre-charge to make sure the card is good. most places only do a 1 dollar pre-charge.

150 is stupid.

What more can I say but… Neat?

Does beg the question on how radically changed computing would be today if it was released as a CPU when it first was developed.

gotta artificially maintain the scarcity so prices, and profits, stay sky high.

Which infuriates me as a LotR fan.

and also makes me side eye Chris Tolkien hard, cause he is normally very aggressive in protecting the intellectual property…

If you have to create a wikipedia alternative to stop being fact checked, then maybe you are just fuckin wrong.

Billionaires: “No, No… I can’t be wrong. I’m Rich! I’ll create a microcosm of information that warps reality to make sure I’m right!”

Conservapedia: Wait…thats what I was for… what about me?!

been playing on linux for many many years.

never once have I been stopped by kernal level anticheat.

Weird, its almost as if good games don’t use invasive spyware rootkits.

bigots crying about shit is such fucking bullshit, because you know their porn search history is filled with everything they publicly seethe and hate

Seriously.

I feel like i’m about to be put in a padded room. What the fuck is happening to my reality. what kind of weirdo alternate reality have I woken up to, where MTG of all people is being sane and rational… and has been that way for at least a month or three now.

Do I go outside and start flinging my hands at neighbors and screaming fireball, in the hopes this weird new world I have apparently found myself in has magic?

Sure buddy.

Shrug, I dont know man… personally, last time I had to dig into regedit was on…i think win98? maybe xp? and that was under guidance of the tech support I was on the phone with… the why I long since forgot, I just remember them telling me it was okay and as long as I listened nothing would get broken (and that their thing would be unbroken)

and yet you keep coming back, reading my post, and replying.

There there, no need to be so angry over having your bullshit called out.

I remember the bean burrito was like 99 cents. and stuffed so full of beans and rice that you’d make two meals out of it.

i also miss their 5 dollar lunch boxes… cause it had that bean burrito in it and you’d save that for dinner and have two awesome meals.

And if the average idiot searches for a solution to the problem, and the solution says to run X command… the average idiot is gonna trust it and run it, and assume anything that comes up is supposed to happen.

He was approaching linux as an average idiot, like me, would.

and that is absolutely how it would have gone, and probably did go, for lots of people before it got caught on a camera by a big youtuber… especially since, iirc, the issue was known to Pop OS for a while before hand.

For like my first 4 years in linux, all the support I could find basically boiled down to “if X doesnt work, paste this command and run it”. So yes, I can totally see an average idiot doing exactly what happened in the video… and I’d wager it happened quite a few times to quite a few people, before the this video made it famous and made Pop finally get off their ass to fix it.

I don’t particularly make secret of my dislike for Linus, but I feel like the criticism on this particular topic is unfair. Shit like this does happen with new users with no IT/Sys Admin linux knowledge, And its most likely going to happen more frequently as more non-knowledgable new users come into linux and stumble into things weird niche situations and stuff… More monkeys smashing keys means more weird issues being found, afterall.