it’s a 50/50

I’m crying or jorking

Jesus Christ lol that’s awful. Amazons less directly oppressive but there’s a lot more surveillance id imagine. Break the rules enough, and eventually some loser sitting on the cams will send your name to HR.

I believe there was but I only used it once so I don’t know. The memory is hazy - perhaps you could buy as many as you wanted, but the first one a week was free. I don’t remember exactly.

Mandatory Amazon warehouse story:

They have rate trackers, to track how fast a worker scans items or whatever. You get constantly hounded by supervisors if you don’t hit your rates. On the screens by your stations, there’s constant reminders to take wellbeing breaks and stretch breaks and stuff, even though that’s an impossibility if you want to hit your rate.

Then there’s these wellness booths. I believe they were soundproof. They were just little huts people would go into to have their breakdowns or to escape the constant noise of the warehouse.

Then there’s the vending machines. You can swipe your worker ID card to get free painkillers. No, I’m not joking. They have vending machines for paracetamol.

It’s crazy how often I reference my time at Amazon, when I only worked there for like 3-4 months.

I went AMD first a while ago, be prepared for some games not to work (R6 SIEGE… years ago though, not sure how it is now) without some workarounds and stuff.

Also, I don’t know, but you could consider Bluetooth in the MOBO as well. My PC is just general use and gaming (built for like £800 5 years ago) and I regret not having Bluetooth without using an extra chip and all that.

Also I’m not seeing a case on there. When I was new to this stuff I bought the wrong sized case initially and had to send it back. Make sure it fits before you buy.

When will that stuff be released?

yeah I don’t know about proper gaming but I Linuxed my toaster laptop and gave it an SSD instead of an HDD, and it just about runs all the classic Valve games on low settings. Anything new would probably explode it.

Most cops are unarmed in the UK. There’s just a detachment of armed ones in the busiest hubs in central London, closer to the queen and houses of parliament and all that.

As someone said, London Metropolitan Police (responsible for the 32 boroughs) is unarmed, but within London there’s ‘City of London Police’ for that specific area. They’re the guns.

tried Xiaomi? I’ve got a Redmi Note 10S, have had it for probably 2-3 years now and it still runs fresh. Good battery life too. Very cheap.

It’s 6.5 inch though, and the camera isn’t great. Think their other versions are smaller.

Some say there’s a lot of bloatware - I’ve thought that at points but it’s like any other phone these days in that regard. It’s probably easy to remove although I’ve never bothered.

EDIT: just checked, there’s a Xiaomi 12 that is 6 inches.

EDIT 2: huh, apparently to unlock it you have to do a load of bullshit. Oh well.

Possibly unrelated to such a horrific story, though I’m not sure - the moment she seems to break out of the trance could be what’s called terminal lucidity.

Emphasis on ‘could be’ because terminal lucidity is usually more of a dementia/neurodegenerative brain disease thing. It’s the experience reported by many where those with destroyed brains on the verge of death, suddenly appear to regain consciousness with the world for a brief period of time.

I don’t know if it happens in deaths like the one you described, but regardless I guess I thought it was interesting to share.

Reddit has removed their blog post identifying Eglin Air Force Base as the most reddit-addicted “city” - Eglin is often cited as the source of some government social-media propaganda/astroturfing programs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/s/FMEy2r6J1o

Why do we call it trolls? Trolls are chill. Trolls do a little trolling. Hang out under their own bridge without bothering people. Steal a goat from time to time. No biggie.

Calling them trolls just feels like when mainstream media would report on the hacker named ‘4chan’, or how libs of all kinds go ‘uhhh russian china troll much??’

Trolls isn’t accurate. These people are engaging in covert psychological warfare. They’re mindflaying warlocks. They’re not corporate trolls. They’re just corporate. They’re just another piece of the private media system.

I suppose the point that differentiates them from regular PR and advertising is that they’re not who they say they are, but PR and advertising aren’t who they say they are either. Their motives are hidden. Their operations, the places they generate superprofits from cheap labour, and so on. That’s all hidden.

I do get the differentiation, but trolls are a shit name. It’s far more sinister than trolling. I don’t know what it should be called. But it should be far more severe.

he’s literally the worst guy ever

god damn

we love our posters

What’s this from?

jks

Ah, yeah. I don’t know the terminology. I’ll change it to threadbare My level of tech awareness is like… my friends think I know stuff but actually I’m just great at taking a punt and watching tutorials.

Anyway, yeah, I changed the old one to a nifty NVME and now it runs like a dream.

Currently I’m using Zorin OS Alite - do you really think I should go to mint or Ubuntu before I start settling in? My initial reaction to Zorin is that I’m satisfied with it, but if it’s not as reliable as mint then maybe I should just start again?

Yep, that’s what I did. Super fast now.

Ah, mines the one with the m.2 SSD slot (or something like that) - I replaced it with a nice fast one for £30 and it’s running like a dream. Much faster than it was before.

Crucial P3 500GB M.2 PCIe Gen3 NVMe Internal SSD - Up to 3500MB/s - CT500P3SSD8

You should be able to replace the HDD with one of the bigger SSD’s though? Isn’t the bracket for it built in?