I used to buy broken video cards on ebay for ~$25-50. The ones that run, but shut off have clogged heat sinks. No tools or parts required. Just blow out the dust. Obviously more risky, but sometimes you can hit gold.

Was a bit tongue in cheek. Edge can download Linux. Rufus puts it on a USB stick, and goodbye Windows. Then, I can use my computer.

Rufus is the first (and only) program I install on Windows =]

Yup. Stopped answering questions as soon as they did that.

Guy from '95: “I bet it’s lightning fast though…”

No dude. It peaks pretty soon. In my time, Microsoft is touting a chat program that starts in under 10 seconds. And they’re genuinely proud of it.

Then, they look confused when I tell them I don’t want the thing connected to the Internet.

Preach brother!

In before a Microsoft apologist drops in to tell us how much they are sick of Lemmy nerds suggesting Linux. Then, proceeds to cry about the terminal and provide reasons that could be a textbook definition of Stockholm Syndrome. Point them to this comment when they get here, please.

Countdown until Google shittymorphs me looking for cooking recipes.

…Always had been

Good. Now, you want to make a bigger impact? Do the schools.

How about display port that looks like HDMI? Oh wait…

Joe Biden is running an international money laundering operation with Ukraine right under our noses.

Joe Biden is senile and doesn’t know where he is or put together complete sentences.

Well… which one is it?

I used to write tons of automation in my previous data role. While time saved matters, the other important takeaway is reproducibility. Other people on the team were writing giant SQL scripts and highlight running each one and then manual checking to see if it worked… I’m talking about tables anywhere from 1-100 millions records. You aren’t checking shit by skimming a top 1000. And what a ridiculously error prone process that is. Take the human out of that equation!

If the data came out wrong, it would be because the data came in different/corrupted, not because I missed a query. Speaking of different causing problems… one time a company sent us data that was fixed width by character instead of fixed width by byte. Smh…