My launch day 60GB PS3 is still trucking along. Every few years I open it up, clean it out, and reapply thermal paste. It now has an SSD in it, and runs like a champ.

They sunset “Don’t Be Evil” a while ago.

Have you ever tried communicating with a client who has zero idea what they want or how to express that? That’s why graphic designers will never be out of a job. They translate whatever they can coax out of the client into something they want.

They are also strong enough to pull down stray branches stuck in a tree.

This. Let me buy your neglected deck.

I over reacted and took the Linux route. It wasn’t just one thing that prompted the change, but copilot was the icing on the cake.

I’ve been unhappy with windows for a few years, but it’s always been easier to ignore it and continue on. Something in me must have snapped about the same time a few guys at work were talking about gaming on Linux. Worked out well for me, might not work best for everyone.

I did this the moment they dropped copilot on my taskbar without any prompting. It was my gaming machine so it took a little getting used to, but it’s been solid ever since.

I did not ask for an AI chatbot in my os. I don’t want an AI chatbot in my os.

Latitude 7280. They pull the ram and m2 from it. 16gb ram and a new drive are cheap for that thing. New batteries are around $80. They are great daily drivers.

If you have a spare still, I’d take one. Got a laptop from the e-waste pile at work and was going to clean it up for a family member.

This is the way.

Yep. Passthrough to my router with all AT&T WiFi disabled.

1000/1000 AT&T fiber, $80/month including equipment, no contract, no data cap, in lower MI.

Back in vanilla we didn’t call them DDoS attacks. We called them “patch days.”