UnspecificGravity

No, but it is if maintaining affordability is, which is what the rest of us were talking about.

Right, but you had to go out of your way to listen to crackpots in the 90s, now thats just all there is.

I mean, the whole world was better when the internet didn’t define the mainstream zeitgeist. And I say this as a person who was on the internet a LOT during that time period. Being separate was the best thing about it.

All the crazy shit you hear now still existed then, its just that no one really cared about unless you wanted to.

Yes, that has been the conventional wisdom for the last 20 or so years.

There have been multiple points in history where stripping a pre-built for parts was cheaper than buying those parts individually. Honestly, that is probably the case more often than not because they get the parts cheaper.

For real. I know for a fact that Valve can buy hardware for less than any of us can. Its just a question of how much markup they want to slap on this, but it could easily be cheaper than any of us could build an equivalent.

Sure, if you are certain you found one that is current with current availability and pricing and where none of the specific parts have shot up in price relative to their alternatives. I have literally build a dozen PCs over the last 20 years and it would still take me time to make sure I had an optimal build at a reasonable price, even if using someone else’s build.

With hardware prices being what they are at the moment, it wouldn’t surprise me if these wound up being cheaper than most home-built alternatives.

Last I checked “presidents friends” aren’t exempted from insider trader laws.

Since when do we have to show our papers to the secret police?

He was holding his baby sister when a dog was about to be run over by a car. He was so shocked when she fell to his feet in ashes that he didn’t even save that dog. In that moment he promised himself that he would always make the numerically superior choice.

We used to play a “serial killer” game in Red Dead Redemption. The goal is to kidnap a woman without getting seen by anyone. Its actually a lot harder than you would think because female NPCs are RARELY unescorted in the game. It opens up an element of planning and stealth that you (or at least I) don’t usually use in that game.

Since they got bought by T-Mobile, Mint Mobile is literally a sister company and shares a network with fucking Trump Mobile.

T Mobile is the company that hired Corey Lewandowski as a consultant during their merge with Sprint. T-Mobile is the service provider for “Trump Mobile” and they killed their DEI programs more than a year ago. If anything, AT&T is the last of the big carriers to do this.

I mean really, they are just executive orders. They have no strength of law and no due process. The next president could literally undue every executive order done by the previous one by just issuing an executive order that does exactly that for no reason.

Pardon’s aren’t exactly the same thing as an executive order because they have an actual constitutional and legal basis.

So did Trump sign all those Jan 6 pardons himself?

I think the registration process and “official” app made piefed a more welcoming enrollment for people who are just casual users. Like, I had to explain a lot of shit to get my GF signed up for Lemmy. My grandma could sign up for piefed without much guidance.