Windows and Linux don’t feel fundamentally different these days

Try Windows 11 vs. Linux on a shitty old laptop with a budget 2-core processor and 2GB of RAM. Then tell me Windows and Linux don’t feel any different.

When you become one with the penguin, though … then you can begin to feel how much faster modern hardware is.

Hell, I’ve got a 2016 budget-model chromebook that still feels quick and snappy that way.

and it had Turbo button, which did absolutely nothing

These old ‘turbo’ buttons actually did do something – they limited your CPU clock speed.

Because some old games (and perhaps other software) relied on counting CPU cycles for timing the game. The faster your CPU, the faster the game would run, and the faster things in the game would happen. When CPUs got too fast for this, such games became unplayable because everything was happening in such fast-forward speed that the player could never hope to keep up. The counter-intuitively named ‘turbo’ button would bridge a jumper on the motherboard and change your CPU clock speed to a lower value, slowing it down so these old style games could still run at a reasonable, playable pace.

Ironically enough, the ‘turbo’ button made your PC slower.

(Personally, I think turbo buttons are due for a comeback, but as fan control options. Use a ‘turbo’ button to switch between fan control profiles – turbo off for quiet profile, turbo on for maximum performance profile.)

Neither. While violent resistance to Israel’s abuses is very understandable and maybe even commendable, deliberately targeting civilians is not the way.

I’m also under no illusion that Hamas would be any less abusive if they were the ones with the power. If they had the ability to do so, they’d gladly commit genocide as well.

They’re also, to some degree, themselves a tool of Israel, propped up by Netanyahu’s regime in order to justify Israel’s continued aggression, oppression, and war.

Sorry, I just wanted more RAM.

Use with caution.

Back in the day, I used this multiple times. It was all good fun at first, but after a few dozen times, something went wrong involving a black hole and the destruction of the universe. And what’s worse, after I rebooted the universe, I still had issues. Harambe got killed and then humanity was shunted to the bad timeline. Still looking for a fix.

Just FYI, don’t double your RAM too many times in a row without taking into account the mass-energy content of all that RAM.

Me, still using Pirate Bay since before most of the people in this sub were born.

How much control does the average worker have over the state? Practically none.

Out of curiosity who do you think controls the state in China?

Not the workers.

Sure buddy, sure.

Take it this way, then:

Socialism is when the workers are in control of the means of production. Supposedly, socialist countries accomplish this by the state being in control of the means of production and the workers supposedly in control of the state. But in reality, the workers are not in control of the state, so the workers are not in control of the means of production, and it’s not socialism.

State capitalism is not socialism, and it is not a friend of the working class.

And that’s why I have a seed target of 0.9, so I’ll never have seeded the entirety of anything.

Nah. Being attacked by evil doesn’t make you good.

You’ve got to stop with this black-and-white thinking.

True true, and their ‘justifications’ for war are entirely bogus.

But I just caution against over-correcting. Just because someone is an enemy of the US doesn’t mean they’re perfect. Or even good.

But also … just because something is used by the US as propaganda doesn’t necessarily mean it’s untrue.

I should make a Schrodinger’s Linux.

Every command you enter has a 50% chance of being ignored, and the output of all commands is hidden and come with a 30s delay, so you never know whether the command was actually executed or not.

They all have to be inserted rectally, but the Linux pill vibrates and comes with free lube.

Windows pill you have to pay extra for lube.

Wait a minute … you’re trying to redpill me!

Allegedly, they changed that because idiots were going to their work computer and expecting “My PC” to open the contents of their home computer.

And don’t worry, the mega-corp that has constantly lied about things in the past promises that all the data from the integrated app that gets sent back to company HQ only gets used for training better chatbots (probably) (maybe) (possibly) (unless it’s, like really good blackmail material). And every single thing you’ve ever typed into Notepad surely isn’t just sitting there on a company server, waiting for a subpoena from an increasingly authoritarian government to gain access to…

(And, of course, that program you coded in Notepad? The fact that it was used to train Microsoft’s next chatbot, which then went on to magically write code strikingly similar to yours to be integrated into the next Microslop project without notifying or compensating you in any way … purely coincidental, of course. It’s not stealing – it’s training. Running it through a chatbot first magically removes all copyright protection from your code.)