“Perpetrators offer a service that will not be put into effect, or offer a service that solves a problem that would not exist without the racket.”

The very definition of racketeering.

Yeah it seems to be backwards, they voted for an “Extension of the temporary derogation”, which I assume means if do you want to take more time to discuss this problem vote yes, or vote no to enact the newly proposed law now. Which is why the greens are paradoxically for the proposal and the EPP is against. Another layer of shenanigans to confuse people I guess.

https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/189574

Scroll down and select your country: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

It’s always the ones you most expect.

Older and wiser me: “I should’ve done things when I was younger and dumber smh.”

Proton and Mullvad are probably fine yeah. Nord, Surfshark and Express are definitely very sus though, Nord even has known ties to Oxylabs.

Torrenting for personal use is legal where I live so I don’t have to use any, I’m just saying be mindful if you do.

As long as the VPN isn’t a front for residential proxies and routing bot traffic over your endpoint, doing god knows what. If they’ve been heavily advertised at some point, they most likely are.

“You too shall pass.”

I have to go shopping on Saturdays often enough that this is a elephant sized pet peeve for me. The aisle widths are like three people wide, and there’s seven trying to get through, two of them pushing carts. I have to shop like I’m dodging bullets in the fucking Matrix, swinging around the shopping basket to fit through gaps as they form.

And what’s even the result of all of that stocking during daytime? Shelves are empty half of the time anyway, I have to wait actual weeks for something to come back in stock sometimes, the shelf is empty every time I’m there and it’s at different times on different days. I don’t believe I’m always there just after a magical rush where all of it gets sold out.

Covid just straight up ruined everything about shopping in person and it never went back. They realized people will still shop there even if they offer dogshit service and that’s how it stayed. We need to demand better.

Well if you believe the benchmarks it’s about a 2x gain in pure compute, but only about 1.5x in actual speed when you consider cache and other bottlenecks. The X3D is similarly 2x as fast but adds another 25% on top of that given better cache locality. The transistor size density delta of 14 to 4nm would make me expect more of a 3-4x raw speed difference.

I guess the first Ryzen was technically only 9 years ago, and sure there the X3D is kind of a leap but that’s still resulted in comparatively marginal gains compared to what happened in the previous 10 years where it was easily a 5x delta. Meanwhile Intel is just cramming more and more E cores into things and pretending they’re doing better.

For the average person I really doubt CPU speed from 10 years ago or today makes all that much difference if both systems run from an NVMe.

Regular performance really has improved so very little in the past decade, it’s just been a focus on GPUs and power efficiency.

Lmaoooo, the book of personal attacks.

Wait what, it’s real? And from 2007?

Dammit, Amazon has no preview for it. I bet each page of it is meme worthy.

Yep. One must move beyond an “I hate you and I hope you die” relationship with ads, to a “I don’t think about you at all” relationship with ads. Regardless of how many fits Google throws about ublock, one can always do VPN/DNS type filtering. I’ve honestly almost forgotten ads exist.

Well it’s different when you’re selling drugs

Yeah it depends on how much you’d use it I guess. I remember playing some old titles on a GBA emulator app back during highschool breaks, but it kinda got old quickly. Would be pointless to buy something specifically for it unless you’re really into it, but if so something like this that’s well integrated would be pretty neat to have.

If it can do it with just that then it’s sensible to have less, since idling memory will use power and the less you have the longer the battery will last.

In a fascistic enough world where this would matter, people who abstain from the system are automatically flagged to be shot too, just fyi. You gotta also fill the normie services with conformist content to not become a detected anomaly if you really want to do it properly.

The more things change the more they stay the same.