I use TrackIR.

To play a flight sim, I have to connect a joystick, throttle, pedals, and TrackIR. My throttle is a part of a HOTAS that’s so old and obscure, driver installation on Windows 10 can be tricky. So I don’t want to attempt to get all this gear running on Linux. So I keep Win10 on an SSD and hang my head in shame.

A coworker once told me that the Confederacy couldn’t win because the North had the industrial advantage. I said that sounds like wisdom in English, but it’s a joke in Vietnamese.

The North’s victory being inevitable is part of the lost cause Neo-Confederate myth. It’s purpose is to excuse the South’s loss and obscure the record of her military blunders.

You don’t accidentally squeeze a trigger hard enough to fire.

Yes you do. What do you suppose trigger discipline is for?

It’s trivially easy to accidentally discharge a firearm. People kill their loved ones like this all the time. Guns are dangerous and their presence is a mortal threat to everyone around them. Responsible gun ownership is an oxymoron.

Early in the summer I bought a card @ $100 above launch price. Today, that card is $70 more expensive than that.

5090s were always a luxury item, but the prices of mid to low range cards is a tragedy for budget pc gaming.

Wardogs? More like conflict coyotes amiright?

I’ve got a low-energy Intel Atom server. The CPU is technically 64 bit, but some of the other hardware is still 32bit, limiting you to that.

I’ve been running Debian on it (and several predecessors). I’m stuck on Debian12 because they’re dropping 32bit support after that.

I don’t really use it to “self-host” other than as a file server for backups and Pihole.

If you read the article, this is a very specific legal question. And honestly, it’s too gross to contemplate, and having a strong opinion about this on the internet is rightly suspicious.

The good news is the criminal in this case didn’t just posess CSAM, and no matter how this shakes out, they going to jail.

That’s just the Air Traffic Controller new-hires that got lost on the way to the tower.

Openly admiring Aurelius or stoicism is a big red flag. Nothing inherently bad about that philosophy, but it tends to appeal to a certain type who tend to think stoicism is just the serenity prayer duct-taped to an overwhelming sense of superiority.

The kind shit a centrist would post.

Being satisfied with an “AI” relationship implies that you haven’t experienced human connection or couldn’t appreciate it. “AI” girlfriends are more like a prosthetic than an alternative.

I’ve often wondered if the priest/ monk class in the middle-ages wasn’t a social program for dudes who just weren’t going to be productive any other way. Just lock away the incels together and let them brew beer and breed pea plants.

I browse reddit without logging in and with an adblocker. From their perspective, I’m a parasite using resources but contributing nothing; I’m proud of that.

Abraham Lincoln didn’t free the slaves Slaves fought for their rights and freed themselves.

Lincoln is the most pro-black president in history and it’s not close. His personal prejudice and treatment of Natives are irrelevant to the fact that emaciation being a war goal was his decision and wasn’t inevitable. It’s easy to see how a lesser president (like Johnson) would’ve made peace with an intact slaver society.

If you want to argue who the formally enslaved have to thank for their emancipation, I’d argue that the Confederates are the proximate cause. It was the slavers who started the rebellion that forced the issue. It was the slavers fighting for slavery that conjured fatal opposition that didn’t exist before.

I don’t want to minimize the struggle enslaved people faced. But only a tiny number of enslaved or formally enslaved people even participated in the war. They certainly didn’t rise up and overthrow slavery.

Microslop has designed a hardware solution to disable AI features on Windows for advanced users.

I don’t think being wrongfully persecuted for being in the Epstein files is a thing. It’s kinda the point of the meme that plenty of scientists did go on his plane and to his island. And some of those emails from scientists were commiserating over how “me too has gone too far”.

But sure, not all scientists…

It probably has something to do with using a gun.

The 2nd amendment only protects your right to purchase and own a gun. Not only is using a gun often illegal, it’s grounds for summery execution. You know, freedom.

I see that I’ve triggered the conspiracy people.

You want to hear a real conspiracy? You cant be this dumb, you must be one of ‘them’ pretending to be this dumb to throw people off

Yes, this is a good example of conspiratorial ideation. You’re inches away from self awareness.