If you want to blow the whistle on somebody and wonder if the Guardian is trustworthy I suggest you ask Julian Assange.

Garbage out is what he aims for.

You first.

What definitely did happen to me is I booted into windows, shut down, on the next startup there was no more grub menu, just instant boot into windows. (Separate physical drives).

I hear it every time: But Muh Windows is better, because you dont have to install Drivers!!!11!11elf

I come from a time when you (in Windows) had to hand pick the correct driver for the individual device from a very long list of options to make anything work, not just graphics. Not just “the nvidia driver”. Think “driver for the Sapphire RTX 12345.6.7-8 pro super max whatchamacallit RGB edition with anime waifu on the backplate, manufactured between May 21st and august 15th, quality controlled by Jeff and packaged by Tony”. If your card was packaged by Bertha instead it wouldn’t work. (Mine was always packaged by Bertha. Fuck Bertha.)

I feel so fucking old when I read complaints like this (yeah, I know, it’s because I am). Is clicking the highest version number behind the word “nvidia” considered complicated nowadays?

I’ll make a note to get back to you about this in a few years when they start blocking people from correcting AI authored articles.

Yup. And MS had to bribe the city of Munich with moving their German HQ there to make them switch back.

As long as people get punished for pirating media, corporations need to license their shit just as well.

Good.

Sooooo … You people don’t have signs? Because my car can read those.

I imagine something like this.

It’s not electrons “reaching” a point that does the work, it’s the fact that they move. A generator or a battery just applies the force that makes them move (voltage).

You can in fact picture it like water, just in a circular, perfectly level channel. When you paddle at one point in the channel the water starts to move and can do work at another point. It doesn’t really matter where exactly you are paddling.

How is showing me ads for things I will make a point not to buy because I implicitly hate the products of people showing me ads more profitable than the twenty fucking bucks a month I already give them?

Imagine if all that misallocated marketing budget got used to develop better products instead.

Haha, no you can’t.

I have an nvidia GPU and it worked out of the box.

MS execs blathered about “the age of software running locally being over” long before Chromebooks.

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But yeah, you’re 100% right.