Only on consenting adults who have the ability to reasonably reject the offer (so they’re not forced into it for any reason, like money). The guy in the picture did it on babies, so… if you want to do it on yourself go ham, but that wouldn’t be fair. Animal experimentation is bad enough.

We somehow avoided that, luckily.

I had the pleasure of getting sold a cheap power supply though. It was rather fascinating to learn that, indeed, even burning hardware can still provide sufficient power to play games (for a few seconds).

I remember the funny lines on the back when I accidentally bumped into the tower or had the subwoofer on as it was burning.

Also holding down on the close-pin on a discman (so it would keep spinning the disc) and differently coloured sharpies were a great way to colourize your collection.

During some practical school training (basically two weeks where pupils are send to work in companies full-time without pay) at an electronics shop, someone brought in a Windows XP machine that caused problems. Heard that sound so often…

Turned out they still ran it without any Service Packs. Windows Update also refused to work… and it was registered to those fine people called “Skidrow” (the cracking group). 😅

At that time those registration cracks already supported Windows Update, they should’ve updated that one!

Congrats! Be aware that Windows loves to wipe foreign bootloaders though. If your computer suddenly can’t boot Mint anymore but goes right into Windows, that’s another way of MS screwing with you.

Look, an insult to life.

Boomer don’t know how to do shit 'cause computers were so rare. Zoomers don’t know how to do shit 'cause big companies profit from people who can’t help themselves and have low standards.

There was only a small timeframe where computers were available, accessible yet not enshittificated for profit like today.

It see’s the US as AI slop?

For the sake of this meme I’ll just assume it’s meant to be meta as fuck.

We already do that, it’s simply covered up by capitalism and distance. Those who die mostly are in the poorest regions of Earth while everyone else complains about higher prices.

With the Ukraine invasion the grain supply also took a hit, yet western shelves (and garbage containers) were always filled to the brim. Those who died because of it died in the shadows, at least from most people’s perspective.

What are these “Burritos”?

Damn, is your name JVC? 'cause you’re projecting like a pro.👌

Bwahahaha. Apparently your “accuracy” doesn’t include the wisdom to avoid rhetorical nonsense, for example how not to construct a straw man. I saw similar behaviour with other people before. You’re either a troll or lying to yourself. Either way and with all due respect, you’re full of shit. I take the “you sound American” as a compliment for my English skills though, given it’s not my first language. I’m not American, fortunately.

Yes it is for a lot of people. Do you think the system will happily keep working for those it persecutes? This is a mistake a lot of Jews, Democrats, LGBT and others make every time the can’t imagine their country goes fascist, and it always backfires. Right now of those who’re technically eligible for a passport, citizens with migrant origin (or those who “look like it”) as well as trans people are already in danger of not being able to flee anymore. The first are persecuted by ICE, the second are being erased and now they (with Musk at the helm) start framing them as terrorists.

You’re living under a fascist government, act accordingly and do it swiftly.

Perhaps the last thing I see before it slices me into pieces.

That or a Shade, a Replicant, a Machine, a Dragon, a Logic Virus, Kainé…

If it’s a furry they might go for Vaporeon.

…NieR.

So either I die rather quickly or live in a world of lasting sorrow and decay with short bursts of beauty doomed to fail. But at least I can be philosophical about it, right?

Austria, apparently.

They were just happy it wasn’t them for once.

Sounds like the Irish version of the german winter chaos. The very moment the first snowflake drops it’s total chaos, trains being terminated left and right due to an old railway switch that still saw Adolf freezing shut again.

To be fair, Google Maps sucks ass in this regard. If you ever visit Europe, never EVER trust it for public transit information. Always look on the native apps and websites. Google Maps regularly offers me routes that either don’t exist anymore, not at that time or day of the week, unnecessarily require a group taxi somewhere or are simply extremely inefficient. Instead of a 95min travel it wanted me to go for a route that took 145 minutes the last time (luckily I knew it was bullshit).

Even FOSS apps that may acquire travel data through rather novel means will provide more accurate information than the billions of dollars available to Googles car heads.