According to the Gamers Nexus (I think) video I saw, they’re sourcing whatever RAM they can find, so some units ship with 1x16GB and others ship with 2X8GB and it’s just random luck which you’ll get.

Looking at this without context in my inbox, I thought you were being extremely generous to Trump.

Putting Biden in the bottom 15 is harsh, but fair. Fucker’s gonna be remembered the same as Neville Chamberlain.

Ah, thanks for the warning. My install has been badgering me to upgrade because my (non-LTS) version just stopped getting security updates. I ought to get off my ass and switch distros.

Of course it’s very good; it’s literally perfect!

And Biden knew that but appointed him anyway.

I just ordered new glasses the other day and sprung for an IR-blocking lens coating when I saw it was an option. Who knows if it’ll help much, but it can’t really hurt (aside from me possibly not liking the pink sheen they apparently have).

IIRC, they started out planning to have realistic amounts of parking, then realized that (much like sprawl in real life) it made it no fun.

Yep.

In 2002, I used Gentoo.

In 2026, I use Kubuntu.

(I should probably switch since Canonical’s policies are increasingly bothering me, but meh, I can’t be bothered to reinstall more than once a decade.)

Username checks out?

In theory, vodka isn’t supposed to have a flavor, so that should just be normal whipped cream.

I just ordered new glasses the other day and sprung for an IR-blocking lens coating when I saw it was an option. So for me, yes.

https://www.zennioptical.com/id-guard

“An individual cop can be decent. Cops are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.”

Wait, the gabecube isn’t exactly a cube? Well that’s just mildly annoying for no good reason!

That’s cool and all, but the main reasons modern concrete structures don’t last are either:

1. They’re full of steel reinforcement (because it would be unacceptably expensive to build structures relying entirely on compression the way the Romans did) and the steel deteriorates, or
2. They become functionally obsolete regardless of the continuing stability of the structure.

There are precious few things we build these days, aside from deliberate monuments, that we even want to last 100+ years to begin with. Even huge things like the Hoover Dam aren’t meant to be permanent on that kind of timescale.

The other problem, of course, is that we’ve spent a century and a bit messing with the forests, which used to have regular burns that acted as fire breaks for the next year’s burns. Ground cover grew back thick and green in the ashes, and trees dispersed their seeds.

Now however, we’ve stopped that cycle, leading to overpopulation of insects, buildup of deadwood, and no natural fire breaks, meaning humans have to artificially do all the work that used to happen naturally… right when everything is heating up and weather systems are shifting.

As I understand it, at least some of the fires that had been happening previously were controlled burns by Native Americans First Nations people (sorry, USian talking about Canada), not “naturally” occurring ones.

https://parks.canada.ca/nature/science/conservation/feu-fire/autochtones-indigenous

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/fire/indigenous-fire-practices-shape-our-land.htm

That’s some highfalutin’ verbiage just to complain about punctuation.

Ironically, crocodile nuggets aren’t dino nuggets. Chicken nuggets are closer.

'Course, if all you’re really looking for is “scary scaly monster nugget” regardless of taxonomy, by all means, croconugget away!

I only keep saying it because it keeps being true.

I actually had a job for a while where I was responsible for the Changeable Message Signs (CMSs) on the freeways. So not quite a traffic reporter, but responsible for giving traffic advice to drivers in real time. You’re right, it was a reasonably interesting job.

That said, other than making people aware of multiple-lane-closure wrecks in time to take an alternate route, there isn’t much “alleviating” that mere comments can do. The fundamental problem is that too many people are trying to use the roads at once because the system isn’t designed to facilitate alternatives to driving. Having some engineer on the TV every day saying “lobby your politicians for more funding for bikes and transit” might be a good thing, but wouldn’t exactly be “news.”

All chicken nuggets are dino nuggets.