implying Google has customer service

ten billion percent

Treat them like ebikes, always blame the car in a crash, simple as.

Laptop and Chromebook are two very different things. A laptop is sufficient for any use case that doesn’t demand GPU power, but if you’re ever considering buying a “gaming” laptop, don’t. You can get a cheap laptop and a decent gaming desktop for the same price and they’ll last you longer and run better.

A Chromebook is just walled garden bullshit.

Common NPR L

Iain M. Banks’ Culture

The Union’s medical technology is notably more advanced than the Federation’s, yes. Dr. Finn would have Pike up and walking in an afternoon.

The Union’s medical technology is notably more advanced than the Federation’s, yes. Dr. Finn would have Pike up and walking in an afternoon.

Or this video, Climate Town featuring Not Just Bikes

Games are free on PC, or at least very cheap if you insist on actually purchasing them

In an early episode of the Orville, Gordon and Isaac get into a prank war which culminates in Isaac removing Gordon’s leg. This is treated as going a little bit too far but ultimately harmless and funny.

In Star Trek, they tend to prefer to mitigate risks protectively with things like anti-grav harnesses and holodeck safeties, except for exceptionally reckless individuals like James T. Kirk and Jason Vigo.

Both the Maquis and the Bajoran Resistance are justified, it is always morally correct to attack fascists.

the ! addressing allows you to post a link that anybody can click to get their instance’s version of the community link. So for example, !linux@lemmy.ml posted anywhere on lemmy becomes a link to https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/linux@lemmy.ml for me, but the exact same link is a link to https://aussie.zone/c/linux@lemmy.ml for you

The matrix is capitalism and being cis

躺平

I tend to binge through books. I just finished Andy Weir’s Artemis and Project Hail Mary in about one night each.

Which means the things I’m in the middle of tend to be web serials since I can’t just rush through. I’ve got dozens of tabs of royalroad open in my phone’s browser. Everything by Ravensdagger is good, and I’ve been enjoying Return of the Runebound Professor and Let’s Not Obliterate, and awaiting the scheduled return from hiatus of Ends of Magic on Monday.

Rimworld, KSP1, Stellaris

A recipe for frequent civil wars

Really the whole Trashfuture extended universe is fantastic

It’d be neat if some studio executives’ houses just happened to mysteriously burn down