In the last decade, I’ve had that sort of issue affect me twice:

1. I bought an AMD Vega 56 on launch day, and I had to run it with the proprietary driver for a while.
2. I recently upgraded my three monitors, and was having trouble getting them all to do the 1440p/100Hz they were rated for. After a bunch of fiddling with xrandr etc. and trying to add modelines and whatnot, it turned out the real problem was that I needed to upgrade from HDMI cables to DisplayPort ones.

Anyway, I guess the gist is that I wouldn’t have expected Windows to do any better in either case.

You have to reject smart TVs at the time of purchase, or manufacturers think this shit is okay and will keep escalating until even an Nvidia Shield won’t save you.

So the next rebellion will be absolutely without resistance, but will be backed by every branch of government. Most likely even the media won’t dare to call it out for what it is either.

Why are you writing in future tense? That’s what’s happening now.

You say that as if legal vs. illegal matters at this point.

What do you mean, “can’t be filibustered?” You fucking shout to drown out the person trying to conduct the vote, and you don’t stop until you and every other non-fascist have been forcibly removed.

I can’t read the article because paywall, but I assume access was blocked by some sort of court injunction. So what’ll really happen is that that stuff is how actual-patriot treasury employees will occupy their time until the ruling gets appealed to some MAGA judge and Musk waltzes right back in again.

They’re not “gearing up;” it’s steamrolling us as we speak.

In truth it was very challenging to stay calm in the face of someone saying something so blatantly biased and false.

Collectively, we really need to quit doing that. Failing to call out hateful bullshit because of some weird adherence to ‘civility’ is part of what got us to this point in the first place.

Half the founding fathers were closet atheists using ‘Deism’ as a fig leaf.

Bullshit. The Republicans managed to obstruct even with a minority. Senate Democrats have no excuse for continuing to play along in good faith.

At least fucking filibuster everything, damn it!

@givesomefucks is focusing on root causes, which only seems like weird rando stuff to those with a surface-level understanding of the problem.

Monkey’s paw curls

Okay, now you’ve got a fracking company CEO as Secretary of Energy.

That is genuinely stupid enough to be plausible.

Pretty sure CNN is (willfully) misinterpreting the law. The EU is definitely not prohibiting them from just turning off the tracking without providing a choice.