O&O Shutup for Windows is also a solid tool for disabling telemetry and bloat. They have a recommended set of options to flip, all of which can be flipped at once, which is real damn convenient.

Yeah, I’m with you there. Don’t pirate an OS. That is just asking for shit to go wrong.

Always, always, always get OS images from the first party or first-party identified mirror.

Linux asnt an option for … Davinci Resolve

Davinci Resolve has a Linux download button on their website. So it should be ok. Admittedly I haven’t used that specific program on Linux, so I can’t say for sure it’s ok or not.

leap into the realm of Apple silicon with an M4 Pro Mac Mini

Yeah, Apple did a real good job with their processors in the last few years. Intel was holding them back hard. It’s amazing how much better the new systems are compared to just a few years ago.

This whole Win 11 mess is what finally convinced me to switch. I still can’t get over that Settings hasn’t reached feature parity with Control Panel yet. Figured if I have to re-learn how to do settings for the 10th time, I might as well do it in an OS that isn’t shoving ads in my face.

Thank you for the solid points. People are dooming way too hard, simply because their preferred candidate lost this round. There is an opportunity for Democrats to improve themselves. They had that wakeup call 8 years ago, and they didn’t take it. Hopefully they will this time and strengthen the quality of the party and the candidates. Simply being ‘not Republican’, their primary strategy, isn’t enough.

teetering on brink of another civil war

Shit has to get much, much, much worse before people are willing to take up arms against their own family member 'en mass. A civil war isn’t one in which you fight a far away enemy, a civil war is one in which many of your family members and friends are on the opposite side. We are nowhere near a civil war, not even close.

Assuming you are talking about who won the US presidential election. Happened 8 years ago too, it wasn’t the end of America then. It won’t be the end of America now.

Why would Pennsylvanians hate carbon-free power?

This day, day 999 of the war, Ukraine certainly hasn’t lost. Enabling strikes to cripple Russia’s war machine will certainly make sure Russia doesn’t win for the next many days too.

In this war of attrition, all one has to do is not lose.

You would rather power it with natural gas? Because that is what would largely power it otherwise. The datacenter does not turn off at night.

Drivers frequently change their hand placement as they turn the wheel. You lose precision and basic ability to manipulate the wheel if you don’t.

The center screen is basically a fully functional tablet (video streaming and all), in addition being the the only console in the car. Tesla has tried to differentiate themselves with this. I personally do see some appeal, particularly as most cars have absurdly under-powered infotainment systems that simply shouldn’t exist. If one is going to include one, the menus should at least scroll smoothly and screens load quickly.

Replacing physical controls with touch buttons continues to be an incredibly dumb idea. Luckily several other manufactures who hopped on the trend are realizing it was a bad choice.

Ask and you shall receive. One exploding, freshly-minted, counter-battery radar!

I suppose if you want to tinker with the device remotely the cloud feature might be useful. However, I know I have personally never felt the need to tinker with a UPS. They are a set-it-and-forget-it appliance.

I just put a physical label on each one listing when the battery was last replaced, so I know when it is time to replace with a fresh one.

Edit: Nor do I trust them to keep up to date with security patches for an IoT UPS. Remember, the S in IoT stands for security. Don’t add any IoT devices to your network you don’t need to.

70 drones were used in a series of attacks on Russia and only military targets were attacked. They added that a group of drones successfully hit a electronic factory in the Bryansk region used to make Russian military equipment like long-range missiles and anti-aircraft systems.

All Russia has to do to make it stop is simply leave Ukraine.

Netflix also won’t serve 1080p if you are on PC. Even though you have specifically paid for 1080p or higher.

The biggest thing F-16 will provide to Ukraine is the fact it has been integrated with so many different weapons already. Almost any western nation can just ship their weird domestic flavor missile and there is a damn good chance it will just work with the F-16.

Why? Because F-16 was so highly produced and so cheap that almost every western country owns F-16 and has integrated their weapons with it already.

They are also incredibly more capable.

Most militaries are going with a mix of F-35 for their capability as well as cheaper aircraft or high-capability drones for the sheer volume. Both have their place.

And things like this are exactly why Ukraine needs to continue to receive lethal aid. More and more invading Russians are sent packing with every delivery.