People are already doing this, which is making it impossible to refurbish computers: https://youtu.be/T6eiFyJMWgM

Oh yes they do

Got it: be careful when rubbing the balls otherwise they’ll get too sticky or hard

Sure it is you uh…hold on let me sample the tail distribution for an insult…you snollygoster!

Short answer: rich people are dumb and spend their money on dumb shit to flex on us poors

I’ve never gotten an ad with premium. Been subscribed for about 5 years.

It definitely CAN be cheaper but seems like a good fraction of people choose to live on the high hog and dump a ton of money into their vans. Also there’s just a ton of anxiety needing to move around constantly. Where are you exactly where that’s not a worry?

Oddly enough ECC used to be quite common for consumer hardware…I had an old Mac desktop in the late 90s/early 00s with ECC memory. But at some point it was decided that consumers don’t want to pay the extra $ for error-free RAM and mobos largely dropped support.

Edit: reading up on it the G5 (which I had) required ECC memory

~~free labourers~~ slaves

That’s a crosswalk, you can’t stick a bollard there because it would block the ramp for a wheelchair-bound person. Designing this shit that works for everyone is hard when cars are in the mix…would be a lot easier to just ban the cars to come up with a design that works for everyone else.

The free parts of the internet already feel like tiny reservations trapped within a vast collection of oppressors…

“I miss you son…almost as much as I miss the energy of Five Hour Energy Dubai Chocolate Crunch!”