That sort of thing actually does happen if your car is weird enough.
As the owner of several weird/fun cars + one "normal" one (a minivan), I can confirm. I've actually joined clubs and gone to driving events in the mountains and other meetups with people who've owned the same weird car as me, but would never think of seeking out a community of minivan enthusiasts.
What kind of 4Runner?
Grandpa Simpson's car is significantly less fuel-efficient than the vehicle pictured.
And even if you don't fuck it up, the creditor is profiting off you anyway because of the transaction fee they charged the vendor.
While Zip was the most successful of the Superfloppies, it was never ubiquitous.
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The reason it vanished quickly was simple: Zip was never that good and CDRW was much better. As soon as the prices dropped for CDRW, Zip was a goner.
They all made the same mistake: trying to extract monopoly rents instead of becoming an open standard. Same reason why most of Sony's bullshit over the years (betamax, minidisc, memory stick, etc.) failed, regardless of whether it was technologically "good" or not.
There could have been room in the market for a standardized superfloppy, but the companies making them relegated themselves to be niche by their greed well before CDRW finished them off.
(I owned a zip drive as a teenage computer nerd, BTW. Pretty sure I still have it in a box somewhere.)
This title is not accurate. The GPUs worked on Linux already, but only with AMD's old proprietary RADEON driver. The news is that they are now supported by the Free Software AMDGPU driver.
I mean, I was overstating my case a little bit. To be fair, Riker and Boimler are the only actual examples we have of it (at least by that particular method), and Rutherford's bet was more about that sort of wacky situation being "a Boimler kind of thing to happen" (possibly paraphrased).
But you see, externalized profits don't count. Externalities are for losses only.
They weren't called the "me generation" for nothing!
Or having it taken to pay for medical care and whatnot if they don't.
cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/lemmyshitpost/p/1905778/woops
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What about Saab 9-2X owners?