It’s some sketchy pre-cracked Jack Sparrow edition I torrented to run exclusively offline in a VM and will never let it connect to the internet because I don’t trust it. I’m not too worried about getting security updates for it.

I exclusively use it to run Autodesk Inventor for making 3D printable objects. Once the STL is created I just drag and drop it out of the VM into my Linux machine. It’s the only communication with the outside world it will ever have.

I have a copy of Windows 10 LTSC that I have installed on a virtual machine just in case I need the one last program that I use that I cannot get to work on Linux.

Lately I upgraded my machine and had to reinstall everything. As I was installing Windows on my VM, it started demanding that I create an account and wouldn’t let me proceed without one, asked be to associate third party accounts to my OS and was generally being extremely intrusive and forceful in ways I didn’t remember it being before, like opening Edge and forcing me to click through an introduction that I didn’t want without giving me the option to close it. I then realized that I had forgotten to disable network access to my VM and that Windows had downloaded updates during the install.

I immediately destroyed that VM and started over again, this time without allowing it to connect to internet. Suddenly the experience was far better.

The moment I had let Windows connect to the internet it had thoroughly enshittified itself. It let me appreciate how badly Microsoft has enshittified Windows 10 over the years ever since its release. We are far away from the Windows 7 days.

Install Linux

Where are all the retired men going to hang out now?

He has spent his entire life clinging to the delusion that he is a great businessman and deal maker. It is what he wants to be remembered as. Now even the people of Wall Street are calling him out and exposing him for the fraud that he always had been. That probably hurts him down to the core of his pathetic being.

It was. Wait 'till the consequences of them firing all the auditors and placing corrupt people in key places take effect.

What about the climate crisis threatening national security?

Guaranteed less than one week before one of them comes back covered in graffiti.

Rob badly wants to become a Combine stalker it seems. Hey, you do you, Rob.

Have they managed to make him realize less than 1 percent of how much of a disgusting human being that he is?

I say less than 1 percent because any more than that he’d just jump off of the nearest tall building.

Just keep pretending we want it and waste his time for as long as we can

They don’t dig the bullets out usually because it causes more damage for no reason. Stop believing everything you read someone say on 4chan.

9gag is a cesspool of Russian trollbots.

It’s like there is a significant overlap between the people who allow organized religion to dictate their world views and people who believe in anti vax conspiracy theories or something.

But what about the tiny corner of the traffic signal in the other box? What about pedestrian crossing lights? Do they count? Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t. It’s infuriating.

For me anyway, my loss of interest in the DOOM franchise began when they started dehumanizing the Doom Marine and started stacking fantasy/medieval elements to the main protagonist and his arsenal. They turned a futuristic space marine who just got punished for punching an officer into some sort of fantastic demigod thing. It got really bad in Doom Eternal already.

I like my DOOM games when it is a battle of sci-fi military forces against demonic forces. Human technology versus the hordes of hell. But now with Dark Ages Bethesda turned the franchise into a more violent and edgy Skyrim.

The stupid thing is that the unified West had no reason to fear Putin’s hollow threats until Trump started doing everything he can to destroy what makes the West strong. He wants to roll over in front of Russia and make the US Putin’s bitch.

The West won’t roll over like him though. They’ll strengthen their alliances against Russia and will become something far stronger. It just won’t involve the US anymore.

Is that a Chad Grinch?

Sounds like she took some edibles before tweeting this

Sounds like something straight from Helldivers.