I had a "good" job at one point. I didn't put money into a 401k because I knew I wouldn't be employed there forever.

Let's say you're 25 and you put 6% of $50k/yr into a 401k and then get fired 4 years later but then the best job you can find afterwards pays only a bit more than half of what you were making. You don't get that back that until you're 65 or whatever. That would have been $12k that's just gone. I want to actually live to be 65. I needed that money. I'm glad I didn't do that.

I might not have a retirement but at least I've (so far) never been homeless or had to live in my car.

Huh, I'm going to try shaving my armpits. I'm a smelly guy and I seem to need to use a lot of deodorant to keep it under control.

Instead of playing factorio 2.0 for 24 hours a day, I'll have to find a way to play it for 48 hours a day. The. Factory. Must. Grow.

Wow I didn't realize they also allowed home cultivation. It's good to see lawmakers at least somewhere in the world just doing good stuff for once. Some faith in humanity restored.

Some motherboards in 2024 still don't work if you put the ram in the wrong ram slots. I ran into that problem on an am5 board recently.

In reality, only some Pentium 1 compatible motherboards can support enough ram for you to actually run Linux on a Pentium 1. Even if you don't run into ram problems, you'll run into bios related problems. I would suggest anyone trying this in 2024 to not even attempt it unless you can get a socket 7, and preferably a later socket 7 motherboard at that. The closest thing I can come up with to a reason not to drop support for 486 (the cpu before the Pentium 1) is that a 486 is a lot more possible to put on a custom pcb than a Pentium 1. Some of the more basic arm cpus aren't even as powerful as an upper tier 486 (but better arm cpus aren't that hard for hobbyists to get). Anyone die-hard enough to want to try to run Linux on a fully custom made computer like that would have better results using an arm or risc-V chip instead.

I am curious why they're dropping support for 486 but not Pentium 1, pentium 2 and anything not capable of SSE1 or later. mmx isn't even that good but I guess gcc does technically support it.

I wonder if they're going to drop 486 support in gcc as well. It can still compile for 386. You have to seriously strip down the kernel to run Linux on anything that old. Maybe 486 users (all 2 of them) should switch to Temple OS.

If they never release the source, including all the fpga verilog files then this is pointless to the open source community.

Edit: actually I just realized my comment is kind of pointless. Even if he released the fpga source code, a thing a lot of projects like these never do, it still wouldn't be possible to reproduce one of these using only free and open source software. This is because the only fpgas that let you program them using open source software and not a locked-down windows-only bloatfuck program that needs an internet connection and licensing are the lattice ice40 fpgas. Tl;dr this can't be fully "open source".

I wonder if it would be possible to make an ice 40 based video card that could still do opengl.

No homo but I also like cock. I Iove the sensation of a big throbbing cock in my mouth as it jizzes out cum down my throat. It's all part of a balanced diet.

I think banning vpns like several borderline dictatorships have is still a little far fetched. This would have a negative impact on companies who use them who are the ones that tell congress what to do. Although they could always make it so that large corporations can get certain exceptions and legally using a vpn is just a matter of how much money they fork over to the fcc for a license or something.

It's currently illegal to transmit encrypted data over most non-2.4Ghz radio frequencies unless you're a telecommunication company. No one even cares enough to get mad about this. I imagine they'd eventually reuse whatever playbook they used to accomplish this.

How this could be justifiable in anyone's mind is shocking to me.

The thought process is generally "these people are homeless because they do drugs. Drugs have no place in our society. They're better off in prison or dead".

I disagree with this opinion but it's the opinion people have. Personally, I think they should ban thc drug tests that check for non phychoactive metabolites (in all jobs) and then see if people still fall to fentanyl. This would give everyone that's going to do drugs anyway a healthier but still effective alternative. It might just work. It'll cut down on alcohol abuse too.

Drugs are a hell of a drug

Linux incompatible anticheat is already enough for me to never play a game. Ubisoft's usual shenanigans are just more icing on the shit cake.