Depends whether you’re talking about Marxism or whatever the fuck the USSR etc. was doing, which was a very different thing.

Me: but I want a computer where I don’t have to troubleshoot the wifi driver every 3 months…

That’s what we said, “Linux.” I haven’t had to troubleshoot a driver in like seven years.

ITT: no actual arguments, just mere contradictions.

Also how’s your B350 board holding up?

Just fine so far, but thanks a lot for jinxing it! 😠

It’s a Gigabyte AB350N-Gaming WiFi, which is a mini-ITX board, so having the B-series chipset was probably less about making it cheap and more about the features of fancier chipsets being wasted on a board that didn’t have enough space to implement the connectors for them. Therefore, it might like slightly higher quality than some other B350 boards.

It is categorically not ever “impossible to avoid”.

Exactly. It might be hard to keep a cat inside literally 100% of the time, but that’s not an excuse. My cat has run out the door or knocked out the window screen a couple of times and been outside for a few hours before we noticed and caught her, but that certainly doesn’t make her an “outdoor cat!”

Still, it’s weird that the zoomed-in image came from a different copy of the game than the other two. (Or that they took off the sticker before taking another photo, and then didn’t use that new photo for the zoomed-in image.)

Methinks this is projection from the right

It always is.

.ml is that way —-> [rightward pointing arrow]

something something “stethoscope theory”

Meanwhile, I’m here on the other side of the world nodding my head and saying “yep, Australia checks out.”

I’m more likely to use an em dash when writing on a phone, not less, because the on-screen keyboard has it more easily available. It’s when I’m using a physical keyboard writing on desktop that I’m more likely to use two hyphens.

In this case, we can tell it’s likely parallel because the springs (negative terminals) are on the same side. When the batteries are in series they’re usually placed in the compartment facing alternating directions.

What community is this, !headlinesfrom2015 ?

Mine is a B350 – I’m still running the same motherboard I used 7 years ago with my old Ryzen 1700X. Considering how much depends on the CPU these days instead of the chipset, does it even really matter if the chipset is older?

You presume that bathtub isn’t filled with espresso.

I don’t know about AM5, but I’m running a 5700X3D on a motherboard that still has a PS/2 port. (Not that I’m using it, but it’s there.) You can still have a pretty modern system with PS/2 if you really want it.

I would expect that any motherboard that went to the trouble of including a PS/2 port would handle it with a real hardware interrupt, because the whole point of still having those things is to avoid the latency overhead of USB.

ordering some thing from AliExpress

And that’s where the tariffs getcha. Can’t share other people’s data 'cause of Louisiana’s anti-free-speech law; can’t get your own data 'cause of Trump tariffs. Oh yeah, it’s all coming together (the noose, that is).

I use Linux

Believe it or not, straight to CECOT.

INB4 the US outlaws Free Software drivers and mandates DRM and locked firmware in all new PCs.