Is your experience IT exclusively, or do you also have (even rudimentary) programming experience? Industrial automation is a great option. I feel blessed, having started from below the bottom (not all people are fit to be parents!) working as a metal carpenter while still underage, to have managed to get into this field, through hard work and, most importantly, a good amount of luck.

Everything should be licensed like that

You don’t need to turn off anything, you can install whatever package you want, but they’ll be overwritten by some updates

Fiat 124 Lada

Sounds uncomfortable for all involved

Funniest thing is they have a page for alternatives to their own site

You mean a PATA SSD? Core 2 duos came with SATA

The computer actually came with an SSD, they swapped it because they appreciate the time to think between one operation and the next

That gives you decent performance on a one cylinder moped

Then I weep for this poor soul. A spinning disk in 2023, that’s cruel and unusual punishment.

The reason the rich are rich is that they extract value from others’ work. Everything else is just a bonus.

I didn’t mind it actually. Like I don’t mind the GNOME overview or whatever the thing that comes up when you press Meta is called

TIL I grew up during the great depression

Yeah I never really considered them before Ryzen, but even afterwards, it’s been very difficult to find one with the specs I want.

I’ve been on AMD and ATi since the Athlon 64 days on the desktop.

Laptops are always Intel, simply because that’s what I can find, even if every time I scour the market extensively.

The EU has an instance

And why most Linux users would rather not play these games than allow that garbage on our PCs.

A jammer is less sophisticated than a crowbar. It’s not like the burglar designs it themselves. Nor are they hacking your network to gain access, they just shut everything down.

Search for porn? Meaning he didn’t already know where to find it?

There will be no consequences for those who made this choice because going with the biggest suppliers is never wrong: they in theory have the highest reliability, and even if they don’t, then it’s not just your problem but everyone else’s too, can’t blame those responsible when the outage is akin to an “act of God”