I’m with you there, real bullet, except the teleprompter was a lucky hit or perhaps rigged to shatter. Only meant to create a scene and never to hit Trump. His hand went immediately to his ear, likely with a pin, piece of glass or a ketchup packet from McDs to make it look genuine.

Shooter was likely a trumpet promised millions for his guilt if he ended up hitting anyone in the crowd, or perhaps found on the dark side of the Internet and blackmailed into doing it to avoid prison for whatever he got caught doing. Either way, he was gunned down before he could be arrested and pardoned/paid out (or talk).

Too little, too fucking late!

So painfully, boringly good.

Day-to-day, it just works, I don’t have to fight it. It doesn’t do anything I don’t want it to do. I don’t miss office, everything is clean and snappy.

I have managed to play almost every game thrown at it (Bazzite) - the only one that didn’t work was an older DX7 title. DOS games just work - they took more effort than this under Win9x.

I have got a couple of minor issues but all fixable.:

• I encountered a issue where it wouldn’t wake from sleep - fixed by selecting a different color profile in the display settings.
• I managed to break something in fstsb trying to setup a persistent network drive. Very easy to roll back, I’m 100% sold on immutable until I need something more customisable
• Recently my Bluetooth kb/mouse would drop off when the PC went idle, wouldn’t reconnect/wake up until power cycling the PC. Fixed by disabling BT hibernation/sleep

Having said that, last week I had to install Win11 on the kids laptop to be ready for school - I hadn’t installed 11 outside of a controlled Corp environment with solid group policy control since the early days. God-damn Win11 is a dumpster fire! The install UI looks nice but the noise is turned up to 11, popup, wizards, setup this, setup that, backup, OneDrive, give us all your information and sign away any privacy.

Regardless of any minor issues I bump into on the way, I am never going back!

This is real “Nice Guy” energy!

Transformers. I was very excited when this was announced, but it became a cold-water shower when Michael Bay was mentioned as director. Still, I had a sliver of hope that it would be at least on par with The Rock… It wasn’t.

Further from land

The labels and categorisation of everything can get tiring, and be utterly useless or confusing for anyone unfamiliar with a particular genre (it all sounds the same!), however these can still be handy when you find a particular sound you like, you can use that to discover other bands with similar sounds or style.

As bands in that genre experiment and evolve their sound, they may cross, mix it create all new genres that can lead you down a new list of bands to explore - or perhaps it’s not your flavour so you stick with what you like.

Most hobbies have depth to them like this, I guess music is so variable that we need a thousand ways to describe all the various possibilities.

\m/

How about you both meet halfway… And place Elon somewhere deep in the Pacific

12v fans will typically run fine, albeit much slower at 5v. This was a favorite trick many moons ago to reduce fan noise in desktops before quiet fans became mainstream. The main watch out is that the fan doesn’t stall at startup and fail to spin completely.

Fantastic, thanks for your input!

Oh yeah, but it took 10 years before they realized that :p

Good, good… Lure him in and then execute! What are the US going to do- invade and steal all your stuff!?

“TV manufacturers question why demand stagnates for 3D TVs”

I would sent the journalist $5 if they actually responded like this!

The businesses, property and assets they own typically can’t go with them so… Win/Win?

TACO

Lol, I was just thinking “thank God they didn’t go overboard with the static & tracking artifacts”. I much prefer the ‘clean’ VHS look.

I second this, it’s why I went with Bazzite on my main rig - it just needs to work and be reliable. The last thing I want to be doing in my spare time is funking around trying to fix anything that happens to break.

All my other devices run whatever I feel like so I can scratch that curiosity-itch but they get reinstalled if anything major breaks and I can’t fix it in a reasonable amount of time

“What about pork? Ham? Bacon?”

“Dad! They all come from the same animal!”

“Right Lisa, some wonderful, magical animal!”