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DT probably hasn't even seen his in at least a decade

Just do a "RetroPie" install on Linux. It was originally built for Pi's but works fine on 64-bit Debian/Ubuntu etc

And that was kinda my point. The issue isn't just that these jobs won't pay the bills (with a bit to spare) but rather that they won't pay the bills, there are less generally-available jobs that do, and those often have hefty requirements well beyond what they should.

People are being pushed down in the job market and the "McJobs" are insufficient for most people to get by. There user you be more positions that did at one point pay better than flipping burgers and they didn't require you have a Masters', five years experience, and 50 grand of student debt courses.

There were also more retail positions for those that wanted something a bit different than serving up food from a drive-through window. They didn't pay that much more but it was still something, and people became very knowledgeable in those positions. Want to know what tool does job X, what paint to use for job Y, or where to find the latest movie/single/book from some lesser-known artist: there was a staff member that knew that, and they knew the regular customers too! There was a guy whose main job was to put your groceries in a bag and maybe bring it out to the car.

Now we have adults taking up dual serving jobs and a side hustle in order to make ends meet. That's not "end at 4pm and chill" that's "collapse at home and get a minimal amount of sleep before going at it again and again and again".

Corporations cut staff, don't increase pay, and make record profits. I'm not sad that somebody might be working a McJob because they want to want to, I'm sad because they're probably working several part-time because they HAVE to and still struggling to get by, with little to no down-time and no opportunities for change.

And when a bunch of people finally say "fuck it" and employers can't find even enough people to staff their bare-minimum shift schedule, they cry to the government who brings in a million people from other countries to exploit instead of having the corps actually be pressured to make those jobs less shitty.

I kinda agree in the aspect that a passing fries and a burger out a drive-thru window shouldn't be the standard of job people expect to live off forever, and that there should be room for starter-jobs.

But, the costs of living have gone up while the number of viable of decent jobs has gone down. Maybe the issue isn't that a burger job isn't meeting the bare minimum but that people expect you to work an office job for barely more than the burger one, while often also asking for some pretty hefty credentials/experience to boot.

Even in the McJobs, there should be some path for workers to have stepping stones to better positions. And yeah, there should also be no tolerance of assholes. Fuck "the customer is always right" and make it "we strive for customer satisfaction, but if you're an awesome we have the right to refuse service"

The country did come together, enough to vote the fucker out. I really, REALLY hope they do so again. It would be nice if they also gave the boots to the ones that enabled and shielded him in the other branches of the executive too.

Plenty of people have OLED TVs that last longer than that, depends on the use case.

My laptop has an OLED screen and I'm pretty sure it's older than 5yo now. No burn in. No dead pixels

Not good for real-time rendering, but it still has potential for rendering 3D still scenes or frames of a video, or a small studio might have those 80 CPU's in a render-farm and not need to worry about supply-issues for GPU'S

Most people don't get that this is even possible until it bites them in the ass like this.

Certainly my own parents wouldn't think to try and find a "dumb" TV in this market or to not connect the damn thing to the internet like it tells you when you power it on. They bought a TV that lets them watch Netflix.

By the same token, I don't except my fucking microwave to suddenly require that I accept a ToS in order to nuke a potato, or to suddenly start showing me ads in increasing amounts a year or more after I bought and paid for it.

Users aren't the problem. Shitty companies and a lack of strong legislation against this (or legislators being for it) are the problem. Nobody should ever be presented with a 50 page ever-changing EULA for a product they've paid for to access common functionality.

They're not a problem. They're not even naive. They're just not savvy on all things about a given technology especially when it comes up aspects of legal arguments on such.

Before purchase seems to be the big thing. LG is also under fire for this regarding fridges as they put it on the box but typically that wasn't seen prior to purchase (the fridge models on the floor are unboxed) and many people use delivery companies that do the unboxing before the item gets to the consumer.

On the other hand, I could definitely see a bunch of red-controlled states deciding to remove Biden (or future Dem candidates) for whatever bullshit reason in the future, so while this ruling isn't necessarily consistent with current practice it at least doesn't open the door to that.

Except that R's are already pretty cool with being inconsistent about what is our isn't allowed, which is how we got certain members of the SC in the first place...

It's like the waivers at skihills etc. Lots of stuff not legal, but it gives then deleting to waste your time and money on and the can afford the lawyers better than you can

I'd likely put that in the category of "more than he cares about his users but less than he cares about his next joint"