Any hope for it being anything close to the original is a lost cause at this point.

I remember thinking that the 3090 is ridiculously expensive. Today, a 5080 bought for almost as much seems reasonable.

We are being conditioned.

At least they ask first. I have a colleague who would call with no warning whatsoever.

Things move forward. I'm with a 5900X, it was one of the best CPUs to buy 4-5 years ago (it's still doing well for me), but recently, just out of curiosity I found out that a current laptop CPU beats it by a solid 15-20% in single thread performance.

I'm still angry at myself that I didn't upgrade to AM5 before the current crisis - mainly because 32 gigs of RAM aren't cutting it for me any more (and it didn't make sense to pour money into the old platform).

Upgrading each year seems pointless, but once every 3-4 years is I think reasonable.

I was on 1680x1050 too (I had a 20"), then moved to 2560x1440 (27"), and now recently to 5120x2160 (40"). Every such upgrade has been meaningful for me, and still, it's not something I do every year. The first 27" I bought is almost 10 years old at this point.

Depends on what you do, of course - but for me, even just scrolling through text feels better on a higher refresh rate and higher resolution.

If you got a 1080p screen back then and haven't moved to a higher res since, then maybe there's some truth to that.

How to piss off at least three sets of people in one shot.

74000 lashes for that government

How the turns have tabled.

Even if it's not about the heat, I want some diversity. Black gets boring at one point, so I get other colours any time I can.

Sometimes I wonder what kinds of things we're using today that we still haven't found are toxic, carcinogenic or harmful in other ways...

Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits.

It's pretty well known they're unhealthy, although sometimes this gets ignored. As a non-smoker it bugs me that these sometimes get a pass to be used indoors.

Is he made of house or is the house made of flesh?

I'm still bitter about Mail & Calendar. It worked wonderfully, but of course they decided to discontinue it.

So cheese it is then.

I have to admit, Samsung have some great things in terms of hardware, but this is not one of them - and their anti-consumer practices will continue to keep me away from the brand.

... and yet some of the same people will readily copy-paste random shell scripts into their terminal without fully understanding them.

Ironically enough, talking about cutting expenses, the keyboard in the photo could easily cost 10 times more than the typical 100% keyboard you'd find in a corporate office.