“Inspired by” = ripped off

Everything.

Yes, that’s correct. If you cherrypick data and extrapolate your preferred assumptions about it you can make it say the thing you want.

I just clicked the first installer script in Lutris and two minutes later was playing.

Yep. Anything that needs to connect to the internet to function is never entering my home.

A strike would be fascinating. You can’t just stop a chip fab. There could be huge batch losses.

This is what the end of an empire looks like. Nations that used to line up to kiss the ring are just politely declining your requests now. In a few months they’ll just send the call to voicemail.

Good job, idiots.

And you can flash 3rd party firmware too.

The opportunity for future enshitification is the main reason I’ll never connect mine to the internet. It’s a great printer, but I don’t trust any tech companies for basically the reasons you described.

My buddy has a Bamboo. It’s pretty good. My Snapmaker U1 is way better, and is actually open.

An absolutely based strategy would be to launch a highly anticipated product with falsely constrained supply. Then right as the scalpers start posting their shit release the real supply with like a $10 price reduction and make a big announcement. Scalpers get rekt when everyone who wants one can get it for $10 less.

Buttermilk into the cabin air intake at the bottom of the windshield. It’s the gift that keeps on giving.

Truck Nutz are literally gender-affirming prosthetics for trans-gendered trucks.

If function were a priority at all for pickup trucks they would have stubby sloped noses like Sprinter vans have. But no, they need to have massively elongated and elevated hoods because the vast, overwhelming majority are sold exclusively as penis prosthetics.

It’s comical how empty the engine bay is under those stupid hoods. On Rams with the V6 I can literally stand on the ground in between the radiator and the front end of the engine and still have room to move around.

If they used a functional and efficient (and way less expensive) van instead of a pickup for their trade, the ownership and fuel savings would more than pay for a reasonable car to use as a car.

They should require a commercial license, have hardware speed limiters, be restricted to only the right lane of the highway, and require biannual safety inspections. You want to cosplay as a trucker, you get to live by trucker rules.

Vans are the real vehicle for trades. You can fit way more gear, it’s all locked up and weather protected, and the vehicle footprint is still smaller.

There is almost nothing a pickup truck does better than a van when it comes to work vegicles for the trades.

Tungsten carbide tips on the umbrella.

I’ve counted. In my area of Canada less than 3% of pickups that I see are being used as anything other than a commuter car at any given time.

These insecure dumbasses define their worth by the size of their truck. The things are just $100,000 fashion accessories. Emotional support vehicles.

My neighbour used to park his truck sticking way out like that, but it wasn’t all the way back in the spot.

I left a note on it saying: “It’s not as big as you think it is, you have to put it all the way in.”

From then on it was parked properly.