juergen

joined 8 months ago
[–] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

I promise that if I ever get elected Tyrant, I will pay for my own domain name out of pocket.

[–] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org 60 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Surprisingly, tyranny.com is for sale.

[–] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

Vegetables are a social construct.

[–] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have read all the sentences, and I agree with the first one.

What I felt needed a little commentary was the rest. See, minds more impressionable than yours and mine may come to the conclusion that voting is pointless if you can only vote for the lesser evil.

I don't know whether she is better than you think she is - my point was that it doesn't matter, and that speculating, postulating and pontificating about how she may not be as good as we want her to be just turns people off of voting. Which would be bad.

That was my whole point.

[–] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Nice. Those never fail to cheer me up :)

[–] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

I won't argue over whether she does have my best interests at heart. It. Does. Not. Matter.

I don't want to marry her, I want her to keep Trump out of office - and right now, she is the only one who can.

Fun fact: Most exterminators don't have your best interest in mind - they just want to make a living. Yet, they do keep the bedbugs away, so it's all good.

[–] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago

Agreed.

Would it be nicer if we lived in a multi party system? Probably. Do we? No. Voting as though we are is not useful (maybe unless you live in a state that you are 100% certain can not be flipped).

If you hate one candidate even slightly less than the other, for example because the former has not yet stated that they want to punish colleges that allow pro Palestine demonstrations, vote for that first one.

[–] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 month ago

Isn't that precisely what the article said?

 

It has been said a gazillion times over the last few months, but is it getting through to those who need to hear it?

[–] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org 43 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is hardly the quiet part: He signed the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact in ‘23. Honestly, is he really wrong?

ETA: Of course, satire. I can't even tell anymore.

[–] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 month ago

Ah. That makes sense. Thanks.

[–] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org -3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This far, Vance is only a dipshit millionaire (estimated ~10M).

 

Most free web sites pay for their upkeep with ads. It has been an unwritten agreement since forever (or at least as long as there have been ads on the web) that if you consume the content, you pay the creator by looking at the ads on their site.

Consuming the content without looking at the ads is like shoplifting because you don't like the way a store's checkout counter works and/or the fact that they want money from you at all.

 

The power supply on my XPS 8930 gave up the ghost, so I replaced it with a Corsair CX750M (probably not relevant).

While I was at it, I also replaced the case with a Thermaltake CTE T500 (probably relevant).

I connected the power switch to pins 6 and 8 on the front panel connector, following the diagram at XPS 8930, GPU and CPU Liquid Cooler, PSU, Case Swap, Upgrade.

Things work as expected: I can power the computer on and off with the power button, all cool.

BUT: Every time the computer boots, I get an error message from SupportAssist during POST: "[...] Alert! Power Button Cable failure". I click Continue, and everything is peachy.

Does anyone know how I can get rid of this message? Did the power button in the original case know some secret handshake that the new one doesn't?

At this point, I would be OK with disabling the SupportAssist self check altogether. I don't need any SupportAssistance to know that the machine is getting a little cranky.

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