I want to believe Brovdi, good for them.

April 1; I see what you did there, well played.

Donating fuel to terrorists on the other side of the planet isn't cheap

I worked in one of those independent computer stores in the 90s, assembling white box PCs in a dimly lit back room, and systematically removing drivers on early Win95 machines until they'd stop crashing to identify which one was buggy.

PCs were so dynamic at the time, half my paychecks were spent on discounted upgrades before I ever saw the paper. EDO ram? sign me up. 512K of pipelined burst L2 cache? yes please. HX chipset? of course. Dual socket pentium pros? I need a raise.

Similar background re: PC building here, working at a shop that built PCs in the late 90s. I remember seeing boards with these new-fangled USB ports, DIMM memory, Pentium II, the first 3D accelerators, etc. It was a fun time. I got in to the industry right at the end of AT-style boards and power supplies and mostly missed having to deal with that stuff (other than in my personal life, where I still had old stuff).

I suspect it's a dead ringer for Corporate America at any large American company.

Mostly yes, I was just pointing out the irony of quoting Bezos as if Amazon isn't exactly the same problem (if not one of the worst of them all).

i look forward to the police showing up and explaining to me how computing is a privilege, not a right

I can cause tinnitus by pinching my nose, closing my throat, and manipulating my throat to pressurize my skull.. like one does to "pop their ears" after changing altitudes to hear/speak properly again.

If my ears start ringing like I feel tinnitus has arrived, I've found it goes away by cycling this pressure a couple times.

YMMV

people already "destroy" the many-core threadrippers with gaming-oriented ryzens on appropriately suited workloads, this is clickbait

s/Legal // ftfy

If you ignore the time dimension, sure.

But if 99% of adults today have an abnormality that 99% of adults historically didn't, it's abnormal.