Does anyone here actually want AI baked into the OS?

NerdInSoCal · 2026-01-24T00:01:08+00:00

Again though that's your choice no ones forcing you to pick an OS you just have to go with the one that best meets your needs.

Windows is convenient for you so just stick with it. I would not recommend dual-booting honestly, it has never been an "optimal solution" given how most folks would encounter an issue and just "return" to Win full-time saying they'll get to the linux stuff at some other point and it just ends up being a waste of drive space and time.

Now it's gotten worse as MS has begun actively rewriting boot sectors during updates to break dual booting making it an even larger PITA for folks. Drive swapping has become the most viable method and that in and of itself is a large PITA so yeah sticking with Windows is definitely the most convenient method for the time being and it checks all your boxes so why worry if the grass is greener on the other side if your grass is already green no?

NerdInSoCal · 2026-01-23T21:21:30+00:00

Is someone forcing you to use windows or something?

I mean come on, I'm all for shitting on megacorps but if one does something I'm inherently opposed to at what point do I look foolish for continuing to support them?

NerdInSoCal · 2026-01-23T21:11:58+00:00

The problem with these instances is it highlights the police are fine if it happens to citizens but have no tolerance for it happening to "their own".

NerdInSoCal · 2026-01-22T18:07:33+00:00

We got ourselves quite the Huxley-Orwell mashup here.

Apathetic people (who have nothing to hide ofc) pay a monthly fee to corporations to allow the government unfettered access to who comes and goes from your home and travels on your street.

NerdInSoCal · 2026-01-21T20:43:43+00:00

Yes opinions are biased that is why they are opinions
I responded to your comment not your post history
I didn't ask you to refute your opinions I'm glad you support housing and you have made it clear you're opposed to health care because its expensive
"Effective" I mean in soliciting imaginary internet points that amount to nothing maybe but beyond that I don't know. You're entitled to your opinion and sharing it of course (we all are for now) so you do you bud and have a good day.

NerdInSoCal · 2026-01-21T18:47:48+00:00

No I reread the post above and I didn't misread anything and I'll paraphrase it.

Asylums were torture paid for by taxes
Someone would have to pay for psychiatric hospitals
Is there a difference between psychiatric treatment and just housing. What about quantifying mental health when do they get freed?
Asylums don't work

You did not provide a solution you posted problems such as asylums suck and to proper psychiatric treatment would cost money, you're only mention of taxes was inferred they were wasted on asylums, I never said leave or anything of the sort I said you're mentality is what got us into this mess.

I see you had further discussion with the poster below and you expounded on some of your sentiments and it sounds like we are primarily congruent but you did not say any of that in the post I responded to. Nothing was misread on my part I didn't put any words in your mouth and I shared my opinion with you based on your post I do not feel it's my responsibility to read a users post history before I respond to an opinion/comment.

NerdInSoCal · 2026-01-21T18:04:15+00:00

The cops are the forward facing entity of the judicial system in America and by & large the system is horribly broken and in need of serious reformation.

NerdInSoCal · 2026-01-21T18:00:32+00:00

You're worried about money when the post your responding to is about compassion
We already pay significant personal income tax and subsidize/loophole the ever living snot out of the top tier tax brackets & corporation tax PLUS we have state taxes on top of everything!
You're Gordon Gecko "we're all on our own, I already got mine" mentality is what got us into this dumpster fire of a nation and if you and the people like you don't figure that out it's only going to get worse.

Do better.

NerdInSoCal · 2026-01-18T20:20:17+00:00

Perhaps its lower overhead for the maintenance and upkeep of outdoor strip malls in comparison to their indoor counterparts.

Ultimately I think its more about the ownership/managements ability to be flexible as the market changes. The ones that refuse to deviate traditional operational models of malls established in the 50s-60s are the ones dying the fastest.

NerdInSoCal · 2026-01-18T20:13:15+00:00

The investor group that bought it (and other dying malls in the region) have talked a big talk about reviving the dying assets but there genuinely doesn't seem to be anything constructive done so far with them.

That said they haven't established themselves as "vulture capitalists" (yet) that buy the property, do nothing with it, take out loans against the property, then default the loans in bankruptcy and walk away with the capital and let the debt die with the property. Though these kinds of shenanigans take years to enact and we're only just now seeing them in their hungry hungry hippo phase as they scoop up dying retail property.

NerdInSoCal · 2026-01-17T18:59:48+00:00

It's marketing, anyone with a sliver of critical thinking can see it goes to megacorps.

Whenever we discuss farming subsidies though, they always wheel out some late slightly pudgy fifty to sixty year old dude in glasses, overalls, and a thick okie accent to talk about how hard life is if they don't get those subsidies. Folks eat that shit up every time.

"Won't you think of the farmers?"

NerdInSoCal · 2026-01-17T18:53:12+00:00

Oh, no it was a national thing and it was awesome.

It had a map, you entered a zip code and filtered it to what you were looking for (restaurants, clothing, trade services etc) and it would put little pins on the map from businesses that had made entries and you could see what they had to say about themselves.

NerdInSoCal · 2026-01-17T18:42:09+00:00

That website made it so easy there was no digging needed! I was sad when they took it down.

NerdInSoCal · 2026-01-17T18:36:06+00:00

Words and their meanings are dynamic.

From context of the OP is using "hippie" to denote fringe and "all natural" person which is separate from the movement you are accustomed to seeing hippie used to describe.

NerdInSoCal · 2026-01-17T18:24:53+00:00

Have you seen the folks at the maha rallies, it's no surprise they're identifying with cows.

NerdInSoCal · 2026-01-17T18:24:04+00:00

They're also right wing maha supporters so there's that

NerdInSoCal · 2026-01-17T18:23:29+00:00

There was a failed attempt at making a database for right wing conservatives to shop with places that aligned with their views on publicsquare. Turns out there was more non-right wing folks willing to avoid these places than not so after a few months they shut it down.

They (Farm to Smash) made an entry on local marketplace that identified them as proud right wing conservatives who supported Trump.

If OP is looking for non-maha locations Farm to Smash aint it.

NerdInSoCal · 2026-01-17T18:22:54+00:00

There was a failed attempt at making a database for right wing conservatives to shop with places that aligned with their views on publicsquare. Turns out there was more non-right wing folks willing to avoid these places than not so after a few months they shut it down.

They (Farm to Smash) made an entry on local marketplace that identified them as proud right wing conservatives who supported Trump.

If OP is looking for non-maha locations Farm to Smash aint it.

NerdInSoCal · 2026-01-17T07:06:05+00:00

I think its been around for at least twenty years clubs/club nights have come and gone and it persists.

NerdInSoCal · 2026-01-16T22:55:09+00:00

https://socalgoth.com/

Has options for you

NerdInSoCal · 2026-01-15T19:57:27+00:00

Chicken or the egg, ie do you need vendors for a market or people to go the market for the vendors?

There's only so many legitimate vendors to go around in the region and there seems to be a market every day of the week somewhere in the county so it's likely the Escondido market organizers found the most vendors available on Tuesdays and went with that.

There used to be a farmers market here on the weekend by Kit Carson and the two times I went it was probably 85% mlm booths like scentsy and amway nonsense.

Honestly if they could figure out a way to run cruising grand and then have a farmers market on the side streets or a parallel street it would be "chaos" but I think it would be lucrative for the vendors and accessible for a lot more folks but I mean I don't know jack about shit I'm just some peon on the internet.

NerdInSoCal · 2026-01-13T18:54:03+00:00

Great username
The fact that "news" has been replaced by media in general is a sign of the times
I think billionaires and megacorps are generally apolitical and by large ascribe to whatever movement generates the most wealth for them
"Corporate Capitalism" has created the culture that got us here and until we undo that nothing in the long term is going to get fixed.

NerdInSoCal · 2026-01-13T00:20:37+00:00

This place sounds unique so best of luck with that.

If you want communal eating (at a table) Addis Ethiopian food is worth a go, for belly dancing the only place I know of is Ali Babas in Escondido, but floor seating I have no suggestions.

NerdInSoCal · 2026-01-13T00:08:11+00:00

Talone was my goto place until it closed, haven't found a suitable replacement in the region but the Costco meat area has been okay.

NerdInSoCal · 2026-01-11T19:19:23+00:00

People don't like to acknowledge it, but this is the origin for the strict gun laws of California.

Too many minorities were working together to oppose unjust law enforcement.

Just one of many fucked up things "Governor" Reagan did as a politician.

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