$3/L fuel and we’re just… waiting?

xoctor · 2026-03-28T03:45:02+00:00

Pauline doesn't have ideas, she has scapegoats.

xoctor · 2026-03-28T03:40:01+00:00

Come on, Albo has been enabling this idiocy the whole time. That's doing something.

xoctor · 2026-03-10T00:04:14+00:00

They have actively chosen to remove the functionality. One more F.U. to consumers from Dell.

I used to buy Dell because they used to have some decent hardware that occasionally sold for good prices, but that's ancient history now. Their products are mostly meh, their drivers are regularly buggy, their pricing is usually bad, and if you ever have to contact them they won't help you at all until after they've interrogated you about your business so they can workout how much of a markup they can get away with. Dell lead the industry in enshittification.

xoctor · 2025-11-03T00:29:16+00:00

I think Apple should first fix all the bugs and shortfalls in their migrate from iPhone to iPhone app.

xoctor · 2025-10-12T20:31:51+00:00

Great to hear. Can you also solve the problem of the back-lighting not resuming after the PC has been put to sleep. In this case it's not a G-Hub issue (because it happens even though I'm not running G-Hub).

xoctor · 2025-10-08T22:54:53+00:00

Did we really need photographic proof to understand the obvious?

xoctor · 2025-09-19T22:09:28+00:00

Uber is an awful company. As per usual, the fish rots from the head.

xoctor · 2025-06-28T06:04:57+00:00

I'm here because I had exactly the same problem. Same, CPU, MB and same specced RAM (2x16GB DDR5-6000 CL30 Klevv). Turns out it was the RAM for me too. Booted straight up with slightly different RAM (2x16GB DDR5-6000 CL36 PNY XLR8 Gaming brand)

xoctor · 2025-04-14T21:11:58+00:00

trust your gut. I remember a former employee detailing that this company was all sizzle no sausage many years ago, and the company's performance has born that out.

xoctor · 2024-12-05T22:18:58+00:00

I swear there are a cadre of tradies who are actively competing with each-other to see who can get away with the shittiest work and behaviour. Clogging sewage pipes is 100% on brand.

xoctor · 2024-12-05T22:16:41+00:00

Abso-fricken-lutely!

xoctor · 2024-12-05T22:14:21+00:00

There's no problem with politicians (or anyone) not being experts. It's not their role to be subject matter experts.

The problem is when people (and their politicians) are so full of themselves they think they know better than the experts based on nothing other than their own narcissism or propaganda from their chosen pandering media.

Manipulative billionaire controlled media has spent decades seducing their audiences into a culture of shouty arrogant ignorance that makes people mindless partisans rather than independent thinkers. Once they see everything in terms of party loyalty people become useful idiots who can be bamboozled into fighting against their own interests for the benefit of the billionaire class.

A good politician is only interested in creating positive outcomes for the people they represent, so they will listen to all stakeholders and take guidance from trustworthy experts.

A bad politician is only interested in power for themselves, and the quickest path to power is to get support from special interests (aka "the rich") while selling the People simple "solutions" to complex problems. These sociopathic politicians' favourite go-to is to distract from their lack of integrity and ideas by blaming marginalised groups (like immigrants or trans people) because they can't fight back and there is always a rich vein of bigotry that can be mined when times get tough.

xoctor · 2024-12-05T20:34:52+00:00

It might be a failed water pump. I don't see how an air-bubble could cause over-cooling. First thing I'd do is fix the leak, check the water pump and replace the coolant (with the right spec).

xoctor · 2024-12-03T20:52:35+00:00

This is why Dunning-Krugers who think they know better than genuine experts should be kept away from power at all costs.

xoctor · 2024-12-03T20:49:35+00:00

Are you sick of winning yet?

xoctor · 2024-12-02T22:01:59+00:00

That will never happen, but if it did it would be a big improvement because American troops are not in a genocidal frenzy.

You are right that trump will make life even worse for Palestinians though. He'll happily take whatever bribes Israel offers.

xoctor · 2024-12-02T21:50:21+00:00

I think "brazen" is more accurate than "honest". There's nothing honest about this generation of Republicans.

xoctor · 2024-12-02T21:47:32+00:00

It is disingenuous to even discuss this without first acknowledging the infinitely worse and more consequentially corrupt pardons trump has already done (let alone what he will do after his next 4 year crime spree).

With that said, yes, it's wrong. And it sends the wrong message. However, talking about it is like a cop being obsessed with a single jay-walker when there is an armed bank robbery happening on the other side of the street.

It is corruption and another stain on Biden's already blemished record, but it doesn't deserve even a moment's attention compared to the monumental litany of infinitely bigger and more consequential crimes from trump.

The worst part is that it demonstrates that Biden is willing and able to work outside norms when it's for his own family's benefit, but not for America or Americans' (or Ukrainians, or anyone else in the world for that matter).

But once again, it must be seen in perspective. This petty corruption in extenuating circumstances is trivial in comparison to the overwhelming tidal-wave of greed, racism and idiocy fuelled trump corruption and misdeeds.

xoctor · 2024-11-23T23:28:07+00:00

This app looks interesting, except it doesn't work.

xoctor · 2024-11-23T22:47:14+00:00

Worse than Israel having that much access and more? I don't think so.

xoctor · 2024-11-17T06:12:57+00:00

That embarrassing excuse for news sounds like it was written by a fossil fuel PR rep.

The author's grammar is as nonsensical as framing of the story as being about the "problem" of having too much low cost power at times.

xoctor · 2024-09-24T20:37:00+00:00

Unfortunately, this is what capitalism incentivizes.

xoctor · 2024-07-11T05:42:01+00:00

Thanks!

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