If you set your withholdings really high the amount taken drops by quite a bit.

And then when it comes time to pay, just get on a super low monthly payment plan.

And then just keep tacking amounts onto that each year.

I am not a lawyer. But I can say myself and another friend have been doing this (him for years and years) and so far nothing of note has happened. His goal is to just die with a balance owed.

Also startups are notorious for 7-day work weeks because they’re…well…startups.

They were trialing it, yeah, turned out to be successful so they’re permanizing it

I have household members. And some are heated for different use cases.

I’ve tripled the number of guns I own over the last 6 months and have stockpiled plenty of ammo as well.

I hope to never need them, but one can’t be too sure.

If/when Signal has complied historically, they hand over what they have…which is to say, pretty much nothing.

I’ll take Signal any day over private Facebook chat, Whatsapp, or even telegram.

Super early on I mined probably 500+ bitcoin.

And later in life sold them all at various points for maybe a total sum of $8k.

So, yeah.

Idiocracy rise

The kids are alright.

Everything you said is correct, and yet we still come to a different conclusion.

We’re going to lose 120M+ if we do nothing. And we’ll lose 120M+ if we act.

The issue is the former let’s them win.

You yourself said, “if we can”. You yourself said “I don’t know if we can”. The difference is that I’ve accepted we can’t and we can’t.

My immediate response to everyone around me when that commercial aired was a loud, “fuck no” followed by a, “if any of you get one I will no longer visit”.

Uh…anywhere? There are plenty of alternatives that are less bloated and less shitty and faster.

I honestly don’t even know why people use it.

Custom built desktop so we can get into that if we want

Minisforum MS-01 running Proxmox

Minisforum S02 Ultra

Samsung Galaxy Book…5?

Surface Laptop something with the Snapdragon elite X or something

I need them to all be able to easily and quickly integrate and interact.

Mouse drivers, CPU something, USB issues, and Bluetooth.

It varies between my different servers and systems. It’s just one of those things where like, yeah, maybe I can solve it, but it’s going to take hours and I need to be able to constantly move forward.

If I didn’t have to work 12+ hours a day it might be different. So I don’t necessarily fault the landscape, it’s just that I can throw Windows on any system and it works and I can RDP into it and it works and it adjusts DPI and such automatically.

ChatGPT is such garbage.

edit: The people down voting me clearly are bots or GPT fanbois. In AI circles nobody thinks ChatGPT is good.

ilu

I’m 8 distro attempts in so far and have yet to not sink substantial time into driver and general usability issues.

In another life I’d be happy to sacrifice productivity to grind on fixing the issues, but presently it has real costs.

For now, I run Proxmox and a slew of linux containers and VMs - but still unfortunately use windows as my primary :/

I do, too. But I don’t see any other way out. Everyone faces the music and it goes one of two ways, and I’m honestly not confident it’ll go the good way get, unfortunately.

Good.

Rufus let me install windows with a local account and debloat scripts let me nuke/hide OneDrive.

And, INB4 anyone says “switch to linux”, I’m sorry but it just isn’t viable while maintaining the same seamless experience for what I need. I hate Windows, but I also value my time.