Like everything else…if you want to get into the details (which are important)…It’s complicated

Judge Bayer didn’t seem too enthusiastic about backing that one up…

There’s little evidence that debate changes people’s ideas.

…or organize, start/join unions, get involved with your local community and build up some real resistance that isn’t based off obscene wealth, lawfare or media brainwashing. Once you have experienced something real, it’s quite hard to understand how or why anyone would fall for the alternative.

Well, there’s the Defined Benefit pension, however typically these pension funds then become institutional investors who seek to own shares in… you guessed it - stocks.

At least those institutional investors are at least somewhat responsive to public pressure campaigns, as the state/local comptrollers are a politically appointed position.

When you give your money to a 401k, the fund manager gets all the voting rights on the corporate board and is generally only accountable to “A reasonable rate of return”

TIL - thank you!

That’s Gerald Manderley the 3rd, ESQ to you, sport!

just without the hope in the future, investment in human capital, rise in living standards etc…

my organization rto’d very early on after the pandemic, and promptly lost 40% of their staff who retired. It’s an old place, demographically. I can guarantee that everyone forced back in was refusing (and continues to refuse) to buy anything for lunch and brown-bags out of spite, especially given some dummies were stupid enough to claim that as the reason. Lots of eateries continuing to shut down in the area, and you know what? nobody cares. In attempting to “save” something, they’ve practically guaranteed its demise by pissing off an entire generation.

because the state and fed levels are corrupt as hell. the local level seemed more amenable, although i suspect the nyc mayoral elections will be thoroughly fiddled.

Are there any interesting teardowns of a compromised inverter out there (that isn’t some horribly annoying talking head on youtube) ?

I’ve never met a nice South African…

At this point, why would anyone do business with broadcom at all?

Cunts.

It might help if they didn’t put all their efforts into killing Nitter and other useful frontends.

I’m rather hoping RISC-V comes up and eats their lunch before it happens.

My reasoning for this is that I’ve lost too many hours trying to kludge finnicky ARM boards into supporting proper mainline video acceleration. It’s awful. It’s horrible. It’s a waste of time.

The silly x86 SBC I got worked out of the box with OneAPI with no complaints at all.

The ARM boards ran the gamut from gibberish/garbage rendering, dropped frames, washed out images because of cheap tricks to up performance.

I know this is more down to the weak (and proprietary) video cores included on these boards… but after spending a significant amount of time playing with them, I’m going to say “No, thank you.”

I really don’t care until I can buy one. In the meantime I have a few hdd’s and an old LTO4 drive…