OK, wow. I checked around a little bit, and the 25A@5V PSU seems to have gone the way of the dodo. If I can’t get a stable system with a 20A@5V PSU, this project may just have increased in size quite significantly.

I guess I’ll get a new power supply over the weekend. Seeing as this one already wasn’t OEM, I’ll hope that I’ll get away with something generic. This machine is not new (nor are the RAM or the video card), so maybe cleaning everything while I have it open would be a good idea. Thanks.

When I went to work, the UPS was fine, when I came back, it was beeping and blinking. I assumed battery failure - it was a relatively cheap one without useful diagnostic output. Well, I’ll hope that whatever it was only damaged the power supply - and make sure that the replacement does 25A. Thanks.

Taking things online only gives the illusion of safety - especially in places like Facebook. If ‘they’ really want you, your home address is only a subpoena or two away.

*checks*

Nope - not Onion.

I know… but they still gave me the illusion that I owned the game :(

I wish it wasn’t so tragic, so I could laugh at people who couldn’t vote for Harris because Biden didn’t single-handedly stop the genocide.

Fuuuuuuuu…

Where am I going to buy my games now? Sometimes it’s still nice to own the disk.

The main problem is that people don’t understand that the Vice President does not set monetary policy. Neither does the President. The Federal Reserve is supposed to be completely immune to political pressure. Fortunately, King Donald will do his best to put an end to that.

I happen to believe that the current policy was correct, and averted even worse problems - but that does not happen in a matter of months. If Trump somehow fails to fudge up the trajectory we are on, he will get to take credit for policies enacted during Biden’s presidency (again, not by Biden, but nobody will care).

Last Trump, there was a pretty good way to predict who would get what position: Pick an agency, and google ‘tried to sue <insert agency here>’.

I promise that if I ever get elected Tyrant, I will pay for my own domain name out of pocket.

Surprisingly, tyranny.com is for sale.

Vegetables are a social construct.

I have read all the sentences, and I agree with the first one.

What I felt needed a little commentary was the rest. See, minds more impressionable than yours and mine may come to the conclusion that voting is pointless if you can only vote for the lesser evil.

I don’t know whether she is better than you think she is - my point was that it doesn’t matter, and that speculating, postulating and pontificating about how she may not be as good as we want her to be just turns people off of voting. Which would be bad.

That was my whole point.

Nice. Those never fail to cheer me up :)

I won’t argue over whether she does have my best interests at heart. It. Does. Not. Matter.

I don’t want to marry her, I want her to keep Trump out of office - and right now, she is the only one who can.

Fun fact: Most exterminators don’t have your best interest in mind - they just want to make a living. Yet, they do keep the bedbugs away, so it’s all good.

Agreed.

Would it be nicer if we lived in a multi party system? Probably. Do we? No. Voting as though we are is not useful (maybe unless you live in a state that you are 100% certain can not be flipped).

If you hate one candidate even slightly less than the other, for example because the former has not yet stated that they want to punish colleges that allow pro Palestine demonstrations, vote for that first one.

Isn’t that precisely what the article said?

This is hardly the quiet part: He signed the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact in ‘23. Honestly, is he really wrong?

ETA: Of course, satire. I can’t even tell anymore.