asciilifeform: this is why i'm fundamentally in agreement with mircea_popescu's traditional retort 'go back in time and make better life choices'. but it applies just the same to my own sins, just different ones, not involving linux
asciilifeform: it just requires having-been-doing-it-since-2000☟︎
asciilifeform: phf: the thing is, it is still possible to run linux as if it were 2005.
asciilifeform: cannot be made to work ~decently~ (that means thinkpad w540 or AT LEAST that level of hardware) for ANY AMOUNT of money
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: since you apparently missed the whole thread, the reason is TO HAVE A PORTABLE UNIX BOX THAT EVEN SORT-OF WORKS☟︎
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: funny thing is, a number of the other folks where i work got top-of-the-line 'macbooks' - one had spontaneous lcd crack a few weeks later, the other - reboots by itself...
asciilifeform: i shit thee not, a machine that suddenly decided that it won't even get through 'grub' 9 out of 10 times, but runs winblowz just fine. a year into its life.
asciilifeform: and the hardware itself, despite being widely praised, is shit - firm ended up with three of these machines, and one has developed mysterious cancers (runs win7, but if using anything else, hangs - sometimes during GRUB (!!!) or shortly after boot) while another - mine - has flaky wireless
asciilifeform: last year, i was given several $k by the fella i work for, to buy whatever machine i wanted, so long as it was portable. ended up with top-of-the-line (at the time) 'lenovo', and WHEN USING ONLY FREE SOFT despite MONTHS of effort, neither battery, nor 'suspend mode', nor EXTERNDAL DISPAY OF ANY KIND work.
asciilifeform: 'Unlike BitCoin or cash payments, Taler ensures that governments can easily track their citizen's income and thus collect sales, value-added or income taxes. Taler is thus a currency for the mainstream economy, and not the black market.'☟︎
asciilifeform: 'This arse rape was performed using Free Cock only.'☟︎
asciilifeform: '(2) Significant or Highly Sensitive Matters. A development or circumstance involving an intelligence activity or intelligence personnel that could impugn the reputation or integrity of the DoD Intelligence Community or otherwise call into question the propriety of an intelligence activity. Such matters might be manifested in or by an activity...'
asciilifeform: they exist to maintain an asset fiction.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-09-2015#1271218 << eventually they will cut their losses and demolish. but not yet, because the empties are a kind of bezzle of their own. ftr a good fraction of the town where i live consists of recently built and almost wholly empty dwellings.☝︎
asciilifeform: shinohai: supposedly 'foreign devil's shill worked for american corp under false pretences, stealing everything and laughing all the way to the bank'☟︎
asciilifeform: the 'pocket heater' in that thread was a gnarly and proprietary (does not exist in public record at all outside of that courtroom) item.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: the overall moral of the story is more interesting - expect a generalized 'spymania' in usa; accusations of 'wrecking' will become a regular thing.
