when i turned 21 i went in to the dmv to get a new drivers license that would be accepted for alcohol purchase. they asked me if i would like to register to a political party and i said independent. i would get the regular amount of spam political calls telling me what i should vote for.
a few years later i moved to a new state and got new drivers license. i was again asked to affiliate with a party and on a whim said "democrat". nothing funny would happen but who knows.
after about 2 years of nothing, suddenly im being bombarded with spam calls, mostly from D.C. 202 area code. interestingly, they do not just call and start flooding my ear with some noscript. instead they specifically call for me by my legal name which is surprising because the only time i use my legal name is when im required to such as opening a bank account. most calls i receive ask for me by a different name. they also ask information gathering questions like "is this a cell phone?" "are you still residing in [city]?"
all of the issues they call me about are specifically for things that democrats support. I dont know any republican affiliated people who get the same treatment from democrats or republicans.
despite the fact that these callers sound very american i still ask them "do you have working toilets or do you still shit in the streets?"

im in my 30s and im too young to have ever used a fax machine
stop fucking using fax.
im talking to you, insurance providers.

Hello, I hope this email doesn't find you. I hope that you have been freed from the shackles on your desk. I pray that instead of living in a gray cubic world made by man you will find yourself in a world made by God where sunlight, fresh air, and beautiful nature abounds. I wish that the the tyranny of the clock ends and that you will be unbound from schedules and rush hour. May you be at peace.

There's this sci-fi book i read when I was a kid called Ender's Game. There's a subplot where the main character's teen aged siblings steal the identities of adults and use them to be able to post on the internet and eventually amass enough internet clout to be able to change governmental policy. The part that I thought was unreasonable wasn't that a couple of kids would be able to clout chase their way from nothing to literally bending governments to their will. The unreasonable part to me was that the internet would become so closed off that you could not access it without a government issue ID.

i got a wireless mouse (naga v2 hyperspeed)
pros:
no cable catching things
dont have to mess around with plugging it in every day
petp pads are very smooth, there is also a ring pad around the sensor so fuzz cant get into the sensor void
cons:
its very mushy. i didnt think 3ms response time would be noticeable but it really really is. im constantly overshooting buttons when moving my mouse over them. i cannot fathom how anyone could play an fps like CS with a wireless mouse.

sidenote: the software is GARBAGE.
>go to download synapse (management software)
>click the button to download it
>get an ad to download some other software i dont want
>run the installer. its not synapse. its some "software manager" thing
>use the software manager thing to install synapse
>has a pre-checked box saying "install other garbage too"
>takes like 20 minutes somehow to download and install
>forced reboot
>after reboot management software once again redownloads and installs synapse (what did it install the first time?)
>finally get synapse installed
>pretends to force account creation to use the software. found a tiny "guest login" button to avoid that sewage.
>run it
>forced tutorial
>first page is an ad for other software
>3rd page is a game manager that i dont want and cannot uninstall without removing synapse
>whole thing is filled with ads for other synapse products
>by default, software will display "recommendations" (ads) for other products and software (this is literally adware)

the mouse is decent. at its price point i would call it okay. the software is complete garbage. i would go as far as to call synapse malware because it wants to display ads by default. if i was not able to turn that off or if it forced account creation just to make macros and bind them to keys i would have returned this in a heartbeat

>Linux - Is there a way to prevent/protect a file from being deleted even by root?
>Burn it to a CD. Put the CD in a CD-ROM drive and access it from there.
lmao

i cant enable secure boot because it breaks veracrypt so i guess i just cant play this game))))

i decided to contact EA and demand a refund for BF2042 for making my game unplayable (yes, my game. the one I purchased. the one they do not have a right to stop me from playing, because its mine.)
they have completely removed the ability to make cases. with significant googling, i found a webpage to create a new ticket and it straight up just 401s. not 404 not found, 401-this-exists-but-you-cant-see-it.

my current political position is "kill everyone who uses pdf as a mutable file type and expects me to edit it."

"hey can you sign this document for me?"
>pdf
"No."

normally it is not advised to use personal information in passwords or password reset information (such as your mother's maiden name). however if your mother is polish i think it is fine because there is no difference between Bogdanowicz and random keysmashing

https://youtu.be/AfKZclMWS1U
someone sent me this lmao

🤦‍♂️ It keeps happening

Microsoft are redesigning the BSOD to show less information and removing oobe\bypassnro.cmd «to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11».

If you take your time to read the blog post, the gaslighting in it is so shameless.

this doesnt matter as much as you think it does because youre just going to run bluescreenview anyways.

i hate spamhaus so much its unreal

>go into the office because i have to
>every single coworker is away at a client site
>boss is working from home because a family member is sick
>im here alone
i did the math and it costs like 12 dollars to come into the office. (~2 gallons gas @~3$, 6$ road tolls)
why do i have to spend my money to be here