Notices by Vertigo (vertigo@mastodon.social), page 3

@SuricrasiaOnline
When will the CC edition be released?

ONE wolf inside you, ah ah ah!!
TWWOO wolves inside you! Ah! Ah! Ah!

OK, I'll contribute.

Look to your right.
There's a wolf.
Now look to your left.
There's another wolf.
Now look at me.
You might think this is a commercial for Old Spice Wolfthorne scented deoderant.
You'd be right.
Except you'd be wrong.
Now look over there.
Now back to me.
...

@robin Yes, but what are their respective half-lives?

@jeffcliff @saxnot That seems highly suspect; gotta have a few terabytes to install Windows at least. ;P

@libc @Elizafox I prefer GRiD myself. ;)

@jeffcliff @saxnot Not sure if they accept cryptocurrencies; I personally don't use cryptocurrencies.

@jeffcliff @saxnot I bought my parts from a local computer store named "Central Computers" in Sunnyvale, California.

@enkiv2 @a_breakin_glass All you need to do is find one sucker who is willing to pay for being wrong. ;)

@jeffcliff @saxnot Personally, I wouldn't recommend them, b/c of price-vs-performance. I sometimes do video editing work on a System76 laptop, and I've been quite happy with it. Performance is quite snappy while editing (Core i7 CPU). Just make sure it has access to air for CPU cooling. Cost me $800 fully loaded; no complaints so far.

Unless you *need* what the more expensive laptops offer, or you really want to support the company, I'd give real consideration to the next lower-tier models.

@saxnot @jeffcliff One thing is absolutely for sure though -- I will never build my own PC ever again, nor will I ever trust ASUS (for anything other than a tablet vendor) as a company again.

@saxnot @jeffcliff This was a pre-populated board with a Xeon processor and gobs of RAM. And, as I indicated, this was several years ago. Technology marches on. These days, I just stick with Linux-compatible laptops.

@jeffcliff Even in more contemporary times, GNU has relevance. Some years ago, my UEFI-equipped motherboard bricked itself after it *thought* I was attempting to compromise it. $1500 down the drain. Even though UEFI was "open source" (source published on Github), proprietary, vendor-specific addons are encouraged. And in this case, this proprietary add-on decided to brick my $1500 investment.

I will never trust UEFI again. To me, it is forever malware by design.

@wilfredh
Validation of customized rendering libraries maybe?

@digitalfox I was making a silly joke; I didn't research before posting. Did they actually make such a product at one time?
@Azure

@danielhglus
Never mind; the Wikipedia article is more detailed but basically says the same thing. :)

@danielhglus I'm just guessing based on my electronics experience - I'm thinking it might have to do with limitations in the bandwidth of the media used to send the changing signal.

Not having to put up with Tabitha's meowing and demanding 100% of my attention 100% of the time would also help significantly.