I know, right? I voted green anyway, but I’m really disappointed in Labour. Fuckin spineless centrist capitalist cunts.

I mean, it would bring global tech to a standstill. It would be a significant problem. Once existing stuff broke, there would be no replacement. I know very little about chip manufacture, except that the lithography machines are fantastically complex and costly. It would probably take years to spin up new production.

This seems like a pretty solid mutually assured destruction deterrent and doesn’t even involve nukes.

Yeah, you have to make much more than you need and sell the excess to keep per unit costs down. At that point you’re a chip manufacturer. I’m not sure even valve could afford the startup costs involved.

Yeah, kinda shows there’s zero competition in the market.

Lol, and YouTube is full of shorts of those same people drowning their truck on a boat ramp.

This is true, but there’s also a real lack of small pickups on the market. The fuckers just seem to be getting bigger and bigger. I used to have a Proton Jumbuck and it was really useful. Used it a lot for hauling wood and soil, it was small enough to get around and park easily in the city. I got rid of it eventually because it was so hard to find parts, shame, it was a handy little machine.

Yeah, me too. But I find not getting really hammered achieves a similar thing. I’m working on that.

Fair. Thing is, Microsoft are changing windows anyway, what with all the unwanted features they’re integrating.

Not entirely. It’s an android so it does have the play store, but only about a dozen apps are allowed to be installed. I can’t even install what 3 words, which my work uses constantly. Also I’d like to install the Google swipe keyboard, cos the Microsoft one is shit.

Basically, the combination of a device that’s locked down hard and it only allowing MS products makes my work slower and harder than it needs to be.

The IT dept at my work uses exclusively Microsoft shit. Like, google products are banned on my work phone, as is pretty much everything else. They said this is for security and to help them remain GDPR compliant. As you might imagine, it’s shit.

Does it weigh more than a duck?

I mean, they’re probably lying about it being on autopilot, they just pushed the wrong pedal or something. That said, I drive an electric van at work and it wouldn’t let me bump into something if I tried.

Not all bad people are stupid.

I think that’s more kinda digitised, transferable consciousness. I’d take it tho.

It would be nice to have a post-conflict plan TBH. But yeah, whatever the plan, that would be step 1

Is it actually live yet? I’ll certainly switch when I have the option.

Lol insurance is gonna say ‘Well you paid x for the computer, we’ll offer you x-30%’

That’s if they’re covered at all.

Yeah, ZX81, 1k RAM lol

Yeah I’ve still got some of mine somewhere. I think the main reason the disposables took the market was partly that they are much cheaper, and partly that many people think they taste better. In my country the government has mandated that they be rechargable and have the flavour thingies replaceable, so they are, but they still seem to get thrown away a lot.

I mean, if you’re teaching those things and in America, you’re probably going to end up on a list somewhere, sure. Congrats kicking the meth, I struggled for decades with smack.