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Assuming that string theory is real, perhaps there would be a very specific wavelength of energy that could cause these strings to unravel.

That would cause matter to dissipate at the ultra subatomic level and quite possibly simply convert into heat being the lowest entropy energy level available.

If I wanted to kludge that into a Sci-Fi novel, I would say that it emits string particles that are orthogonal to the strings that they encounter, causing them to break the subatomic strings.

Similar to how cern can create conditions existing closer to the Big bang, perhaps whatever reactor Powers the disruptor does the same thing when it interferes with solid matter.

You would still have quite a bit of energy release when this goes off. Anything it hits should explode roughly with the same amount of energy as if it were exposed to antimatter, but if you need to ameliorate that for story purposes then you could say that those strings then wrap around the orthogonal strings and cancel out, I kind of like how if you have a 1 kilohertz sine wave flowing across the linear line you can cancel that out with a 1 kilohertz sine wave of opposite amplitude flowing along the same line.

I recommend cruising your local thrift stores until you find a dark brown brother laser printer for about $6.99.

The market is replete with second hand toner and fusers and repair parts and it will just print what you need it to print.

Many of them should have Network compatibility with an ethernet cable, but if not you can purchase a very cheap older raspberry pi and run CUPS on it and network it that way.

I did that in my last job.

The computer they gave me was a piece of crap so I brought an older home computer to work.

And I did all of my work on that computer.

And at the end of the day I used that computer to mine cryptocurrency.

Made about 6,000 extra dollars.

Unethical? Yes. But me needing to use my own equipment to accomplish my work requirements was also unethical so I feel like it balances out.

It’s not even a difficult law to pass, “if a cloud service goes out of business, its software becomes public domain. If the company is acquired, the sale must include a promise to keep the services operational for the full lifetime of the product unless the software is public domained”

I’m looking forward to the “how to hack your Tesla to 100% operational functionality using a raspberry pi 9 and this dongle, run your car with your phone!” youtube videos (or whatever streaming service steps over its flaming corpse to replace) it in the next few decades

I have no idea what’s going on with all of this but the news said that he was arrested for child pornography, so in my opinion if there was a hundred other things that he did right this one bad thing out does them all if that is what he did.

I’ve been thinking about testing that myself. There’s a few things that are just a little more intuitive for me on Windows versus Linux, and for the handful of games that prefer Windows configuration or makes it easier to game on Windows might be handy to have a way to access Windows without it being my daily driver.

Then again, I have multiple computers and I already run Linux on my laptop which is the primary device that I use, I’m just talking about my game / audio workstation.

If you dig deep enough into the internet you’ll find people who have been complaining about Microsoft since the dos days, and many of their complaints and fears have come true.

Consumerism requires that consumers be obsessed with the quest for the best.

They achieve that by making you dissatisfied with your current whatever. Your car doesn’t have the latest and greatest entertainment system. It’s five horsepower slower than the new model, due to its age it has maintenance requirements.

Your computer maxes out at 64 gigs of RAM. Your SSD is only 1 TB of storage and only works at 5,000 megabits per second where state of the art is 7,700.

The new game that you like will only get 60 frames per second when you’re playing it. Better slap in a new $1,000 GPU or better yet buy a new $3,500 computer.

The girl you’re seeing only has b cup titties, better talk her into getting a boob job. Get lipo. Go pay some surgeon $10,000 to make your dick a quarter of an inch bigger. Go buy a new house and new clothes, go on that big vacation and make sure you put it on Instagram so everyone knows how good you’ve got it.

As long as you are not content with your current lot, consumerism has achieved its goal.

Just because it seems daunting, that’s all. I’ve done the arch thing, it was fun, somewhat laborious though.

I vastly prefer Mint or Debian so far.

If you would like to show people a great and easy way to try out some free and open source software on windows, I highly recommend ruckzuck.

https://ruckzuck.tools

It’s an all-in-one downloadable portable that lets you browse through a large variety of the various FOSS programs that are available for Windows, conveniently sorted into their general use purpose and then with a quick easy blurb explaining what the software does and allowing you to install it with a couple of clicks.

Further, if you already have some of this software installed, it will scan your system and if there is an update available it allows you to apply all of the updates with a single click.

It has become my go-to software for setting up new computers, and I cannot recommend it enough.

It starts small.

Use FOSS. If you have a few spare ducats, throw it the way of the developers who make the software you use.

Encourage the use of FOSS at your work. Be a gentle evangelist for FOSS when it is appropriate and useful.

Everyone doesn’t have to use Arch and hand code their own kernels to win. All that has to happen is for Microsoft and Apple to realize that their current superiority is under siege and that if they do not comply with the desires of their users they will eventually be ousted.

Hopefully more people will start to use Linux. When there are more Linux users than Apple users that will be a good start, and with all of the enshittification Microsoft is adding to their flagship os, it has never been easier or more convenient to try a Linux.

Thank you for the clarification

Why. What happens during that time?

Why that date specifically?

That was my main problem with blue sky when I first signed up. I didn’t search for penis.

I was searching for fun and entertaining content and the occasional casual bob and vagene, and I got so much penis.

Like a disgusting amount of penis.

I got so much penis that I started to understand what it felt like to be a girl on a dating site.

Politics and foreign language subs.

Too bad that if the motion gets denied, chances are the jurors will never hear that Disney pulled this shit in the first place.

If I knew that I would do my best to give a hundred million dollars to the plaintiffs because Disney can afford it and they should be punished for being dick heads and that would be within our power as a jury to do.

I would say even one a year would be too much.

That unless the business has failed and is no longer operating, for a merger and acquisition to occur they would have to petition the courts for permission first.

Imagine the shit that Microsoft and Google and Adobe and Amazon would be doing if they had to start their companies from scratch and compete against the already extant players in the field?

It would create so many jobs, and create an excess of consumer choice opportunity, lowering prices and fighting against inflation far more than a couple of percentage points on the interest rate index ever would.

I’m tired of only being offered incredibly overpriced very shitty low quality options in every single category.

We don’t need $100,000 cars. We need $5,000 cars.

We don’t need $1,000,000 homes, we need $25,000 homes that anyone in America who works a full-time job regardless of if they’re slinging fries at McDonald’s or digging ditches can afford.

We don’t need $100 a week grocery bills. We need $5 a week grocery bills.