Boozilla

It almost looks like the art style is doing a reverse Garfield. It's bizarre and hard to look at.

Gorgeous photo.

There's a theory that societies experience 40 years of progress followed by 40 years of regression in an endless cycle. I hope the theory is wrong. I can't take decades of these idiots running things.

Few things are as fun as coding on a personal passion project.

Cringe is far too overused IMHO. Especially online.

If something is "lame" it's probably unoriginal, derivative, boring, or annoying.

Is there a date range on the bad ones? I own 3 different 2TB extreme portables (around 4-5 years old) and have had zero issues with them. They are not the model specified tho (i.e, they are not SDSSDE81-2T00).

Yup, illegal does not mean immoral or unethical. It just means some rich or powerful person doesn't like what you're doing. There's a lot of overlap, of course. Many illegal acts are also immoral or unethical. But it's not a 100% overlapping Venn diagram. Also YT is kind of evil, so it's piracy against an evil corporation as much as the content creator. The smarter content creators have sponsors and embedded ads and don't rely on YT for anything.

You keep making this about ego or me trying to "sound smart" and it's utterly exhausting because I'm trying to encourage others, not prop up myself. It's simply not about my ego or self-esteem (no matter how badly you want that straw man to stand up). My entire point is that people should trust their instincts more than they do. And no, I'm not absolving him of any crimes by doing this (that's more straw man).

Since you insist on projection, I'm going to indulge in some here. It sounds like you just want to engage in a virtue competition here, and you're reading a lot of consequences and implications into what I said that, in my view, are simply not there. It's not that I think everything you're saying is wrong. It's not. It's just so twisted out of context and I have to ask myself why. Is Pixel arguing in bad faith in order to do what Pixel is accusing me of? Which is to look smart (or virtuous) on the internet? I don't know, but the optics are pretty bad at this point.

Evidence is better than instinct, no argument there. But you don't always have access to evidence, and ignoring your instincts to jump on a fan bandwagon is ill advised.

This reads like it was AI generated.

Sadly HR exists to protect the company from the employees, not the other way around. This is always the case in the USA. Not sure about other places.

I always wondered if Linus was actually a slimy POS

I believe you. Not everyone on here will, though.