https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam

Check the distro numbers, none of them are down

Why is there a picture of Kash Patel staring back at me

Iran funds the terrorists that attacked Israel, so at the very least Israel had the right to retaliate

Windows 10. It just didn’t run on hard drives, when I turned off constantly scanning the drive and the firewall, it refused to update because the update service requires the firewall. Then I forgot how I did it so I never booted into it again.

Windows 7 was the last offline Windows and the last one that was tolerable

Watch veritasium videos, they are well researched and informative. I have sponsor block and ad block so I don’t get annoyed

Not buying at all saves even more money.

A 3080 was great value if you somehow got one on release in 2020 for $700

A 9070 xt, if you can get one even for $700 will beat the 3090 even in a lot of ray tracing games

They also got a cease fire for the shipping lanes in the Red Sea and that required extensive bombing. You have to agree that a certain budget is required

Trump administration is selling its first package to Ukraine

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/01/trump-administration-readies-first-sale-of-military-equipment-to-ukraine

trying to format C: to install linux

I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave

Some notes I want to look at later I do write with pen and paper. For jotting things down I just have a digital tablet you can scribble or draw on

Intel thought the iPhone market was going to be too small so they didn’t agree to manufacture their CPUs

You can’t kill viruses, but you can see if the side effects are nocebo or real. If the placebo group complains about the side effects are the same rate it means they are not statistically significant

You can scroll without reading. This ensures you care about reading the article

The read more button is just to track if you in fact want to read more

Blood pressure is actually affecting your chances of dying from heart disease or stroke, so yes, it’s changing the disease progression

Increasing the dopamine level in the brain is not pain relief, that’s a physical change

It can actually cure high blood pressure (which can cause stroke and heart disease)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6118757/

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/putting-the-placebo-effect-to-work

It caused people actual relief of IBS and Parkinson’s

Parkinson’s disease is associated with a shortage of a brain chemical called dopamine, and in studies of the disease, placebos have increased the production of dopamine.

That’s absolutely not true. Placebo effect literally cures certain diseases

Defense spending is the most important function of government. Without it we can’t help Ukraine