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To me he looks like he’s testing new eyes.

Consult the “cats vs. dogs” George Carlin piece for context.

They probably don’t, they just want to get shit done.

Anyone using that would probably very quickly get their email on a blocklist. Still, I appreciate the sentiment.

Wow. You’ve seen things.

Which ones are first and second?

I agree, but also understand that it’s probably done because of the comic format. If they were to do it properly, it would’ve required an additional panel to show an establishing shot of the whole ship and then a close up showing the flag.

In this setting it would be pirates.

In another setting it might mean anarchy.

It’s good to be reminded that some things are just conventions rather than hard rules. I forget things like that (if I ever knew them to begin with).

On topic, I usually do 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 depending on the situation.

Someone with a sense of humour

Honestly, I can’t say that I fully understand economics at scale, but I guess that when a buyer big enough goes to a manufacturer and books a big chunk of their capacity for a year or two ahead, the manufacturer has to take that deal. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are a lot of off-the-books arrangements along with that. It sounds logical, but yeah, feels big time unfair to the end user.

I hate myself for not upgrading before the shortage. I was like “yeah, I can do another year or two with what I have”, partly not wanting to buy new things just because, partly cautious of the AM5 motherboard/CPU failures here and there. It’s wild to think that less than 500 EUR/USD used to buy a 96 gig memory kit.

Yeah, but what led to that shortage, jackass?

Wow, that quote is pure gold.