Morally bad? Ehh, I try not to be.

Generally low-quality human? Fuck yes.

People are so damn shallow about looks, it’s ridiculous.

The fact is that an AIO has a shorter lifespan, is way more expensive per-watt, and… Oh, right.

Sex work is work, and the people doing it deserve respect. Fuck the ‘there will be consequences’ mindset, since that mostly comes from the people imposing the ‘consequences’ in the first place.

I wouldn’t be willing/able to suspend disbelief about an actual personal connection either, but it’s a valid human emotional need, and if it works for people, good for them.

He fixed some other fairly-problematic titles, too. Check them out on that same site :)

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You need this: https://www.topherpayne.com/giving-tree

Laptops are uniformly awful.

You can’t upgrade or replace the GPU or CPU, the hinge assembly is mechanically vulnerable, a cup of coffee over the keyboard is game over, the screen dies you’ve got a ridiculous cost to fix, the cooling sucks, the ergonomics suck, and you pay about double the price for half the specs.

You need a proper screen and keyboard at your desk anyway, so unless you’re hotdesking with the thing, it’s just going to act like a shitty desktop most of the time.

free onion ring

Bolt one end of some sheet metal to your bumper, leaving the other end to scrape along the ground. Should generate the required NYAAAUUUGGHHH sound wherever you go.

Interesting. We mostly use DBAN at work because it’s a one-button process you can walk away from, and it has drivers for hardware old enough that we’re disposing it. Nobody’s ever selected the fancy super-paranoid stuff as far as I know.

If the hardware won’t boot, we take a layer-1 approach instead :D

Most of these answers are mostly right: deleting a file on disk doesn’t actually erase the data, it just marks the space as available to write over - meaning that so long as nobody’s used the space since, you can go retrieve the contents with an undelete utility.

Most of the time, people don’t care - but if for instance you’re selling the PC or there’s highly sensitive information involved, that might not be good enough.

As such, there are utilities that can go out and specifically overwrite the contents of a file with all zeroes, so ensure that it’s dead-dead - and there are other utilities that can do the same to an entire disk.

There’s one wrinkle: Magnetic HDDs don’t reliably erase and overwrite completely in a single pass; just like rubbing out pencil writing, it can leave faint impressions under the new content, and it is actually possible (with serious effort by forensic recovery people) to glean some of the previous content. If there’s serious money / security at stake, a simple overwrite is not enough, so there’s software that certifiably-randomly scribbles over each bit, seven times over, making the chances of recovering the original astronomically slim. Again, this can be done for individual files or the entire disk.

SSDs aren’t prone to leftover impressions, thankfully - what’s gone is gone. And they have one other neat feature: while a magnetic disk can only be erased one bit at a time, so large disks can take hours - SSDs can just open the floodgates and ground every cell at once, fully erasing the entire disk in an instant.

This instant-erase, while comprehensive… returns before you’ve even taken your finger off the ENTER key, so fast it feels like it can’t possibly have done anything, it must be broken, how can I trust it? So BIOS manufacturers hype it up, call it something impressive to underline that it’s big and powerful, and actually impose a 10-second countdown to make it feel like it’s doing something complicated.

Any of these different things have been called ‘secure erase’ at various points, so it’s a little context dependent. But from the end-user perspective: this data is getting shredded then incinerated then added to cattle feed; it’s not coming back.

Long, long ago, when HL2DM was a thing, I was jogging hone from work, past the edge of a park.

A kid kicked a football towards the fence just ahead of me, and I started sprinting… and then realised that no, this isn’t the perfect gravgun kill, stop it.

Leave. If nothing else, you’ll get to call yourself Wasraeli.

Forkbomb. Continuously create copies of myself, which will continuoulsy create copies of themselves. See how long it takes to guru the whole damn thing.

Corporations rely on desperate, easily-exploited people in order to make obscene profits. There’s no way in hell they’d risk actually cutting off their supply of slaves, or else they might have to drop a couple of percent of profits on paying wages / benefits / etc.

The border laws aren’t intended to reduce the number of illegal immigrants, they’re there to make those same people more desperate and therefore more profitable, while at the same time stoking the enthusiasm of morons who will continue to vote for more pro-corporate politicians who will shovel even more money to the shareholders.

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Bingo.

Tens of thousands of dead kids, and he’s sending more bombs.

Mass graves of people buried alive with their hands bound, and he’s vetoing resolutions against Israel in the UN.

Bombing food trucks and the crowds surrounding them, and he’s making excuses for them.

Famine set to kill most if not all people in Gaza, and he keeps sending bombs.

Imagine making a whole chicken out of chicken-nugget goo.

It will look like a roast chicken. It will taste alarmingly like chicken. It absolutely will not be a roast chicken.

The sad thing is that humans do a hell of a lot of this, a hell of a lot of the time. Look how well a highschooler who hasn’t actually read the book can churn out a book report. Flick through, soak up the flavour and texture of the thing, read the blurb on the back to see what it’s about, keep in mind the bloated over-flowery language that teachers expect, and you can bullshit your way to an A.

Only problem is, you can’t use the results for anything productive, which is what people try to use GenAI for.

I have slightly odd wiring; I need something to bite down on under stress so I can ride it out. Incoming emotions that don’t match my current ones just feel dissonant and uncomfortable.

I thus present to you femtanyl

Or if you still want a rock-tumbler brain massage but a little less stabby, consider Gray Data by Five Star Hotel.