*felony charges, not federal.

It would only become federal charges if you’re doing something that brings it into federal jurisdiction, such as somehow conspiring across state lines to steal from walmart, or stealing from a walmart that’s located in DC or on an indian reservation.

And it’s Target that’s infamous for waiting and watching while they build up enough total thefts on your record to amount to felony theft charges. Though I certainly wouldn’t put it past other stores to do that. They don’t always do that, though, so you can’t count on being safe as long as you keep it under your state’s felony theft limit.

0x0 could also be allowed.

The only rule that makes sense.

stealing food is a high risk low reward, you might be lucky to get away with a few snacks in your pocket.

struggling desperate people aim for more expensive items that can be sold. Bluetooth headphones, smartphones…

True, but the risk of stealing food is often lower than the risk of stealing more expensive items, as more expensive items are often better secured and better covered by surveillance.

Just remember to steal smartly.

If you see someone stealing food anything at all from a corp,

no you didn’t.

My fault, too. My Linux PC (which I use for 90% of things, including this post) doesn’t have Steam installed on it.

(Okay, yeah. This method is less likely to be successful, I suppose. But it’s a lot more fun.)

Only sometimes effective.

Somebody still has to enact and enforce those laws, and the local government often does that deliberately badly … or not at all. They often find some crooked legal way to block it.

Why not just kill police

Because you can only get two or three, maybe half a dozen of them before they get really pissed and come at you with hundreds of guns blazing and fucking SWAT tanks and helicopters and shit.

and stop paying taxes

Already have, bruv. Already have.

You just killed 15 AI training bots that were scraping Lemmy for training material.

but the unpaid volunteer building your free and open source software wants to go faster so they can spend less of their valuable time on it.

Well too bad.

I’d rather they give up and stop maintaining it entirely. Then they can spend even less of their valuable time on it. That would be better than filling it with AI slop code.

assume the creator of rsync is vibe coding because they used AI

vibe coding = using AI

using AI = vibe coding

They’re two terms for exactly the same thing, inseparable.

Debian Stable is my last hope.

You Arch fuckers once mocked me for my outdated packages – no more!

But pinning an old version is worse than slop imo

I dunno.

The slop is likely to introduce a lot of new vulnerabilities and issues.

'Member when Microslop bragged about 30% AI code and then kept pushing broken updates? I 'member.

God forbid people try to use tools to enable them to get things done faster.

I don’t want my software done faster. I want it done better.

I’m pinning v3.4.1 and not updating again.

Maybe somebody can fork 3.4.1 into a new program without the slop code and do (real, human-made) updates from there?

Hype is where the real money is made, anyway. Just need to build up enough hype to lure in the venture capital bros, then run off with their money and let the project crash and burn.

First of all, don’t. Generally, if the BIOS is working fine, you don’t fuck with it. Attempting to update the BIOS can sometimes brick a motherboard if it goes wrong, so it’s a risk you only want to take if you actually need to.

Checking is relatively easy:

1. Boot into your BIOS and look for a version number. If it’s not already present in the corner somewhere, it will likely be in some ‘help’ or ‘about’ or ‘information’ menu. Make a note of what the version number is.

2. Go to your motherboard manufacturer’s website, find your model, go to their ‘downloads’ page, find the BIOS download and check the version on it. If the version number is higher than the one from Step 1, there’s an update available.

And if you think that update is worth the trouble and risk of installing, follow your motherboard manual’s instructions for installing the update.

Volantes.

Quite fond of it. To the point where I kind of have to use these cursors on any PC I seriously use. Ordinary cursors just look out of place. At the very least, I always want tailless cursors. Seeing a tail on my cursor just feels old-fashioned, vestigial, and cringe to me.

Thankfully, golf courses are very easy to sabotage.

Often protected by minimal if any fencing, and there are a thousand different ways to make little environmentally-friendly changes to the greens that will irritate the fuck out of golfers.