I had one of these for awhile, then a Trackman Optical, and that lasted until the M570 came out and I’ve been using those until now.

I’ve been using Logitech trackballs since Clinton was president.

“LUH-vull.”

Dell Microsoft Roku Sony Briggs & Stratton Duracell

All of the above companies have failed me for the Last. Time. Admiral Piet. We’re done.

There was a time when that thing was state of the art. Wasn’t a long time, but it existed.

There were a series of commercials for Pace “Picante Sauce” in the 90’s of the formula:

• Some cowboys
• campfire time
• They start eating salsa. Not like, with anything, just eating salsa.
• New guy says “Try some of my salsa.”
• one of the other guys reads the label and says “This stuff is made in New York City.”
• Everyone else yells “NEW YORK CITY?!?!”
• cut to announcer proclaiming Pace is made of pure roots and toots for the ultimate shit kicker rodeo experience
• cut back to new guy being hilariously tied up or otherwise cowboy punished.

It’s funny because it insinuates that Texans can and will read.

It’s separate software; CrowdStrike is independent from Microsoft and it isn’t a default component of Windows.

Methane is a worse greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, so it’s better to burn it. It’s also better to burn the methane that is going to be released from sewage anyway and leave fossil fuel gas trapped in the Earth’s crust.

Sure it does. The Vice President is an almost useless job.

The VP has two tasks under the constitution: Emcee the senate, and be the President’s understudy. It’s a position that only has power if there’s a tie in the senate, the VP gets to cast a tie breaking vote. It’s not uncommon to stick a candidate who has some momentum but the party doesn’t like there to get them out of the way. Look up Teddy Roosevelt’s career to see how foolproof that plan is.

Crowdstrike is a cybersecurity company that makes security software for Windows. It apparently operates at the kernel-level, so it’s running in the critical path of the OS. So if their software crashes, it takes Windows down with it.

This is very popular software. Many large entities including fortune 500 companies, transport authorities, hospitals etc. use this software.

They pushed a bad update which caused their software to crash, which took Windows down with it on an extremely large number of machines worldwide.

Hilariously bad.