Wait for something really important and urgent to come up, and just before the deadline, call in sick for a couple days. Then turn your phone off, don’t check your email, etc.

When you get back into the office, perhaps opinions about needing additional IT staff will have changed.

Time to dust off ye olde DVD burner.

Why the fuck would you wait?

Because this thing is recording video all around itself and I don’t want any cops visiting my house.

Come to think of it, yeah… These things will be real nice to have after the collapse.

A modestly sized, but complete and mobile off-grid solar system, just waiting for you to hitch it to your car and pull it away. Tear the cameras and lights off of it, then use the solar panels, batteries, and associated electrical equipment to power whatever small electrical loads you need.

No, that screen is in your pocket.

I should make a Schrodinger’s Linux.

Every command you enter has a 50% chance of being ignored, and the output of all commands is hidden and come with a 30s delay, so you never know whether the command was actually executed or not.

They all have to be inserted rectally, but the Linux pill vibrates and comes with free lube.

Windows pill you have to pay extra for lube.

Wait a minute … you’re trying to redpill me!

I don’t get my mobo splash screen or bios display when booting

That already basically eliminates all possible software issues, so there’s no point in booting into a different OS.

550W is woefully inadequate for a 9070XT

I think people generally overestimate how much PSU they actually need, though.

Since I’m running a 3090 and a 32-core Threadripper, among other things, I picked a 1000W power supply. Reasonable enough.

But I also have it plugged into a UPS that shows current power usage, and the total input power of the PC is ~250W at idle, ~650W at full load, and I’ve never seen it go above 700W at all, ever. And that’s including accessories that aren’t going through the PSU at all. An 800W power supply would (in theory at least) be more than enough for even my ridiculously overbuilt and power-hungry system.

Maybe there’s something to be said for having an under-stressed PSU with significantly more capacity than you’ll ever use? It won’t have as much heat stress. Maybe it will run more efficiently at a lower percentage of its maximum load. If it for some reason loses some of its capacity over time, you’ll still have some wiggle room left. And, of course, it’s always nice to have a bigger PSU if you’re doing upgrades later, making it less likely that you’ll need to replace your PSU to do those upgrades. But still, I think a lot of home-built PCs out there are using a much bigger PSU than they actually need.

Still, you’ll want to try all other possibilities before writing it off as a hardware failure. Because hardware failures are expensive, and other fixes are cheap or free.

Hm… Yeah, unfortunately, that’s sounding more and more like a hardware failure.

When did it stop working? Had you changed anything just before then?

Possibly your GPU is borked?

Did you buy it recently? Can you still return it?

Really, though – is that not true?

There is already no expectation of privacy and anonymity anymore. Cameras are already everywhere, more and more of them interconnected and tracking your every step. If you want privacy and anonymity outside of your own home, you need to be wearing a mask, and maybe taking measures to disguise your gait and physical proportions as well. Having slightly more or slightly fewer cameras out there isn’t going to change that whatsoever.

Okay, then. I wish you the very best of luck in destroying every camera you see. Hopefully you’re wearing a mask and unidentifying clothes every time you go out.

If you see a ring door bell, they aren’t hard to kick or rip off the wall.

It is a bit more difficult, however, to do that without being caught, since they’ll probably have camera footage of you doing it.

Eh, you’re already on a dozen cameras every time you go outside. Security cameras, state surveillance cameras, doorbell cameras, cameras all over every modern car… What’s a few more?

Did Trump make a bet with someone about how many different countries he could invade in 30 days?

A set of FOSS smart glasses powered entirely by local hardware and software that you own and control? That would be kind of neat.

Anything connected to and under the control of a big corporation, though … miss me with that shit.