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  • I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions

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  • Just something you should be aware, getting your name changed could be a royal pain in the butt and takes a long time, fair bit of money and a lot of patience. I recently went through the process and it's quite the journey. First thing you need to get is a signed paper from a judge in your state. Here are the list of things you have to do afterwards. There are some dependencies so you may not be able to get them done simultaneously. Social security card and state drivers license are the two most important and everything else comes afterwards.

    • Social Security Card - Depending on your location, an appointment could take few months.
    • Driver's License - In my state name change doesn't require an appointment however if you're upgrading to Real ID then it may require an appointment. Appointment could take several weeks to several months depending on your state.
    • Car registrations
    • Car titles - This could cost some money
    • Car insurance
    • Passport and Passport Card - This could take some time and may cost some money depending on your situation. https://travel.state.gov/en/passports/renew-replace/change-correct-passport.html
    • Your employer
    • If you own a company then there may be some paperwork to be done.
    • If you are renting then you'll need to talk to your landlord or property manager
    • If you own a house you might need to talk to your city
    • Utility (Electricity, Gas, Internet, Mobile, etc.)
    • Your healthcare provider
    • Health/Life insurance
    • Property insurance
    • Voting registration
    • Bank Accounts - This requires new drivers license as ID
    • Credit Cards - Same as above.
    • Investment accounts (Broker, 401K, IRA)
    • Local public library card
    • Memberships like AAA, Costco, AARP, etc.

    EDIT: There are several more additions I just thought of.

    • If you own a house or condo with home owner's association, you'll need them to update their records
    • if you have children, your daycare center or school will need their emergency contact updated

    EDIT: The following don't pertain to me personally so I really don't know what is involved with name change. You should to do more research to find out for sure if they pertains to you.

    • If you are a certain licensed professional like doctor, lawyer, accountant, real-estate agent, electrician, plumber, etc. you may need to update those records
    • Firearm registration may need to be updated
    • if you are in your family member's will, those may need to be updated

  • Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable"

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  • I bailed on Destiny 2 after Shadowkeep when they announced content vaulting and I never looked back. The writing was on the wall back then that the game will end up in a ditch. My experience with Destiny 2 is basically frozen as of Shadowkeep so it's relatively positive but I just can't understand how anyone could tolerate player hostile decisions Bungie has made over the years. Here is Aztecross' video explaining some of them including pay to win elements. His video is already two years old so I'm sure even more nonsense has been added to the game since. Destiny franchise started out as something special but it died as a horrific heap of anticonsumer garbage due to unchecked greed of a corporation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsIdPWB2_JA

  • Jason Schreier: "PlayStation studio business CEO Hermen Hulst told staff in a town hall Monday morning that the company's narrative single-player games will now be PlayStation exclusive"

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  • Sony seems to be completely out of touch with the reality. During the time when the console prices have skyrocketed to the point it's no longer an option for entire segment of the population, they decide that it's right time to go back to console exclusive games? It also baffles me that there are fully grown men that are actually celebrating the return of console exclusives. What a bizarre tribalism at work here. I think I'm just going to slowly work through my back catalog until some semblance of sanity returns.

  • Digital Foundry's Video Follow-up to DLSS 5 is Much More Nuanced

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  • I don't know which is worse for Digital Foundry. Did they actually not know it looked awful or they knew it was awful but decided to tow the nvidia's marketing line to maintain good graces with them for future access. I guess I could watch this video but watching more AI slop will makes me physically ill. I think I'm going to just unsubscribe and move on.

  • Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599

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  • Considering Windows has become a complete dumpster fire recently, this $600 laptop could be a really appealing option for some if they're mostly browsing the web.

  • Gucci criticised for 'AI slop' images ahead of major fashion show

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  • Gucci and many other so called "luxury" brands aren't sold to the wealthy but rather middle class buyers that are desperately trying to project an image of wealth. It's why they have tacky giant logo plastered all over them to scream "Look at me! I've spent a lot of money on this!" To me that just screams insecurity.

  • Ladybird Browser adopts Rust, with help from AI

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  • I've suddenly lost all interest in this browser's development. From what I've heard, LLMs are pretty bad at generating Rust code for some reason. If they used LLM to bulk convert C++ code to Rust, the quality of the code is questionable at best.

  • Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company

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  • Putting AI datacenters in space has got to the be dumbest idea conceived by Elon yet. There has to be several dozen engineering challenges to even make that happen and when all is said and done it would make absolutely no financial sense to actually do it. This is just yet another attempt by Elon to hype up spacex for an IPO. It's a very poor attempt at that.

    EDIT (1 day after initial comment): There is one angle I didn't think of yesterday but just dawned on me. Now that Twitter office was raided by authorities in France, perhaps Elon thinks he can put datacenters in space to get around the jurisdictions of countries. He might be thinking by putting datacenter in space that can beam data directly through starlink he can basically side step local law. He may think by having CSAM generating datacenters in space it can't be raided and be shut down easily by terrestrial law enforcement. Obviously this is not how law and law enforcement works but I think there is a decent chance Elon is dumb enough to think his idea would work.

  • You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift

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  • The title of the article is very misleading. Microsoft has not said they'll be removing AI features already deployed on Windows. All it says is they're reevaluating AI features going forward and streamlining the experience whatever that means. It sounds like they're looking to rename unpopular unwanted feature like Recall instead of scrapping it. The whole thing is just a PR move to placate the disgruntled masses. Also they said nothing about intrusive ads, telemetry, or rapidly declining stability of overall system. Recent update literally broke windows explorer, task bar and start menu. One thing for certain, Microsoft will not stop using Copilot to develop their software in house. That would be admitting Ai tools are useless and that would sink Microsoft stock even further than it already has.

  • AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast

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  • This is basically Dead Internet Theory happening for real but in a weird creepy dystopian black mirror style way.

  • Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots

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  • Those robots are complete vaporware. I would predict we're about to see whole lot of robot hype video clips on twitter and tiktok very soon. We're going to see his fake "robot" playing soccer, making breakfast, juggling, and whatever. I'm sure they'll be all ai generated. There will be paid tesla influencers who already bought cybertruck hyping up this non existent robots very soon. Elon will tout millions of robots sold but in reality they were all sold to spacex and those robots will be sitting in a hanger somewhere. It's all smoke and mirrors.

  • Removed

    NO JUSTICE, NO WORK!

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  • There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.

  • Stewart Cheifet, creator of The Computer Chronicles, dead at 87

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  • Microsoft’s WebTV Is Being Revived By Fans

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  • Late 90s is when Microsoft started scheming to take control of the living room. They introduced bunch of consumer products around that time. Not many people remember but there was the Windows XP Media Center edition that you can hook up to TV and play various media. They even made a cordless phone for the living room. Not long after they made Zune. Ultimately Microsoft's ambition to become the gatekeeper for the living room media gave birth to XBOX but ironically it also killed it in the end. Their grand plan they've been working for more than a decade culminated on the XBOX One announcement of 2013. The presentation was mostly about how the XBOX One was going to be the central hub of living room media and gaming was just one of many features. We all know how that turned out.

  • Why do you personally hate Christmas?

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  • I worked retail for many years so... yeah.

  • Is there self help for narcissism?

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  • Short answer, no. I know several people that are narcissists and they don't get better over time. In fact I think they've gotten lot worse. If you're in a relationship with a narcissist and perhaps thinking this person may get better over time, I have a bad news for you. No. Most definitely won't. No amount of therapy will "fix" narcissism because for any behavioral therapy to work the person first has to admit they have a problem and want to get better. Narcissists are simply incapable of doing just that. Only solution is to remove narcissist from your life. Do it as soon as possible. Yes, I'm speaking from first hand experience.

  • A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections

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  • This is really bad. You need to have emergency service vehicles able to move around the city. Blocking road like that could mean life or death for some. Public road isn't some playground for doing beta testing. Waymo needs to be heavily fined for putting public at risk.

  • Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead

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  • Damn. This sucks. I've been buying Crucial ram sticks as long as I can remember. They've been the reliable go to brand for me. First it was EVGA and now Crucial. How depressing.

  • Bill Gates is a horrible person.

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  • Obviously Bill Gates is a household name and in the tech community everyone knows who is Steve Ballmer. However not many people know who Paul Allen is even though he was one of the founder of Microsoft at the very start. In 1982 Paul Allen was diagnosed with cancer and Bill and Steve were worried that if Paul died the shares of the company would go to someone else along with control of the company. While Paul was literally getting cancer treatment, Bill and Steve were scheming to dilute the shares of the company to wrestle the control of the company away from Paul. Fortunately for Paul he survived the cancer. It really doesn't put Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer in very good light though. I remember reading about this from Robert X. Cringely's blog about two decades ago and I heard Paul Allen wrote about his version of this story in his memoir before his death.

    Edit: I tried to find the original Robert X. Cringely's story from back in 2006 but looks like that link is broken but he did referenced it in 2011 when Paul Allen's book was released.

    https://www.cringely.com/2011/03/30/i-told-you-so/

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