Have I truly become a monster?
You can still share your data with others! How about burning dvds or filling up thumb drives or external HDDs for all your friends and family? Maybe have them bring their phones and/or laptops over and load them up directly. That would be in the spirit of sharing.
And somehow just about every one of the hundreds of linux desktop environments you can choose from features a rock solid, fully customizable taskbar(s) which can be put wherever you want. Even in gnome which doesn’t allow you to move the taskbar by default, you can still move it with an extension and it doesn’t break anything.
Just one example, in XFCE you can put a taskbar of literally any size literally anywhere. Very useful if you have a broken corner of your screen, you can throw a taskbar there and windows will dodge it. You can even create a 1px wide taskbar right down the center of your monitor, splitting it into two spaces. All of this is completely seamless, behaves exactly how you would expect, and rock solid.
So WTF is microsoft doing exactly?
I made some beans today, or as I like to call them “beens” because I already been ate them.
This is how we can still have a sequel to Xena: Warrior Princess
They only think we’re obnoxious for the same reasons they think vegans are obnoxious. Because we’re right.
When I say “use linux” I’m not just saying “use linux”, I’m saying “use the GPL FOSS ecosystem of software, stop supporting the massive tech companies making all of computing actively worse”
Especially since most of the time people aren’t complaining about windows being accidentally bad, but about windows being actively hostile to the user in a way FOSS will never be, lacking the profit motive.
Yeah I think it’s just the removal of the profit motive you’re feeling OP, and I agree.
The article you linked says rewind 3rd party, opt in, and stored locally. I don’t think anyone would have an issue with microsoft’s AI either if it was opt in and without telemetry.
Don’t forget the duress password feature. On graphene you can set up a second password that if entered, will immediately wipe and lock your phone.
I haven’t run into anything I can’t install with aurora store yet, and the apps on f-droid tend to be better than their play store counterparts when available anyway.
What’s an automatic wifi hotspot? You can certainly do a wifi hotspot “manually”
I don’t really understand still but thanks for trying all the same. 
I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one thinking it!
Do you think it could be done by diffing a few of the different language tracks?
Try clementine/strawberry music player on your laptop. They scan your music library and apply a volume normalization value to each track.
I have a semi-related question if you don’t mind. People often complain about the voice tracks in movies being hard to hear, especially if you don’t have a speaker for the center channel (but even then I have trouble)
Why haven’t they solved this problem by packaging the voice track separately on the bluray/stream so you can turn up the volume of the voices only without blowing your ears out when the music hits?
They’re just going to do this with the TPM and similar chips that windows 11 semi-hard requires, and android, iOS, mac OS have already, anyway. The website will refuse to display if any modification whatsoever has been done to it, and any browser that refuses to comply to their standards will be blocked. There will of course be a couple hacks to get around it, but eventually they will close those leaks too. The open internet is very soon coming to an end.
I don’t know why you think corporations aren’t effectively micro-governments themselves, ones that don’t even put on the show of democracy, beholden to essentially no one but their shareholders.
Yeah, I see why you were being called a bootlicker.
The EU is good when they’re doing good things, and bad when they’re doing bad things. Someone has to reign in international corporations and their anti-consumer anti-planet bullshit.
people … who argued against me have no one to blame but themselves. You really think people agreeing or disagreeing with you on the internet have/had anything to do with it?
Even the people who love him hate him!
That’s exactly what I’m saying. The reasons all exist on the spectrum from “we have no reason to care” to “We have every reason to make this difficult for you”
That’s awesome actually