Covid was a novel virus they were mostly doing their best wrt public policy. It’s not at all comparable to what’s going on now, reversing decades of proven science progress.

alpha males are real. they may contain serious errors, instability, and are therefore not ready to be released in the general public.

i thought the same, but now working at a place using google/slack/zoom isn’t much better. pretty much all corporate software is feature creep bloated slop these days.

so… thin clients.

implement age verification on games with loot boxes. watch sales crash. stop making loot box funded games.

yeah at the very least it signaled their intentions.

If you are ever on a road trip and go by a Wawa gas station, stop and get their soft pretzels. buy as many as you can and freeze whatever you don’t eat for later.

The german grocery store Lidl also has decent soft pretzels.

from the flaming lips new year’s eve show

xbone was the beginning of the end. when the enshittification kicked in before we had a word for it.

Technology is part of it. For example, handwriting notes is proven to be better for information retention compared to typing.

and D) I’m not going to give money to institutions like cable TV where a percentage of my money ends up with Fox News, or Paramount whose ownership is in bed with Trump, or Amazon and Bezos for obvious reasons. Go on down the line, fuck em all.

not hundreds of thousands. they are too expensive to be that common.

This false dichotomy between “lost” and “won” against climate change is not a helpful message at all.

Yes, we have done irreversible harm to the earth, but every little bit we can limit temperature rise over 1.5C will avoid even worse outcomes. Telling people that we’ve “lost” is self defeating. If people believe that then we truly will lose everything.

Of course there are kids with disabilities or nuerodivergence, and common sense should handle what is best for them individually. We’re talking about broad policy here, laptops should not be the default.

also counterproductive, handwriting is better for retention.

that’s not the only issue, it’s also just a plainly worse design that will likely lead to lots of broken screws and bits.

don’t “reader” views in web browsers essentially accomplish the same thing?

and here i thought busineeses had freedom of speech and the absolute right to control what appears on their platform.

it’s not just xfiles, i think TV/hollywood in general does that.

I just switched from windows. The things I am struggling with are mostly related to game streaming and desktop streaming. using an intel 10 series and 3080.

1. Moonlight+Sunlight are mostly fine for game streaming, although there are hiccups once in a while. They technically also suport desktop streaming, but the features for that are not nearly complete compared to any other RDP/VNC app in the last 20 years. For example, clipboard sharing and keyboard shortcut documentation are terrible.

2. sleep/wake is basically broken with nvidia drivers. when the PC wakes from sleep the graphics driver does not realize it, so moonlight thinks there is no display connected. The workaround is full power off and power on instead of sleep/wake, but that is not 100% reliable either. Not to mention old fashioned.