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Big yawn

Microsoft is so… Old people stuff

2%

Linux users: 👐 it’s happening! 👐

And still they’re miles apart on the evil axis. That they’re both on the wrong side of neutral doesn’t make them the same. Vote to keep the fascist out and then fight zionism afterwards

Bonus points for the actor Wallace Shawn being based

Let me share this story: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveillance-toddler-photo.html

The guy even has the police explicitly clear him off any foul play, but Google still won’t budge. Consumers have zero rights to something as fundamental as retrieving their own files or emails

Rookie numbers, they’re aiming for 100

True. Breadtube should stop with the slogfests

Mandatory reporting strikes again. This person didn’t get the medical help they needed because they didn’t want police involved. This is exactly why doctors can’t share your medical information with anyone: because then people will keep secrets from their doctors and the entire medical field suffers

Chrome got popular at introduction because it was much faster at loading and displaying websites. Sure, there was a marketing push by Google, but it succeeded on the products merits and not some unfair business advantage. It still is a great browser.

We do need antitrust protections but not always because consumers are getting a bad product. It’s more about the balance of power. Maybe their products are good now, or their business practices are fair now to other market actors, but you never know when that will change and then it’s too late. It’s like you need safeguards against autocracy also when they’re genuinely doing good job of running the country, because it’s never worth it in the long run when they inevitably start doing nasty shit

I tried this on my previous phone, Samsung S9, it made everything worse. I bought and replaced a daughterboard with usb, microphone, antenna, and some other stuff. I was very careful, know my way around electronics, found a perfect iFixit video instruction, but afterwards my antenna didn’t work anymore. My partner told me to just take it to a repair shop and let a professional handle it. I tried two and they both said “we don’t do dat repair because it’s too difficult. It can’t be done without breaking something else in the phone”. So there it is

Curiously Recurring Template Pattern (basically crop circles)

They’re also as mysterious as crop circles in programming. I know how it works but I’m not going to explain to the next poor sap. Such an antipattern. It’s in the name, don’t do this sort of shit. Stop being clever. Your code should be dumb as fuck

I wouldn’t know, I’m a filthy casual. Parkitect never did it for me, but Planet Coaster did. The point is nobody’s making a new Rollercoaster Tycoon under that name, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t worthy successors from competitors.

Cities Skylines is a better example, I remember how much Sim City sucked, but Cities Skylines knocked it out of the park

It’s time for a new Sims. The way Cities Skylines replaced Simcity and Planet Coaster replaced Rollercoaster Tycoon. Fuck EA

How is that different from blaming poor people they have a bad work ethic?

The new ones won’t catch on so it doesn’t bother me that much. We should be grateful that the enshittification isn’t faster when it comes to URLs

Not sure what you mean. Blinding headlights is definitely worse in the last two decades

Lighting is the determining factor? I think the real problem is speed. With kids coming out of nowhere, people need to drive slower. With some regular low beams you should see plenty, no need to light up the whole neighborhood

Your low beams were fine 20 years ago. Don’t create this expectation in drivers that they have to turn night into day. That only adds to the problem of asshole drivers prioritizing their ability to see over other people’s ability to see. Matrix headlights are unnecessary and create orders of magnitude more light pollution

Blinding headlights are due to poorly aligned low beams, too bright LED headlights, bigger cars with their headlights mounted higher and higher. So the solutions are: low beam alignment that can’t be made to blind you by the driver, regulation on luminosity and color spectrum of lights, stop financial incentives to make vehicles large, heavier, deadlier.

Fuck Israel but don’t blame your coworker.