What an entitled and dumb twat. I guess he didn’t think it through that the guy maintaining it now doesn’t have some magical ability to tell who would be a good new owner and “handing over the mainline” to any one person could screw people more than any AI changes because that new person might be malicious or neglectful.

Forks need to earn trust and it’s best that that step isn’t skipped by some inheritance. Not that there even is any obligation to hand it off no matter how many people rely on it or complain.

And the comparison with ms or Google was dumb because I didn’t expect them to do it the way I wanted and stopped using what I could to get away from where they were going and any expectation that they hand over their projects to someone else would be ridiculous (and Google open source projects have been forked).

Have you mentioned yet that anyone can do that second one by making their own fork? And that no one is required to give a fuck about how they think it should be done?

Marketers shouldn’t have gotten involved until they knew they had a solid product. Without the hype they generated, there wouldn’t have been the reputation hit. And without the heavy volume produced to try to meet a demand inflated by hype, they could have fixed at least some of the issues.

Though it sounds like the root of the problem was that no one who had power over business or engineering decisions had any passion for making a great drone.

I’m curious if their current CEO has more of an engineering or business/finance/marketing background, which would put them in the same pattern numerous other once dominant in their market companies have fallen into.

And the second highest comment is “wHY arE YoU bUyINg nEW TeCH wItH aN OlD pHOnEeeee?” (Because OP’s complaint is about how they don’t have a phone capable of running the app rather than just a “why the fuck does this need an app?”)

Though there’s a non-zero chance those replies are made by someone with a vested interest. It’s annoying how both those and people who have just drunk the koolaid are pretty much impossible to tell apart.

Dust can settle and gasses can condense on their way to their apartment if it doesn’t have an easy way in.

Not if you have a central ventilation system.

I think they were looking for a conversation. If saving time is the goal, we wouldn’t be here in the first place.

Also osmosis, regarding the CO2 concentration of the air.

Just hold on to your butt and cut the main power.

But then don’t forget to switch back to main power before the auxiliary power runs out of fuel or things will get really bad.

Unless it’s the movie and they cut out the whole auxiliary power and just set it up such that all power goes out and no one thought of being at the power station to get the main generator back up and running asap before cutting the park’s power.

Or just do it like reddit did, where you can delete your post content and remove your username from it, but the thread and comments remain.

Though with how the fediverse works, it’s possible to spin up a custom instance that highlights deleted content instead of deleting it, meaning the attempt to get rid of it can be what brings it more attention if anyone has decided to do it. Just like with vote identities, they aren’t anonymous and there are instances/sites that just show who voted for what.

When I switched to win 10, I actually gave them more money to get the pro version for access to the group policy editor so I could control updates and never have to deal with my PC telling me it’s time to restart on its own. Because I was stupid.

When it came time to switch to Win 11, I did the much more sensible thing and installed Fedora instead. I started with cinnamon and even though I ended up disliking it also, it was still way better than the windows experience.

That sounds like it should be controlled by a modifier key. Like click and drag just moves the current window while ctrl+drag moves the parent window as well and shift+drag moves all windows owned by that same program. Right click to cancel the whole move operation from the start of the click, then allow dynamically switching modes mid-drag.

I’m still undecided about their own text (deleting comments or post text disrupts the conversation but there’s valid reasons), but I don’t think the OP of a thread should have any control over the existence of that full comment thread.

Frankly, I don’t think users should have that power.

Yeah, upvotes aren’t strongly correlated with accuracy. Could be informative. Or informative but false. Or just a joke. Or a troll that voters enjoyed. Or a plain old aggressive comment against someone they don’t like. Or positioned such that an unusual number of people accidentally tap upvote. Or brigaded from another more popular sub. Or the votes were botted or bought. Or randomly upvoted to camouflage a bot always upvoting its owner’s account. Or its visibility is better than an even better comment and thus got more total votes.

That’s why I think reddit is a shit source if you want an accurate bot, but might be pretty good if you want a propaganda tool because each of those things can play a role in effective propaganda.

Can confirm your realization. That hirogana’s romani is “ne” which is pronounced such that it rhymes with “fiancé” (which is close to “nay” but the y technically adds an “ee” sound at the very end which isn’t present in “ne”).

Functionally, it works just like the Canadian “eh” (when used correctly, not added to the end of all sentences like an American parody of a Canadian), to the point where I’ve been wondering if Japanese is the origin for the Canadian bit (or if they share a common origin that was brought over with one or more of the waves of natives crossing to Alaska).

My guess is they use the vote counts to classify the reliability of the data. They might even have vote identities to classify the data based on audience. That actually seems pretty likely, now that I think of it. It would be an important part of making them effective propaganda tools, which I believe is one of the end goals.

It was a double penetration with his brother.

A fiscal responsibility to who?