That strategy works when you uninstall Windows too. :D

Is there anything those damn media companies won’t screw up? Even my frozen Mt Dew, man.

Hol up though…

Is that the Arch flavor or the Fedora flavor? I think that’s important information to have on hand.

I say we shouldn’t take any platforms “seriously.”

This platform is small and open and hosted by volunteer individuals. That is what makes it nice for most of us, but it also means there will always be a variety in who you interact with and it will never be a consistent homogenous branded product.

The huge corporate platforms kind of flip that - you get a massive user base and a very intentionally designed user experience, but everything else about it is a nightmare.

That miata concept sounds fun. But would it be more fun than one that has revs and gears, even though it would be way faster?

Honestly the ideal in my case might be like 2500lbs and 300hp but only like 100 miles of range to keep the battery size down. But I don’t think that’s gonna happen.

You are correct, but that does not absolve the companies or the government of any responsibility. It should not be “anything goes” as far as intentionally addictive designs on anything with a screen for the same reason they can’t just put cocaine in Doritos. They still engineer in what they can, but with some guardrails. And even in that case the regulations here in the US leave a lot to be desired.

I’m sure my anecdote applies to people from all three, and even to some of the boomers that didn’t ingest as much lead and have kept their head on straight.

When I mentioned The Oregon Trail generation though, that’s usually an Xennial label.

I have been existing in a superposition of both of these states for a few years and really like it.

During the day I’m a senior engineer on embedded c/c++ stuff. During free time at home I dig in the dirt and build shit and do my “farm chores” like tending to my koi pond. Feels good man.

I think most people would agree that fresh air, exercise, hobbies, and personal goals are good for your body and mind. It’s still wild when I notice it actually working.

I’m not sure what your use cases and performance requirements are, but Windows works great in a VM.

I rarely use it, but I happened to fire it up today and after updating it I got a full screen ad to start backing up my computer to their shit.

Living in the US as somebody who pays attention to the world and cares about people and stuff is absolutely surreal sometimes.

It’s especially so when you’re one of the last people to have had an analog childhood (The Oregon Trail generation represent) so all the adults you knew as a child grew up in the post-ww2 prosperity and genuinely believed all the American exceptionalism stuff.

The only thing it seems we are best at is striking the perfect evil balance where I can’t decide if it feels more Black Mirror or more Hunger Games.

Yes to all, especially the driver attention one.

I have two options when driving to work. One is shorter and takes straight level roads through the newest part of town.

The other way is slightly longer but it’s a twisty hilly road through the countryside.

I take the longer route every single day unless it is actively snowing or something. And now that hybrid WFH is a common thing, I don’t often drive in the snow.

Then there’s Pittsburgh. It’s like Boston but when you take a wrong turn you end up on the wrong side of a mighty river or two.

It’s well worth the minimum amount of extra typing and reading to say “installing from outside the Play Store” to push back against the idea of the locked down CorpoPhone being the default… or the norm… or the legal requirement.

It’s a small push back commensurate with the small amount of effort, but it’s a subject worthy of the attention.

I reckon that means it is not actually your own device.

And what you describe is probably the best case scenario, that the well meaning artist misses it in a rush.

In the real world much of the time I bet the artist is well aware and frustrated because the game already shipped (with no input from them or their boss) to make it by the end of the quarter and now the press assets all have some bland slop BS front and center instead of the real version staring back from their own monitor.

Yeah, but the countermeasures are client-side because that’s what you can control. And some kind FOSS devs out there make it easy to start somewhere decent.

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What about the slightly larger bonuses that quarter for the executives who had the outside-the-box and paradigm-shifting bright idea to eliminate the V&V department? HUH?

There’s probably a dusty old Ferrari buried in some retired rich guy’s 7th garage, and all the world had to suffer for it was a few fucked up networks here and there and losing the respect of IT people all over the place.

If phase changes weren’t so badass we would be so fucked, lol.

To these people, human joy is an indulgence for the weak.

You know how over-exaggerated cartoonish villains will talk about how love and caring make you weak? Basically that.

That makes me think of how much it annoys me when things are really messy and disorganized in our house, which is very often.

It’s like there’s no indexing. Where is thing X that somebody else used last? Time to start a fresh empty-cache brute force search of the whole space!