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Jesus_666

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  • 'I'll believe it when I see it': Windows 11 users are cynical about Microsoft's promises to fix the OS and stop pushing AI

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  • I had avoided it until late last year when I had to reinstall a friend's borked install after it had somehow managed to shred its registry hives.

    Holy shit. That installer is an embarrassment. First it couldn't get past the first reboot until I found out that you can set it to use what looks like the Windows 7 installer for the first steps. Then I had to deal with a dog slow installer that needs half a dozen reboots for some unfathomable reason. Then an endless cavalcade of sales prompts, including one for an Office subscription where they try to hide the price from you. All to end in, well, Windows 11.

    I simultaneously installed Fedora Kinoite on his old laptop. I don't think the Fedora installer is one of the better ones but it was so much easier and faster to set up the machine that it was almost comical.

    Seeing both systems side by side really drives home just how clunky Windows is. And how Microsoft installers are barely better than they were 15 years ago, but now they have ads.

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    The Filthy Rich

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  • Yeah, the most likely explanation for his behavior is that he basically had no childhood (which is known) and tried to have one vicariously by hanging out with children.

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    A Life of Crime

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  • Free housing only solves part of the problem. Homelessness is usually caused by something beyond high rent and addressing that underlying issue(s) is also necessary in the long term. Lack of mental healthcare is a common factor, as are substance abuse (often brought on due to mental health issues) or external debt.

    To provide a comprehensive solution, a lot of things are required, such as:

    • Free housing for homeless people to provide immediate relief.
    • Support for those who are traditionally unemployable. Being homeless and without a "proper" job for a few years makes for a terrible CV; some help is necessary to avoid people falling through the cracks again.
    • Better access to mental healthcare, both in terms of cost and availability. Many countries are struggling with one or both of this.
    • Destigmatization of mental health issues. People won't seek help if they're too ashamed to admit they have a problem in the first place.
    • Likewise, access to and destigmatization of addiction treatments.
    • For the United States: Comprehensive healthcare reform to eliminate medical debt as a concept.

    The nice thing is that each of those by themselves already help. There's no need to wait for the perfect solution; solving this piecemeal is effective.

  • Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020

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  • Or double down on AI. Then double down even harder.

    • Make the use of Copilot mandatory; simultaneously heavily monetize it to instantly turn the AI division into a profit center.
    • To that end release the successor to Windows 11, a cloud-only offering that replaces the taskbar with a Copilot instance which launches programs for the user. Downplay any accusations that the new Windows Live 365 With Copilot is just a rental Windows 11 with the taskbar hastily hacked out.
    • Don't forget that Windows Live 365 With Copilot does not include a subscription for Copilot, which must be booked separately.
    • Get all of your customers to switch by immediately dropping support for all previous Windows versions, "migrating" their support windows over to Windows Live 365 With Copilot. Corporate customers, which have gone all-in on Azure, will need years to migrate off the Windows ecosystem, which means excellent short-term revenue.
    • Make sure that Windows Live 365 With Copilot can only save to OneDrive to make it maximally hard for those customers to get their data out.
    • Hope that the current world order disintegrates before the massive exodus of customers ruins the company.
    • Whether or not it does, turn off your business phone and spend the next five years doing massive amounts of cocaine on a private island in the South Pacific.

  • Does self hosting your own internet count?

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  • Agreed. Oddly enough, my Meshtastic contacts are much farther away than my farthest MeshCore contacts but MeshCore seems to be much livelier.

  • I'm on to you

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  • "You heard that right, Gafgarion. I want you to show up to this next fight naked and unarmed for no particular reason."

  • Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC'

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  • Neither do the lower ones. The wheels of an office chair typically don't move when the seat spins around.

  • Pentagon to offer 'more limited' support to US allies

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  • Probably that they'll do fuck all when China invades Taiwan.

  • Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw

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  • It's a German laundry detergent brand.

  • Kinect sucks ass

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  • Besides, even though people love to riff on it, Kinect Star Wars was actually great if you ignored everything but the Galactic Dance-Off mode. A very competent rhythm game where half of the songs are Star Wars filk? Sign me up!

  • ‘Completely lost his mind’: Trump's 'deranged' letter sends shockwaves across the globe

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  • I'm pretty sure that whether it can is irrelevant. Unter Trump it won't because China playing strongman appeals to him more than petty things like allies and an independent semiconductor market. Also, he can very clearly be bought and Xi can just send him a couple yachts with tacky decor or something.

  • ‘Completely lost his mind’: Trump's 'deranged' letter sends shockwaves across the globe

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  • He has pretty much torched all of the USA's soft power and standing as a trade partner.

    GWB had already done some damage to both, which Obama tried to repair (more so on the trade front). Then Trump I happened and made it very clear that the USA were no longer a reliable partner and probably not even politically stable in the medium term. Biden tried to salvage something but then Trump II happened and conclusively buried what little goodwill the States had left.

    I don't think the pax americana is going to survive the decade and neither is the petrodollar. It remains to be seen whether the States will become a local hegemonial power, a failed empire with lasting ambitions á la Russia, or will even fade from relevancy entirely. I don't expect them to remain a superpower.

  • ‘Completely lost his mind’: Trump's 'deranged' letter sends shockwaves across the globe

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  • Also note that the EU has just signed a free-trade agreement with Mercosur, meaning that the EU and pretty much all of South America are pivoting trade away from the USA towards each other. Conveniently, that should also make both of them less reliant on China.

  • unpacking.

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  • Mind you, that's for the same reason all American phone numbers in shows have a 555 prefix – showing a real address could lead to liability if e.g. someone tries to launch an attack on that address they saw on TV.

    Unlike phone numbering schemes, the IPv4 address space has no well-known area reserved for fictitious addresses. Sure, you could use something like 192.0.2.0/24, 198.51.100.0/24, or 203.0.113.0/24 (test networks for use in documentation), but those aren't well-known outside of certain circles.

    So they just go with completely invalid addresses because that's easy.

  • Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

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  • The main difference is that the additional software you need to install doesn't always come from the manufacturer on Linux. Other than that it's actually pretty similar.

    Heck, there are even devices that work better under Linux, such as the Logitech F710 gamepad. That one has been subtly incompatible with the USB stack of every Windows after 7 while it works with Linux just fine.

  • How much is your monthly average mobile/phone data usage?

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  • Usually between 1 and 2 GB/month, up to 10 in months where I travel, which happens about two or three times a year.

    I have a plan which increases my data cap each year, giving me 30 GB currently. It's 20 €/month, which is about average for a 5G plan of that size. I like not having to worry about my data usage.

  • Poor representation

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  • The Descendants series. The setting is basically as I described, except of course that the ghetto is heavily romanticized and the squalor mostly amounts to people having a vaguely punk aesthetic (as opposed to the preppy good guy kingdom). They're Disney movies for kids, after all, but they do acknowledge that their own setting is fucked up.

    The premise of the story is that someone realizes that the villains had kids in there and that punishing the kids for their parents' misdeeds might possibly be kind of cruel so a few of them are selected to attend school in the good guy kingdom as an experiment. This results in a lot of choreographed song and dance routines, a romance plot, and some semi-self aware criticism of the "villains get punished harshly, heroes live happily ever after" trope.

    The first one was pretty decent, the sequels were okay even if they effectively sidelined three of the four protagonists. They also made an animated series, which was a complete dumpster fire.

  • Poor representation

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  • The link is "Disney movie that recycles old characters in ways that have very little to do with their original story or characterization".

  • Poor representation

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  • They explore an alternate story. Sometimes they do that and explore fun scenarios like "what if Cruella DeVil was a somewhat decent person" or "what if all the heroes lived together and operated a magical ghetto and also brought their enemies back from the dead specifically so they could force them to live in squalor in the ghetto forever". Fun little alternate stories.