Lemons are small, sour, and yellow. The opposite must thus be large, savory, and purple. Following this sound and thorough logic, Jeffrey Epstein’s penis must closely resemble a Purple Cow Pumping branded tanker truck filled to the brim with soy sauce, as this is a true large purple object that is savory, on average.
Man, can you imagine how good a bare bones version of win 10 would be? Drop all the useless software and telemetry services, only run the 3 or 4 background services that people use, and use flat window decorations like win 8. Essentially a modernized windows XP. Would be rad.
How could I when I’ve been being notified it’s existence for the better part of the last decade?
Microsoft is truly the king of putting out a product that no one wanted or asked for, then wondering why no one wants it. I’m sure they will soon begin the second phase of any Microsoft product: spending a small country’s GDP marketing it to try to get people to use it, despite it being prominently displayed on approximately 5 billion operating systems already.
A tried and true strategy to piss through more money than god to justify spending more money than god building the thing that no one wants. Looking at you, IE and edge.
The dude was an abhorrent sack of shit, but… The New York post? If they’re writing something, the opposite is normally closer to the truth.
Had an account on .world, but that instance has non stop tech issues. Db0 seemed nice enough, and anarchists are decent company.
Should have instituted a char limit, that’ll teach you!
Not talking about individuals, homie. Talking about companies.
The snark of the following comment is not directed towards you, OP, but at the tech industry at large.
What I don’t understand is why people are still surprised when this shit happens. Today, cloudflare takes down half the internet, last month it was AWS. Crowdstrike did it last year even more severely. Akamai has also caused major issues like this before, as has Google. M365/azure outages barely get reported on because they are so frequent. Yet, they are all still being used to hold up most of our infrastructure. Every single company I’ve done IT for has used at least one of these companies for critical infrastructure. There just aren’t any other realistic options due to the refusal of non IT people to learn about IT.
If you try to use something other than one of the big companies, you’re hit with one or more roadblocks.
You “don’t have the budget” to selfhost. Bean counters would rather pay $100 a month indefinitely than $5k to buy new hardware that will save $1000 a month for years.
No approval for non giant corpo option, because using AWS is cheaper and has brand recognition. This is due to the same economics and myopia that caused Walmart to be one of the only places you can get groceries.
There is no other option. Every year that goes by, more small companies get gobbled up by big tech M&A. Unless your company opts to create its own implementation of a service/software, you’re stuck with one of only a few options, even if you could get the approval to use something not run on big tech.
Even if you manage to jump all of the previous hurdles, the Internet connected software you’re using probably relies on big tech infrastructure too. Every company has to navigate all of these hurdles for every saas/infrastructure implementation, and the only ones that successfully do it have to have leadership that not only understands why the decisions have to be made, but also need to be willing to accept the extra cost. Anyone that has dealt with upper management knows that this is exceptionally rare.
So what we are left with is a system that every professional knows is deeply broken and monopolized. The people that actually make the final decisions are largely ignorant and unwilling to invest money in fixing it, instead choosing short term savings and lack of commitment over long term security and continuity.
Big vat of nair?
Because our road systems are designed around cars. This means that it’s dangerous and impeding when a cyclist shares the road. Unfortunately, we just keep building bigger roads and removing bike lanes. This just serves to make it more of a pain in the ass for literally everyone because bikers have to use the car lanes instead of just paving an extra 6 feet of road.
TL;DR america will pave every natural surface for traffic, but won’t mark any sliver of it for bikes.
Please, this was my first consideration when i bought a shotty. Doubles the effectiveness of practice.
This. I’m not into violence, but the Republicans are getting scary and they have a lot of weapons. It’d be easier to reconcile my issues with violence if I had to shoot someone than it’d be to reconcile the issues I’d have if I wasn’t able to fight them trying to hurt me or my family.
Plus target shooting is fun.
Fuck billionaires, him included. A personal submarine bay is just baller as fuck, though.
All very good points. Now the brakes are off and the corps can just churn out generic crap at an even more aggressive rate. Who knows, maybe the onslaught will end up pushing more people away from corporate content in the end. Or it’ll kill small art creators more than companies already have. I’m choosing to have hope that enough people will make a conscious effort. Time will tell. Thanks for your thoughts!
Yeah man, were rapidly approaching a point where society is “post-evidence”. Seeing isn’t believing anymore and a very large chunk of our society is built on the idea of proving things with audio/photo/video based evidence. I fear that our systems aren’t protected against the volume and physical accuracy of what’s becoming increasingly arbitrary to generate at home and at scale.
The legal system has some standards for evidence, but public discourse certainly doesn’t.
Did you see the other thread on the threadaverse sub? Dude is having a full blown meltdown over people thinking that he was wrong.
Ahh, I see. Fred Flintstone has a family. I was close.
Or Fred Flinstone, or Flubber Film, or Freaky Friday. Lots of double Fs out there.
Yes, very true. It would be so nice to be able to get that as an OOBE behavior rather than a hacked together set of registry hacks and patched executables. Not denigrating the devs of these projects, they do an amazing job out engineering Microsoft’s attempts to stop them. It’s just absurd that the primary/only option for the operating system of a set of devices as ubiquitous as personal computers is such advertisment riddled shit with no ability to even buy out of it.