Didn't they learn that taking away what people grew up with for more than two decades already will result in outraged customers? (Windows 8 - start menu removed and replaced by start screen)
Didn't they learn that taking away what people grew up with for more than two decades already will result in outraged customers? (Windows 8 - start menu removed and replaced by start screen)
My man, have you ever worked in tech support? I admire your optimism.
I'm worried about the link rot problem when the specific instance used as source goes down.
No joke. A decent gaming pc can be built around that price and be used for so much more. Even cheaper if you hunt for used parts.
I remember the days of google being a cool startup that had just made news releasing gmail with a whopping 1GB of storage making everyone go crazy for the invites. It's a strange feeling.
Scummy practices that should be outlawed, like retail stores raising prices just before a big sale so they can slap "80% off!" on their stuff.
A tragedy for the afghan people. Even more so, since there's a sizeable chunk of their own population supporting them.
Many films and tv programs survive only thanks to a total stranger keeping their own copy. For a long term survival of any media it has to be copied and distributed far and wide.
It made me wince when Android did away with its dessert based codenames and now they're just 'Android 12' etc. It really went corporate after that direction.
And please tell me RebeccaBlackOS shows a cool popup or console message every Friday.
There's also the issue of self-censorship. No way of knowing if any Russian folk interviewed actually agree to what they say.
No joke. Opening a command line from windows by itself is considered hacking by many. Even toggling dark mode in websites triggers that fear.
It's incredle how public perceptions change, huh? Bill Gates was considered the devil back when MS was steamrolling against open source software.
I dread meetings and I can't wait for AIs to replace those managers. Or perhaps we'll have even more meetings because the management wants to know why we're so late despite the AI happily churning out meaningless codes that look so awesome like all that CSI VB GUI crap.
It's still unbelievable considering Twitter had made its way into other languages' lexicon other than English. In Spanish, for example, the word "tuit" had been added officially in the dictionary. It had no competitors in brand awareness and all it took was a manchild with money to burn to take it all down.
That will make people cling to their VPN accounts even more, not less.
Definitely an issue. I can't count the times I've slammed my head because the stupid settings screen "conveniently" switches from the previous item to another while I still expected it to open a new window just like the command panel.
Shit, I have desktops running with 2200G and 2400G.
Happy to be corrected. But I still wished they were used prominently as it used to be before.
And we won't be the cool protagonist with sleek looking augs and doing parkour with Icarus either. We'll be the ones hooked on neuropozyne hoping for our implants not going haywire at some point.
Problem is how to read the disk, especially after generations. Will they retain the knowledge to build and operate a device for this?
Oh, I can just imagine. Customers getting angry that their tech support cannot "just simply" recover their files like they used to and accuse them of scamming. Fucking thanks, Microsoft.
I would absolutely use a VM with no internet connection for these, but then all bets are off if those softwares need direct access to GPU, for example. GPU passthrough is a thing, but I haven't had much luck personally.
The oldest one was using Flash.
I'm so sorry my dude, no one deserves that kind of suffering.
That's when they "graciously" offer to whitelist "approved" devices to boot windows VM from.
Fair enough. I've met both good and bad users.
It will probably split and congregate around instances focusing on heavy moderation and KYC vs crypto-focused free-for-all ones if they ever gain traction.
Not sure if shadowbanning can work here. Wasting each instance's limited pool of resources is not what we want to encourage.
I'd love standarized modules to unscrew and separate the "smart" part just like a desktop pc can. If they want to shove in that shit, then at least make me able to pull them out.
They'll be fine. Remember when we all joked about Covid-19 Omega variant a few years ago?
Please indicate where IE touched you.
Agreed, the foss-friendly image is just a facade. MS is never going to commit to open source as it directly threatens their bloodline.
I've been using linux for about a decade. I only know how to maintain my system and google when troubles arise. I'm pretty comfortable with my setup and would love to see many make that jump as well. However, I have to concede that corporate environments add a whole another dimension to the problem.
If I had a dime for every time I had to struggle because of subtle rendering changes between libreoffice and ms office over a single ooxml doc...
Followed by smug mentions of cheap OEM keys and massgrave repo. Yeah, that ain't gonna fly for work laptops, guys.
Obligatory PS mentioning that I do use linux everyday on my personal machine
We need to remind ourselves that there's an entire generation that has grown up with smartphones and only touching a laptop or a desktop pc occasionally. For them, windows or chromeOS alone is a challenge. Linux is just an isekai waiting to happen when you cross that bridge of no return.
virt-manager has worked fine for me.
Kudos for self-hosting fediverse stuff, man.
I use linux at home everyday but I'm stuck with windows at work. I just wanna scream.
I have a morbid curiosity to see that happen.
Same happened with people using the Cloud To Butt extension which replaced every 'cloud' with 'butt' even for codes. Hilarity ensued.