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Ariel Millennium Thornton

comes configured to install updates automatically in the night hours after you go to bed.

Windows also comes configured to go into sleep mode only a half hour after you do for the night.

Windows comes configured to promise to install updates when you're not using it and then utterly fail to fulfill that promise.

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leo vriska :light2:

last day of aol service was tuesday. eternal september ended after 11,353 days....

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Tekniquelly correct

JetBrains will be opting all free IDE users into sharing their program code to train JetBrains’s AI models.

Today I’m blocking JetBrains IDEs in our MDM. Then we can turn it back on for employees who show that they have a paid license and it’s configured to opt out of the sharing.

blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2025/0

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Laura Manach :bongoCat:

comic by Huffy-Penguin

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sjvn

So, this is what you meant, Arch Linux, right?

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James Thomson

Computers didn’t pass the Turing Test, humans failed it.

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she hacked you

"AI Billionaire's advice to teens: Master 'vibe coding' - here's 5 prompts to get started

AI Coding is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds"

I don't know we even have reporters/journalists or even researchers

We should only be listening to the billionaires, how could they have financial incentives to be bias? They have all the money already

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Moon Phases

Today's undefined moon is 0% of full brightness, and is currently NaN km from Earth and NaN km from the sun. It's been NaN days since the last new moon.

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BELRRR LRRRGOSI :bc:

YES, GOD, I AM SO FUCKING PSYCHED FOR THIS:

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The Commonwealth of Independent States (The CIS)

The Treaty Republics of Autonomous Networked States (The TRANS)

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@trysdyn It really is amazing. In fact, win8 so didn't happen that Microsoft ended support for both 8 and 8.1 long before 7.

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I don't have much reason to believe folks are downgrading from 10 to 7, but a few of my customers have stubbornly hung on to the win7 PCs, & I know a few have talked about getting their win7 PCs out of storage when win10 EOS arrives.

But I am absolutely giggling at the thought of Windows 10 users reacting to the EOS news by universally saying fuck it and going back to 7.

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Usually, the most impressive competitor to a Microsoft product is the most recent prior version of that same Microsoft product.

Windows 10 is still the biggest competitor to Windows 11 in raw numbers, but I'm pretty certain this is the first time in Microsoft's history that its most impressive competitor was the *FOURTH* most recent prior version, Windows 7.

That makes surprising sense to me, because 7 was current when Steve Ballmer bonged an iPhone and saw Windows 8 in that high.

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mcc

Microsoft attempting to force people to switch from Windows 10 to Windows 11 has somehow resulted in a 10% increase in the market share of Windows 7 windowscentral.com/microsoft/w

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It took me so long, but finally I figured it out.

Windows is not user friendly.
Commercially backed Linux distros are not user friendly.
Modern applications are not user friendly.
Modern web-apps are not user friendly.

They're all user *hostile*, all by choice, most with active foresight.

The difference is they're all *novice* friendly.

They're designed for novices, & they force their would-be experienced users to stay novices with each upgrade, update, & A/B feature rollout.

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Kaye

I love updates. I love having to relearn half my workflows. I love hunting through seven entirely new submenus to figure out where to re-disable telemetry and LLM features. I love getting used to a slightly worse UI. I love being unable to look up any problems because features are getting A/B tested. I love having to do this every three to six weeks until I die.

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[object Object]

no I won't dig up links, type "hyprland toxic" into a search engine of your choice. other parts of Wayland fucking suck too.

but speaking of fucking sucking, XLibre is a fash X server that also barely works, because the point of fash tech isn't that it works, the point is that it's metaphorically and sometimes literally a weapon. see also the defense contractor currently taking over Nix, but see also the OG fash language, Urbit, the worst functional programming language I've ever known

5/

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[object Object]

why not embrace fashtech! they’ve got:
- terrible Fisher-Price CSS
- the most toxic part of the Wayland ecosystem, and that’s saying something
- the worst part of the X11 ecosystem, and that’s saying something
- suckless tools and they all fucking suck
- corporate control over the packages you wrote, for your own protection
- distributed functional programming that doesn’t function or distribute

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Joe Groff

sideloading apps onto my Apple //c (inserting a disk into the built-in floppy drive on the side of the computer)

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