I dunno, I always thought it was meant to mimic organics.

“Cable management” inside the human body is horrendous. So it felt like in the mixing of machine and biology, the machines had to become more biological in the way they worked to function properly in tandem with the Borg biology.

making (presumably) thousands of dollars off their users

I agree with this post completely but for some reason you finishing with this makes me chuckle.

Oh no! Thousands! They might be able to pay rent for a month or two!

I’m just being cheeky, and while its true what they did was scummy, it also feels like a really… smallish amount of money?

If we’re literally just talking thousands, and not tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands.

But yeah, fuck Brave.

Firefox gang and Hardened Firefox gang here to stay.

Mozilla’s got its own problems but that’s a story for another day.

He asks maybe three or four times, tops.

…still too many…

Other devs, please follow suit.

This industry needs class consciousness in it yesterday.

Just because you’re paid well doesn’t mean you’re not being mistreated.

It’s valid to be thankful for what you have but to also know you deserve more.

Since Obama, the US has crowed about adding jobs, but most of those jobs are bad jobs that nobody wants because they have low pay, high demand, and hurt your body long-term. McDonald’s isn’t a career for most people.

The cost of living has skyrocketed, unabated, and shrinkflation is everywhere along with inflation.

I don’t know why we’re all supposed to be so happy that companies have record profits when they don’t deign to share any with the workers who made those profits possible.

Because every single fucking one of us knows that if Amazon lost every delivery driver in one day, Jeff Bezos would not be able to physically deliver all the packages himself. The value that comes from these companies comes from the workers, not the figureheads skimming all the value creator by labor for themselves.

Why should we give one fucking shit that these fucking vampires are doing so well at our expense?

If voters genuinely think that the GOP does better on the economy, then it means the GOP has succeeded in gutting our education system and is relying on voters who either can’t fucking read or don’t give enough of a shit to read, and have no clear memory of the last 30 fucking years.

Although, in fairness to low-information voters, the Democrats absolutely have a history of crowing about their half-measures as though they’re exactly what voters needed and wanted. That can make some people feel like they’re unserious.

Well it’s because they are. The parties are not the same. One of them is full of terrorist whack jobs who want to dismantle democracy and the other is full of neoliberal chucklefucks who want to be middle managers for democracy and neither gives one fucking shit about regular ass citizens. That’s the one major thing they have in common.

Epic not getting enough flak for being involved.

It happened on Fortnite.

The idea that Epic didn’t know is a joke.

Like Han Solo in Star Wars. The “ancient” religion of the Jedi was like… when he was a kid or something.

I think this has less to do with Microsoft and more to do with the average human has no interest in learning something that only passively helps them.

I only know a handful of things about working on an automobile, while my father could practically take one apart and put it back together wholesale.

I can take apart a computer and put it back together wholesale, but I’m lost on an internal combustion engine.

I pay someone with expertise to handle the engine, because I’ve spent my time learning other things.

Look, unless the people you’re talking about are doing tech jobs, there isn’t a reason for them to learn the depths of it, just like there isn’t a reason for them to learn the depths of how their car works. Both a car and a computer are tools, and those tools are made to be used by people who may not know the depths of the internal workings of either.

This post feels like elitism and gatekeeping to me, as someone who thinks Windows sucks and prefers Linux. The idea that it’s the OS that is “holding people back” and not that those people might have more important things to do with their time than dedicate half their life to an operating system is absurd. If someone spends 20 years becoming a doctor, I’m not going to act like they’re a dumbass because they don’t know everything about fucking computers.

People don’t want to learn more because for most people not knowing more doesn’t impact their fucking life. Just like me not knowing more about my car doesn’t generally impact my fucking life. Because I’ve never had trouble finding someone to pay to fix it for me.

Surprise, we’re the people who are paid to fix computers for the people who are just using them as simple tools. Maybe we shouldn’t be so upset about that.

Also, last but not least, Android is a strain of Linux and it suffers from all the same issues listed above as Windows. Acting like you couldn’t pull the same bullshit in Linux if you wanted to is kind of a joke, because it’s already been done with Android.

All the ad infested bullshit we all hate about Windows 10 and 11? Blame Linux-based Android.

EDIT: Also, personal opinion, if we’re talking about which CLI is easier to learn and use. Microsoft has made great strides with Powershell being easy and accessible to people who haven’t faced a command line environment before. The things that make its command line better than Linux’s are two things, and only two things. (I hate that it’s object oriented instead of text oriented, Powershell has a lot of bad things, too)

First, human-readable commands whose names describe what the command does in a verb-noun format. This means instead of Linux with some very, very obscurely named commands that are not descriptive and you just have to sort of memorize, you can just sort of remember because the name is human readable.

Secondly, the get-command command is huge because it allows me to search these verb-noun names for the command I’m looking for. On Linux, if I don’t know the specific command, I have to search the internet, because there isn’t a built-in tool that will give me an idea of what each command does and allows me to search for them through a filter. Once you find a command you think might work, it has the get-help command which produces something similar to a Man page.

Linux has Man pages, but because there is no rhyme or reason to how any commands are named, it’s not very easy to find the command you’re looking for if you don’t already know the command. On Windows, if I know what the command does I may already have enough information to find the command using get-command instead of having to turn to Google and be like “what command do I use if I am trying to do X?”

So if we’re talking about the superiorly designed command line that’s easier for first time users. Powershell is where it’s at. Because Linux is a confusing fucking mess of 30 years of random decisions by lone programmers. Literally the only reason I know commands in Linux CLI is because I had to memorize them. I don’t do so much memorizing Powershell commands. If Linux was being built from scratch today, I’d practically demand a similar naming convention system to make it easier to understand what the fuck commands do.

I’ve been aware long enough of big gaps in the libraries of streaming services that there was never a reason to give it up.

It took until fucking March of this fucking year for Spotify to have any old De La Soul to stream. Good thing I’ve had a high quality rip of their early discography for fifteen fucking years. Otherwise I would have been shit outta luck on listening to them.

I couldn’t stream a killer album from fucking 1989 in 2022. There continue to be massive gaps in their libraries due to licensing issues and people who just don’t want to get underpaid by Spotify.

Funny, on release day, I got downvoted for pointing out they pulled a Blizzard/Overwatch 2.

Half-baked release with missing content and no new content? Check.

Release removes previous release, a game that was at one time a paid game? Check.

I feel like Valve gets way too much of a pass here on this for just being Valve.

I hate that I can hear Lore saying “…because of the implication.”

Why does Star Trek seem to attract a lot of non-stereotypical gay boys? Reminds me a lot of a college friend of mine who was a chubby gay nerd who loved Star Trek. He used to write humorous Trek gay erotic fan fiction in the early 2000’s.

The Engineers Dilemma:

Once you get off your butt to go see what the problem is, the problem will mysteriously solve itself for the time being.

Source: Worked in local television News Production. We would regularly call on the engineers for the problem to fucking resolve itself by the time they showed up. Always made me feel real stupid.

*Valve laughs in Gabe Newell, owner of Valve and former employee of Microsoft.

Motherfucker left Microsoft to focus on games. He spearheaded the move to Linux to protect their store from becoming blocked on Windows. He knows how Microsoft works, intimately.

I’d be really surprised if Valve got sold to Microsoft while Newell still lives.

Ya don’t say? A wildly popular weight loss drug wasn’t tested enough before being unleashed on the public?

Who could have expected such a thing?

Didn’t something similar happen in the 90’s with Fen/Phen?

Me. I expected it. Along with anyone else that has been paying attention to how the pharma industry handles things.

I mean, this meme is accurate, because that’s about how expressive the faces are in Starfield…

AWS and Azure are services

A lot of people seem really confused by this, based on the number of downvotes.

Because the government classifies things when they’re simply embarrassing. It doesn’t need to rise to “national security threat” for the USA to feel the need to quash the ability of citizenry to talk about it. Even if it’s not all that bad and simply embarrassing. They are way too cavalier about using classification powers because they don’t want their dirty laundry aired.

What’s left to release is probably a lot less exciting than people think.

“Knock. Knock.”

“Who’s there?”

“9/11”

“9/11 who?”

“YOU SAID YOU’D NEVER FORGET!”

Lmao is that a Lemmy watermark? 💀