brothershamus
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- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Member that time when Microsoft got dragged in federal court for ten years before they eventually decided Microsoft was a monopoly for forcing their browser on everyone and then sweet fuck all happened to them for it?
Well the judiciary sure has changed - now they're way more computer savvy and they . . . checks earpice . . . I'm sorry, that should be: they're just as fucking clueless as they were thirty years ago if not even more so. We're screwed, goodnight.
- Comment on Aww, did somebody get addicted to white? 11 months ago:
vile! AAAAHHHHHHh dead
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
I suspect the answer lies in the method by which people saw the question. Like, if you went up to people standing in line at a bank, or outside a concert or soemthing and pulled out a paper-based photograph and said "I saw this yesterday, what could it be?" you'd get the answers you were probably expecting. (As to the actual quesiton, yeah I dunno)
But if you post contrails on a website and say something to the effect of look at these contrails, then all the contextual clues you've given so far are the same that have been used by a lot of Qanon and other batshit crazy people who recently decided a demented orange rapist was equivalent to Jesus for them. I'm just saying it's a totally different context from what you were probably intending.
That's my guess as to "why" people saw it through a lens of "politics". Less about actual scientific content, more about media theory.
- Comment on So uhh.. how often should I be washing me towels? 11 months ago:
I'll agree.
- Comment on Scientists Have Simulated What It Might Be Like to Plunge Into Uranus 11 months ago:
Exsqueeze me?
- Comment on The Enterprise saves the day yet again 11 months ago:
slaps head
Of course!
- Comment on Correcting > Helping 11 months ago:
It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out. I was just about to upvote it.
- Comment on Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself 11 months ago:
Wow I haven't used windows in over eight years? Nice. Mmmmm yeah. That's the stuff.
- Comment on Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook 11 months ago:
It's just outrageous that we're in 202-almost-4 and mail is still in use the way it is.
Seriously, the fix has been available for almost 30 years, no one has been able - or willing - to popularize it. Hmmm.
- Comment on why do some people really dislike google?? 1 year ago:
I love open source too, but this:
i know the privacy concernes they may have, but they would never do anything bad to you.
Is just super problematic. I appreciate the enthusiasm for open source, but google is a monopoly actively involved in making the internet worse in order to profit from it. They do this by leveraging your personal information, and that's bad.
- Comment on Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself 1 year ago:
Totally agree, but with the caveat that if you have to support this user anwyay, bite the bullet and switch to Apple - at least they can still run Office and pretend it's windows while still benefitting from simply restarting everything as a fix.
- Comment on Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself 1 year ago:
Becoming the sole family admin is an inevitability. Unless your family are all people who read manuals, and they're not, you are the sole family admin already and probably don't know it.
- Comment on Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself 1 year ago:
it really should just be a print process that inevitably fails with an incomprehensible error code or a demand for money.
- Comment on Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself 1 year ago:
The windows environment, as f*d as it is, is the ONLY mental model they are capable of. I have a short list of very needy users who cannot remember their f'ing password. Any of them, much less that there are multiple passwords.
Every day it's some random BS with email, or scroll bars or something that makes me think FFS why is everyone this incapable of grasping a simple web search??
I moved some of them to Apple because I'm not touching M$ with a ten-foot pole anymore. Oh god, the anguish I heard. The screams. The scroll bars just disappear!!! AAiiiiGhhhh! They close out windows and think that's closing the program. "But I restarted it!" No you didn't. They have no idea what desktops are, much less multiple ones. No C drive?? No C drive? complete catatonia. It's never-ending.
Long story short, the entirety of the computer revolution (that was a thing we called it once, which was the style at the time) is very much just Windows for them. That's it. If you can make a Linux system mirror exactly Windows 10 in every respect and - AND - run all of Microsoft's products with no incursion of *nix-ism at all then they'll be happy. Well, not happy. Not-always-crying-in-panic. Obviously, that's never going to happen.
I've hated Microsoft for so long; I've long since given up on them ceasing to be a cancer on the modern world, it's all I can do to just erase them from every corner of my computing experience where possible.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Brain Implant Startup Is Ready to Start Surgery 1 year ago:
Remember the billboards in space guy? How did that guy get shitcanned and this guy is here with this fucking thing?
- Comment on LinkedIn user data leaked: Database shows emails, profile data, phones, full names, and more confidential info. 1 year ago:
I used it. For about 10 minutes. Then I read the help files. Then I searched. Then I used it some more. Then I uninstalled it.
- Comment on Seven dead after 'super fog' causes huge pile-up in New Orleans 1 year ago:
Can confirm New Orleans drivers are literally the worst. However, this is still super fucked up. Even for them. "marsh fires" and fog?? wtf
- Comment on It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore 1 year ago:
No app better defines the changing nature of social media than Instagram. The app started as a digital scrapbook — a place to keep up with real-world connections, close friends, and family. While other networks had more users (Facebook) or generated more news (Twitter), Instagram seemed to define the ideal form of this era of social media. Instagram became a verb, an aesthetic, and a generational signifier.
huUURP! BLAAaahhriifgghhh. . .
Garbage marketing platform dies horribly. Thousands of clueless "journalists" bereft.
- Comment on will twitter last or will it die? 1 year ago:
Doooooooooooommm!!!