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- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 15 hours ago:
The average consumer doesn’t care because they already made the purchase. Most of them use whatever OS their machine comes preloaded with unless a more tech inclined friend offers alternatives.
The OEMs do the caring, because the OEMs are the ones with the choice. And they notice this shit. So when the average consumer is buying a new machine, they might be offered alternatives to Windows (already happening with some btw), and most customers will see an extra $200 (or whatever how much nowadays) next to the Windows license, and a flat $0 next to the other option: Linux.
Now the filter is reversed, and only the ones who aren’t paying attention (assuming Windows is the default during check out) or actively want Windows will be paying for it
The savvier ones may even wonder what the difference is, and do some research to understand it, and those ones will buy it knowing exactly what they’re getting into. Some will say “I’ll just pick the free OS and install Windows for free”, but even if they decide that, they may decide to boot it up first out of curiosity.
And that’s what really matters: the exposure. Because people talk.
- Comment on Lawks 2 days ago:
Not the OP of this post. The OOP of thatscreenshot on whatever platform they used. It probably didn’t originate here.
The fact it got here is evidence enough that the propagation strategy is viable, and the fact it won’t spread as effectively here (but it still can if people decide to manually repost/share and spread it to other communities or platforms) does not contradict that.
- Comment on Lawks 2 days ago:
The overzealous censorship is possibly a feature not a bug. Done deliberately by the OP to ragebait people who find it disagreeable for a free engagement boost.
The meme/trend wouldn’t be so ubiquitous right now if it weren’t so successful at its own self-propagation, because it’s being naturally selected for.
- Comment on ai generated logo 2 days ago:
I wonder that what prompt this person (or more likely: asshole) wrote to get such deliciously malicious (but still technically compliant) result.
- Comment on Hosting multiple services with one IP address. 1 week ago:
If your goal is ease if use and scaling complexity along with your experience, and you’re planning to use Docker like you mentioned, then I recommend Traefic: doc.traefik.io/traefik/
If not, then I recommend Caddy or nginx.
- Comment on Happy [ ١ رجب ] 4 weeks ago:
You’re missing the ب (Baa/B letter) at the end of Rajab (last letter of the last word of the first line, RTL ofc)
Otherwise it looks like a quality shitpost. Good work!
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 5 weeks ago:
…said the kettle to the electric boiler
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 5 weeks ago:
Toss it? Ha! Hot water will fix it
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 5 weeks ago:
No thanks!
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 5 weeks ago:
Or they really know their honey and put it in a honey dispenser instead of using this messy torture device.
- Comment on What did I forget? 1 month ago:
“Welcome to fun with flags!”
- Comment on Tattoo Ink Moves Through the Body, Killing Immune Cells and Weakening Vaccine Response 1 month ago:
Unless we dissect the original paper in its entirety, I don’t think we should dismiss their methods out of hand.
I’ll reserve judgement until peer-reviews can confirm or rebuke the results.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 1 month ago:
Decade of the Linux Desktop. It’s here guys!
- Comment on Following your dreams 1 month ago:
“All my life, I have loved this land; worked it with my hand…”
- Comment on Silly goose 1 month ago:
Because assholes exist. If they don’t do it like this then some opportunistic pieces of shit will constantly occupy lots. Making the parking cost the same as everywhere else (or even cost more if allowed) is the only way to keep the parking spaces available for those who need them.
They can then waive the fee/fines on a case-to-case basis like what happened with OP.
- Comment on Silly goose 1 month ago:
Glad you’re doing well!
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 1 month ago:
Exactly
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 1 month ago:
Yeah. Weird vibes.
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 1 month ago:
Not to mention that most VPS IP ranges are on blocklists nowadays due to past abuse, and getting them whitelisted with every major provider you want to send emails to is an exercise in futility. Getting an address that’s not already blacklisted somewhere is quite rare.
To send mail reliably you’ll have to use a third-party service like SendGrid or MailChimp and configure your mail server to forward emails through them. They likely aren’t that expensive (completely free for the basic tier I think) for personal use cases (e.g you’re not sending newsletters to thousands or something) but it defeats the purpose anyway if your goal is to make your emails purely private.
- Comment on Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away 2 months ago:
- Comment on Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes? 2 months ago:
Why did I know it was a NileRed video from the tiny thumbnail? 🤔
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 2 months ago:
“Remind me later…”
- Comment on Cloudflare is down this morning 2 months ago:
It’s a vibe.
- Comment on Valves first title with a 3 in it 2 months ago:
You had me you bastard
- Comment on sushi delivery 2 months ago:
OG Sushi isn’t very popular in my country so Sushi restaurants offer it fried like this. I tried it a couple of times and it tasted great. Too bad it’s prohibitively expensive so I can’t do it on the regular.
Can’t say a thing about your poor arteries if you get hooked though.
- Comment on In your culture do you call it a teapot or a kettle? 2 months ago:
NSFW tag?
- Comment on Let's learn some words in the Finnish language 2 months ago:
Also: dick = fat in German
- Comment on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly 2 months ago:
in the US
It’s not just the US, it’s like that in most of the world.
- Comment on Banana 2 months ago:
Huh. I still see Gros Michel (or a relatively similar breed) at markets from time to time where I live (although I’m in the Middle East)
- Comment on well designed you say 2 months ago:
That’s a net positive
