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- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I assume “destructively scan” means to cut the spine off so they lie flat, and that one copy of each book will be scanned? Isn’t that a pretty normal way of doing it in cases where the prints aren’t rare?
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 4 days ago:
I discovered that there’s a separate application which just reinstalls Teams all the time. I don’t remember the name, but it had Teams in the name. After I uninstalled that it finally stopped popping up.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 4 days ago:
I think it’s more that they’re not really making money on Windows anymore. The money is in cloud services like Office 365. So Windows is just being used to push people towards what actually makes Microsoft money, disregarding whether they actually want those services.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 4 days ago:
pureinfotech.com/microsoft-windows-11-ai-brakes-c…
Note that this article completely buries the lede. This is the last paragraph:
#Enterprise pushback is also influencing decisions#
Separately, enterprise users have pushed back against Copilot in managed environments, prompting the software giant to test options that would allow IT admins to uninstall Copilot more easily on business devices. This indicates that the rethink isn’t just about consumer sentiment but also addresses corporate deployment challenges.
The reason they’re having second thoughts is due to enterprise customers, who are the only customers they really care about the opinion of. If it was just home users complaining, they would not be adjusting course.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 5 days ago:
I imagine this is why MS is finally backtracking a bit on the aggressive pushing of AI in every app. They’re doing Clippy all over again, but OS-wide this time.
Just impressive how hard they managed to screw the pooch here. Have they forgotten that every other Windows release is universally hated? They had a good thing going until they discontinued Windows 10 before Windows 12 was out. Now they’ll probably need to rush out another version, because the name Windows 11 is forever tainted.
- Comment on Can workers compete with machines and stay relevant in the AI era? 6 days ago:
In this case “Doomer” is probably an alternate word for Gen Z. They are sometimes called the doomer generation.
- Comment on how could this happen😔 1 week ago:
Usually, yes. But in some movies they drive the plot. The sex scenes in A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010) are hilarious, help establish the character, and are a pretty challenging wank.
- Comment on FCC to crack down on liberal late-night shows, 'The View' for not giving equal airtime to GOP guests 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure all of the GOP would love to go on The Daily Show to get roasted by the host and booed by the audience.
- Comment on I hate when this happens 2 weeks ago:
Remember to only mark the worms that are fucking.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
They literally just vote for whoever their pastor tells them to vote for. It’s authoritarianism all the way down.
- Comment on Lemmy: Beans 3 weeks ago:
Please don’t post that without a trigger warning. Some of us are IE6 survivors.
- Comment on (TW) Phishing mail in 2026 4 weeks ago:
Also infuriating, so you’re going to be pissed off and more likely to click the link without thinking.
- Comment on (TW) Phishing mail in 2026 4 weeks ago:
Also triggering to anyone upset by ICE murdering people in the streets. I’ve never been scammed, but the idea of my emails automatically announcing support for the gestapo stirred up some feelings in me.
… which is why it’s an excellent phishing email, hats off to them. I’d be way more likely to rush to the link in this case than if I received a standard “your account is being locked” phish.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 5 weeks ago:
I figured the 2004 release as the PS2 slim turned the tables again, but that was still before the Wii came out in 2006. It’s possible that story only counted the original PS2 and this chart counts both, though.
- Comment on open source journey - 2025 was a big year! 5 weeks ago:
Sorry to hear about your kid, and I hope they get better! I don’t watch TV or play video games either, but right now my wife and kids consume the bulk of my free time. Not that it would matter, I’d never get to your release frequency if I was single either.
I’m more of a “refactor it 90 times before I deem it worthy and then spend some more time failing to come up with a name” kind of guy. I’m pretty good at working with legacy codebases, though, so most of my OSS contributions are patches to existing projects. That’s also easier to cram into my schedule.
- Comment on open source journey - 2025 was a big year! 5 weeks ago:
Holy smokes, you did all that in one year? Alone? Do you just write open source projects full time, or do you also have a day job on top of all that?
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Pretty sure Trello was bought by Atlassian?
- Comment on Billionaires plot to flee California over proposed super wealth tax 5 weeks ago:
If it’s a tax on holdings applied every year, 5% is significant. It’s best compared with property taxes, which is another tax which works in a similar way. Property taxes are often capped at 1% of assessed value.
I’m in favor of taxing the rich, and taxing their holdings at 5% (without too many loopholes) would exceed my expectations. I expect this to get whittled down to around 1% before actually making it into law, though.
- Comment on Are we deprogramming empathy in the US? 1 month ago:
This is largely an American problem, although it is spreading due to global media.
I blame it largely on Calvinism and the prosperity gospel:
“Good things come to good people” -> “If good things didn’t come to you, you’re not a good person” -> “Poor people are poor because they are bad people, and we should not help them” -> “It’s okay to help billionaires, they wouldn’t be rich if they weren’t good people”
A lot of poor people have this view in the US, which you would think would make them reconsider it, but they solve this with mental gymnastics: They and their in-group are good people, so obviously it’s okay to help them and the good things are coming any second. Another reason not to tax rich people, they’ll be one soon!
- Comment on A new ‘solution’ to student homelessness: a parking lot where students can sleep safely in their cars 1 month ago:
A friend of mine used to live in his car, and he told me the worst part was getting chased away all the time. This would remove some stress from a very stressful situation.
- Comment on Don't know, I speak german 1 month ago:
Korn means “grain” in German, so both the name and illustration suggests this is made from fermented grains.
- Comment on A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code 2 months ago:
You realize that the spam is not coming from the actual line owning the number, right? They can spoof the number, so they could make it look like it came from any number. If they put some effort into researching you, they could make the spam look like it came from your mom.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 2 months ago:
Ah. I guess that’s why people were so excited about Valve making one. I’m not really that interested in VR, so I never really evaluated their vs the competition’s offerings.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 2 months ago:
May I ask why? It seems like a huge risk due to being tethered to a Facebook account which could get banned at any time. Was the price too good to pass up?
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 2 months ago:
Facebook once explained that their mobile app is so huge because they encourage everyone to just roll their own thing instead of sharing code, because it’s faster to not have to coordinate or something. Well, if you never leverage other people’s work ever, you’re going to spend a lot of time reinventing wheels, and a lot of those wheels will look more like hexagons.
- Comment on An argument for using plastic straws: 2 months ago:
TIL mate is to Uruguay what durian is to Thailand.
- Comment on how do plants in a green house get enough co2? 2 months ago:
Not sure how they capture the carbon dioxide, but it’s delivered to the greenhouse itself from a giant tank outside the building. I realize that’s probably not the part of the process you were interested in, but it’s all I’ve got.
- Comment on how do plants in a green house get enough co2? 2 months ago:
Mostly it’s fine as others have stated, but sometimes they pump CO2 in there. One example is Friðheimar tomato farm in Iceland, which enhances photosynthesis by using carbon dioxide produced from natural geothermal steam](fridheimar.is/sustainability/).
- Comment on Vintage 3dfx Voodoo 2 cards may inevitably fail due to pyroelectric capacitors — retrocomputing channel investigates [Bits and Bolts] and recommends preventive maintenance 2 months ago:
Plus the cost of a regular graphics card. You also had to buy a sound card in addition to all the components you still need today. And I was 15 years old, so coughing up another ~$700 for two of the beefier cards would mean a whole lot more working during summer break.
- Comment on TFW you get the old gang back together 2 months ago:
Grossest president so far