SnotFlickerman
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- Comment on Also how do I know if it works? 19 minutes ago:
Here in the Pacific Northwest we don’t use umbrellas. We are practically amphibious.
- Comment on Oracle plans thousands of job cuts as data center costs rise 1 hour ago:
yeah but what if
then the labor class better fucking get their ass in gear and start fighting for their rights again.
- Comment on Oracle plans thousands of job cuts as data center costs rise 2 hours ago:
I don’t usually say this but honestly if you are working at Oracle in 2025:
You deserve this. You’re working for pure evil. Be thankful you can now maybe get a job that doesn’t involve destroying humanity and democracy.
- Comment on Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape 15 hours ago:
- Comment on Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape 15 hours ago:
- Comment on Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape 16 hours ago:
This is fucking amazing. I’m gonna go out and get a weed vape right now! I mean, for hosting a website on, yeah, that’s why, sure, let’s go with that.
- Comment on Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise 1 day ago:
Absolutely and it helped prove why they needed to do this security review to begin with as well as will teach them the nature of how this user script worked so they can put up guardrails for this specific type of attack. An unfortunate event but as long as they are using it to learn from and strengthen their security, overall it’s a good thing.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 1 day ago:
For sure, but that always gives advanced users the option to ungate it through the registry. The benefit to them of having it be “modular” would to be able to completely restrict even power users from being able to free their OS to use how they actually want to.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 1 day ago:
I mean, I would argue that having to pay for access to different parts of Windows, like say access to PowerShell or access to more advanced features and settings has been part of the way they make money for a long time. That’s why their used to be “Home,” “Pro,” and “Enterprise” versions all with various levels of capability. So while it looks like the original article has been debunked, I would think that offering stripped-down versions of Windows would just serve as a way to push upgrades to more full featured versions the same way they press you to upgrade to Office 365.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 1 day ago:
pcworld.com/…/we-messed-up-with-the-windows-12-ar…
More importantly, it looks like PCWorld is retracting the article and has issued a post mortem on how it got published.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 1 day ago:
AI slop
They definitely didn’t use that terminology though, with how hard they’re pushing back against the “Microslop” term.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 1 day ago:
This actually tracks completely with the news about an incoming Windows 12 announcement and in particular the claim about Windows 12 being modular. The description has claimed that it will make certain aspects of Windows able to be added or removed at will. Meaning options like a “minimal” desktop installation that has very few options, no PowerShell, no Terminal, no access to a majority of common Windows features, and very little control of the OS other than changing the desktop background.
In other words, this new “Project Helix” or whatever will be a stripped-down version of Windows 12 with everything non-gaming-related removed, including access to half the system settings I’m sure.
- Comment on YSK about the fizzy failure of paper straws. 1 day ago:
No, mine was some generic nonsense from Fred Mayer years ago that isn’t available anymore.
- Comment on YSK about the fizzy failure of paper straws. 2 days ago:
…am I really the only one who bought fucking metal straws with silicon tips and the tools to clean them years and years ago now?
This seems like a solved problem.
- Comment on An old excuse 2 days ago:
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 2 days ago:
Do you mean DisplayPort?
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 2 days ago:
Limited to Pixel 8 and newer devices and no 4k yet.
Oh, so your Pixel, but not my Pixel.
- Comment on Prediction market trader 'Magamyman' made $553,000 on death of Iran's supreme leader 2 days ago:
Yanis Varoufuckass
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 2 days ago:
Absolutely, it was at the height of the “software as a service” phase and they were doing rolling updates for the Windows Insider program.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 3 days ago:
For sure, it’s a vast improvement, but there’s still so much you can’t do with it.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 3 days ago:
And they still haven’t even finished making PowerShell anywhere near as functional as Bash or any other Linux shell environment.
I don’t outright hate PowerShell but it’s clearly a hacky afterthought after realizing Linux was eating their lunch in the server space via quick rollouts to thousands of computers at once through Bash scripting.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 3 days ago:
Right, but that’s just it, they’re basically pulling another Vista if they release Windows 12 later this year.
It’s not clear whether Windows 12 will welcome any non-NPU processors. More likely, PCs that don’t meet its system requirements will lose some functionality.
As the article reasonably posits, it’s way more likely that they’ll just degrade the experience for people without NPUs, which in other words means decreased performance on older hardware, a la Vista on non-compliant hardware.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 3 days ago:
They’re already fucking this up with vibe-coding Windows 11, so if they seriously go all-in on this, Windows 12 will be a bigger disaster than fucking Windows Vista and Windows Millennium Edition combined.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 3 days ago:
Windows 10 arguably became passable for stability about 3 years after release… but you still had to cut out the advertising bloat, spyware, and all which undermined any gains of stability because that shit was just fucking annoying.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 3 days ago:
Dude, they’re still struggling with Windows 11 adoption because of the unreasonable requirements of a TPM 2.0 capable motherboard/CPU… and they are asking people to upgrade their CPUs again?
They only started seeing real growth in Windows 11 numbers as of January of this year. Windows 11 finally hit 73% last month while Windows 10 is down to 27%. Linux continues to gain marketshare, and there’s no telling if the reason that Win 11 is finally gaining marketshare is from people dumping Windows entirely for other options. Mac and Chromebook shares have been growing as well! It took them four and a half years from release to break 50% Win 11 adoption and they want to release Win 12 on year five while forcing more upgrades when half the people who got in just upgraded?
This on top of trade wars, actual wars, and an AI arms race that is making buying PC parts obscenely overpriced… and they think people will fucking go for this?
The suits at Microsoft are out of their fucking minds. Even businesses won’t want to upgrade this soon after many only just making upgrades to meet Windows 11 requirements just recently… because businesses are also facing the same increased costs due to the above issues!
- Comment on Lots of blood these days. 3 days ago:
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 3 days ago:
Well, like I said, I honestly think public transit doesn’t make very much sense for remote areas. I think it makes far more sense to give people the types of transportation that work best for their use case, and in remote areas: that’s cars.
- Comment on Lots of blood these days. 3 days ago:
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 3 days ago:
Especially since public transit is usually locally funded (at least in the US), in areas like this the tax base doesn’t exist to be able to functionally fund public transit. We could need to completely rethink and re-organize how public transit is funded and rolled out for this to functionally work in remote areas.
Or, you know, we could continue lettings cars be a thing for remote populations kind of like how in some far northern territories people use snowmobiles to get around part of the year because there’s simply too much snow to try to use another type of vehicle at all.
I think the latter, having specific types of transportation still be a thing in places where they’re needed makes a lot more sense, honestly.
- Comment on Lots of blood these days. 3 days ago:
US Military: Blood for the Blood God!
