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- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 1 month ago:
Imagine living somewhere where those in charge have even there smallest bit of spine.
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 1 month ago:
Optimizations are relics of the past!
- Comment on Depression linked to increased dementia risk 1 month ago:
Well I’m fucked.
- Comment on The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it? 1 month ago:
This will only ever work if all vehicles were autonomous. Any human interaction introduces unpredictable behavior into an otherwise “perfect” system.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 1 month ago:
Most Americans don’t live in America.
- Comment on Microsoft bans words like "Palestine", "Gaza" and "Genocide" in all company emails and fires the employee who protested Microsoft during event. 1 month ago:
Found another POS that’s ok with genocide.
- Comment on Is Pop_OS! kind of bad? 1 month ago:
It might just be easier to backup your home folder and reinstall.
- Comment on Is Pop_OS! kind of bad? 1 month ago:
What’s your hardware?
- Comment on Is Pop_OS! kind of bad? 1 month ago:
I’ve used Pop for a couple years now and rarely have issues. What specifically are you dealing with?
- Comment on FLP02 retro case 1 month ago:
$220 USD… Ridiculous.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 1 month ago:
This is why “industry standard” is such a stupid concept. Adobe knows they have a stranglehold on creative professionals.
- Comment on Owners of second homes in Wales are having to sell up. That’s no disaster: it’s a godsend 1 month ago:
Yes it is unreasonable.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 1 month ago:
If it serves your needs then more power to them. Tech companies today more than ever make sure you keep buying.
- Comment on What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide? 1 month ago:
This but big. Large scale disruption to the economy would do a lot toward fixing problems.
- Comment on Sony considers further price rises, as it braces for £500m tariffs impact 2 months ago:
You guys realize you don’t have to buy these things, right? When they raise prices you don’t have to get angry and still buy.
- Comment on Doom: The Dark Ages' PS5 physical release reportedly has just 85MB on disc, and Xbox isn't much bigger 2 months ago:
OK boomer-shooter.
This was a joke.
- Comment on i broke 2 months ago:
Being kind to yourself is apparently pretty important.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Because everything is political. We’re in the position we are now because people weren’t paying attention. Finding a place to stick your head in the sand ain’t here.
- Comment on "I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games 2 months ago:
Nintendo really is the Apple of gaming.
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 2 months ago:
I mean they were trained on copyrighted material and nothing has been done about that so…
- Comment on What would I need to do to successfully paint with my own menstrual blood? 2 months ago:
Don’t do this. Please.
- Comment on Forget foldable phones – LG's 'stretchable' in-car display can grow physical buttons when you need them, and I can't stop watching it 2 months ago:
The future is stupid.
- Comment on When We Are No Longer Needed: Emerging Elites, Tech Trillionaires and the Decline of Democracy 2 months ago:
Without a bottom there can be no top.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 2 months ago:
You have way too much faith in humans.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 2 months ago:
My argument is knowledge is priceless, but education is worthless. Degrees now mean nothing whether AI assisted or not so going into insane debt for no reason is reckless.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 2 months ago:
Imagine borrowing $200k for an education, and then doing as much work as you can to actually learn the things you’re paying to know and then not being able to get a job
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
No one, including you, is immune to propaganda.
- Comment on It would be wrong to kill Elon musk and Donald Trump, but it would absolutely make the world a better place. Killing is wrong. But the world would be better without them. 2 months ago:
Really? You want to try and teach them a lesson instead of ending our suffering? Smh…
- Comment on The Brits had an anthem ready for when Margaret Thatcher died. Americans should also be prepared. 2 months ago:
I recommend the failure horns from the Price is Right.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
People with money are so fucking out of touch.