orcrist
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- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 15 hours ago:
Then they will offer shit support to avoid doing so. Simpler and safer to just make unlocking legit from the start.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 15 hours ago:
Of course it would not.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 5 days ago:
Yes. They need to move quickly. Public opinion is already shifting against Trump and Musk, and right now they are vulnerable.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 6 days ago:
I don’t think they are trying to sabotage their own products. It really is that they’re not smart enough to see where is the value is. And this is kind of understandable, right? The underlying software has been copied already. It’s out there. If that company has value it’s only the user base. But that puts management in the strange situation where everything they are doing to make money is making their own product worse. And they kind of know it, right? But they can’t admit it. They can’t think about it clear. Their own mental stability relies on ignoring the obvious truths that they see and read every day.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 6 days ago:
“risking”? No no no. “promising”
- Comment on FL wants more child labor 1 week ago:
I think you want “defunding”. (Probably spell check broke it.)
- Comment on FL wants more child labor 1 week ago:
Only the Devil was listening cuz God wasn’t there.
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 1 week ago:
My friend, FOSS has been readily available for more than a decade. Whether it’s LibreOffice or the GIMP or VLC or whatever, these are very old pieces of software.
It’s not taking off now. It already did. But now you personally are noticing. :-)
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 1 week ago:
Zotero is the tool you want. It works perfectly.
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 1 week ago:
The formatting… The formatting that you can easily modify. Sigh. It takes two minutes, my friend.
Anyway, you do you.
- Comment on "Meritocracy" 1 week ago:
If that’s his best he needs a new career and a new brain
- Comment on Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers 1 week ago:
I’ve never had compatibility issues. Of course many people have, but a lot of the time people are blindly speculating about potential badness.
- Comment on Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers 1 week ago:
Of course there are alternatives to Excel. Anyone pretending otherwise has only worked at a few places and is generalizing with great but mistaken confidence.
But even if there weren’t, think about those companies living on the edge of one software breakdown. There’s a word for that: brittle. Meh, YOLO.
- Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great? 1 week ago:
When I’m shopping for cell phones and reading reviews a routinely see comments about the amount of bloatware embedded on various manufacturer’s devices. People actually do care about it, reviewers actually do write about it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I don’t think postmodernism had much to do with it. Go ask your average MAGA racist if they even know what that term means and they’ll shrug their shoulders. Similarly, the research does not show that your echo chamber theory holds water, and in fact it suggests the opposite. In the days before the world wide web, people were actually stuck in echo chambers, that being the communities where they lived.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
Doesn’t that depend on the forums, though? For many organizations, those sites fit the needs perfectly fine. If you don’t care about archiving and you would not be totally screwed if the forum disappeared tomorrow, you’re going to opt for something simple like that.
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 2 weeks ago:
First of all, they won’t arrest everyone. Even extreme governments on the tail end of their horrible leadership don’t arrest everyone. They need some citizens to be there working jobs. Rather, they would aim to arrest enough people to scare everyone else and then some other people randomly just for the hell of it.
But if you think staying under the radar is going to make your life better, maybe you should read some history books. Who do you think is coming to save you? Who do you think is coming to make your community better? When do you think they’re going to arrive? Outside forces will not fix contemporary US political problems. It doesn’t work that way, not when everyone has armies and nuclear weapons.
Sadly, quite possibly things could get far worse before they get better, so if you want to plan for some unfortunate eventualities, that might be a reasonable decision. But don’t think for a second you can run from them. And even if you could, what kind of human would that make you? What kind of person do you want to be?
- Comment on YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech 3 weeks ago:
There are no absolutists, my friend. Everyone has limits.
- Comment on YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech 3 weeks ago:
No, it doesn’t mean that. Think about what you are suggesting.
- Comment on for real this time guys I mean it 3 weeks ago:
It is funny how he is playing himself. Companies that export to the U.S. are obviously trying to establish and stabilize other markets, because that’s basic economic stability. As they continue to do so, his tariffs continue to lose power.
- Comment on If everyone goes to baseball games by car and everyone gets wasted like Randy Marsh, how do people get home? 4 weeks ago:
Drink and drive? Also, understand that in some states, you could have 1-2 drinks and depending on your body and the exact timing still be under the legal limit.
Of course responsible people have a designated driver. That definitely happens, but not as often as you would hope. So we all know that if you live near the arena, be extra careful when the game ends, because half the drivers around you are drunk. That’s common sense in the big cities.
- Comment on What are the exact ramifications and consequences of the recent meeting with Zelenskyy and Trump/JD? 4 weeks ago:
Of course the US promised to defend Ukraine. That was the Budapest Memorandum. That is why Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal. Trump is lying again.
- Comment on Are conservatives mad about trans people or they just mad they get walk around out of the closet while they have to leave the white sheets at home? 5 weeks ago:
Bigotry leads to more bigotry. If it wasn’t trans folk, it would be Mexicans. Oh wait, it’s both, right? … The reasons don’t matter to them. All they want is hate and harm, and that’s what they live.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Oh, my dear, Canada wouldn’t get any voting rights.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 month ago:
Elon Musk is also an idiot. He thinks he’s smart enough to quickly understand complex situations and complex problems about which he knows next to nothing, within just a few minutes.
Most people would only try to claim that level of understanding in areas with which they have professional experience or about which they’re extremely geeky. He does it with everything, and nobody can be an expert in everything, and everybody knows that except for narcissistists.
I suppose for non-tech people it might be convenient to assume that because someone knows something about some kind of tech, they therefore know a lot about all kinds of tech, and the reality is that’s just not true. There are so many fields that are totally different. But if it did, actually he would look even more idiotic, because Twitter is a train wreck, so clearly he’s incompetent in tech field, right?
- Comment on Mainstream media's face when Trump dies of a hamburger heart attack and they have to go back to reporting like they used to. 1 month ago:
There already is a ton of great media out there, but many people are not looking for it. If you’re trapped by the US news cycle, start reading international news. It doesn’t solve all the problems but it solves many of them.
And more to the point, consumers have been willing to pay for subscriptions to newspapers for decades, and they’ve gotten burned by it. You’re saying that money is the answer, but it didn’t work before. It’s not working now.
- Comment on Mainstream media's face when Trump dies of a hamburger heart attack and they have to go back to reporting like they used to. 1 month ago:
They started reporting badly in the 90s (Fox News), if not decades or centuries before that. It is on the consumers to consume better media. The companies that failed won’t fix themselves, ever.
- Comment on When they say they got your back, that means they will stab you there. 1 month ago:
I’ve never heard an HR worker pretend to care about me, lol. Those jerks are at least too busy to pretend. Integrity of a sort, lol.
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 1 month ago:
Why would you buy a flagship phone? It sounds like you want not that. And not that exists.
- Comment on Even California can't say no to prison slavery. 1 month ago:
Even California? California is really big on that, last I heard.