I mostly agree with you, but I would caution that not all credit unions are the same. Mine for instance has enshitified hard over the last 10 years. For instance they’ve removed all tellers from every branch except their main one and replaced them with ATMs.

There was an attempt back in the day to do something like that but it never went anywhere.

This is a problem for adults too, which is why they make dedicated distraction free writing devices and software. It’s not the screens, it’s how they are being used.

Some people like offal…

The fifth amendment applies to this because he was a US citizen. He had every right to not give them his pin and it would only be destroying evidence if charges had been pressed. In this case some butt hurt border guard just really wanted to look at his vacation pictures or some shit.

Notice how a shit load of these people keep turning up to be rapists and pedophiles… They have no shits to give about informed consent. In their mind you don’t even have the right to the same agency they do.

What should the tiny independent media company do instead to keep the lights on? I’m just as annoyed as you but we also have precious few independent media companies left.

I wonder if that has anything to do with the proprietary nature of the Nvidia chip in the original Xbox. It was able to do things outside of normal direct X and normal Nvidia drivers (it had extra instruction sets compared to the consumer version of the same chip for instance). Given all the layoffs and time it may be that there’s just no more documentation on that and it was actually easier to do the nested emulator thing than it was to try to reverse engineer whatever proprietary bullshit was going on 25 years ago.

I have very mixed feelings about somebody admitting that they’re taking their child to church. Just about all of the most horrible parts of my life were caused by Christians. You haven’t mentioned what denomination this church is, so it could be UU for all I know, but the post still makes me uncomfortable on its face.

That’s good to know! Unfortunately, even editing the registry is hard to do on a lot of work machines.

I gave away an LG TV from 2008 a couple years ago that as far as I know still works, the LG TV I bought in 2019 is already dead. I also will never be buying another LG, which sucks because they were my preferred monitor brand too.

Fun fact: especially for those machines where you cannot install any modifications to Windows, you can get the old context (right click) menu by holding shift while right clicking.

I had never heard of stable flies before. Here we have horse flies that are apparently similar but not the same species as stable flies.

I’m not sure I made my point very well:

There was no attempt at making a mobile or tablet OS, they actually succeeded in unifying the code base. To this day there is only one operating system and it runs everything that runs “windows”. This is no different than the way Linux works or Apple’s Darwin works. That’s what they set out to achieve at Windows Vista and what they succeeded at around the time of the Xbox One. At that time, I as a developer could write one app and it would run on a Windows phone, a Windows tablet, the Xbox, and Windows PCs. Then they chose to kill that paradigm in favor of what we have today.

That’s what I was trying to point out, this was an intentional choice. They could go back to making Windows phones and tablets and shit and letting the unified app platform work the way it was supposed to at any time but they continue to choose not to.

It’s probably worth pointing out that Windows has very much not been developed for free. Up until Windows 8 and still today in some cases Windows license cost in the neighborhood of $250, and there are parts of the OS that have not changed since Windows 95, the format hard drive dialogue for instance. That’s before we even start mentioning how much they took from IBM to develop Windows secretly while helping IBM develop OS/2.

The App Store itself was the product of a creation of a unified code base between Xbox and Windows Phone and Windows and Windows RT, Then they threw that out with the bathwater because fuck Windows Phone for some reason.

A couple other users and I have found that it seems to depend on how you got to the post and that it’s not limited to Voyager.

Still just a static image for me on Voyager. I guess it wasn’t just a yesterday problem.

I use Voyager and I’ve consistently have this issue specifically with things posted on Lemmy.today today.

The point of Gnome is that you can’t do those things without extensions. It makes it way harder for grandma to fuck something up. But you can still do them. On the other hand I have found things that are easy to customize in Gnome with extensions, like laptop trackpad gestures, that are nonexistent in KDE with or without extensions as far as I can tell.

But like I said before, to each their own. We are just talking about two different approaches to the same solution. I often recommend KDE to people who are coming over from Windows, but after over 25 years of trying different ones I keep going back to Gnome personally. The only major exception was when Gnome 3 came out I spent several years on Mate (a fork of Gnome 2).

That was also my first thought when reading the headline, but this paper is specifically discussing that there may be more going on than previously thought.