It’s even worse than that; it’s being vibe coded by recently graduated graphic designers with no development experience. More specifically the entire interface was created by a team like this who were, based on job announcements, all hired about 6 months before 11 was announced.

I understand where you are coming from. But I am a standard transmission kinda person.

Okay, but writing a .desktop file takes like 10 seconds.

So deal with Reddit style mods and hoops and maybe you can do exactly what you are already doing? No thank you.

I have severe adult adhd and this has never been the case for me.

Tel Aviv, Israel… Illinois???

The problem with this idea is that it assumes that those areas are politically aligned. I highly doubt people in liberal areas like Austin are going to be okay with being lumped in with whatever happens in Texas and I am confident that the Native Americans in Oklahoma will never be okay with it.

The divide in the US is largely rural vs urban not north vs south or east vs west anymore.

The main issue with that is MS made a million different versions of Vista and some of them had significantly higher requirements than others. So you had OEMs selling machines that were ‘Vista Ready’ in the lead up to launch but they barely made the requirements for the basic version. Then you had people going to Best Buy and getting the premium version and having a horrible experience.

I had Vista on my MacBook Pro and it was a a solid OS, especially if you needed 64-bit support. In fact the Pro was PC Magazine’s #1 pick for Vista machines which caused quite a stir at the time when Bootcamp was still new.

95 didn’t even ship with FAT32 support originally. I agree with the original comment that it wasn’t until the OSR versions that it got good. But they never sold those in the box, you could only get an OSR version from a prebuilt computer. So a lot of people never experienced them or didn’t experience the original 1995 version of 95 that still required 8 character filenames.

On Fedora I go to the repo (app store) and install the Nvidia drivers… on windows I have to download them from the Nvidia site. I’m not sure what you are talking about. Linux is easier but it’s pretty much the same process.

For Logitech use Solaar, also available in most distribution’s repos.

I would definitely try it without the KVM at all and see if it still happens.

My single gay friend adopted a kid in Oklahoma in the mid 2000s. This is definitely one of those your mileage may vary things.

Paying money to prevent spam is different than paying money to avoid helping people and doing your share in society.

In fact, recreating the computing experience of the Commodore 64 (and BBC Micro as they are a British foundation) was one of the specific purposes of the Raspberry Pi.

An anti-static bag wouldn’t do anything. I assume you mean the Faraday cage bags, which would prevent your phone from pinging anything as would a hardware switch but wouldn’t prevent them from searching it if you get arrested.

No SIM wouldn’t really make any difference, all (US) phones must be able to make a 911 call even if they aren’t currently in service (that’s what SOS in the signal meter means too, you aren’t roaming or don’t have roaming turned on but the rival carrier’s tower that you are hitting legally must allow you to make a 911 call). Just because your carrier doesn’t support those frequencies anymore doesn’t mean there aren’t other carriers that do or that the mobile cell tower spoofers won’t still scan for those frequencies. If you trust that it will stay in airplane mode and that the custom rom’s Bluetooth stack is locked down enough to not ping any Find My devices or similar then maybe but standalone Meshtastic device sounds like the best bet to me, or maybe something like IP over HAM radio. Maybe it’s time to dust off the Cybiko!!!

Don’t take your phone to a protest. Even if you turn it off or in airplane mode. iPhones ping the Find My network even when turned off for instance and Google has their own version of the same thing. Feature phones, insofar as they still exist won’t save you either, in the US all cellular devices are required to have a GPS built in (it was part of the same law that made the Amber Alert).

Because there aren’t any developers in charge any more. At places like MS and Google now promotions are given to people who make a big splash. Fixing a bug doesn’t get attention.

I think you are giving people too much credit. Lots of people have a budget they can spend on appliances (like a credit line) and they get the best (most expensive) one they can get on that budget. Others will do the opposite and get the cheapest but only people like you find on Lemmy (Linux users for instance) in my experience will make a choice in the middle based on feature set.

Windows 11 still has screens from Windows 95 in it…

(The format dialogue is one of the easiest to find.)