I jumped in to the Win11 beta and really liked it, they finally got most of the control panel into the new settings architecture and I never once had to dig deep into things to adjust something small, a lot of stuff that took finagling just worked.

And now I fucking hate it. The release version is jammed so full of bullshit features and useless AI junk that it is an active hindrance to whatever I’m trying to do. And more and more stupid fucking bugs bubble up in to the desktop and never get addressed, all while I get pop up after pop up urging me to try some bullshit new feature.

I already had one foot into Linux with my desktop but kept this because it was a Surface and nice at some point, but my next buy has to be a Linux 2-in-1, I can’t deal with Microsoft’s horseshit any longer.

I do want to emphasize that for the moments that it was unadulterated by rent-seeking, the new Win11 actually was kinda great.

I’ll name them, though I don’t condone violence since that almost always martyrs them and makes things worse. Just will be happy when they die of old age or McDonald’s.

USA edition:

• Trump
• Stephen Miller
• Russell Vought

Int’l edition:

• Trump
• Putin
• Xi

Really, Matt? Nothing else, like how you went scorched-earth on WPEngine and caught a lot of people in the crossfire and destroyed a lot of goodwill in the process? Nothing comes to mind?

Notice he is still Prince Andrew, which is just about the only title that most people know him by.

So let me buy a goddamn phone that I can install what I want in it. Again, I do not give a shit about any phone manufacturers that want to make a walled garden out of their Android installations. I agree, it’s perfect for the grandmas of the world. But Google is forcibly doing this to every goddamn phone, phone manufacturer, and Android enthusiast.

The only silver lining is that whenever Google decides that unregulated social media services like Lemmy are not family-safe I won’t have to listen to your malicious horseshit.

That’s twice that you’ve missed the point that everyone else is saying. Read it again:

without me nor the developer having to kiss the ring of Google or by extension the regulators (EU with Chat Control) that they are beholden to

Google is irreversibly designating themselves the sole arbiter of what apps can be freely installed in the formerly-open Android ecosystem. It’s the same as if they just one day decided that Chromium-based browsers would require sites have a signature from Google and Google alone. I honestly don’t give a shit if they did it just on Pixel devices, but they’re doing it to the phones of ALL manufacturers by looping it into Play services.

I just don’t understand: why the fuck are you so pussy-whipped by Google that you’re stanning their blatant power grabs?

Bruh, you’re trying to sanewash this of all things? Right now I can go to any third-party app store and click install on an app without me nor the developer having to kiss the ring of Google or by extension the regulators (EU with Chat Control) that they are beholden to.

After this I’ll have to fucking install Google’s SDK on my computer, manually download application files, and deploy them to my device over USB with CLI commands. I will never ever ever be able to get friends and family access to third-party applications after this change.

And fuck, man, there’s not even a guarantee this solution will last, either. Google promised they would allow on-device sideloading back when they started adding deeper and deeper settings restrictions on enabling sideloaded app support, their word means fuck-all and you know that.

Yeah, them being pissed at Russia and then backing the Middle Eastern equivalent of Russia is some serious cognitive dissonance shit

Would second Blender. Plus if you’re planning on maybe 3D printing a model with certain gyroscopic properties it’s easy to export the model from there 😉

God damn, now I know why he had LOTR on his mind when he named Palantir, fucking degenerate looks strikingly like Gollum.

Gotta get those 100-year-olds fucking

I’m still half convinced I took something 10 or 12 years ago and all this is just a bad hallucination I’m having in a hospital somewhere.

You and me both, brother. God I wish.

Please assume the party escort submission position

Not only that but *broad gestures at society and the state of the world post-Internet*

God gave us two nostrils for a reason.

Wtf does your ethernet cord have a tumor?

I was under the impression it was just storage under-the-mattress style. No one’s bringing a treasure chest to buy eggs.

Thank you, it can be hard to get across the nuance of the various social systems with some people who are fully against capitalism, even if I by and large agree with their criticisms. There are so many advances that may never have come to fruition in a market-less or feudalistic society, like the abolishment of slavery, LGBTQ rights, marijuana legalization, and the relative calm/peace of our time, not that these are perfect or fully/permanently actualized yet either. By opening up independent paths to sustenance and self-actualization you can empower people who otherwise would’ve been trapped under the thumb of lords or councilors.

The problem is that despite presenting potential opportunities, it can also be corruptible and bring its own injustices to society. I see the administration of capitalism like how the American founders remarked about democracy – it requires the occasional watering with the blood of tyrants (oligarchs) and patriots to thrive. No system is fully uncorruptible, capitalism included, but the systems suggested by staunch anti-capitalists (state markets, anarcho-communism) tend to veer toward authoritarian cruelty and societal regression way faster than countries with free markets.

My personal take is that a heavily socialized society is needed to prop up a more stable and just market system. We need permanent, effective social safety nets, strong union support and deference, free voting and more fair/equal representation, regular monopoly-busting and wealth/inheritance taxes, and depending on the output of our markets, a universal basic income (NOT as a replacement of safety nets).

Bro. AWS can do jack shit, that’s not how it works. You might as well call Toyota next time you see a Camry speeding. All you’re going to do is annoy people who in no way can help you with a problem that is your responsibility. I can guarantee they’ll tell you you should use private VPCs and entrypoints with security groups, which is what every AWS tutorial starts out by telling you to use.