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  • https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/unable-to-install-updates-unless-battery-is/99bb073a-948e-4ccf-b14f-46e192fac457

    Please updoot another commenter who sent it first instead. And, also, take a long look at the issue as it's hilarious too. Just like theirs, my laptop would try to update every reboot and cancel it seeing less than 40% battery because the battery is, well, long dead and the laptop is plugged into a wall socket all the time. Once a safeguard against idiots it grew idiotic itself.

  • I agree. They need to be either pressured or abandoned.

    I feel like they would need to rewrite it completely in that case, partially because no one knows how their legacy code works and partially because it's completely broken.

    Google with it's billions and a promise of more free data did great with how office formats work. They set some little limits of what user can do compared to MS Word so ending up with a broken table or whatever is harder, and they aslo strong-armed their way into adoption with their obvious mechanics of real-time collaboration.

    I'm not sure about MS users coming to Linux, but their marketshare was already bled by Google. And if in some scenario Google releases their own internal XML format for these, I guess it'd work too.

  • MS Office's lie of WYSIWYG and the idiotic requirements to follow absurdly complicated formatting guidelines and them not rendering the same from system to system or even correctly is the most brutal offender. If we used simplistic markdown without page-breaking in the GUI, there could've been no point to buy Office, but we don't, and itso hsppens I had encountered many times where some arbitrary cosmetic request like 'you can't have less than X lines per page' caused people toy with formatting or rewriting their documents... only for it showing differently on the other side >:ç Thus leading to even worse things like PDF.

    It being the most used piece of office software renders the voluntary switch close to impossible.

  • Some of them just don't want to take responsibility if they do something wrong under your instructions.

  • GooglePlay search favors popular trash, but there and on F-Droid you can still find some fun ones without ads. Searching from outside, like on a regular web search engine or lemmy\reddit subs for free games may help. I don't mind piracy but I was glad to obtain Antimine and Mindustry. Also, there are ways to block internet or patch apps, but they usually imply you have root and may break things if not careful.

    Idk about iPhone apps, but I'm sure the first solution would work too and the second means jailbreaking thus cutting off most of their praised ecosystem.

  • There's likely no way to say the DB they obtained is deleted without a copy. They should behave like it is stolen and can't be deleted, there's no way to gracefully walk back once it's obtained, and any known further leak should be linked to that if not proven otherwise.

  • Russian coverage is pretty fun as state-allowed news try to both ingrain the hatred of the West and celebrate this pack of leeches going full MAGA, sometimes in neighboring news pieces. And no, they don't explicitly say they destroy the US and that's the reason they cheer, they are just fanboying for them and their populism. Reading a couple of threads on local social media didn't make me piece together how this even works.

  • I'm not sure what he'd probably do, maybe add a map of US plus Canada's territory and print AMERICA so even dummies would get rhetorics behind it. But what I'm sure about - he'd sell these flags like hotdogs on every street corner, and also add a law that this particular flag can't be messed with and should be shown instead of the real one.

  • Maybe he just dislikes the name, Kennedy, being a part of a toponym there in DC. Kennedy family was\is very influential and the assasination of JFK is one of the most known historical events about the US, and RFK still rolls on it. He probably wants that for himself, and to control what as the wiki-page implies is an american culture. Or maybe he is taking it to mess with RFK in some way? I don't know.

  • Thanks for updating me on that. Now I'm stupidly giggling at a thought of a Metal Gear-like walking oil refinery dodging rockets and planes.

  • And isn't starlink receiver a backpack-sized thing? Most drones wouldn't be able to carry it at all, and if they could, it's more viable to carry grenades instead. Internet-enabled drones are of a very narrow usage for missions where everything else doesn't make it, e.g. long-distance attacks you mentioned. I guess Cessna drones were controlled via it too.

  • Netanyahu bought it with a golden pager. Now US officials just follow his demands. The art of the deal, amiright?

  • This image should be more akin to good old goatse, for US government is actively stretching it's ass wide for anything and anyone directed by president Musk, even if they legally shouldn't. How comes that's the most powerful nation gets infiltrated by a bunch of fools? The Boromir meme would be a sick fit: one can't just enter US datacenter with sensitive data.

  • It's 'egglet'. I'm egg-led to insist on it.

  • I feel nostalgic of a time with my first Android phone that worked fine with some 256mb of RAM and around 16gb of storage. Now I have way more in both of them, but my phone unloads everything but the current and last app from memory occupying half of that just for itself and the storage, well, isn't mine to begin with for I can only use a small fraction of it even after a factory reset. Times change, websites and apps change too, and Android devs can't predict that, but they made the OS itself just as bloated and self-indulgent as Windows.

  • Modern problems and modern solutions. But to be trully modern, it would need to be a trap in a cask of a cybertruck with microplastics air dispenser nearby that gives you achivements at every 5% percent of your body becoming a fiberflesh matter. Tasteless, weightless particles flowing to choke every bloodflow and shut down every organ, all under cheap gaming RGB lighting flickering ignogant of your high and lows, indifferent to you struggle to breath in one time more.