deweydecibel @ deweydecibel @lemmy.world

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As much as I despise Microsoft and 365, Excel is like the one thing I genuinely think they deserve an incredible amount of credit for. It's one of the most invaluable, well supported tools around.

Shame you can't just buy it.

The whole reason for Beeper to even exist is stupid.

It was never going to work, but they shouldn't have needed to try in the first place.

No matter what the technical reality of Beeper was, this was like claiming God couldn't kick you out of Heaven if they wanted to.

Apple has army of devs, a bottomless wallet, and is extremely petty and controlling about their garden. If you found a hole in the wall, they'd go as far as to build a whole new wall just to stop you. And they can do that, because it's their garden. You have no power there.

I support what Beeper tried to do, but it was never going to work. Apple's garden needs regulation to crack open, you can't do it with software.

Use your Android phone as example. You don't notice many restrictions there too and it hides the complex stuff successfully for normal users. Rooting has become a thing of the past for most users and everything works as it should.

This does not inspire confidence. The restrictions imposed on Android's storage, and the hoops you have jump through to get around them, make using my device more frustrating.

You're describing a more restricted file system than even Windows has.

Also because it's locking another aspect of the device behind software that you do not have control over, which gives carriers and phone manufacturers some new levers to exact control over how and what you do.

Because evidently we haven't learned our lesson yet.

Like when the SD card slots got taken away, and now not only are most phones storage non-expandable, you can't even use a proper file explorer on Android anymore.

Robert E Lee famously didn't want to fight the North but didn't think of himself as a traitor for doing so, because his loyalty was to his state first, to the US second. And that was a common mindset at the time.

All of which misses a critical point:

The forming of the Confederacy wasn't "legal" either.

We can handwave away concerns about mounting threats of violence by citing regulation and law, but none of that actually addresses the underlying issue that if these people want to start shit, they will find an avenue.

And let's also not sit here, in 2024, and assume the institutions, norms, checks, and intended safeguards in our system will always work when they need to. We've seen far, far too many breakdowns and failures in our system over the last decade to believe otherwise.

The geographical separation of slave states by an actual border allowed the first Civil War to take place on a stage perfectly suited for traditional warfare. North/South division and the formal joining of the Confederacy by state governments kept it all straightforward. Point South and tell the generals "Go."

It definitely won't be that simple again.

We can't take these posturing fools seriously

Have you just not been paying attention for the last...decade?

Yes, we absolutely should.

That's only the second most hilarious thing I'd completely forgot Randy Savage had done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnakeYZBJO8

Hence why acquisitions need more scrutiny. It literally kills jobs.

Well, let's not lay a blanket statement like that down on anybody that makes an effort to join a protest in DC. It is travel, a day's worth of travel for some, or a flight, and you have to book a stay somewhere, pay for parking, food, etc. There are lot of people who will commit to that for a protest for really good causes, and that shouldn't be downplayed.

But then there's assholes like this, who did all of that...for Donald Trump.

Applied so hard

Didn't get far

In the end

AI filtered me out

I think a better example is just physical media sales. Retailers generally all carried the same physical stock. You would occasionally see special editions or something that might only be available at certain stores, but it was extremely rare to only be able to buy certain titles at certain retailers.

Or the prime example: movie theaters. We passed regulations to prevent movie theaters from being bought by studios and used as exclusive avenues for the distribution of certain media. You had a movie, you released it to all movie theaters that wanted it, you couldn't just make a deal or buy out Regal or Cinemark, or make your own theater. It ensured a level playing field.

One of the biggest problems with streaming that we have simply refused to acknowledge is that the safeguards necessary to create a healthy market, the safeguards we've used previously with other distribution models, were never put in place. And we're seeing the fallout of that now.

Little unfair to say they "missed" anything when they can't control what studios do with their licenses.

I still see people occasionally complain that Netflix "got rid" of stuff, like the Office. There's a lot of shitty things you can blame Netflix for, but that isn't one of them.

It's also not new. HBO, Showtime, Stars, etc all had rotating on-demand catalogs for years before Netflix, with content appearing briefly before being removed, and no one thought that was odd. I never once heard anyone suggest HBO was shit because Austin Powers or whatever was taken off it. It came with the understanding this content was not permanently available.

Part of it is that people had a bad understanding of what Netflix was, and assumed it would be a permanent replacement for a personal collection. That was always a foolish mindset.

The whole fucking internet is, really.

That doesn't even make sense. The high production stuff would be ad supported too.

You understand there are other people in the world besides yourself that have different interests than you, right?

Pro wrestling has always been theater's weird cousin from the other side of the tracks. They're more alike than fans of either are willing to admit.

You're leaving out the context that the time limit should be way longer given how long previous versions of Windows have been supported. Ending Windows 10 support when they are is a deliberate effort to force adoption of Windows 11 and avoid the embarrassment of Windows 8's failure. They learned it's better to scare users into compliance than to actually attract them with well developed, feature rich software. The hardware requirements just make it more egregious.

Stop giving Microsoft the benefit of the doubt, they have demonstrated more than enough times they don't deserve it. This is them strong arming users into doing something they don't want to do, and it should be rightfully called out for what it is: shitty.