This service is the most dystopian thing I've seen in a while.
"You know what's gonna fix democracy? Reducing civic engagement to having AI generate letters based off AI-generated articles to send to our representatives, who will filter and summarize them using AI, and plug the input into the law-making AI! The downfall of democracy was humanity's capacity for independent thought!"
At least they're Canadian flags. I've seen trucks with Trump stickers. Some guy a couple houses down the street from me has a Confederate flag in his window. I've heard people talk about their "first amendment rights" as Canadian citizens who have never stepped foot in the US.
If Alberta is Canada's Texas, New Brunswick is Florida.
Oh I didn't mean to classify xkcd itself as "classic"! It's just that #149 is probably one of Randall Munroe's most iconic comics and one of the first ones that come to my mind when I think of xkcd.
I must say though, it's been around for almost two decades, being successful and constantly relevant in nerdy online spaces. If there is such a thing as a classic webcomic, xkcd should probably qualify.
I was poking fun at MS for promoting a new feature which has existed on other platforms since the early 80s and should have had a Windows equivalent ages ago.
I'm curious, what part of my comment makes you think I'm upset? I genuinely don't know how you came to that conclusion, and if I do come off as upset for making a joke I'd like to avoid that in the future.
I listened to House MD on crappy "watchtvforfree.net" type websites over a decade ago, and I only just realized now that the theme wasn't supposed to change every episode. I just checked YouTube for the intro and I'm super familiar with all three versions haha
I like them all in their own way, but Teardrop obviously stands out.
I can definitely see this argument, but I strongly suspect the inverse will be true; finding results for MS sudo which aren't about Linux might be difficult.
After all, sudo has existed for a long time. Also, I assume over 90% of people who use Linux uses or has used sudo, whereas a tiny fraction of Windows users will ever use MS sudo.
If you wanted to talk about EEE regarding Linux subsystem for Windows, you probably should specify that. I share your misgivings about WSL, but this thread is about sudo for Windows which is another thing entirely.
Making it easier to stay off Linux, adding similar elements to Linux to appeal to Linux users.
I have a hard time imagining Linux users switching to Windows because of a feature Linux has had since its inception. Of course MS won't do anything that doesn't increase their profits, that's what corporations do. Implementing "new" features is a way of attracting more users, sure, but I still fail to see any way in which sudo for Windows fits the EEE scheme. "Embrace, extend, extinguish" refers to specific predatory business practices, it's not shorthand for "everything I dislike about capitalism and the tech industry" and using it as such kinda dilutes its original meaning.
I'm always aboard the Microsoft hate train, but I don't see how them adding sudo fits within EEE. Here's an excerpt from microsoft/sudo on Github:
Obviously, everything about permissions and the command line experience is different between Windows and Linux. This project is not a fork of the Linux sudo project, nor is it a port of the Linux sudo project. Instead, Sudo for Windows is a Windows-specific implementation of the sudo concept.
As the two are entirely different applications, you'll find that certain elements of the Linux sudo experience are not present in Sudo for Windows, and vice versa.
Despite sharing a name and features, they're for two completely separate platforms and offer no interoperability. If MS decided to release their version of sudo for Linux, maybe we could talk about EEE. For now, all they've done is implement a useful tool from another platform into theirs, and that's a (rare) positive for MS, even if this feature should have existed like 30 years ago.
I have this « job » that I’ve been stuck with forever now.
How are you stuck?
Unless you're literally a slave (which I doubt), the only way one could be "stuck" in a job is because we live in a capitalist society where you need employment to survive. I had a miserable job a few months ago, to the point where suicidal thoughts I hadn't had in a while crept back up. I just quit. Even if that meant uncertainty with regards to housing/groceries (I still haven't found a job and not going to lie, shit's a bit rough right now).
If you're thinking of killing yourself anyway, why not quit? Why not drastically change your life? What have you got to lose? Surely not your will to live. Either you're going to be miserable (which it sounds like you're already there) or maybe things will eventually get better. Either way, you're not going to get much lower morale than being suicidal.
Best of luck to you, I hope you figure out a way to see yourself out of this. For what it's worth, this internet stranger believes in you. Hope to see you tomorrow.
With how the Conservative Party has been importing the GOP's brand of reactionary politics over the last few years, I'd say the current radicalisation of our southern neighbour (who is also by far our largest trading partner and with whom we share the world's longest land border) is one of Canada's many problems. Quite a big one at that.
Fucking thank you for saying this. Trans people are out here, just trying to survive and have basic rights. Conservatives have decided to have a full-out snowflake meltdown over this.
Any transphobes reading this: I'm sure you're tired of hearing about trans issues in the news. But I can assure you, you're nowhere near as tired of it as trans people are.
One of the news sources I follow with RSS decided to publish a recipe for "apple nachos" for some godforsaken reason. I honestly kinda hope it's AI-generated garbage, because I'd truly be saddened if a human person used up some of their limited time on this Earth to redact this "article".
This can for sure be me when setting stuff up. I'm currently playing around with self-hosting some stuff on my local network, you wouldn't believe the amount of tabs I have open on my desktop, plus on my phone, plus on the laptop I'm using as a server.
This definitely isn't me on a day to day basis though. For the most part, unless I'm actively tinkering, Linux just works.
On the headache-inducing side of things though, I'm currently trying to figure out why I can't run Wordpress over Docker on my laptop. It quickly uses up all resources and even then spits out a "error connecting to database" message when I try to access it.
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Github and F-Droid links to Xtra for the lazy.
Disclaimer: I've never used these apps, I just like linking things.