Technically, no. I might argue that the vast majority of computers made in the last 30 years come equipped with network capabilities and are, in fact, connected to the internet.
Generally, if you're using a well-known, commercial operating system, your computer will "need" to connect to the internet so transmit your delicious personal and usage data to the OS' home servers for definitely not invasive purposes.
The list above, however, is not of general or technical usage, but of my own pet peeves. Also, it's half joking 😉
Whoever decided that a logo should be standardised as Unicode? That is the worst criterion for picking a symbol that has and will have hundreds of other uses than inline text. If it's so important — work to have the current, pentacle fediverse symbol included in Unicode.
Registering a domain to introduce your dumb idea with a lot of empty bravado leaves you with ... an annual bill and a dumb idea. The pentacle symbol is so much more recognisable.
I'll be honest, I didn't zoom in close enough to count the pips. To be fair though, she was captain for, like, the last 30 seconds of Picard, maybe Funko didn't sit all the way through the last season.
That Funko Picard is... nondescript. Could they at least have made the nose semi-accurate? You could tell me this was Locke from Lost and I'd've believed that too.
I knew Windows sucked since, I dunno, XP? It took me forever to hack bloat out of Vista to make the fucking thing just work without all kinds of bullshit background services calling home. Then came Win 8 with the useless Metro "everything menu" and I was out.
Nice cherrypicking. Don't get a bellyache from that fine harvest.
Edit for context: as I wrote elsewhere, "Anybody using the fediverse is ensured pseudonymity already, the privacy issue should be whether your account(s) can be linked to your real life identity against your will."
I'm perfectly happy with being accountable for what I say and do within our pseudonymous community here. Our bad faith friend above doesn't get to pull his infantile whataboutism, sorries.
I don’t always want to write a detailed explanation, especially not when people reply with “did an AI write this?"
No, much better that they have to wonder in private "did a not just downvote me?" 🙂 But I do appreciate you replying, much more than I would a vote in either direction.
I'm genuinely thrilled by how many here are wetting themselves at the thought of others knowing what or who they downvoted. That is really the extent of "privacy" awareness in most of this thread, wanting to get away with being dicks.
Downvotes are meant to balance out "likes", and minimise people gaming the score system — but let's be honest here, just as often they're a "disagree" button. And sometimes they're just bullying tools — an endless supply of "Kick me!" post-its to be distributed generously wherever.
Hot fix: end downvotes. Just yank them out of the system. Actually my preferred solution.
More realistic fix: make votes transparent, encourage accountability.
Sounds pretty cool! Obviously, as a Linux user I'm not satisfied until I figure out how to make my own with Rofi, but kudos for the idea!