mayonaise_met @ mayonaise_met @feddit.nl

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Yeah, what was it? By the end of the day Rumpsfeld and Cheney had convinced Bush to go after Sadam Hussein and people who knew the ME were confused about that.

I don't buy for a second that "they let it happen" though. The conspiracy is that they didn't waste a good crisis.

Somebody said my name?

First past the post at work

I've been using it on my phone for a fair bit. I still run into issues from time to time where pages don't render properly, but that could also have to do with the adblocking which is a major advantage of Firefox. I only use Chrome now if Firefox doesn't work.

I used to use Brave for years, and tried Kiwi for a fair bit too, but both of them have their own issues. I've found that Firefox works well enough for me now and allows me to stick it to the man.

Yeah, that sucks. I'm not much of a gamer myself. I know there are workarounds, but I probably would stay with Windows for games too if that was the case.

Incredibly so.

There is also the issue that if you want to work together with other companies who use 365, they often want you to send them files in Office formats. Yes, you can also make Office 365 work on Linux, but at that point people already don't want to try it out anymore.

Personally I just tried Linux Mint for a short period and there is a lot to love. But I'm doing a huge personal project in which I'm reorganizing tens of thousands of photos which I want to store in OneDrive and backup on a drive. Currently I'm just more familiar with Windows and I understand how OneDrive works (instead of something like rclone on Linux). After I'm done I'm going to reinstall Mint or something similar on my secondary SSD and try to set up OneDrive in a satisfying way.

Ironically I'm biting the hand that feeds me as I work as a lowcode developer using Microsoft Dynamics/Power Platform. But still, Microsoft can eat a bag of sweaty sausages for what they've done with privacy, bloat, annoying restrictions in Windows 10/11.

As I understand it as a layman who uses GPT4 quite a lot to generate code and formulas, it doesn't understand logic at all. Afaik, there is currently no rational process which considers whether what it's about to say makes sense and is correct.

It just sort of bullshits it's way to an answer based on whether words seem likely according to its model.

That's why you can point it in the right direction and it will sometimes appear to apply reasoning and correct itself. But you can just as easily point it in the wrong direction and it will do that just as confidently too.

You all keep saying that, and I'm not saying I can't ultimately make the move, but there's always something that doesn't quite work as easily.

Then there's always a solution to that which isn't quite what you want and involves a lot of terminal which isn't really something casual users want.

For me this time it was OneDrive which I want to be able to use, trust, and have control over without terminal commands and a half baked GUI. I get it, fuck Microsoft, but it's already paid for and we're not moving because my wife, who is doing dome contracting work, doesn't want to mess with what she is familiar with.

If you don't want a Microsoft account, at this point you should really consider switching to Linux.

Why Safari? Apple is just another greedy corporation.

I reinstalled my pc and didn't install chrome. Firefox is pretty decent.

I remember going from IE to Firefox when they came out with tabs way back. We probably shouldn't have switched to chrome en masse in hindsight.

You're in Australia right? Can't be that cold, just tough it out.

Just kidding, personal heating is a very good solution to being cold. It's much better for the environment and your wallet than heating your house/room.

I use electric blankets though no UGGs. Except rare occasions, my cats don't get zapped. Have you tried going without and see if it makes a difference?

Where I live (we don't get most US models) Ford isn't really considered super dependable. Not the worst, but certainly not comparable to Toyota, Honda, Mazda.

People in 1999: "Why would I need a phone on the go? People can reach me at home, and I already have an answering machine."

Not that I don't think you are right. But if it's going to be anything like smartphones, the vast majority will use it regardless of the many drawbacks.

Too late. I work with Microsoft professionally, but I'm about to install Linux Mint privately.

With every step science takes, god shrinks.

Of course I'm being silly, but here in the Netherlands I've really not needed it that much in my current house. Only my home office and attic get a bit too warm, but I have alternatives for those rooms and I've only seen my living room get up to 26 degrees at the hottest. For a few days a year I think that isn't that bad or worth the hassle and cost of an AC.

My previous house was much worse. A couple of years ago it got up to 40 degrees Celsius and it was 34 degrees in my living room.

That could be so, but that doesn't mean you're not also paying for the software with Apple.

Just move to a temperate climate. I've never had AC and only regret that for about 5 days a year. You learn to plow through that.

It's definitely not for free. You can buy several Windows laptops and Office licenses for a single Mac laptop.