The other day it rewrote a registry key that prevented these pop ups.

This is what drove me away. There are like 7 people that figured out how to make these pop-ups disappear and Microsoft invested money to “patch” that “error” to ensure they were forced to continue seeing these ads.

Why would they do that when people use this one all the same?

Plenty of other places to upload images. I think catbox.moe is a popular one.

Haha, should have known you can’t post that shit around here.

But I agree, I use Brave and it’s awesome! They even have a private LLM!

The poor UI and lack of polish has been a big problem in design communities for a long time

I dunno what to tell you except that it’s not a problem now.

For all the deserved shit that Windows gets, it “just works” without ever needing to touch config or a terminal.

Most people don’t need to use anything other than a browser, which works fine.

I can’t see Reddit anymore

A nice looking UI with good fonts, and a clean interface.

Pretty much anything beats Windows in that regard.

The ability to run random Windows applications with minimal fuss.

I mean if you REALLY can’t find a FOSS alternative, Bottles has been extremely successful and easy for me…

All without needing to use the terminal

This is the biggest hangup for me. Even if there is a GUI, most instructions will send you into the terminal nonetheless.

Better question is “why not”?

Not surprised. Several years on and I still can’t get Fallen Order working properly.

I’d rather buy it than spend hours and hours downloading and failing to unpack it for unknown reasons.

But I’m not going to spend more than like 10 minutes trying to make it work. If it takes longer than that, it’s just a shit game that doesn’t deserve my money. Too many other perfectly good games to spend my time playing to fuck around with all of that.

It looks like the future promised in 1984, if that’s what you were referring to.

As for Facebook, the only data you need is that the younger generations think it’s for boomers and don’t use it.

Not but they do very much use Instagram.

Something I think about occasionally is how it is that a no-name startup beat the likes of Google, MS, Facebook, etc to chatgpt.

Which was immediately absorbed by the anti-consumer company MS for several tens of billions of dollars.

I really think Facebook has passed the point of no return already in this regard

How so? Literally half the planet still checks into Facebook on a monthly basis.

has allowed numerous social media sites to steal market share very easily.

They haven’t stolen market share, they’ve created it. Facebook didn’t lose any users and these other platforms still operate with a tiny fraction of Facebook’s users.

Is Google destroying itself? Facebook? Amazon?

No dude. These companies are several decades old and continue to make money hand over fist by exploiting their customers. They do this shit because it makes them a fuckton of money, because their users have no fucking principles or backbone and just lick boots every time they’re stepped on.

I am not an optimistic person but literally the only explanation I have for this sort of thing is altruism. That Valve is a company that simply loves its’ community and doesn’t want to exploit their customers. Nothing else makes sense.

If you watch the video in question, they detail which parts of the store are algorithmic and which parts are “curated” by Valve. My guess is that falls into the latter.

LOL Valve is not “starting out”. They are about as old as Google.

You sound like a Blockbuster executive.

You don’t seem to understand that you won’t have a Steam account to go back to.

When they decide to go the way of netflix by jacking up prices and reducing offerings then I will stop paying for it just like I did with netflix.

Then it will be too late.

And MP3s are perfectly adequate for most applications.

I mean the board that HIRED him is still there. No one hires a guy like that and would be surprised about what they got.

This makes zero sense. What do you think “ergonomic” means?

they give the eyes a ‘frame’ so they can focus better

That sounds like something you just made up.

The smaller it is, the bigger the difference that 1 inch makes.

Also, more space means more efficient cooling usually.

We’re not talking about more or less space, we’re talking about maximizing the value of the space you have, regardless of how much that is.

I’m mostly going to complain about bezels on any mobile device with a screen because I really want to maximize screen real estate. But at some point I’m just like “really?”. Like you are going to make SOME compromises to be repairable and upgradeable and that seems like a fairly minor one.

TIL CDPR is a multi-billion dollar company

I think Valve has the power to end this nonsense…

Are there any publishers that aren’t actively trying to sabotage their own userbase? Activision? Ubisoft? Blizzard? EA? Even Valve now going to town on shitty microtransactions and deleting CS:GO?

And nothing has changed in 20 years…

I think you may have missed my initial reply where I stated specifically stated that I was not concerned about “stuff that makes you look different”.

Which is why I avoid them

I love people putting out the “everyone is wrong because I didn’t have a problem” response like there weren’t tens of millions of devices sold.

Yeah, the question for me is “are they shoving those things you can purchase down your throat every 2 minutes?” because I find that disgusting.

I pretty much just assume “Free To Play” games are full of microtransactions, is that wrong?

E: to be clear, I don’t think microtransactions are an inherently bad thing. In fact, if people want to make games where other people with more money front the costs of development, I’m all about it.

What I hate is being reminded every 5 minutes that it has garbage skins that I can pay IRL money for.

Of course it matters. The plaintiff not knowing how to use their car is not a valid defense.

🤦‍♂️ you’re the one who needs to read the article. There’s nothing there to indicate it was in use at the time.

Except “full self driving” is not in question. It’s autopilot.

They didn’t change anything. They’re separate products.

Anybody who crashes while using Autopilot is their own damn fault, and this is what the court will find.

Autopilot is nothing more than an advanced driver assistance system. Every other manufacturer has a similar system but Tesla is the only one being used and plastered all over the news.

The entire FAQ doesn’t spend a syllable saying what it is for, except that its like Terraform.

It seems to be some sort of trend to absolutely never explain what your product is or how it works. Especially not on the main page. It’s just “click here to sign up now”!

The case centers around Samantha Liapes, a 48-year-old woman who turned to Facebook to find an insurance provider.

I’m sorry, whatnow?

So now if I search for car insurance and Facebook shows me ads for a buttplug from Kickstarter, I can sue them? Because we’re all going to very rich, if so.