Th4tGuyII

joined 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Part of me wishes that the oil would run out sooner to give governments more urgency to actually do something about our fossil fuel dependency, cause apparently the increasingly apparent effects of climate change just aren't enough motivation.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Honestly. Working with academics in science was so annoying at times exactly because too many academics talk just like this.

Too often I sat with them wishing I could just tell them to speak plainly FFS - unnecessarily complex, overly specific jargon doesn't make you look any better, it makes you look smarmy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

There's a really good article on Rentry.co for setting up Win10 LTSC. Though as you say, here's not the place for that.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Yeah, but if the people actually contributing the work and services to make the business any money at all, what would all the executives do for a living. Why is nobody thinking of them?? /s

Seriously though, it's one big legalised pyramid scheme - all the people doing the hard labour that actually make the world go round get paid the least while some guys get paid stupid money to sit in a board room and talk about strategies.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The irony of the right wing insisting on jamming it to songs that mock or completely oppose their ideals by bands that would hate their guts is palpable

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Don't remind then that America isn't the world.

Also, ~999M is a whole lot less than the ~8B population we have now, so that is veritably not true

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You could be right about them recycling numbers already, but 330 million < 999 million, so that wouldn't be why

[–] [email protected] 256 points 1 month ago (15 children)

Of all the things to target, did they really have to go for the IA - the organisation that literally got into trouble with the man for helping children get access to books during the pandemic.

Does this hacker kick puppies and steal sweets from babies too?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Exactly this. It's a completely arbitrary rug-pull made especially repugnant by the fact you can circumvent it quite easily with basically no loss of functionality.

While modding Win11 is a perfectly legit option for home users, it's not for businesses - as such many, many business-spec computers will be "obsolete" once security updates for Win10 end.

Best you can hope for is that these computers pour into liquidation markets giving people the chance to buy decent quality PCs for cheap - but more likely they'll become e-waste

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You mean to tell me that the racist morons who voted for Brexit didn't realise the jobs they were complaining about "being taken" were infact severely underpaid jobs that they themselvrs wouldn't take, thus now there's nobody to take these jobs?

Colour me shocked...

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have no doubt ~~Alphabet~~ Google would try to delay any breakup as long as physically possible, but this would be a huge win against big tech if it went ahead. It'd probably be quite the win for public privacy as well, as it'd decouple these widely used platforms from Google.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Xitter might as well call it the "Maybes and Conditions" with how much they cherrypick their T&Cs nowadays

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