Well Windows sales might, but that’s why you gotta pay for pro mode that removes all the ad shit. Otherwise they would lose out on the additional 2/5 or whatever that comes from their ad-ware

I am less sympathetic about it. He says it’s a love letter wrapped in a complaint, essentially saying ‘Windows is shitty because of all the enshitification they’ve done’, yeah bud, we know.

The engineer assumes far too much good faith by Microsoft. He focuses on the idea that Windows was built for casual users and the online vocal power users that want to stretch the normal use of the system don’t like how their strange choices are handled and yell online setting the narrative. His advice boils down to, 'give a power user mode that lets you control the telemetry, turns off ads and searches in your start menu, lets you boot without an online account, bundle all OEM installed apps in one bundle, respecting changing defaults like web browser." Like, sweetheart, I’m gonna hold your hand when I say this, Microsoft didn’t stumble backwards into including ads and locking out offline accounts, they are incentivized to be shit like this.

He suggests in addition to buying windows it having a monthly fee for this pro mode to allow for such freedoms, “because they can’t just give windows away forever hoping to make it up on OneDrive fees.” Cool, I’d rather stick to linux, thanks.

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Hasn’t she’s been a figure on the “SWJs are ruining the world” side of youtube for almost a decade now?

Since the other comment was a bit flippant and didn’t really understand or care to explain genuinely.

I believe Materialism here is being used as a subset of a broader Marxist idea of Dialectical Materialism. The whole concept is pretty dense, but the core idea, and the subset being used here, is that the conditions people live in are the larger driver of their actions. So crime does not come from an innate spiritual poison one possesses, but from conditions that inspire criminal behavior in people, such as poverty and wealth inequality.

“Material conditions” is a common leftist phrase that summarizes the ideas materialism, so speaking to ‘conditions’ as Mamdani did can be a bit of a dog whistle for leftist ideas.

In short, to quote Kamala Harris, “You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you”

Or women don’t duck with two wheels

What’s the over under on the courts giving a shit after the thousands spent on legal costs?

The cop is??

Justice often is.

Anything ever come of this creep and his “favorite magic tricks” usb drive?

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Only for him to call for another trial when the obviously good vaccines provably work.

I think they mean “Verhältnis” (google says ‘relationship’) doesn’t really mean ratio, but ratio is what we use in english.

It’s not just toilet regulations though, its like volume of water from showers, sinks, and shitting that is much higher for residential buildings. Even assuming that no one has in unit laundry.

Some might argue it requires a terminal level of brain worms to understand what is being said with rule 8. But I for one find beauty in this exactly level and flavor of petty, and I come to the fediverse for it.

Honestly I think if there is a hope for greater detach from “The Cloud” more broadly, it’s a testament to nextcloud that folks that don’t even know enough to know what DB they are running are able to run a server, and host things well enough to consider themselves users.

One could argue if all she increases is distance away from OP, then there is a form of vectorized movement in polar coordinates with OP at 0 and his GF moving in the direction of maximizing the space between them 🤔

Glad you’re trying things outdoors. I would ask that rather than being smug online thinking it makes you morally superior, consider that this is simply not enough for the current political moment and you should join an org and extend your efforts beyond elections. If you think that voting for the fascist with the kinder face absolves you of additional action, you’re mistaken.

It is so depressing to have these conversations and learn just how many people that are otherwise deeply political think their duty ends at the ballot box. Yes, I voted in the last election, I will vote in the next, and I vote down ballet, now what? Because voting for the subtler fascists is not going to solve problems. It’s not going to repair the conditions that gave rise to right-wing populism, so what are you doing until then to deal with the political realities? Or are you going to do your bare minimum and vote in a couple years and hope that democrats have learned enough to actually fight harder this time around?