Nah. It’s not almost like that. Nope. It’s exactly that.

This is weaponized incompetence and stupidity.

Excellent breakdown. Well done!

And on top of all that, the article is specifically about Microsoft urging people to get rid of old hardware, which I take to mean NOT current-gen, bleeding-edge gaming hardware. So my suggestion was about not being forced to upgrade your hardware to keep having a usable computer.

Translation: “Install Linux.”

The answer is always going to be, “Because you’re running the incredibly bloated Windows operating system.”

Literally have the opposite experience. Fought with my old Brother printer constantly. My Epson Ecotank is rock-solid.

Family of four. We probably go through 10 to-12 eggs a day much of the time. Scrambled eggs, French toast, homemade bread, cookies, pancakes, frittatas, huevos rancheros tacos… It adds up. I recently started buying the 18-egg packs because it’s more cost-effective.

Why is this weirdo so obsessed with the letter X?

I’m shocked! Shocked! Well, not that shocked.

No problem. I’m actually just sorry it happened.

I did indeed see “GET DIGITAL ACCESS” and hit the ban hammer immediately because it looked like spam. I will unban your account, and you are welcome to re-post the story (with the correct headline).

Headline in six months: Salesforce Hires Software Engineers After Realizing Middle Managers Don’t Know How To Turn AI-Generated Code Into Actual Applications

Being a software engineer is a hell of a lot more than just the actual act of writing code.

Nope, it’s the 20th.

It’s the day a bloated orange fascist takes over the federal government of the United States.

January 20th, 2025.

Made me cry:

Gotta be Schindler’s List. That movie was so goddamn sad, and I just started sobbing when I saw that splash of red color. You know when. Ooof. A masterpiece I will never watch again.

For a more recent example, I watched the second season of Arcane. Lots of sad scenes, but anyone else who has watched it knows the most heart-wrenching one:

Left me disturbed:

Another Spielberg movie, Saving Private Ryan. Didn’t cry when the Nazi soldier sloooooowly stabbed Mellish to death. But afterwards, I had nightmares about it for months. Cripes, what a brutal death scene.

Researching and planning a trip abroad in preparation for moving out of this country.

Not many, but plenty use various corporate applications that are Windows-only.

It’s some kind of locked-down version of GlobalProtect that’s integrated with a TPM module to prevent machines that aren’t running our corporate image on corporate-approved laptops from being able to connect.

There’s probably some kind of workaround, but I’m lazy and it’s easier just to power up the Windows machine now and then.

I only ever use Windows on my work computer, and only when I need access to a resource that requires our Windows-only VPN.

But seriously, “just use linux” is worthless advice. Lots of people use Windows for specific applications that don’t exist in the Linux ecosystem. For example, there are no Linux applications that come close to AutoCAD, and it simply doesn’t work on Linux.

Better advice would be to get new (or newer used) hardware if possible, if you absolutely need to use Windows, since this workaround will inevitably be “corrected” by Microsoft. Then you can do whatever you like with the old hardware, such as install and learn Linux at your own pace.

If DAW means Digital Audio Workstation, have you tried Ardour?