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We should call whoever sends these PMs The Fediverse Dick.

I’m in Germany and have never used prime. When I used to order stuff from Amazon, it would take 3-7 days to arrive. That’s how much they care about customers that refuse to pay their damn subscription.

Coincidentally, that’s how I use lieferando. I pick what I need, then call the shop and order that way. Some give a free drink at least for saving the 10-18% fee.

Geizhals is great. I use it to track pricrs of tech that I need especially when I’m not in a rush.

Mydealz is also quite useful, but encourages you to buy things you don’t need, and there are a lot of Amazon postings of course.

It just actually looks like shit.

You haven’t seen what Teslas are in the news for lately?

It’s not that crazy someone would put up a fake wall on some backroad to catch out inattentive Tesla drivers. Doesn’t even need to be nearly as big and elaborate as this one. Any painted object would accomplish the same.

But the point of the video is that optical cameras are easily deceived, and Elon is lying to his customers that LiDAR is overrated and not necessary.

I am not upset in the slightest. Maybe I should have made that clear. By all means voice away! It’s just like I said, Windows benefits heavily from us learning its quirks when we had the time and patience to do so, and with much lower standards than today. The comparison doesn’t seem all that helpful as a result.

Mounting a network share is beyond the usage scope of the DAU you describe. They need a functional default desktop environment, working standard drivers for their standard hardware, and a browser. That’s pretty much it.

And let’s not pretend there’s anything intuitive about Windows distinguishing between accessing a network share, and mounting it as a virtual drive. This is just the staying power of “whatever I’m used to from an age when I had the curiosity and patience to figure stuff out”.

YT assumes you’re always binge-watching. Which people often are apparently.

Just use your subscription tab, like we did in the olden days.

Droid-ify is also great.

WTF is that last search result though 🫣

No kidding. Why else would it be the result of an attempted update. But thanks for the continued condescension.

Can we perhaps stop pretending that it’s the most normal thing on earth to run an update and get back “hm yeah so there’s an issue, to fix it you’re gonna have to uninstall your entire GUI and half of your core operating system”, and it’s simply user error to be irritated by that in any way.

I did. It told me I needed to uninstall them. 🤐

The vast, vast majority of people don’t quit their job or their employer, but their boss and coworkers.

Don’t underestimate how much healthy relationships at work matter when you spend so much of your time there. Yes, in tech jobs as well. So stick with IT if you like it, but don’t stick around in a bad environment. Especially if you plan to have a family in X years, because then it gets a lot harder and riskier to jump ship and change your situation.

Yeah. That kind of attitude is missing the forest for the trees. Open source gets better the more people use it, including the vast majority of casual users who don’t know or care about the GPL. Pretending that’s a problem is just gatekeeping to feel special and stroke your own ego.

Yeah fair. I expected to chat about how Linux could displace Windows on Desktop, to which SteamOS and Proton on an x86 chip is a lot more relevant than Android.

When I tried Arch in '23, it worked well. Then I got busy and lazy and didn’t use it for 2-3 months. When I came back and did yay -sYu as I had learned, dozens of KDE and core packages were throwing errors and wouldn’t update. Unfortunate.

I met a friend of a friend at an event and somehow PCs and Linux came up. He asked if I’m a Linux user (which I like to think you can’t immediately tell). I assume to build some nerd cred. I said “yeah, I technically have Linux with me right now”. He asked what I meant, so I pulled out the Steam Deck. He was unfamiliar and I briefly explained.

When he heard it’s a commercial product (obviously), he actually pretended to faint. And then kept acting as if I had personally insulted him, not in a joking way. I had clearly failed the purity test in that moment.

It was a strange experience. Not even in hackerspaces I’d ever had a conversation like that. So these people are rare but they do exist.

Yes, but don’t ask me for cake recipes. I’m not in the mood.

Always-online locked down ad-riddled spyware on cheapass unfixable planned obsolescence hardware.

Have you experienced what passes for “an actual TV that plays Netflix” these days?

Miss me with that shit.