Yggstyle @ yggstyle @lemmy.world

Just another voice yelling in the void.

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Shit you know ... I feel like Microsoft has done that with the registry and gpedit... a real shame they seem to disregard those controls when it suits their new advertising model... erm... bing engagement system.

We've had config files and scripts for ages. Most of us are pissed that all of those methods half work or are depreciating away for no reason other than some UIx twat couldn't be bothered to hook something properly so they just reskin an element and misplaced half the functions. Bonus points if they did so while wasting more system resources, breaking their own search pointers, and infuriating sysadmins and users alike.

Now I'll give you that new methods can absolutely be implemented and replace (effectively even) old, longstanding methods... but Microsoft has utterly missed the boat on this. Repeatedly.

To your ai statement: Look I won't comment on where AI may or may not end up in 5 years but I know that getting a black box to hallucinate 40% less has got to be infinitely harder than indexing a filesystem, a series of .lnk files, and maybe... maybe some control names. Considering they had most of that working (even if you had the index disabled!) in windows 2000 / 9x / XP it blows my mind why this has not been resolved when it's basically a meme at this point.

No other OS has this basic problem. Why are we building onto something when the foundation is shit? I'm certain there's developers at Microsoft that have skills - but I'll be damned if I see any of them taking a step forward without two back.

Block kernel level driver access to shit. Maybe improve resource usage on existing processes. Fix the goddamn search. Don't bury a setting behind ANOTHER useless dialog. Fix something - don't jam more useless shit down our throats. We don't need new: we need working.

At the rate we're going the next windows version (maybe even 11) will intersect with Linux (pick a flavor) in terms of compatibility, usability, and stability with Linux doing literally nothing but existing. To be fair every other version is hot garbage. I'm sure we can ride out 11 on 10 ... right?

Now hear me out on this, maybe, just maybe if we didn't move the same settings 1-2 layers deeper behind some UI bullshit we wouldn't have to look for it. And- get this- let's say we needed to search for these settings... (calm down y'all. I know you know. 🤣) What if we made the search work?! INSANITY.

As a dev - legitimately what the fuck are these morons doing. The os gets worse every iteration - it uses more resources, to do less, shittier. I'm sorry: you don't get to kill off another os version because you can't entice the user base into a worse situation. (internal screaming)

We are doomed as a species. This is how it starts. Don't think about it for too long.

3 soft tacos and a mexican pizza please.

"sir you need to type the order in over there"

... 35.40.

"Will you be mortgaging your house with us for a drink and sour cream?"

It's probably not that price but let's be real. It will be soon enough... assuming they keep those items on the menu.

look I may just be having a stroke but... is the thing with soy in the name.... soy free? That's what it says right?

...I guess I'll ask. How are we grading average?

While yeah, I get it... I understand the choice- this, too, is a perfectly acceptable outcome by these uh well - nazis by a different name. They get to squelch celebration of other cultures and push their existence out of the public eye.

the ocho

someone clearly wasn't around when this meme was posted 😅

I vaguely remember a dystopian book that described that exact thing as the protagonist thinking he was looking at an odd flag on the front of the truck until he realized what it was. Can't remember what the book was though 😔

*** everyone but the lobbyists liked that ***

Gravy seals needed a part time job.

Short answer: no, and probably not.

1. They will. These publicly owned companies do not give two shits about the consumer outside the price the market will bear not being reached yet. Any opportunity to raise prices and produce a better earnings call will be taken... and this is no different.
2. The word you are looking for is subsidize and we do this to the tune of billions of dollars a year. Now tariffs can (help) pay for subsidies if done properly... but when you effectively create a scenario where nobody in their right mind is going to pay those taxes - you've shot yourself in the foot. What we now have is a surplus without a buyer - and higher costs on the producers (farmers / processors.) If you think that sounds bad .. it's because it is. Farmers operate largely on credit and very few (to my knowledge) can afford getting blown out any given year.

Put simply the clown in charge learned a word we wish to god he didn't... because he didn't bother learning anything else about said word. He still fervently believes that other nations are paying the tariffs and not his own citizens. This isn't even a difficult concept. It's so basic, in fact, that I'm reasonably certain it is still covered in grade school history.

Having a pet rock or goldfish determining our economic status for the next 3.75 years (+ !?) is legitimately a safer bet. I digress.

Funnily enough that was the one in the list I least reacted to. It's all subjective I'd imagine: It's all nonsense, without question... but they all still technically fit the bill.

I mean the first two I'd give a pass.

It's like "Yeah that bad thing is good, actually" - which is pretty standard fare for an onion article. Not exciting by any stretch but it technically qualifies.

...And the plane is just funny. Not as a taxpayer, per se - but objectively would get someone to do a double take.

To be fair some of said stories genuinely could have been onion articles... In what sane world would we deport a 4 year old resident with cancer? How is that an actual headline? The times this year I've had to double check is astonishing.

Take what you can ... 🏴‍☠️

That's some interesting insight - thanks 👍

I've done some sm work but as repairs and upgrades ... it definitely was /easier/ to remove and replace: that was for sure. I'm unclear on if it ultimately had a higher real world failure rate though.

Personally I'm hopeful that their reasoning for this is increasing the quality of what does hit shelves even if there is a higher on line failure rate. They can't always be the cheapest (and recently haven't been) but if they can double down on "It just works" for a slightly higher price... I'm here for it and I imagine other makers likely will be as well.

So if I'm reading that right - higher failure rate on the line but those that passed I'd imagine have a higher rate of success?

Came in expecting league: was not disappointed. Welcome fam- Never a better time to join the club.

I dropped it for similar reasons... initially I got tired of fighting with devs over false flags on vm usage. Never lost a case but it seriously was just the stupidest hoop to jump through.