The_Grinch [he/him]

And somehow just about every one of the hundreds of linux desktop environments you can choose from features a rock solid, fully customizable taskbar(s) which can be put wherever you want. Even in gnome which doesn’t allow you to move the taskbar by default, you can still move it with an extension and it doesn’t break anything.

Just one example, in XFCE you can put a taskbar of literally any size literally anywhere. Very useful if you have a broken corner of your screen, you can throw a taskbar there and windows will dodge it. You can even create a 1px wide taskbar right down the center of your monitor, splitting it into two spaces. All of this is completely seamless, behaves exactly how you would expect, and rock solid.

So WTF is microsoft doing exactly?

This is how we can still have a sequel to Xena: Warrior Princess

Yeah I think it’s just the removal of the profit motive you’re feeling OP, and I agree.

The article you linked says rewind 3rd party, opt in, and stored locally. I don’t think anyone would have an issue with microsoft’s AI either if it was opt in and without telemetry.

Until we have equal rights we aren’t going to shut up any time, any where. If you want LGBTQ politics out of pokemon you better fix the problems LGBTQ people are facing.

Yeah it took them 2 years to come to a milquetoast, weak anti-zionism. The libs’ trial by bullying is far from complete. If we let them get away claiming ignorance they’ll just do the same thing next genocide.

Don’t forget the duress password feature. On graphene you can set up a second password that if entered, will immediately wipe and lock your phone.

I haven’t run into anything I can’t install with aurora store yet, and the apps on f-droid tend to be better than their play store counterparts when available anyway.

What’s an automatic wifi hotspot? You can certainly do a wifi hotspot “manually”

I don’t really understand still but thanks for trying all the same.

I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one thinking it!

Do you think it could be done by diffing a few of the different language tracks?

Try clementine/strawberry music player on your laptop. They scan your music library and apply a volume normalization value to each track.

I have a semi-related question if you don’t mind. People often complain about the voice tracks in movies being hard to hear, especially if you don’t have a speaker for the center channel (but even then I have trouble)

Why haven’t they solved this problem by packaging the voice track separately on the bluray/stream so you can turn up the volume of the voices only without blowing your ears out when the music hits?

I explain it roughly as “Veganism is when you believe that the combined values of non-human animals’ freedom, rights, freedom from pain and suffering, ecological impact of factory farming of animals, social impact of slaughterhouses, societal impact of allowing a class of “lesser” commodified sentient beings propping up and holding space for other axes of oppression, public health impact, and personal feelings of guilt at very least might be any amount greater than their value when made into a burger, or shoes, or glue. Everything you associate with vegans (diet) is a logical consequence thereof”

It doesn’t seem to help anyway because they still keep asking a bunch of seemingly obvious questions that verge on sealioning, but it at least seems to keep the conversation on track.

Being vegan (like arguing in defense of any minority) is a crash course in what suspender-slapping, exclusively crowd playing, bad faith, debate nerd, and fake arguments look like. Once you genuinely pick up one cause on even one axis of oppression, you quickly learn to see through a lot of bullshit. I believe veganism to be the most effective of all for exposing this.

They’re just going to do this with the TPM and similar chips that windows 11 semi-hard requires, and android, iOS, mac OS have already, anyway. The website will refuse to display if any modification whatsoever has been done to it, and any browser that refuses to comply to their standards will be blocked. There will of course be a couple hacks to get around it, but eventually they will close those leaks too. The open internet is very soon coming to an end.

I don’t know why you think corporations aren’t effectively micro-governments themselves, ones that don’t even put on the show of democracy, beholden to essentially no one but their shareholders.

Yeah, I see why you were being called a bootlicker.

The EU is good when they’re doing good things, and bad when they’re doing bad things. Someone has to reign in international corporations and their anti-consumer anti-planet bullshit.

people … who argued against me have no one to blame but themselves. You really think people agreeing or disagreeing with you on the internet have/had anything to do with it?

Even the people who love him hate him!

It’s definitely gotten more wasteful lately in particularly. You could run 8.1 on any computer that supported Vista, and IME it was even a little snappier, but 10 and 11 have each been significantly worse.

i3wm on a 32bit IBM thinkpad is still instantaneous-response-fast

We have gemini, IPFS, and usenet to my knowledge.