Not just skins. Themes in general. Windows 95, 98 and XP had MS Plus! where people could install themes like this and modify Windows to their taste. And now Microsoft won’t let you switch to dark mode if you don’t have Windows activated.

Customization was one of the biggest reason why I switched to Linux in the early 2000. I could apply a single GTK theme to most of my apps, in one click, while Microsoft was moving away from this. Oh the glorious days of having matching themes for XMMS and Gkrellm, with Compiz and wobbly windows. It’s also why I stuck so much to GNOME 2 style of desktops and switched to MATE. I took my multiple years to give up on my favourite GTK2 theme.

But even on Linux now is either white, or boring dark gray. Still much easier to personalize though. I miss the days of ricing my desktop until it looked lit this.

Any quality kit should also have pustulant beige.

In French, one of the way to spot AI writing is that sentences will often miss articles or have bad grammar. Can this dude also ask the LLM to include more articles and make complete sentences in the language it’s trying to imitate?

I was using the Discover feed on my phone but Google started to insert rewritten stories & headlines by AI and they were so annoyingly bad at making simple sentences in French that it made me stop using that thing.

Sometimes there’s also just different interests in the same thing.

At some point I was waiting in line and wearing a Planet Express t-shirt. Someone passed by and made a math joke that I didn’t understand. I was confused for a few seconds then realized what I was wearing, replied that I wasn’t so much into math, and I just think electric mucus is an excellent choice for the colour of a ship. They seem a bit insulted and we quickly stopped exchanging plaisanteries.

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If I understand correctly, no fix for easily setting up/connecting to RTP yet. I get that it’s probably not a very requested feature but the downgrade from pulseaudio’s GUI options to having to type long strings is a tad disappointing for me. I just hope it will be possible again some day.

Just use Slackware then.

EDIT: Just pointing out this is distro specific and not Linux specific.

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It’s about the same quantity of plastic that one would naturally ingest over the course of a week anyway. So it’s safe as long as not done too often.

He didn’t forget. He never cared to learn it in the first place. He got what he wanted and it’s all that matters. The name of the woman that gave him the prize is unimportant. Only Trump is important.

Quite possible but if you look on the web, I’m not the only one that can smell cigarettes in coffee. Apparently they share some similar compounds.

I didn’t really check if those links are AI but just look for yourself if they are not satisfactory.

https://brewmelikethat.com/why-does-coffee-smell-like-cigarettes/

https://coffeeplusthree.com/why-does-coffee-taste-like-cigarettes/

He looks enthusiastic and I’m happy for him if he got what he wanted. Clearly he’s a fan of the series and knows his stuff.

Unfortunately the bit they showed didn’t pique my interest. It kind of had the opposite effect.

J’ai tellement hâte que Bernard Drainville soit notre prochain PM. /s

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I can smell my neighbours coffee through the walls in the morning and I hate it. It smells like someone is smoking cigarette.

Here in Québec it’s the gas companies that are doing that.

And they won with just intimidation. The town that was sued tried to ban all fossil fuel, but had to make an exception for natural gas because it’s obviously a renewable clean source of energy and not al all a fossil fuel.

“Our regulation addressed fossil gas and absolutely did not talk about renewable natural gas (RNG), which, according to our definition, is not a fossil gas,” he said.

So the gas company dropped the lawsuit.

The company, which is today back under the ownership of its original founder, Kevin Rose, along with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, is launching its open beta to the public

Huh. I assumed Rose would still be behind stuff like this, but didn’t expect Ohanian.

I’m a ‘Digg refugee’ that fled to Reddit around 2009, I think? I knew Digg from Rose, because I was watching Tech TV and The Screen Savers, around 2002.

Anyway I turned my back on Digg when Rose sold out and I’m also going to avoid his new attempt at money making with an AI thingy.

Digg is dead and is gonna stay dead to me. I don’t want its rotting dug up reanimated corpse with a sticker saying “now powered by AI!”

EDIT: Coming to think about it, Tech TV turning into G4 might have been an early form of enshittificarion.

No shit

You should tell Gemini about it!

Seriously I don’t know what version started what but Android is slowly getting more and more annoying for me to use. It’s like Windows where you have to spend multiple minutes, if not hours, in personalizing and removing bloatware. But then an update brings or restore more shit.

I know it’s not all Android’s fault, but it adds up.

For example, I know they are forced by the EU to lower the volume after a while, but sometimes I use weak bone conducting headphones and I NEED the volume to be at max.

Or another are the mandatory presidential/amber alerts, where the government decides to make your phone scream an end of the world alarm because a child is missing 200 km away. I’d like to have normal notifications for that but no, only end of the world alarms.

This one is on Android though and I’ll need to find how to disable that annoying “you haven’t used those apps in a while so permissions were removed” thigny. I don’t open some apps often, like my backup app, but it’s still used, unless Android decides to revoke permissions automatically. Like, I don’t use Wahoo in winter but when I want to use it back in summer, it cant find my sensors because permissions have been revoked.

I’ve been annoyed and tired of using Android for a few years now. And I obviously won’t go to Apple. Maybe next time I’ll get a dumb phone and just carry a small computer with me for the rest.

A gas station chain as a client and the type of work that came with it. I was working as a help desk tech subcontractor and already had about 20 different clients. I’ve been doing this for a decade but because the new ones always messed up their work, we had tons of reminders and automated tasks in Teams. So I was already on edge because of the constant Teams notifications and all the triple checks.

Then they introduced this new client, a gas station chain, with hundreds of locations. I already worked in gas stations when I was a teenager and hated it. I hated the constant beeping for pumps to be unlocked when someone wants to buy gas. And I certainly didn’t want to have stressed teenagers on the phone telling me it’s super important that all their pumps are working on a Sunday afternoon while my instructions were to simply convince them to wait until the next business day if all we tried didn’t work. Fuck cars. Fuck oil companies. I can usually tolerate working with Microsoft even if I hate it, but Microsoft + oil companies. Fuck no.

I still haven’t found the will to get a new job, but my bank account is now starting to push me with insistance.