FauxLiving

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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

It can't even reproduce the opening paragraph of Moby Dick

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world -1 points 12 hours ago

A great example of what I'm talking about.

"Disagree? You're a Nazi"

You're cheapening the word and helping them become normalized.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

If I'm using VoIP, it reduces the system volume by 50%.

There isn't an option to change this in the Windows 10 UI. You have to dig through the options to find the Windows XP menu to change it. This setting no longer saves between reboots, so every time I boot I have to dig through the same 3 layers of volume settings.

Lots of network settings are unavailable in the modern settings menu. You have to find the "advanced" menu which is just the menu from older versions of Windows.

Each major system update there's a new layer of configuration menus, each with a different set of options some are redundant. They're all integrated with the system in their own unique way and the people that worked on them are not part of the team that's working on the next iteration.

They can't remove the old menus so they just add another one on top. At least in a Linux DE, you know that pipewire is the sound system and there is one way to configure it. You can choose from many different GUI applications if you want a graphical interface, but they're all editing the same configuration.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

The extreme left and extreme right spaces have a lot in common. Purity tests and instant bans for anyone not sharing the same groupthink is probably the biggest things.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Democratic part: We're only here for the power, not the work

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Meta has a chatbot that makes pirated books available?

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago

Great place, except for how far from NYC it is. I miss the days of being able to travel to NYC in less than 24 hours

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world -2 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

The real problem is that there are crazy people who define anybody right of them as a Nazi.

But, we're not ready to have that conversation yet

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

It's a standard terms of service and a verbal "commitment" which isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

I'm sure you'll find the exact same wording on substack's tos.

The problem is that what social media denizens call Nazi and what Ghost and substack call Nazi are all wildly different things.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

Unlike the polished experience in Windows where the UI completely changes every 5 years and there are, literally, 6 different menus for adjusting the volume because removing them literally breaks the kernel.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oh yeah, this guy.

He couldn't have done it, he was spending that time at my house helping me move. You guys were there too, remember?

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Now is not the time to sit and think of how education and whatnot should have been. Now is the time to act.

Acting in ignorance is exactly how we got here in the first place.

If you think that acting means attacking the people wearing red hats on social media then you don't understand what is happening, what the sides are and what is at stake.

You're advocating for fighting the other fools while the con man runs away with both of your money.

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