Quote from: Blackleaf on November 01, 2023, 11:31:52 PMThe problem with having dictators for friends. lol

Yep.  Or to paraphrase Nandor the Relentless, when you decide to attack your neighbors, you wake up one day and find that you are alone.

A perennial debate with my brother.  His latest salvo:


While I respect and appreciate operating systems which allow for superuser behavior (users who command vast amounts of control over their system, usually in tandem with higher technical knowledge than the average person, because such nearly unrestricted power can have adverse effects when implemented incorrectly) I maintain that the bulk of humanity is either incapable or uninterested in such a setup and merely wants to watch YouTube, fire off emails, etc and a "good enough" OS is perfectly fine for that, especially if it is relatively simplistic and intuitive.

However, "good enough" systems are often poorly managed - victims of bloatware, nagware, adware, and - a relatively new phenomenon - very short product cycles requiring "upgrading" to the new OS which is no longer much of an actual upgrade but simply an excuse to force a new round of license-buying.  It seems inevitable that "good enough" software degrades into "not good enough" software due to well-meaning but detrimental actions (bloat) or to greedy and unscrupulous management decisions.  For this I have no solution that doesn't involve threats similar to the one allegedly uttered by the Costco co-founder to the Costco CEO regarding the price of Costco's hot dog combo.

Happy Halloween !

Quote from: Hydra009 on November 02, 2023, 02:40:13 AMA perennial debate with my brother.  His latest salvo:

While I respect and appreciate operating systems which allow for superuser behavior (users who command vast amounts of control over their system, usually in tandem with higher technical knowledge than the average person, because such nearly unrestricted power can have adverse affects when implemented incorrectly) I maintain that the bulk of humanity is either incapable or uninterested in such a setup and merely wants to watch YouTube, fire off emails, etc and a "good enough" OS is perfectly fine for that, especially if it is relatively simplistic and intuitive.

However, "good enough" systems are often poorly managed - victims of bloatware, nagware, adware, and - a relatively new phenomenon - very short product cycles requiring "upgrading" to the new OS which is no longer much of an actual upgrade but simply an excuse to force a new round of license-buying.  It seems inevitable that "good enough" software degrades into "not good enough" software due to well-meaning but detrimental actions (bloat) or to greedy and unscrupulous management decisions.  For this I have no solution that doesn't involve threats similar to the one allegedly uttered by the Costco co-founder to the Costco CEO regarding the price of Costco's hot dog combo.

Yeah, I can't be bothered with Linux and running all my windows programs in a Linux Shell. Plenty of Windows hacks too, if you really wanna get rid of most of the annoyances.

Quote from: Unbeliever on October 29, 2023, 04:37:42 PMYou really should check it out. It's too difficult to describe with mere verbiage! 🤪

Both A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong and Peter Pan Goes Wrong are phenomenally hilarious! 🤣

Surprise mechanics!

https://i.imgur.com/OFtpX5f.mp4

Quote from: Hydra009 on November 14, 2023, 12:26:49 AMhttps://i.imgur.com/OFtpX5f.mp4

My thoughts watching this: "This is either really fake or very unethical. How could they...oh, it's a joke."

https://i.imgur.com/hdI7oOy.mp4

Me: the commute probably won't be that bad today

The commute:  https://i.imgur.com/OZ6K1K0.mp4

Gee, that looks like fun! 😱

Fuck that in all kinds of weather.