Then invent the technology that makes what you want to do reasonable, otherwise don't blame a drill for being incapable of hammering nails fast enough for you.

From when I worked in IT:

-In your ticket, do not give a vague description and a time you want the problem fixed and then expect anything to get fixed. Often times we very much need to work with you directly to understand your problem thoroughly to investigate and fix it thoroughly.

-If you have some weird problem, it might be just as weird to us when we first look at it. We are not omniscient. What we are good at is researching possible fixes, applying them, and measuring the effect they have in actually solving your problem.

-If we didn't install it, don't expect we know anything about it. You might really like to install and use Fusion 360 over AutoCAD or something, but that doesn't mean I know where Fusion 360 is storing its configurations, or that I have a phone number to call to get support from that company as a vendor, or that I have ever troubleshot this application.

-If you're really nice to us, we might be able to offer you suggestions for problems on personal computers, but sorry, we cant usually touch it, especially if we are outsourced IT. The moment we touch your personal computer it opens us to a shitload of liabilities and it could lose me my job.

-We understand very much that typically the only time you're talking to us is when you're mad because some shit is preventing you from working, but we don't want that either so don't be mad at us about it, we would prefer you never had to put in a ticket for anything except configuration change requests.

-Pay attention to our recommendations. If we say you have to have your laptop on at a certain time of day weekly for updates, we aren't just asking for our benefit, we're asking this because if you ignore it, eventually when you power on your laptop, windows is going to force all those updates to push at once and suddenly you'll be without your computer when you're supposed to be doing an important presentation because its going to take 4 hours for a years worth of updates to apply. We have little control over this.

Here are the trends with previous consoles:

PS1 : 455 -> PS2 : 512 -> PS3 : 180 -> PS4 : 58 -> PS5 : 15

Xbox : 106 -> Xbox 360 : 214 -> Xbox One : 12

Nintendo 64 : 129 -> Nintendo Wii : 328 -> Nintendo Wii U : 38 -> Nintendo Switch : 174

That is the hackiest workaround I've ever heard lol but I will give it a shot, thanks.

I bought Windows 11 early on so I'm still using it to justify the purchase on my desktop, but I moved my OEM licensed laptop over to Debian a few months ago.

Can confirm that as soon as Windows 11 is no longer supported or it gets slightly more ass, I'll be moving my desktop over to Debian or Arch or something as well.

With the advent of gaming becoming so much more accessible on linux either through native support or through something like proton, I am very hard pressed to find any reason to stay.

https://xkcd.com/979/

Cormac McCarthy, wrote some books you might have seen as movies such as The Road and No Country for Old Men.

Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West is a crazy good book.

The article states that it is opt-out and that there would be a toggleable setting to turn it off, but if they are going this way it does not bode well.

For anyone like me looking for an application with the same aesthetic feel and general functionality as discord (if Matrix chat does not suit you), then take a look at revolt chat https://github.com/revoltchat.

It's basically an open source discord clone that looks almost identical, but lacks some of the more advanced features of discord in its current state.

Furthermore if you have a discord community and are worried about the future like myself, note that you can get discord/revolt bots which will clone content from your discord into your revolt. If you are worried about discords future, it may be wise to implement this now as an alternative backup.

Can anyone explain how all of these people aren't being sent to prison for straight up treason? Isn't blatantly and loudly stating that you're intending to overthrow the united states government an enormous crime?

Shrimp > Prawn > Lobster

It won't work. Ever. VPN's free and paid exist, File sharing exists, Torrents exist, AI pornography generators exist, freenet, tor, I2P all exist. There is no action a government could take that would have any true impact in this regard unless they made the use of the internet illegal, and even at that, it would create a black market in which such things could still be purchased as physical media.

All this does is allow government entities to infringe on privacy rights further by doing what they have always done - hiding behind children.

They told me I had to honor an expired coupon for 5 cents off their gas.