Is where theocratic dictatorships get their start. They don't stop at banning stupid pornos. They're openly out there telling you that they're not going to stop until you're either all on board with their brand of extremist Evangelical Christianity or six feet under.

That's not an exaggeration. We've all seen them going on and on about how gay people cause hurricanes and earthquakes and we laughed it off. They're not joking they genuinely believe that.

Christian nationalists believe in what I can only describe as a sin thermometer. They believe in a level of ambient sin that if it gets too high God smites everyone and everything in the vicinity.

They know damn well they sin all the time and their attitude is they're doing everything they can to reduce the amount of sin they commit so they have to get out there and force you to stop sinning so the temperature of sin goes down enough that we don't all get smited. So they're going to make you obey and they're going to make you act the way they want you to act because in their crazy ass minds that's the only way to protect themselves.

In other words you are a threat to them. At least inside their minds. And so they are not going to stop at dumb bullshit you can easily get around with your VPN if you are so inclined. They're going to go after those vpns and they're going to go after you. Because like I said in their minds you are an active threat

It already starts imbalanced (like 53/47), but more males don't survive to adulthood.

You bought it Early Access. You don't get to consider your purchasing decision as a promise of the future. If you sunk more than two hours into playing it then you got some entertainment and your money's worth. Early Access is a risk you take to play an unfinished game. And there's no coincidence the abbreviation for Early Access is EA, both are equally likely to be turds.

No. If you want a finished experience, don't buy it in early access. If you are open to an unfinished experience then your ability to refund *after playing for a significant period* should be limited. You got what you pay for. You were entertained. If you weren't, well you should have refunded it earlier.

It seems like they did this only yesterday. https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

Wrong question. The question is who pays that cost. It's one of those things where it's easy to externalize those costs onto somebody else. Especially early on

I don't have figures but from what I understand this is just getting the grade to the point where I can handle the number of electric cars they want to put on the road by 2030. It doesn't solve any of the security or reliability or maintenance issues. It just builds out enough capacity that the whole grid doesn't collapse under the weight of all those of EVs.

That said 20 billion dollars is peanuts. To put things into perspective California's annual GDP is well over $3 trillion. I'm no longer a fan of electric cars after I learned that they don't really solve the smog problem and after I was introduced to the concept of High-Speed rail and walkable cities, but if I can't have those things I guess I will take the facts that they at least reduce our dependency on foreign oil. We're making motions to back out of the Middle East and electric cars are a big part of why.

Refunding is also for when what you bought is not what you thought it was. I bought Tabletop Simulator, only to find out it has NO ability to automate. It's solely for play with a live game master. Automating the DM component so I could paly alongside my players was the whole point, and it doesn't do that. So, refund. It's not a bad product, but it's also not useful for me.

it happens with cops and "school resource officers" (read: cops in school) all the time. And they have way more time and training.

I haven’t noticed any difficulty myself in finding information I need to know. Can you give an example of a search where the top results are demonstrably far from accurate, and it’s clearly the kind of commercial poisoning the article referred to? I ask because it seems to me that if the product was really obviously bad, I should be able to see it, and I just can’t

I can't. None of them seem to give a shit. Which is why I as a boy get to decide whether to support violence and exploitation.

was when a shitty call center I worked for illegally fired a guy. As he was cleaning out his desk He was grinnin' ear to ear over the lawsuit he was gonna file.

The HR rep (an absolutely enormous woman) came darting out to catch him in the parking lot. Never knew someone that heavy could move that fast. He had his job back that moment and the firing manager was reprimanded.

A common complaint which completely misses the point. The ideals exist to prevent Wayland turning into X11. A lot of the things given the WONTFIX treatment are precisely the things that architecturally were intended to be omitted from the compositor.

If you need XDMCP then by all means use the software that suits you, but the rest of your points are utter crap. Let's address them:

** You don't agree Wayland is stable? I've never had it crash once. Actually switching to Wayland when X.org was the default in Ubuntu solved a monitor resolution issue I had.
** Wayland supports all chipsets and systems I care about too. What are you are specifically missing? Saying something works as intended isn't a counter claim to something else.
** Wayland breaking apps is by design. Many of the apps that were "broken" required nasty workarounds to get them running on X.org. The overwhelming majority of apps don't care what system you run them on. DEs may care, all major ones have adopted Wayland. Again this was by design. The whole purpose of Wayland was to cut ties with the cruft of the past. This was a very welcome changed pushed forward by the very people who wrote the original libraries (much of the Wayland development team are ex-X11 developers).
** What are you missing in the app world that needs to be Wayland friendly? I have not come across a single app that hasn't worked on Wayland. Not one. Not now, not 5 years ago. I'm sure you have one, but really it's not a scenario common to computing.
** That guy's blog is a good one. It summarises why there are problems with porting and why they were the result of X11's legacy cruft. There are no problems with porting. There's just adapting to simpler ways of doing things, and removing functionality from compositors into external libraries and the DE which never belonged in the compositor in the first place. That blog even talks about how this is all a good thing.
** What needle did you want Wayland to move? It's the default on many major Linux distros and seemingly just works. Personally I'm tired of X11 fanbois who stuck their head in the sand because someone moved their cheese. The X11 people are completely obnoxious thinking that their way is the only true way of doing things, and pretend like the replacement system isn't already more performant while at the same time actively bitching about the very elegance that Wayland brought (just like you did in this post now).

*yawn* okay boomer. - Am I obnoxious? Yes, I treat people with the respect they treat others, and this is all the respect you deserve.

No Windows 11 does not "now" come with adware. That feature is old. It predates Windows 11 itself. Even Windows 10 was putting recommended apps (ads) in the start menu. And the toggle to turn it off and on dates from Windows 10 and was brought over in Windows 11.

I can't wait for the writer to go outside when it's raining and declare "after 40 years in journalism I just discovered water makes things wet!"

Sounds good, how about a landscape slider phone? My F(x)tec Pro1 is getting a bit long in the tooth...