Not sure if it's a conspiracy or just laziness. It can be hard to tell the difference.

I've noticed there's been a strong push to eliminate standard browser navigation controls, particularly so the "Back" button doesn't work and you can't open links in new windows. Hmm... I wonder why an advertising company would want to take navigation controls away?

Just make sure you run the "right" web browser.

I am sick to death of web sites telling me my web browser is "not supported".

I'm an artist, and I'm completely unable to visualize things in my head. I've always had to rely on a very technical method of drawing, carefully measuring my layout and composition before I start fleshing out detail. I can do it, but it's very time consuming and frustrating, which is why I decided against becoming a professional artist, and instead went into computer science with a minor in graphic design.

A small percentage of the population is unable to create mental imagery, a condition called Aphantasia. Apparently, you can't train your brain to do this -- you're either born with it or you're not.

• 1) If you're afraid of malware, you don't have to sideload.
• 2) "Vetted" apps are full of malware anyway, because that's essentially the whole business model.
• 3) Security is a joke on modern computers in general, gated community or not.

Pizza costs more on the weekend than it does during weekdays. My local buffet also changes prices depending on the day and time of day.

So the company just confirmed there's some kind of DRM or killswitch built into their $2,000 lawn mower. Another expensive toy that I can't own? No thanks.

Too bad that's only service industries. It's always fun when all the cash registers at the supermarket go down and the lines are backed up for hours.

Just my personal anecdote: for well over 20 years, every time I've had an AMD card I've had endless problems with drivers. nVidia's stuff always works perfectly, even with incredibly old games and stuff. Rag all you want about performance, but the only thing I care about is that shit works. Hence, I've been nVidia exclusive for years and probably will be for a long time.

Yeah, algorithms matter.

Negative prompts are a thing. Training data is irrelevant if the developers have enabled "-whitey" by default.

No, it is better than nothing. Perhaps you should avoid buying games that are buggy as shit on day 1 and need a zillion patches to be enjoyable. Also, some of us actually enjoy playing single-player games and don't care about battling with 10-year-old strangers.

In the old days, PC games had copy protection on the CDs, but patches could be freely downloaded and archived forever. That would be a nice compromise for consoles, but of course nobody can be reasonable in this industry.

Haha. A while ago I needed to upgrade an old Outlook Express 6 mail machine to Live Mail 2012, and I couldn't because the OE6 mailbox format is too old and unsupported. The solution was to do a stopgap upgrade to Live Mail 2009 and then to 2012. Microsoft had deleted every trace of Live Mail 2009 from their web site, so I ended up having to pirate a free application just to perform an update to a totally different version.

Companies today are all too happy to leave you in a lurch.

They get lots of attention, but end up annoying both ends of the political spectrum.

I thought it was the conservative truck drivers doing that in Canada.

I don't come here to do my own research. That's the whole point of news. The editors should do their damn job.

Not just technically, but politically. Every single time I see a new article on Rust, I get a preemptive headache before I even start reading the comments.