The ones I hate are the smug Google IT! answers. I did Google it, but all of the results pointed to people smugly replying that I should google it!.

Windows is everything people don't want: a surveillance platform, an advertisement billboard and now an unreliable "agentic" piece of shit.

But worse of all, Windows is mostly what people have to put up with at work.

And finally, there's another negative factor working against it: Microsoft is a company headquartered in a rogue fascist country. My company for one is actively exploring option to ditch Office 365, Teams, WIndows and depend on Microsoft things as little as possible. I'm sure it's not the only one.

They go from 0 to 100% Nazi in less than a year!

Boycott products that make Musk money.

More drag means their orbits will decay faster if they become inert junk.

It goes beyond the clock though. It's all analog displays (or digital simulations of analog displays, for that matter). They don't just give you a reading, they convey some since of the rate and help put the measurement into proportion with the scale of the display (which, when well designed is highly useful information).

Consider a dipstick (the one under the hood, not the one seated next to you). You're low on oil, but are you OMG pull into that convieniance store and get some oil now, just top it off when you get home, or you're getting an oil change in 2 weeks, it'll be fine. A quick glance will tell you, IF you can read an analog scale.

Alas, how are they to know when the minute has passed?

If only that round thing on the wall could talk...

"Just accept mediocrity and don't resist, it'll be less painful, because we sure as hell won't stop trying to make money off of AI."

But does the AI know that "Bubba's Bait Shop and Kolege of Medical Knowledge" and "The Mayo Clinic" have very different reliability? Claiming to be just as accurate as the former isn't a particularly strong statement.

Nothing says "fact" like posting fact-checks from X.

Whatever it was you wanted to demonstrate, I don't have an account on this Nazi-owned platform so it's lost on me.

That's not an IPv6 failure, that's an ISP failure. If they're still using PPPOE, it sounds like they managed to screw up IPv4 support as well, does that mean IPv4 is a fucking mess too? I'd say that ISP is a fucking mes.

I've been using IPv6 in one form or another for nearly 20 years now without issue. For a good while, 6to4, then 6in4 with a HE tunnel, now native v6.

Sadly, the great country I've known for decades is but a memory.

On the bright side, this is Europe's moment: Europe is a much, MUCH better societal project than the US ever was - if they can get their shit together at this pivotal moment.

Gotta agree. All that complexity hidden under the rug probably holds a few nasty surprises. And that's before the promiscuous auto updates with poor version (and access) control.

That's an innovation in almost exactly the way that crapping on the office floor is.

Series from when I was young(er): they're usually easy to find for download, and they're just as good as new stuff. And I found the funny stuff of the past funnier, but maybe I'm biased because of age. Probably actually...

Also - at least in the case of American series - it depicts an America that no longer exists, and it feels good to see it again.

Who said anything about not minding (other than you)?