Incorrect. If a million people signed on with my actions above, only effective solutions would be considered. While that won't happen, there are plenty of cases where the threat of people acting out of spite keeps those in power in line to at least some extent. Spite is great.
Don't forget spite. If they get rid of first class for carbon reasons I will personally find a way to add 10x more carbon than whatever their estimated percapita carbon savings is, even if it takes burning a barrel of oil in some fireproof place. These people can cram all this performative bullshit up their asses. You want to reduce carbon, make it so that if I buy furniture it wasn't grown in Canada shipped to China processed into furniture pieces shipped to somewhere to be clicked together and qualify for a "made in" tag then shipped everywhere. A million effective centralized solutions and they keep doing the "it only counts if you personally suffer" narrative. Pants-on-head retarded.
"The purpose of a screensaver was"....
A live feed so that you could be sure all the migrating toasters had safe flights.
In many cases Home is preinstalled. Obviously you can do a full install with a better version that you buy, but I am pretty sure that takes a lot longer.
This is how you install Windows, the only safe way. Obviously Windows is an ever-growing problem, but don't talk shit on the utilities that preserve some of its Linux-like features ("not having to log in to microsoft.com to use your computer" being a top Linux-like feature).
Wait are you saying it DOESN'T start in the working directory either? I thought you were saying that everyone should run from commandline and never need a second thing. Not that it fails to support that either. It didn't even occur to me at all that they wouldn't support that. Outrageous.
Who fucking cares about your trivial use case? A competent program solves yours effortlessly, starting a filepick in the working directory is a sensible default and not what is being discussed.
The problem is for anyone who starts it from an icon, or who works from multiple subdirectories (for instance, when I edit with LibreOffice I'm in three subdirectories often, or if I'm building an iso in a CD burning program. Obviously filepickers should not be written assuming that you have one working directory and you started it from a commandline.
A filepicker should allow you to type
I don't even know what GNOME wants, except that they view it as a victory whenever they make something shitty for real users. Like that's their actual goal as near as I can tell. And once they get rid of this standard, they'll bury the option to turn it back on it some weird place that can't be accessed except by a special Power-user type extension, which you have to grab separately and gives you shit about how you're gonna break stuff if you use it.
GNOME is a fucking disgrace. Every time I have to use it I try to configure it (if allowed) and then just push through it the best I can. Obviously any machine I have root on doesn't have any of that shit.
To make it stupider, other desktop environments use their GTK3 file selection thing, which is less functional than a windows dialogue box from 1993, generally unable to change to a given manually entered directory completely. Everything they touch gets so bad. I wish they would go the fuck away and never write any more code.
100%, recipe "writers" delenda est
I wish their servers melt to stone. A miserable pile of ads.
"At long last we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus" is the famous Alex Blechman tweet, but what is the "classic sci-fi novel" in this case?
None other than "Smart Pipe", the over-ten-years-old Adult Swim fake informercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Starring a pipe that analyzes poop and posts it to social media (including the oft-missed comment "i put phosphates in u hole"), an Ayn Rand fanboy CEO, and an amazing interviewer who is enthused by everything, it seems like a best-fit match here.
It's gonna be half advice on how to score easy whale pussy and the other half how to avoid overly horny whales.
> China's 200TB optical disk
This exists in a laboratory and nowhere else. The technology used for it hasn't been commercialized and might not be able to be. It's good science for sure, but pretending it's a real thing that someone somewhere can use for data, is dishonest. Extant optical media is very slow compared to magnetic media (including tapes) and electronic media, so is this high density disc something that has a good speed or a bad speed, if it were developed more? Hard to predict based on the pretty much nothing we have to go on.
It would be nice to see more progress though. Optical media done correctly can outlast everything else we use day to day, which is its own sort of interesting thing. If you put your family recipes on some high quality blu-ray and put it in a drawer, that could be readable longer than any other way- even potentially books.
You lose a capability and still pay for it in the sticker price, and you get nothing with the space.
It's an absolute ripoff and I bought correct laptops until the big companies just stopped making them correctly. Now I have to drag around little USB external guys, which isn't great at all.
>It's bizarre because you can just install off a USB stick and it's much faster but I guess that's just not what they are used to.
For installation media specifically you have to use up a USB stick entirely for the duration of its life as install media. This is true of optical media as well, but the USB stick costs way more. The installation disc you made also just sits around until you throw it out in a year or whatever.
But installation media is kind of a carefully picked example right? I mean, it's something that USB generally does better. Being able to back up valuable stuff to optical media- especially M-disc- is pretty great. USB sticks aren't suitable for any kind of longer term backup solutions- they die all the damned time. Also when I started my latest D&D campaign, I did actually hand out cheap little USB sticks with campaign documents on them, but that was a special case; I'm going to hand out discs later. Obviously discs are cheaper for this purpose, and you wouldn't have any problem handing out a hundred CDs if you wanted to.
For Blu-rays and reading and playing from them, there's some decent piracy forums that I read over when I was picking out drives for my newest mainbox, because I wanted some that could support that sort of thing, and there definitely are still plenty of great models for that. The two drives I have now are an LG WH16NS40 (which I believe has no useful piracy capability, but seemed great for burning and reading blu-rays and M-discs) and a Pioneer BDR-212V which is allegedly suited for such purposes if you flash it (I've done none of that; it was just something I wanted to have in the box for now). It doesn't support all discs before you flash it. Anyway, if you look around I'm sure you can find a way to get a drive that can reliably play all your official anime opticals, and of course you should be able to burn them too in such a way as to play elsewhere which does seem to take effort but does seem to be things people do.
Anyway, I think a machine without an optical drive is incomplete, and the fact that all the good laptops lack them means that I have to have external USB blu-ray burners, which is not the end of the world but it is certainly not ideal compared to them being inside the actual laptop.
>I mean I have put quite a bit of money into arcade cabinets back in the day so I'm not completely opposed to the idea of temporary entertainment.
I don't think there's any comparison here really. A subscription MMORPG is the modern equivalent of dropping a quarter into a pacman cabinet; a series of hard boosts and purchases, soft boosts with the expectation that the consequences persist- these things all assume the game will go on as long as it plausibly can. Games with a decent amount of active players being targeted for closure (to prevent the game from competing with the next thing) are just top scummy.
Obviously you can play all these games without spending a dime, but equally obviously that's not the intended way of playing these games. Done properly, the games that sell you stuff don't turn around and delete it the moment they have convinced themselves that you'll buy it again.
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