While I've never considered Steam slow before the dickwaving contest started it's worth noting that literally before you made this comment (October 15) Valve pushed an updated (October 13) that more than halved Steam's loading time just to give Epic the middle finger. It's probably making your point that Steam wasn't well optimised but the reality is no one cared. I mean, what do you do with all those 5 seconds you save?
You're more than welcome to play with yourself if you have no friends. You don't need a launcher for that either. Go buy some single player games on GoG, it's still there for you.
The rest of us have friends.
Also the times where you played almost all games solo is just an admission that you didn't buy a dial up modem or if you did, didn't know someone else who had one. Heck when you bought the original command and conquer game you got 2 copies of the game for a reason, you were supposed to give one to a friend.
I very much did game back then. Your examples are literally the ones I talked about. You would run your own server today and no one would join it because again, the internet itself has changed. Qspy was a server list, it provided no handshaking between server and client meaning it was precisely the situation of having to fuck around with network configs that I am talking about.
While it was a golden era of player freedom it was a nightmare for usability as soon as we had 2 PCs on a network and the concept of a "router" was introduced, everything became difficult. It would be great to go back to what life was like when I was playing games by either dialling up to the internet
It's a good saying, but there's an exception, The exception being when it compares purely on cost. There are plenty of cases where company A and B are basically identical but company B's pricing is based purely on it's historical brand value.
It's nothing "shame" about it. Most people just don't care. A perfect example of this is that in response to Tim waving his tiny cock about loading speeds Valve pushed out an update in literally under a day and no Steam loads faster than Epic does. No one gives a fuck about these 5 seconds.
Actually 4.4% slower. Valve rolled out a steam update in literally under a day and now Steam loads 0.2seconds faster than Epic's launcher, and you get to keep all of Steam's features.
Epic spent a lot of effort vibe coding something to claim they had a faster time, and Valve within a day optimised Steam's startup to beat Epic's effort. https://www.techpowerup.com/35... What a bunch of fucking clowns Epic are.
Leaving aside inefficiency, security happened. Process isolation, kernel isolation, heck windows uses a hypervisor to load drivers these days. All of this adds to overhead (for legitimate reasons) on top of all the useless bullshit everyone else is talking about as well.
Microsoft was all in on this shitty web framework bullshit. Not only were they wasting their own resources, they were key instigators into making others waste resources as well by seeing the Electron framework, declaring, that's pretty shitty
26h2 adds in about 3GB of RAM worth of AI bullshit in the background so my ass they did.
Except they did no such thing and virtually everyone has confirmed the usage reduction. Did you subscribe to the extra AI bullshit or something? I mean I have zero MB of RAM dedicated to any AI bullshit on my Windows 11 machine and I didn't need to do anything magic to disable anything.
If windows update is using your resources for half an hour every work day you either have a fucked up computer, or the worlds most relaxed work schedule. Do you only work on the second Tuesday of the month or something?
They finally included an option to NOT SEARCH THE DAMN WEB from the Start menu. That setting alone has made Windows far more responsive, something you previously could only do with a registry change.
Ilhan Omar’s widely published birth date of October 4, 1981 means she turned 18 in 1999 and 19 in 2000, and therefore, was ineligible to gain citizenship by derivation.
None of which is legally an adequate reason to remove someone's citizenship two decades or more later. Filing the wrong form would be considered a minor clerical error. It should have been rejected at the time, and she should have had to file the correct form at the time, but once citizenship is granted, that's moot.
There is a general presumption in the law that citizenship cannot be revoked unless all of the following criteria are true:
None of those apply, much less all of them. Omar did not misrepresent anything; her father did. The misrepresentation was probably not willful. See also the comments above about birth records in Somalia. And being born a year earlier is not material to the decision to grant citizenship. It is only material to whether that specific form would have been accepted or a different form would have been needed.
So absent some significant evidence that something else was omitted as a side effect of using the wrong form (which is incredibly unlikely), this would be a clerical error, subject to possible civil penalties against the father, were he still alive, and that's about it.
This isn't just a little bit short of the threshold required for removing citizenship. This is so far from reaching the threshold that even the most conservative immigration judge in the country would laugh in their faces for even making the attempt, and probably hit them with contempt charges for wasting the court's time.
Anything to avoid investing in expertise
Not all contractors are equal. In many cases that expertise *IS* the outside contractor.
Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?
It's 2026. In the view of half the country that only applies to white males. You know, the disenfranchised class.
"I am your density." -- George McFly in "Back to the Future"
