So what you're saying is you want every window to have a box hanging out of it, and 500+ year old facades to have condensors bolted on to them, all the while adding to the general noise and destruction of the beauty of the city all to deal with the couple of days of hot weather that are simply solved by going to the mall?

No thanks. Leave your 3rd world suggestions for 3rd world shitholes.

How is a small popup that you can click an x on "forcing you" to use an app? I literally have never used an app on reddit, and I'm on reddit all the fucking time.

Why do I get the feeling you weren't nearly as prolific as you think you were if you've been using reddit for over a decade without making or using an account? And if you do have an account, your grievance wouldn't have affected you.

Sorry to call you out on your bullshit.

Reddit is full of human content, providing it is you are actually looking for content that is related to human hobbies. If you're going there to read r/politics, frankly you get the slop you deserve.

Have you considered going to reddit for something other than a discussion on politics?

I mean I'm following something like 90 subreddits and I literally do not see any political posts, election season or otherwise. Maybe find a hobby other than bitching about politics and you won't have to bitch about politics.

Because the website is monetised in a different way. No free lunch for you. You can either pay money for your sandwich, subscribe to a monthly sandwich program, or read through an advertisement before taking each bite and have the advertiser pay for your sandwich.

And they were right. One thing worse than not asking for permission, is asking for permission for such obvious things that cause every virtually every single app to pop up an annoying window effectively training the user "Press, allow to continue" to be the default for all apps. It completely destroys a permission system if you train the user to accept them allways via constant nagging. It's why UAC effectively does fuck all in Windows. At least sudo prompts for a password.

Normally Slashdot is bad with dupes, but this is not a dupe.

The original article was about compatibility plans. It also mentioned it is digital only. It also was restricted to titles 4 titles Microsoft chose.
This article is about a program to allow developers to control their games and opt them into the system. This includes expansion of the program to other generation of devices, and the roll out of a disk to digital program as well as a pricing and licensing system.

But you didn't read any of that. You just jumped straight into shouting "dupe". And we know that because the article you linked is actually referenced right in TFS: "the initial program announced in July included just four games"

I think Slashdot submissions are fine, we just need a better class of readers on this site than someone like... wait... you voluntarily chose the name "vomitgod"?

It looks very much like there were suicides as a consequence of a poor mental health system in the country. There's no logical reason to kill yourself for having to redo an exam. These cases nearly always have something far more significant going on mentally.

Worse, a lot of the cheating detection features are tripped up by all sorts of stupid things. I helped supervise state exams online 2 years ago, and 90% of my supervision involved problems related to students who were trying to answer a question working it out on pen and paper in front of them and doing something as crazy as not having their laptop plugged in causing the screen to dim and the "locked down exam browser" confusing that for alt+tab or something. The instructions given to students did say to disable screen saver (which is stupid, since most computers no longer have a screen saver and default to simply turning off the screen).

I agree. That number seems way too low for an online test. It's believe something like 110,000 cheaters in a population of 160,000.

That's amazing. And here I was thinking AC required an external compressor and condensor unit. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!

I mean you can claim it's false as much as you want. You anecdote is that you spoke to a person. On the other hand I worked in a call centre for 2 years. 99% of bill fuckery problems are easily solved via script as well.

Not knowing how to do something is why level 2 support exists.
Also no one wants to work at a call centre. It's a job you do to make money, it's thankless, you spend 100% of the time dealing with customers who act like pieces of shit because they only reason they call is they are already upset about something. For the record we hate you. All of us without fail hate 100% of customers who called. But the script said we need to greet you with a happy sounding voice.

And the reality is most customer's problems are solved without ever escalating to L2 tech support. For every one of you with your "bill fuckery", there's 100 more who can't do a basic google and are asking for something as simple as "what does line x on the bill mean?" or "How do I find the transfer information?" or "I got a new credit card, how do I update my billing information?"

Literally half the stories on Slashdot are currently about how people are reading AI summaries and not going further. This particular case may not be relevant to AI but my point was that AI will make it worse as more and more people are trained not to go and get authoritative answers.

They literally had paper maps with them. They just printed them from a non-authoritative source.

That has fuck all to do with "physics" nor does it have to do with people being good or bad at navigation. People navigate in different ways. Most people navigate their entire lives without having a clue what north easy south or west means. Just because you navigate by the sun and someone else navigates via landmarks doesn't make one better or worse.

Here's an anecdote for you. I was diving last week in Lembeh. A couple asked our group how to navigate the house reef. One person answered: Head out from the reef, max depth is about 20m, then head north west, when you're at half tank come up to 10m and head south east and when you get to 50bar you should be back where you started. They stared blankly, not the least because they didn't have a compass. They weren't stupid, the instructions just didn't suit them.

Now the actual successful instructions: Head out past the semi-sunken boat. Keep going past the artificial reef, past the oil barrel, until you get to a satellite dish. Turn left. Swim maintaining your same depth until you get to half tank. Turn leftish and swim until you're at 10m then left again and maintain 10m until you reach the artificial reef again.

These instructions worked wonderfully for them, they are the kind of instructions that infuriate my wife who is more interested in knowing directions than landmarks.

And yet one example doesn't disprove the wider industry.