Don’t ban aftermarket exhausts completely, just the ones that optimize for loudness or dirtier air.

I’d like to see devices that detect when a car is running too rich or lean (bad cases I can smell right away, so it should be detectable at a range), along with enforcement and seizing vehicles where they deliberately mess with those, especially if there’s a switch or function present that can switch between legal and illegal modes to pass emissions tests and then go back to spewing out unburnt fuel or a much higher number of nitrous oxide compounds.

Windows comes with its own set of challenges in the form of wanting things set up differently from how MS wants them set up and not wanting to be nagged about using their shitty programs and services. I got to the point where any time the OS or software initiated some kind of contact with me, it would annoy me even if it might have been helpfull because I’m so used to those being from the marketing department.

Like I’ve noticed that Linux can do things without annoying me even if that thing used to annoy me on windows just because I don’t have that expectation that it’s trying to sell me something.

What even is the benefit of getting the users who don’t even give a fuck about any of the things that are useful to learn (and have for those who did learn enough to use them)?

Yeah, plus there’s other downsides to popularity, like it being worthwhile for advertisers and scammers to target. As much as I’d like to see MS fail, there are big advantages to having them run the noob friendly OS, similar to how reddit still existing benefits Lemmy.

Last thing I want to see is Linux selling its soul to appeal to the lowest common denominator because it just gets worse from there.

Personally, I’d take choice over adoption.

Yeah, would make sense, they just aren’t filtering the things I’d filter during that conversation.

A man calls a waiter over to complain about his soup.

“Waiter, there’s a hair in my soup!”

“Shhh, not so loud or the other customers might get jealous!”

The sous chef minding the soup was wearing a hair net but disturbed it to scratch an itch on his scalp. Upon discovery of this while reviewing the kitchen footage (nothing to do with the complaint, the owner was just a control freak), said sous chef was fired. Which coincidentally benefited the customer because it meant the sous chef wasn’t able to buy the last toy both of their daughters wanted, so the customer got it and won that year’s competition of “buying daughter’s love over divorced wife”, but later bit him in the ass when his spoiled daughter threw a huge tantrum because the Mercedes he bought for her 16th birthday didn’t have the right trim package.

Of course, society was collapsing around them and this all became a moot point when the maintainer of a critical piece of software was put to death for daring to glance at a party member without even bobbing his head and even the best AIs couldn’t fix the bug that popped up the next day (because they also relied on that critical piece of software) and the LLC that did the hostile takeover of his estate refused to let anyone see the source code unless they paid a billion dollars, which they wanted to but payment systems also depended on that software, so instead society just finished collapsing.

And I hate how windows did everything it could to enable that shit, too. Like I’ve had devices (specifically wireless headphones and mice) that worked fine when plugged in, and then suddenly some installer pops up by the company that made the device because windows is all too happy to automatically run shit when you plug a device in. I hope there’s at least some kind of authentication back end where it recognizes a device ID and grabs the installer like that, but I suspect that it just uses a standardized way to grab an url and just runs whatever is on the other side of that.

Should have switched autorun anything to default off after the Sony rootkits over twenty fucking years ago. It should have never even been a thing in the first place, since viruses on floppies existed before CDs (where autorun first showed up) even existed.

Yeah, I used to have the mindset that either I loved or hated foods and would only want the ones I loved. But eventually, I realized that there’s a middle category of foods that I don’t go crazy for but aren’t bad, plus two reasons to revisit the ones that I still didn’t like: good cooking can make almost any food delicious, and tastes change as you age (and/or nutrition needs vary).

I have trouble respecting picky eaters after that. As long as your body isn’t trying to reject the food entirely (and I do understand that some people’s bodies will reject things that mine is fine with), it’s just sensations that you can get past. It’s a mental block that if you can get past it, you’ll eventually look back and wonder what was so hard about it.

Though my mindset plays a role. I like novelty more than familiarity (though ironically I don’t think we test our new things enough to really determine their safety… I like the new stuff but also side-eye it).

I carried around a floppy drive (like through moves, not day to day) for a long time after I last used it but eventually realized tech has gotten to the point where I’ll probably never use one again.

But I did get an external bluray drive instead of throwing away all those discs I burned back in the day. Even though, in the process of checking them for data loss and ripping to move them to m-discs, I realized I didn’t really care if any had lost data (though none have so far).

Hahaha. So, um, what other fucked up answers to secret questions have you used? They are sooo funny!

I’ve been enjoying Tales of Maj’Eyal lately. It’s a roguelike, though you can set it to give several lives or infinite lives. But I’ve been enjoying just going until I die and then rolling a different build. You usually only die because you get overconfident and I’ll leave figuring out the specifics of that to you :)

It also has over 1100 achievements if you like chasing those.

Except there are programs that can edit pdfs fine.

I believe that is the version my work has us use.

Probably projection.

Autosave requires the file be saved on onedrive.

I was going to say that the only way to make it worse is if it showed ads while it autosaved, but autosave itself is literally an ad for onedrive.

If you try any of the other decent options, some of them free, you might come to understand the contempt people have for word, because there’s nothing special about it that the others can’t do, and you have to put up with design decisions made because they have market dominance and can use that to push people towards other shit that makes them money.

Well yeah, because it’s not feasible to deconstruct a baked cake, not because “things that are made shouldn’t be edited”.

That one looks like it’s both. Not sure their eyes can turn that far to the sides, but the sockets seem to be positioned for both good focus ahead and a wide peripheral.

A flock of good sturgeons can strip the flesh from a man’s bones–kidneys included–in seven minutes flat, without even using their hands.

A flock of bad sturgeons take between ten and eleven minutes because they do use their hands, which slows them down to about two thirds speed.

BIOS and UEFI are collaborations between the mobo manufacturer and the CPU manufacturer. The CPU side of it includes things like microcode and code for moving the settings values into the registers (or other location) where they are actually used. The mobo side would be the UI itself and setting up the menus, as well as adding stuff for the other hardware components that need something set up at boot time.

Fwiw, the gigabyte AM5 mobo I use has a responsive UI in the UEFI program, and displays at a decent resolution (though probably not the native one, 1080p would be my guess). Though the mouse might be more usable because it has hardware DPI selection.