But while windows has that grip, more malware and scams will target windows users. I’m getting tired of seeing good things ruined by their own success.

What is the benefit of attracting more regular users to an OS?

Iirc, things are looking better today than the ST timeline had. They predicted water riots and a breakdown of society in the 2020s and 2030s, leading to a devestating nuclear exchange in the 2050s. Though while we aren’t seeing water riots, it doesn’t sound that far off.

Buuuuut, ST also predicted that we’d have already seen Kahn take over and the eugenic wars, and that’s something that is worse than anything we’ve actually seen. I think they overestimated how much we could do after the progress seen in sequencing genomes when the original series was being made. They originally put Kahn in the 1990s/2000s.

So one could argue that we’re currently in a better timeline than Star Trek.

Wait, what if we have the “cat brings you kills because it doesn’t respect you as a hunter and thinks you need help and I’m doing it because I love you” backwards and it’s actually a “hey, look, I know you put remains of previous kills you do while you’re out of the house in my bowl, but here’s some proof that I’m competent enough to join you if you need me, so please don’t kick me out?”

Or maybe a “hey, I just did the killing part, can you show me how to do the make it delicious part like you do to your kills? I tried dropping it in my water but that just made my water gross (replace it at your earliest convenience or now, whichever is sooner). Or just do it for me and stick it in my bowl when it’s ready. If you do, I’ll let you gaze at my glorious belly and touch it but only for two seconds.”

Archeology in the distant future will be metal. Literally and figuratively.

One might find a mechanical clock, gears seized but maybe still coherent enough to reverse engineer it (though the precise timing we set up might not make much sense to them because the days could be longer, depending on how much time has passed), while another needs to spend great effort to break into a metal tomb only to find it doesn’t contain artifacts from one of our deaths but just causes it to anyone that enters it quickly or anyone who spends time close to artifacts taken from it more slowly.

And anyone that finds computer parts will probably have no idea what’s going on with them.

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I miss my cat. I’m a side sleeper and she would (eventually, after doing her night cat stuff) sleep right on whichever butt cheek was facing up. I’d need to roll over, first few times I’d just wait longer in that position but eventually I’d just slowly start changing position and she’d wake up and hop over to the side to let me roll over then settle back on her spot once I had settled.

No disagreement there, I only responded because of the “ain’t no other way” in your OP.

What about playing them on the original consoles? I’ve got a Game Cube and PS3 I still use occasionally, and a PS2 that I haven’t tried in a long time but would give it 50/50 for just booting up if I hooked it up, plus some portion of the failure 50% includes the possibility of repairing it.

Have at least one instance where one gets in the way of two characters having a conversation while trying to see each other around it.

And the whole “try but back down if it isn’t going so well” strategy is the worst part of it all because it helps them without even if a judge would laugh them out of court over it because of the set of people that would back down or be happy with a lesser settlement, which is probably larger than the set of people that would fight it anyways, plus there’s the subset of people that would want to fight anyways but don’t have the resources to do so.

That’s why I hate the whole system of “treat it as if it is all good until someone (who was specifically harmed by this) takes it to court”. And that’s even before getting to the part where the decision in the end rests in the hands of a single or maybe a small group of judges.

Out of curiosity, are you in a region that requires age verification for porn/social media? No need to be specific about which one, I’m just curious if they are limiting these checks to where it’s required by law or if they are pushing it out more broadly. This “requirement” from social media sites is one that the data mining ones are all too happy to have forced down on them.

I wasn’t seeing it when people started complaining about it, but I do see it now in Canada.

I wonder if the language selection is similar to how they use bad grammar specifically to filter out people smart enough to see bad grammar as a red flag when it’s supposed to be a professional communication.

It finally wanted me to log in yesterday, so I closed those tabs for good. Not even upset, the time I spent lurking there was just wasted.

They are tougher than bones.

Think about how much it must upset shoe makers!

Yeah, a lot of these fingerprinting capabilities seem like things that should be behind permission requests, if not outright disabled entirely.

Like ok, I get that if someone wanted to make a browser-based audio editing tool, it might be useful for javascript to be able to sample the output side after effects have been applied. But I don’t want every single fucking website to have that capability by default. I’m not even sure I want websites to be able to play audio at all without permission.

By default, it should be a one way pipeline. Whatever they put into the pipeline gets displayed or played but they can’t see any of the system-specific results. I’d prefer the standard be designing pages to work with any resolution instead of letting them query the exact pixel dimensions, which varies per device and I suspect fingerprinting was the reason they were designed like that in the first place.

There should be standard TOS clauses that are approved based on their legality and enforceability that click or use based “contracts” should be limited to. Or at the very least, they should need to be legally ratified rather than only looked at closely if legally challenged.

Like that whole “you waived our liability for real world shit by using Disney+” should have resulted in the disbarment of any lawyers that wrote, approved, and tried to argue it in court when it came up and punitive damages to Disney for even trying.

I nominate them to do a census.