PopOfAfrica

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PopOfAfrica ,

You're telling me he can't fire the DEA chief until he gets results. I call bull.

PopOfAfrica ,

That's a risk I'm willing to take.

There are such things as acting chiefs as well. I keep firing them until we got somebody favorable

PopOfAfrica ,

What do you mean it didn't turn out well? Seems like there were actually zero consequences. I love that Trump was allowed to use the awesome powers of the president to hurt people, but Biden's not allowed to use them to help people. That's where the line is, apparently.

PopOfAfrica ,

Palestine

PopOfAfrica ,

I literally just had a friend get laid off this morning, and then I went and looked at the news and saw that Microsoft laid a lot of people off.

This is of course after me and every single one of my colleagues were laid off because our company went under last August.

PopOfAfrica ,

Usually this means you didint install the proprietary graphics driver. Which you also have to do on windows (Geforce Experience )

PopOfAfrica ,

Linux has never card what I install of on. These days it always seems like have have to do some work in the hidden cmd to get windows on my drives

PopOfAfrica ,

That's the thing about Linux though, is it really depends on the user. The average user doesn't need any more than a web browser and maybe some Office suite. Chrome OS has shown this. Linux is actually great for these users.

It's the semi-power user, the one that has to do a lot of work, but doesn't know much about computers that Linux seems to trip up.

It's like that wojack bell curve meme.

PopOfAfrica ,

I'm not sure Windows is particularly polished though. Going back to it on occasion it feels kind of awful to use. I think most people are just fighting decades of muscle memory on how to use a PC

PopOfAfrica ,

The affinity thing especially annoys me. They have real potential to steal a niche from Adobe. Does even need to be native, they just need to work with wine.

PopOfAfrica ,

Apple products are generally fine, its their ethos that sucks. Closed, expensive, proprietary.

Its far too limiting IMO. Open MacOS and it would be quite a compelling option

PopOfAfrica ,

My entire family is on Elementary OS. Brother, niece, grandmother.

If a man, a child, and an old woman can use,.so could you.

PopOfAfrica ,

Ive quite enjoyed the KDE NordVPN plasmoid. Visually integrates it into the taskbar.

PopOfAfrica ,

The hardware is rarely ever comparable. You show me a like for like hardware comparison, and Mac will always be more expensive with fewer upgrade paths.

PopOfAfrica ,

Alterable Desktop Environments, alternative stores, removing integrated packages such as the app store, installable on non Apple hardware, whether arm or x86.

Open air drop as a standard would help too

IMO even windows is too closed for my taste.

PopOfAfrica ,

Which also goes to my oldness argument. Their software is locked, proprietary, and too ingrained Intl the System.

PopOfAfrica ,

You song have to type in the website?

Alex Jones is profiting from his new game on Steam — while refusing to pay the Sandy Hook families he defamed ( www.mediamatters.org )

Following his trial for defamation of the families of the children and school staff killed in the Sandy Hook massacre, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is using Valve Corp.’s Steam, the world’s largest digital distribution platform for PC games, to sell an Infowars-themed video game. Jones claims to have earned hundreds of...

PopOfAfrica ,

Not sure this is a valve problem. The courts are simply going to have to seize his assets.

PopOfAfrica ,

Thats a really silly take IMO. How could Nintendo goes after valve (a third party).

It sounds like Portal 64 would simply have legal claims for both Valve and Nintendo against the developer.

PopOfAfrica ,

Why on earth do we accept J Post articles here? It's literally Israeli propaganda.

PopOfAfrica ,

Im not sure I mentioned al Jazeera at all. Random that you brought it up

PopOfAfrica ,

I suspect their point was baseless whataboutism pointed at something I never said or implied to try and (in their minds) undermine my point.

PopOfAfrica ,

Where did I say I did or did not want to ban Al Jazerra?

I didnt mention it at all.

Thats why its so bad faith.

PopOfAfrica ,

The healing of the ozone layer was one of the most successful examples of global human cooperation.

You're undermining your own point. That kind of cooperation and commitment is what we NEED to be doing but aren't

Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads

I think it's pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change...

PopOfAfrica ,

I feel like everyone having a computational device in their pocket has something to do with it.

I feel like the Steam Deck is the best proof of Gabe Newell's quote that "piracy is a service issue."

They could have easily crammed the Steam Deck full of stuff to make it hard to use for piracy - locking down everything, making it usable only to play games you legitimately own, force you to go through who knows what hoops in order to play games on it. That's what Nintendo or Apple or most other companies do....

PopOfAfrica ,

Its really just because Gabe is the dude.

It would devolve of he died.

PopOfAfrica ,

I had this same problem. I ultimately just put a Linux computer on my TV with standard Ubuntu.

I gave up

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