TimeSquirrel

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TimeSquirrel ,

And make paperclips.

Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising ( www.techradar.com )

Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the...

TimeSquirrel ,

For what, may I ask? Can you give an example? I'm on Debian, arguably a less friendly distro than most, but I haven't had to touch the terminal in two weeks. And it was just to ping a server somewhere, something you need to do on the command line in Windows as well.

TimeSquirrel ,

What's your distro?

TimeSquirrel ,

It's just a general quality of the political far right the world over. They don't like people that don't act, look, or think like them. Anything that challenges their beliefs about what a person is supposed to do is something to fight against for them.

When it goes to the extreme, you get Nazis.

TimeSquirrel ,

BINGO! I got troll buzzword Bingo! Are we playing with the free space rule?

TimeSquirrel ,

Or a train. He realllly hates trains. If they're not in stupid-ass evacuated tubes and separated into pods, that is.

TimeSquirrel ,

I knew it was gonna be Adam Something, lol. That dude has the best Elon roasts.

TimeSquirrel ,

I can imagine what they felt like. Like when you accidentally hit "reply all" and send a porn link that was in your clipboard to your entire company while you meant to paste something else.

TimeSquirrel ,

I've seen what's inside the speed controllers and battery monitoring circuitry for Chinese EVs. I don't think I want to be anywhere near them.

TimeSquirrel ,

Does professor Sherman need to teach another lesson?

TimeSquirrel ,

How do you feel about other tech-based tools making an artists life easier, like sequencers, VSTs, DAWs, and the like? I see it as maybe another tool to use.

TimeSquirrel ,

They're usually always propping up their whole operation on a series of open source wooden carts they picked up off the Internet. Those carts are the foundation that makes everything work.

As we saw a couple months ago, a core part of how Internet security works had a giant hole in it, and it was all because one dude had some kind of mental breakdown and handed off development to an attacker.

TimeSquirrel ,

https://theintercept.com/2024/04/03/linux-hack-xz-utils-backdoor/

TimeSquirrel ,

And, no more tedious fuel calculations, just charge it all the way up, it doesn't add any extra weight to do so.

TimeSquirrel ,

Is it still viable in 2024 to run a home email server? I used to have a personal Postfix box back in the day.

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