Your mystical numbers for the Illinois Powerball are: ⚡ 7 - 19 - 31 - 42 - 56 Powerball: 10

I wrote this one to strip the custom css from any sub on (old) reddit. I use it on subs I find annoying, like mildlyinfuriating.

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“There’s nothing good to be proud about being a f****t. You ought to blow yourself in the head, in the back of the head. You’re so disgusting,” Stephen Falco said from the pulpit.

10-1 odds on Stephen's (repressed) sexuality? Anyone? Anyone?

Yeah when it was announced I remember thinking "damn, that would totally be worth it despite the fact that it looks a bit weird," - because at that price it was actually cheaper than the available sedans. But of course, that was six years ago, before Musk made a complete Nazi of himself and of course, before it became a $100k boondoggle.

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For me it's because it seems evident that Microsoft wants Windows to be saas and here's the thing: I don't like Windows that much. For over 20 years now, I've preferred Linux for server stuff and Mac for daily driver stuff, I've only tolerated Windows, mainly for gaming.

Since Windows 7 died (I skipped 8 altogether and reluctantly have been dealing with 10 with lots of hacks to keep it locked down), I have only been barely tolerating it - and games were the sole reason.

Well, Proton has now obliterated that, conveniently right as Microsoft has decided that what people REALLY need is for them to be 100% shit. I refuse to install 11. So I'm out.

This is a fantastic video. I spend less and less time on Reddit now because every time I'm there I eventually get struck with a "this isn't real people" feeling after reading something. It will always be either mundane repetitive bullshit or yet another post demanding civil war or stoking a feeling of helplessness.

Lemmy and Mastodon are slow AF but they still feel mostly real.

I grew up in the //e era. That shit was a blast. I learned a lot about Assembly and I learned Basic back then too. Copying disks, defeating copy protection was a rite of passage. I was actually bummed when Steve left and things got so bad.

So when Steve came back and things picked back up with the iPod, I was kinda jazzed for it. But I never bought in to the hype. iPods started the whole ridiculous pricing model. First thing I actually bought was a 3GS because there really was nothing else like it.

I got into Mac laptops because my work gave me one and I was a Linux nerd by that time so the fact that it's Unix under the hood has always been super appealing to me, still is. But the pricing still keeps me several years behind, I do not buy Apple new, always used. Gotta give them props for hardware longevity though. My daily driver is a 14/yo Air.

Never have felt the magic like back in the day though. Now it just feels like the lesser of several evils.

I hope that's a joke. Airpods could be a Fortune 500 company all on their own.

No, I was serious, although after looking into it, I am surprised that hardware makes up 72% of their income. Perhaps they could make up the 28% software revenue shortfall with innovative new hardware and still maintain that 3.06T market cap, eh?

Proton cannot even link to FAQ or customer support pages from its apps, as Apple believes it’s possible that users will then navigate from the support page to a pricing page and upgrade their accounts without paying Apple its fee.

I didn't realize this either.

Yeah, this also is why Apple has been so sluggish on PWAs (and why they won't allow third party browsers). There is literally nothing that can be done in an app that can't be done quicker and easier as a PWA these days. But how is Apple going to make any money if you can publish your own app and take your own payments? They would then become a hardware vendor and that would absolutely ruin them as a company.

Apple will throw everything they've got at this to attempt to maintain the status quo.

The idea that spending money is free speech is ultimately what has destroyed what this country used to be and what it could have been. It's breathtaking that anybody could believe this is good and right.

Man, it's wild to see them go from one-child to this in a single generation.

No, but I don't use cloud at all, I have a system for doing manual local backups for all my machines. I also have two Windows machines for gaming (that I will be switching to Linux in October) and a Linux media server.

I subbed to salty caramel apple. Love the retro vibe.

I stay several generations behind on purpose now. For one thing, shit costs too much. My Mac is a 2020 Air I got from a friend when his dad died for $300. I can't see myself getting rid of that anytime soon, as it replaced a 2012 model that is still going strong (and is the computer I take into the field for work).

I cannot stand the size of Apple's phones, I had an 8 and then an SE and I tried then to move to a 12 and I absolutely hated everything about it, size, weight - the bullshit camera switching between lenses and turning my zoomed-in photos into bizarre cartoons.

I also far prefer the button, as I have to take hundreds of pictures a day for work and FaceID fails, either by not waking the phone up when I pull it from the holster or by just outright not recognizing me in the sweat and sunglasses, making me have to manually open it, shake it, enter the code, swearing the whole time.

I'm now on an SE2 and when I have to get rid of it I'll go to SE3, but I don't know what comes after that. Androids aren't any better.

This exactly. At some threshold of worth, you should get taxed an amount based on your worth that will be big enough to force you to realize some gains in order to pay it.

This is an illustration of why it's a problem in the first place.

We need a word that describes "questions that cannot be answered with a simple yes/no asked with the explicit intent to make a sound bite for stupid people." Germans do this kind of thing all the time. Some compound word like "stupid dummy-faced shitheel question." Studu-fashtion.

"Give me 240 Sterlings for a Pound," you'd say. Now where was I... ah, yes. The important thing was that I had a kipper in my waistcoat, which was the fashion at the time...