Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
I want to be the first, but I am definitely closer to the second. I'm trying to find a reasonable middle ground.
Like, I want to have a nice home network with a proper NAS, Pihole DNS, Plex/Emby/Jellyfin media server, all my music properly tagged, little mediaplayer/emulation/game streaming endpoint boxes on each TV, etc. But I don't have the time or money to do it right at the moment.
So I have my desktop set up to share out my media folders as SMB shares when it's powered on, and I've used a few tools to get my video content organized right for Kodi. I've got Kodi installed as an app on the Xbox Series X plugged into the family room TV. The other TV has a Chromecast dongle with VLC sideloaded and set up to connect to the SMB shares, because I'm too lazy to get my Kodi setup on it. Every room in the house has an ethernet port, and most rooms have a dumb switch so as much hardware can have ethernet connection as possible. I've run my music collection through MusicBrainz Picard, and separated it into a properly tagged and organized folder, and one for stuff that isn't.
The fun thing about anecdotes is that they aren't in any way indicative of the wider world.
Out of all the vegans and vegetarians I've met in my life, I think at best maybe 1/4 didn't spend a protracted amount of time extolling the virtues of their lifestyle. Maybe you don't consider that an attempt to convert, but a lot of people do. Either way it was annoying.
Conversely, I've only ever seen two "omnivores" try to convert someone who wasn't, and it was a one off joke among friends.
You are not the sole beacon of reason sent to save the uneducated. OP isn't some idiot child who needs your ass to guide them out of Plato's cave or some shit.
Microsoft has had a long history of a company culture of "eating their own dog food", forcing themselves to use what they force on users, so they're making the underlings use it at least.
As far as executives go, at almost any sizable company they hardly ever spend time at their computer. Cell phone or tablet, and have their assistant or direct reports do anything more complicated than half paying attention to a meeting.
Lastly, the controls to turn it off will be available to all of us as long as you have a Pro or Enterprise SKU (Windows license/install). They aren't going to fuck over their business customers with the unwanted slop they force on the proles.
Protips:
- Shoot the Cyberdemon until it dies.
- Don't bother with Home SKU Windows, you won't be able to turn dumb shit like this off.
- If you insist on buying your license, buy one from an official OEM key reseller for like 1/10 MSRP. You won't be able to install it on multiple machines, but that and the few other restrictions nearly never matter.
- The better choice is to spoof your license activation using MASgrave. Get Pro for free. It's a community maintained script that will either trick MS's servers into giving you a valid license, or trick your computer into thinking it has one, based on the official tools/processes meant for big business customers.
- If you really want to tinker with the most stripped down official version of Windows, go with the LTSC version. It at least used to be missing some things that the rare game relied on though, so caveat emptor.
I'm sure you could set up containers or VMs for them to run on if you tried.
Because lemmy is much smaller, you tend to rub into the same users more often. So if someone comes off as abrasive, blocking them can have a notable impact on your experience.
Dogpiling is worse, and it can pay to know what instance the community you're posting in is, as the games community on hexbear is going to be different than on world.
It's much more "left" than reddit. Notably, while this instance, lemmy.ml, is the flagship instance run by the lead dev, the "ml" stands for marxist-leninist.
Doesn't iTunes let you pay like $0.30 more for the non-drmed file for most music still, or did they kill that in the last decade?
To be honest, I buy CDs where possible, Bandcamp where I can, and shamelessly pirate the rest.
I'll believe it when I see it. One of the more fun conversation topics this Thanksgiving was how ridiculously off target the targeted ads are for my family members who don't block them.
White college aged guy getting tons of ads for hair products meant for african american ladies' hair. Ads in chinese and spanish (we're all dirty US citizens with no second languages outside of what we learned through school/college). You get the picture.
I would want to hear 'no' by this point because that would give me the release to pursue others.
If they haven't locked you down, you owe them nothing. Be direct.
If they were worth waiting for, they would give you a straight answer.
"I'm interested in you, but you've been lukewarm about this whole thing. Whenever you make up your mind, you know where to find me, but I can't spend my life waiting for you to make a move."
If I recall right, the only exlusive weapon was the Flamethrower, but they also added the missile Warthog. Might be forgetting some other weapons though, as I never had the Xbox version.
I had some fun when I was younger modding the demo. The only content stripped out of it were the levels, so there were all these custom versions of the Blood Gulch map floating around with Ghosts and Scorpion tanks, etc.
I liked messing with weapon properties. Had my own temu/wish.com "cursed halo at home" long before it was a real thing.
- Sniper rifle fired plasma grenades, and you could do fun stuff like stacking two so the first would throw the second into the air and the trail and explosion made it like a flare.
- Shotgun fired a spread of frag grenades instead of bullets, and pushed you backwards a bit.
- Pistol was more accurate, slightly faster, much less damage, and pushed whoever got hit back a ton. You could easily juggle someone up into the skybox with it. It pushed vehicles too.
- Rocket launcher fired a massive ball of rockets that would lag everything.
- Flamethrower fired rockets instead of flames, with a much higher ammo pool, but no other changes. So rocket sprinkler.
- Fully charged plasma pistol fired a Scorpion Tank shot. I think the non charged ones homed in to a stupid extent.
- Chaingun Warthog fired needler rounds with an increased lifetime.
- Assault rifle worked as area denial, setting an area in an orb shape around you on fire.
- The plasma cannon thing would spawn a Scorpion tank over your head, crushing you.
- I think I turned the needler into a shotgun blast thing, but it still fired needles.
- I think I changed the elites' plasma smg thing to start firing slowly but "rev up" to stupid fast speeds, and then the cooldown hurt your shields?
- There was something that would call down a larger version of the plasma cannon projectile from the sky, with a larger explosion radius and a stupid big/strong pushback effect.
- Vehicle crashes called the same kind of system as a projectile hitting, so you were effectively "shot" with a vehicle impact "bullet" as a rider if you crashed too hard. Congrats that's now a frag grenade explosion. That one was shamelessly stolen from a tutorial.
That's what I remember at least.
I don't get why the RPS author is so skeptical. PDB files are fucking gold for reverse engineering attempts. They practically allow those efforts to jump 90% to the end.
The only way this doesn't pan out well for modders is if this new group is lying or just never releases the builds.
This could open the door for something like OpenMW but for New Vegas, and since Bethesda has just been updating this same engine forever, it may assist with other titles as well (but more indirectly).
Good old Trainwiz. Pretty sure the mad bastard used to frequent 4chan's Elder Scrolls modding threads, so I'm kind of impressed at the restraint of his response.
Give them BBB support you coward!
But the best she can say is "Tarnished, I understand not your obsession with mine doll body and jars. This doll may appear frail, but I do not need to be kept safe in a jar. I said no! Do NOT put my doll body in that jar tarnished! What madness has taken you? No! Glug glug glug glug"
I think it's worth the risk.
Same problem with a lot of leftists too.
Why won't these racist, inbred, homophobic, idiot, sexist, transphobic, breeders, backwoods hicks brainwashed by Fox News, living in horrible flyover states that don't matter and have no redeeming values, these fucking fascist bootlickers, delusional people believing in a fantasy magic sky daddy, these fucking Nazis just realize that we know what's best for them and let us, the people who know what's right, make all the decisions? Better yet, they should all just die and get out of the way. When we get into power you know we'll need to round them up and re-educate them for their own good (note: I've actually seen this bit suggested on lemmy unironically).
So why won't they join us working towards a better world?
It's a problem with a lot of groups of people, really.
Why? Who asked for this? If you have a Store App installed, you have the Store itself to handle updates, unless you're a power user installing them through PowerShell.
My assumption is that they're working on making the store more integrated with the rest of the OS, or maybe adding it to Windows Update will allow easier control of update rollouts in enterprise environments. Maybe both.
It was the one mod that powertripped crashing out and demoting everyone else before himself, according to another comment.
It was the one mod that powertripped crashing out because of the backlash and demoting everyone else before himself, according to another comment.
Ended up meeting my wife because I drunkenly called her roommate a bitch within 30 minutes of being introduced, and the roommate responded by loudly declaring we were friends now and she was abducting me into a historical re-enactment marching band thing.
To be fair, my friends would regularly greet each other with curses and a smile. "Come over here you lanky ass fuckboy! Hug!"
If you're into emulation, it's a legitimately good sidescrolling shmup, and if I remember right, the music was great as well.
It's just that absymal translation that launched it into meme status.