It is a unicorn. I dread the day Gaben dies and Valve ends up going public. It feels like the last bastion of decent online services.

Until they lock it up where you can’t. Or they’ll decide on selling data and injecting ads into your convos or streams.

In other words this hasn’t been enshittified to the max yet at all. There are new and horrible depths to explore.

Nothing incorrectly perceived about it. You willfully choose to be ignorant. The world moves on with you whether you choose to participate in it or not.

You want to try to hide behind this singular position as if abstaining from voting solves or improves anything. It doesn’t. You choose to live in a fantasy whereby your abstinence leaves you without blame. If anything, you and others like you become just as callused and evil as those in power. You all helped put them there because you all did nothing to stop it. You saw a bad option and a horrendous option and behaved childishly and gave up.

You don’t care what actually happens to anyone. You don’t actually care if anyone lives or dies, because if you did, you’d have done something to slow or stop the current administration/regime from gaining any power at all.

Sorry, not inaction. Willful ignorance.

You just prefer dead kids AND fascism. We get it.

By inaction you allowed a worse evil.

…fuck off.

Nothing will happen. She’s part of the regime. They face no real consequence anymore.

But you still got genocide. Just now you have it with a side of fascist rule instead of without. Hope you’re not melanated and near a border.

Don’t bother with them. The useful idiot lacks any capacity for logical reasoning.

It %1000 would be better. It would still be broken. But it wouldn’t be dystopic dictatorship.

Because all these bitches are supposed to have therapy to help you get over petty anxieties like talking on the phone. 😋

That seems a very naïve approach to any system that has real-world power telling you what you can and can’t do.

An issue that is, at least anecdotally, rare to encounter. And generally easily rectified if it does happen. I would never give up my right to privacy for such a false sense of safety.

Geez. That all sounds awful. I’m glad we aren’t to that point in my country. Having to provide an ID anytime you buy shit online is so dystopic.

Older stuff, nearly 100%. New stuff, still really high to nearly 100%. The only place you’ll run into trouble is with devices made with only windows drivers etc. So things like a USB label printer or glucose monitor or something like that.

Computer hardware though, very unlikely to see an issue. Servers use both the CPU and GPU. And most servers run some flavor of Linux.

What’s Realtek done? I haven’t kept up on them.

I’ve hated and avoided 11 since I first experienced it. After Xmas I had to help setup my parents new PC. It of course is win 11. I spent so much fucking time getting that shit just to a usable state. I’m more convinced than ever to fuck off from MS for good.

My favorite feature is honestly so simple. Denying network permissions during install.

New taskbar from ground up. And despite all the requests to bring the feature back, their reasoning amounts to “we’re too lazy”