OpenStars

OpenStars , 5 months ago to linuxmemes in An actual real video of WINE anytime I attempt to use it to run a windows executable.

It is speaking to you in an Eldritch language that none of our puny minds can comprehend. When the dreams begin though, then you will know, THEN you will begin to understand...

OpenStars , 5 months ago to Technology in Google Cuts Thousands of Workers Improving Search After Search Results Scientifically Shown to Suck

The workers in question are employed by RaterLabs, an Appen subsidiary specializing in search engine evaluation. They are responsible for training Google’s search algorithm by testing search queries and rating the accuracy and relevance of the results.

Oh, yeah probably you're right.

OpenStars , 5 months ago to Technology in Apple plans to charge fees for sideloading

Lolz!:-)

There are several women who would be alive today if they had done so...

Stubbornness can be a positively adaptive trait, but obstinacy in the face of facts not so much, and the same with squeezing your eyes shut REALLY tight to avoid knowing what is going on right in front of you.

OpenStars , 5 months ago to Technology in Stop using Opera Browser and Opera GX

It is like "even a stopped watch is correct twice a day - but that does not mean that you should trust the time that you see". It is possible, in more ways than one, to be both right yet also very wrong at the same time. :-P

OpenStars , 5 months ago to Technology in Google Cuts Thousands of Workers Improving Search After Search Results Scientifically Shown to Suck

Managers do all the real work, thus deserve all the compensation

- managers everywhere, every day

I may not know how to write programs, but I could still do a better job than people with decades of experience in doing exactly that

- these particular managers

OpenStars , 5 months ago to Memes in Janitors provide a valuable service

^This, but the best I'll do is upvote and comment, I'm not reblogging shit for nobody!:-P

OpenStars , 5 months ago to Comic Strips in [Alzwards Corner] The Reasonable Response

If you lie quietly, some say that you can still hear him to this day, driving around. In the city, in the country, he is everywhere...

OpenStars , 5 months ago to Technology in Stop using Opera Browser and Opera GX

Thank you for the comment in spite of the downvoters:-)

OpenStars , 5 months ago to Technology in Stop using Opera Browser and Opera GX

It does keep getting better and better (while Chrome gets shittier and shittier).

OpenStars , 5 months ago to Technology in Stop using Opera Browser and Opera GX

Firefox has so many issues. I do hear people say that if you use the nightly build it gets better, but e.g. the app store version on a mobile has a lot of stuff turned off.

I still use it, both on mobile and desktop, but its main appeal for me right now is that it is "not Chrome". The 5% breakage of Firefox is nowhere close to the 50% enshittification of Chrome:-(.

OpenStars , 5 months ago to Technology in Apple plans to charge fees for sideloading

I don't pay anything to side load apps on my phone.

Probably bc I switched to Android.:-)

And I am never ever going back!

OpenStars , 5 months ago to Comic Strips in Signal by Chris Hallbeck

I remember that was an episode of Babylon 5 - if you answered the test correctly, the probe would blow you up. I suppose it's also a test of wisdom, not just intelligence:-).

But I also remember a short story in a book about humanity having uploaded itself into our sun, and thereby spread out into the stars, using those as supercomputer mainframes. i.e. what will come from us may look very unlike us now - similar to how a seed looks nothing like the plant that it becomes, or a child acts very differently than the adult that it grows up into.

Then again, if aliens now were to encounter the likes of Musk and Bezos as their points of first contact... I shudder to think what they would want to do to us:-( - after all, what would we do to us, if the roles were reversed? The very measure that we ourselves use is precisely the very thing that we fail at, i.e. we don't look at them and call them "good", do we? No, we are rather ashamed, but then again neither do we stop purchasing goods from Amazon or using Twitter/X (I mean... I do, but most of us do not).

OpenStars , 5 months ago to Memes in universal struggle bait

GET OUT OF MY HEAD! :-P

j/k, you can stay, here's a couch if you want a nap: 🛋️

OpenStars , 5 months ago to solarpunk memes in they love us

Oh yeah, they think we're absolutely delicious:-).

OpenStars , 5 months ago to Comic Strips in elders

It's nice to have a purpose:-).