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skulblaka , 28 days ago to Technology in A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back

95% of their customers are businesses, who no, they don't understand that. But their IT department does.

skulblaka , 28 days ago to Technology in A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back

Only a true AdMech would consider his backup file to be an STC. I'm laughing, but also, respect. Praise the Omnissiah.

skulblaka , 28 days ago to Technology in A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back

Where is hbomberguy when the world needs him

skulblaka , 1 month ago to Memes in Roller coaster of wtf

Semi-related, are there Leftwingers that are righties unwilling to even say the name of?

Arguably Joe Biden, they've been calling him Brandon for years. But they make up stupid little nicknames for everyone.

skulblaka , 1 month ago to Memes in favoring meme, please

https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/21c5616c-5748-4bb4-a9fa-c337502649a6.webp

skulblaka , 1 month ago to Technology in Butts, breasts, and genitals now explicitly allowed on Elon Musk’s X

Gentlemen, you know what must be done. We ride at dawn.

skulblaka , 1 month ago to 196 in Mood rule

"Have a nive day"

Not nice, nive, as in I hope your day is full of knives

skulblaka , 1 month ago to Memes in One way ticket to midnight

Korpiklaaani's cover of Ievan Polkka goes absolutely insanely hard

Yes, that's the only thing I know about them

I've also recently discovered Brothers of Metal who despite having the most boring metal band name in history are a pretty good nordic/viking metal band, I'm a big fan of Powersnake by them in particular recently

skulblaka , 1 month ago to 196 in [meta] "." is not a rule

This statement by itself restores a ton of my faith in you. I have no weight to throw around here and ultimately my opinion is more or less meaningless, but in my meaningless opinion, if an actual effort is made to improve on this then I'm happy to have you stay. A simple apology, explanation and promise is more than I've gotten out of 99% of all other moderators I've ever interacted with.

skulblaka , 1 month ago to Technology in Windows 10 is EOL in October 2025

Dont care what games or executables i wont be able to run

Between Wine and Proton that's basically a non issue anymore, go ahead and make the switch. The era of windows exclusive software is pretty much over.

skulblaka , 1 month ago to 196 in Got 7 or 8 / 14 rule

That just means it's good satire

skulblaka , 1 month ago to 196 in What's our stance on sex work?

As it seems to me, who hung around with a lot of drug users back in the day, as well as regular folks: most people who are interested in trying them can and will get their hands on it regardless of legality, sometimes easily. It's about as low risk of a crime as there is. Those who aren't interested, won't, again regardless of legality. There will be edge cases where somebody will go "Ah what the hell, it's legal now, why not" and toddle on over to their local dispensary for the first time but largely speaking anybody that wants to smoke weed or snort coke is probably already doing it.

Now what probably would change is the number of people on record using drugs, per capita, over the next few generations if it becomes normalized like alcohol has been. Which makes sense. But, counterpoint to that, in countries where they have legalized many drugs they still often have lower rates of severe addiction because they've generally also set up safety nets for those folks. Accessible medical care and available addiction treatment options will keep many drug users from hitting rock bottom, but we don't really have that in the US so many users will often go unassisted in any way for ages and lose jobs and homes because of it, only getting "help" when it becomes forced upon them by the state (which is frequently not in any way helpful).

Anyway, I'm rambling, but tl;dr it's definitely a multifaceted situation and blanket legalization probably isn't a great move without accompanying medical and social support, which needs to happen anyway regardless of any moves for drug legalization. Gotta walk before we can run, unfortunately.

skulblaka , 1 month ago to 196 in Rule

If anybody's gonna know what will kill you...

skulblaka , 1 month ago to Technology in OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts

Just collate them based on edit/deletion date... Each post will have a last-edited attribute that can be used for sorting. Even more so once the AI is bootstrapped enough to start recognizing the standard protest edit messages. At that point you hardly even need human oversight anymore, because the bot will be able to recognize "that's a fuck spez edit, ignore that; this post looks good; that's a Shreddit/PowerDelete edit, ignore that" and so on. Can even have it fetch the previous edit automatically when it comes across something like that, to a point where a comment removed by a PowerDelete tool is nothing more than a cover letter that states "there was once a real human-generated comment in this location".

skulblaka , 1 month ago to Technology in Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI

I have a feeling there is a very large number of people just waiting for the shoe to drop