And for bad actors to datamine unfettered.
If we had stronger privacy laws, they'd rightfully castrate Linkedin's clearinghouse of our personal data to scammers.
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If we had stronger privacy laws, they'd rightfully castrate Linkedin's clearinghouse of our personal data to scammers.
They use legalese now to say you are leasing the software, using with conditions, etc, but they love pulling the rug from under users now, and replacing it with an often-inferior product. This user-hostile mentality has been this way for consumer computers since they were created.
And managing Microsoft's hand of greed at the IT level sucks, too. Don't get me started on how "Microsoft Copilot" magically appeared on every windows machine in the world and starting using CPU cycles.
And the OP is right to install working software on old hardware as a reaction. It's a natural reaction. Ubuntu freed a lot of my old hardware. Gaming still sucks on Linux though.
If we mandated keeping things around a baseline OS a little longer, the need for foreign electronics could reduce in the short-term. Maybe it could offset those dumb tariff we're all paying for a little. Just mandate support for current OSes we have for the next four years at least while we wait for the economic tantrum to leave office.
Your guts are VERY tied to your brain, and your gut biome WILL change if you are stressed enough. When your biome goes off, LOTS of bad things can happen to you.
I was in constant pain and had IBS-C for two years until I learned how to manage by stress. But it came at a terrible cost of having to flounder a bunch of opportunities as a result.
If you have lower-left gut pain, talk to your doctor, but for me it was all stress and anxiety.
I skimmed that list, and Devil's Advocate; It seems like most of that is functional, stuff that they want to update in the background to make sure you have a better experience when you're back?
On the flip, I guess we think Apple is up to something shady? My last understanding was that they were firm they didn't sell user data. Did this change?
Apple will spend 10x the effort to tell you way a useless feature is necessary before they look at user feedback.
I remember the catastrophe of Windows Vista, and how you needed a capable GPU to handle the glass effect. Otherwise, one of your (Maybe two) CPU cores would have to process all that overhead.
Our engineering, at every turn destroys nature by default. We have the ability to stop this if we try hard enough.
Different things need to be addressed, like how someone is able to act outside all three branches of government, and have enough power to destroy the lives of those who protected our country when we needed them most.
It should be crystal clear to even the most skeptical people should turn their opinion on how they bankrupt the poor and bail out the rich every single time.
If I were a bird, and another mysterious bird sound came that was speaking a certain feeling or phrase I could understand, and I come to see it's a giant monkey man playing the sounds from himself, I would probably move my family, too.
Yes, Cardinals are pretty territorial and chase each other out. Esp during nesting.
Whether it's whistling close to their tones, "Pishing" to get their attention, or playing sounds from phones, all of it interrupts their normal behavior. Cars, trucks, lawnmowers, motorcycles all mess with them too.
https://www.sibleyguides.com/2011/04/the-proper-use-of-playb...
>When song is played in a bird’s territory, that bird’s response to the “intruder” is watched attentively by neighboring males and by females. In one study (Mennill et al 2002) high-ranking male Black-capped Chickadees exposed to aggressive playback lost status as their mates and neighbors apparently perceived them as losers, unable to drive away the phantom intruder.
It's clear we're capable of mimicking their language with our devices and playing it back to them has potential consequences to breaking up a family of birds.
He never topped this effort in the rest of his work. He's been taking animation shortcuts ever since.
Triage your caring like you handle high or low priority requests in any other job you would. Being mindful of what is consuming your time and your brain's free cycles is so imporant.
Some people have become burned-out of caring, and it's dangerous. Burned-out by the internet pulling at their attention all the time, their phone notifications blasting to them telling them something is important but it isn't. Breaking news, but it's about a celebrity's dramatic encounter at a rewards event, and not about our politicians stealing from us.
The era of smartphones have made us emotionally stunted and and opposite of mindful.
Ahhh! We really don’t want this stuff working too close to our lives. I knew the train data would be used to blackmail you eventually, but this is too fast.
When I see apps like this, I get the fear that it has those RPG maker vibes where all the games will be same-y. That Roblox / minecraft kind of lack of uniqueness that makes for a great mod-game, but it always harkens back to the same patterns you use in the game engine that start to bother gamers like me.
I'm working on a pixel RPG in gamemaker right now, using Claude as help, and I've developed a reasonably complex classic pixel RPG in less than a few weeks. I still had to constantly correct claude, but it was more often 10 steps forward and one step back. My whole engine and experience is mostly done, and now it's the fun part of designing the world.
I almost have an entire sheet of custom sprites I plan on offering as well.
I wouldn't trade my experience for some out of the box thing where I don't own a lot of the game's core content.
I'll take cold, basic, and data-full interfaces instead of the wasted real estate in the era of CSS-ifying every user interaction to death.
I hope for, and anticipate that crypto will be reigned-in and we will go back to more predictable currency. The spikes and drops of it make it much less of a currency, and more of a speculation market where everyone is going to lose big one day.