Thanks, yea, I guess the point is to pressure people into taking less than they would want to. I hate these mind games, feels so hostile while masquerading as benevolent.

I’m glad they posted about the background, I was one of their pissed users on Github complaining about their sudden blocking of the 2nd largest archive site, while it wasn’t blocked by my UK ISP. (It didn’t emotionally help that as a paying AdGuard customer, I was spending money on a service that temporarily made my browsing experience worse.) Fortunately they managed to unblock it after a few days.

you are a festering polyp on the anus of society

pure poetry 👌

Hmm sadly that’s a very different gameplay to Just Dance, here’s an example. In JD they record dancers with motion capture, and you need to follow that choreography, while the game tracks your accuracy with a phone, console controller, or camera.

So it needs a bigger production team than FLOSS indies can probably manage :c

1. Thanks, I’ll check Winboat and Winapps out! My existing info came from the WineHQ website, and InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop were all reported as various levels of broken. And yes, sadly the FLOSS alternatives don’t meet my needs, I did quite a bit of research on this a few months ago.
   Edit: From a quick search it seems that Winboat and Winapps have the same issue as other virtual machines, namely that you can’t really give them access to the GPU if you only have one. And graphics programs need that GPU access.
2. I guess some of it is habit, kernel-level anti-cheat has been a thing as long as I’ve been gaming, so it feels “normal” :| But I’m looking forward to the day when my favourite games won’t use it!
3. Not using it regularly, but when I do need it, I extremely strongly prefer GUIs to CLI. I’m just a visual person, so it feels important to be able to navigate in a visible interface and see “where I am” and what my actions are affecting. With CLI I find it quite stressful to e.g. have to memorise modifier letters, instead of just clicking a checkbox. I’ve seen screenshots of people doing everything (including PKM) in CLI and it honestly baffles me how they can feel comfortable with it.

Just saying, it is constantly evolving and most of the road blocks are out-dated or hinge on reliance on some other big tech company besides microsoft that is just as far down the enshittification rabbit-hole. It is not a decision you made once and have to keep living with. None of us swore a life-debt to our “team”. :)

Of course! Make no mistake, I feel no affection towards any corporation, their main goal is to bleed us dry for their shareholders. But giving up my fully featured software and favourite games to follow my FLOSS ideals does not seem to quite balance the scales for me yet.

Though disclaimer: if I wasn’t doing piracy, but actually had to pay for Microsoft and Adobe’s rent-seeking, and be subject to all their bullshit restrictions, I would probably have jumped ship years ago. Enterprise group policies can remove a lot of user-hostile crap from Windows.

Yeah, such a system would make me so stressed. Like tell me how much without playing these guessing games.

introduced unlimited PTO

How does this work in practice? What if someone just takes the whole year off? Or would they just get fired for their work not being done?

The only Ubi game I play is Just Dance Now. Sadly I can’t think of a non-Ubi alternative to that gameplay :/

Yeah, I have like a dozen colleagues between 25-60 and I can think of maybe 2 that have a PC outside of their work laptops. And those are both gamers.

Which is why Windows 7 is the best operating system microsoft has, and seemingly will, ever produce.

hear hear!

I’m not sure why some people still refuse to consider using an alternative to windows these days.

1. Adobe programs
2. some online games
3. not having to fuck around in CLI if I want to change obscure settings (e.g. regedit or group policies)

Those are the main points that keep me from switching.

this phrasing had to be intentional xD no social media worker can be this clueless

Yeah, I left LastPass after like 15 years when I’ve come across some news headlines that it had got breaches more than once while I was using it O.o

Been a happy user of Bitwarden for a couple years now. I love that little “copy custom field name” function, so I don’t have to go hunting around in the HTML code if a site is using weird field names.

for anyone who doesn’t get the reference, it’s an ancient Bash chatlog: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hunter2

I share my Bitwarden account among 4 browser profiles on 2 PC-s.

thanks :)

thanks :)

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