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They absolutely will. And then several months in it’ll be, “he isn’t hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”

The whole lot of them failing to learn anything from mistakes.

Oh don’t even get me started. Hall effect has been known since 1879, those JoyCons didn’t use it because it was cheaper to use shitty graphite. They literally went the cheap ass route because they didn’t even care.

“Nintendo sues” oh look it’s a day that ends in Y. The only person Nintendo isn’t dead set on suing is Nintendo.

Here’s you 937th remake of Super Mario Bros 2 that you can only rent, have a nice day.

And our online service is absolute trash but you’ll pay anyway to have a legal emulator until we also discontinue that for Super other garbage online service!

I have a Brother HL-L3230CDW. It has been a horse and has quickly become my most prized possession of all things that I own. It takes anyone’s toner and produces quality without question. It works with my various Linux, Macs, Windows, and Android devices without hesitation and minimal fuss to get setup.

So that’s what I would recommend. Is a good bit of coin up front but in my opinion, it has paid for itself in cheaper long run TCO and sanity in that it just fucking works.

Absolutely this. The reason AI defaults female into “female armor mode” is the same reason Excel has January February Maruary. Our spicy autocorrect overlords cannot extrapolate data in a direction that it’s training has no knowledge of.

I think it’s a bit early to make any kind of educated speculation and wild speculation just isn’t really all that helpful for anyone.

Here are the answers you’re allowed to choose from:

• I don’t want OneDrive running all the time
• I don’t know what OneDrive is
• I don’t use OneDrive
• I’m trying to fix a problem with OneDrive
• I’m trying to speed up my computer
• I get too many notifications
• Other

I’m going with Other and in the text box I’m telling Microsoft ' SELECT * FROM sys.database_role_members-- and going from there.

For hardware folks: Using RISC-V.

Legit, some dude in US Congress is wanting to crack down on China via… RISC-V exports, because oh no, the technology is too open and might give China some of our IP. Oh and by the way, dude has a pretty big Intel portfolio, but nevermind that!!

As an aside, why the hell are lawmakers allowed to trade stocks?

Or you can make multiple accounts. The app makes it super simple to swap accounts on the fly.

You wouldn’t download a bridge would you?

Oops all rope.

Moral qualms about bringing a frivolous ambulance chasing lawsuit? Get a lumpy pillow and you’ll sleep better at night.

but this is Google, and they control Chrome, and this probably still won’t make people switch to Firefox

Yeah. People just simply will not do things that are in their best interest. This is literally the biggest issue that was had with IE. Inertia.

Let’s do both?

That’s a fine take, but it ignores that for this particular issue the consumer isn’t the one dictating the terms. I can’t roll up to the McDonald’s and ask them to put my soda into the cup I hand them. Bioplastics and green plastics aren’t a thing that I directly can fund nor can I convince my politician to prioritize research into them. And the other alternatives outside of a brand new kind of plastic or a reusable cup have massive cons, not because they are inherently bad choices, but because companies rushing to implement those changes are usually executed poorly. I mean, the BEST way to reduce this aspect that’s immediately achievable by every single consumer is to just simply stop eating out completely.

I also think that having the mindset every day to live more sustainably and reduce personal waste is valuable

Absolutely. But there’s also the aspect that our society is build with some really messed up assumptions and we really need to address those. Like a lot of energy needs to be poured into those things more so than anything else. Like I said, easiest way to do away with all of the particular plastic involved in the story is to just simply stop giving any money to fast food, take away stuff, etc. Make your own sandwich, pack your own mashed potatoes, fix your own coffee to take with you.

But there’s a lot of people who are getting the full throat IRL experience that will say, “who the fuck has time for that shit?” And it’s not their fault they are caught up in the shit tsunami that is modern society. They’re just trying to survive. So things like “just stop eating there” is surprisingly, and fucked up, a big ask for them.

It can be eye-opening and a step toward bigger steps like voting, advocacy, boycotts, and conversations with others

And yeah, it’s good to have a conversation about it. But we ought to really also talk about the details of the matter because they’re important. Why isn’t that voting working? Why is there so little advocacy? Why are boycotts doomed to fail every time? There’s reasons for these things and I would argue that those reasons are way more important than shaming people who just want to eat a lunch today.

I would rather do something infinitesimally small than nothing

And I agree, but it needs to not stop there. And in fact the bigger picture items, the finer detail things, those things should be what lead the conversation and the stopping of plastic cups would be an outcome of that. Instead we have here a story that starts out with “you’re a bad person for using plastic cups” and goes absolutely nowhere with “why it be like that?” It’s just pure “you’re a bad person. End of story.” That’s not incredibly helpful to convince people that they should be mindful. People should indeed be mindful, but the shirt that a lot of us are currently wearing has a lot more contribution to the issue than the cup some person just received at the McDonald’s.

It’s literally the plastic straw thing again. And changing that didn’t really change much of the calculus then, because the straw thing contributes so little to the actual issue.

Are we doing this shit again? Look the straws and disposable cups consumers use pale in comparison to the largest contributors of plastics.

The fishing industry accounts for 70% of all plastic that makes it into the ocean. Textiles and shitty tire disposal combine to contribute about 65% of the plastic you will drink.

All of these things are things politicians can “do things” about but just simply don’t. Instead we get story after story about how you dear consumer are the shitty one who is at fault for the fucked up world you live in, not these hard working captains of capitalism who are just doing their best to keep shareholders happy while trying to buy that $50M mansion.

Yes, disposable cups are a problem. Solving that problem will do zero to change the calculus on the amount of plastic you’re actively putting into your body. This whole, “it’s not the fucked up systemic pollution our society relies on that’s the issue, it you to average person who is at fault for every problem in this world” Stockholm-esque bullshit type of journalism needs to stop.

Yes the scientific paper is indeed an interesting read. But what Wired has done is take this pretty innocuous study and turned it into some green washing flagellant bullshit that literally helps the core issue zero percent. Yes, we should be better stewards of the planet. No, telling everyone they’re pieces of shit for existing does not help the cause.

All I needed to read was in the first paragraph.

Brave Software, the company behind the browser of the same name, was founded by Brendan Eich. He’s best known as the creator of JavaScript from his days at Netscape Communications

I mean, JS is his baby that’s all there needs to be said about the person’s motivations.

Man. Fuck those guys!

— Zoom Video Communications, Inc CEO Eric Yuan (about Zoom Video Communications, Inc)

Have you ever micromanaged so hard that you micromanaged your way out of micromanaging?

In the end Samsung would owe Apple around $500 million in US courts and Apple lost (a value I’m not even going to sit here and add up) in international courts.

The whole US snafu was largely seen around the world as American protectionism. As for Apple and Google, Apple saw their case wasn’t as slam dunk internationally and decided to settle with Google in 2014.

Really though, once Steve Jobs died, the momentum for litigation dropped precipitously. Only Jobs was willing to go thermonuclear.

For those who have never worked on legacy systems. Any one who suggests “we’ll fix it in post” is asking you to do something that just CANNOT happen.

The systems I code for, if something breaks, we’re going to court over it. Not, oh no let’s patch it real quick, it’s your ass is going to be cross examined on why the eff your system just wrote thousands of legal contracts that cannot be upheld as valid.

Yeah, that fix it in post shit any article, especially this one that’s linked, suggests should be considered trash that has no remote idea how deep in shit one can be if you start getting wild hairs up your ass for changing out parts of a critical system.