I felt it was a bad choice. It cheapened the soul-crushing ending.

Now I really want it officially announced on April 1. It would be a perfect moment.

Ragebait here is saying you like Windows for its open design.

If people have to follow breadcrumbs to find which of the dozen groups is active, if any, very few people are going to join.

On reddit, if you wanted to find a sub for airbrushing, you would type in /r/airbrush. That was it.

On Lemmy, there’s no central location for communities, but even worse is that most of the big instances WILL have a community with that name - it’ll just be a dead community that someone started but never took off, so there’s a bunch of false leads.

No, but there’s fragmentation of communities. Instead of one central place for the community to form, you have to look at dozens of locations, where there may be a sub, but it may have 1 post in the last 4 months.

I think this is an artifact of what’s oddly the biggest weakness of the fediverse: decentralization.

When I used reddit back pre-api stuff, my front page was 100% niche subs I’d subscribed to, but those niches have trouble le growing here because there’s so many instances.

I was super active in the scuba subreddit. Here on Lemmy, there’s several scuba groups that tried to form, but none of them stuck because they were all on different instances instead of one central location where everyone could work together to make the community.

As a result, most of us haven’t been filtering out 99% of Lemmy because the 1% where we’d be active doesn’t exist. It’s like joining reddit and having your frontpage be /r/all. It’s a shitty experience that g9ves a lot of weight to political posts.

Looten Plunder is President of the United States.

Closest thing we have is people really hating Windows.

I know the source and the idiom. I just don’t know why it’s picked up in popularity recently.

I also don’t know why its use as an idiom doesn’t quite align with the story. It’s usually used to describe a situation where the threat of destruction isn’t random. For example, in the OP, the danger is the end of support for Win 10, not randomness.

I’ve been seeing it a lot more recently, too. IRL even.

Did it get used by sometime famous recently or something?

Kings off-topic, but after listening to the audio book I really want a World War Z miniseries in the style of a Ken Burns documentary.

Lots of things like grey hair, moving more slowly, injuries that I would have bounced away from before instead hurting for weeks or months.

But the one that hit hardest was a breakup I had a little while back. She was the love of my life and I fully intended to marry her, and when she ended it out of nowhere I was sad, but fine. She dumped me, and it sucked, but I also needed to finish a staff report for a Planning and Zoning Commission meeting that night. So I moved on.

The thing that upset me most was that I wasn’t that upset. There was a time in my life when I would have been a mess. But as I’ve aged, my emotions have become more regulated.

I miss being capable of that level of joy and pain.

The last thing we need is more barriers to entry. People have hundreds of SMS /MMS contacts they’vebuilt up over decades. You can’t expect people to say “fuck all that” and start over from scratch.

And you also WANT verification unless you want some bot setting up an account with my phone number so they can scam people pretending to be me.

It really sounds like your issue with Signal is it’s not the correct service for your use. It’s like declaring a wrench bad because it’s not good at driving nails.

It’s meant to replace people’s text messaging apps with .i imal barriers to entry. People’s existing SMS/MMS contacts aren’t stored by user account names, but by phone number.

When I added Signal to my device, I was able to open up my existing contacts and go.

And without the fake frame bullshit they’re using to pad their numbers, its capabilities scale linearly with the 4090. The 5090 just has more cores, Ram, and power.

If the 4000-series had had cards with the memory and core count of the 5090, they’d be just as good as the 50-series.

New Coke was different in 2 important ways.

1. It was actually a way to hide the flavor change in the switch to Corn Syrup instead of Sugar, and never intended to be permanent.

2. Pepsi existed

There’s no real commercial competition for Microsoft. Linux is great, but there’s nobody for a business to call when shit fucks up. And Apple’s walled garden and high prices make it terrible for enterprise.

Steam games are also 100% a license, and Steam has both removed the ability to download previously-purchased games and removed games from people’s libraries in the past.

And my main route to Steam AND Gamepass is my ROG Ally, since it’s basically a Deck that runs Windows, so it has greater game and marketplace compatibility.

With gamepass including online play, that’s not really a big deal. If I play 2 new releases a year on gamepass, I’ve saved money even with the online fees.

Yes, a PC can do more. That isn’t a positive for lots of people.

I have a small tractor with all kinds of implements. I can dig with the backhoe, grade with the box blade, cut grass with the mowing deck, clear brush with the bush hog, do all kinds of crap with the loader bucket, move brush with the forks, and much more.

I also have to know how to attach, maintain, and use all of those tools and the tractor itself if it’s going to be useful.

For someone wanting to just mow their lawn on their 1/4 acre of land, a push-mower is all they want or need.

First off, Steam has LOTS of hands that aren’t connotation with the deck. The storefronts on the other consoles don’t have that problem.

Secondly, the Steam Deck is a dedicated gaming machine that runs a custom OS designed for gaming, had limited upgradablity, so users will just have to wait for the next generation for anything but a storage upgrade, didn’t work with lots of PC games because of its operating system, and is designed and sold by the company that runs its storefront.

How is the Steam Deck not a console?