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Going defunct.

Basic decency isn’t entitlement, it’s the very much ignored minimum standard.

Damn immigrants!

Its buzzing may sound like a bee nest, so they may have been hunting for honey.

I want a good MMO, but I also don’t want to pay a lot to play it properly.

Yes, default users “use” this because it’s helpful, until it’s not.

I’m out of the loop on prices, but I can tell you Windows Home is a disaster. I’ve had the displeasure of having to interact with one and it was so anti-user, it still hurts to think about.

The bloatware is by default a scam. All the My Documents stuff is set to OneDrive by default, and i do mean all of it.

Copilot is on by default - that’s browser, windows search and Office demos (you need a subscription to use them fully and they’re all in the cloud, not really local). It will add itself to all texts created or edited with default Microsoft programs like notepad or Office. Any schoolwork done with Copilot active will possibly create problems for your kid at school.

Login is set to require an online connection by default. You literally have to set it manually so that you can login on your PC when the internet is down. Imagine my surprise when I had to reboot while offline and couldn’t get past the welcome screen. We’re not very welcome on our own PC anymore.

Files are encrypted by default, which sounds nice and safe, until something goes wrong. The access codes are kept in your Microsoft account, online, so if you don’t have access there, you’re screwed out of recovery.

File indexing is wonky, so Windows at times ends up keeping a cache or copy of everything, doubling occupied space for seemingly no reason. 100Gb gone missing for no reason, it’s usually file indexing at work.

Every security-related* network request gets logged. It gets added to a specific file somewhere a Home user doesn’t really have access to and needs to jump through hoops to find it. Windows 11 being telemetry hell full of spying bloatware makes a network request for location access every 5-15 minutes, which gets logged to that file. It will generate an encrypted log file that will eventually reach over 100Gb in size, similar to file indexing only more routinely, that’s a bitch to get rid of. I would know.

Windows Home treats the user as a delinquent juvenile offender. It’s not your PC when you have it on, but a heavily restricted and surveilled privilege that everyone but yourself can control. Get rid of it.

You’re dancing around the issue at hand. If France doesn’t want to come to terms and Haiti feels no reparations are enough, then the discussion is pointless. Because when nothing you do is enough, you will end up choosing to do nothing.

If they neither can nor are even trying to, then there’s no point in making something out of it.

So it shouldn’t bother trying then?

If you don’t use goose down, you don’t use down at all.

Too bad we’re moths to a flame

Polar bear or the eternal winter bear, white most of the time and red for the rest.

The rainbow represents spring because of all the colours come back to life after the dullness of winter.

Just like traffic! More lanes, more blockage!

Scapegoating a problem is standard m.o. for this stuff.

He didn’t say open source.

You say bluebell, I say blueballs and neither of us would be wrong.

Why yes it was. I believe it’s the same for everyone, to compare how many got it right.

Riot police using sonic weapons: “See? We’re helping you!”

The concept has been incorporated in games as an automated sequence of a mission, but i can’t recall it being the entire focus.

I vaguely remember Unreal Tournament and other pvp games having a map centered around giant cannons, either defending or blowing them up. Warframe also has one mission where the player(s) use an enemy giant cannon on an asteroid vs a spaceship and then disable it (temporarily). And of course Doomguy launched himself through one into Mars at some point.

We like big guns, but no one game comes to mind that fixes on their enormity and technical use.