i have a number of clients who are locked out of a valid account, while knowing the correct password, having the correct sms capable phone number, having the correct email. these are grandma types who’ve never posted anything more offensive than cat pictures and knitting memes. some haven’t even been able to make a new account, either. facebook support is literally non-existent unless you’re a ‘high profile’ person.

i’m not. it definitely applies to me. and i’m guessing it would for the majority of the public, too.

10 years on top of the generations to recover from economic and social policy being shat out by a deranged geriatric.

glad i kept all the ones pulled from previous ssd upgrades and ewaste that went through here. i have several i have yet to reuse.

the shit-tier shingled ones i got a couple years ago to store media files had been relatively stable for years on price at ~ 100-110usd. they’re now 170+

yea. there used to be two full doors or more in the freezer for just frozen concentrated juices. now there’s one little tiny shelf and all the variety is gone.

there’s more profit in “premium” refrigerated “ready to drink” product.

the standard size has made 1.5 quarts for as long as i can remember… at least the 1970s. there used to be smaller and larger ones in some brands, though.

it was disney channel musicals here. and i actually didn’t mind (too much). some of those are ok movies.

it hasn’t been a ‘value’ option for at least 20 years now… based on per-unit price, it’s often more expensive than the lowest cost refrigerated carton

the thing is… you shouldn’t have to “search up the settings to turn off the saving redirection in Office programs and toss it in the default Group Policy settings”. cloud shit in windows and ms office needs to be optional, and explicitly opt in

mullvad also has encrypted dns that anyone (don’t need to be a vpn subscriber) can plug-in to their browser or (compatible) operating system–including optional domain-level blocking (adult, social, gambling, and ads). yes, you can use a basic ‘pihole-like’ dns without needing to actually set one up.

I am pretty set with Firefox in Android and desktop to be honest.

been using firefox since before it was called firefox, and netscape before that. while i do use ‘other’ browsers, too, their use is limited to testing and a few select sites or purposes only (for instance, i use a ‘portable’ opera for mail, and only mail).

dell’s been going down the crapper for at least a decade… ever since dell and the vultures took it private ~ 2013.

‘entry level’ specs have been 4gb ram for over a decade, and they’re still selling shit-tier laptops with only that today.

that would require the software companies to actually spend money on competent developers instead of tossing peanuts at prompt writers.

an 8gb pc with win11 is today’s equivalent of running vista on 1gb.

there’s a number of laptops already that do have 8gb on the board and no sodimm slots.

Not long ago that would feed you McDonald dinner for a month

in the 00s, that 75 dollars would have bought SEVENTY-ONE double cheeseburgers (including a typical sales tax rate of 5.5 percent). today, it would only get you seventeen of them.

and when the hot water heater is two floors down and the pipe from there runs up unheated parts of the building, it takes a very long time to get even a hint of warmth out of the hot water faucets.

i’ve lived 3 minutes away from hot water for nearly thirty years now. it sucks. if i ever get money enough to own a house, or choose where i live with little regard to cost, it will have instant hot water (tankless water heaters).

people got lazy about plugging them in

always have been, here. the old cdma flip phone went about a month between charges, even when it was 5+ years old. the new volte one sucks. with a higher power draw and the shitty 4g signal here, i have to plug it in every few days. the only ‘plus’ is that i always know where a charger cable is now, because it’s usb-c and i use that for other things, too.

i think gnome is actually pretty good… for a desktop with limited duties. like launching a browser and email–perhaps a word processor, and not much else. think a chromebook alternative that could actually do more if you wanted. a lot of things are ‘hidden’ to the user by default, what a user does need to be able to access (wifi, etc) is relatively easy to find, nice big icons that you can put front-and-center while relegating system-related things to a folder. i’ve set up a number of systems like that.

for my own uses though, gnome does need a half-dozen extensions for me to consider it ‘usable’… but i would still prefer a ‘traditional’ desktop experience such as cinnamon