Once. It’ll better be one hell of an ad because it will lose them my subscription. I stopped watching television back in the late 90s because of all the ads, before even I had internet to watch pirated media. I don’t wear clothes with too visible logos. Just saying to illustrate how this ain’t an empty threat.

Losing a single customer probably doesn’t matter to them. But I hope Im not the only one?

How long until we got upscalers of various sorts built into tech that shouldn’t have it? For bandwidth reduction, for storage compression, or cost savings. Can we trust what we capture with a digital camera, when companies replace a low quality image of the moon with a professionally taken picture, at capture time? Can sport replays be trusted when the ball is upscaled inside the judges’ screens? Cheap security cams with “enhanced night vision” might get somebody jailed.

I love the AI tech. But its future worries me.

“Who teachers felt had problems…” Oh. Teachers. Those people who comes in AFTER things has gone far past reasonable limits, and assigns blame based on whoever the majority of the class points out as the instigator. 😒

Jup, useless folder. There’s one related thing I’ve complained a lot about lately, so I’m gonna complain some more about it:

Microsoft got this “great” idea of trying to repeatedly trick me into uploading that Documents folder to the cloud. A folder filled with GBytes of Battlefield and Assassins Creed cache files, Starfield mods, MS database files, etc… A lot of files that are in constant change, or locked the entire session. Annoying as hell. I love Onedrive, but I dont know why its so damn important for them to have those files.

Sometimes I really wish I could switch to some Linux distro instead.

Damn I’ve always wanted Windows to have that. Being able to put user folders on another partition, or even another drive, at install time. And being able to use “dynamic disk” (aka software raid) to expand partitions across disks as storage requirements grow. I know it is possible to setup, but with a lot of workarounds and annoying problems.

Oh you’re wearing one of those neuralinks. Dont try any of that mind control on me.

😁 I’m so looking forward to use this quote in real life.

If you haven’t, and you enjoy scifi/cyberpunk fiction, you should read Cory’s book “Radicalized”. Four short stories, all of them damn relevant to today.

The first story, “Unauthorized bread”, is my fav. Hackers versus the coldness of corpos and shitty landlords.

The damn chattiest game I’ve ever played. Also often hilarious.

Also some cool original metal songs from a fictional band in the game (it should be available somewhere as a external soundtrack too). Shooting mechanics is fun and unique, but has some room for improvement. You are meant to use companions abilities more than focus on killing everything yourself but that isn’t immediately obvious. Good story and impressive scenes.

Strongly recommended, imho.

It hasn’t yet? Jeez.

Only when Im on a remote computer that doesn’t support winget. I’m too lazy to download the installer.

This is corpo bullshit, in proper cyberpunk mood. We could need a Silverhand soon.

Its worrying we’re fallen so far into consumerism that they dared even try. Unless we put a big stop to the damn subscription trend, they will try again. And again. Until we one day accept it.

Who names these bills though? They could just as well name it “Wont-take-away-more-of-your-privacy-jk bill”. Would be a lot more fair for everyone and less likely to mislead if we only refered to such stuff by a neutral and boring unique id.

and eventually, for anyone who wants to work more efficiently

Oh… How many years until we have Deus Ex Human Revolution in real life?

TOML does look good. Wow! I havent looked at it at all before.

I’m no fan of XML. It looks messy and the schema is difficult to write, imo. XML works best as a markup language.

YAML could have been okay if it were stricter with what they consider strings, and used tabs instead of spaces.

JSON if it also has an online schema, and a reference to it in the JSON file. That way some editors can check for errors and hint to the user about it.

But the good old flat text-data, the ini format is consistent, readable, and easily understandable by less-technical users.

Cortana was pretty good at understanding me. Was much faster to use my voice than touch, for stuff like setting reminders and alarms. Or starting music (it understandably sucked at changing tracks, unless you had headphones).

I was excited for what else they would make it do. But it became clear MS only goal with it was to advertise stuff. And to US only. And when they failed that, they ripped out any useful features from it.

Well, dont hold your shit in for 3 days…

Anyone think Fediverse active userbase is going to fall as much too, only slower? That most people will return to their comfy commercial social networks now that the reddit and twitter demonstrations is in the past?

I’m hoping not. I like it this active. I don’t want to go back to ads and “personalised” feeds and yearly new useless features.