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Easy fix. Don't use Windows. It's been enshittified so many times over that I can't believe people put up with what it has become. I haven't used Windows on my desktop for well over a decade. People are switching away from it now, and MS is trying to backtrack some, but it's too late. They destroyed themselves with false promises of AI that backfired, and just absolute greed.

In the US, people are going to shoot at it with guns. Bullets that go straight up? Probably not lethal when it falls back to the ground, tumbling and lacking ballistic energy, but bullets that follows a ballistic trajectory are going to hit with force. What could posssibly go wrong?

Willie Nelson.

When a corporation makes playing by the rules harder than pirating, especially after "selling" you a movie, then people are going to pirate.

Corporations bring it on themselves by acting poorly and just being greedy and giving the consumer no quarter as they movies they "purchased" are removed without refund.

Pirating is easy. Why should I deal with thieves that sell you something then steal it back from you when, with a broadband connection, I can have a 4k Blue Ray rip downloadewd and imported into a media server and watchable in less than 10 minutes?

Now they are trying to argue that all unnofficial servers running minecraft are illegial, and they are going to start going after the minecrafters. Good luck with THAT.

Fuck that nonsense.

Car mechanics at dealerships are in shortage. You use a laptop more than a wrench these days, and they want people with tech experience now. If you are struggling to look for tech work, that's a tech-adjacent job market right now, at least here on the east coast of the US.

A poorly documented, poorly implememented, and poorly understood protocol is a worthless protocol. More than that, it's a potential attack surface, and the idea is to reduce those. If you are the admin of something, and you are putting things into production in which you don't fully understand the implications, because you copy/pasted some crap from stackexchange assuming the person that posted it knew what they are talking about, then you are doing it wrong. Just look at this thread. It's chaos and reinforces the fact that even people that think they know, don't really know. When in doubt, grab the RFC and figure it out.

This is a harbinger of darkness.

The term "forced consent" is an oxymoron. It shouldn't take much more critical thinking than reading that term to know it makes no sense.

If I had a nickel for every time a corporation cancels "lifetime" subscriptions I'd be rich.

As stated on the project page, by design, this is not meant to be a full-featured X11 server.

As such it will have it's own use cases, so I wanted to mention that there is a project that is a fork of X11 called XLibre.

It is, by design, meant to be a drop in replacement that will perpetuate X11 as Wayland starts to become the default.

The current release of Ubuntu 26.04 is the last version that will use X11. The next major release will use wayland.

Personally, I think it's a mistake to just write of X11 in favor of Wayland because they are not compatible in fundamental way, so I'm always glad to see projects like this and XLibre.

This is extremely disappointing corporate behavior coming from Motorola. I've had better luck with $350 unlocked Moto something I can use anywhere and comes with no bloatware. I like that part, do more of that.

They are impractical on the ground. Why anyone would think this is a good idea is byond me.

This is what Amazon did with Amazon Prime. I was paying for no ads, then they added ads and demanded a ransomm of $36/year to return to the no-ad experience I was already paying for. I cancelled Prime and vote with my wallet by not giving them money. I also had AWS cloud stuff. I pulled everything. I don't believe that should even be legal, and there is probably a regulation against it that just isn't being enforced because the like of Amazon vote with money, because corporations are people and money is speech. The entire economic system in the USA is designed to do one thing, and one thing only. Find every way possible to make sure money goes up from the poorest to the richest. Citizens United must go if we want to see adults running the country again in good faith and with common-sense regulations opn the wealthiest corporations, and those with monopolies. We we are seeing is what happens when capitalism no longer has gaurdrails to protect consumer. I'm not anti-capitalism, but I do argure that umnregulated capitalism is unsustainable, and regulation is necessary bot both the good of the corporations and more importainly, the midle-class down to the poorest amongst us. Consumer protection used to be a thing, but all of the agencies that were a bulwark against enshittification have been dismantled or destroyed completely. Corporations are not people, and money is not political speech. Enshittification couldn't happen the way it is now where there were things the Consumer Saftey Board and other organizations that made sure there's no lead in your kids toys.

CEOs and the like speak Weasel and only use Weasel Words.

Channeling my inner-masteroftheworld, No.

work without the internet/power

Now they sprinkle dopamine rewards all over the place to incentivize the thirst for even more. Especially if there are ads shown every time you get that dopamine hit.

There are people with billions of dollars that want the population of the US to drop significantly. It's hard to control 300+ million people, and that many people can just remove unpopular governments by marching in the millions. Also, I believe the "Georgia Guidestones" if I'm not mistaken, that have writing about reducing the population of the USA to 500,000. I much more manageable number. Or maybe I'm just reading too much into things.

I'm a proverbial greybeard and Ctrl+Alt+F7 used to just be what you did to get back to your desktop GUI.

FWIW, right now I'm typing this from Ubuntu Studio 24.04 and it's Ctrl+Alt+F2 to get back to the GUI. Ctrl+Alt+F1 shows you the bootup output scroll, +F3 to +F6 will give you a login prompt to drop into a shell. +F7 to +F12 just give me a blinking cursor un the upper right corner of the display.

I'm kinda surprised only +F3 to +F6 give me a shell login. Three isn't that many.

I'm just going to assume this is a bullshit distraction simply because of the source.

in response to most of this thread, the answer is summed up in one word.

greed

Hate begets hate. Call for the death of others, and you might take a bullet to the throat and live just long enough to realize why this is happening to you and the irony.

Sounds like it's time to abandon it for something new and more stupid

90% spam/hack?

You have a 99% email reputation with a company THAT IS NOT GOOGLE and that reputation scrore means fuck-all to Google. If you want to know what score GOOGLE is giving you, which is they metric that GOOOGLE uses, you can find that by signing up for Google Postmaster Tools. A 99% reputation with someone that has nothing to do with accepting ther email for final delivery is worthless marketing bullshit that you have fallen for.

At first I thought this was just an April Fools post. ugh.

I've used Flirc

I used a Flirc many years ago for my mythtv DVR and it worked great. https://flirc.tv/

edit: I used the receiver, but they do make a remote. It looks cool but I have no experience with it.

Yes, AIs that hallucinate can all be used in different ways. But they can still all hallucinate, so I fail to see how what you are saying mitigates the fundamental, as yet to be solved, problem of AI hallucinations.

edit to say, what is the point, after all, of artificial intelligence if it's not used to make decisions? That's what it does. But ALL AI HALLUCINATES. Therefore, it's unreliable.

I agree that that is all true. And exceedingly fucking stupid.