It isn’t rude to tell people that you’re doing an activity and that you’re open to having company.

As for being inflexible, you’re doing an activity and inviting people, not finding something to do with people. If they want to do something else, plan to do that a different day, because you’ve already made plans.

Store Citizen missing deadlines like that is to be expected.

It might just be you homie, especially if you’re using it through the browser which is objectively the worst way to use any Microsoft product.

I use teams daily in a remote support gig and I rarely have issues with teams aside from MS changing shit for the sake of change. I get on calls daily without audio or screen sharing issues.

It’s not a good platform by any means, but I don’t see a tenth of the shit people complain about.

Yeah, who could see a constitutional crisis in an authoritarian wannabe despot is using military as police with no real pushback from the courts?

Or, possibly because he legitimately thought it was a good choice? Even if misguided. Is that not a possibility?

It still comes down to him being malicious or very stupid and incurious. Either way, it’s a bad look and proton keeps getting own goals, so at a certain point the difference is meaningless in practice.

I feel the same way about Charlie and his family as he did about school kids and their families. Like he said, these deaths are acceptable for… some reason.

Say what you will, but he died doing what he loved. Spewing shit out of his neck about school shootings.

If you’re willing to learn to use an atomic distro (meaning you can’t install stuff the normal way and the OS filesystem is read only), Bazzite is fantastic, has steam and proton pre installed and has been working amazing for me for a few months so far.

Look into https://0patch.com/

Keeps you secure without having to pay Microsoft another red cent

For anyone that refuses to downgrade win10 to win11 and still wants to be secure running windows, 0Patch will cover your computer for 25eur/computer/year.

I’ve never used them, but a security researcher I follow regularly promoted them since they’ve been doing this for systems for a good while (I think win7 was the first one they did) and are able to apply their micropatches in memory.

Definitely worth a look if you don’t want to upgrade to Linux while not downgrading to win11.

They should advertise the new feature of not being able to put the task bar on any side of the screen you want! “We’re improving your experience by making it worse!”

Can’t risk hinting that the policies that they push directly lead to the material conditions that cause these shootings.

Think of it as nonconsensual AI generated CSAM. Like nonconsensual AI porn, you take public SFW photos and use the AI to generate explicit images using the provided photo as reference for the abused victim.

As for the over share library, think of all the pictures you see of peoples’ kids in your social media feed, then consider how few people take proper privacy controls on what they post (or just intentionally post them publicly for laughs/attention). All of those images can be used as the basis for generation nonconsensual AI porn/CSAM.

Oh fuck, I hadn’t heard about the fucking gibbering idiot dropping yet another mask and saying all the quiet parts out loud.

for desktop use as mentioned above you can easily get by with less.

Sure, as long as you’re willing to deal with the performance hit of constantly swapping to disk.

Even SSD drives are a magnitude slower that any modern RAM stick, so you’re adding TONS of processing time by running that little memory. And gods help you if your swap is on spinning rust…

I regularly use over 16-24GB of my 32 GB, and considering I just had to replace 4 8s with 2 16s, I’m honestly kinda tempted to get another pair just to have knowing the shit that’s coming down the pipe.

Is this a new thing? I remember hearing about this like a decade ago

How likely is it that I got 4 to 5 bad batches over the space of as many years?

Raid and offline backups these days, I eventually learned my lesson. One of which is stay away from Seagate.

Similar reasons I hate Hitachi and Western Digital hard drives. They always fucking fail.

You misspelled Seagate.

My WD drives have been great, but my Seagates failed multiple times, causing data loss because I wasn’t properly protecting myself.

None, go by a decent monitor as big as you can and use that instead, or a decent LED projector if you’re so inclined (going that way myself, since my lamp projector ate the last bulb I bought). Actual TVs are trash and just awful to use.