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Animals would be preferable. I reckon a chipmunk would be able to understand the instructions, it’s only humans that fuck it up that bad.

Because who else would raise a support ticket because the first name field doesn’t allow emoji? Or ask for a Braille language option, it’s still English Karen, it’s basically just a font, and there’s no point anyway without a braille output, just putting the dots on the screen isn’t helpful. That one got closed as it “won’t fix” since there’s no one in the organisation who’s blind and it’s mostly a hardware problem anyway.

You definitely used a lot of words there. I don’t really think you said anything, but you certainly used a lot of words.

If it isn’t, it never will be.

Linux has everything going for it in '26, people pissed with Microsoft, Apple still not doing anything in the space, no one cares about CoD any more, and Valve have their computer coming out.

I have one of the originals and it definitely wouldn’t run anything other than Linux.

I would be interested if there are any raspberry pi owning non-Linux users. It would sort of seem like the two would go together.

Because it doesn’t have that kind of access to the file system. It can pull and push files from the system but that’s it. It has to interact with the file system via an API, it’s not got direct access.

Given the tendency of these systems to randomly implode (as demonstrated) I’m unconvinced they’re going to be a long-term threat.

Any company that desires to replace its employees with an AI is really just giving them an unpaid vacation. Not even a particularly long one if history is any judge.

What’s this version control stuff? I don’t need that, I have an AI.

- An actual quote from Deap-Hyena492

For some reason YouTube keeps pushing me to watch Contact, I’ve no idea why?

You don’t know what you’re talking about.

As much as I would love to go over to a purely Linux system there just isn’t the support. I would not relish the prospect of trying to administer 5,000 laptops, and 300 desktops without the benefit of active directory user groups. Even with all of the messing about that Microsoft has done with Entra, it is still a far better mass device management platform than anything available on Linux and Apple haven’t even tried.

No the keyboard is important. There are so many truly awful keyboards out there that have no travel on the keys.

I absolutely cannot stand the keyboard on the MacBook air. It’s so incredibly cheap and it appears to be made out of the same material that they package luxury chocolates in.

Doesn’t Starfleet have the ability to remotely control vessels? It’s been done in the past where the ships been taken over and the crew have remotely shut down weapons and shields so they can gain control again. Presumably that works over any distance, so Starfleet could just deactivate a rogue vessel from Earth.

You’re not really a proper old person unless you are offering Werthers Originals and blue ribbons at every opportunity.

I’m a firm believer that if we locked up all the project managers, we’d pass the singularity in 5 years.

Well there is actually the Voyager game coming out, and it seems to follow the general path of the show so presumably Q will turn up at some point but I think you’ll probably be playing against him.

See I wasn’t really going to kill myself today, but the thought of dialing that long ass number is just to much.

I was reading one of those books to my kid once and there was a pig butcher. I’m not sure how that’s supposed to work in the lore of the book. Was he some halliburlector type or was he actually just a butcher. How deep does the analogue go?

Who,.that’s the next mother’s day gift sorted then.

Don’t worry there’ll be a company in 2095 that still using it. They’re always is someone.

My reading just based on the post above is that none paid versions are sharing by default but can be changed to off. All other versions are off by default but can be changed to on.

I don’t understand what the advantage to the developer is supposed to be to let AI scrape their code.