I own lots of content, because I created it myself.

Friggin’ finally! I’ll finally be able to remove some of those alternative chat apps I don’t really like.

Only in Europe. For the rest of us, they will make sure to leave in all the enshittification that Makes Windows Worse Again.

I can’t leave fully because job, but I can sure as hell lock them inside a VM.

Microsoft is the abusive partner wondering how many times they have to hit you to make you love them.

Enjoying it, and time.

Gross

I use FDE because my locks are easily pickable. I don’t trust the landlord’s son that lives in the unit above mine. Also the computer is near a big window. Property crime is a popular activity in the area, so the smash-and-grab is a plausible threat. Defence in depth, though, so I still lock the front and interior office doors.

If the Mac were half as repairable as a Framework and could run Windows VMs without crashing when they run my default tools, I might be interested in one again.

Front. Butt.

Funny thing. The reputation of Vista is universal, so I don’t doubt it at all. However, I ran Vista starting from beta and never had a problem with it. I must have had the magic hardware combination that worked. My least favourite Windows release was 8.

Car-independent livable cities.

I am both a (T-)SQL expert and a language design enthusiast. IMO, SQL the language is mediocre in its grammar and extremely resistant to cleanliness. Once you get past that, the things you can actually do with it are extremely useful.

I’d love for a better syntax to exist, but it’s a Herculean task to make one. Modern SQL dialects have gargantuan, labyrinthine grammars, and they grow with each new product version. It’s a lot easier to keep adding to that than to build a feature-complete replacement. This is also the reason why most ORMs are so frustratingly limiting: it’s too much work to support the advanced features of one SQL dialect, let alone multiple.

Not sure why this got downvoted. It totally tracks. The current VR and AI fads aren’t even the first times we’ve had fads on those subjects. Yes, we will get some new tech of varying utility out of each fad, but the overhype is real.

Actually, it’s a logical fallacy.

Prigo was definitely not against the war.

Whataboutism detected.

I like Framework and pre-ordered a F16 as soon as I heard pre-orders were open.

Thanks.

This service sounds perfect for me.

EDIT: Just finished the thread. In bed and the sleep-promoting substances are kicking in, but I set a reminder to sign up tomorrow.