No, but the parrot isn’t hallucinating either.

Disregard women, acquire currency

Only thing I could suggest is to make sure your DKIM and SPF stuff is set up right, but that only effects other email servers accepting mail from yours.

Jesse what the fuck are you talking about

Please do not use your “foot” for pegging play.

You just had to remind me of an ancient internet “shock” video where an amputee uses their ankle stump to “stump” the asshole of someone in a sex swing.

As prize, you get the knowledge that video exists.

Still can’t believe corporate meddling robbed us of the cinematic masterpiece it was meant to be. Apparently authentic Sweedish music was too exotic for American audiences.

Release the Joel cut you cowards!

“Why aren’t people going to theaters anymore?”

But hey, Google has managed to make its spellchecker unlearn the difference between “its” and “it’s”, I suspect by plugging it into a language model. I’m not here to say it’s all good.

Reminds me of 4chan figuring out how to mess with how Google was transcribing books when Google was effectively crowdsourcing transcription through recaptcha at the same time m00t had to add it to the site to combat spam bots.

Recaptcha would show two words, and with some practice it was pretty easy to tell which one was the one it already knew and which one was the “new” word it was looking for human help to transcribe. They found that it would accept any input for the “new” word. So 4chan users started using the n-slur, because of course they would, and they actually had enough people doing it to effect some books Google was transcribing.

Yep. There are some people who will argue that it means any use of AI while coding, but the original meme was about using AI to code without even checking the code it gave you.

It was an obviously dumb idea meant as a joke, but somehow a bunch of idiots took it seriously and now we have shit like this.

Yes, the price is the point. Excel (Office) is that dirt fucking cheap, industry standard, and comes with a bunch of other shit included that can be legitimate value add for a small business.

If you’re at a firm that has legitimate need for specialized accounting software, you’ll have enough money to get those. But even those generally export to Excel format. Without outing myself too much, I’ve had comsiderable exposure to financial tech over the last decade and less than 10 specialized accounting softwares I’ve seen couldn’t export to Excel. All of those still exported to csv, or “software agnostic excel” if we want to bend things a bit.

The power of being industry standard for going on 30 years now cannot be overstated.

Pat Boone’s album In A Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy is entirely this.

Judas Priest’s You’ve Got Another Thing Coming, Metallica’s Enter Sandman. Fucking Smoke On The Water, Holy Diver, Crazy Train.

All in a kind of big band jazz style. Great great stuff.

There’s a few more from that album, Rock Swings, like Black Hole Sun

An OS is like a car or a machine in the sense that it needs regular maintenance. You can ignore that regular maintenance at your own peril, but it’s not the car manufacturer’s fault if you refuse to change the oil. Or if you decide to camber your tires out to a ridiculous angle and it breaks the wheel bearings.

Stepping back from your analogy, the only way that Windows is going to fail to play your game because you haven’t updated is if the game needs to update too. And if it’s that important to you, you can disable updates entirely and only re-enable them when it suits you. Only booting up Windows once a month is pretty damn good use case for that. Disable updates, play your game, re-enable them and let it do its thing when you’re done.

Windows is definitely not ideal, but there is a lot of people spreading learned helplessness solely for the sake of pushing Linux. Linux is absolutely better, but Windows is not some festering boil that provides the sensory equivalent of nails on chalkboard if you use it correctly/as designed.

Another big thing people complain about is ads in the various system utilities. Hell yes that’s disgusting. However, all of those ads are disabled by a single option in the settings menu that doesn’t reset itself on update.

Colleges too. Ever wanted to hide behind the projector screen of a 300 seat lecture hall? None of the doors are locked. Found an old rotary telephone and a real film reel projector back there.

Had some wonderful desk chair races around the professor offices floor in one building at nearly midnight.

The tough part is when you no longer have that access after you’re used to it when you get a new job.

No! Don’t call security! I swear I worked here a decade ago, I’m just absentminded.

I reckom it’s an awareness issue. This is the first time I’ve seen this table posted outside of the dedicated community on lemmy.

The overwhelming majority of the nags can be disabled permanently with the right configuration, in a way that isn’t trampled on by updates.

The main issue is that because Microsoft doesn’t have anywhere close to sane defaults, many people believe it isn’t possible to configure sanely.

It also doesn’t help that Microsoft has crossed the threshold where there’s too many people using it who think they know what they’re doing well enough to speak authoritatively about its “issues” when they don’t. Lots of Dunning Kreuger going on.

And that MS torched a ton of their learning resources for desktop config and admin stuff when they went all in on the cloud and are only now recreating some of them.

And people try to use it outside of the intended use case then get frustrated that things get weird. It’s configired to be a daily driver or at least powered on once a week for updates, of course if you only use it every few months things are going to suck. You’d get laughed at if you were using a hammer to drive screws, but Windows is supposed to just work anyway with no rough edges?

Do you somehow think that if you just fake the technical requirement for this .lpf file it will be smooth sailing?

What happens when this gets caught by an actual human being?

Sweet! I did similar with backing up my DS carts and saves so I could play them all on 3DS off the SD card with Twilight Menu.

Son of a bitch!