The goal is to move you to powershell

Why put up with their abuse?

It was October 20th 2014.

I left Windows because of the Settings nonsense.

12 years later you rubes are still getting fucked by this garbage. That’s why I’m here. 😂

Windows 8 came out in 2012. I switched to Linux shortly after.

If you’ve been suffering through this as a home user you have nobody but yourself to blame.

You’re not so busy you can’t learn a new OS in 12 years!

Plebs.

The only terminal cancer worth mentioning around here is MS-DOS.

Google says Manifest v3 is being done “for security reasons” but what they don’t say is that it’s not for your security.

It’s a Judge Dredd situation.

Google is vertically integrating the roles of content provider (ads) and content server so that web pages load exactly the way the page’s developer expects them to. This necessarily excludes things that selectively filter content, like blockers.

They’re essentially taking an open framefork for the web and replacing it with interactive pdfs, that show exactly what the web developer wants, and collects exactly the information the developer wants to know about you.

If you think you should have more control, use Firefox. Anyone using Chrome is complict at this point.

I used the Mcdonalds app a few times and the drivethru was always faster, lmao.

They require location services and don’t start cooking until you’re inside their geofence, but IME they seem to still prioritize drivethru customers.

The road standards are designed to protect the occupants, not the other users on the road.

This is a critical flaw with current safety and CAFE standards.

You say that like a specific technology is inevitable, but it never is. The general march of tech will continue on, but no one thing is ever guaranteed.

e.g. 20 years ago everyone needed custom browser toolbars and now it’s not even possible to add one on major browsers. We eliminated the need for browser features by cramming 99% of what we need into a handful of websites that are constantly refreshed.

e.g. 10 years ago blockchain was surging and today it still doesn’t have a usable application. Turns out spreadsheets don’t really need to be distributed.

Machine learning is just an algorithm nobody understands. If I needed something to give me wrong answers to questions I’ll ask my dog.

It’s still popular because it was popular.

Also, it was simple and modular.

It was largely succeeded by monolithic and enshittified versions of iTunes, which have zero appeal these days. So it’s still remembered fondly for not enshittifying and not trying to build a walled garden.

Well, it is on Android…

But the main app is tightly integrated into the win32 api–moving it to linux would basically require a complete rewrite. DEADBEEF is an example of something like this. Parallel values and ideals, but open source.

There are wine-bottled versions out there. Of course, whether or not output is bit perfect would depend on the wine settings. Bottling it, of course, defeats the point of the program being highly modular/extensible.

Also, you have to remember that a lot of proprietary formats have proprietary encoders/decoders that are incompatible with the GPL.

Shipping Windows binaries are much less of a hassle for the dev than than trying to reverse-engineer everything they need or figuring out how to manage dependencies with different licenses across different package managers and distros with different goals.

tl;dl foobar2000 is an excellent sum of its parts; like Winamp was back-in-the-day. You start changing parts and you get a different sum.

How many mac applications are coded using win32 api?

Like a dog that returns to its vomit, So is a fool who repeats his foolishness.

Actual Proverbs 26:11

We live in an unprecedented time of compromising pluralistic societies and international cooperation.

This guy: “lets go back to tribalism”

But Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014

I know this is pedantic, but that’s just not right. Amish and Mennonites are generally distinct.

Well, Jakob Ammann, who the Amish are named after, was a member of a Swiss Brethren church (now called Mennonite) who didn’t think his Mennonite brethren did enough shunning (a core principle of the Swiss Brethren).

So he formed his own church. Eventually members in his church (surprise!), shunned him over some different differences, as it happens when you join a group with all the cantankerous people. And it continued so on and so forth.

The distinctions might be in practical matters that arise over time–like fabrics used in their dress, use of buttons vs hook fasteners, or use of technology, or use of English vs German, but theologically they’re pretty much identical and these differences are just natural things that happen over time.

An Amish church split is really just two groups mass shunning each other. There’s no real difference.

And I’m aware it probably doesn’t seem like that closer up, because I’m speaking very abstractly. But I can’t see how anything you’ve said disagrees with what I’ve said.

And, I want to say I do appreciate hearing your experiences. For the record: I have a degree in Bible, did some post-grad study on church history, have some family members who are Mennonite, and grew up pretty close to a large Amish community.

Yeah…wifi.

Good luck!

Correct. Amish are Mennonites who shun other Mennonites. The elders of their church decide for the local congregation what is and isn’t appropriate conduct. If you disagree, you are shunned.

If the congregation down the road disagrees, those folks are shunned.

So you get very customized, local, specific lists about what is and isn’t allowable.

Really, it looks more extreme, but it’s no different than independent baptist churches or churches of christ ‘disfellowship’-ing with other congregations over doctrinal minutia.

In all cases you will get a few congregations thinking that only their congregation of 20-50 folks are the only ones in the world who “go to heaven”. 😂

So, all Amish might not agree what technologies are worth shunning over, but they all agree that some technologies are worth restricting their members access to, upon penalty of shunning.

Yes absolutely.

Blocks keith@lemm.ee