Also not having online search results posted above the locally installed programs. If I search for “cmd” and hit Enter, I want it to open Command Prompt. I don’t want to do a fucking Edge search for “cmd”, or have it open some internet ad for something else named “cmd”.

Yeah, work machines really make avoiding Windows difficult/impossible. And the worst part is that IT’s group policy often prevents individual employees from disabling all of the super invasive telemetry and data sharing BS. So if you want to be able to use the same accounts across work and personal devices, (like using the same browser profile, so your settings and bookmarks automatically sync), then your personal stuff inevitably gets sent to Microsoft. They’ve deliberately built ecosystems where separating your work and personal life takes extra effort, and that is enough to trap plenty of people.

This is also why zero-calorie sweetener packets are the size they are. They’re allowed to round to the nearest 10, which includes rounding down to 0. So sweetener packets are realistically ~4.75-4.9 calories. That way they’re allowed to call it a “zero calorie” sweetener.

Individual user accounts, so multiple people can use the same device without needing to log into a new account each time. For example, User A watches a show on the TV. Then User B opens the TV, and has to log in to be able to access their own watch history. Then User A returns, and has to log back into their account.

Braindead remote access. I use a reverse proxy so it’s not a need for me, but plenty of people don’t understand how to properly set something like that up.

Single Sign On. It flies in the face of what Jellyfin stands for, because it would require a centralized authentication server that everyone’s servers phone home to. Just like Plex. With Plex, you log into one account, and can see all of your available servers, because they’re all tied to the same account. With Jellyfin, every server requires its own authentication, because there is no central server to manage all of the “Account XYZ has access to libraries A, B, and C” stuff. If I want to watch something, I can’t easily just search all of my servers at once; I need to individually log into and search each one to see if it has the content I want to watch.

My favorite part is when you see shit like “serving size: Half of a candy bar”. Because seriously, who the fuck eats half of a candy bar, then sets it down to come back for more later? Especially when it’s something like a Snickers, which has caramel that would drip all over if you tried to save it.

The FDA allows food manufacturers to determine what a “reasonable” amount for a serving is… But has zero actual guidelines on what makes a serving size reasonable. And since they don’t enforce any actual serving sizes, manufacturers can just use whatever the fuck they want for serving sizes.

Contrary to the stereotype of CwS being the strongest possible birth control, these dudes are beating back the female suitors with a stick.

There’s a weird horseshoe effect, where you stop giving a fuck what others think of you so hard that it loops back around to being attractive again. It’s a confidence thing. Genuinely not caring what others think usually requires a lot of self-worth and confidence.

Source: Regularly rock the CwS, am happily married. Don’t even need to beat back female suitors, because the wife is a hot bisexual goth witch who regularly brings home other women for us to bed.

Also, this section (and only this section) of the course was being taught by a an openly trans instructor. It’s a conduit for conservatives to fuel more anti-trans and “war on religion” propaganda.

“Look, the radical trans agenda is trying to erase the bible! War on Christians! They’re coming for your religion! You’ll be in a prison camp for your beliefs soon!”

If there is one thing Christians enjoy, it’s pretending to be persecuted while persecuting others.

Yup. It’s crowdfunding the prosecution, by allowing anyone to bring civil lawsuits.

It also keeps it out of the criminal courts, because Texas specifically doesn’t want one state’s shield laws to try protecting someone from another state’s criminal prosecution. If that happens, the case would go straight to the SCOTUS because they have original jurisdiction in state-vs-state cases. And conservatives specifically don’t want a ruling like this to go in their favor, because it would open the floodgates for liberal states to criminally prosecute conservatives whenever they do something.

For instance, imagine California being able to prosecute an oil company for causing asthma because emissions blow across state lines. Being able to prosecute a gun manufacturer whenever a school shooting happens with weapons that were purchased legally in other states. Being able to prosecute a car manufacturer whenever a crash happens with an out-of-state driver. Texas specifically doesn’t want liberal states to be able to do this, so they want to avoid setting any kind of precedent with the SCOTUS.

Libertarians are grumpy indoor cats. They’re violently independent and want to be left alone, but their survival is also entirely dependent on the systems surrounding them, which they completely take for granted.

The grumpy indoor cat doesn’t want your attention, they just want their auto-feeder to activate like it always does. Never mind the fact that you’re the one who keeps the auto-feeder filled. They don’t care about that, they just care that the auto-feeder dispenses food.

Yeah, it’s not microplastics per se, just volatile organic compounds that leech into the saline over time. The smell/taste is because those VOCs want to be in the air. So when they hit your lungs, they very happily evaporate and you exhale them. So you’re just tasting your own breath. Like there may be microplastics present, but that’s not what you’re smelling/tasting, because those wouldn’t evaporate into your lungs to be exhaled.

Should rename it to system64 if you’re running a 64 bit operating system. Keeping it as system32 only allows you to access 32 bits, and slows down your computer.

Yup. The whole “every accusation is a confession” thing will hold true for the autopen stuff too. I can guarantee he’s basically getting Weekend At Bernie’s’ed through the white house by all of his sycophants while he dozes. And that means they’re able to pass whatever the hell they want while he sleeps. And the scary part is that a lot of them will be a lot more competent and slimy than Trump is.

Yup. Cheney was allowed to die peacefully. This is nothing new; it’s just easier for more people to see it now.

And Guinness is just an entire loaf of dark bread with a side of coffee. Almost as if beer and bread are both grain products.

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The problem is that these kinds of laws are becoming widespread. When they become the norm, simply VPN’ing to a different country won’t save you, because there won’t be any “safe” countries.

Shit like this is why I unironically considered spinning up a NSFW Jellyfin instance. At least if I save the degen content like a data hoarder, they can’t legislate away my access.

Like I wouldn’t mind even paying another 50 bucks a month extra for “private internet” just so the government can have their free and regulated “public internet”.

That’s basically how cable TV started. Over-the-air TV stations were ad-supported and public broadcast was largely supported by public funds. Cable TV got off the ground by marketing itself as a commercial-free way to watch.

And then once everyone had switched to cable, they went “hey, why don’t we introduce commercials anyways? I bet people will keep paying for our service if we just gatekeep the media that people have gotten hooked on…” And that’s exactly what happened. They pivoted away from the “commercial free TV” sales pitch, and moved towards “gatekeep media and force people to pay for it” model instead.

I work at a roadhouse and art gallery. It’s a cloud-based app that manages our bookings. My list of complaints includes, but is not limited to:

• The software is just a shell for a VM, running on a server in Canada. This was their solution for “cloud” access… Because why bother coding an actual locally-run program to connect to an external server, when you can just connect the user directly to the server and have it run in a VM? It means everything we do is bogged down by round-trip latency to and from Canada, plus the server’s processing lag because it’s running a VM for every user that is connected. Opening an event’s detail page easily takes 15-20 seconds. So does adding/changing anything in an event. In an average day, I manage anywhere from 10-30 events. We joke that all of our events are planned via carrier pigeon, because of the latency and long load times.
• It cannot send an alert to users when specific things are changed on a booking. Our labor manager wants to be able to get an alert whenever an event planner changes the labor. Makes sense, right? This was marketed as a key feature of the software, and it was why the labor manager originally wanted to use the software. It is entirely broken.
• The software also features a website, for the part timers to be able to access the event data… The website is completely broken.
• The website cannot show event drawings or floor plans, despite the fact that the floor plans are a large part of the part-timers’ jobs. They set the rooms up prior to events, but they can’t see what they’re supposed to set up, because the website doesn’t support that feature. This was marketed as a feature when we purchased the software.
• To work around the lack of room diagrams on the website, I tried to set up an automated report to compile the day’s event setups, and email them to everyone. I set up a filter to ignore events without a diagram, so only events with listed drawings would show up in the report. The filter works when I run it manually. The automated report ignores the filter, and spits out a ton of blank pages for each empty event. This has resulted in a “boy who cried wolf” effect, where the part-timers don’t bother checking the automated report because they assume it will be like 40 empty pages.
• the server has a 20 minute session timer. You’d think this means you can be logged in for 20 minutes at a time… Maybe even that it starts counting after your last activity, so you can remain logged in while active, then get automatically logged out after you walk away… You would be incorrect. The server logs every user out, on a rolling 20 minute timer. You just logged in 60 seconds before the timer tripped? Fuck you, log in again. It isn’t even on a nice round number, (like every hour on the :00, :20, and :40 marks), because the timer is based on whenever the server was last rebooted. Logging in easily takes 45-60 seconds for the VM to load.

Again, this is a non-exhaustive list. These are simply the more mind-numbingly frustrating things I have to deal with on a daily basis.

Yeah, there’s the old “strict parents make sneaky kids” saying that is often very true. Parents who try to lock down their tech often find that kids will just bypass the tech entirely. Nothing is more singularly motivated than a 14 year old who wants to look at tits, and locking it down only encourages them to do shady shit like get a secret prepaid phone, or hack the neighbor’s WiFi.

No, you have it backwards. Fossil fuels were only cheaper because the government was heavily subsidizing it.