I think they will become like IBM, once dominant, not dead today but pretty much irrelevant compared to what they once were.

The files are IN the computer!

Mhm. And despite their pledge to investigate, Microslop fired four of its employees pointing it out to them. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/microsoft-fires-four-workers-on-site-protests-over-companys-ties-israel-2025-08-29/

AI has its uses, but the feeling of “being left behind because of a mental model shift” is a fiction created by AI companies burning hundreds of billions on generating FOMO instead of developing their somewhat useful technology.

You don’t have to write off AI entirely, just don’t fall for the hype.

If you had the ability to listen to what two women, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, and countless others were incessantly saying was going to happen if you elected him, you would have known what would happen if America elected him.

Can you cite at least one example where the admins advocated for eradication of brown people or were literally genocidal zionists? I have the same amount of evidence at hand that marxismtomorrow is also one, i.e. nothing. You can DM me if you think you would get banned posting it on world.

Get my landline telephone set up, ofc download a bunch of emulators and entire game libraries and wikipedia, make sure any cloud file backups I have made a copy locally, put my meshcore and meshtastic nodes online, try to get some technerds together to start an airgapped DC++ fileshare… those are what i’ll start with. Probably make sure I’m close to my friends and family.

An W11 update in February took my work computer 1 hour to update, even Windows put “estimated 50 mins” on the Windows Update screen. Decently fast processor, 16GB RAM and SSD.

I think our IT manager paused updates for everyone in late January because of all the issues it was causing, then that Friday afternoon I walked around the office and saw a bunch of people taking a “second lunch” because their computer was in the process of updating Windows.

Bribe money from Deutsche Bahn was on its way to Berlin, but the train was cancelled due to a technical issue.

I got my info on this from here, an interview with an outgoing Socialist party house member: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URkODXv2BLQ

The Socialist Party within Hungary and their membership agreed that it’s in their collective interest to stand down their candidates (including incumbent members) for this election, because the electoral system under Orban’s rule is rigged to skew in favour of the plurality party, especially when the opposition is divded. To undo it and reform the process to be more fair for other parties, a similar 2/3rds majority is required.

“Foreign interference is helping the opponent”, says deputy leader of unpopular and corrupt foreign regime inadvertently helping the opponent.

I do enjoy live musical theatre, but it is quite expensive, and smaller local productions for whatever reason I haven’t been motivated enough to go to. I think the last musical theatre I saw was Mozart’s The Magic Flute at the New York Met Opera House, in January 2025. The time before that was Hamilton at the Princess of Wales Theatre in June 2023.

So anyways due to cost, I’ll settle for watching the latest musical movie at the cinema like Wicked for Good.

Proposed revision: Do not use Copilot for business purposes.

Congrats on making the jump! Have a nice time with us on Lemmy and Piefed.

Every Democrat:

Years ago, one of my buddies tried to open a very long spreadsheet and Libreoffice couldn’t do it. I think the maximum row and columns reached parity in version 7. I think one more cosmetic feature that is missing is the easy to access table and chart style templates.

German and Austrian governments and militaries are currently exploring ways to reduce their reliance on US tech. Most recently I heard Germany is making the Open Document Format the mandatory format for official government communications.

Gaza/Palestine would still be screwed, but would a Harris-Walz administration threaten Canada, attack Venezuela and capture Maduro, engage in piracy and extrajudicial killing in the Caribbean, attack Iran and cause the Hormuz Strait to close, put a tax (tariff) on virtually everything Americans buy? Would they encourage universities to arrest students for not being Israel cucks, would they make regulatory mergers contingent on fealty to them? Would they cancel land leases and try to cancel partially built offshore wind farms, and dump taxpayer money on companies to burn coal unnecessarily and to build oil and gas infrastructure? Would they continue the massive wealth transfer enabled by Republicans’ 2017 tax cuts or allow them to expire? Would immigration forces be used to kidnap random people on the street, and as a President Harris’ personal goon squad? Would they elect to blow up the relationship with virtually every allied country, such that they become hesitant when they actually need help?

This is just what I can think of off the top of my head. Not all evils are created equal. Trump, MAGA and Republicans are special breeds.

Biggest for me is no promoted garbage. Second is that I can have more indepth conversations than on Reddit. Your replies can get seen if you post on “Hot” even if they’re not cheesy one-liners. Quality of discussion is far better than my last few years of using Reddit full time (until 2023).

Once in a while I glance at the Reddit website and there’s just so much short form video on the front page that it’s so annoying to know what’s going on.

Of course the more popular discussion topics (USA, tech, politics) are largely going to be the same as Reddit.

One advantage of this model is that moderation is more tailored to the instance topics of interest, without losing too much of the wider sphere. So .world can handle most of the popular general topics, but mander can handle moderation of topics from a more scientific lens, .dbzer0 can handle the intricacies around copyright law, .blahaj zone vehemently protects users right to call themselves whatever they wish, so on and so forth. With Reddit, if the site admins don’t like something you do, you get shut down no matter whether the community there accepts it or not. Here, if that happens and is unpopular, people can leave and go to another domain without leaving the federated network. Another is that servers hosted in countries outside the USA (feddit.de, lemmy.ca etc.) don’t necessarily have to follow USA law, while Reddit does.