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My Labrador has excellent teeth.

Man’s best friend becomes man’s best mouth.

Well, you expect your hate to create for you a few comrades, but it’ll only make for more hillbillies named Conrad.

Yes, but Americans hating their government is exactly what got us here.

Doubling down on that sentiment is only going to make things worse.

You understand that, right?

Back in the day, Walmart and Apple fought over contactless pay standards for the US.

Apple’s standard was eventually mass adopted, and since then Walmart has refused to license the tech. So you have to use their app, which uses their own tech stack.

Perfectly rigid sticks don’t exist.

That’s fine. 1% per uberweird news cycle is the death of facebook.

Zuck invented the feed.

End-to-end encryption matters if your device isn’t actively trying to sabotage your privacy.

If you run Android, Google is guilty of that.

If you run Windows in a non-enterprise environment Microsoft is guilty of that.

If you run iOS or MacOS, Apple is (very likely) guilty of that.

“couldn’t do anything”

This was a third-party implementation problem, not an OS issue.

By the time Third party software stopped being all loosy-goosey like the OS was windows XP, Microsoft had already re-branded the OS to Win7.

Vista’s UAC wasn’t any more problematic than sudo is.

Cloaca

Just install the widget first, then add it to the panel.

Think of the extra steps as an NPC guiding you back along the proper path for trying to do it in the wrong order.

It doesn’t matter how these things are configured, you’ll have extra steps if you insist on doing them in the wrong order.

[edit] Why does order matter? Because permissions. Why do permissions matter? Because fundamental OS security.

The feetdraggers will slowly, begrudgingly follow–as always.

The difference is that each Windows upgrade is objectively worse.

Also, even if it wasn’t, a large number of the people who use Windows don’t continue to do so because they really loved Windows, it’s because they’ve always used Windows and don’t want anything to ever change.

So each EoL kicks their asses off their ledge and they have to make the biggest fuss about it, because that is just what using a computer is for them.

It’s just a mentality thing, and not something they’ll readily put into words because it’s clearly futile and churlish.

I don’t understand why everyone assumes using a VPN means paying for a third party.

It’s because that is what is advertised to them.

Its worse. He’s a Mormon.

Also, push notifications. Most things could be done from a browser, but corpos have to have their push notifications.

It doesn’t matter if you’re the guy who turns every notification off and manages all those… 9/10 people won’t.

Uniqueness is not a thing people generally desire.

We still have monuments donated by Fascist Italy standing in Chicago.

Neurotypical people do not.