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Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising ( www.techradar.com )

Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the...

madcaesar ,

Mint is the only version you have a chance of liking if you are coming from windows. I know windows sucks and people low to pump Linux but most distros simply aren't user friendly.

madcaesar ,

Your call is very important to us 😡

madcaesar ,

Class action lawsuits never work because they plea deal into some shitty number that does no damage.

madcaesar ,

You need to fully edit your comment and remove the part defending this nonsense.

madcaesar ,

I really wish we could have a license like if your revenue is 5mil + you have to kick in something to the devs

madcaesar ,

Twitter is a cute name. X just sounds like some perverted shit. Elon is a moron.

madcaesar ,

Absolutely. If you have an adversarial relationship with your employees and why would you think they'd ever be loyal or go the extra mile?

I really don't get employers like that...

madcaesar ,

Never. The whole ad craze is there to milk profits on top of the things you already paid for.

What you are suggesting would actually be a more fair system.

Free with ads or paid with no ads.

Asshole corporations want paid and ads.

madcaesar ,

This is ridiculous take. Hamas existed before the war and have been a terrorist organization for decades.

Criticize Israel and the handling of the war all you want, that is fair. But this white washing of Hamas as if they weren't deranged extremists is just ridiculous.

madcaesar ,

I think people are misunderstanding this comment.

I think he's making fun of the idiots that continue to stick to a wrong opinion because they don't want to say they are wrong.

madcaesar ,

How could it realistically be pruned? There's billions of data points. That shit is unwieldy

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good | Ars Technica ( arstechnica.com )

Tack "&udm=14" on to the end of a normal search, and you'll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface. While Google might not let you set this as a default, if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.

madcaesar ,

DuckDuckGo is the future

madcaesar ,

An asshole can be right. China is anti competitive and actively undermining democracies.

Our ev manufacturers need to be put under pressure, but not by fascist regimes and their exploitation of the earth and people.

madcaesar ,

You were on a roll until the end...

Why do people go out of their way to defend Pitbulls? This is a breed created by us, to hunt, kill, bite and never let go. They should not be used at pets. There are literarily thousands of good gentle dogs looking for homes, we don't need to defend Pitbulls or keep breeding them.

madcaesar ,

I've been alive for decades and at no point in my life has a conservative politican ever done anything to actually make my life better.

At best, they do some temporary tax cut bullshit that ends up just fucking us worse in 3-4 years time.

Liberals aren't perfect by any stretch, by at least it seems like two steps forward one step back.

With conservatives it's always somersaults backwards.

madcaesar ,

And it's not even a week off halfway useful time. It's a week of fucking sitting in traffic breathing in exhaust and break fumes.

madcaesar ,

And you clog the roads for those that actually have to be out there.

madcaesar ,

People cheering on SOs demise don't realize what we're losing.

Support is moving to discord which sucks massive ass. Asking the same question over and over, hoping somone is around to help.

It sucks.

madcaesar ,

Another huge expense for doctors is liability coverage.

We have this shit ass backwards. Cops should be forced to carry liability coverage out of pocket, not doctors.

And doctors should have a union.

madcaesar ,

Passenger per hour going where? If everyone is going from A to B, ok. But people need to go allover the place.

For me a 10min car ride is a 1.15h bus ride....

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year ( www.billboard.com )

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

madcaesar ,

I'm fighting this fight with phone and sd cards. It's part of the reason they are killing sd card slots to get people to put everything in the cloud.

Sadly most people are morons and are doing exactly that.

madcaesar ,

Thanks Biden!

madcaesar ,

This guy Tolkiens!

madcaesar ,

Exactly. I'd also like to add, look at Google stuff their ui / ux is routinely horseshit. So don't tell me there are ui/ux gurus out there GIGAchading user interfaces.

A lot of this shit is trial and error and even then they still fuck it up.

Make it accessible, make it legible and then fine tune it after.

madcaesar ,

Corporate PR speak always sounds cringe and I despise it. Just be humans you fucking pricks.

madcaesar ,

Places like this probably get 2000 submissions so they are indeed a waste of time.

madcaesar ,

No sponsor skip, no downvote count.

Paid youtube expensive AND shit.

madcaesar ,

I would pay for premium IF it was a reasonable price.

I don't want shitty music bundled or whatever fuck else they are calling it now JUST youtube.

AND here's the big one, I want the fucking downvote count back and sponsor skip. Most videos have ads and fucking sponsor segments which are also fucking ads. I'm not paying to watch that.

And downvote count is absolutely crucial to be able to detect bullshit videos quickly.

Google is offering a shit product and asking a premium price. Fuck em.

madcaesar ,

It's also so, so, sooooooo easy to post right wing bullshit because it's always emotional shallow and without any nuance.

So if you say immigrants are stealing all our jobs and committing crimes all over our country! People are already getting riled up, while I have to spend 5 minutes explaining that while we have to secure our borders immigrants aren't the cause of all our woes.

And while I'm in the middle of my 5 minute explanation debunking your first horseshit point, you interject "Gays are over running our schools and molesting our kids!"....

So yea... The truth has a huge disadvantage in the online space because it's so easy to spread lies.

madcaesar ,

Aegis? I use that

madcaesar ,

The craftsmanship is impressive... The material abhorrent.

It makes no sense lol somone this good with wood, putting effort into making it out of crap.

madcaesar ,

I'm just instinctively averse to corporate bullshit because corporations don't do anything unless it serves them in some way.

Why do I have to round up to a dollar? I just dropped 159$ shopping at your store, you round up and give some of your profits to charity, don't guilt trip me with this nonsense as you rape me with fake sales and shrinkflation.

I'll donate to charities that I want and I'll give more than a miesely dollar.

madcaesar ,

People who "are something", in general are annoying as fuck. As soon as you make something your identity you've probably fucked up.

That said I've tried to reduce meat consumption as much as possible, for the environment and the animals.

madcaesar ,

I feel bad for the children in this picture. Personally I think this is child abuse. Forcing politics / religion on children should be fucking illegal.

madcaesar ,

Those shit bags get 2 senators....

madcaesar ,

Lack of multi pre move makes lichess much worse

madcaesar ,

Same here 😂 the text adds nothing, this post would have been better with the image alone.

madcaesar ,

I have buddies that served in Afghanistan and what I'll share will sound shitty, but reality sometimes is simply shitty.

The country is just full of uneducated superstitious, goat herders. There isn't real allegiance to "Afghanistan" as a country, so building a unified democracy is/was pretty much impossible.

They were training Afghan troops but would never turn their backs on them lol, they said they'd frequently try to pull shit and the concept of discipline, leadership that you need for a stable military / police simply isn't in the culture.

People were hoping for post ww2 Germany, but Germany was a country filled with educated people with a history of order Afghanistan has just been tribes at war for decades.... There was no way to make it work.

That's not to say that Afghanistan doesn't have good people in it that just want peace feed their family and live, but at its current state it's not going to be anything but a theocratic hell hole.

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