Australis13

Frustratingly I have just a few applications that are Windows-only and don’t work under WINE. I’ve filed bug reports but haven’t had the time to learn how to debug it myself, so am somewhat stuck dual-booting on one device for the near future (everything else is now Linux).

I know, but that year will be valuable for a certain family member who is stubborn and needs time to be eased into a new system. The problem is that now I have to set up a MS account for them just to get the extension!

Yes, I am likely to shift them to that as well.

shakes fist

Family members have PCs that can’t support Windows 11 (not that I’d want them to get it anyway) and I’m not yet in the position to migrate them to Linux.

This type of behaviour makes me glad I’m most of the way to ditching MS entirely on my own systems.

Hmm, could use some more variety. When will the calico or gingers be back in stock?

They’re probably trying to stop low-income people from having some means of learning about the world (at least until the Trump Administration manages to control their part of the Internet like China does) and reducing their ability to organise en masse.

I’ve known a few narcissists and they definitely weren’t out to please people! They just seem to have a much better grasp of charm and know how to behave in order to get what they want; once they’re high enough up the food chain, treating anyone decently is no longer required.

Having worked with JavaScript, I understand the usefulness of a “less strict” equality comparison like this, but the coercion of objects still does my head in…

(And for the record, most of the time I did use strict equality).

Depressingly, narcissism is more socially acceptable than autism (and I suspect narcissists can “play the game” more easily, too). My impression is that this more applicable in western culture with our emphasis on individuality, with the US taking top place with its “American exceptionalism” (to be fair, my own country did export one of the worst - Rupert Murdoch).

LLMs are being shoved into so many bits of software (office suites, programming tools, etc.) it doesn’t surprise me that something like this has happened.

Hopefully Newag (the manufacturer) loses this case. This is malicious design on Newag’s part.

To state the obvious: predominantly because they are unaware that their experience of the world is not universal, but in some cases simply because it inconveniences them.