No, mine was some generic nonsense from Fred Mayer years ago that isn’t available anymore.

…am I really the only one who bought fucking metal straws with silicon tips and the tools to clean them years and years ago now?

This seems like a solved problem.

Weapons of Math Instruction

Ah yes all his horseshit about the bot problem and how he needed concrete numbers to solve the problem or “die trying.”

Since he still hasn’t even begun to solve it I really hope he just fucking dies… Trying? Yeah let’s go with that.

Do you mean DisplayPort?

Your Pixel

Limited to Pixel 8 and newer devices and no 4k yet.

Oh, so your Pixel, but not my Pixel.

Absolutely, it was at the height of the “software as a service” phase and they were doing rolling updates for the Windows Insider program. For a hot minute they absolutely planned on it just being “Windows” from then on.

Vaguely, for most of the places I’ve lived, but the memories aren’t super clear, but I’m also probably between a 2 and a 3 on the aphantasia levels. So it not being super clear but a general idea of layout makes sense.

Places like work are a lot less distinct, as are shared living spaces where I spent more time in my space and didn’t go into other people’s rooms. I worked in television for a long time, and I remember how the studios and control rooms for filming were generally laid out, I don’t remember the organization for the rest of the building that I barely went into. I remember basically nothing at all about the first station I worked at, because they switched buildings and moved into a new space about a year after I started working there. I have a vague memory of the control room and studio, but it’s a lot less clear than the others, which are also vague.

I remember the layout of the park and pool that I worked at clearly, but that was one of my favorite jobs ever, so it tracks that I’d have a lot of memories of it. Also I worked alone so I had to cover the whole area instead of having areas that I wouldn’t go into.

I remember vaguely street layouts from places I’ve lived, but I usually have to go look at a map for a clearer picture in my mind how everything in the area was connected.

Lucky, what I wouldn’t give to get my hands on a Mac with an Apple silicon chip.

I don’t have any suggestions, just…

I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.

For sure, it’s a vast improvement, but there’s still so much you can’t do with it.

Mostly because unlike Bash and DOS, which are CLIs that get GUIs slapped on top, PowerShell is a CLI slapped on top of a GUI.

And they still haven’t even finished making PowerShell anywhere near as functional as Bash or any other Linux shell environment. First version of PowerShell came out exactly 10 years after the first version of NT.

I don’t outright hate PowerShell but it’s clearly a hacky afterthought after realizing Linux was eating their lunch in the server space via quick rollouts to thousands of computers at once through Bash scripting.

Right, but that’s just it, they’re basically pulling another Vista if they release Windows 12 later this year.

It’s not clear whether Windows 12 will welcome any non-NPU processors. More likely, PCs that don’t meet its system requirements will lose some functionality.

As the article reasonably posits, it’s way more likely that they’ll just degrade the experience for people without NPUs, which in other words means decreased performance on older hardware, a la Vista on non-compliant hardware. Yes, Vista fucked up rollout by claiming that some hardware was Vista ready when it wasn’t, but basically the same could happen here regarding lack of NPUs.

They’re already fucking this up with vibe-coding Windows 11, so if they seriously go all-in on this, Windows 12 will be a bigger disaster than fucking Windows Vista and Windows Millennium Edition combined.

…and frankly, I think they will. They’ve bet the farm on this AI shit, and they need to force it into everything to justify it’s fucking existence even though Copilot is the most dogshit out of all these dogshit generative AI systems.

Windows 10 arguably became passable for stability about 3 years after release… but you still had to cut out the advertising bloat, spyware, and all which undermined any gains of stability because that shit was just fucking annoying.

Dude, they’re still struggling with Windows 11 adoption because of the unreasonable requirements of a TPM 2.0 capable motherboard/CPU… and they are asking people to upgrade their CPUs again?

They only started seeing real growth in Windows 11 numbers as of January of this year. Windows 11 finally hit 73% last month while Windows 10 is down to 27%. Linux continues to gain marketshare, and there’s no telling if the reason that Win 11 is finally gaining marketshare is from people dumping Windows entirely for other options. Mac and Chromebook shares have been growing as well! It took Microsoft four and a half years from release to break 50% Win 11 adoption and they want to release Win 12 on year five while forcing more upgrades when half the people who got in just upgraded?

This on top of trade wars, actual wars, and an AI arms race that is making buying PC parts obscenely overpriced… and they think people will fucking go for this?

The suits at Microsoft are out of their fucking minds. Even businesses won’t want to upgrade this soon after many only just making upgrades to meet Windows 11 requirements just recently… because businesses are also facing the same increased costs due to the above issues!

On top of the threat of Epstein, Trump has spent a lot of time talking about whether he will get into heaven lately. Coupled with the news that military leaders are saying that the strikes are to help Trump usher in the Christian Armageddon end times, it’s also reasonable to think that Netanyahu coaxed Trump into thinking if he “helped God” he might actually get into heaven despite the child rape and murder.

Well, like I said, I honestly think public transit doesn’t make very much sense for remote areas. I think it makes far more sense to give people the types of transportation that work best for their use case, and in remote areas: that’s cars.

Source: BBC