I don't hate Windows for work. On the clock, I am balls deep in their ecosystem and I can't say that it's not working. However, that's probably because I get it mostly set-up by IT!

Casual reminder that on Windows, it's the norm to go fetch packages from the fucking internet using a web browser and give them root access to your system, including drivers...
A lot of settings are still scattered as well, with stuff randomly hidden away, completely unconfigurable or named so it's not at all clear what it even does.

For everyday stuff like browsing, I totally do not see why people would want to use Windows.

If it wasn't for (some) ((multiplayer)) games and other Windows-only software, I wouldn't recommend this OS to anyone at this point.

That's what happens when a government is either too corrupt or too incompetent to tackle the real issues. Things get worse, people get mad, populists rise and, at some point, try to grab power.

I really hope todays politicians get the message. The problem is not that populists are there. They won't just go away, no matter how hard you campaign against them. The problem is that you give them power by failing your country and the people within.

Sure, let's go with that.

Don't they count what the Steam client runs on?

I have a lot of respect for the passion the French put into protesting, although I do worry about their blood pressure sometimes.

To add to the other answers: Yes, it is a known bug and I think it is being fixed in Plasma 6.1.2 or 6.2

US discovering universal healthcare backwards.

Technical question: If he would murder both candidates, could he still become president and pardon himself?

Is there no electron wrapper around ChatGPT yet? Jeez we better hurry, imagine having to use your browser like... For pretty much everything else.

You know, the answer to captions like that is to 99.9%:

Yes*

*Under laboratory conditions and for a very specific use case / a whole lot of money, once.

The reality is that billions are poured into developing faster computers and change is happening gradually, because low-hanging fruits are gathered even before they are ripe.

Hot water an dish soap works miracles on all kinds of clogs btw.

Die Ablehnung des Staates Israel ist Antisemitismus.

In meinen Augen ist das Antikolonialismus. Und ich debattiere da auch nicht drüber, ich lehne diesen Staat, zumindest in jetziger Form, nicht wegen der Religion oder der Herkunft der Bewohner ab.

Genau weil die Israelis den Staat Israel ablehnen...

Verzeihung, das habe ich missverständlich formuliert. Was ich eigentlich ausdrücken wollte war: Es gibt eine Opposition in Israel (die gegen die Aktuelle Regierung steht) und (unabhängig davon) auch jüdische Antizionisten. Darunter sogar überaus bekannte, wie Einstein und Chomsky.

Israel ist ganz sicher keine Theokratie

Israel ist ein Staat, der speziell für die Anhänger einer Religion gegründet wurde und seine Gebietsansprüche auf religiösen Erzählungen basiert. Außerdem gibt es Probleme mit Diskriminierung und Vorurteilen, die vom Staat nicht nur zugelassen sondern sogar befeuert werden, um vermeintlich eigene Gebiete von anderen religiösen und/oder ethnischen Gruppen zu "befreien". Israel mag dieser Tage mehr oder weniger demokratisch regiert sein, ist aber fundamental auf einer Religion, religiösen Erzählungen und Ansichten begründet und lässt sich bis heute davon leiten.

Ich lehne ein Israel jenseits eines Zwei-Staaten-Kompromisses ab, weil ich es im aktuellen Zustand schlicht für eine brutale Kolonialmacht halte, die nicht mal versucht besser zu sein als die, die aus israelischer Sicht für ihr eigenes Handlen verantwortlich sind.

I think overall they are not better or worse than other tech giants. They try to be the platform for blank and thus to push competitors out of the marked, or lock it down so they can't enter. They try to extract as much money from their customers as they can, even if it makes the user experience worse. They push the boundaries of what the can legally do. They charge you, but you don't own anything.

What really grinds my gears is how they try to force stuff on me that I don't fucking want. I feel like they are completely different in that regard than for example Google. I use Google Maps because I want to. I don't use Chrome because I don't want to. It's that easy. They don't ask me to reconsider, they don't make it super complicated to switch, nothing. I can disable any Google App and forget about it.

To stick with the Google comparison, I also feel like Google informs me better and gives me more control regarding my data. This feels much more hidden on convoluted in MS products in general. For example I had no idea Office is basically spyware before reading about it elsewhere. In Google-land, they seem much more upfront about what they use and what I can opt out from (or in to).

Als entschiedener Israel-Kritiker möchte ich gerne einwerfen, dass gegen den israelischen Staat zu sein, selbst Antizionist zu sein, nichts mit Antisemitismus zu tun hat. Sonst wäre ein großer Teil der israelischen Bevölkerung auch antisemitisch, mindestens die komplette Opposition in Israel selbst. Und ich finde man kann Theokratien religionsbasierte Demokratien verabscheuen, ohne das auf die dafür missbrauchte Religion zu übertragen.

Darüber hinaus halte ich es für erwähnenswert, dass die Palästinenser auch zu den Semiten gehören, wobei diese Bezeichnung genau genommen komplett überholt und mindestens leicht rassistisch ist. Über die Implikationen davon lohnt es sich nachzudenken.

You know, comparing people to God is basically blasphemy already. Not that I trust people who genuinely support Trump to understand anything about their own religion - or anything really.

Sure sounds like the French way of protesting

I wonder what's the strategy here. If I had to guess I'd say he wants to see them fail miserably, so they lose support as quickly as they got it. I'm not sure that's a good idea tho.

I know this won't help you a whole lot, but I do.

Love how people look at GB, see their much bigger economy, see the results of Brexit and be like: Bro, I think we would do better.

I have to, for work - which is why I am happy whenever they do stuff right. That said, there is also a lot of schadenfreude whenever they think something along the lines of "let's tell people we will screenshot everything".

Whatever MS does, I win.