It is!!

As the article discusses, you can increase the odds by resetting your microbiome with antibiotics, eating a carb rich diet and suppressing the action of aldehyde dehydrogenase in your gut (such as by acquiring a liver disease). Godspeed

I think that’s the general consensus: the album was fine, but it was a potent reminder that peoples’ iTunes catalogs were not actually their own, but controlled by corporations that can control our music at the flip of a switch. People did not like that feeling. So in a way, it was actually a net positive at the time, in reminding people of this fact. Unfortunately later on, people have moved to not owning music at all.

The committee tried to appease Trump by offering it to a Venezuelan right winger. They learned the lesson so many have learned; that these people cannot be met halfway, if you give them an inch they WILL take a foot.

lol, I can tell when an editor is getting big mad about an article when they start flagging each sub-section individually with different objections they have. If there is a wiki flag asserting “there are too many flags, probably in bad faith”, that would be appropriate here.

The subs model ensures regular and predicable quarterly revenue, which means easier forecasting of growth, which means happier shareholders.

Might depend on your graphics card setup. My work laptop has pretty underpowered integrated graphics

Always makes me queasy how people are so fascinated by true crime (Ed Gein, serial killer and subject of a new Netflix true crime doc)

Video effects randomly stop working sometimes, and frequently has choppy video

I posted this a year or two ago and got hit by a huge wave of furious Brave users lol. Occasionally to this day someone will stumble on it and post some tirade

Chinese opera is fascinating and there are hundreds of varieties. I really enjoyed when I saw one in China and definitely can recommend it to everyone

I am worried, because there are increasing cases where open source docs are going offline because they can’t take the bandwidth costs of the big LLM bots recrawling hundreds of times per day. Wikipedia is also getting hammered. There is so much waste and diminishing returns

They seem to vary that slogan place to place. In the Bay Area of CA they use alternative slogans

Yes, it’s really insidious

I try to avoid that word since most organized religions are varying degrees of culty to me, but yes, they’re a cult

True for humans also

How the hell else are PMs going to get positive reviews this quarter? Waiting for Excel, Word, Powerpoint and Windows to all be called Copilot

Pivot! PIVOT!!

What are those?!

I think some people won’t be able to switch just because they’ve passed the point where learning new tech is possible. But I do think for those with the will to change over, it will increasingly actually be happening rather than being muttered a threat to Microsoft, especially because the main pain points of the past (software exclusivity) is starting to break down. Some games are now running better on Linux. MS Office is increasingly being superseded by alternatives like Gsuite, Libreoffice, or just learning to code in easy languages like Python/R. And unlike in the past when Microsoft overplayed its hand and changed course to regain users with Windows 7, 10, etc, this time it seems like they aren’t going to change. They are in too deep.