halcyoncmdr

You do know there's a reason for that voice difference in MGSV right?

Well it didn't do its job very well then did it. It's designed to shoot flying things, and drones fly.

To be fair most of the "bloat" is the flashy stuff that gets consumers to buy things. The extras that enterprise and some power users don't care about because they want to use their own thing instead.

A lot of that "bloat" is the easy integrated stuff the average person can set up and use themselves following a couple login and setup screens without having to think about it. Things like OneDrive for easy automated document backup, backing up device licenses to an account versus needing to keep track of a license key if they need to reinstall, integrated find my device services, etc.

All of those functions are expected in a modern OS by the average user, so they are ready to go out of the box with a little setup. It's the same way Apple handles similar services on OSX and iOS, and Google does with ChromeOS. Not every user will use those services, and there are alternatives of course. Nothing prevents you from uninstalling OneDrive, or most other pre-installed programs or components. I got rid of those immediately after installing Windows 11 because I use other services, and I haven't seen them since.

Exactly. They were using bullshit screening like this well before LLMs came on the scene.

The Military Industrial Complex won't let some politicians get in the way of their control of the nearly $1 Trillion annual military budget.

Any backers if there are any, searching their name online to see about controversial decisions.

And then I default to replacing them. Most people vote to keep the status quo... I'd rather keep them on their toes.

Reminder that Fox News was created in the wake of Watergate specifically because media coverage of the scandal went from non-existent to shifting public opinion against it in weeks. It was created to be a dedicated Republican party propaganda platform to prevent that from ever happening again.

Beans on toast?

Checks out. Especially for the crazy people that refer to all sliced bread as toast, whether it's toasted or not.

Nothing else should be in the kernel.

I didn't even think about it that much.

They obviously didn't either.

I figured it was designed that way so people don't make that specific turn, meaning it wasn't actually intended to be a full roundabout. But instead of bothering to pay for any sort of infrastructure in the middle to physically prevent it, they thought painting lines would be enough.

It would be a state law. Dems in CA are much more likely to make sure it gets enforced compared to the federal level.