wizardbeard

Look, if you want some place to post politics, there are countless spaces on lemmy for it.

If you want some place to post nearly anything, 4chan's /b/ could use some more content than endless "share images from social media you wank to" threads. They'd also be far more receptive to your shitty attitude too. But considering you couldn't figure out how to post this without downloading an app, you might just be too stupid to figure it out.

Yes, Librewolf, the browser built entirely off... Firefox.

I appreciate their take vs. Mozilla's, but they wouldn't exist without Firefox in the first place.

A big part of the shift from lemmy to piefed seems to be that piefed has a faster development cadence, and that the developers of lemmy are openly tankies.

The flagship Lemmy instance, as in ran by the devs, is lemmy.ml. The ml stands for marxist-leninist. The lead dev regularly bans people from the entire instance for so much as questioning Chinese and Russian ~~propaganda~~ news sources, and they have many many other very controversial takes. There are some comms across the fediverse that document a lot of this, like !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

From a sticky there, the lead dev Dessalines denies the Tiananmen Square massacre and praises the Uyghur genocide.

So far as I'm aware, the piefed devs haven't been involved in any drama, and aren't posting hardline shit about their political beliefs either.

Some of the many ways to bypass making a Microsoft account required hitting the shell in the installer for a moment, but the example screenshot looks more like someone removing shit post-install.

The short guide to not performing CBT with Windows is:

• Grab install media for Pro or LTSC (Pro is better if you aren't a turbo-nerd willing to troubleshoot more)
• Strip out the versions you aren't installing from the install media (forget the tool for this, probably dism)
• Install updates to the install media so you aren't stuck with it updating for a day post-install (forget the tool for this part too, sorry)
• Strip out bloat and unneeded shit (such as onedrive) using DISM
• Install using whatever the current workaround is to not have to make a Microsoft account
• Keep the damn thing offline, adjust settings, configure GPO, use powershell to remove anything more you want out, etc to your desires
• Notably: Disable "reccomendations" in the various spots, those are ads. Set updates to be delayed considerably and to not force restart until a week after first notification (you can no longer disable this entirely). Disable web search from the start menu/search bar.
• Maybe move a few "cleaning/configuring" tools over via USB and run them
• Use MASgrave to spoof a license you horrible degenerate
• Keep detailed notes of every step you do, as sometimes games amd shit will have dumbass dependencies on system parts that they don't expect you to remove

Not as much as we have to now.

I'm usually a Windows shield-bearer around these parts, because it's not quite as much of a dumpster fire as people say (please for the love of god don't debate me on this, I prefer Linux and have better things to do), but this is inarguably something Windows has gotten far far worse at. Out of the box experience (besides having to shove drivers into the install media) used to be a pretty definitive thing that Windows beat Linux on. Install and it "just werkd". It used to be the cornerstone of pushback, that Linux required you to tinker and Windows didn't. But Microsoft destroyed their lead in that so they only have (fast dwindling) business appeal and entrenchment to lean on now.

Ugh yeah. I've been slowly backing up my wife's, my parents', and my own music CDs, and while it thankfully hasn't gotten to many of them, it's ate enough to be annoying.

Especially because my wife's collection is mostly very specific performances of classical music and operas, which can make finding rips difficult when it's not a particularly popular recording.

And the CD-Rs are almost all toast. I'm lucky the old family PC HDDs still have most of the old family photos, so I've been able to back them up. Can't believe we used to think that backing up the pictures to disc would last longer.

I do sys admin/engineering work in a Windows environment. PowerShell is what got me this job, and together with my programming experience allows me to keep up with my seniors who have been in their positions for a decade or more.

It also helps us all make a good team. They have the knowledge and experience advantage (though I'm catching up), I have the skills to figure out how to implement/automate the plans in a way that doesn't involve days of mind numbing manual actions.

Unfortunately, yes.

You're looking at AI upscaling as a shortcut to the end result you want: your book. But from experience, jumping to the end of something robs you of the joy and accomplishment of doing the hard work to get there.

Instead ask if the book really needs illustrations. If it does, wouldn't taking the time to do them right be better? It would also give you more time to revise the other aspects of it.

If this is something you're passionate about, don't douse water on that fire by cheating to the end. If it's not something you're passionate about, why do it in your free time to begin with? If you think you'll somehow make money off it, you'll have plenty more hurdles to go through that can't be AI'd away. If it's just a passion project, use that fucking passion.

I understand the intense desire to just be great at something without putting all the effort in. But there really are no shortcuts to this shit. The main advantage that other people have over you on this is that they started earlier, so they have more time put into it already.

If your friend group doesn't let you use proxy cards, they aren't your friends.

3 days old too. Absolutely just a rage bait account.

The largest size cups are often, but not always, thin as hell plastic.

So you get more free plastic waste with your beetus.

"What size is a medium?"

They'd just grab the cup to show you. Where do you live that the workers would actually reply to you with the actual measurement?