don’t forget to not buy new. buy a used device whenever possible, unless you specifically want to support a particular company

you’re limiting your interpretation of rape to a single definition. there are multiple, and this certainly fits as one

yep

I don’t have much against small scale capitalism - the kind your neighbour likes because his brother works hard to run a business

but mega corp infinite growth — fuuuuuuck that shit, that’s a cancer

lmao I love when the it’s just a dumb little thing like that

you did make me realize that that may not be quite so obvious anymore, though, with how they constantly change menus and setting names around. how many other things that we’ve learned over years & years of using Windows are just different in future versions, or not possible any more. and how many of those things were ever obvious settings in the first place, rather than ‘common knowledge’ learned from years of familiarity

just MS things. changing things for no apparent reason to make it worse to use and also remove existing features that people actually liked

wait, did they do away with the primary monitor designation?

isn’t that like the only thing that makes a “primary monitor” special - the taskbar? why can’t you just set another monitor as primary?

I don’t use win11, if it’s not obvious, lol

yeah that’s the checkbox that doesn’t exist for me in the copilot section that also doesn’t exist for me

I just got the notification today when opening Office programs that copilot was there

all the help threads about how to turn it off have out of date info. seems like you can no longer disable it in Excel/Word/PowerPoint

sure am and it fucking sucks

just today I ran into a new issue - when you try to close an Excel document without saving, it asks if you want to merge your changes with the server.

I do not, I want to close without saving, so I choose no.

then it asks if I want to save the document.

I do not, I want to close without saving, so I choose don’t save

The document finally closes. I reopen the document, and guess what’s there? my unsaved changes. if I try to close the document, the cycle repeats.

Microsoft fucking removed the ability to close a document without saving

I tried this on Windows 10 on one computer and Windows 11 on another computer with the exact same behavior

hmm. I wonder if that was what was happening to me

it hasn’t happened since my ex moved out, so there’s less traffic…

but I think it actually stopped before that.

how does flaking out present itself?

I had an issue for a long time where the pihole seemed to be bricking the network, and combined with the Eero mesh it was a pain to bring back online each time due to order of operations restarting devices and enabling/disabling DNS on the router

and if YOU want to burn, get in a Tesla

I just bought a 2012 as my ‘new’ vehicle because I don’t want to deal with any stupid tech issues like that

hell, I don’t even like standard traction control - if I press the accelerator, I want the wheels to get power. I’ve been stuck slowly crossing in the middle of an intersection too many times because ESC ‘helped out’ and cut power to the wheels. no mf just spin them until they get to the hard surface below the snowslush

auto high beams do not work every time.

I am routinely blinded by them when people drive through my neighborhood at night and I’m walking my dog, or when I’m biking to the store. and this is in a neighborhood with street lights where high beams are completely and utterly not required in the first place at 40 km/h.

doesn’t work well in my experience. now I typically just leave my mirrors all the way out and up when driving at night, so the headlights never hit my eyes from them

I can see everything I need to from the rearview and turning my head. it’s not like you can see anything using the side mirrors at night when somebody with LED headlights is behind you anyways, all you see is a giant flare and you can’t even tell if it’s in your lane or the next lane or how close it is

LED headlights are literally making the roads less safe by decreasing visibility and awareness

see the thing is we don’t need to put up with either of those situations, neither is acceptable

doesn’t matter when lowbeams are just as bright as high beams and aimed at somebody’s face, though

incorrect. cutoff just means it isn’t blinding on flat level ground. which roads and streets are very much not

lol it’s not just aftermarket or modified stuff dude, look at any new stock Subaru/Toyota/Mazda. blinding

I want to know how many are related to drivers blinded by LED headlights. I’ve seen (and been a part of) dozens of near hits in the past few years because of this.

edit: Let me just be very clear about this — if you think that the issue is only aftermarket headlights or modified vehicles, you are mistaken. you can look at pretty much any modern Toyota or Subaru or Mazda or pickup with LED headlights and see that the low beams are just as bright as the high beams, just aimed lower. and that aim lower does not matter when the low beams are shining in somebody’s face, which happens often because roads are not level and flat. and you know where this is often the case? intersections. intersections often are raised in the middle, which means the car on the other side is angled slightly upwards, which means their low beam LED headlights are blasting the person on the other side in the face, even with their “but much cutoff is correct excuse”.

the simple inexcusable unavoidable fact is that headlights that blind people like this with this frequency are simply bad design and dangerous, and yes they also make the driver an asshole for having that vehicle and treating other people like this. like how would people feel if I just went around blasting them in the face with a flashlight that bright while walking around. they’d be livid. this is literally not any different, you’re not special just because you bought a 4,000 lb vehicle that has dangerous features.