Man, if “Microsoft is actively trying to take control of my hardware and prevent me from deciding how it is used” and “Linux has a learning curve and lacks market dominance to get hardware manufacturers to play with them sometimes” seem like equivalent circumstances to you, there is no number of iterations to this back and forth that are going to arrive at any common ground between you and I. I can only say good day to you.

Oh well it’s like it never happened then!

Your statement suggest that if Windows is “trying to work against you” then Linux is “trying to work for you”.

That’s literally not what I said, nor what I implied. If you want to interpret it that way it’s your choice, but I’m not going to defend a statement I didn’t make and didn’t try to make.

You don’t escape that problem entirely in Linux, it just takes different forms. Proprietary vendor Linux hardware drivers would be a perfect example.

I feel like you aren’t distinguishing between “problem exists” and “problem exists because the makers of my OS want it to exist.”

So why hack Windows to make it do what you want?

I literally said this was NOT the question.

I’m skeptical that irrevocably tying the two together is the only or best technological solution to wanting it in the search box.

It’s because Linux isn’t actually trying to work against you, even if it may feel that way to a noobie at first. Guaranteed this requirement exists to make Recall impossible to uninstall, and for no other reason.

The question isn’t “why take the time to hack windows” it’s “why keep supporting a company that requires you to undo so much of the product just to maintain control and privacy with your own hardware, and which actively seeks to sabotage attempts to do so.”

how the fuck could they have possibly done things in a way that makes explorer tabs depend on recall?

It’s very clearly an intentional move to keep it installed.

And as if it’s entirely reasonable for the maker of your OS to intentionally work against your ability to control your own hardware and what runs on it.

This is my answer to everything that has recently befallen Republicans, will hopefully befall them in November, and which they deserve to have continuing to befall them for the next couple decades.

You invited the worst people into the party, and you voted for them, and you defended them. And I don’t just mean Trump. For as long as it seemed like you might be able to exert your will unilaterally on the populace, there was no bridge too far for you.

So go fuck yourselves, and I mean that from Donald J. Trump, down through every single elected Republican official, down to every single Republican pulling the lever at voting time.

Unless you rejected this bullshit from day one instead of only when it became clear the ship was sinking (so I guess maybe a dozen R nationwide get a pass), you can go fuck yourself, and there’s not a single thing you can do that will ever pull a vote for a republican out of these two hands, because I see who you are, and I see what you support, and I’ve had a taste of what you think it means for America to be “great again.”

Yeah, I dunno how I missed this article. Makes me laugh that McD’s is going to try something like this.

https://www.newsweek.com/mcdonalds-inflation-economy-price-increase-joe-biden-1905209

TheStreet reported that Medium French Fries went from $1.79 in 2019 to $4.19 in 2024, a 134.1 percent increase. A McChicken went from $1.29 to $3.89, a 201.6 percent hike.

The price of the beloved Big Mac increased 87.7 percent, from $3.99 to $7.49. An order of 10 McNuggets rose by 68.8 percent, from $4.49 to $7.58. Of the five popular products examined, cheeseburgers saw the largest price increase—going from $1 to $3.15, a 215 percent spike.

These increases exceed the general average for inflation calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which shows that prices went up by about 21.5 percent between the end of 2019 and March 2024.

You’re good

Thanks! I did at least rather lazily added more info to the body of OP. I’ll take care to be fully compliant in the future.

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Hey I apologize, was almost literally on the way out the door to take a family member to the ER when I saw that and hit the crosspost button. Am only home a few minutes now, but will add the text later when I’m going to be home awhile. Apologies!

I’m gonna read it, but in my 50-some years I have never enjoyed any movie LESS than Showgirls. That move was so awful that it sucked any possible enjoyment out of the sex and nudity. So, using this as the source for the banner and as some kind of centerpiece for this article is leaving me a little skeptical that I’m going to agree with the author’s overall point.

The “Riddle Man” wants the answer to be ‘language’ because the question he claims to have asked is what’s the third word in “the English Language.”

If we credulously try to answer the implied question, it’s better to just link this page, but you should read the whole thing.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/help/faq-third-common-gry-word

There is still the perception that it’s too cheap to be good in many cases. I’ve run into this fairly recently. It’s stupid, but it exists, and sometimes it exists in the people making the decisions.

Yes. The thing to remember is in many cases you aren’t explaining for the person you are debating with or answering a question for. You are doing it for others who may read the conversation.

I’ve had things brought to light in online discussion change my mind or educate me many times. When I see someone claim these conversations are useless or a waste of time, I just think they are really setting weird criteria for what constitutes a waste of time.

Sure, sometimes I ain’t got no time for that, but other times I do, and I figure the same is true for many others as well.

And it still won’t matter to anyone who was already planning to vote for him.

Just because someone can’t demonstrate something doesn’t mean it isn’t true.

That’s exactly my point about whether or not she’s an asshole. Moreover, the outcome of the legal proceedings don’t depend on whether anyone can prove it.

But the outcome of the legal proceedings are entirely dependent on whether she can prove her assertion.

You disagree with my assessment because you are misinterpreting it.

if she’s conflating her orientation class with her just being a fucking asshole she should lose.

How would one show that in a court room?

no one is required to do so for this court room event, and hence:

Doesn’t really matter, either she can prove her case or she can’t.

Doesn’t really matter, either she can prove her case or she can’t. If she can’t, no one has to prove it was because she was an asshole.

Oh for sure, and I wasn’t suggesting otherwise.

I expect a more immediate and flagrant violent event in that case vs the other two though.