When trying to find a copy of Forza 4 (or one of them) after being disappointed with the cut down version they had on gamepass, I discovered it couldn’t be sold anymore because of a deal MS made with Porsche that eventually ran out.

Also set up a standardized licensing process that breaks the mini-monopolies of exclusive content.

Personally, I’d also limit copyright to specific works and not the characters, setting, etc. Then protect trademarks and use those to establish canon. Like in the MCU and DC universes, Spiderman and Batman don’t exist together, but in the Superhero Fan Universe, they are roommates and play genius billionaire vs superhuman with a sixth sense prank wars on each other.

You get the most accurate memes if you use the large hadron collider as your input device. Though be careful, sometimes you can get a bit of antimatter on them, so don’t touch or lick the meme.

Yeah it’s ridiculous with every small app needing to be packaged with a full DOM and maybe even an http server for all I know and what should have been a few kb ends up being 1000x that or more.

It’s like so many programmers never evolve past the “playing around with web dev stuff” days. The fact that JavaScript is one of the most used languages is appalling.

The whole 1+1 = 11 meme made me laugh and then avoid JavaScript whenever possible, but I wonder if many others saw it and thought, “now I’ve gained more experience in JavaScript!”

Vim has been around long enough that I’ve found anything I want to figure out how to do has been discussed many times on various places around the internet and have yet to fail to find what I’m looking for with a search.

I’ve seen vscode fill up home directories unnecessarily when run on the machine directly as well as remotely!

IMO vscode is a perfect example of recent software that looks great from a features pov but horrible from an efficient implementation pov. I loved it until I hated it.

When I first heard of the MS feature, my first thought was that there’s gotta be a more efficient way to do this than taking screen shots and analyzing the image. The window manager has all of that information plus more context (like knowing that these pixels are part of a non-standard window that uses transparency to act like a non-rectangular shape, while this thing that looks like a window is actually an image because the user was looking at someone else’s screenshot).

Even better would be integration with the applications themselves; they have even more contextual information than the window manager has.

Maybe, instead of telling everyone they should switch to Linux at any opportunity you can, you should try switching to Linux.

Insert copypasta of angry nerd ranting about using regex to parse html.

If you like doing the web dev work, it’s not hard to implement a simple bbcode using regex matching and replacement. At least, it was pretty easy using php and sql.

I dunno, I’d say them deploying an update that bricked machines at the scale they did shows they didn’t test it very well at smaller scales. They could have even still used their users as beta testers, just needed to do a subset of them first.

Could try the approach of posting a rant that mint can’t even do what you’re trying to do with it, therefore it sucks and anyone that likes it is wrong and a bad person and it’s easier to just deal with Windows.

The Repeatophobic: If a question vaguely reminds them of a previously posted question, they become enraged and insist the new thread be locked.

Imagine not even noticing repetition being used deliberately…

Life becomes a hell of a lot easier when you stop worrying about shit like that.

sudo apt purge doxygen

One character has never been this important.

Though on Windows, you might get:

Co-pilot could not find doxygen installed on this system but guessed that you meant Oxygen Management Service and uninstalled that for you.

Please click on a star to rate your experience ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Ah shit, I just accidentally unmounted the Soyuz module and the canadarm drivers haven’t been working since the hobbyist maintaining them for free got tired of abusive comments from NASA engineers and took up farming instead, so hopefully we don’t need to evacuate before they send up another one.

And it’s unhelpful because it doesn’t give any details about what it wants to do with that admin access and also treats permission for one action as permission for all actions (not that you can tell what they first action you’re permitting is).

I like the way android does it, where you can grant or revoke special permissions by category of action.

Though the system I’d like to see is one where each program is sandboxed and then even you close the program (or it prompts for an elevation), then you get a list of system differences between the sandbox and your system and can choose whether and which changes to push from the sandbox env into the main env. Or to combine sandboxes so that programs can interact with each other.

If you want to reference other files, you should use a less ambiguous way to refer to them. Like a relative path or full absolute path. The fact that that weakness is because of a half-baked feature like that actually makes me lose even more respect.

Edit: thanks for the info though, it does add some missing context.