Pays 100$ for windows 11 pro expecting to not see targeted advertising.

“Play Candy Crush on the Windows App Store Now!” ad baked into the Lock Screen ffs why

Nice, looks a lot like the cell stage in Spore but heavily expanded upon, looks promising

I am a coffee cup!

In a shocking turn of events, google decided once again to make their namesake service worse for everyone.

Legitimately baffling, keeping this feature doesn’t really seem like it would impact anyone except those that use it, while removing it not only impacts those people that already use it, but those who would potentially have reason to in the future.

Cannot think of a single benefit to removing a feature like this.

If only Microsoft relied on making edge a worthy competitor and focused on the UI/UX instead of these dumb head games.

Back when edge wasn’t just a chromium skin it was a neat idea, EdgeHTML was different at the very least and more options are always good compared to chrome monopoly bs. But at this point it’s just Microsoft branded chrome with a (kinda shitty) GPT agent baked in.

The uwu-fication of animal obesity these past ten years or so has been pretty disturbing to witness.

Tracks as a “cute” way for pet owners to avert feeling guilty/responsible for their animals being dangerously overweight.

“Oh no Mr. Wiggles isn’t obese he’s just a heckin’ chonkerino wholesome chungus” meanwhile the cat wheezes trying to go up and down the stairs.

Idk at this point Linux is definitely in a better place games wise than macOS, coming from someone who uses both.

While there are games being released natively on (macOS) sometimes, they are far fewer in number than the number of games running like-native or better through proton on Linux systems. Also even when there is a Mac version, it often lags behind in terms of updates / support in general.

I think both OSs have their upsides and downsides, from a user experience standpoint they both benefit from the lack of obnoxious Microsoft billshit that plagues windows these days.

Would be so surreal to start seeing commercials for Linux (as a desktop), OEM machines being sold w/ Linux at big stores and so on.

It’s been like 30 years of Windows being the majority at this point and it just keeps getting buggier and more user hostile every year, a paradigm shift is very much needed IMO.

The variety is definitely good but for sure leads to the individual parts feeling less refined overall.

Was hoping the restaurant sections would allow you to expand the restaurant itself at some point, since by late game you have more people than seating available a lot of the time.

Bastet is a good one (in-terminal tetris game)

Reminds me of some other cool game mechanics that have been patented/copyrighted leading to games as a whole losing out on fantastic ideas. The nemesis system from the Shadow of Mordor games / loading screen minigames come to mind.

Idk as long as Meta services keep forcing you to sign up for an account to view anything of value I’d imagine a lot of people will look for alternatives elsewhere.

Nothing more annoying than trying to look at the menu for a local restaurant/business page for a local business and seeing “sign up for Facebook to view this page.” Much of the utility for any kind of discussion or shared info online (imo) lies in the ability to access it quickly via search and without being forced to login.

Facebook couldn’t have handled Threads any more poorly, doubtful that they could pose any kind of serious threat at this point.

Most people who use anything decentralized or federated at this point are probably the type to avoid 🤮book anyway.

Reddit feels less genuine for sure, than it would have even as far back as 3 years ago. The mod purge probably accelerated things greatly but in general it’s felt like Reddit was going corporate astroturfing route for a while. Real discussions are very sparse compared to the amount of people telling you “to solve problem, buy this expensive thing!”

At this point the only thing Reddit has is a numbers advantage. The videos are no huge loss because at this point since you’re forced to use their (god awful) mobile app they either autoplay obnoxiously or automatically popup obscuring the comments (discussion is 90% of why I go to a forum why make it harder to see comments?).

The desktop experience is still okay but the constant pushing to get you to enable notifications is very irritating.

I would but the cigarette lighter doesn’t work (wiring issues w/ the car 🙃)

Would be using it pretty much every day, my car doesn’t have bluetooth so I need to rely on a casette to aux converter that I stick in the tape slot. Then I end up needing to plug my (jackless) phone into a lightning to aux dongle, plug that into the aux for the cassette converter, and then finally swap to the tape deck. Super annoying and would be slightly less-so with a jack.

Staying up till 3AM so the day lasts longer

Mfw downing shots of apple cider vinegar for “health benefits”

Welp time to start mass-buying dvd box sets and ripping the files, screw not owning shit you paid for

Content

Bam!