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Bytemeister

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  • Rent is theft

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  • This is completely ignorant of the fact that landlords can get insurance for those things and often dont have to pay anything at all.

    You've got this upside-down. The existence of the insurance industry in a capitalist system is proof that risk is a thing that can be bought, sold, traded, banked and spent. If there was no financial cost to risk, then there would be no market for insurance to mitigate that risk.

    The landlord gives up some income in order to mitigate risk, and most of the time, only some of that risk. I have yet to see or hear of an insurance policy that would basically cut a check for 100% of an insured item's value unconditionally. If it did exist, it would probably be more expensive than the object itself.

  • Rent is theft

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  • The key thing that the landlord handles is risk. If the roof is very expensive to fix, that is not the contractor's problem. If the property does not generate revenue, that is not the bank's problem. If the property is not worth the cost to build, that is not the builder's problem. If the property is unsafe to live in, that is not the renter's problem.

    The landlord's financial risk in the property (should) provide an incentive to maintain and make use of that property.

    I'm not saying there aren't other system of distribution people to homes, and I'm not saying that the capitalist system in the US is the best system to do it. I'm just pointing out that a core principle of capitalism is risk, and that is what the landlord provides, a single point buffer of risk for the other parties involved.

  • The world is trying to log off U.S. tech

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  • I'd say that individual companies need to make contingency plans for when the US puts up their own great firewall (assuming they haven't already, since I'm in the US).

    I think it would be prudent for nations that have Google/Amazon/Microsoft datacenters in them to create legislation that allows them to nationalize or detach those services from the US. I have no doubt that we will eventually have our own policy that gives us the privilege to snoop on foreign data in foreign datacenters that are running US owned hardware.

  • The world is trying to log off U.S. tech

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  • Haven't you heard? It's the Donroe doctrine now.

    I'm not even joking.

  • Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.

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  • My personal desktop is on mint. I just got an old 56 core, 256GB RAM, 18TB server from work. I'm running proxmox on that so I can spin up VMs with different distros on it to try them out.

  • 'I'll believe it when I see it': Windows 11 users are cynical about Microsoft's promises to fix the OS and stop pushing AI

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  • AVD is an expensive dystopian virtual nightmare right now.

  • Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.

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  • I finally kicked Windows after 30 years because I have to use windows 11 for work, and it fails at almost everything an operating system should be. Search doesn't work right. Applications don't work right. Basic UI is buggy and inconsistent. It's the most expensive piece of software I use. Using 2 cores and 7GB of RAM at idle is unacceptable for an operating system. It's the equivalent of running Skyrim all the time in the background. It actively tries to undermine my privacy, and instead of using that data to enhance my UX, it spams targeted ads at me in my fucking taskbar. Windows 11 is basically a SmartTV in terms of privacy and functionality at this point. It actively gets in the way of you using the hardware, and to no tangible benefit. Worse, it's become clear that Microsoft recognizes this, and is actively pursuing and expanding the capabilities, with no intent to make a good OS in the future.

    I'm out.

  • Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.

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  • Doesn't seem that crazy. I usually got about 4-8 years out of my laptops. So a little over 10% turn over makes sense to me statistically.

  • 17 years*

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  • If a state actor wants to deanonymize you...

    Then there ain't fucking shit you can do about it. The only thing you can do to keep big brother off your back is to be too small of a fish for them to spend their time on.

  • Which living creatures can swim and fly, but not walk?

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    ICE agents try to detain US citizen in St Peter, Minnesota. Her 'crime' was filming them.

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  • Remember: Filming ICE is the peaceful alternative.

  • Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany

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  • I just switched from Windows to Linux a few weeks ago. Not sure about a replacement for visual studio, but I haven't had an issue finding an open source application to do anything I did in windows. As for gaming, it works way better than I expected it to, but it's still not as good overall IMHO. Some games run better without all the bloat of Windows 11, other games run way worse because they aren't optimized in Linux, it's been a bit of a crapshoot. For remote desktop, I use the thincast client to connect to other machines, and XRDP on my VMs. Thincast and xrdp work together better than AVD and the Windows App, by a longshot.

  • Just one

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  • Why do we want the rest to fall in line? Why not just eat them all, and prevent the next billionaire from ever existing in the first place?

  • Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in Windows

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  • My 4 part plan to put Microsoft back on track.

    1: Re-open support for Windows 10 until at least 2 years after the release date of the next version of Windows.

    2: Commit to making the next version of Windows less intrusive, cleaner, more reliable, and a small as technically possible.

    3: Fully fund the open source projects that Microsoft relies on for their products.

    4: Make Co-pilot an optional toolkit that runs in the background, with tight, easily configured controls and hook-ins to other applications and data.

    Please put me in charge of Microsoft. I'll do it for a measly 10 million dollars a year. You'll save so much on my salary alone, you practically can't afford not to hire me.

  • Seneca Village

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  • Chances are, if your town has a resivoir or dam, it was built in such a way to flood out or fuck over a thriving black community.

  • The more you know

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  • Absolutely brutal. I love it.

  • Straight into my adblocker

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  • I'm still curious what kinda scam that perpetually-screaming-dude-in-armor ads are pushing. I don't even know what the title of the game is, but that annoying shit must work on a lot of people I guess.

  • This is what actual brandishing looks like

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  • Hmmm. Reading this makes me think, maybe you shouldn't have a gun.

    I mulled over buying one for a few years and finally bought one a few weeks ago. It's not a decision I took lightly. In my mind, the absolute best outcome of owning a firearm is that it is an absolute waste of a lot of money.

  • How/why does Microsoft teams exist?

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  • For a while, Microsoft Teams was pretty good. I'd say their sweet spot was roughly 2020-2022ish. It was a pretty basic chat app with a bit of workplace collaboration and office integration built in.

    Then new teams happened. Now teams can be installed to a user profile, or to the machine as a whole. Now you need new outlook to get some semblance of functionality with calendars and scheduling in teams. Now teams is deployed as part of Microsoft office, or standalone, or needs to be imported as a package, but fuck you if you have a mix of these methods in your environment. Teams holds on to your data now forever, which would be great!... If the search function actually worked well. Now you have to sort through everything you've ever said to find something that someone sent you last week.

    Microsoft just can't fucking resist destroying a "good" chat application by adding a bunch of bloat.