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CaptPretentious

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  • There may be no turning back this climate crisis

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  • Listen, I hate everyone in my government right now. But to just imply this is somehow a single country's fault, by a single dumbass president... is just fucking wild. We pollute the most? Feel free to back that up, my dude.

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    March for Billionaires — San Francisco, Feb 7

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  • Per hour, yes.

  • Military Pressured to See ‘Melania’ Against Their Will

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  • It does read like that. That various "superiors" were "encouraging" people to go see it in the theater. Pretty much the only way to inflate the numbers and avoid "military uses millions of dollars to buy tickets for a movie".

  • Your teenage son AND your husband

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  • Oh man, that hits home... just before COVID hit, I was doing 5k's and got injured. And I didn't transition to a lower calorie intake to adjust to the lower physical activity. Just as I was starting to get back into the gym... COVID landed and the gym was closed. Now, I'm a fat bastard. But trying to work on that.

  • Your teenage son AND your husband

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  • When I was a teen in highschool... I was in a weightlifting gym class and I did soccer. When is get home, for a snack if have a party pizza (or two). Probably went through a carton of milk myself. God my mom was so pissed. I was probably half or grocery budget alone for a few years

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    Official Valve: Steam Hardware Launch timing (Q1/Q2 of 2026) and other FAQs

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  • Sam Altman is OpenAi. OpenAi is. ChatGPT. ChatGPT is "ai". "ai" has caused a massive shortage of consumer hardware and a massive increase in price. Consumer hardware is what would be used in the upcoming SteamCube.

    So, that's how.

  • Just ask, "Would Kramer be convinced to get into this?"

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  • Giddy up!

  • Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate

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  • So Ubisoft, that failed hard on their own launcher. Made several mistakes when it comes to the games they've released, made the wrong kind of news with "The Crew 2", cancelled a bunch of games (but don't worry, Beyond Good and Evil 2 is definitely coming out........), goes and fired a lead designer.

    Let me break out my magnifying glass to check on their stocks. Oh, they made a slight "comeback" from earlier this week, they're up to 92 cents a share.

    Mgmt at that place is making bold decisions for a company; when if their stock gains a penny, it's worth celebrating.

  • Five-Alarm Fire Warning After Trump Says 'Republicans Ought to Nationalize the Voting'

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  • Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say

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  • Or the more likely, it's a bunch of new students who've grown up watching everything in portrait mode and short bursts with Subway Runner or someone cutting soap for some reason on half the screen.

  • Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in Windows

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  • No, it's a long-known fact that the Windows code has been shit for decades. That's been known since at least XP days I think. Pretty sure I first heard about it on TechTV

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

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  • Im on the WIndows 10 Extended support. I'm either going to risk staying on 10, or move to linux. The big problems for me are 1 ) Visual studio doesn't run on linux so I'd either have to learn a new editor or do a VM... I suppose 2) Gaming. A lot can happen in 8 months for improvements. But this might be the thing that holds me on Windows for a while. Saw a video of native Dota2 on linux runs like shit. 3) A solid remote desktop replacement. One that's as good or better than what I'm using.

  • Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in Windows

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  • Oh no doubt, same. There's so much to be said. More than any one person should.

  • Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in Windows

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  • To add to this list

    1. Remove WebView apps. Eat our own dogfood and use MAUI.
    2. Go back to the classic Start Menu. Use API to make the whole UI available for customizations
    3. Get rid of the whole shitty "Settings" menu and go back to the Control Panel.
    4. Drop backwards compatibility for a bunch of crap. Stop pulling the 1980s forward, let that shit die.
    5. Address real modern issues with compatibility and performance with current CPUs
    6. Undo all the vibe coding.
    7. Focus on stability and performance, not trying to be "An experience". Windows runs apps, make it do that the best it can.
    8. For the love of everything holy, take a risk and modernize the OS. This goes back to 8. But as someone who makes Windows Server golden images for multiple platforms, FUCKING CHRIST. Having to use the Autounattend to even get anything started, and that's often (Even in Azure) just a minimal thing to get some client to do the real work, should tell you there's a problem. The Autounattend is poorly documented. I learned more from just building a basic VM on different providers and seeing what they figured out. I could write a god damn novel on the shortcomings of the initial installation and customization of Windows, but it's especially embarrassing for their Server platform
    9. Stop dropping support for the crap that works. Just so you can sell an inferior subscription version. WSUS being sunset is stupid. Having on-prem WSUS is always going to be faster and easier. You should focus on making that better instead of letting it limp along and then "Oh, we have an overpriced and slower option!" Get bent.
    10. Azure Local is a really fucking cool idea. That was an god awful pricing as far as I can tell. But neat.

  • Shopping in 2026

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  • Use your neighbors toilet! If it doesn't have a camera or ass-print scanner, it'll really through off the data brokers buying up all your shit data so they can sell ads!

  • Minnesota judge summons ICE leader to court, threatens contempt sanctions

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  • Minnesota is on good terms with Canada. So.. I mean, I feel perfectly safe.

  • Minnesota judge summons ICE leader to court, threatens contempt sanctions

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  • Am I wrong, but don't they have until Friday? So, we'll find out next week?

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    Meta shut down research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to filings in a lawsuit

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  • They can't fix it. Social media, isn't what the brain wants. Social media isn't actually being social. Most of it is talking to the void that doesn't really respond. There's no conversations, no friendships/community, no connections, or experiences. There is, however, ads, bots, misinformation, etc.

    Like, I can read about a roller coaster. I can see photos of it. But that doesn't replace riding it. Replace roller coaster with whatever.

    The only way they could modify social media to be better for people is to shut it down. It's like alcohol, realistically there's no amount you should consume. And some people can't self manage (alcoholics). That's social media. But they want you addicted, they want you engaged all the time. Because money.

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    If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.

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  • I've been on this rock for more than 30 years. I can assure you we've never had orange clouds. I will say sunrise and sunset do some wild things and you see some really cool colors.