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toddestan

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  • Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash

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  • Actually Teams has both channels and threads, it's just that they are so cumbersome and clunky and unintuitive that no one seems to use them or even realize they are there. Hence the reason there's like a dozen similar group chats all with a different subset of people in them. Oh, and some of these group chats were originally created from some meeting months ago so they are in a completely different list than the other group chats for some reason.

    Personally, I find Teams to be a huge productivity killer. It's constantly interrupting my work and demanding my attention because there's some conversation going on in one of the group chats that's completely irrelevant to me, but I can't just put damn thing on mute because while the signal to noise ratio is low, I can't just completely ignore the signal part either. If I could only convince people that disseminating important information only through Teams in some random chat room is just a bad idea, but alas I have seemed to have lost that battle.

  • Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash

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  • One day a Microsoft employee must have asked Copilot what was a good chat platform, and thus a new Discord server was born.

  • bold words

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  • You'd be better off saying something like "sell bitcoin $125k" (we'll just assume "$125k" would count as one word). That you should then buy it when it's cheap would be implied.

  • Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products, making Amazon richer

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  • I avoid Amazon as much as possible, though on occasion I've more or less had no other reasonable choice. But that's happened something like 4 times in the last 10 years or so.

    The big problem with boycotting Amazon is that while it's easy enough to avoid buying from their online store as much as possible, AWS (Amazon Web Services) is pretty much unavoidable if you're using the modern internet.

  • Why does cats (and similar animals) can live with the exact same food every day, but we (humans) need a variety of food to survive?

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  • From what I've seen of cats, he had probably some other health issue that was making him not feel good, and because he felt bad he lost his appetite. Particularly if he was an older cat.

  • The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

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  • My high school, among other interesting design decisions, didn't have any lockers in the academic areas. So you had a locker that was way over by the gyms, or out by the shop classes, or if you were lucky in the cafeteria (because then you could at least stash your lunch in it).

    The administration also seemed to be completely mystified as to why everyone carried around huge backpacks.

  • What's yours?

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  • The last thing I watched was "Don't Look Up", which means I'm an astronomer, which is certainly a career I'd enjoy. Well, ignoring all the stuff that happens after the start of the movie, I suppose.

  • What do you think is the worst human invention?

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  • Leaded gasoline has to be worse.

  • Windows Is Falling Apart, And Microsoft Is Panicking

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  • I have to agree. Vista was a dud, but there were a number of legitimate improvements made over Windows XP. Windows 11 is just a worse Windows 10. Other than maybe tabs in the Explorer, I can't think of anything they've improved and a whole lot they made worse.

  • Is it really dangerous to fall sleep in the bath?

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  • Even assuming you start with room temperature water, it'd be several hours before you start feeling the effects of hypothermia. Given the water starts off warm, it's only a bathtub of water so body heat will keep it above room temperature, and you're (probably) in a small room that'll help hold in the heat, I'd say you'd more than likely be okay assuming you don't sleep more than 8-10 hours. If you pass out in the tub for something like 16-24 hours then I'd be more worried.

    In some ways, I'd be more concerned about what would happen in the drain plug wasn't completely watertight and the water drained away, particularly if you weren't naked and were wearing clothing that holds in water like cotton.

  • What are some of the best films that do not yet have a sequel or remake

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  • Demolition Man.

  • Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face

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  • More like they become reusable. A lot of places that refurbish donated computers for people who need them are perpetually short on drives since so much of the hardware they get have the drives pulled.

  • Can anyone explain why?

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  • I've seen the line drawn a few different places, but generally Gen Z starts at around 1996-1998 or so. In any case, the oldest Gen Z have been drinking age for a while.

  • 'Minnetoba'? Some Minnesotans want to join Canada as tensions flare with Trump administration

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  • I don't think Wisconsin is as purple as it initially appears. It's just that the Republicans have managed to get a real stranglehold on that state.

  • How often do you update your system?

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  • For my Manjaro systems, I usually check the forums and after I see a new stable update is posted I'll do an update in the next few days. Sometimes I'll check between the big updates for things like browsers or other occasional high priority updates that get posted between the big updates, but usually only if I'm having a problem or have some other reason to do this.

  • Does anyone else's cat play fetch?

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  • I had a cat that played fetch. When he was young fellow, he'd fetch and bring the toy back to me. Eventually he'd only bring the toy most of the way back, and I had to cover the remaining distance. Then he'd bring the toy back some of the way back, and it eventually turned into him running to where the toy ended up, sitting down next to it, and looking at me like "Okay, I found where you tossed the toy, now come over and get it so we can do this again". He still loved to play, but it seemed he kind of outgrew the fetch thing.

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

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  • Doesn't surprise me at all, really. Seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy too, because if you make a show like that, then someone who sits down and actually tries to watch it is more likely to start getting bored and starts to get out that second screen.

    The other issue, particularly with movies, is a lot of this stuff is created with the idea of making it easier to translate to other languages, hence things like the overly simplified dialog.

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

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  • My favorite is when they they say something like "it starts getting good in season 3". Like I'm going to watch tens of hours of a show that kind of sucks just to see if it actually starts getting good or not?

    Of course, the reality is that they aren't really watching the show like I would - as in, they aren't sitting down and giving it their undivided attention. The show is on, but they're also on their phones the entire time, or it's on in the background and they are doing something else, or whatever. Probably one of the reasons why the show feels like it's full of filler - they need to make sure that someone that's only sort of paying attention can still follow what's going on.

  • It's probably not reasonable to expect this to improve in 2026.

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  • You can do that in Linux too! Just put an entry in crontab to reboot the system sometime during your working hours.