i assume they mean this definition, and not a hairdresser’s.

nobody, i’d guess. everyone just vibecodes their own personal shovelware. if theres any bugs, they just make some new slop and hope it’s less buggy than the old slop.

what makes their office software so much better than, say, libreoffice? i don’t work an office job, and haven’t had the misfortune of running windows since i dropped windows 7, but when i did switch, the programs seemed basically the same. office software seemed like a solved problem by then. what new features has microsoft added and convinced people they need that foss options don’t have?

makes me think of the loopholes christian teenagers come up with to claim they’re totally not having premarital sex.

i don’t think we ought to be implying that colonization is cool.

maybe something derived from dekotora? it has most of the same associations as the term we’re looking to replace while not having racist or pejorative origins. deko?

that all makes sense to me. how would you want it to work?

i was gonna say source mage! so i guess it’s not that obscure, if two of us thought to mention it.

unless you buy a game that later adds denuvo, of course

i read the whole article and still have no idea what this has to do with furries.

i think you might be misunderstanding what ‘3rd party’ means. if ubisoft is making you use an ubisoft launcher to run ubisoft games, that’d be first party. here’s an article detailing what the terms mean with regards to game developers. a third party launcher would be like when you add a non-steam game to steam.

couldn’t be that long. i was on the site a couple days ago.

real talk though, use bacon grease instead of butter if you really wanna up your grilled cheese.

imagine if they had waited to invent lemmy until after reddit had shat the bed with the whole API fiasco. it’s better to have a backup ready to go.

i like my laptop cause i already have it, and have gotten to know it quite well over the past 16 years, but i wouldn’t recommend it. it would be nice to have more than 4gb of memory these days, cause i can’t have too many tabs open on firefox without it bogging down.

just a historical factoid that a lot of people don’t realize: the luddites weren’t anti technology without reason. they were apprehensive about new technology that threatened their livelihoods, technology that threatened them with starvation and destitution in the pursuit of profit. i think the comparison with opposition to AI is pretty apt, in many cases, honestly.

that was really good. heavy stuff, but really good.

would a notification work? notify-send seems like it could fit the bill.

my first time installing linux was ubuntu, because it was what i’d seen a friend using. i meant to install it to dual boot with windows, but instead ended up wiping everything from the family PC, which was very distressing, and my dad quickly reinstalled windows. this was back around '06 i think.
in '08, i first installed linux on my own system and actually got to use it. i’m not sure what i installed first, cause i did a fair bit of distrohopping, but i settled on ubuntu mate for a while.

i never heard of that and assumed it had something to do with firefox. thanks for clearing that up.