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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's the jump from Windows 8.1 to 10 imo. That was when their strategy shifted from Windows being a sold as a product in-itself towards being used as a vessel to push people towards other, more profitable Microsoft services.

In the modern age of PCs, it's just not profitable to sell an operating system as an end product anymore because consumers expect the OS to be available free of charge, like it is on Apple products and Android devices, so the only people actually paying for Windows are OEMs who pay like $5/key, which isn't enough to sustain a profitable OS without bundling a bunch of third party shitware, steering you towards paid Microsoft services like OneDrive/Office 365, and selling all your data

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

It's a good troubleshooting tool. Pasting in weird error messages that don't turn up any useful search results is pretty useful, even if the response it gives is partially inaccurate, it usually at least gives a bit more information than a search engine, which gives me more context to narrow my search terms and find a solution to the error.

It's especially useful for learning Nix, since the online documentation is a bit shit and ChatGPT seems to have enough grasp on the Nix language and how to configure things in NixOS to tell me what I'm doing wrong.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Fair, I just usually assume companies will do the laziest thing possible, which in this case would be to bundle the original flash game with a standalone flash player and call it a day

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It probably still is, just in a container or something. It's only the flash player for the web that was deprecated, standalone flash is still supported.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The leaked internal DNC poll is what I'm referencing here. Why would the poll conducted under the direct supervision of the DNC for their own personal use be exaggerating Biden's weakness?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Is this the lettuce woman?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

He's polling worse than "generic Democrat" and he can barely form a coherent sentence. Fundamentally, I just don't believe there is a person who would vote for Biden, but not Harris or Whittmer or whoever, but there's lots of people who lack confidence in Biden and would be more likely to vote if someone else was nominated.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I wouldn't be so sure. I think the calls for Biden to step down are evidence that DNC-types (at least some of them) are realizing the gravity of this situation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

To fully prevent most of what's laid out there would require supreme court rulings, which isn't going to happen under a conservative court. The only way to prevent it is for Democrats to win (Biden needs to step down imo) and then pack the court and/or impeach a couple of conservative justices.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Biden's cooked, he needs to step down and let Literally Anyone Else take the nomination. Other than that, I agree completely

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

I think the most realistic way of undoing this ruling is for Biden to step down and Harris or someone else to take over. They would very likely win, and if the turnout is strong enough, they could use a legislative majority to either pack the courts or impeach/replace a few Republican Justices. The now majority liberal court could contrive some excuse to make a new ruling on presidential immunity and overturn the previous one.

It requires a lot of things to go fairly well and for the Democrats to be more organized and competent than they've ever been, but it is Possible, unlike a constitutional amendment imo.

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