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Still waiting the why. It’s such a braindead move, I don’t see why they would so randomly sabotage themselves like this.

I’m asking why you’re so sure it has to be doing exactly that when GOG had no reason to be doing that and there’s no context for doing that.

I would prefer not to jump to conclusions until there is a conclusion.

You can also write like everyone else, but you don’t because you want to do something different. Why should you receive the benefit of a doubt, but this just simply has to be fascist writing?

Runic symbols.

Dreaming of old potato famines again?

Going defunct.

Basic decency isn’t entitlement, it’s the very much ignored minimum standard.

Best we can do is give her a fire starter and a can of hair spray.

Because it’s about taxes. Can’t talk about taxes without class nuance. They’re joined at the hip. I don’t know why you would feel it is out of context…

Damn immigrants!

Absolutely nobody is perfect. And often enough, people don’t look because they themselves don’t want to be looked at and understand what that level of scrutiny feels like.

Suffering comes in many forms and it really ain’t easy to show or ask of it in a way that works for everyone, every time.

The help offered can only be hard work and poking in the dark for people hiding themselves very well, intentionally or not. And frankly, not many have that kind of willpower on either side.

My presumption is that due to the original rocky start, the dude feels responsible and keeps churning out free updates instead of asking money for it as DLCs.

Loan was not approved. What now?

Its buzzing may sound like a bee nest, so they may have been hunting for honey.

The push for numbers. The top likes big, beautiful numbers, so the mid pushes on down to get big, beautiful numbers -reality be damned!

Once a job turns into pleasing the above, the work itself is neglected. Find a way to get rid of ass kissing in the workplace and the world will be a better place.

I want a good MMO, but I also don’t want to pay a lot to play it properly.

Yes, default users “use” this because it’s helpful, until it’s not.

I’m out of the loop on prices, but I can tell you Windows Home is a disaster. I’ve had the displeasure of having to interact with one and it was so anti-user, it still hurts to think about.

The bloatware is by default a scam. All the My Documents stuff is set to OneDrive by default, and i do mean all of it.

Copilot is on by default - that’s browser, windows search and Office demos (you need a subscription to use them fully and they’re all in the cloud, not really local). It will add itself to all texts created or edited with default Microsoft programs like notepad or Office. Any schoolwork done with Copilot active will possibly create problems for your kid at school.

Login is set to require an online connection by default. You literally have to set it manually so that you can login on your PC when the internet is down. Imagine my surprise when I had to reboot while offline and couldn’t get past the welcome screen. We’re not very welcome on our own PC anymore.

Files are encrypted by default, which sounds nice and safe, until something goes wrong. The access codes are kept in your Microsoft account, online, so if you don’t have access there, you’re screwed out of recovery.

File indexing is wonky, so Windows at times ends up keeping a cache or copy of everything, doubling occupied space for seemingly no reason. 100Gb gone missing for no reason, it’s usually file indexing at work.

Every security-related* network request gets logged. It gets added to a specific file somewhere a Home user doesn’t really have access to and needs to jump through hoops to find it. Windows 11 being telemetry hell full of spying bloatware makes a network request for location access every 5-15 minutes, which gets logged to that file. It will generate an encrypted log file that will eventually reach over 100Gb in size, similar to file indexing only more routinely, that’s a bitch to get rid of. I would know.

Windows Home treats the user as a delinquent juvenile offender. It’s not your PC when you have it on, but a heavily restricted and surveilled privilege that everyone but yourself can control. Get rid of it.

You’re dancing around the issue at hand. If France doesn’t want to come to terms and Haiti feels no reparations are enough, then the discussion is pointless. Because when nothing you do is enough, you will end up choosing to do nothing.

If they neither can nor are even trying to, then there’s no point in making something out of it.