Good old firebase. Notifications are not entirely device local on android, or something like that.

Ever since I got with her I feel this… burning sensation.

Yep, they are explicitly not banks or traditional financial institutions and therefore have none of the standard protections. They don’t only lack the protections of credit cards, but also of banks in general.

There are countless stories of people losing access to over $10k in their PayPal account with no option to appeal because PayPal decided their Twitch revenue looked too much like money laundering. Or because a single transaction involved a card later reported stolen. Or… just because. Some people aren’t even given a reason.

hiss!

Especially from Gartner of all places. Maybe this will finally start tempering the hype in the executives.

It’s been hours now (and a very busy day), but I swear that half of that comment (including that section) wasn’t there when I commented regarding safer seas.

But there’s no mark showing the comment has been edited either.

Scurvy must be eating me brain.

Good news! No need to wait for unofficial servers. Over a year ago they opened a feature called safer seas where you can play without PvP!

Good news! Over a year ago they opened a feature called safer seas where you can play without PvP!

100% true, and a great counterpoint.

Windows ACLs are far more complicated than they have any right to be, and file perms are generally far simpler on Linux.

The solution to that isn’t to post even more blatantly state controlled media just with a different flavor of boot sole.

Come on now.

I don’t see how these cases could be prevented even with regulation. It would take a massive change in how these things work on a fundamental level.

https://youtu.be/3bdQPhqL3xo

Silverhand is explicitly a high functioning cyberpsycho in the tabletop RPG books. His “breaks” manifest as his hand talking to him. It’s one of his notable character tics. In the books it’s a big part of why he thought he could pull off the Arasaka bombing.

More info than anyone needs:

Mike Pondsmith, the creator of the setting, has said that cyberpsychosis shouldn’t be treated like a pure numbers game set of RPG rules. It’s intentionally modeled after real world drug addiciton. Some people will naturally have higher or lower tolerances, and having a strong support system around you like V’s usually blunts the effects. It’s countered by a stat called humanity, and Pondsmith has stated that a person’s own beliefs about how human they are can impact it.

Cyberware was slightly rarer when Johnny was running around, he’s an AWOL soldier with untreated PTSD, and he has a pretty shit “support system” mostly due to his own actions. Given the views he already spouts about corporations, people, and the world in general it’s not hard to imagine that he’s not stable without the arm. He doesn’t have a high opinion of his own humanity. The arm then becomes a constant reminder of the humanity he’s lost/given up.

Adam Smasher is explicitly a socio/psychopath already, before cyberware, so there’s no humanity for him to lose.

V has Johnny in his brain to effectively act as a second “person” to help soak up the negative effects. Plus, videogame. Bend the rules to allow a better power fantasy.

100% valid choice. I’d argue that it’s even the correct one.

That said, those specific examples are all “solved”. My issue is that the overwhelming amount of Linux pushers here tend to act as though those issues are literally unsolvable.

The ads are nearly all controlled from a single yes/no switch a single level deep into the settings menu. And that switch has not been reset by updates in at least four years. Since I’ve joined lemmy, every single “Microsoft is pushing more ads into Windows” article I’ve seen has been talking about ads controlled by this same singular switch.

Things like the pushing of the Microsoft account and Recall are mostly avoided by using their Professional SKU/License/OS version and using GPO to disable those features. Or to take specific steps during install. You have to use the tools they have for corporate customers that have specific legal guidelines that prevent them from being able to use whatever MS’s new revenue extraction trick is.

Bullshit? Yes. Should anyone have to do this shit to have a decent OS? No.

But if you’re savvy enough to navigate Linux, you’re more than capable of navigating this shit on Windows. It’s not impossible.

I work in this space profressionally. Systems administrarion, architecture, design, and integration. Please take your single sentence “hot takes” elsewhere.

Windows is far from “a shitty product” or “broken”. It is developed by horrid anti-consumer motherfuckers out to extract as much profit as possible from their least profitable user base: home users. Evil as hell, sure, but so is nearly every large corporation that makes shit that fills your personal hovel you call home. If that makes them untouchable for you, that is a great choice. But that does not factually impact the usability or usefulness of the product.

Linux is awesome and necessary. Open source is the only way this whole mess keeps working far into the future, and I am no stranger to compiling shit from source and submitting pull requests.

My problems with the Linux community, specifically on Lemmy, are these: Linux is not “just easier” and depressingly still not ready for the average consumer unwilling to tinker. The overwhelming majority of complaints about Windows so frequently posted here are solved problems that people pretend are entirely unfixable, or refuse to learn how to fix. For many people venting about their computer, it would be easier to direct them how to fix what they have rather than try to use it as an opportunity to push your religion OS of choice.

If you can manage Linux, I promise that “fixing” a Windows install is well within your reach. Plenty of problems with it, but “broken”? “Unusable”? Take a look outside at the majority of the world, or even the fucking Steam user statistics and get back to me on that. More than good enough for the overwhelming majority.

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Glad to see another voice of sanity regarding Windows.

If you haven’t learned by now, on Lemmy the only valid option for dealing with Windows configuration and basic Windows admin tasks is to yeet Windows and go to Linux.

And the Police won’t investigate because of whatever mental gymnastics of the day they come up with to avoid the paperwork.

“You never actually recieved it, so it was never your property to be stolen.” Or something.

Everyone knows that if you don’t eat the cork then you aren’t getting your money’s worth.