Do sunflower seeds give you a chubby?

Western Digital be all like

And here I thought pansexual meant you really like cookware.

It’s a well-intentioned goal that’s impossible to implement without egregiously privacy violating measures.

Ariana Grande

I’m not a fan of her music, but I know talent when I see (hear) it, and her voice is impeccable. In fact, I don’t think her overprocessed music is even the best showcase of her talent, she really shines singing randomly off the cuff.

Whoever this is

tldw; a contestant on a European pop idol type show had such perfect pitch and tone, the judges thought she was lip syncing. She wasn’t and it’s amazing.

Pure exhaustion from all the “hurry up and wait” of airport bullshit.

By the time I’ve gotten out of bed, gotten ready, travelled to the airport, dragged all my shit through the airport, unpacked and repacked half of it through security, boarded the plane … my body just kinda gives up on being awake.

That’s exactly what it will do. Don’t believe the bullshit in their “non-goals” section, they don’t give a fuck. If accessibility extensions happen to continue working (at least temporarily), it will be by accident, because they for damn sure aren’t going to spend even a second on compatibility.

If it’s something like a proxy server that pre-modifies the markup/code, then yes, I can see WEI interfering with that.

Such an abstraction, while unnecessary, should be possible, providing that Google doesn’t forcibly prevent access to the final markup that coalesces (ie.: view source and web dev tools)

Web dev here. It enforces the original markup and code from a server to be the markup and code that the browser interprets and executes, preventing any post-loading modifications.

That sounds a bit dry, but the implications are huge. It means:

• ad blockers won’t work (the main reason for Google’s ploy)
• many, if not most, other browser extensions won’t work (eg.: accessibility, theming, anti-malware)
• people are going to start running into a lot of scam ads that ad blockers would otherwise prevent
• malicious websites will be able to operate with impunity since you cannot run security extensions to prevent them
• web developers are going to be crippled for lack of debugging ability

These are just a few things off the top of my head. There are endless and very dangerous implications to WEI. This is very, very bad for the web and antithesis of how it’s supposed to be.

TBL is probably experiencing a sudden disturbance in the force.

This is normal. Titles should be plain text.

Fucked.

We’ve already experienced the hottest three weeks in recorded history. It does not get better from here.

My laptop is about 10 years old and has the Optimus dual nVidia/Intel GPU’s, plus a DisplayLink adapter.

I usually try Ubuntu Mate because I figure it’s the most “normie” distro and should have good general hardware compatibility. I last tried it probably a year or two ago. It’s been many years since I used Wine, but my lasting memory of it is that it’s super clunky and buggy.

Control panel is always still there if you want the classic style settings.

Not really. A lot of it has been neutered. Updates were moved to the settings “app” in 10. Now you can’t even manage printers without that stupid app in 11.

I think I have replacements, equivalents, or Linux versions for most of my software, it’s mainly the graphics drivers that suck with multiple displays. It constantly forgets the layout or leaves one of the displays inaccessible or just blank.

I also use DisplayLink for one of my monitors. I can’t remember if that even worked at all.

If that could finally be fixed, it might push me to Linux.

Windows 12

Oh god, have they made another one already?

Is it? I still have yet to try a distro that works properly with multiple monitors and supports all the software I have.

Windows 11 is just Windows 10 with rounded corners, shittier menus, and even more spyware.