guess I need to look at bit for “how to stuff a huge graphics card into a mini box”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X2Y62JGDCo

(That’s only the latest in a whole series of videos of his on that topic.)

^{chirp chirp}

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination

I wanted to upgrade my kids from Pi 4s to Pi 5s, but ended up just getting NUCs instead.

IIRC, Melbourne is one of the very few cities in the world that didn’t demolish its streetcar network in the 1950s, so there’s that.

Except neither is a genius and both are insane.

If by “complicates… basic PC ownership” they mean “infringes on your property rights as a computer owner,” then they’re finally catching on to what I’ve been saying for damn near a decade.

You should not accept having an abusive relationship with your operating system, and that’s what Windows has been since at least 8 (when they started infecting it with “telemetry”), if not earlier. Have some goddamn self-respect, people! Kick Microsoft to the curb!

Wikimedia Foundation is big enough (and more importantly, foundation-y enough) that it should spin up its own archive.

If I admitted to calling, I would be confirming that the phone number the guy’s office received a call from was linked to this Lemmy account.

As it is, who knows who might have called? The call (or ideally, the calls, plural) could’ve come from any number of people who read that message.

Somebody tell this guy about Mastodon.

The phone number for his executive assistant is 617-349-4280.

https://www.cambridgema.gov/Departments/citycouncil/members/jivansobrinhowheeler

Upon further reflection, I think my previous comment may have been a little too harsh on it.

But I still think that, to be truly “excellent,” it could’ve made its point without muddying/confusing the definition of enshittification.

It’s not that “excellent.” It’s just ‘for the evulz’ mustache-twirling comical villainy, which ends up downplaying what’s actually important to know about enshittification, which is how self-serving and abusive it is. When companies enshittify products and services, they’re not just making them worse; they’re specifically making them more exploitative.

A lot of the examples shown in the video – cutting holes in socks, sawing off a chair leg so it wobbles, drying out a marker, etc. – are not enshittification. Enshittification is stuff like putting spyware in devices so that you double-dip on the purchase price and the value of the data, or turning products (as opposed to services) into a subscription. Stuff that extracts unearned value from the customer.

It touches on it in the latter part of the video, but for the most part misses the mark.

That’s already in progress.

30-year-old veteran, eh? The real “leopards ate my face” is gonna be when he gets called back up and shipped out.

That’s not enough. Just like with systemd, you will be made to care about what the corporatist Microsoft-garglers at Red Hat do, whether you use it or not.

However, Reddit didn’t really have a solution to that. Lemmy kind of does: you can make any community you want, and communities that pull crap like this might be avoided by users who don’t tolerate that kind of thing. Or they might not, but the users have more power here.

You say that, but I’m banned from !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world because of a mod’s hissy fit, yet it remains the biggest community on Lemmy.

Soft launch is when you make it available to the public for a while before advertising it.

It’s infuriating to me as a mod as well, because things getting removed without me being able to understand why makes it harder to do my “job.” I can’t even go ask the admin for their reasoning, because I have no idea who it was!

That goes double for the fact that when somebody checks the “remove content” option when banning, the removed content doesn’t show up in the modlog.

Then use Keepass, which is literally just a local app.