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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyzto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    2 months ago

    MS bought ABK for its ability to make profits. ABK can’t do that if MS “cleans house”. It was very effective marketing that made people think MS would shape things up once they get their hands on shitty companies (while also effectively marketing “they would let devs be”). ABK may end up having more influence on Xbox than the other way around.


  • Every update, some thing breaks. The “new” Teams does not work well with the microphone on my work laptop, I’ve had to resort to using headphones. The interface just sucks too. I hate that the left pane auto-hides now. So inconvenient. It’s not just Teams too. Every part of Office has broken for us during previous updates. I miss the times when Windows was just an OS for the most part and MS was not trying hard to be Apple.


  • There are a lot of Linux talks, but I can’t stand all the people who keep saying all this place talks about is Linux. They are the ones who are everywhere here.

    By the way, I came back to reddit briefly for a very specific community and ever since the stock sale started getting this:

    whoa there, pardner!

    Your request has been blocked due to a network policy.

    Try logging in or creating an account here to get back to browsing.

    If you’re running a script or application, please register or sign in with your developer credentials here. Additionally make sure your User-Agent is not empty and is something unique and descriptive and try again. if you’re supplying an alternate User-Agent string, try changing back to default as that can sometimes result in a block.

    You can read Reddit’s Terms of Service here.

    if you think that we’ve incorrectly blocked you or you would like to discuss easier ways to get the data you want, please file a ticket here.

    when contacting us, please include your ip address which is: and reddit account

    It could just be my VPN since I also see this on my tablet/phone but I gave reddit another chance and they didn’t want it.>










  • How would cooling our jets help? I really like the idea of going into Linux, and the more MS pushes the subscription/rental model, the more I’m encouraged to do so. Corporations like to float their ideas to the media as a way of surveying the market. These rumors could be just that. The idea of building a Linux PC sounds fun. I never had the need for any of these subscription services. I have a backlog of games I own, my own HDDs, MP3s, from CDs or the like, that I bought. I don’t need to pay yearly for those.



  • I remember a time Windows pushed a major update on my laptop as I was about to sleep. I wrote a routine that shuts down my laptop after about 30 minutes, so I can unplug the machine while Youtube or something is on as I fall asleep. Well, it backfired at that time as I had to re-awake after 30 minutes, and plug the machine back in. It was stuck at 30% for a while. “You’re 30% there”. I’m 30% there? It’s not me, it’s you, you stupid OS!